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(Yankee Polka)
| Place | Couple | Country |
| 1 | Drobiazko & Vanagas | LTU |
| 2 | Grushina & Goncharov | UKR |
| 3 | Delobel & Schoenfelder | FRA |
| 4 | Dubreuil & Lauzon | CAN |
| 5 | Wing & Lowe | CAN |
| 6 | Koegel & Fediukov | USA |
| 7 | Zhang & Cao | CHN |
| 8 | Delobel & Chapius | FRA |
| 9 | Barany & Rosnik | HUN |
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(Latin Combination)
| Place | Couple | Country |
| 1 | Drobiazko & Vanagas | LTU |
| 2 | Grushina & Goncharov | UKR |
| 3 | Delobel & Schoenfelder | FRA |
| 4 | Dubreuil & Lauzon | CAN |
| 5 | Wing & Lowe | CAN |
| 6 | Koegel & Fediukov | USA |
| 7 | Zhang & Cao | CHN |
| 8 | Barany & Rosnik | HUN |
| 9 | Delobel & Chapius | FRA |
Notes:
The Lithuanian team of Drobiazko & Vanagas won the original dance in a commanding fashion. They gave a spirited performance with the second and third sections of the dance particularly well done. They managed to put together a dance that met the technical requirements and also captured the Latin rhythms without resorting to the usual stereotypical sexual cliches or over-the-top gestures that frequently appear in routines with a Latin theme. It was one of the best ODs from among the teams that has performed at Skate America and Skate Canada.
Grushina & Goncherov were a distant second in the OD. They were marked below the leaders in both the first and second marks. Although the dance is supposed to consist of multiple rhythms their entire dance looked the same. The middle third of the dance was particulary ill-suited to the music chosen, having been skated too fast and too franticly for the tune selected.
The French team of Delobel & Schoenfelder followed close on the heels of the Ukrainians. All three sections of their dance were fairly well done with the most noticible flaw a tendancy for Delobel to get a little bit out of control at times. He is tall and strong and is the one who keeps this team from falling apart.
Koegel & Fediukov presented a dance with a nice mood to it but compared to the top teams was fairly simple. In addition, Koegel fell a 2:32 into the program.
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| Place | Couple | Country | C1 | OD | FD |
| 1 | Drobiazko & Vanagas | LTU | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | Grushina & Goncharov | UKR | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| 3 | Delobel & Schoenfelder | FRA | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| 4 | Dubreuil & Lauzon | CAN | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| 5 | Wing & Lowe | CAN | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| 6 | Koegel & Fediukov | USA | 6 | 6 | 6 |
| 7 | Zhang & Cao | CHN | 7 | 7 | 7 |
| 8 | Barany & Rosnik | HUN | 9 | 8 | 8 |
| 9 | Delobel & Chapius | FRA | 8 | 9 | 9 |
Notes:
The results in the ice dancing event after the original dance carried through into the free dance with none of the couples changing place in the final section of the event.
Drobiazko & Vanagas and Grushina & Goncharov both skated to the same music, the aria "Spente le Stelle" from the opera Tosca. The Lithuanians were the first couple to skate in the final warmup. The were both dressed in white costumes with shroud like elements in the designs (Tosca kills herself in the opera). The dance was powerful and dramatic with many separations and good speed, but not a great deal of close skating. They received marks of 5.5 to 5.7 in the first mark and 5.6 to 5.9 in the second mark with the highest mark, not surprisingly, coming from the Lithuanian judge.
The Lithuanians were followed in the skating order by Delobel & Schoenfelder. Their free dance is a harlequin routine. They skated with good speed with some nice lifts in positions that were more attractive than are commonly used by many dance couples. The team showed good control in the various moves in which the skaters slither about each other, and certainly more control than was seen from them in the original dance yesterday.
Last to skate were Grushina & Goncherov who skated to not only the same music from Tosca as the Lithuanians, but the same recording. Grushina wore a pale green dress with some of the same shroud like elements as the Lithuanians while Goncherov skated in dark green. His costume included a large flesh colored cutout along the right side of his chest and sort of spaceman style epaulettes. It was not obvious what his costume was about but maybe has something to do with the references to the stars that are incorporated into the music. I don't know. In any event, in skating the routine they tried to bring the same passion to the dance that the Lithuanians did, and while they did a decent job they did not succeed as well as their competitors. The buzz has it that the Lithuanians picked this music first and the Ukrainians copied it. If that is true it was a bad idea, because if you copy someone else's music you better be able to do it substantially better that the other guy, because if you don't it ends up costing you in the comparison, and that was certainly the case here.
Koegel & Fediukov remained in sixth place in the free dance. As was their original dance it was a routine that created a nice mood and was pleasant to watch, but was short on difficulty and close skating. Also as in the original dance, Koegel again fell, this time at 2:58 into the program.