2018 Rostelecom Cup
The 2018 Rostelecom Cup was the fifth event of six in the 2018–19 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held on November 16–18, 2018 in Moscow, Russia. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. Skaters earned points toward qualifying for the 2018–19 Grand Prix Final.
Entries
The ISU published the preliminary assignments on June 29, 2018.| Country | Men | Ladies | Pairs | Ice dancing |
| Brendan Kerry | Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya / Harley Windsor | |||
| Miriam Ziegler / Severin Kiefer | ||||
| Keegan Messing | ||||
| Morisi Kvitelashvili | ||||
| Paul Fentz | ||||
| Anna Yanovskaya / Ádám Lukács | ||||
| Nicole Della Monica / Matteo Guarise | ||||
| Yuzuru Hanyu Kazuki Tomono | Yura Matsuda Mako Yamashita Yuna Shiraiwa | Misato Komatsubara / Tim Koleto | ||
| Elizabet Tursynbaeva | ||||
| Allison Reed / Saulius Ambrulevičius | ||||
| Julian Zhi Jie Yee | ||||
| Natalia Kaliszek / Maksym Spodyriev | ||||
| Artur Dmitriev Mikhail Kolyada Andrei Lazukin | Sofia Samodurova Polina Tsurskaya Alina Zagitova | Alisa Efimova / Alexander Korovin Daria Pavliuchenko / Denis Khodykin Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov | Sofia Evdokimova / Egor Bazin Annabelle Morozov / Andrei Bagin Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin | |
| Lim Eun-soo | ||||
| Sara Hurtado / Kirill Khaliavin | ||||
| Alexander Majorov | ||||
| Alexia Paganini | ||||
| Alexei Krasnozhon | Gracie Gold | Ashley Cain / Timothy LeDuc Deanna Stellato / Nathan Bartholomay | Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko |
Changes to preliminary assignments
Records
The following new ISU best scores were set during this competition:| Event | Component | Skater | Score | Date | Ref |
| Men | Short program |  Yuzuru Hanyu | 110.53 | 16 November 2018 | |
| Pairs | Short program |  Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov | 78.47 | 16 November 2018 | |
| Ladies | Short program | Alina Zagitova | 80.78 | 16 November 2018 | |
| Ice dance | Free dance | Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin | 124.94 | 17 November 2018 |