2016 World Junior Figure Skating Championships

The 2016 World Junior Figure Skating Championships were held from 14–20 March 2016 in Debrecen, Hungary.^[1] Commonly called "World Juniors" and "Junior Worlds", the event determined the World Junior champions in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.

2016 World Junior Figure Skating Championships
Type:	ISU Championship
Date:	14 – 20 March
Season:	2015–16
Location:	Debrecen, Hungary
Host:	Hungarian Skating Union
Champions
Men's singles: Daniel Samohin
Ladies' singles: Marin Honda
Pairs: Anna Dušková / Martin Bidař
Ice dance: Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter
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Anna Dušková / Martin Bidař and Daniel Samohin became the first World Junior champions in figure skating from the Czech Republic and Israel, respectively. Japan's Marin Honda won the ladies' title and Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter took the ice dancing event.

Records

For the all-time highest scores, see list of highest scores in figure skating.

For the all-time highest junior scores, see list of highest junior scores in figure skating.

The following new junior records were set during this competition:

Event	Component	Skater(s)	Score	Date	Ref
Pairs	Short program	Anna Dušková / Martin Bidař	64.71	16 March 2016	[2]
	Total score		181.82	17 March 2016
Ice dance	Short dance	Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons	67.88		[3]
	Free dance	Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter	97.40	19 March 2016
	Total score	Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons	162.74
		Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter	163.65
Men	Free skating	Daniel Samohin	165.38	20 March 2016	[4]

Qualification

The competition was open to skaters from ISU member nations who were at least 13 but not 19—or 21 for male pair skaters and ice dancers—before July 1, 2015 in their place of birth. National associations selected their entries according to their own criteria but the ISU mandated that their selections achieve a minimum technical elements score (TES) at an international event prior to the Junior Worlds.

The term "Junior" in ISU competition refers to age, not skill level. Skaters may remain age-eligible for Junior Worlds even after competing nationally and internationally at the senior level. At junior events, the ISU requires that all programs conform to junior-specific rules regarding program length, jumping passes, types of elements, etc.

Minimum TES

Minimum technical scores (TES)[5]
Discipline	Short	Free
Men	20	42
Ladies	20	35
Pairs	20	30
Ice dancing	18	28
Scores had to be achieved at an ISU-recognized international event in the ongoing or preceding season. SP and FS scores could be attained at different events.

Number of entries per discipline

Based on the results of the 2015 World Junior Championships, the ISU allowed each country one to three entries per discipline.^[6]

Spots	Men	Ladies	Pairs	Dance
3	Japan  Russia	Russia  Japan	China  Canada  Russia  United States	Russia  United States  Canada
2	China  United States  Latvia  Israel  South Korea	Kazakhstan  United States  South Korea  Latvia	Japan  Czech Republic	Ukraine  France  Poland  Hungary
If not listed above, one entry is allowed.

Entries

Some national associations began announcing their selections in December 2015. The ISU published a complete list on 25 February 2016.

Country	Men[7]	Ladies[8]	Pairs[9]	Ice dancing[10]
Armenia		Anastasia Galustyan
Australia	James Min	Katie Pasfield		Mathilda Friend / William Badaoui
Austria[11]	Luc Maierhofer	Natalie Klotz		Elizaveta Orlova / Stephano-Valentino Schuster
Belgium		Charlotte Vandersarren
Belarus	Yakau Zenko			Maria Oleynik / Yuri Hulitski
Bulgaria		Teodora Markova		Yana Bozhilova / Kaloyan Georgiev
Canada[12]	Nicolas Nadeau	Sarah Tamura	Justine Brasseur / Mathieu Ostiguy Bryn Hoffman / Bryce Chudak Hope McLean / Trennt Michaud	Mackenzie Bent / Dmitre Razgulajevs Marjorie Lajoie / Zachary Lagha Melinda Meng / Andrew Meng
China	Zhang He Li Tangxu	Li Xiangning	Gao Yumeng / Li Bowen	Li Xibei / Xiang Guangyao
Croatia	Nicholas Vrdoljak
Czech Republic	Jiří Bělohradský	Elizaveta Ukolova	Anna Dušková / Martin Bidař	Nicole Kuzmich / Alexander Sinicyn
Denmark		Leonora Colmor Jepsen
Spain	Hector Alonso Serrano	Maëva Gallarda Rossell
Estonia	Aleksandr Selevko	Kristina Škuleta-Gromova		Victoria Semenjuk / Artur Gruzdev
Finland	Roman Galay	Viveca Lindfors
France	Kévin Aymoz	Alizée Crozet		Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac Angélique Abachkina / Louis Thauron
Georgia	Irakli Maysuradze
Germany[13]	Catalin Dimitrescu	Lea Johanna Dastich		Ria Schwendinger / Valentin Wunderlich
Great Britain [14]	Josh Brown	Danielle Harrison	Chloe Curtin / Steven Adcock	Ekaterina Fedyushchenko / Lucas Kitteridge
Hong Kong		Maisy Hiu Ching Ma
Hungary[15]	Máté Böröcz	Ivett Tóth		Kimberly Wei / Ilias Fourati Villő Marton / Danyil Semko
Israel	Daniel Samohin Mark Gorodnitsky
Italy	Matteo Rizzo	Lucrezia Gennaro	Bianca Manacorda / Niccolò Macii	Sara Ghislandi / Giona Terzo Ortenzi
Japan[16]	Shu Nakamura Daichi Miyata Kazuki Tomono	Wakaba Higuchi Yuna Shiraiwa Marin Honda		Rikako Fukase / Aru Tateno
Kazakhstan	Daniyar Adylov	Elizabet Tursynbayeva	Ekaterina Khokhlova / Abish Baytkanov	Hannah Grace Cook / Temirlan Yerzhanov
Latvia	Deniss Vasiļjevs Glebs Basins	Angelīna Kučvaļska Diāna Ņikitina
Lithuania		Elzbieta Kropa		Guostė Damulevičiūtė / Deividas Kizala
Malaysia	Kai Xiang Chew
Netherlands		Kyarha van Tiel
Norway[17]	Sondre Oddvoll Bøe	Juni Marie Benjaminsen
Poland		Aleksandra Rudolf		Alexandra Borisova / Cezary Zawadzki Jenna Hertenstein / Damian Binkowski
Romania		Julia Sauter
Russia[18]	Dmitri Aliev Alexander Samarin Roman Savosin	Alisa Fedichkina Maria Sotskova Polina Tsurskaya	Anastasia Gubanova / Alexei Sintsov Ekaterina Borisova / Dmitry Sopot Anastasia Mishina / Vladislav Mirzoev	Alla Loboda / Pavel Drozd Betina Popova / Yuri Vlasenko Anastasia Shpilevaya / Grigory Smirnov
South Africa		Michaela Du Toit
Singapore		Shuran Yu
Slovenia		Monika Peterka
South Korea	Cha Jun-hwan Byun Se-jong	Son Suh-hyun Kim Ha-nul		Lee Ho-jung / Richard Kang-in Kam
Switzerland	Nicola Todeschini	Shaline Ruegger
Slovakia	Jakub Kršňák	Alexandra Hagarová
Sweden[19]		Matilda Algotsson
Thailand		Thita Lamsam
Chinese Taipei	Chih-I Tsao	Amy Lin
Turkey	Başar Oktar	Elif Erdem
Ukraine[20]	Yaroslav Paniot	Anastasia Hozhva	Renata Ohanesian / Mark Bardei	Anzhelika Yurchenko / Volodymyr Byelikov Maria Holubtsova / Kyrylo Byelobrov
United States [21][22]	Tomoki Hiwatashi Vincent Zhou	Tyler Pierce Bradie Tennell	Chelsea Liu / Brian Johnson Joy Weinberg / Maximiliano Fernandez Lindsay Weinstein / Jacob Simon	Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons Elliana Pogrebinsky / Alex Benoit

Changes to initial assignments

Announced	Discipline	Initial	Replacement	Reason
28 January 2016	Men	Nathan Chen[21]	Tomoki Hiwatashi[22]	Chen's hip surgery
25 February 2016	Ice dance	Gwen Sletten / Elliot Verburg[14]	Ekaterina Fedyushchenko / Lucas Kitteridge[10]	Sletten retired.
25 February 2016	Ladies	Pernille Sørensen[23]	Leonora Colmor Jepsen[8]	Sørensen retired.
1 March 2016	Ladies	Sara Casella	Lucrezia Gennaro[8]
1 March 2016	Men	Alexander Maszljanko	Máté Böröcz[7]
1 March 2016	Pairs	Zhao Ying / Xie Zhong	—N/a[9]
7 March 2016	Ice dance	Valentina Schär / Carlo Röthlisberger	—N/a[10]
9 March 2016	Men	Illya Solomin	—N/a[7]
10 March 2016	Pairs	Amina Atakhanova / Ilia Spiridonov	Anastasia Gubanova / Alexei Sintsov	Atakhanova's injury[24]
12 March 2016	Men	Sota Yamamoto	Kazuki Tomono[7]	Broken ankle[25]

Results

Men

Israel's Daniel Samohin climbed from 9th after the short program to win his country's first World Junior title in figure skating. Nicolas Nadeau, who missed the cut for the free skate in 2015, obtained the silver medal and three spots for Canada in the 2017 men's event. Called up to replace the injured Nathan Chen, Tomoki Hiwatashi was awarded the bronze medal in his first appearance at Junior Worlds.

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
1	Daniel Samohin	Israel	236.65	9	71.27	1	165.38
2	Nicolas Nadeau	Canada	224.76	8	73.90	2	150.86
3	Tomoki Hiwatashi	United States	222.52	6	74.97	3	147.55
4	Alexander Samarin	Russia	222.11	2	80.31	5	141.80
5	Vincent Zhou	United States	221.19	4	77.31	4	143.88
6	Dmitri Aliev	Russia	211.18	1	80.74	7	130.44
7	Cha Jun-hwan	South Korea	207.11	7	74.38	6	132.73
8	Deniss Vasiļjevs	Latvia	204.75	3	78.78	9	125.97
9	Kévin Aymoz	France	197.76	5	75.53	11	122.23
10	Zhang He	China	195.70	10	70.85	10	124.85
11	Yaroslav Paniot	Ukraine	189.50	15	62.56	8	126.94
12	Shu Nakamura	Japan	186.22	12	66.05	13	120.17
13	Matteo Rizzo	Italy	182.96	11	66.79	17	116.17
14	Roman Savosin	Russia	181.65	13	64.00	14	117.65
15	Kazuki Tomono	Japan	179.61	20	58.33	12	121.28
16	Jiří Bělohradský	Czech Republic	178.51	16	61.96	16	116.55
17	Yakau Zenko	Belarus	174.39	22	57.67	15	116.72
18	Daichi Miyata	Japan	169.19	19	59.10	18	110.09
19	Aleksandr Selevko	Estonia	166.61	17	60.91	20	105.70
20	Chih-I Tsao	Chinese Taipei	164.25	14	63.42	22	100.83
21	Sondre Oddvoll Bøe	Norway	163.64	21	57.72	19	105.92
22	Nicola Todeschini	Switzerland	161.15	18	59.59	21	101.56
23	Josh Brown	Great Britain	157.16	23	57.65	23	99.51
24	Irakli Maysuradze	Georgia	154.41	24	56.87	24	97.54
Did not advance to free skating
25	Li Tangxu	China	53.20	25	53.20	—N/a
26	Nicholas Vrdoljak	Croatia	52.12	26	52.12	—N/a
27	James Min	Australia	51.96	27	51.96	—N/a
28	Héctor Alonso	Spain	51.41	28	51.41	—N/a
29	Byun Se-jong	South Korea	50.67	29	50.67	—N/a
30	Luc Maierhofer	Austria	50.27	30	50.27	—N/a
31	Başar Oktar	Turkey	48.65	31	48.65	—N/a
32	Daniyar Adylov	Kazakhstan	47.99	32	47.99	—N/a
33	Roman Galay	Finland	45.47	33	45.47	—N/a
34	Mark Gorodnitsky	Israel	45.28	34	45.28	—N/a
35	Jakub Kršňák	Slovakia	43.19	35	43.19	—N/a
36	Glebs Basins	Latvia	41.93	36	41.93	—N/a
37	Kai Xiang Chew	Malaysia	39.77	37	39.77	—N/a
38	Máté Böröcz	Hungary	37.16	38	37.16	—N/a

Ladies

Youth Olympic and JGP Final champion Polina Tsurskaya withdrew before the short program due to an ankle injury. Short program leader Alisa Fedichkina withdrew before the start of the free skate, also due to an ankle injury.

Japan's Marin Honda ended Russia's five-year streak of World Junior ladies' titles. Despite her teammates' withdrawals, Maria Sotskova was able to retain three spots for Russia by placing in the top two. Wakaba Higuchi of Japan won her second consecutive bronze medal at Junior Worlds.

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
1	Marin Honda	Japan	192.98	2	66.11	1	126.87
2	Maria Sotskova	Russia	188.72	3	64.78	3	123.94
3	Wakaba Higuchi	Japan	183.73	5	58.08	2	125.65
4	Yuna Shiraiwa	Japan	171.59	8	56.23	5	115.36
5	Elizabet Tursynbayeva	Kazakhstan	170.83	14	50.11	4	120.72
6	Tyler Pierce	United States	167.19	7	56.56	6	110.63
7	Angelīna Kučvaļska	Latvia	161.29	6	57.92	8	103.37
8	Ivett Tóth	Hungary	153.70	15	49.98	7	103.72
9	Kim Ha-nul	South Korea	150.36	12	52.37	9	97.99
10	Diāna Ņikitina	Latvia	149.02	10	54.59	12	94.43
11	Bradie Tennell	United States	147.52	4	58.56	14	88.96
12	Lea Johanna Dastich	Germany	143.63	18	47.67	10	95.96
13	Sarah Tamura	Canada	141.32	16	48.11	13	93.21
14	Amy Lin	Chinese Taipei	139.14	22	44.52	11	94.62
15	Maisy Hiu Ching Ma	Hong Kong	138.11	11	52.69	15	85.42
16	Anastasia Galustyan	Armenia	137.35	9	55.80	16	81.55
17	Anastasia Gozhva	Ukraine	132.27	13	50.99	18	81.28
18	Kyarha van Tiel	Netherlands	127.18	17	47.94	20	79.24
19	Lucrezia Gennaro	Italy	125.25	23	43.74	17	81.51
20	Li Xiangning	China	123.94	24	43.38	19	80.56
21	Alizée Crozet	France	120.59	21	45.34	21	75.25
22	Juni Marie Benjaminsen	Norway	116.63	20	45.70	22	70.93
23	Son Suh-hyun	South Korea	115.41	19	46.18	23	69.23
WD	Alisa Fedichkina	Russia	withdrew	1	66.11	withdrew from competition
Did not advance to free skating
25	Viveca Lindfors	Finland	43.19	25	43.19	—N/a
26	Shaline Ruegger	Switzerland	42.66	26	42.66	—N/a
27	Natalie Klotz	Austria	42.25	27	42.25	—N/a
28	Shuran Yu	Singapore	42.21	28	42.21	—N/a
29	Kristina Škuleta-Gromova	Estonia	41.68	29	41.68	—N/a
30	Matilda Algotsson	Sweden	41.00	30	41.00	—N/a
31	Michaela Du Toit	South Africa	40.86	31	40.86	—N/a
32	Julia Sauter	Romania	39.67	32	39.67	—N/a
33	Alexandra Hagarová	Slovakia	39.07	33	39.07	—N/a
34	Monika Peterka	Slovenia	39.00	34	39.00	—N/a
35	Katie Pasfield	Australia	38.96	35	38.96	—N/a
36	Danielle Harrison	Great Britain	37.59	36	37.59	—N/a
37	Elizaveta Ukolova	Czech Republic	37.57	37	37.57	—N/a
38	Elif Erdem	Turkey	37.39	38	37.39	—N/a
39	Aleksandra Rudolf	Poland	35.32	39	35.32	—N/a
40	Teodora Markova	Bulgaria	34.50	40	34.50	—N/a
41	Elzbieta Kropa	Lithuania	34.34	41	34.34	—N/a
42	Leonora Colmor Jepsen	Denmark	34.05	42	34.05	—N/a
43	Thita Lamsam	Thailand	33.39	43	33.39	—N/a
44	Charlotte Vandersarren	Belgium	32.30	44	32.30	—N/a
45	Maëva Gallarda Rossell	Spain	29.65	45	29.65	—N/a

Pairs

Anna Dušková / Martin Bidař became the first Czech figure skaters to ever win gold at a World Junior Championships and the first pair skaters from outside China, Russia, or the United States to win the competition since 2000. Russian pairs Anastasia Mishina / Vladislav Mirzoev and Ekaterina Borisova / Dmitry Sopot took silver and bronze, respectively, in their first trip to Junior Worlds.

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
1	Anna Dušková / Martin Bidař	Czech Republic	181.82	1	64.71	1	117.11
2	Anastasia Mishina / Vladislav Mirzoev	Russia	172.60	2	59.50	2	113.10
3	Ekaterina Borisova / Dmitry Sopot	Russia	169.00	4	58.56	3	110.44
4	Renata Ohanesian / Mark Bardei	Ukraine	155.08	3	59.30	4	95.78
5	Chelsea Liu / Brian Johnson	United States	147.73	5	54.12	5	93.61
6	Bianca Manacorda / Niccolò Macii	Italy	141.76	7	49.80	6	91.96
7	Justine Brasseur / Mathieu Ostiguy	Canada	138.67	9	48.08	7	90.59
8	Bryn Hoffman / Bryce Chudak	Canada	138.12	6	52.20	10	85.92
9	Lindsay Weinstein / Jacob Simon	United States	137.58	8	48.75	8	88.83
10	Joy Weinberg / Maximiliano Fernandez	United States	135.71	10	47.54	9	88.17
11	Anastasia Gubanova / Alexei Sintsov	Russia	123.90	11	45.07	11	78.83
12	Chloe Curtin / Steven Adcock	Great Britain	112.68	12	44.74	13	67.94
13	Gao Yumeng / Li Bowen	China	112.56	14	42.24	12	70.32
14	Ekaterina Khokhlova / Abish Baytkanov	Kazakhstan	95.31	15	32.36	14	62.95
WD	Hope McLean / Trennt Michaud	Canada	withdrew	13	44.05	withdrew from competition

Ice dancing

The United States won both the gold and silver medals. Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter overtook short program leaders Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons for the title, finishing ahead by a margin of 0.91. It was the fourth appearance at Junior Worlds for both teams. Russia's Alla Loboda / Pavel Drozd rose from sixth after the short dance to take bronze in their first trip to the event.

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points[26]	SD		FD
1	Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter	United States	163.65	2	66.25	1	97.40
2	Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons	United States	162.74	1	67.88	2	94.86
3	Alla Loboda / Pavel Drozd	Russia	151.19	6	58.93	3	92.26
4	Elliana Pogrebinsky / Alex Benoit	United States	146.83	5	59.05	4	87.78
5	Anastasia Shpilevaya / Grigory Smirnov	Russia	146.55	4	59.15	6	87.40
6	Betina Popova / Yuri Vlasenko	Russia	146.21	7	58.56	5	87.65
7	Angélique Abachkina / Louis Thauron	France	145.25	8	58.34	7	86.91
8	Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac	France	144.26	3	59.65	8	84.61
9	Mackenzie Bent / Dmitre Razgulajevs	Canada	138.61	9	56.76	9	81.85
10	Sara Ghislandi / Giona Terzo Ortenzi	Italy	131.18	12	52.19	11	78.99
11	Nicole Kuzmich / Alexandr Sinicyn	Czech Republic	128.91	14	49.08	10	79.83
12	Melinda Meng / Andrew Meng	Canada	128.83	10	52.60	12	76.23
13	Marjorie Lajoie / Zachary Lagha	Canada	128.06	11	52.57	13	75.49
14	Lee Ho-jung / Richard Kang-in Kam	South Korea	119.13	13	50.10	14	69.03
15	Anzhelika Yurchenko / Volodymyr Byelikov	Ukraine	112.65	15	47.66	16	64.99
16	Ria Schwendinger / Valentin Wunderlich	Germany	109.00	17	43.87	15	65.13
17	Maria Oleynik / Yuri Hulitski	Belarus	106.31	16	45.02	18	61.29
18	Maria Golubtsova / Kirill Belobrov	Ukraine	105.90	20	42.49	17	63.41
19	Rikako Fukase / Aru Tateno	Japan	102.10	19	42.63	19	59.47
20	Alexandra Borisova / Cezary Zawadzki	Poland	100.31	18	42.80	20	57.51
Did not advance to free skating
21	Li Xibei / Xiang Guangyao	China	41.16	21	41.16	—N/a
22	Guostė Damulevičiūtė / Deividas Kizala	Lithuania	39.98	22	39.98	—N/a
23	Villö Marton / Danyil Semko	Hungary	38.63	23	38.63	—N/a
24	Ekaterina Fedyushchenko / Lucas Kitteridge	Great Britain	38.12	24	38.12	—N/a
25	Victoria Semenjuk / Artur Gruzdev	Estonia	37.68	25	37.68	—N/a
26	Jenna Hertenstein / Damian Binkowski	Poland	37.68	26	37.68	—N/a
27	Hannah Grace Cook / Temirlan Yerzhanov	Kazakhstan	37.60	27	37.60	—N/a
28	Kimberly Wei / Illias Fourati	Hungary	34.48	28	34.48	—N/a
29	Elizaveta Orlova / Stephano-Valentino Schuster	Austria	32.53	29	32.53	—N/a
30	Matilda Friend / William Badaoui	Australia	31.98	30	31.98	—N/a
31	Yana Bozhilova / Kaloyan Georgiev	Bulgaria	28.27	31	28.27	—N/a

Medals summary

Medalists

Medals for overall placement:

Discipline	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men	Daniel Samohin	Nicolas Nadeau	Tomoki Hiwatashi
Ladies	Marin Honda	Maria Sotskova	Wakaba Higuchi
Pairs	Anna Dušková / Martin Bidař	Anastasia Mishina / Vladislav Mirzoev	Ekaterina Borisova / Dmitry Sopot
Ice dancing	Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter	Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons	Alla Loboda / Pavel Drozd

Small medals for placement in the short segment:

Discipline	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men	Dmitri Aliev	Alexander Samarin	Deniss Vasiļjevs
Ladies	Alisa Fedichkina	Marin Honda	Maria Sotskova
Pairs	Anna Dušková / Martin Bidař	Anastasia Mishina / Vladislav Mirzoev	Renata Ohanesian / Mark Bardei
Ice dancing	Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons	Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter	Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac

Small medals for placement in the free segment:

Discipline	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men	Daniel Samohin	Nicolas Nadeau	Tomoki Hiwatashi
Ladies	Marin Honda	Wakaba Higuchi	Maria Sotskova
Pairs	Anna Dušková / Martin Bidař	Anastasia Mishina / Vladislav Mirzoev	Ekaterina Borisova / Dmitry Sopot
Ice dancing	Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter	Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons	Alla Loboda / Pavel Drozd

By country

Table of medals for overall placement:

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	1	1	1	3
2	Japan (JPN)	1	0	1	2
3	Czech Republic (CZE)	1	0	0	1
	Israel (ISR)	1	0	0	1
5	Russia (RUS)	0	2	2	4
6	Canada (CAN)	0	1	0	1
Totals (6 entries)		4	4	4	12