2017 World Figure Skating Championships

The 2017 World Figure Skating Championships were held 29 March – 2 April 2017 in Helsinki, Finland. The host was named in June 2014.^[1] Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pairs, and ice dancing. The event also determined the number of entries for each country at the 2018 World Championships and the 2018 Winter Olympics.

2017 World Figure Skating Championships
Type:	ISU Championship
Date:	29 March – 2 April 2017
Season:	2016–17
Location:	Helsinki, Finland
Host:	Finnish Figure Skating Association
Venue:	Hartwall Arena
Champions
Men's singles: Yuzuru Hanyu
Ladies' singles: Evgenia Medvedeva
Pairs: Sui Wenjing / Han Cong
Ice dance: Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir
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Venues

Hartwall Arena from inside during an ice hockey game

Hartwall Arena's main arena, with an ice surface measuring 60 m x 30 m, was used for all competitions and several practice sessions. The rest of the practice sessions took place at Hartwall Arena's practice rink (58 m x 28 m) and Pirkkola ice rink (for pairs, 60 m x 30 m). Hartwall Arena's main rink and practice rink facilities are in the same venue. Pirkkola practice rink is about four kilometres from Hartwall Arena.^[2]

Records

See also: List of highest historical scores in figure skating

The following new ISU best scores were set during this competition:

Event	Component	Skater(s)	Score	Date	Ref
Ice dance	Short dance	Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir	82.43	31 March 2017	[3]
Ladies	Free skate	Evgenia Medvedeva	154.40		[4]
	Total score		233.41		[5]
Men	Free skate	Yuzuru Hanyu	223.20	1 April 2017	[6]
Ice dance	Free dance	Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron	119.15		[7]
	Total score	Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir	198.62		[8]

Qualification

Minimum TES

Participants were required to have attained minimum technical element scores at an earlier senior international competition. The scores had to be obtained at least 21 days before the first official practice day of the championships.

Minimum technical scores (TES)^[2]

Discipline	SP / SD	FS / FD
Men	34	64
Ladies	27	47
Pairs	25	43
Ice dance	29	39
Must be achieved at an ISU-recognized international event in the ongoing or preceding season. SP and FS scores may be attained at different events.

Number of entries per discipline

Based on the results of the 2016 World Championships, each ISU member nation was allowed to field one to three entries per discipline.^[9]

Spots	Men	Ladies	Pairs	Dance
3	Japan	Russia  United States  Japan	Canada  Russia	France  United States  Canada
2	Spain  China  Russia  Canada  Czech Republic  United States	Canada  China	China  Germany  United States  France  Italy	Italy  Great Britain  Russia
If not listed above, one entry is allowed.

Entries

Countries began publishing their selections as early as December 2016. The International Skating Union published a complete list on 9 March 2017.

Nation	Men[10]	Ladies[11]	Pairs[12]	Ice dance[13]
Armenia	Slavik Hayrapetyan	Anastasia Galustyan		Tina Garabedian / Simon Proulx-Sénécal
Australia[14]	Brendan Kerry	Kailani Craine	Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya / Harley Windsor
Austria		Kerstin Frank	Miriam Ziegler / Severin Kiefer
Azerbaijan	Larry Loupolover			Anastasia Galyeta / Avidan Brown
Belarus			Tatiana Danilova / Mikalai Kamianchuk	Viktoria Kavaliova / Yurii Bieliaiev
Belgium	Jorik Hendrickx	Loena Hendrickx
Brazil		Isadora Williams
Canada[15]	Patrick Chan Kevin Reynolds	Kaetlyn Osmond Gabrielle Daleman	Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford Liubov Ilyushechkina / Dylan Moscovitch Julianne Séguin / Charlie Bilodeau	Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier
China	Jin Boyang	Li Zijun Li Xiangning	Sui Wenjing / Han Cong Yu Xiaoyu / Zhang Hao	Wang Shiyue / Liu Xinyu
Chinese Taipei	Chih-I Tsao	Amy Lin
Croatia	Nicholas Vrdoljak		Lana Petranović / Antonio Souza-Kordeiru
Czech Republic	Michal Březina	Michaela Lucie Hanzlíková	Anna Dušková / Martin Bidař	Nicole Kuzmichová / Alexandr Sinicyn
Denmark				Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen
Estonia		Helery Hälvin
Finland[16]	Valtter Virtanen	Emmi Peltonen	Emilia Simonen / Matthew Penasse	Cecilia Törn / Jussiville Partanen
France[17]	Chafik Besseghier	Laurine Lecavelier	Vanessa James / Morgan Cipres Lola Esbrat / Andrei Novoselov	Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac Lorenza Alessandrini / Pierre Souquet
Georgia	Moris Kvitelashvili			Tatiana Kozmava / Oleksii Shumskyi
Germany[18]	Paul Fentz	Nicole Schott	Aliona Savchenko / Bruno Massot Minerva Fabienne Hase / Nolan Seegert	Kavita Lorenz / Joti Polizoakis
Great Britain[19]	Graham Newberry	Natasha McKay	Zoe Jones / Christopher Boyadji	Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson
Hungary		Ivett Tóth	Daria Beklemisheva / Mark Magyar
Israel	Oleksii Bychenko			Isabella Tobias / Ilia Tkachenko
Italy	Matteo Rizzo	Carolina Kostner	Nicole Della Monica / Matteo Guarise Valentina Marchei / Ondřej Hotárek	Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri
Japan[20]	Yuzuru Hanyu Shoma Uno Keiji Tanaka	Wakaba Higuchi Mai Mihara Rika Hongo	Sumire Suto / Francis Boudreau-Audet	Kana Muramoto / Chris Reed
Kazakhstan	Denis Ten	Elizabet Tursynbayeva
Latvia	Deniss Vasiļjevs	Angelīna Kučvaļska		Olga Jakushina / Andrey Nevskiy
Lithuania			Goda Butkutė / Nikita Ermolaev	Taylor Tran / Saulius Ambrulevičius
Malaysia	Julian Zhi Jie Yee
North Korea			Ryom Tae-ok / Kim Ju-sik
Norway		Anne Line Gjersem
Philippines	Michael Christian Martinez
Poland	Igor Reznichenko			Natalia Kaliszek / Maksym Spodyriev
Russia	Mikhail Kolyada Maxim Kovtun	Evgenia Medvedeva Anna Pogorilaya Maria Sotskova	Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov Natalia Zabiiako / Alexander Enbert	Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin
Singapore		Yu Shuran
Slovakia		Nicole Rajičová
Slovenia		Daša Grm
South Korea	Kim Jin-seo	Choi Da-bin		Yura Min / Alexander Gamelin
Spain[21]	Javier Fernández Javier Raya			Olivia Smart / Adrià Díaz
Sweden	Alexander Majorov	Joshi Helgesson
Switzerland	Stéphane Walker	Yasmine Kimiko Yamada	Ioulia Chtchetinina / Noah Scherer
Turkey				Alisa Agafonova / Alper Uçar
Ukraine	Ivan Pavlov	Anna Khnychenkova		Oleksandra Nazarova / Maxim Nikitin
United States[22]	Jason Brown Nathan Chen	Mariah Bell Karen Chen Ashley Wagner	Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier Alexa Scimeca Knierim / Chris Knierim	Madison Chock / Evan Bates Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani
Uzbekistan	Misha Ge

Changes to initial assignments

Announced	Country	Discipline	Initial	Replacement	Refs
March 10, 2017	China	Ladies	Zhao Ziquan	Li Xiangning	[11]
March 13, 2017	Slovakia	Ice dance	Lucie Myslivečková / Lukáš Csölley	None	[13]
March 17, 2017	Italy	Men	Ivan Righini	Matteo Rizzo	[10]
March 17, 2017	South Korea	Pairs	Ji Min-ji / Themistocles Leftheris	None	[12]
March 20, 2017	Japan	Ladies	Satoko Miyahara	Rika Hongo	[11]
March 24, 2017	Netherlands	Ladies	Niki Wories	None	[11]
March 25, 2017	China	Men	Yan Han	None	[10]

Results

Men

Yuzuru Hanyu set a new world record for the free skating (223.20 points).^[6]

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
1	Yuzuru Hanyu	Japan	321.59	5	98.39	1	223.20 WR
2	Shoma Uno	Japan	319.31	2	104.86	2	214.45
3	Jin Boyang	China	303.58	4	98.64	3	204.94
4	Javier Fernández	Spain	301.19	1	109.05	6	192.14
5	Patrick Chan	Canada	295.16	3	102.13	5	193.03
6	Nathan Chen	United States	290.72	6	97.33	4	193.39
7	Jason Brown	United States	269.57	8	93.10	7	176.47
8	Mikhail Kolyada	Russia	257.47	7	93.28	9	164.19
9	Kevin Reynolds	Canada	253.84	12	84.44	8	169.40
10	Alexei Bychenko	Israel	245.96	11	85.28	12	160.68
11	Maxim Kovtun	Russia	245.84	10	89.38	14	156.46
12	Misha Ge	Uzbekistan	243.45	16	79.91	10	163.54
13	Moris Kvitelashvili	Georgia	239.24	19	76.34	11	162.90
14	Deniss Vasiļjevs	Latvia	239.00	14	81.73	13	157.27
15	Brendan Kerry	Australia	236.24	13	83.11	15	153.13
16	Denis Ten	Kazakhstan	234.31	9	90.18	20	144.13
17	Chafik Besseghier	France	230.13	17	78.82	16	151.31
18	Michal Březina	Czech Republic	226.26	15	80.02	18	146.24
19	Keiji Tanaka	Japan	222.34	22	73.45	17	148.89
20	Paul Fentz	Germany	217.91	20	73.89	22	144.02
21	Jorik Hendrickx	Belgium	214.02	21	73.68	21	140.34
22	Julian Zhi Jie Yee	Malaysia	213.99	23	69.74	19	144.25
23	Alexander Majorov	Sweden	205.04	18	77.23	23	127.81
24	Michael Christian Martinez	Philippines	196.79	24	69.32	24	127.47
Did not advance to free skating
25	Ivan Pavlov	Ukraine	69.26	25	69.26	—
26	Kim Jin-seo	South Korea	68.66	26	68.66	—
27	Javier Raya	Spain	66.88	27	66.88	—
28	Stéphane Walker	Switzerland	64.04	28	64.04	—
29	Igor Reznichenko	Poland	63.88	29	63.88	—
30	Matteo Rizzo	Italy	63.14	30	63.14	—
31	Graham Newberry	Great Britain	62.04	31	62.04	—
32	Chih-I Tsao	Chinese Taipei	61.52	32	61.52	—
33	Valtter Virtanen	Finland	59.45	33	59.45	—
34	Nicholas Vrdoljak	Croatia	57.28	34	57.28	—
35	Slavik Hayrapetyan	Armenia	57.14	35	57.14	—
36	Larry Loupolover	Azerbaijan	38.97	36	38.97	—

Ladies

The ladies podium at the 2017 World Championships

Evgenia Medvedeva set a new world record for the free skating (154.40 points)^[4] and for the combined total (233.41 points).^[5]

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
1	Evgenia Medvedeva	Russia	233.41 WR	1	79.01	1	154.40 WR
2	Kaetlyn Osmond	Canada	218.13	2	75.98	2	142.15
3	Gabrielle Daleman	Canada	213.52	3	72.19	3	141.33
4	Karen Chen	United States	199.29	5	69.98	6	129.31
5	Mai Mihara	Japan	197.88	15	59.59	4	138.29
6	Carolina Kostner	Italy	196.83	8	66.33	5	130.50
7	Ashley Wagner	United States	193.54	7	69.04	10	124.50
8	Maria Sotskova	Russia	192.20	6	69.76	11	122.44
9	Elizabet Tursynbayeva	Kazakhstan	191.99	10	65.48	8	126.51
10	Choi Da-bin	South Korea	191.11	11	62.66	7	128.45
11	Wakaba Higuchi	Japan	188.05	9	65.87	12	122.18
12	Mariah Bell	United States	187.23	13	61.02	9	126.21
13	Anna Pogorilaya	Russia	183.37	4	71.52	15	111.85
14	Li Xiangning	China	175.37	16	58.28	13	117.09
15	Loena Hendrickx	Belgium	172.82	17	57.54	14	115.28
16	Rika Hongo	Japan	169.83	12	62.55	18	107.28
17	Nicole Rajičová	Slovakia	165.55	18	57.08	16	108.47
18	Laurine Lecavelier	France	162.99	22	55.49	17	107.50
19	Nicole Schott	Germany	161.41	24	54.83	19	106.58
20	Ivett Tóth	Hungary	160.77	14	61.00	21	99.77
21	Li Zijun	China	159.80	20	56.30	20	103.50
22	Angelīna Kučvaļska	Latvia	155.02	21	55.92	22	99.10
23	Anastasia Galustyan	Armenia	153.47	23	55.20	23	98.27
24	Kailani Craine	Australia	152.94	19	56.97	24	95.97
Did not advance to free skating
25	Yu Shuran	Singapore	52.87	25	52.87	—
26	Joshi Helgesson	Sweden	52.07	26	52.07	—
27	Helery Hälvin	Estonia	51.94	27	51.94	—
28	Amy Lin	Chinese Taipei	51.86	28	51.86	—
29	Emmi Peltonen	Finland	50.74	29	50.74	—
30	Isadora Williams	Brazil	50.65	30	50.65	—
31	Kerstin Frank	Austria	50.54	31	50.54	—
32	Natasha McKay	Great Britain	50.10	32	50.10	—
33	Yasmine Kimiko Yamada	Switzerland	47.86	33	47.86	—
34	Anne Line Gjersem	Norway	46.99	34	46.99	—
35	Anna Khnychenkova	Ukraine	46.98	35	46.98	—
36	Daša Grm	Slovenia	46.63	36	46.63	—
37	Michaela Lucie Hanzlíková	Czech Republic	32.21	37	32.21	—

Pairs

The pairs medalists

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
1	Sui Wenjing / Han Cong	China	232.06	1	81.23	1	150.83
2	Aliona Savchenko / Bruno Massot	Germany	230.30	2	79.84	2	150.46
3	Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov	Russia	219.03	3	79.37	4	139.66
4	Yu Xiaoyu / Zhang Hao	China	211.51	4	75.23	5	136.28
5	Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov	Russia	206.72	13	65.69	3	141.03
6	Liubov Ilyushechkina / Dylan Moscovitch	Canada	206.19	6	73.14	8	133.05
7	Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford	Canada	206.06	7	72.67	7	133.39
8	Vanessa James / Morgan Cipres	France	204.68	10	70.10	6	134.58
9	Valentina Marchei / Ondřej Hotárek	Italy	203.92	9	71.04	9	132.88
10	Alexa Scimeca Knierim / Chris Knierim	United States	202.37	8	72.17	11	130.20
11	Julianne Séguin / Charlie Bilodeau	Canada	198.21	12	66.31	10	131.90
12	Natalia Zabiiako / Alexander Enbert	Russia	192.54	5	74.26	13	118.28
13	Nicole Della Monica / Matteo Guarise	Italy	192.02	11	70.08	12	121.94
14	Anna Dušková / Martin Bidař	Czech Republic	179.70	15	63.36	14	116.34
15	Ryom Tae-ok / Kim Ju-sik	North Korea	169.65	14	64.52	15	105.13
16	Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya / Harley Windsor	Australia	164.10	16	62.03	16	102.07
Did not advance to free skating
17	Sumire Suto / Francis Boudreau-Audet	Japan	61.70	17	61.70	—
18	Miriam Ziegler / Severin Kiefer	Austria	61.01	18	61.01	—
19	Minerva Fabienne Hase / Nolan Seegert	Germany	59.76	19	59.76	—
20	Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier	United States	56.23	20	56.23	—
21	Lana Petranović / Antonio Souza-Kordeiru	Croatia	52.83	21	52.83	—
22	Goda Butkutė / Nikita Ermolaev	Lithuania	52.49	22	52.49	—
23	Tatiana Danilova / Mikalai Kamianchuk	Belarus	51.79	23	51.79	—
24	Daria Beklemisheva / Mark Magyar	Hungary	45.96	24	45.96	—
25	Emilia Simonen / Matthew Penasse	Finland	45.49	25	45.49	—
26	Zoe Jones / Christopher Boyadji	Great Britain	44.33	26	44.33	—
27	Lola Esbrat / Andrei Novoselov	France	43.78	27	43.78	—
28	Ioulia Chtchetinina / Noah Scherer	Switzerland	40.50	28	40.50	—

Ice dance

Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir set a new world record for the short dance (82.43 points)^[3] and for the combined total (198.62 points).^[8] Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron set a new world record for the free dance (119.15 points).^[7]

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SD		FD
1	Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir	Canada	198.62 WR	1	82.43	2	116.19
2	Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron	France	196.04	2	76.89	1	119.15
3	Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani	United States	185.18	5	74.88	4	110.30
4	Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje	Canada	184.81	6	74.84	6	109.97
5	Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev	Russia	184.06	8	73.54	3	110.52
6	Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte	Italy	183.73	7	73.70	5	110.03
7	Madison Chock / Evan Bates	United States	182.04	4	76.25	8	105.79
8	Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier	Canada	178.99	9	72.83	7	106.16
9	Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue	United States	177.70	3	76.53	10	101.17
10	Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin	Russia	174.70	10	69.07	9	105.63
11	Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri	Italy	165.68	11	67.56	11	98.12
12	Isabella Tobias / Ilia Tkachenko	Israel	162.63	12	66.27	12	96.36
13	Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen	Denmark	159.53	13	66.05	14	93.48
14	Natalia Kaliszek / Maksym Spodyriev	Poland	157.15	15	63.37	13	93.78
15	Oleksandra Nazarova / Maxim Nikitin	Ukraine	155.35	14	63.86	15	91.49
16	Wang Shiyue / Liu Xinyu	China	150.25	18	60.77	16	89.48
17	Alisa Agafonova / Alper Uçar	Turkey	146.89	17	60.80	17	86.09
18	Olivia Smart / Adrià Díaz	Spain	145.61	16	60.93	19	84.68
19	Kavita Lorenz / Joti Polizoakis	Germany	142.86	20	57.10	18	85.76
20	Yura Min / Alexander Gamelin	South Korea	136.71	19	57.47	20	79.24
Did not advance to free dance
21	Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac	France	56.43	21	56.43	—
22	Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson	Great Britain	54.82	22	54.82	—
23	Kana Muramoto / Chris Reed	Japan	54.68	23	54.68	—
24	Cecilia Törn / Jussiville Partanen	Finland	52.22	24	52.22	—
25	Tina Garabedian / Simon Proulx-Sénécal	Armenia	51.39	25	51.39	—
26	Nicole Kuzmichová / Alexandr Sinicyn	Czech Republic	51.02	26	51.02	—
27	Viktoria Kavaliova / Yurii Bieliaiev	Belarus	49.73	27	49.73	—
28	Lorenza Alessandrini / Pierre Souquet	France	49.51	28	49.51	—
29	Olga Jakushina / Andrey Nevskiy	Latvia	48.26	29	48.26	—
30	Taylor Tran / Saulius Ambrulevičius	Lithuania	46.14	30	46.14	—
31	Anastasia Galyeta / Avidan Brown	Azerbaijan	45.58	31	45.58	—
32	Tatiana Kozmava / Oleksii Shumskyi	Georgia	42.71	32	42.71	—

Medals summary

Medalists

Medals for overall placement:

Discipline	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men	Yuzuru Hanyu	Shoma Uno	Jin Boyang
Ladies	Evgenia Medvedeva	Kaetlyn Osmond	Gabrielle Daleman
Pairs	Sui Wenjing / Han Cong	Aliona Savchenko / Bruno Massot	Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov
Ice dancing	Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir	Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron	Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani

Small medals for placement in the short segment:

Discipline	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men	Javier Fernández	Shoma Uno	Patrick Chan
Ladies	Evgenia Medvedeva	Kaetlyn Osmond	Gabrielle Daleman
Pairs	Sui Wenjing / Han Cong	Aliona Savchenko / Bruno Massot	Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov
Ice dancing	Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir	Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron	Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue

Small medals for placement in the free segment:

Discipline	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men	Yuzuru Hanyu	Shoma Uno	Jin Boyang
Ladies	Evgenia Medvedeva	Kaetlyn Osmond	Gabrielle Daleman
Pairs	Sui Wenjing / Han Cong	Aliona Savchenko / Bruno Massot	Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov
Ice dancing	Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron	Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir	Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev

By country

Table of medals for overall placement:

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Canada (CAN)	1	1	1	3
2	Japan (JPN)	1	1	0	2
3	China (CHN)	1	0	1	2
	Russia (RUS)	1	0	1	2
5	France (FRA)	0	1	0	1
	Germany (GER)	0	1	0	1
7	United States (USA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (7 entries)		4	4	4	12