2018 World Figure Skating Championships

The 2018 World Figure Skating Championships were held in Milan, Italy from 19–25 March 2018,^[1] at the Mediolanum Forum.^[2]

2018 World Figure Skating Championships
Type:	ISU Championship
Date:	19–25 March 2018
Season:	2017–18
Location:	Milan, Italy
Venue:	Mediolanum Forum
Champions
Men's singles: Nathan Chen
Ladies' singles: Kaetlyn Osmond
Pairs: Aliona Savchenko / Bruno Massot
Ice dance: Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron
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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
Pairs	Free skating	Aliona Savchenko / Bruno Massot	162.86	22 March 2018	[3]
	Total score		245.84		[4]
Ice dance	Short dance	Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron	083.73	23 March 2018	[5]
	Free dance		123.47	24 March 2018	[6]
	Total score		207.20		[7]

Qualification

Age and minimum TES requirements

Skaters are eligible for the 2018 World Championships if they turned 15 years of age before 1 July 2017 and have met the minimum technical elements score requirements. The ISU accepts scores if they were obtained at senior-level ISU-recognized international competitions at least 21 days before the first official practice day of the championships.^[8]

Minimum technical scores (TES)^[8]

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 2017 World Championships, each ISU member nation can field one to three entries per discipline.

Spots	Men	Ladies	Pairs	Dance
3	Japan  United States	Russia  Canada  United States	China  Russia  Canada	Canada  United States
2	China  Spain  Canada  Russia  Israel	Japan  Italy  Kazakhstan  South Korea	Germany  France  Italy  United States	France  Russia  Italy
If not listed above, one entry is allowed.

Schedule

Day	Date	Start	Finish	Discipline	Event
Day 1	March 21	10:45	16:36	Ladies	Short program
		17:30	18:00		Opening ceremony
		18:20	23:00	Pairs	Short program
Day 2	March 22	10:05	15:43	Men	Short program
		18:55	21:54	Pairs	Free skating
				Pairs	Victory ceremony
Day 3	March 23	11:00	15:57	Dance	Short dance
		18:35	22:25	Ladies	Free skating
				Ladies	Victory ceremony
Day 4	March 24	10:00	14:04	Men	Free skating
				Men	Victory ceremony
		15:20	18:36	Dance	Free dance
				Dance	Victory ceremony
Day 5	March 25	14:30	17:00		Exhibition gala

Note: times are local times (UTC+1 from March 21 through March 24 and UTC+2 on March 25).

Entries

Member nations began announcing their selections in December 2017. The International Skating Union published the full list of entries on 28 February 2018. None of the previous year's defending champions competed.

Country	Men[9]	Ladies[10]	Pairs[11]	Ice dance[12]
Armenia	Slavik Hayrapetyan			Tina Garabedian / Simon Proulx-Sénécal
Australia	Brendan Kerry	Kailani Craine	Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya / Harley Windsor	Chantelle Kerry / Andrew Dodds
Austria		Alisa Stomakhina	Miriam Ziegler / Severin Kiefer
Azerbaijan	Larry Loupolover
Belarus				Viktoria Kavaliova / Yurii Bieliaiev
Belgium		Loena Hendrickx
Brazil		Isadora Williams
Bulgaria				Teodora Markova / Simon Daze
Canada[13][14][15]	Keegan Messing Nam Nguyen	Larkyn Austman Gabrielle Daleman Kaetlyn Osmond	Kirsten Moore-Towers / Michael Marinaro Camille Ruest / Andrew Wolfe Julianne Séguin / Charlie Bilodeau	Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier Carolane Soucisse / Shane Firus Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje
China	Jin Boyang	Li Xiangning	Peng Cheng / Jin Yang 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	Eliška Březinová	Anna Dušková / Martin Bidař	Cortney Mansour / Michal Češka
Estonia		Gerli Liinamäe
Finland	Valtter Virtanen	Viveca Lindfors		Cecilia Törn / Jussiville Partanen
France	Romain Ponsart	Laurine Lecavelier	Lola Esbrat / Andrei Novoselov Vanessa James / Morgan Ciprès	Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron
Georgia	Morisi Kvitelashvili
Germany	Paul Fentz	Nicole Schott	Annika Hocke / Ruben Blommaert Aliona Savchenko / Bruno Massot	Kavita Lorenz / Joti Polizoakis
Great Britain[16]	Phillip Harris	Natasha McKay	Zoe Jones / Christopher Boyadji	Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson
Hungary		Ivett Tóth	Elizaveta Kashitsyna / Márk Magyar	Anna Yanovskaya / Ádám Lukács
Israel	Oleksii Bychenko Daniel Samohin		Paige Conners / Evgeni Krasnopolski	Adel Tankova / Ronald Zilberberg
Italy	Matteo Rizzo	Carolina Kostner Elisabetta Leccardi	Nicole Della Monica / Matteo Guarise Valentina Marchei / Ondřej Hotárek	Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri
Japan[17]	Keiji Tanaka Kazuki Tomono Shoma Uno	Wakaba Higuchi Satoko Miyahara	Miu Suzaki / Ryuichi Kihara	Kana Muramoto / Chris Reed
Kazakhstan	Abzal Rakimgaliev	Elizabet Tursynbayeva
Latvia	Deniss Vasiļjevs	Angelīna Kučvaļska
Lithuania		Elžbieta Kropa		Allison Reed / Saulius Ambrulevičius
Malaysia	Julian Yee
Mexico	Donovan Carrillo
North Korea			Ryom Tae-ok / Kim Ju-sik
Norway		Anne Line Gjersem
Poland	Ihor Reznichenko			Natalia Kaliszek / Maksym Spodyriev
South Korea	Kim Jin-seo	Choi Da-bin Kim Ha-nul	Kim Kyu-eun / Alex Kangchan Kam	Yura Min / Alexander Gamelin
Russia	Dmitri Aliev Mikhail Kolyada	Stanislava Konstantinova Maria Sotskova Alina Zagitova	Kristina Astakhova / Alexei Rogonov Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov Natalya Zabiyako / Alexander Enbert	Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin Tiffany Zahorski / Jonathan Guerreiro
Serbia		Antonina Dubinina
Slovakia		Nicole Rajičová		Lucie Myslivečková / Lukáš Csölley
Slovenia		Daša Grm
Spain[18]	Javier Raya		Laura Barquero / Aritz Maestu	Olivia Smart / Adriàn Díaz
Sweden	Alexander Majorov	Anita Östlund
Switzerland	Stéphane Walker	Alexia Paganini	Ioulia Chtchetinina / Mikhail Akulov
Turkey	Burak Demirboğa			Alisa Agafonova / Alper Uçar
Ukraine	Ivan Pavlov			Oleksandra Nazarova / Maxim Nikitin
United States[19]	Max Aaron Nathan Chen Vincent Zhou	Mariah Bell Mirai Nagasu Bradie Tennell	Alexa Scimeca Knierim / Chris Knierim Deanna Stellato / Nathan Bartholomay	Madison Chock / Evan Bates Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue
Uzbekistan	Misha Ge

Changes to preliminary assignments

Announced	Country	Discipline	Initial	Replacement	Reason for WD/ Other notes
	Canada	Men	Patrick Chan	Nam Nguyen[9]	Chan retired after the Olympics.[14]
16 February	Canada	Pairs	Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford	Camille Ruest / Andrew Wolfe[11]	Duhamel/Radford retired after the Olympics.[15] Ilyushechkina/ Moscovitch were the first alternates but declined.[13]
20 February	Canada	Ice dance	Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir[20]	Carolane Soucisse / Shane Firus[12]
20 February	Spain	Men	Javier Fernández	None[11]
25 February	Russia	Pairs	Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov	Kristina Astakhova / Alexei Rogonov[11]	Stolbova's leg injury.[21]
28 February	Russia	Ice dance	Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev	Tiffany Zahorski / Jonathan Guerreiro	Fatigue[citation needed]
	Great Britain	Ice dance	Penny Coomes / Nicholas Buckland	Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson	Coomes' knee injury rehabilitation.[22]
2 March	United States	Men	Adam Rippon	Max Aaron[23]	Jason Brown and Ross Miner declined invitations.[23]
2 March	United States	Ice dance	Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani	Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker[23]
7 March	Japan	Men	Yuzuru Hanyu	Kazuki Tomono[9]	Pain in Hanyu's right ankle.[24] Takahito Mura declined and retired.[25]
7 March	Philippines	Ladies	Alisson Perticheto	None[10]
9 March	China	Pairs	Sui Wenjing / Han Cong	None[11]	Stress fracture in Sui's foot.[26]
13 March	Russia	Ladies	Evgenia Medvedeva	Stanislava Konstantinova	Stress fracture in right foot.[27]
13 March	Ukraine	Ladies	Anna Khnychenkova	None[10]
16 March	United States	Ladies	Karen Chen	Mariah Bell	Ashley Wagner declined an invitation.[28]
16 March	United States	Pairs	Tarah Kayne / Daniel O'Shea	Deanna Stellato / Nathan Bartholomay[28]
16 March	Azerbaijan	Pairs	Sofiya Karagodina / Semyon Stepanov	None
16 March	Kazakhstan	Men	Denis Ten	Abzal Rakimgaliev[9]

Results

Men

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
1	Nathan Chen	United States	321.40	1	101.94	1	219.46
2	Shoma Uno	Japan	273.77	5	94.26	2	179.51
3	Mikhail Kolyada	Russia	272.32	2	100.08	4	172.24
4	Alexei Bychenko	Israel	258.28	7	90.99	7	167.29
5	Kazuki Tomono	Japan	256.11	11	82.61	3	173.50
6	Deniss Vasiļjevs	Latvia	254.86	9	84.25	5	170.61
7	Dmitri Aliev	Russia	252.30	13	82.15	6	170.15
8	Keegan Messing	Canada	252.30	6	93.00	11	159.30
9	Misha Ge	Uzbekistan	249.57	8	86.01	9	163.56
10	Michal Březina	Czech Republic	243.99	17	78.01	8	165.98
11	Max Aaron	United States	241.49	15	79.78	10	161.71
12	Alexander Majorov	Sweden	237.79	10	82.71	13	155.08
13	Keiji Tanaka	Japan	236.66	14	80.17	12	156.49
14	Vincent Zhou	United States	235.24	3	96.78	19	138.46
15	Paul Fentz	Germany	230.92	12	82.49	16	148.43
16	Romain Ponsart	France	229.20	16	79.55	14	149.65
17	Matteo Rizzo	Italy	225.44	18	77.43	17	148.01
18	Brendan Kerry	Australia	223.85	19	74.99	15	148.86
19	Jin Boyang	China	223.41	4	95.85	23	127.56
20	Daniel Samohin	Israel	214.01	20	72.78	18	141.23
21	Julian Zhi Jie Yee	Malaysia	209.03	21	72.43	20	136.60
22	Donovan Carrillo	Mexico	200.76	24	68.13	21	132.63
23	Slavik Hayrapetyan	Armenia	199.72	23	68.18	22	131.54
24	Phillip Harris	Great Britain	187.69	22	68.59	24	119.10
Did not advance to free skating
25	Nam Nguyen	Canada	67.79	25	67.79	—
26	Morisi Kvitelashvili	Georgia	67.01	26	67.01	—
27	Stéphane Walker	Switzerland	65.79	27	65.79	—
28	Burak Demirboğa	Turkey	65.43	28	65.43	—
29	Ivan Pavlov	Ukraine	64.18	29	64.18	—
30	Chih-I Tsao	Chinese Taipei	64.06	30	64.06	—
31	Larry Loupolover	Azerbaijan	61.82	31	61.82	—
32	Abzal Rakimgaliev	Kazakhstan	61.19	32	61.19	—
33	Kim Jin-seo	South Korea	60.72	33	60.72	—
34	Nicholas Vrdoljak	Croatia	59.74	34	59.74	—
35	Valtter Virtanen	Finland	55.49	35	55.49	—
36	Ihor Reznichenko	Poland	51.70	36	51.70	—
37	Javier Raya	Spain	50.00	37	50.00	—

Ladies

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
1	Kaetlyn Osmond	Canada	223.23	4	72.73	1	150.50
2	Wakaba Higuchi	Japan	210.90	8	65.89	2	145.01
3	Satoko Miyahara	Japan	210.08	3	74.36	3	135.72
4	Carolina Kostner	Italy	208.88	1	80.27	5	128.61
5	Alina Zagitova	Russia	207.72	2	79.51	7	128.21
6	Bradie Tennell	United States	199.89	7	68.76	4	131.13
7	Gabrielle Daleman	Canada	196.72	6	71.61	8	125.11
8	Maria Sotskova	Russia	196.61	5	71.80	9	124.81
9	Loena Hendrickx	Belgium	192.31	10	64.07	6	128.24
10	Mirai Nagasu	United States	187.52	9	65.21	11	122.31
11	Elizabet Tursynbayeva	Kazakhstan	186.85	11	62.38	10	124.47
12	Mariah Bell	United States	174.40	17	59.15	12	115.25
13	Nicole Schott	Germany	174.13	12	61.84	14	112.29
14	Laurine Lecavelier	France	173.23	15	59.79	13	113.44
15	Kim Ha-nul	South Korea	170.68	14	60.14	15	110.54
16	Viveca Lindfors	Finland	166.23	13	60.18	16	106.05
17	Kailani Craine	Australia	154.41	20	56.90	18	97.51
18	Eliška Březinová	Czech Republic	153.14	18	58.37	19	94.77
19	Stanislava Konstantinova	Russia	153.03	16	59.19	20	93.84
20	Alexia Paganini	Switzerland	149.66	19	57.86	22	91.80
21	Elisabetta Leccardi	Italy	149.17	23	51.13	17	98.04
22	Daša Grm	Slovenia	144.51	22	52.43	21	92.08
23	Ivett Tóth	Hungary	136.87	24	50.63	23	86.24
WD	Choi Da-bin	South Korea	55.30	21	55.30	—
Did not advance to free skating
25	Larkyn Austman	Canada	50.17	25	50.17	—
26	Li Xiangning	China	50.06	26	50.06	—
27	Nicole Rajičová	Slovakia	49.87	27	49.87	—
28	Amy Lin	Chinese Taipei	49.31	28	49.31	—
29	Anita Östlund	Sweden	48.99	29	48.99	—
30	Alisa Stomakhina	Austria	48.71	30	48.71	—
31	Elžbieta Kropa	Lithuania	46.53	31	46.53	—
32	Natasha McKay	Great Britain	45.89	32	45.89	—
33	Anne Line Gjersem	Norway	45.25	33	45.25	—
34	Gerli Liinamäe	Estonia	45.14	34	45.14	—
35	Isadora Williams	Brazil	42.16	35	42.16	—
36	Antonina Dubinina	Serbia	41.40	36	41.40	—
37	Angelīna Kučvaļska	Latvia	35.78	37	35.78	—

Pairs

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
1	Aliona Savchenko / Bruno Massot	Germany	245.84	1	82.98	1	162.86
2	Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov	Russia	225.53	2	81.29	2	144.24
3	Vanessa James / Morgan Ciprès	France	218.36	3	75.32	3	143.04
4	Natalya Zabiyako / Alexander Enbert	Russia	207.88	4	74.38	6	133.50
5	Nicole Della Monica / Matteo Guarise	Italy	206.06	5	72.53	5	133.53
6	Kirsten Moore-Towers / Michael Marinaro	Canada	204.33	10	70.49	4	133.84
7	Yu Xiaoyu / Zhang Hao	China	203.36	9	71.31	7	132.05
8	Kristina Astakhova / Alexei Rogonov	Russia	202.16	7	71.62	9	130.54
9	Peng Cheng / Jin Yang	China	202.07	6	71.98	10	130.09
10	Valentina Marchei / Ondřej Hotárek	Italy	202.02	8	71.37	8	130.65
11	Anna Dušková / Martin Bidař	Czech Republic	189.60	13	66.29	11	123.31
12	Ryom Tae-ok / Kim Ju-sik	North Korea	188.77	12	66.32	12	122.45
13	Annika Hocke / Ruben Blommaert	Germany	184.83	16	63.26	13	121.57
14	Miriam Ziegler / Severin Kiefer	Austria	184.30	14	65.21	14	119.09
15	Alexa Scimeca Knierim / Chris Knierim	United States	182.04	11	69.55	15	112.49
16	Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya / Harley Windsor	Australia	177.46	15	65.02	16	112.44
Did not advance to free skating
17	Deanna Stellato / Nathan Bartholomay	United States	61.48	17	61.48	—
18	Camille Ruest / Andrew Wolfe	Canada	59.98	18	59.98	—
19	Paige Conners / Evgeni Krasnopolski	Israel	58.44	19	58.44	—
20	Laura Barquero / Aritz Maestu	Spain	58.36	20	58.36	—
21	Lana Petranović / Antonio Souza-Kordeiru	Croatia	57.25	21	57.25	—
22	Julianne Séguin / Charlie Bilodeau	Canada	55.68	22	55.68	—
23	Ioulia Chtchetinina / Mikhail Akulov	Switzerland	53.62	23	53.62	—
24	Miu Suzaki / Ryuichi Kihara	Japan	53.33	24	53.33	—
25	Lola Esbrat / Andrei Novoselov	France	51.94	25	51.94	—
26	Kyu-eun Kim / Alex Kangchan Kam	South Korea	42.85	26	42.85	—
27	Zoe Jones / Christopher Boyadji	Great Britain	42.02	27	42.02	—
28	Elizaveta Kashitsyna / Márk Magyar	Hungary	36.33	28	36.33	—

Ice dance

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SD		FD
1	Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron	France	207.20	1	83.73	1	123.47
2	Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue	United States	196.64	2	80.42	2	116.22
3	Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje	Canada	192.35	3	78.31	4	114.04
4	Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte	Italy	192.08	4	77.46	3	114.62
5	Madison Chock / Evan Bates	United States	187.28	5	75.66	5	111.62
6	Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier	Canada	186.10	6	74.51	6	111.59
7	Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin	Russia	184.01	7	74.50	7	109.51
8	Tiffany Zahorski / Jonathan Guerreiro	Russia	180.42	8	72.45	8	107.97
9	Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri	Italy	178.44	9	71.15	9	107.29
10	Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker	United States	165.28	15	63.48	10	101.80
11	Kana Muramoto / Chris Reed	Japan	164.38	10	65.65	11	98.73
12	Olivia Smart / Adriàn Díaz	Spain	162.05	12	63.73	12	98.32
13	Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac	France	159.64	14	63.50	13	96.14
14	Carolane Soucisse / Shane Firus	Canada	159.46	11	64.02	14	95.44
15	Oleksandra Nazarova / Maxim Nikitin	Ukraine	158.40	16	63.35	15	95.05
16	Kavita Lorenz / Joti Polizoakis	Germany	157.02	17	62.08	16	94.94
17	Natalia Kaliszek / Maksym Spodyriev	Poland	151.46	13	63.70	19	87.76
18	Wang Shiyue / Liu Xinyu	China	150.75	19	61.18	17	89.57
19	Alisa Agafonova / Alper Uçar	Turkey	149.05	20	60.38	18	88.67
20	Allison Reed / Saulius Ambrulevičius	Lithuania	148.30	18	61.33	20	86.97
Did not advance to free dance
21	Yura Min / Alexander Gamelin	South Korea	58.82	21	58.82	—
22	Tina Garabedian / Simon Proulx-Sénécal	Armenia	58.64	22	58.64	—
23	Cecilia Törn / Jussiville Partanen	Finland	57.96	23	57.96	—
24	Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson	Great Britain	57.56	24	57.56	—
25	Lucie Myslivečková / Lukáš Csölley	Slovakia	55.54	25	55.54	—
26	Cortney Mansour / Michal Češka	Czech Republic	55.27	26	55.27	—
27	Anna Yanovskaya / Ádám Lukács	Hungary	54.11	27	54.11	—
28	Viktoria Kavaliova / Yurii Bieliaiev	Belarus	50.40	28	50.40	—
29	Teodora Markova / Simon Daze	Bulgaria	47.57	29	47.57	—
30	Chantelle Kerry / Andrew Dodds	Australia	46.05	30	46.05	—
31	Adel Tankova / Ronald Zilberberg	Israel	43.50	31	43.50	—

Medals summary

Medalists

Medals for overall placement:

Discipline	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men	Nathan Chen	Shoma Uno	Mikhail Kolyada
Ladies	Kaetlyn Osmond	Wakaba Higuchi	Satoko Miyahara
Pairs	Aliona Savchenko / Bruno Massot	Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov	Vanessa James / Morgan Ciprès
Ice dance	Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron	Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue	Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje

Small medals for placement in the short segment:

Discipline	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men	Nathan Chen	Mikhail Kolyada	Vincent Zhou
Ladies	Carolina Kostner	Alina Zagitova	Satoko Miyahara
Pairs	Aliona Savchenko / Bruno Massot	Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov	Vanessa James / Morgan Ciprès
Ice dance	Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron	Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue	Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje

Small medals for placement in the free segment:

Discipline	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men	Nathan Chen	Shoma Uno	Kazuki Tomono
Ladies	Kaetlyn Osmond	Wakaba Higuchi	Satoko Miyahara
Pairs	Aliona Savchenko / Bruno Massot	Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov	Vanessa James / Morgan Ciprès
Ice dance	Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron	Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue	Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte

By country

Table of medals for overall placement:

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	1	1	0	2
2	Canada (CAN)	1	0	1	2
	France (FRA)	1	0	1	2
4	Germany (GER)	1	0	0	1
5	Japan (JPN)	0	2	1	3
6	Russia (RUS)	0	1	1	2
Totals (6 entries)		4	4	4	12