1986 World Figure Skating Championships Explained

1986 World Figure Skating Championships
Comptype:	ISU Championship
Startdate:	18
Enddate:	23 March
Skatingseason:	1985–86
Location:	Geneva, Switzerland
Venue:	Patinoire des Vernets
Championmen:	Brian Boitano
Championladies:	Debi Thomas
Championpairs:	Ekaterina Gordeeva / Sergei Grinkov
Championdance:	Natalia Bestemianova / Andrei Bukin
Previouscomp:	1985 World Championships
Nextcomp:	1987 World Championships

The 1986 World Figure Skating Championships were held in Geneva, Switzerland from 18 to 23 March. At the event, sanctioned by the International Skating Union, medals were awarded in men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.

The ISU Representative was Josef Dědič (Czechoslovakia), and the ISU Technical Delegate was Elemér Terták (Hungary).

Soviet judge Natalia Danilenko was suspended for ignoring a new rule requiring mandatory deductions of 0.1 for falls; she gave Alexandr Fadeev a score of 5.9 after he fell twice, instead of a maximum of 5.8.^[1]

Medal tables

Medalists

align=center	Men	Brian Boitano	Brian Orser	Alexander Fadeev
align=center	Ladies	Debi Thomas	Katarina Witt	Tiffany Chin
align=center	Pair skating	Ekaterina Gordeeva / Sergei Grinkov	Elena Valova / Oleg Vasiliev	Cynthia Coull / Mark Rowsom
align=center	Ice dancing	Natalia Bestemianova / Andrei Bukin	Marina Klimova / Sergei Ponomarenko	Tracy Wilson / Robert McCall

Medals by country

Results

Men

Rank	Name	CP	SP	FS	SP+FS	Points	Total
align=center	1		4	5	1	2		5.4
align=center	2		5	1	2	1		5.4
align=center	3		1	2	5	4		6.4
4		9	3	3	3		9.6
5		7	6	4	5		10.6
6		2	4	9	8		11.8
7		3	7	10	10		14.6
8		10	9	6	6		15.6
9		11	8	7	7		16.8
10		16	11	8	9		22.0
11		6	12	14	12		22.4
12		14	13	11	11		24.6
13		12	10	15	13		26.2
14		13	16	13	15		27.2
15		8	17	18	18		29.6
16		19	18	12	14		30.6
17		15	14	20	20		34.6
18		17	15	19	19		35.2
19		21	19	17	17		37.2
20		24	20	16	16		38.4
Free skating not reached
21		20	21	5	5		25.4
22		18	22	6	6		25.6
23		23	23	4	4		27.0
24		25	26	7	7		32.4
25		22	28	8	9		32.4
26		27	25	9	8		35.2
27		26	27	10	11		36.4
28		28	24	11	10		37.4

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Ladies

Rank	Name	CP	SP	FS	SP+FS	Points	Total
align=center	1		2	1	2	1		3.6
align=center	2		3	4	1	2		4.4
align=center	3		4	2	4	3		7.2
4		1	6	8	8		11.0
5		11	7	3	4		12.4
6		9	5	6	5		13.4
7		6	2	9	7		13.4
8		7	9	7	9		14.8
9		5	11	11	11		18.4
10		8	10	10	10		18.8
11		19	8	5	6		19.6
12		16	13	12	12		26.8
13		13	18	13	13		28.0
14		10	15	18	18		30.0
15		12	20	15	17		30.2
16		14	12	17	15		30.2
17		23	19	14	14		35.4
18		22	17	16	16		36.0
19		17	21	19	19		37.6
WD		18	16
Free skating not reached
21		21	14	5	3		23.2
22		15	22	6	6		23.8
23		20	23	3	4		24.2
24		24	24	8	8		32.0
25		26	25	7	7		32.6
26		25	27	9	9		34.8
27		27	26	10	10		36.6

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- - - - Elfriede Beyer Jacqueline Itschner Charles U. Foster Tjaša Andrée Reinhard Mirmseker Alexander Vedenin Alexander Penchev Bulgaria

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Pairs

Rank	Name	SP	FS	Total
align=center	1		1	1	1.4
align=center	2		2	2	2.8
align=center	3		4	3	4.6
4		3	4	5.2
5		6	6	8.4
6		9	5	8.6
7		5	7	9.0
8		8	8	11.2
9		7	9	11.8
10		10	10	14.0
11		11	11	15.4
12		12	12	16.8
13		14	13	18.6
14		13	14	19.2
15		15	15	21.0

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Ice dancing

Semi-final

Rank	Name	CD	OSP	FD	Total
align=center	1		1	2	1	2.4
align=center	2		2	1	2	3.6
align=center	3		4	4	3	7.0
4		3	3	4	7.0
5		5	5	5	10.0
6		6	6	6	12.0
7		7	7	7	14.0
8		8	8	8	16.0
9		9	9	9	18.0
10		10	10	10	20.0
11		11	11	11	22.0
12		12	12	12	24.0
13		13	14	13	26.4
14		14	13	14	27.6
15		15	16	15	30.4
16		16	15	16	31.6
17		17	17	17	34.0
18		18	18	18	36.0
19		19	19	19	38.0
20		20	20	20	40.0
21*		21	21	4	25.0
22*		22	22	5	27.0

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External links

Result list provided by the ISU
Debi Thomas Wins World Skating Title; Chin Takes Third
Figure Skating : Two Soviet Teen-Agers Win Pairs

Notes and References

News: SPORTS PEOPLE; Soviet Suspensions. The New York Times. June 1986.