1987 World Figure Skating Championships Explained

1987 World Figure Skating Championships
Comptype:	ISU Championship
Startdate:	March 10
Enddate:	15
Skatingseason:	1986–87
Location:	Cincinnati, USA
Venue:	Riverfront Coliseum
Championmen:	Brian Orser
Championladies:	Katarina Witt
Championpairs:	Ekaterina Gordeeva / Sergei Grinkov
Championdance:	Natalia Bestemianova / Andrei Bukin
Previouscomp:	1986 World Championships
Nextcomp:	1988 World Championships

The 1987 World Figure Skating Championships were held at the Riverfront Coliseum in Cincinnati, USA from March 10 to 15. Medals were awarded in men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.

Medal tables

Medalists

align=center	Men	Brian Orser	Brian Boitano	Alexander Fadeev
align=center	Ladies	Katarina Witt	Debi Thomas	Caryn Kadavy
align=center	Pairs	Ekaterina Gordeeva / Sergei Grinkov	Elena Valova / Oleg Vasiliev	Jill Watson / Peter Oppegard
align=center	Ice dancing	Natalia Bestemianova / Andrei Bukin	Marina Klimova / Sergei Ponomarenko	Tracy Wilson / Robert McCall

Medals by country

Results

Men

Rank	Name	Nation	TFP	CF	OP	FS
align=center	1			3.2	3	1	1
align=center	2			4.0	2	2	2
align=center	3			4.8	1	3	3
4			10.4	4	5	6
5			11.6	7	6	5
6			11.6	5	4	7
7			14.2	11	9	4
8			17.8	10	7	9
9			20.0	6	11	12
10			21.6	9	8	13
11			22.2	17	10	8
12			22.8	12	14	10
13			25.2	13	16	11
14			27.6	8	17	16
15			30.0	14	19	14
16			32.2	20	13	15
17			33.6	18	12	18
18			34.0	15	20	17
19			36.6	16	15	21
20			39.8	19	21	20
21			41.2	25	18	19
22			45.0	23	23	22
23			45.8	22	24	23
24	Oliver Dechert		46.6	21	25	24
Free skating not reached
25				26	22
26				24	26
27	Chi-Man Wong			27	27

Ladies

Rank	Name	Nation	TFP	CF	OP	FS
align=center	1			4.4	5	1	1
align=center	2			6.0	2	7	2
align=center	3			7.4	4	5	3
4			10.4	6	2	6
5			12.0	1	6	9
6			13.0	3	8	8
7			13.2	11	4	5
8			13.6	14	3	4
9			14.8	7	9	7
10			20.8	10	12	10
11	Patricia Schmidt		20.8	8	10	12
12			23.6	9	18	11
13			25.8	12	14	13
14			28.2	13	16	14
15			31.0	18	13	15
16			34.2	16	19	17
17			35.2	22	15	16
18			36.8	20	17	18
19			39.8	19	21	20
20			40.0	17	22	21
21			40.8	23	20	19
22			43.8	21	23	22
23	Sandra Escoda		47.6	25	24	23
WD				15	11
Free skating not reached
25				24	26
26				26	25
27	Edith Poon			27	27

Pairs

Rank	Name	Nation	TFP	SP	FS
align=center	1			1.4	1	1
align=center	2			2.8	2	2
align=center	3			4.2	3	3
4			6.8	7	4
5			7.4	6	5
6			7.6	4	6
7			10.0	5	8
8			11.2	8	7
9			12.6	9	9
10			14.0	10	10
11	Sonja Adalbert / Daniel Caprano		14.8	12	11
12			16.4	11	12
13	Shuk-Ching Ngai / Cheuk-Fai Lai		18.2	13	13

Ice dancing

Rank	Name	Nation	TFP	CD	OSP	FD
align=center	1			2.4	1	2	1
align=center	2			3.6	2	1	2
align=center	3			6.0	3	3	3
4			8.0	4	4	4
5			10.0	5	5	5
6			12.0	6	6	6
7			14.0	7	7	7
8			16.0	8	8	8
9			18.6	10	9	9
10			20.4	9	10	11
11			21.0	11	11	10
12			24.4	12	13	12
13			25.6	13	12	13
14	Michela Malingambi / Andrea Gilardi		28.0	14	14	14
15			31.0	16	16	15
16			31.0	15	15	16
17	Jo Ann Borlase / Scott Chalmers		34.0	17	17	17
18			36.0	18	18	18
19			38.6	20	19	19
20			39.8	19	21	20
21			41.6	21	20	21
22	Park Kyung-sook / Han Seung-jong		44.0	22	22	22

External links

• https://web.archive.org/web/20100419020224/http://www.eskatefans.com/skatabase/historical.html
• Result list provided by ISU
• For Boitano, Either It's a Hit or a Miss
• Thomas Has Fallen Upon Hard Times : Spotlight Moves Off '86 World Champion as Witt Woos the Fans