2000 World Figure Skating Championships Explained

2000 World Figure Skating Championships
Comptype:	ISU Championship
Startdate:	March 23
Enddate:	April 3
Skatingseason:	1999–2000
Location:	Nice, France
Venue:	Palais des Exposition Nice
Championmen:	Alexei Yagudin
Championladies:	Michelle Kwan
Championpairs:	Maria Petrova / Alexei Tikhonov
Championdance:	Marina Anissina / Gwendal Peizerat
Previouscomp:	1999 World Championships
Nextcomp:	2001 World Championships

The 2000 World Figure Skating Championships had been held at the Palais des Exposition Nice in Nice, France from March 23 to April 3. The event was sanctioned by the International Skating Union. Medals were awarded in men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.

Competition notes

Due to a large number of participants, the men's and ladies' qualifying groups were split into groups A and B.

This event had originally been awarded to Brisbane, Australia. However, in late August 1999, the ISU reassigned the event to Nice, allegedly due to the Australian organizers' failure to provide adequate broadcast services.

There were two accidents resulting in withdrawals. Julia Obertas / Dmitri Palamarchuk, who were 10th after the short program, withdrew from the pairs event after a fall during the free skating. Palamarchuk caught an edge (right skate) while executing an overhead lift with Obertas – she was uninjured in the resulting fall but he hit his head on the ice. Palamarchuk lay on the ice for several minutes before getting up and leaving the ice on his own but then lost consciousness and was taken to hospital – no damage was found but he was kept overnight for observation.

In the ice dancing event, Albena Denkova / Maxim Staviski, who were 8th after the original dance also forced to withdraw. She was seriously injured in the practice before the free dance when Peter Tchernyshev's blade slashed her leg above her boot, severing two tendons and a muscle.

Pair skater Stéphane Bernadis said he was attacked on March 28 by an unknown assailant with a razor – resulting in an eight-inch cut down his left forearm – when he opened his hotel room door. Bernadis said he had received a death threat three weeks earlier.

Over 52,000 tickets were sold.

Results

Men

Rank	Name	TFP	QB	QA	SP	FS
align=center	1		2.0		1	1	1
align=center	2		5.4	1		5	2
align=center	3		5.6		2	3	3
4		6.0	2		2	4
5		12.0		3	8	6
6		15.6	3		4	12
7		16.0	5		10	8
8		16.0	4		9	9
9		16.4		7	11	7
10		17.2		5	17	5
11		17.4	8		7	10
12		20.4	7		6	14
13		20.6	6		12	11
14		22.4		4	13	13
15		27.2		8	15	15
16		28.0		6	16	16
17		31.8	10		18	17
18		32.0	9		14	20
19		34.4	11		20	18
20		34.4		10	19	19
21		40.0		12	22	22
22		40.2		9	21	24
23		40.6	13		24	21
24		41.6	12		23	23
Free skating not reached
25				13	25
26				11	27
27			14		26
28				14	28
29			15		29
30				15	30
Short program not reached
31				16
31			16
33			17
33				17
35			18
35				18
37			19
37				19
39				20
39			20
41			21
41				21
43				22
43			22
45			23
45				23
47			24

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Ladies

Rank	Name	TFP	QB	QA	SP	FS
align=center	1		3.6	2		3	1
align=center	2		3.6	1		2	2
align=center	3		4.0		1	1	3
4		9.2	7		4	4
5		9.2	3		5	5
6		13.4	4		8	7
7		14.4		3	7	9
8		15.0	6		11	6
9		16.6	5		6	11
10		17.6		4	10	10
11		17.8		2	15	8
12		22.4	8		12	12
13		24.0	9		9	15
14		25.2		11	13	13
15		27.2		7	14	16
16		27.8		9	17	14
17		32.4		6	20	18
18		32.4		5	19	19
19		33.6	10		21	17
20		34.0		8	18	20
21		34.2		9	16	21
22		40.4	13		22	22
23		42.8	12		25	23
24		43.0		13	23	24
Free skating not reached
25				15	24
26				12	26
27			14		27
28			11		29
29				14	28
30			15		30
Short program not reached
31				16
31			16
33			17
33				17
35			18
35				18
37			19
37				19
39			20
39				20
41				21
41			21
43				22
43	Choi Young-eun		22
45			23

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Pairs

Rank	Name	TFP	SP	FS
align=center	1		2.0	2	1
align=center	2		2.5	1	2
align=center	3		5.0	4	3
4		5.5	3	4
5		8.5	7	5
6		10.0	8	6
7		10.0	6	7
8		11.5	5	9
9		12.5	9	8
10		15.5	11	10
11		18.0	12	12
12		19.0	16	11
13		19.5	13	13
14		21.0	14	14
15		22.5	15	15
16		25.0	18	16
17		25.5	17	17
18		27.5	19	18
19		29.0	20	19
WD		DNF	10
Free skating not reached
21			21
22			22

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Ice dancing

Rank	Name	TFP	CD1	CD2	OD	FD
align=center	1		2.6	1	1	2	1
align=center	2		3.4	2	2	1	2
align=center	3		7.0	4	4	4	3
4		7.0	3	3	3	4
5		10.4	6	6	5	5
6		11.6	5	5	6	6
7		14.0	7	7	7	7
8		16.8	8	9	9	8
9		18.4	9	8	10	9
10		20.8	10	11	11	10
11		23.0	12	12	12	11
12		25.4	14	14	13	12
13		26.6	13	13	14	13
14		29.2	15	16	15	14
15		31.0	17	15	16	15
16		33.8	18	17	18	16
17		37.0	19	19	19	18
18		37.2	21	20	20	17
19		39.8	20	21	21	19
20		43.0	25	24	22	20
21		44.2	24	23	23	21
22		45.4	23	22	24	22
WD			11	10	8
WD			16	18	17
Free dance not reached
25			22	25	26
26			26	26	25
27			28	28	27
28			27	27	28
29			30	30	29
30			29	29	30
Original dance not reached
31			31	31
32			32	32

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