2015 World Figure Skating Championships Explained

2015 World Figure Skating Championships
Comptype:	ISU Championship
Startdate:	March 23
Enddate:	29
Skatingseason:	2014–15
Location:	Shanghai, China
Host:	Chinese Skating Association
Venue:	Shanghai Oriental Sports Center
Championmen:	Javier Fernández
Championladies:	Elizaveta Tuktamysheva
Championpairs:	Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford
Championdance:	Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron
Previouscomp:	2014 World Championships
Nextcomp:	2016 World Championships

The 2015 World Figure Skating Championships was an international figure skating competition in the 2014–15 season. Figure skaters competed for the title of World champion in men's singles, ladies' singles, pairs, and ice dancing.

In June 2012, it was announced that Shanghai, China would host the 2015 Worlds. All events were held at the Shanghai Oriental Sports Center.

Qualification

Skaters are eligible for the event if they are representing an ISU member nations and have reached the age of 15 before 1 July 2014 in their place of birth. National associations select their entries according to their own criteria but the ISU mandates that their selections achieve a minimum technical elements score (TES) at an international event prior to the World Championships.

Minimum TES

Minimum technical scores (TES)

Discipline	SP / SD	FS / FD
Men	34	64
Ladies	27	47
Pairs	25	43
Ice dancing	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 2014 World Championships, each ISU member nation can field one to three entries per discipline.

Spots	Men	Ladies	Pairs	Dance
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If not listed above, one entry is allowed.

Entries

Member nations began announcing their selections in January 2015.^[1]

Country	Men	Ladies	Pairs	Ice dancing
		Anastasia Galustyan
	Brendan Kerry	Brooklee Han
		Kerstin Frank	Miriam Ziegler / Severin Kiefer	Barbora Silna / Juri Kurakin
	Pavel Ignatenko		Maria Paliakova / Nikita Bochkov	Viktoria Kavaliova / Yurii Bieliaiev
	Nam Nguyen Jeremy Ten	Gabrielle Daleman Alaine Chartrand	Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford Lubov Ilyushechkina / Dylan Moscovitch Julianne Séguin / Charlie Bilodeau	Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier Alexandra Paul / Mitchell Islam
	Song Nan Yan Han	Li Zijun	Pang Qing / Tong Jian Peng Cheng / Zhang Hao Sui Wenjing / Han Cong	Wang Shiyue / Liu Xinyu
	Michal Březina Petr Coufal	Eliška Březinová
				Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen
				Irina Shtork / Taavi Rand
		Kiira Korpi		Cecilia Torn / Jussiville Partanen
	Florent Amodio Chafik Besseghier	Maé-Bérénice Méité	Vanessa James / Morgan Ciprès	Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron
		Elene Gedevanishvili
	Peter Liebers	Nicole Schott	Mari Vartmann / Aaron Van Cleave	Nelli Zhiganshina / Alexander Gazsi
Great Britain			Amani Fancy / Christopher Boyadji	Olivia Smart / Joseph Buckland
	Ronald Lam
		Ivett Tóth		Carolina Moscheni / Ádám Lukács
	Alexei Bychenko	Netta Schreiber		Allison Reed / Vasili Rogov
	Ivan Righini	Roberta Rodeghiero Giada Russo	Nicole Della Monica / Matteo Guarise Valentina Marchei / Ondřej Hotárek	Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte Charlene Guignard / Marco Fabbri
	Yuzuru Hanyu Takahiko Kozuka Takahito Mura	Satoko Miyahara Rika Hongo Kanako Murakami	Narumi Takahashi / Ryuichi Kihara	Cathy Reed / Chris Reed
	Denis Ten
	Lee June-hyoung	Kim Hae-jin Park So-youn		Rebeka Kim / Kirill Minov
		Angelīna Kučvaļska		Olga Jakushina / Andrey Nevskiy
		Aleksandra Golovkina
		Niki Wories
		Anne Line Gjersem
				Natalia Kaliszek / Maksym Spodyriev
	Michael Christian Martinez	Alisson Krystle Perticheto
	Maxim Kovtun Sergei Voronov	Elena Radionova Elizaveta Tuktamysheva Anna Pogorilaya	Kristina Astakhova / Alexei Rogonov Yuko Kavaguti / Alexander Smirnov Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov	Elena Ilinykh / Ruslan Zhiganshin Ksenia Monko / Kirill Khaliavin Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin
		Nicole Rajicova		Federica Testa / Lukáš Csölley
		Daša Grm
	Javier Fernández			Sara Hurtado / Adrià Díaz
	Alexander Majorov	Joshi Helgesson
	Stéphane Walker	Eveline Brunner
				Alisa Agafonova / Alper Uçar
	Yaroslav Paniot	Natalia Popova		Oleksandra Nazarova / Maxim Nikitin
	Jason Brown Joshua Farris Adam Rippon	Polina Edmunds Gracie Gold Ashley Wagner	Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier Alexa Scimeca / Chris Knierim	Madison Chock / Evan Bates Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani
	Misha Ge

• Anna Ovcharova declined Switzerland's nomination after a poor performance at the 2015 Hellmut Seibt Memorial and was replaced by Eveline Brunner.
• On March 19, 2015 Penny Coomes / Nicholas Buckland withdrew due to Coomes having an illness. They were not replaced.^[2]

Results

Men

The Men's short program was held on March 27. The free skate was held on March 28.^[3]

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP^[4]		FS
1	Javier Fernández		273.90	2	92.74	2	181.16
2	Yuzuru Hanyu		271.08	1	95.20	3	175.88
3	Denis Ten		267.72	3	85.89	1	181.83
4	Jason Brown		248.29	6	84.32	5	163.97
5	Nam Nguyen		242.59	9	77.73	4	164.86
6	Misha Ge		234.89	8	78.52	7	156.37
7	Maxim Kovtun		230.70	16	70.82	6	159.88
8	Adam Rippon		229.71	11	75.14	8	154.57
9	Florent Amodio		229.62	7	80.84	11	148.78
10	Yan Han		229.15	5	84.45	13	144.70
11	Joshua Farris		223.04	13	73.52	10	149.52
12	Takahiko Kozuka		222.69	19	70.15	9	152.54
13	Sergei Voronov		218.41	4	84.70	17	133.71
14	Ronald Lam		214.36	14	72.66	14	141.70
15	Michal Březina		213.83	10	76.84	15	136.99
16	Takahito Mura		211.74	23	64.93	12	146.81
17	Alexei Bychenko		209.26	12	74.98	16	137.28
18	Chafik Besseghier		199.86	18	70.27	19	129.59
19	Lee June-hyoung		197.52	24	64.51	18	133.01
20	Brendan Kerry		194.57	17	70.36	21	124.21
21	Michael Christian Martinez		192.38	22	67.03	20	125.35
22	Jeremy Ten		183.79	15	72.28	22	111.51
23	Alexander Majorov		176.55	21	67.53	23	109.02
24	Yaroslav Paniot		174.52	20	69.09	24	105.43
Did not advance to free skate
25	Ivan Righini			25	63.05	colspan=2
26	Song Nan			26	61.69	colspan=2
27	Petr Coufal			27	60.31	colspan=2
28	Pavel Ignatenko			28	58.78	colspan=2
29	Peter Liebers			29	54.28	colspan=2
30	Stéphane Walker			30	53.42

Ladies

The Ladies short program was held on March 26. The free skate was held on March 28, 2015.^[5]

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP^[6]		FS
1	Elizaveta Tuktamysheva		210.36	1	77.62	1	132.74
2	Satoko Miyahara		193.60	3	67.02	4	126.58
3	Elena Radionova		191.47	2	69.51	6	121.96
4	Gracie Gold		188.96	8	60.73	2	128.23
5	Ashley Wagner		185.01	11	57.81	3	127.20
6	Rika Hongo		184.58	5	62.17	5	122.41
7	Kanako Murakami		179.66	4	65.48	8	114.18
8	Polina Edmunds		177.83	7	61.71	7	116.12
9	Li Zijun		165.22	6	61.83	11	103.39
10	Maé-Bérénice Méité		162.75	12	57.08	10	105.67
11	Alaine Chartrand		161.18	10	60.24	12	100.94
12	Park So-youn		160.75	15	53.95	9	106.80
13	Anna Pogorilaya		160.31	9	60.50	13	99.81
14	Joshi Helgesson		155.35	13	56.28	14	99.07
15	Nicole Rajičová		152.61	14	54.40	15	98.21
16	Angelīna Kučvaļska		141.54	23	45.74	16	95.80
17	Anne Line Gjersem		139.75	20	49.25	17	90.50
18	Daša Grm		137.45	22	47.21	18	90.24
19	Kim Hae-jin		136.24	18	50.03	19	86.21
20	Roberta Rodeghiero		134.74	17	51.42	21	83.32
21	Gabrielle Daleman		133.57	21	48.13	20	85.44
22	Elene Gedevanishvili		132.25	16	52.11	22	80.14
23	Nicole Schott		127.56	19	49.29	23	78.27
24	Giada Russo		120.11	24	43.85	24	76.26
Did not advance to free skate
25	Natalia Popova			25	43.60	colspan=2
26	Ivett Tóth			26	43.47	colspan=2
27	Eliška Březinová			27	43.37	colspan=2
28	Aleksandra Golovkina			28	43.16	colspan=2
29	Anastasia Galustyan			29	41.84	colspan=2
30	Netta Schreiber			30	41.84	colspan=2
31	Kiira Korpi			31	41.11	colspan=2
32	Niki Wories			32	40.38	colspan=2
33	Eveline Brunner			33	39.69	colspan=2
34	Alisson Krystle Perticheto			34	38.75	colspan=2
35	Brooklee Han			35	35.54	colspan=2
	Kerstin Frank

Pairs

The pairs short program was held on March 25. The free skate was held on March 26.^[7]

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points^[8]	SP^[9]		FS^[10]
1	Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford		221.53	1	76.98	1	144.55
2	Sui Wenjing / Han Cong		214.12	3	71.63	2	142.49
3	Pang Qing / Tong Jian		212.77	2	72.59	3	140.18
4	Peng Cheng / Zhang Hao		206.63	5	69.67	4	136.96
5	Yuko Kavaguti / Alexander Smirnov		198.91	4	71.59	6	127.32
6	Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov		198.46	6	67.71	5	130.75
7	Alexa Scimeca / Chris Knierim		185.81	7	65.56	7	120.25
8	Julianne Séguin / Charlie Bilodeau		178.03	10	60.53	10	117.50
9	Vanessa James / Morgan Ciprès		177.34	12	58.28	8	119.06
10	Kristina Astakhova / Alexei Rogonov		173.58	13	55.55	9	118.03
11	Valentina Marchei / Ondřej Hotárek		172.55	9	60.56	11	111.99
12	Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier		172.51	8	61.32	12	111.19
13	Lubov Iliushechkina / Dylan Moscovitch		169.91	11	60.32	13	109.59
14	Nicole Della Monica / Matteo Guarise		151.77	14	54.48	15	97.29
15	Mari Vartmann / Aaron Van Cleave		147.84	15	47.76	14	100.08
16	Amani Fancy / Christopher Boyadji	Great Britain	130.22	16	46.69	16	83.53
Did not advance to free skate
17	Maria Paliakova / Nikita Bochkov			17	46.17	colspan=2
18	Miriam Ziegler / Severin Kiefer			18	45.99	colspan=2
19	Narumi Takahashi / Ryuichi Kihara			19	44.54

Ice dancing

The short dance was held on March 25. The free dance was held on March 27, 2015.^[11]

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points^[12]	SD^[13]		FD
1	Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron		184.28	4	71.94	1	112.34
2	Madison Chock / Evan Bates		181.34	1	74.47	2	106.87
3	Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje		179.42	2	72.68	3	106.74
4	Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte		177.50	3	72.39	4	105.11
5	Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani		172.03	6	69.32	5	102.71
6	Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier		165.22	7	65.90	6	99.32
7	Elena Ilinykh / Ruslan Zhiganshin		164.84	5	69.46	9	95.38
8	Ksenia Monko / Kirill Khaliavin		159.13	10	62.36	8	96.77
9	Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin		156.95	14	59.62	7	97.33
10	Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue		156.56	11	61.43	10	95.13
11	Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen		156.23	9	62.40	11	93.83
12	Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri		153.84	12	61.02	12	92.82
13	Alexandra Paul / Mitchell Islam		152.59	8	64.38	14	88.21
14	Sara Hurtado / Adrià Díaz		148.67	15	59.16	13	89.51
15	Federica Testa / Lukáš Csölley		142.29	13	60.07	15	82.22
16	Alisa Agafonova / Alper Uçar		136.47	16	56.07	16	80.40
17	Oleksandra Nazarova / Maxim Nikitin		133.80	17	55.08	17	78.72
18	Carolina Moscheni / Ádám Lukács		131.01	19	53.05	18	77.96
19	Wang Shiyue / Liu Xinyu		128.77	18	54.38	19	74.39
20	Allison Reed / Vasili Rogov		124.32	20	51.12	20	73.20
Did not advance to free dance
21	Barbora Silná / Juri Kurakin			21	49.57	colspan=2
22	Cathy Reed / Chris Reed			22	48.32	colspan=2
23	Irina Shtork / Taavi Rand			23	48.04	colspan=2
24	Natalia Kaliszek / Maksym Spodyriev			24	45.46	colspan=2
25	Cecilia Törn / Jussiville Partanen			25	45.11	colspan=2
26	Rebeka Kim / Kirill Minov			26	45.09	colspan=2
27	Olivia Smart / Joseph Buckland	Great Britain		27	44.32	colspan=2
28	Viktoria Kavaliova / Yurii Bieliaiev			28	43.21	colspan=2
29	Olga Jakushina / Andrey Nevskiy			29	42.37	colspan=2
	Nelli Zhiganshina / Alexander Gazsi

Medals summary

Medalists

Medals for overall placement:

align=center	Men	Javier Fernández	Yuzuru Hanyu	Denis Ten
align=center	Ladies	Elizaveta Tuktamysheva	Satoko Miyahara	Elena Radionova
align=center	Pairs	Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford	Sui Wenjing / Han Cong	Pang Qing / Tong Jian
align=center	Ice dancing	Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron	Madison Chock / Evan Bates	Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje

Small medals for placement in the short segment:

align=center	Men	Yuzuru Hanyu	Javier Fernández	Denis Ten
align=center	Ladies	Elizaveta Tuktamysheva	Elena Radionova	Satoko Miyahara
align=center	Pairs	Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford	Pang Qing / Tong Jian	Sui Wenjing / Han Cong
align=center	Ice dancing	Madison Chock / Evan Bates	Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje	Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte

Small medals for placement in the free segment:

align=center	Men	Denis Ten	Javier Fernández	Yuzuru Hanyu
align=center	Ladies	Elizaveta Tuktamysheva	Gracie Gold	Ashley Wagner
align=center	Pairs	Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford	Sui Wenjing / Han Cong	Pang Qing / Tong Jian
align=center	Ice dancing	Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron	Madison Chock / Evan Bates	Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje

By country

Table of medals for overall placement:

Table of small medals for placement in the short segment:

Table of small medals for placement in the free segment:

External links

• 2015 ISU World Figure Skating Championships International Skating Union

Notes and References

1. Web site: Wong. Jackie. 2015 World Figure Skating Championships Championships: List of entrants. Examiner. 8 March 2015.
2. Web site: Buckland and Coomes withdraw from World Championships due to illness . 19 March 2015 . National Ice Skating Association . 2015-03-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150320052401/http://www.iceskating.org.uk/index.cfm/news/buckland-and-coomes-withdraw-from-world-championships-due-to-illness/ . 2015-03-20 . dead .
3. Web site: ISU World Figure Skating Championships 2015. isuresults.com . International Skating Union . March 25, 2015.
4. Web site: ISU World Figure Skating Championships 2015: Senior Men - Short Program. International Skating Union . March 27, 2015.
5. Web site: ISU World Figure Skating Championships 2015. isuresults.com . International Skating Union . March 25, 2015.
6. Web site: ISU World Figure Skating Championships 2015: Senior Ladies - Short Program. International Skating Union . March 26, 2015.
7. Web site: ISU World Figure Skating Championships 2015. isuresults.com . International Skating Union . March 25, 2015.
8. Web site: ISU World Figure Skating Championships 2015: Senior Pairs - Results. International Skating Union . March 26, 2015.
9. Web site: ISU World Figure Skating Championships 2015: Senior Pairs - Short Program. International Skating Union . March 25, 2015.
10. Web site: ISU World Figure Skating Championships 2015: Senior Pairs - Free Skating. International Skating Union . March 26, 2015.
11. Web site: ISU World Figure Skating Championships 2015. isuresults.com . International Skating Union . March 25, 2015.
12. Web site: ISU World Figure Skating Championships 2015: Senior Ice Dancing – Results. isuresults.com . International Skating Union . March 27, 2015.
13. Web site: ISU World Figure Skating Championships 2015: Senior Ice Dancing – Short Program. isuresults.com . International Skating Union . March 25, 2015.