2016 World Junior Figure Skating Championships Explained

2016 World Junior Figure Skating Championships
Comptype:	ISU Championship
Startdate:	14
Enddate:	20 March
Skatingseason:	2015–16
Location:	Debrecen, Hungary
Host:	Hungarian Skating Union
Championmen:	Daniel Samohin
Championladies:	Marin Honda
Championpairs:	Anna Dušková / Martin Bidař
Championdance:	Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter
Previouscomp:	2015 World Junior Championships
Nextcomp:	2017 World Junior Championships

The 2016 World Junior Figure Skating Championships were held from 14–20 March 2016 in Debrecen, Hungary. Commonly called "World Juniors" and "Junior Worlds", the event determined the World Junior champions in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.

Anna Dušková / Martin Bidař and Daniel Samohin became the first World Junior champions in figure skating from the Czech Republic and Israel, respectively. Japan's Marin Honda won the ladies' title and Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter took the ice dancing event.

Records

The following new junior records were set during this competition:

Event	Component	Skater(s)	Score	Date	Ref
Pairs	Short program	Anna Dušková / Martin Bidař	64.71	16 March 2016	^[1]
	Total score		181.82	17 March 2016
Ice dance	Short dance	Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons	67.88		^[2]
	Free dance	Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter	97.40	19 March 2016
	Total score	Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons	162.74
		Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter	163.65
Men	Free skating	Daniel Samohin	165.38	20 March 2016	^[3]

Qualification

The competition was open to skaters from ISU member nations who were at least 13 but not 19—or 21 for male pair skaters and ice dancers—before July 1, 2015 in their place of birth. National associations selected their entries according to their own criteria but the ISU mandated that their selections achieve a minimum technical elements score (TES) at an international event prior to the Junior Worlds.

The term "Junior" in ISU competition refers to age, not skill level. Skaters may remain age-eligible for Junior Worlds even after competing nationally and internationally at the senior level. At junior events, the ISU requires that all programs conform to junior-specific rules regarding program length, jumping passes, types of elements, etc.

Minimum TES

Minimum technical scores (TES)
Discipline	Short	Free
Men	20	42
Ladies	20	35
Pairs	20	30
Ice dancing	18	28
Scores had to be achieved at an ISU-recognized international event in the ongoing or preceding season. SP and FS scores could be attained at different events.

Number of entries per discipline

Based on the results of the 2015 World Junior Championships, the ISU allowed each country one to three entries per discipline.^[4]

Spots	Men	Ladies	Pairs	Dance
3
2
If not listed above, one entry is allowed.

Entries

Some national associations began announcing their selections in December 2015. The ISU published a complete list on 25 February 2016.

Country	Men	Ladies	Pairs	Ice dancing
		Anastasia Galustyan
	James Min	Katie Pasfield		Mathilda Friend / William Badaoui
	Luc Maierhofer	Natalie Klotz		Elizaveta Orlova / Stephano-Valentino Schuster
		Charlotte Vandersarren
	Yakau Zenko			Maria Oleynik / Yuri Hulitski
		Teodora Markova		Yana Bozhilova / Kaloyan Georgiev
	Nicolas Nadeau	Sarah Tamura	Justine Brasseur / Mathieu Ostiguy Bryn Hoffman / Bryce Chudak Hope McLean / Trennt Michaud	Mackenzie Bent / Dmitre Razgulajevs Marjorie Lajoie / Zachary Lagha Melinda Meng / Andrew Meng
	Zhang He Li Tangxu	Li Xiangning	Gao Yumeng / Li Bowen	Li Xibei / Xiang Guangyao
	Nicholas Vrdoljak
	Jiří Bělohradský	Elizaveta Ukolova	Anna Dušková / Martin Bidař	Nicole Kuzmich / Alexander Sinicyn
		Leonora Colmor Jepsen
	Hector Alonso Serrano	Maëva Gallarda Rossell
	Aleksandr Selevko	Kristina Škuleta-Gromova		Victoria Semenjuk / Artur Gruzdev
	Roman Galay	Viveca Lindfors
	Kévin Aymoz	Alizée Crozet		Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac Angélique Abachkina / Louis Thauron
	Irakli Maysuradze
	Catalin Dimitrescu	Lea Johanna Dastich		Ria Schwendinger / Valentin Wunderlich
Great Britain	Josh Brown	Danielle Harrison	Chloe Curtin / Steven Adcock	Ekaterina Fedyushchenko / Lucas Kitteridge
		Maisy Hiu Ching Ma
	Máté Böröcz	Ivett Tóth		Kimberly Wei / Ilias Fourati Villő Marton / Danyil Semko
	Daniel Samohin Mark Gorodnitsky
	Matteo Rizzo	Lucrezia Gennaro	Bianca Manacorda / Niccolò Macii	Sara Ghislandi / Giona Terzo Ortenzi
	Shu Nakamura Daichi Miyata Kazuki Tomono	Wakaba Higuchi Yuna Shiraiwa Marin Honda		Rikako Fukase / Aru Tateno
	Daniyar Adylov	Elizabet Tursynbayeva	Ekaterina Khokhlova / Abish Baytkanov	Hannah Grace Cook / Temirlan Yerzhanov
	Deniss Vasiļjevs Glebs Basins	Angelīna Kučvaļska Diāna Ņikitina
		Elzbieta Kropa		Guostė Damulevičiūtė / Deividas Kizala
	Kai Xiang Chew
		Kyarha van Tiel
	Sondre Oddvoll Bøe	Juni Marie Benjaminsen
		Aleksandra Rudolf		Alexandra Borisova / Cezary Zawadzki Jenna Hertenstein / Damian Binkowski
		Julia Sauter
	Dmitri Aliev Alexander Samarin Roman Savosin	Alisa Fedichkina Maria Sotskova Polina Tsurskaya	Anastasia Gubanova / Alexei Sintsov Ekaterina Borisova / Dmitry Sopot Anastasia Mishina / Vladislav Mirzoev	Alla Loboda / Pavel Drozd Betina Popova / Yuri Vlasenko Anastasia Shpilevaya / Grigory Smirnov
		Michaela Du Toit
		Shuran Yu
		Monika Peterka
	Cha Jun-hwan Byun Se-jong	Son Suh-hyun Kim Ha-nul		Lee Ho-jung / Richard Kang-in Kam
	Nicola Todeschini	Shaline Ruegger
	Jakub Kršňák	Alexandra Hagarová
		Matilda Algotsson
		Thita Lamsam
	Chih-I Tsao	Amy Lin
	Başar Oktar	Elif Erdem
	Yaroslav Paniot	Anastasia Hozhva	Renata Ohanesian / Mark Bardei	Anzhelika Yurchenko / Volodymyr Byelikov Maria Holubtsova / Kyrylo Byelobrov
	Tomoki Hiwatashi Vincent Zhou	Tyler Pierce Bradie Tennell	Chelsea Liu / Brian Johnson Joy Weinberg / Maximiliano Fernandez Lindsay Weinstein / Jacob Simon	Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons Elliana Pogrebinsky / Alex Benoit

Changes to initial assignments

Announced	Discipline	Initial	Replacement	Reason
28 January 2016	Men	Nathan Chen	Tomoki Hiwatashi	Chen's hip surgery
25 February 2016	Ice dance	Gwen Sletten / Elliot Verburg	Ekaterina Fedyushchenko / Lucas Kitteridge	Sletten retired.
25 February 2016	Ladies	Pernille Sørensen	Leonora Colmor Jepsen	Sørensen retired.
1 March 2016	Ladies	Sara Casella	Lucrezia Gennaro
1 March 2016	Men	Alexander Maszljanko	Máté Böröcz
1 March 2016	Pairs	Zhao Ying / Xie Zhong
7 March 2016	Ice dance	Valentina Schär / Carlo Röthlisberger
9 March 2016	Men	Illya Solomin
10 March 2016	Pairs	Amina Atakhanova / Ilia Spiridonov	Anastasia Gubanova / Alexei Sintsov	Atakhanova's injury
12 March 2016	Men	Sota Yamamoto	Kazuki Tomono	Broken ankle

Results

Men

Israel's Daniel Samohin climbed from 9th after the short program to win his country's first World Junior title in figure skating. Nicolas Nadeau, who missed the cut for the free skate in 2015, obtained the silver medal and three spots for Canada in the 2017 men's event. Called up to replace the injured Nathan Chen, Tomoki Hiwatashi was awarded the bronze medal in his first appearance at Junior Worlds.

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
1	Daniel Samohin		236.65	9	71.27	1	165.38
2	Nicolas Nadeau		224.76	8	73.90	2	150.86
3	Tomoki Hiwatashi		222.52	6	74.97	3	147.55
4	Alexander Samarin		222.11	2	80.31	5	141.80
5	Vincent Zhou		221.19	4	77.31	4	143.88
6	Dmitri Aliev		211.18	1	80.74	7	130.44
7	Cha Jun-hwan		207.11	7	74.38	6	132.73
8	Deniss Vasiļjevs		204.75	3	78.78	9	125.97
9	Kévin Aymoz		197.76	5	75.53	11	122.23
10	Zhang He		195.70	10	70.85	10	124.85
11	Yaroslav Paniot		189.50	15	62.56	8	126.94
12	Shu Nakamura		186.22	12	66.05	13	120.17
13	Matteo Rizzo		182.96	11	66.79	17	116.17
14	Roman Savosin		181.65	13	64.00	14	117.65
15	Kazuki Tomono		179.61	20	58.33	12	121.28
16	Jiří Bělohradský		178.51	16	61.96	16	116.55
17	Yakau Zenko		174.39	22	57.67	15	116.72
18	Daichi Miyata		169.19	19	59.10	18	110.09
19	Aleksandr Selevko		166.61	17	60.91	20	105.70
20	Chih-I Tsao		164.25	14	63.42	22	100.83
21	Sondre Oddvoll Bøe		163.64	21	57.72	19	105.92
22	Nicola Todeschini		161.15	18	59.59	21	101.56
23	Josh Brown	Great Britain	157.16	23	57.65	23	99.51
24	Irakli Maysuradze		154.41	24	56.87	24	97.54
Did not advance to free skating
25	Li Tangxu		53.20	25	53.20	colspan=2
26	Nicholas Vrdoljak		52.12	26	52.12	colspan=2
27	James Min		51.96	27	51.96	colspan=2
28	Héctor Alonso		51.41	28	51.41	colspan=2
29	Byun Se-jong		50.67	29	50.67	colspan=2
30	Luc Maierhofer		50.27	30	50.27	colspan=2
31	Başar Oktar		48.65	31	48.65	colspan=2
32	Daniyar Adylov		47.99	32	47.99	colspan=2
33	Roman Galay		45.47	33	45.47	colspan=2
34	Mark Gorodnitsky		45.28	34	45.28	colspan=2
35	Jakub Kršňák		43.19	35	43.19	colspan=2
36	Glebs Basins		41.93	36	41.93	colspan=2
37	Kai Xiang Chew		39.77	37	39.77	colspan=2
38	Máté Böröcz		37.16	38	37.16	colspan=2
	Catalin Dimitrescu

Ladies

Youth Olympic and JGP Final champion Polina Tsurskaya withdrew before the short program due to an ankle injury. Short program leader Alisa Fedichkina withdrew before the start of the free skate, also due to an ankle injury.

Japan's Marin Honda ended Russia's five-year streak of World Junior ladies' titles. Despite her teammates' withdrawals, Maria Sotskova was able to retain three spots for Russia by placing in the top two. Wakaba Higuchi of Japan won her second consecutive bronze medal at Junior Worlds.

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
1	Marin Honda		192.98	2	66.11	1	126.87
2	Maria Sotskova		188.72	3	64.78	3	123.94
3	Wakaba Higuchi		183.73	5	58.08	2	125.65
4	Yuna Shiraiwa		171.59	8	56.23	5	115.36
5	Elizabet Tursynbayeva		170.83	14	50.11	4	120.72
6	Tyler Pierce		167.19	7	56.56	6	110.63
7	Angelīna Kučvaļska		161.29	6	57.92	8	103.37
8	Ivett Tóth		153.70	15	49.98	7	103.72
9	Kim Ha-nul		150.36	12	52.37	9	97.99
10	Diāna Ņikitina		149.02	10	54.59	12	94.43
11	Bradie Tennell		147.52	4	58.56	14	88.96
12	Lea Johanna Dastich		143.63	18	47.67	10	95.96
13	Sarah Tamura		141.32	16	48.11	13	93.21
14	Amy Lin		139.14	22	44.52	11	94.62
15	Maisy Hiu Ching Ma		138.11	11	52.69	15	85.42
16	Anastasia Galustyan		137.35	9	55.80	16	81.55
17	Anastasia Gozhva		132.27	13	50.99	18	81.28
18	Kyarha van Tiel		127.18	17	47.94	20	79.24
19	Lucrezia Gennaro		125.25	23	43.74	17	81.51
20	Li Xiangning		123.94	24	43.38	19	80.56
21	Alizée Crozet		120.59	21	45.34	21	75.25
22	Juni Marie Benjaminsen		116.63	20	45.70	22	70.93
23	Son Suh-hyun		115.41	19	46.18	23	69.23
	Alisa Fedichkina			1	66.11	colspan=2
Did not advance to free skating
25	Viveca Lindfors		43.19	25	43.19	colspan=2
26	Shaline Ruegger		42.66	26	42.66	colspan=2
27	Natalie Klotz		42.25	27	42.25	colspan=2
28	Shuran Yu		42.21	28	42.21	colspan=2
29	Kristina Škuleta-Gromova		41.68	29	41.68	colspan=2
30	Matilda Algotsson		41.00	30	41.00	colspan=2
31	Michaela Du Toit		40.86	31	40.86	colspan=2
32	Julia Sauter		39.67	32	39.67	colspan=2
33	Alexandra Hagarová		39.07	33	39.07	colspan=2
34	Monika Peterka		39.00	34	39.00	colspan=2
35	Katie Pasfield		38.96	35	38.96	colspan=2
36	Danielle Harrison	Great Britain	37.59	36	37.59	colspan=2
37	Elizaveta Ukolova		37.57	37	37.57	colspan=2
38	Elif Erdem		37.39	38	37.39	colspan=2
39	Aleksandra Rudolf		35.32	39	35.32	colspan=2
40	Teodora Markova		34.50	40	34.50	colspan=2
41	Elzbieta Kropa		34.34	41	34.34	colspan=2
42	Leonora Colmor Jepsen		34.05	42	34.05	colspan=2
43	Thita Lamsam		33.39	43	33.39	colspan=2
44	Charlotte Vandersarren		32.30	44	32.30	colspan=2
45	Maëva Gallarda Rossell		29.65	45	29.65	colspan=2
	Polina Tsurskaya

Pairs

Anna Dušková / Martin Bidař became the first Czech figure skaters to ever win gold at a World Junior Championships and the first pair skaters from outside China, Russia, or the United States to win the competition since 2000. Russian pairs Anastasia Mishina / Vladislav Mirzoev and Ekaterina Borisova / Dmitry Sopot took silver and bronze, respectively, in their first trip to Junior Worlds.

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
1	Anna Dušková / Martin Bidař		181.82	1	64.71	1	117.11
2	Anastasia Mishina / Vladislav Mirzoev		172.60	2	59.50	2	113.10
3	Ekaterina Borisova / Dmitry Sopot		169.00	4	58.56	3	110.44
4	Renata Ohanesian / Mark Bardei		155.08	3	59.30	4	95.78
5	Chelsea Liu / Brian Johnson		147.73	5	54.12	5	93.61
6	Bianca Manacorda / Niccolò Macii		141.76	7	49.80	6	91.96
7	Justine Brasseur / Mathieu Ostiguy		138.67	9	48.08	7	90.59
8	Bryn Hoffman / Bryce Chudak		138.12	6	52.20	10	85.92
9	Lindsay Weinstein / Jacob Simon		137.58	8	48.75	8	88.83
10	Joy Weinberg / Maximiliano Fernandez		135.71	10	47.54	9	88.17
11	Anastasia Gubanova / Alexei Sintsov		123.90	11	45.07	11	78.83
12	Chloe Curtin / Steven Adcock	Great Britain	112.68	12	44.74	13	67.94
13	Gao Yumeng / Li Bowen		112.56	14	42.24	12	70.32
14	Ekaterina Khokhlova / Abish Baytkanov		95.31	15	32.36	14	62.95
	Hope McLean / Trennt Michaud			13	44.05

Ice dancing

The United States won both the gold and silver medals. Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter overtook short program leaders Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons for the title, finishing ahead by a margin of 0.91. It was the fourth appearance at Junior Worlds for both teams. Russia's Alla Loboda / Pavel Drozd rose from sixth after the short dance to take bronze in their first trip to the event.

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points^[5]	SD		FD
1	Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter		163.65	2	66.25	1	97.40
2	Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons		162.74	1	67.88	2	94.86
3	Alla Loboda / Pavel Drozd		151.19	6	58.93	3	92.26
4	Elliana Pogrebinsky / Alex Benoit		146.83	5	59.05	4	87.78
5	Anastasia Shpilevaya / Grigory Smirnov		146.55	4	59.15	6	87.40
6	Betina Popova / Yuri Vlasenko		146.21	7	58.56	5	87.65
7	Angélique Abachkina / Louis Thauron		145.25	8	58.34	7	86.91
8	Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac		144.26	3	59.65	8	84.61
9	Mackenzie Bent / Dmitre Razgulajevs		138.61	9	56.76	9	81.85
10	Sara Ghislandi / Giona Terzo Ortenzi		131.18	12	52.19	11	78.99
11	Nicole Kuzmich / Alexandr Sinicyn		128.91	14	49.08	10	79.83
12	Melinda Meng / Andrew Meng		128.83	10	52.60	12	76.23
13	Marjorie Lajoie / Zachary Lagha		128.06	11	52.57	13	75.49
14	Lee Ho-jung / Richard Kang-in Kam		119.13	13	50.10	14	69.03
15	Anzhelika Yurchenko / Volodymyr Byelikov		112.65	15	47.66	16	64.99
16	Ria Schwendinger / Valentin Wunderlich		109.00	17	43.87	15	65.13
17	Maria Oleynik / Yuri Hulitski		106.31	16	45.02	18	61.29
18	Maria Golubtsova / Kirill Belobrov		105.90	20	42.49	17	63.41
19	Rikako Fukase / Aru Tateno		102.10	19	42.63	19	59.47
20	Alexandra Borisova / Cezary Zawadzki		100.31	18	42.80	20	57.51
Did not advance to free skating
21	Li Xibei / Xiang Guangyao		41.16	21	41.16	colspan=2
22	Guostė Damulevičiūtė / Deividas Kizala		39.98	22	39.98	colspan=2
23	Villö Marton / Danyil Semko		38.63	23	38.63	colspan=2
24	Ekaterina Fedyushchenko / Lucas Kitteridge	Great Britain	38.12	24	38.12	colspan=2
25	Victoria Semenjuk / Artur Gruzdev		37.68	25	37.68	colspan=2
26	Jenna Hertenstein / Damian Binkowski		37.68	26	37.68	colspan=2
27	Hannah Grace Cook / Temirlan Yerzhanov		37.60	27	37.60	colspan=2
28	Kimberly Wei / Illias Fourati		34.48	28	34.48	colspan=2
29	Elizaveta Orlova / Stephano-Valentino Schuster		32.53	29	32.53	colspan=2
30	Matilda Friend / William Badaoui		31.98	30	31.98	colspan=2
31	Yana Bozhilova / Kaloyan Georgiev		28.27	31	28.27

Medals summary

Medalists

Medals for overall placement:

align=center	Men	Daniel Samohin	Nicolas Nadeau	Tomoki Hiwatashi
align=center	Ladies	Marin Honda	Maria Sotskova	Wakaba Higuchi
align=center	Pairs	Anna Dušková / Martin Bidař	Anastasia Mishina / Vladislav Mirzoev	Ekaterina Borisova / Dmitry Sopot
align=center	Ice dancing	Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter	Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons	Alla Loboda / Pavel Drozd

Small medals for placement in the short segment:

align=center	Men	Dmitri Aliev	Alexander Samarin	Deniss Vasiļjevs
align=center	Ladies	Alisa Fedichkina	Marin Honda	Maria Sotskova
align=center	Pairs	Anna Dušková / Martin Bidař	Anastasia Mishina / Vladislav Mirzoev	Renata Ohanesian / Mark Bardei
align=center	Ice dancing	Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons	Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter	Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac

Small medals for placement in the free segment:

align=center	Men	Daniel Samohin	Nicolas Nadeau	Tomoki Hiwatashi
align=center	Ladies	Marin Honda	Wakaba Higuchi	Maria Sotskova
align=center	Pairs	Anna Dušková / Martin Bidař	Anastasia Mishina / Vladislav Mirzoev	Ekaterina Borisova / Dmitry Sopot
align=center	Ice dancing	Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter	Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons	Alla Loboda / Pavel Drozd

By country

Table of medals for overall placement:

External links

• • 2016 World Junior Championships at the International Skating Union
• Detailed results at the International Skating Union

Notes and References

1. Web site: Highest Score: Pairs. 31 March 2017. International Skating Union. 31 March 2017.
2. Web site: Highest Score: Ice dancing. 31 March 2017. International Skating Union. 31 March 2017.
3. Web site: Highest Score: Men. 31 March 2017. International Skating Union. 31 March 2017.
4. Web site: Communication No. 1956: Entries ISU Championships 2016 . 31 July 2015 . . 17 April 2016 . 7 September 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150907233433/http://static.isu.org/media/213423/1956-entries-isu-championships-2016.pdf . dead .
5. Web site: ISU World Junior Figure Skating Championships 2015 - Junior Ice Dance . 2015-03-07.