2018 World Junior Figure Skating Championships Explained

2018 World Junior Figure Skating Championships
Comptype:	ISU Championship
Startdate:	5–11 March 2018
Skatingseason:	2017–18
Host:	Bulgarian Figure Skating Championships
Venue:	Armeets Arena
Location:	Sofia, Bulgaria
Championmen:	Alexey Erokhov
Championladies:	Alexandra Trusova
Championpairs:	Daria Pavliuchenko / Denis Khodykin
Championdance:	Anastasia Skoptsova / Kirill Aleshin
Previouscomp:	2017 World Junior Championships
Nextcomp:	2019 World Junior Championships

The 2018 World Junior Figure Skating Championships were held in Sofia, Bulgaria from 5–11 March 2018.^[1]

Records

The following new junior records were set during this competition:

Event	Component	Skater(s)	Score	Date	Ref
Ladies	Free skating	Alexandra Trusova	153.49	10 March 2018	^[2]
	Total score		225.52

Qualification

Minimum TES

The ISU stipulates that the minimum scores must be achieved at an ISU-recognized junior international competition in the ongoing or preceding season, no later than 21 days before the first official practice day.

Minimum technical scores (TES)
Discipline	SP / SD	FS / FD
Men	20	42
Ladies	20	35
Pairs	20	30
Ice dance	18	28
SP and FS scores may be attained at different events.

Number of entries per discipline

Based on the results of the 2017 Junior World Championships, each ISU member nation fielded one to three entries per discipline.

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

Schedule

Day	Date	Start	Finish	Discipline	Event
Day 1	March 7	12:00		Dance	Short dance
		17:30			Opening ceremony
		19:00		Pairs	Short program
Day 2	March 8	11:30		Men	Short program
		19:00		Pairs	Free skating
				Pairs	Victory ceremony
Day 3	March 9	10:45		Ladies	Short program
		19:00		Dance	Free dance
				Dance	Victory ceremony
Day 4	March 10	11:00		Men	Free skating
				Men	Victory ceremony
		16:00		Ladies	Free skating
				Ladies	Victory ceremony
Day 5	March 11	15:00			Exhibition gala

Entries

Member nations began announcing their selections in December 2017. The International Skating Union published the full list of entries on 13 February 2018.

Country	Men	Ladies	Pairs	Ice dance
	James Min
	Luc Maierhofer	Stefanie Pesendorfer
	Larry Loupolover	Morgan Flood		Yana Buga / Georgy Pokhilyuk
	Yakau Zenko	Aliaksandra Chepeleva		Karina Sidarenka / Maksim Yalenich
	Alexander Zlatkov	Alexandra Feigin		Yana Bozhilova / Kaloyan Georgiev
	Conrad Orzel Joseph Phan	Aurora Cotop	Lori-Ann Matte / Thierry Ferland Evelyn Walsh / Trennt Michaud	Marjorie Lajoie / Zachary Lagha Olivia McIsaac / Elliott Graham
		Chen Hongyi	Gao Yumeng / Xie Zhong Tang Feiyao / Yang Yongchao	Ning Wanqi / Wang Chao
	Micah Tang	Amy Lin
	Charles Henry Katanovic	Hana Cvijanovic
	Petr Kotlařík	Dahyun Ko	Edita Hornakova / Radek Jakubka	Natálie Taschlerová / Filip Taschler
	Aleksandr Selevko	Kristina Shkuleta-Gromova		Viktoria Semenjuk / Artur Gruzdev
	Roman Galay	Sofia Sula
	Luc Economides Adam Siao Him Fa	Léa Serna	Cléo Hamon / Denys Strekalin	Loïcia Demougeot / Théo Le Mercier Natacha Lagouge / Corentin Rahier
	Irakli Maysuradze		Irina Gvadeneshvili / Alex Dolishniy	Maria Kazakova / Georgy Reviya
	Jonathan Hess	Lea Johanna Dastich Ann-Christin Marold	Talisa Thomalla / Robert Kunkel	Charise Matthaei / Maximilian Pfisterer Ria Schwendinger / Valentin Wunderlich
	Harrison Jon-Yen Wong	Hiu Ching Kwong Yi Christy Leung
	Alexander Borovoj	Júlia Láng		Villő Marton / Danyil Semko
	Samuel McAllister
	David Igor Birinberg Mark Gorodnitsky	Maya Gorodnitsky	Hailey Esther Kops / Artem Tsoglin	Shira Ichilov / Vadim Davidovich
	Matteo Rizzo	Lucrezia Beccari	Sara Carli / Marco Pauletti	Chiara Calderone / Pietro Papetti
	Sena Miyake Mitsuki Sumoto	Rika Kihira Mako Yamashita Yuhana Yokoi	Riku Miura / Shoya Ichihashi	Haruno Yajima / Daiki Shimazaki
	Nikita Manko	Alana Toktarova		Gaukhar Nauryzova / Boyisangur Datiev
	Kims Georgs Pavlovs	Anete Lāce
		Paulina Ramanauskaitė
	Chew Kai Xiang
	Donovan Carrillo	Andrea Montesinos Cantú
	Davide Lewton Brain
		Kyarha Van Tiel
	Yamato Rowe
	Erik Matysiak	Oliwia Rzepiel		Olexandra Borysova / Cezary Zawadzki
		Amanda Stan
	Artur Danielian Alexey Erokhov Roman Savosin	Stanislava Konstantinova Alena Kostornaia Alexandra Trusova	Polina Kostiukovich / Dmitrii Ialin Anastasia Mishina / Aleksandr Galiamov Daria Pavliuchenko / Denis Khodykin	Sofia Shevchenko / Igor Eremenko Anastasia Skoptsova / Kirill Aleshin Arina Ushakova / Maxim Nekrasov
	Cha Young-hyun Lee Si-hyeong	Lim Eun-soo You Young
		Leona Rogic
	Chadwick Wang	Chloe Ing
		Silvia Hugec
		Marusa Udrih
	Aleix Gabara		Isabella Gámez / Tòn Cónsul	Malene Nichita-Basquin / Jaime García
	Gabriel Folkesson	Selma Ihr
	Nurullah Sahaka	Maia Mazzara
	Micah Kai Lynette
	Başar Oktar	Guzide Irmak Bayir
	Ivan Pavlov Ivan Shmuratko	Anastasiia Arkhipova	Sofiia Nesterova / Artem Darenskyi	Darya Popova / Volodymyr Byelikov
	Luke Digby	Kristen Spours		Sasha Fear / George Waddell
	Tomoki Hiwatashi Alexei Krasnozhon Camden Pulkinen	Ting Cui Emmy Ma	Sarah Feng / TJ Nyman Audrey Lu / Misha Mitrofanov	Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko Caroline Green / Gordon Green Chloe Lewis / Logan Bye

Changes to initial assignments

Results

Men

The leader from the short program, Alexei Krasnozhon, sustained an injury on his first jumping pass, a quad Salchow, and subsequently withdrew from the competition.^[3]

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
1	Alexey Erokhov		231.52	2	76.54	1	154.98
2	Artur Danielian		218.76	8	69.15	2	149.61
3	Matteo Rizzo		211.58	6	70.24	6	141.34
4	Joseph Phan		210.91	14	65.26	3	145.65
5	Roman Savosin		207.91	12	65.36	5	142.55
6	Camden Pulkinen		207.88	17	62.31	4	145.57
7	Tomoki Hiwatashi		206.68	11	67.85	7	138.83
8	Ivan Pavlov		206.38	4	71.05	8	135.33
9	Mitsuki Sumoto		199.51	3	72.94	9	126.57
10	Jonathan Hess		195.32	7	69.88	10	125.44
11	Lee Si-hyeong		194.85	5	70.70	11	124.15
12	Irakli Maysuradze		186.98	9	68.31	15	118.67
13	Conrad Orzel		185.93	15	64.49	12	121.44
14	Mark Gorodnitsky		180.43	18	61.72	14	118.71
15	Luc Economides		179.55	21	58.84	13	120.71
16	Nurullah Sahaka		177.75	13	65.31	18	112.44
17	Adam Siao Him Fa		175.59	16	64.11	19	111.48
18	Sena Miyake		174.66	10	67.98	23	106.68
19	Cha Young-hyun		174.13	23	57.57	16	116.56
20	Petr Kotlařík		173.15	20	60.27	17	112.88
21	Donovan Carrillo		168.68	19	61.37	22	107.31
22	Gabriel Folkesson		166.39	24	57.11	20	109.28
23	Micah Kai Lynette		166.00	22	58.38	21	107.62
WD	Alexei Krasnozhon			1	80.28	colspan=2
Did not advance to free skating
25	Başar Oktar		56.84	25	56.84	colspan=2
26	Kai Xiang Chew		56.76	26	56.76	colspan=2
27	Aleksandr Selevko		54.90	27	54.90	colspan=2
28	Ivan Shmuratko		54.51	28	54.51	colspan=2
29	Yakau Zenko		54.15	29	54.15	colspan=2
30	Larry Loupolover		53.67	30	53.67	colspan=2
31	Aleix Gabara		52.22	31	52.22	colspan=2
32	Davide Lewton Brain		51.68	32	51.68	colspan=2
33	Harrison Jon-Yen Wong		49.11	33	49.11	colspan=2
34	Alexander Zlatkov		48.36	34	48.36	colspan=2
35	Roman Galay		47.87	35	47.87	colspan=2
36	Micah Tang		47.37	36	47.37	colspan=2
37	Kims Georgs Pavlovs		46.65	37	46.65	colspan=2
38	David Igor Birinberg		46.03	38	46.03	colspan=2
39	James Min		45.72	39	45.72	colspan=2
40	Alexander Borovoj		43.43	40	43.43	colspan=2
41	Luc Maierhofer		42.52	41	42.52	colspan=2
42	Nikita Manko		41.03	42	41.03	colspan=2
43	Luke Digby		40.37	43	40.37	colspan=2
44	Samuel McAllister		39.97	44	39.97	colspan=2
45	Chadwick Wang		39.54	45	39.54	colspan=2
46	Erik Matysiak		39.48	46	39.48	colspan=2
47	Charles Henry Katanovic		36.80	47	36.80	colspan=2
48	Yamato Rowe		34.37	48	34.37

Ladies

Alexandra Trusova set a new junior world record for the free skating (153.49 points) landing a quadruple salchow and quadruple toe. She also set the new combined total record (225.52 points).

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
1	Alexandra Trusova		225.52	1	72.03	1	153.49
2	Alena Kostornaia		207.39	2	71.63	2	135.76
3	Mako Yamashita		195.17	3	66.79	3	128.38
4	Stanislava Konstantinova		186.35	6	62.63	5	123.72
5	Lim Eun-soo		185.12	5	62.96	6	122.16
6	Yuhana Yokoi		184.78	8	59.81	4	124.97
7	Ting Cui		180.39	7	62.22	7	118.17
8	Rika Kihira		175.25	4	63.74	9	111.51
9	You Young		171.78	9	59.79	8	111.99
10	Lea Johanna Dastich		164.34	12	55.32	10	109.02
11	Yi Christy Leung		156.22	11	56.97	13	99.25
12	Stefanie Pesendorfer		153.70	13	54.16	12	99.54
13	Anastasiia Arkhipova		151.98	10	59.37	16	92.61
14	Selma Ihr		150.35	14	53.33	14	97.02
15	Alexandra Feigin		147.50	17	51.49	15	96.01
16	Lucrezia Beccari		147.45	23	46.46	11	100.99
17	Aurora Cotop		141.64	21	49.15	17	92.49
18	Chen Hongyi		141.00	18	49.83	18	91.17
19	Emmy Ma		139.98	16	52.78	19	87.20
20	Ann-Christin Marold		135.56	15	52.84	20	82.72
21	Kristen Spours		129.21	19	49.57	21	79.64
22	Alana Toktarova		127.27	22	48.28	22	78.99
23	Chloe Ing		124.26	20	49.27	23	74.99
24	Kyarha van Tiel		116.77	24	45.88	24	70.89
Did not advance to free skating
25	Dahyun Ko		45.68	25	45.68	colspan=2
26	Morgan Flood		45.04	26	45.04	colspan=2
27	Andrea Montesinos Cantu		44.26	27	44.26	colspan=2
28	Maya Gorodnitsky		44.24	28	44.24	colspan=2
29	Sofia Sula		44.21	29	44.21	colspan=2
30	Güzide Irmak Bayır		43.09	30	43.09	colspan=2
31	Amy Lin		43.06	31	43.06	colspan=2
32	Júlia Láng		42.00	32	42.00	colspan=2
33	Silvia Hugec		41.49	33	41.49	colspan=2
34	Kristina Škuleta-Gromova		41.30	34	41.30	colspan=2
35	Maïa Mazzara		40.69	35	40.69	colspan=2
36	Hana Cvijanović		40.51	36	40.51	colspan=2
37	Anete Lāce		40.03	37	40.03	colspan=2
38	Léa Serna		39.97	38	39.97	colspan=2
39	Oliwia Rzepiel		39.71	39	39.71	colspan=2
40	Amanda Stan		38.46	40	38.46	colspan=2
41	Hiu Ching Kwong		37.31	41	37.31	colspan=2
42	Aliaksandra Chepeleva		36.63	42	36.63	colspan=2
43	Paulina Ramanauskaitė		33.50	43	33.50	colspan=2
44	Maruša Udrih		32.71	44	32.71

Pairs

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
1	Daria Pavliuchenko / Denis Khodykin		180.53	1	63.12	1	117.41
2	Polina Kostiukovich / Dmitrii Ialin		167.99	2	61.77	3	106.22
3	Anastasia Mishina / Aleksandr Galiamov		167.24	4	56.95	2	110.29
4	Gao Yumeng / Xie Zhong		164.70	3	59.55	5	105.15
5	Audrey Lu / Misha Mitrofanov		160.09	6	54.38	4	105.71
6	Evelyn Walsh / Trennt Michaud		158.96	5	55.31	6	103.65
7	Talisa Thomalla / Robert Kunkel		144.38	8	52.13	8	92.25
8	Sarah Feng / TJ Nyman		143.10	7	54.09	9	89.01
9	Lori-Ann Matte / Thierry Ferland		142.51	10	50.14	7	92.37
10	Riku Miura / Shoya Ichihashi		137.22	9	50.30	11	86.92
11	Cléo Hamon / Denys Strekalin		133.04	13	44.45	10	88.59
12	Tang Feiyao / Yang Yongchao		130.97	11	48.15	12	82.82
13	Isabella Gamez / Tòn Cónsul		121.00	12	45.04	14	75.96
14	Sofiia Nesterova / Artem Darenskyi		117.73	14	43.91	15	76.18
15	Edita Hornaková / Radek Jakubka		117.55	15	41.37	13	73.82
16	Hailey Esther Kops / Artem Tsoglin		106.01	16	38.81	16	67.20
Did not advance to free skating
17	Sara Carli / Marco Pauletti		36.99	17	36.99

Ice dance

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SD		FD
1	Anastasia Skoptsova / Kirill Aleshin		155.15	1	66.44	1	88.71
2	Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko		147.68	6	60.85	2	86.83
3	Arina Ushakova / Maxim Nekrasov		146.88	3	61.29	3	85.59
4	Marjorie Lajoie / Zachary Lagha		146.22	2	62.39	5	83.83
5	Sofia Shevchenko / Igor Eremenko		145.85	4	60.95	4	84.90
6	Caroline Green / Gordon Green		141.83	5	60.86	7	80.97
7	Chloe Lewis / Logan Bye		139.17	8	58.07	6	81.10
8	Natacha Lagouge / Corentin Rahier		136.75	7	59.26	9	77.49
9	Maria Kazakova / Georgy Reviya		133.07	11	54.95	8	78.12
10	Ria Schwendinger / Valentin Wunderlich		130.27	10	55.02	10	75.25
11	Darya Popova / Volodymyr Byelikov		125.26	9	55.56	11	69.70
12	Olivia McIsaac / Elliott Graham		121.17	12	52.80	14	68.37
13	Chiara Calderone / Pietro Papetti		120.85	13	51.78	13	69.07
14	Villő Marton / Danyil Semko		119.92	15	50.58	12	69.36
15	Loïcia Demougeot / Théo Le Mercier		117.60	14	51.52	15	66.08
16	Yana Buga / Georgy Pokhilyuk		112.55	18	48.27	16	64.28
17	Shira Ichilov / Vadim Davidovich		112.22	17	49.63	17	62.59
18	Natálie Taschlerová / Filip Taschler		110.30	16	50.25	18	60.05
19	Charise Matthaei / Maximilian Pfisterer		105.45	20	45.93	19	59.52
20	Viktoria Semenjuk / Artur Gruzdev		105.18	19	46.09	20	59.09
Did not advance to free dance
21	Sasha Fear / George Waddell		42.57	21	42.57	colspan=2
22	Ning Wanqi / Wang Chao		41.40	22	41.40	colspan=2
23	Haruno Yajima / Daiki Shimazaki		41.16	23	41.16	colspan=2
24	Karina Sidarenka / Maksim Yalenich		40.00	24	40.00	colspan=2
25	Yana Bozhilova / Kaloyan Georgiev		38.81	25	38.81	colspan=2
26	Olexandra Borysova / Cezary Zawadzki		38.67	26	38.67	colspan=2
27	Gaukhar Nauryzova / Boyisangur Datiev		38.33	27	38.33	colspan=2
28	Malene Niquita-Basquin / Jaime García		36.26	28	36.26

Medals summary

Medalists

Medals for overall placement:

align=center	Men	Alexey Erokhov	Artur Danielian	Matteo Rizzo
align=center	Ladies	Alexandra Trusova	Alena Kostornaia	Mako Yamashita
align=center	Pairs	Daria Pavliuchenko / Denis Khodykin	Polina Kostiukovich / Dmitrii Ialin	Anastasia Mishina / Aleksandr Galiamov
align=center	Ice dancing	Anastasia Skoptsova / Kirill Aleshin	Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko	Arina Ushakova / Maxim Nekrasov

Small medals for placement in the short segment:

align=center	Men	Alexei Krasnozhon	Alexey Erokhov	Mitsuki Sumoto
align=center	Ladies	Alexandra Trusova	Alena Kostornaia	Mako Yamashita
align=center	Pairs	Daria Pavliuchenko / Denis Khodykin	Polina Kostiukovich / Dmitrii Ialin	Gao Yumeng / Xie Zhong
align=center	Ice dance	Anastasia Skoptsova / Kirill Aleshin	Marjorie Lajoie / Zachary Lagha	Arina Ushakova / Maxim Nekrasov

Small medals for placement in the free segment:

align=center	Men	Alexey Erokhov	Artur Danielian	Joseph Phan
align=center	Ladies	Alexandra Trusova	Alena Kostornaia	Mako Yamashita
align=center	Pairs	Daria Pavliuchenko / Denis Khodykin	Anastasia Mishina / Aleksandr Galiamov	Polina Kostiukovich / Dmitrii Ialin
align=center	Ice dance	Anastasia Skoptsova / Kirill Aleshin	Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko	Arina Ushakova / Maxim Nekrasov

By country

Table of medals for overall placement:

References

Citations

Notes and References

1. Web site: Provisional allotments of 2018 ISU Championships. isu.org. 15 Jun 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150615144816/http://www.isu.org/en/news-and-events/news/2015/06/provisional-allotments-of-2018-isu-championships. 2015-06-15. dead.
2. Web site: Highest Score: Ladies. 10 March 2018. International Skating Union. 10 March 2018.
3. 972453162476101632. ISU_Figure.
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