World Figure Skating Championships 1988

World Figure Skating Championships 1988
78th edition
Type:	ISU championships
Date:	23-27 March 1988
Venue:	Budapest , Hungary
Gold medalist
Men's:	Brian Boitano (2)
Women:	Katarina Witt (4)
Couples:	Jelena Walowa & Oleg Wassiljew (3)
Ice dance:	Natalja Bestemjanowa & Andrei Bukin (4)
World figure skating championships
1987 ◄ 1988 ► 1989

The 78th World Figure Skating Championships took place from March 23 to 27, 1988 in the Hungarian capital Budapest .

Result

Men's

space	athlete	country
1	Brian Boitano	United States
2	Brian Orser	Canada
3	Viktor Petrenko	Soviet Union
4th	Grzegorz Filipowski	Poland
5	Christopher Bowman	United States
6th	Kurt Browning	Canada
7th	Heiko Fischer	BR Germany
8th	Petr Barna	Czechoslovakia
9	Paul Wylie	United States
10	Vladimir Petrenko	Soviet Union
11	Cameron Medhurst	Australia
12	Oliver Höner	Switzerland
13	Neil Paterson	Canada
14th	Lars Dresler	Denmark
15th	Paul Robinson	United Kingdom
16	Ralf Burghart	Austria
17th	Ronny Winkler	GDR
18th	Peter Johansson	Sweden
19th	Daniel Weiss	BR Germany
20th	András Száraz	Hungary
21st	Alessandro Riccitelli	Italy
22nd	Oula Jaaskelainen	Finland
23	Frederic Lipka	France
Freestyle not achieved
24	Tomislav Čižmešija	Yugoslavia
25th	David Liu	Chinese Taipei
26th	Joaquin Guerrero	Mexico
27	Alexandre Geers	Belgium
	Alexander Fadejew (Z)	Soviet Union
	Makoto Kano (Z)	Japan

• Z = withdrawn

Ladies

space	sportswoman	country
1	Katarina Witt	GDR
2	Elizabeth Manley	Canada
3	Debi Thomas	United States
4th	Claudia Leistner	BR Germany
5	Jill Trenary	United States
6th	Midori Itō	Japan
7th	Caryn Kadavy	United States
8th	Simone Koch	GDR
9	Natalia Lebedeva	Soviet Union
10	Joanne Conway	United Kingdom
11	Tamara Téglássy	Hungary
12	Marina Kielmann	BR Germany
13	Yvonne Gomez	Spain
14th	Natalia Gorbenko	Soviet Union
15th	Beatrice Gelmini	Italy
16	Lotte Falkenback	Sweden
17th	Charlene Wong	Canada
18th	Yvonne Pokorny	Austria
19th	Claude Peri	France
20th	Stefanie Schmid	Switzerland
21st	Junko Yaginuma	Japan
22nd	Željka Čižmešija	Yugoslavia
23	Mirela Gawlowska	Poland
24	Gina Fulton	United Kingdom
Freestyle not achieved
25th	Tracy Brook	Australia
26th	Anisette Torp-Lind	Denmark
27	Jana Petrušková	Czechoslovakia
28	Elina Hanninen	Finland
29	Ji Hyun-jung	South Korea
30th	Diana Marcos	Mexico
31	Asia Alexieva	Bulgaria

Couples

space	athlete	country
1	Jelena Walowa / Oleg Wassiljew	Soviet Union
2	Ekaterina Gordejewa / Sergei Grinkow	Soviet Union
3	Larissa Selesnjowa / Oleg Makarow	Soviet Union
4th	Gillian Wachsman / Todd Wagoner	United States
5	Denise Benning / Lyndon Johnston	Canada
6th	Jill Watson / Peter Oppegard	United States
7th	Isabelle Brasseur / Lloyd Eisler	Canada
8th	Mandy Wötzel / Axel Rauschenbach	GDR
9	Christine Hough / Doug Ladret	Canada
10	Natalie Seybold / Wayne Seybold	United States
11	Lenka Knapová / René Novotný	Czechoslovakia
12	Cheryl Peake / Andrew Naylor	United Kingdom
13	Anuschka glasses / Stefan Pfrengle	BR Germany
14th	Lisa Cushley / Neil Cushley	United Kingdom
15th	Danielle Carr / Stephen Carr	Australia
16	Akiko Nogami / Yoichi Yamazaki	Japan

Ice dance

space	athlete	country
1	Natalja Bestemjanowa / Andrei Bukin	Soviet Union
2	Marina Klimowa / Sergei Ponomarenko	Soviet Union
3	Tracy Wilson / Robert McCall	Canada
4th	Natalja Annenko / Genrich Sretensky	Soviet Union
5	Kathrin Beck / Christoff Beck	Austria
6th	Isabelle Duchesnay / Paul Duchesnay	France
7th	Klára Engi / Attila Tóth	Hungary
8th	Antonia Becherer / Ferdinand Becherer	BR Germany
9	Susie Wynne / Joseph Druar	United States
10	Lia Trovati / Robert Pelizzola	Italy
11	Karyn Garossino / Rodney Garossino	Canada
12	Sharon Jones / Paul Askham	United Kingdom
13	April Sargent / Russ Witherby	United States
14th	Věra Řeháková / Ivan Havránek	Czechoslovakia
15th	Melanie Cole / Michael Farrington	Canada
16	Dominique Yvon / Frédéric Palluel	France
17th	Honarata Gorna / Andrzej Dostatni	Poland
18th	Andrea Weppelmann / Hendryk Schamberger	BR Germany
19th	Tomoko Tanaka / Hiroyuki Suzuki	Japan
20th	Susanna Rahkamo / Petri Kokko	Finland
21st	Krisztina Kerekes / Csaba Szentpétery	Hungary
22nd	Monica MacDonald / Rodney Clarke	Australia
23	Desiree Schlegel / Patrik Brecht	Switzerland
24	Birgit Pleninger / Michael Steiner	Austria
Freestyle not achieved
25th	Yucca Liu / Jim Sun	Chinese Taipei

Medal table

space	country				total
1	Soviet Union	2	2	2	6th
2	United States	1	-	1	2
3	GDR	1	-	-	1
4th	Canada	-	2	1	3

Web links

• World figure skating championships 1980–1989 (men). Skatabase, archived from the original on October 11, 2008 ; accessed on May 27, 2018 (English). 
• World figure skating championships 1980–1989 (ladies). Skatabase, archived from the original on December 4, 2008 ; accessed on May 27, 2018 (English). 
• World figure skating championships 1980–1989 (pairs). Skatabase, archived from the original on October 11, 2008 ; accessed on May 27, 2018 (English). 
• World figure skating championships 1980–1989 (dance). Skatabase, archived from the original on September 24, 2008 ; accessed on May 27, 2018 (English).