World Figure Skating Championships 2011
| World Figure Skating Championships 2011 | |
|---|---|
| 101st edition | |
| Type: | ISU championships |
| Date: | April 24 - May 1, 2011 |
| Venue: |
Megasport Arena , Moscow , Russia |
| Gold medalist | |
| Men's: |
 Patrick Chan
|
| Women: |
 Miki Ando (2)
|
| Couples: |
 Aljona Savchenko & Robin Szolkowy (3) |
| Ice dance: |
 Meryl Davis & Charlie White |
| World figure skating championships | |
| 2010 ◄ 2011 ► 2012 | |
The 101st World Figure Skating Championships took place in Moscow from April 24th to May 1st . The venue was the Megasport Arena .
venue
On June 21, 2008, the International Ice Skating Union (ISU) announced the host of the 1998 Winter Olympics , the Japanese winter sports resort Nagano , as the host. The event was later moved to the Japanese capital, Tokyo . There it should take place from March 21 to 27 in the sports hall Kokuritsu Yoyogi Kyōgijō .
After the earthquake in Japan on March 11, 2011 and the severe consequences it caused (including the series of accidents at the Fukushima I nuclear power plant ), the ISU announced on March 21, 2011 that the World Championships would not take place in Japan. On March 24, the ISU named Moscow as the substitute host , not least after Vladimir Putin had assured that he would cover all costs and accelerate visa procedures. In addition to Moscow, Vancouver , Lake Placid , Colorado Springs , Zagreb , Turku and Graz had also agreed to take over the organization at short notice.
Starting places
On the basis of the World Cup results of the previous year, the following countries were entitled to several starting places for the 2011 world championships.
| Starting places | Men's | Ladies | Couples | Ice dance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 |
 Canada Japan United States 
|
Japan |
 People's Republic of China Russia
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Canada United States
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| 2 |
 Belgium Czech Republic France Italy Sweden   
|
Canada Finland Italy Russia South Korea Sweden United States 
|
Canada Germany United States |
France Hungary Israel Italy Russia United Kingdom  
|
Balance sheet
Medal table
| space | country |
|
|
|
total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Japan
|
1 | 1 | - | 2 |
|
Canada
|
1 | 1 | - | 2 | |
| 3 |
United States
|
1 | - | 1 | 2 |
| 4th |
Germany
|
1 | - | - | 1 |
| 5 |
Russia
|
- | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 6th |
South Korea
|
- | 1 | - | 1 |
| 7th |
Italy
|
- | - | 1 | 1 |
|
People's Republic of China
|
- | - | 1 | 1 |
Medalist
| competitor | gold | silver | bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's |
Patrick Chan
|
Takahiko Kozuka
|
Russia Artur Gatchinsky
|
| Ladies |
Miki Ando
|
Kim Yuna
|
Carolina Kostner
|
| Couples |
Aljona Savchenko / Robin Szolkowy
|
Tatiana Volososchar / Maxim Trankov
|
Pang Qing / Tong Jian
|
| Ice dance |
Meryl Davis / Charlie White
|
Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir
|
Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani
|
Results
- Pts = points
- K = freestyle
- KP = short program
- KT = short dance
Men's
Date: Wednesday, April 27, 2011, 1:00 p.m. ( short program ) and Thursday, April 28, 2011, 1:30 p.m. ( freestyle )
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The Canadian Patrick Chan won his first world championship title after two silver medals in a row. Already in the short program with 93.02 points Chan had the world record of Evgeni Plushenko broken. He effortlessly showed a quadruple toe loop , a triple axel and a triple flip to Take Five by Paul Desmond and received top marks in execution for these jumps. His combination pirouette and his jump-in sitting pirouette as well as his footwork were rated with level 4 and his scales pirouette with level 3. The speed of his performance was noticeable. So Chan started the freestyle with more than ten points ahead of Nobunari Oda . Despite the enormous lead, Chan did not try to manage it easily. To the music of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera , he performed two quadruple toe loops and six triple jumps. Only when landing the Axelsprung did he make a small mistake. For his pirouettes and footwork, he again received level 3 and level 4 ratings. This freestyle achievement brought Chan 187.96 points and thus he improved the previous world record in the freestyle , which was held by Daisuke Takahashi , by 12.12 points. With a total score of 280.98 points, Chan also pulverized Takahashi's previous record of 264.41 points in overall performance by 16.57 points. Chan's world championship title was never in danger, not least because almost all of the pursuers made more or less big mistakes. Chan's lead over silver medalist Takahiko Kozuka was over 22 points.
The reigning Japanese champion Takahiko Kozuka won his first medal at world championships with silver. After the short program, he was the worst placed Japanese in sixth place, as he had to support himself with both hands on the ice after his axel jump . He did not show a quadruple jump in the short program, but received level 4 ratings for all of his pirouettes. The decisive factor for winning the silver medal was Kozuka's clean and artistically demanding freestyle for Liszt's 1st Piano Concerto , which was an improvement on his previous best performance in this segment by more than ten points and was the second best freestyle in the field. After the misfortunes of his compatriots, Kozuka was the last hope for a medal for Japan. He showed a quadruple toe loop , two triple axels and six more triple jumps.
The only 17-year-old Russian Artur Gatschinski won the bronze medal in front of a home crowd at his first world championship. This was last achieved by Evan Lysacek at the 2005 World Cup . In the short program Gatschinski was the only runner next to Patrick Chan to show a quadruple toe loop-triple toe loop combination, but stumbled on the landing of the triple Rittberger and was in fourth place. In the freestyle, Gatschinski stood a four-fold toe loop and seven triple jumps. He increased his personal best, which he had achieved just three months earlier at the European Championship , by over 25 points. Gatschinski also benefited from the misfortunes of the Japanese Daisuke Takahashi and Nobunari Oda and mistakes of the Czech Michal Březina .
Michal Březina was in seventh place after the short program, in which he did not show a quadruple jump, but a slightly over-rotated triple flip- triple- toe loop combination and a nice triple axel . He started furiously in his demanding freestyle with a quadruple toe loop and a quadruple salchow (his first quadruple jumps in the competition), but fell at the end of his freestyle with a triple flip and triple lutz . With that he missed the chance to win his first World Cup medal and finished fourth like last year.
The reigning world champion Daisuke Takahashi was in third place after his short program, which did not include a quadruple jump. He had to interrupt his freestyle right at the beginning due to a runners problem. On his first jump, the quadruple toe loop , he noticed the damage, had to stop the jump and took a three-minute break to fix the problem. According to the regulations, he was not allowed to repeat the jump after this break. He took up his freestyle again, did a triple- flip- triple-toe-loop combination and four more triple jumps, but fell on the triple Salchow and got off on the triple Axel . In the end, it was enough for the defending champion to finish fifth. Takahashi had postponed a necessary knee operation in order to defend his title in front of a home crowd. After the World Cup was moved to Moscow, he had to wait even longer.
Nobunari Oda was in second place after the short program. He wanted to start his freestyle with a combination of a four-way toe loop and a three-way toe loop, but it only turned out to be a three-way toe loop and three-way toe loop combination. With this, he had already exceeded the permitted limit of triple toe loops for his freestyle, but still showed another triple toe loop in a triple axel-triple toe loop combination and received no points for it. This was not the first time that Oda had made a mistake like this. Through him he lost about 13 points and thus the long-awaited medal. He finished sixth.
Brian Joubert got out of his fourfold toe loop belonging to the combination in the short program and was already a big deficit. His good freestyle, the fourth-best in the field, only helped him to improve by one place, to eighth place. It was the first time since 2005 that Joubert went without a medal at a world championship. Joubert's compatriot, the reigning European champion Florent Amodio , landed one place ahead of Joubert, although he did not show a single quadruple jump and ran to music with singing in his freestyle, which is prohibited according to the regulations, but did not lead to any point deduction.
Richard Dornbush was the only one of the three Americans to make it into the top ten with ninth place in his world championship debut. Ross Miner , who also made his debut, finished eleventh and reigning US champion Ryan Bradley thirteenth. It was the USA’s worst performance in men's competition since World War II. The Spaniard Javier Fernández López improved again at world championships, this time by two places to tenth place. After the short program he was still in fourteenth place, but improved by four places thanks to his freestyle, in which he showed two quadruple jumps for the first time ( Toeloop and Salchow ).
Tomáš Verner had great difficulties with the four-way toe loop in both the short program and the freestyle . In the end it was only enough for him to finish twelfth. The established runners Kevin van der Perren and Samuel Contesti could not meet expectations as 17th and 18th respectively. After finishing 10th in the short program, the Kazakh Denis Ten fell back to 14th place after numerous mistakes in the freestyle. The only German starter Peter Liebers was able to qualify for the final of a World Championship for the first time in the fourth attempt and thus achieved his best World Championship result in 15th place after personal best performances in the short program, freestyle and overall performance.
Due to the upgrading of quadruple jumps in the regulations, many more quadruple jumps were shown compared to previous world championships and especially the world championship last year. Patrick Chan , Michal Březina and Javier Fernández López showed two quadruple jumps in the freestyle, Březina and Fernández López even two different ones ( Toeloop and Salchow ). Takahiko Kozuka and Michal Březina were the only runners among the top ten who had to qualify before the actual competition. Kozuka won the qualification, Březina qualified fourth for the main competition.
Ladies
Date: Friday, April 29, 2011, 1:30 p.m. (short program) and Saturday, April 30, 2011, 1:30 p.m. (freestyle)
The Japanese champion Miki Andō surprisingly became world champion for the second time in her career.
The favorite Kim Yuna from South Korea made unusual mistakes in the short program and freestyle, so that Ando's rather conservative strategy just worked. As in the previous year, Kim Yuna only won a silver medal.
Bronze went to Carolina Kostner , who was able to improve by three places thanks to her freestyle. Aljona Leonowa from Russia followed in fourth place and Alissa Czisny from the United States in fifth.
Defending champion Mao Asada could not intervene in the battle for the medals and finished sixth.
Couples
Date: Wednesday, April 27, 2011, 6:30 p.m. (short program) and Thursday, April 28, 2011, 6:30 p.m. (freestyle)
Aljona Savchenko and Robin Szolkowy won their third world championship title. In doing so, they set a new world record of 144.87 points with their neatly executed freestyle to the music of the pink panther . Her total score of 217.85 points also meant a world record .
The newly formed Russian couple Tatiana Wolossoschar and Maxim Trankow caused a surprise, winning the silver medal straight away. He achieved a remarkable result with 211.73 points. The defending champions Pang Qing and Tong Jian from China won the bronze medal. After the short program they were still in the lead, but did not make mistakes in the freestyle.
The supposedly strongest Russian couple Juko Kawaguti and Alexander Smirnow , who were only barely defeated by Savchenko and Szolkowy at the European Championships, finished fourth. Even after the short program, the couple had largely gambled away their chances of winning a medal. The third Russian couple, consisting of Vera Basarova and Juri Larionow, followed in fifth place .
The best North American couple in sixth place were the Americans Caitlin Yankowskas and John Coughlin , just ahead of Canadians Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford , who came in seventh. Radford was injured in the short program while throwing . His partner's elbow broke his nose. Although the nose was bleeding, the referee did not interrupt the program.
The second German couple Maylin Hausch and Daniel Wende showed for the first time a triple throw in both parts of the program .
Ice dance
Date: Friday, April 29, 2011, 6:30 p.m. (short dance) and Saturday, April 30, 2011, 6:30 p.m. (freestyle)
Meryl Davis and Charlie White became the first American ice dance couple in history to become world champions .
After the short program, the Canadian defending champions and Olympic champions Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir had led with a world record before Davis and White turned the tide with a world record in the freestyle. The Americans also set a new world record for overall performance . Both pairs ran in their own league and were almost twenty points ahead of the third-placed.
The bronze medal surprisingly went to the 16 and 20-year-old World Cup debutants Maia and Alex Shibutani from the USA. The last time Anselika Krylova and Vladimir Fyodorov achieved a podium place in a World Cup debut was in 1993. The Shibutanis benefited from the fall of Fabian Bourzat in the freestyle, who with Nathalie Péchalat was still bronze after the short program. As in the previous year, the European champions from France only finished fourth.
It was the first time that there was no European ice dance couple among the medal winners at World Championships. All three ice dance couples that stood on the podium were trained by Igor Schpilband and Marina Sujewa in Detroit .
With the fourth best freestyle, Canadians Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje moved from seventh to fifth place and thus ahead of the two Russian ice dance couples Jekaterina Bobrowa and Dmitri Solowjow as well as Jelena Ilyinych and Nikita Kazalapow . The Italians Anna Cappellini and Luca Lanotte finished eighth.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Communication No. 1513. (PDF, 58 kB) International Ice Skating Union , June 21, 2008, accessed on March 13, 2011 (English).
- ↑ ISU postpones World Skating Championship in Japan. Reuters , March 14, 2011, accessed March 15, 2011 .
- ↑ Moscow to host of Figure Skating World Championships. BBC Sport , March 24, 2011, accessed March 25, 2011 .
- ↑ The race is on. Der Tagesspiegel , March 23, 2011, accessed on March 25, 2011 .
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