World Figure Skating Championships 2012

World Figure Skating Championships 2012
102nd edition
Type:	ISU championships
Date:	March 26 - April 1, 2012
Venue:	Palais des Congrès Acropolis , Nice , France
Gold medalist
Men's:	Patrick Chan (2)
Women:	Carolina Kostner
Couples:	Aljona Savchenko & Robin Szolkowy (4)
Ice dance:	Tessa Virtue & Scott Moir (2)
World figure skating championships
2011 ◄ 2012 ► 2013

The 102nd World Figure Skating Championships took place from March 26th to April 1st, 2012 in the French coastal city of Nice . The venue was the Palais des Congrès Acropolis .

The International Skating Union (ISU) announced the city as the host on November 30, 2009. It was the eighth time that France hosted the World Figure Skating Championships. The last time the 2000 event was held in Nice.

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 2012 world championships.

Starting places	Men's	Ladies	Couples	Ice dance
3	Japan	Japan Russia	Germany Russia	Canada Russia United States
2	Canada Czech Republic France Spain Russia United States	Finland Georgia Italy South Korea United States	Canada People's Republic of China Italy Japan United States	France Italy

Attendees

nation	Men's	Ladies	Couples	Ice dancers
Armenia	Slavik Hajrapetjan
Azerbaijan				Julija Slobina / Alexei Sitnikow
Australia	Brendan Kerry	Chantelle Kerry		Danielle O'Brien / Gregory Merriman
Belgium	Kevin van der Perren	Isabelle Pieman
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Damjan Ostojič
Brazil	Kevin Alves
Bulgaria	Manol Atanasov	Daniela Stoeva	Jelisaveta Makarowa / Leri Kentschadze	Alexandra Chistiakowa / Dimitar Lychev
People's Republic of China	Song Nan	Zhang Kexin	Pang Qing / Tong Jian Sui Wenjing / Han Cong	Huang Xintong / Zheng Xun
Chinese Taipei	Jordan Ju	Melinda Wang
Denmark	Justus Strid	Karina Johnson
Germany	Peter Liebers	Sarah Hedges	Maylin Hausch / Daniel Wende Aljona Savchenko / Robin Szolkowy Mari-Doris Vartmann / Aaron Van Cleave	Nelli Schiganschina / Alexander Gazsi
Estonia		Jelena Glebova		Irina Štork / Taavi Rand
Finland	Ari-Pekka Nurmenkari	Alisa Mikonsaari Juulia Turkkila		Henna Lindholm / Ossi Kanervo
France	Florent Amodio Brian Joubert	Yrétha Silété	Vanessa James / Morgan Ciprès	Pernelle Carron / Lloyd Jones Nathalie Péchalat / Fabian Bourzat
Georgia		Elene Gedevanishvili
Greece		Georgia Glastris
Hong Kong	Harry Hau Yin Lee
India		Ami Parekh
Ireland		Clara Peters
Israel	Oleksiy Bychenko		Danielle Montalbano / Evgeni Krasnopolski	Ekaterina Bugrov / Vasili Rogov
Italy	Samuel Contesti	Carolina Kostner Valentina Marchei	Stefania Berton / Ondřej Hotárek Nicole Della Monica / Matteo Guarise	Lorenza Alessandrini / Simone Vaturi Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte
Japan	Yuzuru Hanyū Takahiko Kozuka Daisuke Takahashi	Mao Asada Kanako Murakami Akiko Suzuki	Narumi Takahashi / Mervin Tran	Cathy Reed / Chris Reed
Canada	Patrick Chan Kevin Reynolds	Amelie Lacoste	Jessica Dubé / Sebastien Wolfe Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford	Kharis Ralph / Asher Hill Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje
Kazakhstan	Denis Ten			Cortney Mansour / Daryn Zhunussov
Latvia		Alina Fyodorova		Ksenia Pecherkina / Aleksandrs Jakushin
Lithuania	Saulius Ambrulevičius	Inga Janulevičiūtė		Isabella Tobias / Deividas Stagniūnas
Luxembourg		Fleur Maxwell
Mexico		Reyna Hamui		Corenne Bruhns / Ryan Van Natten
Monaco	Kim Lucine
North Korea			Ri Ji-hyang / Thae Won-hyok
Norway		Anine raven
Austria	Viktor Pfeifer	Kerstin Frank	Stina Martini / Severin Kiefer	Barbora Silná / Juri Kurakin
Philippines	Christopher Caluza	Zhaira Costiniano
Poland	Maciej Cieplucha			Alexandra Zvorygina / Maciej Bernadowski
Puerto Rico		Victoria Muniz
Romania	Zoltán Kelemen	Sabina Măriuță
Russia	Artur Gatchinsky Sergei Voronov	Polina Korobeynikova Aljona Leonowa Xenija Makarowa	Vera Basarowa / Juri Larionow Yuko Kawaguti / Alexander Smirnow Tatjana Wolossoschar / Maxim Trankow	Ekaterina Bobrowa / Dmitri Solowjow Jelena Ilyinych / Nikita Kazalapow Jekaterina Ryazanova / Ilya Tkachenko
Sweden	Alexander Majorov	Viktoria Helgesson
Switzerland	Laurent Alvarez	Romy Buhler	Anaïs Morand / Timothy Leemann	Ramona Elsener / Florian Roost
Serbia		Marina Seeh
Slovakia	Taras Rajec	Monika Simančíková		Federica Testa / Lukáš Csölley
Slovenia		Dasa Grm
Spain	Javier Fernández Javier Raya	Sonia Lafuente		Sara Hurtado / Adrià Díaz
South Africa		Lejeanne Marais
South Korea	Kim Min-seok	Kwak Min-jung
Thailand		Mimi Tanasorn Chindasook
Czech Republic	Michal Březina Tomáš Verner	Eliška Březinová		Gabriela Kubová / Dmitri Kiselev
Turkey	Ali Demirboğa	Sıla Saygı		Alissa Agafonowa / Alper Uçar
Ukraine	Dmitri Ignatenko	Natalia Popova		Siobhan Heekin-Canedy / Dmytro Dun
Hungary	Marton Markó	Viktória Pavuk		Zsuzsanna Nagy / Máté Fejes
Uzbekistan	Misha Ge			Anna Nagornyuk / Viktor Kowalenko
United States	Jeremy Abbott Adam Rippon	Alissa Czisny Ashley Wagner	Caydee Denney / John Coughlin Mary Beth Marley / Rockne Brubaker	Meryl Davis / Charlie White Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani
United Kingdom	Luke Chilcott	Jenna McCorkell	Stacey Kemp / David King	Penny Coomes / Nicholas Buckland
Belarus	Vitali Luchanok		Lubov Bakirova / Mikalai Kamianchuk	Lessja Waladsenkawa / Vitaly Wakunow

Time schedule

Monday March 26th

• 14: 30-16: 45 - Couples qualification
• 17: 15–21: 15 - Qualification of ice dancers

Tuesday March 27th

• 10: 30-16: 00 - Women's qualification
• 17: 00–22: 15 - Men's qualification

Wednesday March 28th

• 13: 00–16: 20 - Short program for couples
• 18: 40-22: 30 - short dance

Thursday March 29th

• 12: 30–16: 55 - Women's short program
• 19: 00–22: 20 - Free dance

Friday March 30th

• 12: 30–16: 55 - men's short program
• 19: 30–22: 25 - Couples' freestyle

Saturday March 31st

• 12: 55–17: 00 - Men's freestyle
• 18: 30–22: 25 - Women's freestyle

Sunday April 1st

• 14: 15-16: 45 - exhibition walking

Balance sheet

Medal table

space	country				total
1	Canada	2	-	-	2
2	Germany	1	-	-	1
	Italy	1	-	-	1
4th	Russia	-	2	-	2
5	Japan	-	1	3	4th
6th	United States	-	1	-	1
7th	France	-	-	1	1

Medalist

competitor	gold	silver	bronze
Men's	Patrick Chan	Daisuke Takahashi	Yuzuru Hanyu
Ladies	Carolina Kostner	Alyona Leonova	Akiko Suzuki
Couples	Aljona Savchenko / Robin Szolkowy	Tatiana Volososchar / Maxim Trankov	Narumi Takahashi / Mervin Tran
Ice dance	Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir	Meryl Davis / Charlie White	Nathalie Péchalat / Fabian Bourzat

Results

• K = freestyle
• KP = short program
• KT = short dance
• Q = qualification
• Pts = points

Men's

Date: Tuesday, March 27, 2012, 5:00 p.m. Qualification; Friday, March 30, 2012, 12:30 p.m. short program and Saturday, March 31, 2012, 12:55 p.m. freestyle

space	athlete	country	Pt.	Q		KP		K
1	Patrick Chan	Canada	266.11			1	89.41	1	176.70
2	Daisuke Takahashi	Japan	259.66			3	85.72	3	173.94
3	Yuzuru Hanyu	Japan	251.06			7th	77.07	2	173.99
4th	Brian Joubert	France	244.58			4th	83.47	5	161.11
5	Florent Amodio	France	243.03			6th	79.96	4th	163.07
6th	Michal Březina	Czech Republic	239.55			2	87.67	7th	151.88
7th	Denis Ten	Kazakhstan	229.70			8th	76.00	6th	153.70
8th	Jeremy Abbott	United States	226.19			9	74.85	8th	151.34
9	Javier Fernández López	Spain	225.87			5	81.87	14th	144.00
10	Samuel Contesti	Italy	224.89			11	73.55	9	151.34
11	Takahiko Kozuka	Japan	218.63			13	71.78	11	146.85
12	Kevin Reynolds	Canada	217.20			12	72.95	13	144.25
13	Adam Rippon	United States	216.63			10	73.55	16	143.08
14th	Song Nan	People's Republic of China	216.33	1	130.75	15th	69.58	12	146.75
15th	Kevin van der Perren	Belgium	214.04			18th	66.38	10	147.66
16	Tomáš Verner	Czech Republic	210.66			14th	70.38	17th	140.28
17th	Sergei Voronov	Russia	210.04	2	128.47	17th	66.81	15th	143.23
18th	Artur Gatschinski	Russia	205.06			16	68.50	18th	136.56
19th	Misha Ge	Uzbekistan	186.41	4th	124.41	19th	65.29	23	121.12
20th	Peter Liebers	Germany	184.13			23	58.21	19th	125.92
21st	Christopher Caluza	Philippines	184.10	8th	112.08	20th	61.87	20th	122.23
22nd	Viktor Pfeifer	Austria	182.54	6th	120.48	21st	60.61	21st	121.93
23	Kim Lucine	Monaco	181.37	5	122.58	22nd	59.93	22nd	121.44
24	Javier Raya	Spain	167.48	9	111.66	24	57.22	24	110.26
Freestyle not achieved
25th	Maciej Cieplucha	Poland		3	126.50	25th	57.18
26th	Alexander Majorov	Sweden		7th	115.78	26th	56.57
27	Kim Min-seok	South Korea		11	110.24	27	55.41
28	Dmitri Ignatenko	Ukraine				28	52.93
29	Oleksiy Bychenko	Israel		12	108.51	29	52.76
30th	Justus Strid	Denmark		10	110.45	30th	50.55
Short program not reached
31	Ari-Pekka Nurmenkari	Finland		13	100.16
32	Zoltán Kelemen	Romania		14th	097.75
33	Brendan Kerry	Australia		15th	095.40
34	Laurent Alvarez	Switzerland		16	093.24
35	Damjan Ostojič	Bosnia and Herzegovina		17th	093.11
36	Slavik Hajrapetjan	Armenia		18th	092.84
37	Luke Chilcott	United Kingdom		19th	091.92
38	Jordan Ju	Chinese Taipei		20th	089.56
39	Marton Markó	Hungary		21st	086.08
40	Ali Demirboğa	Turkey		22nd	084.34
41	Vitali Luchanok	Belarus		23	083.97
42	Saulius Ambrulevičius	Lithuania		24	082.40
43	Taras Rajec	Slovakia		25th	081.81
44	Manol Atanasov	Bulgaria		26th	066.56
45	Harry Hau Yin Lee	Honduras		27	066.56
Z	Kevin Alves	Brazil

Z = withdrawn

The Canadian Patrick Chan defended his title. Despite first places in the short program and freestyle, the point advantage was lower compared to his outstanding victory in the previous year. This was mainly due to two mistakes in his freestyle to the music of Joaquín Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez . When Chan had already stood two quadruple toe- loops (one of them in a quad-triple-toe- loop combination) and a triple axel , he made a mistake with his triple- Lutz- half-toe-loop-triple- salchow combination and completely missed the double axel jump. Chan had had problems with the Lutz for the entire season, this time the wobbly landing made it impossible to perform the following two jumps perfectly in the combination. Chan justified the omission of his Axel with the lag behind the music, which he had to catch up and thus hastily the entrance of the jump. In the end, in addition to the one-point deduction for the fall, Chan also got a point deduction for exceeding the time. For Chan, the day of winning his second world title had an emotional component, because it was the birthday of Osborne Colson , who had taught him figure skating.

The silver medal went to 2010 World Champion and reigning Japanese champion Daisuke Takahashi . Both in the short program and in the freestyle, he achieved third place. His freestyle for Eddy Louiss ' Blues for Klook was artistically sure as usual. Despite an operation before the season he was able to show a clean quadruple toe loop in the competition. His flip, however, was underrotated. In the end, Takahashi was 6.45 points short of Chan.

Takahashi's greatest challenger in the battle for silver was his own compatriot, the only 17-year-old world championship debutant Yuzuru Hanyu . The 2010 junior world champion was still in seventh place after the short program, as he had just rotated his Lutz, but then showed the freestyle of his young life. To the film music of Romeo and Juliet and Escape from Plunkett & Macleane , he started with a safe and beautiful four-fold toe loop and stood all further jumps, including eight triple jumps, without blame or blame. It did not get a negative evaluation in the execution of its elements (GOE). He only fell to the ground once while running, but this did not negatively affect the overall picture. His artistically mature and highly emotional freestyle brought him a standing ovation and loud calls of admiration from the audience. Hanyū himself, who had crossed himself several times before the freestyle, could hardly believe his performance and had a crying fit after the freestyle. His freestyle was rated as the second best in the field, he even beat his compatriot Takahashi by 0.05 points in this segment and was rewarded with the bronze medal overall. Hanyū increased his personal best in the freestyle and broke through the 250-point mark for the first time with his 251.06 points in total. For the first time in the history of men's competition at world figure skating championships, Japan won two medals at a world championship.

After numerous disappointing performances by the 2007 world champion, Brian Joubert, he was able to convince again in front of his home crowd. He was solid in the jumps in both segments and stayed free from falls. He only got deductions for two jumps in the freestyle because of insufficient rotation and incorrect landing. For his freestyle, he returned to his proven freestyle music at Matrix . After the freestyle, which was carried by the euphoric home crowd, Joubert fell on his knees and kissed the ice cream. In his eleventh World Cup participation, Joubert missed a seventh medal only because of the outstanding performance of Yuzuru Hanyu.

Joubert's farmer Florent Amodio also showed a strong performance in front of his home crowd. He opened his freestyle with a quadruple salchow . In the end, Amodio took fifth place in a strong field and thus his best World Cup placement. He also improved his personal bests in each segment and overall performance.

After two fourth places at world championships, things looked very promising for Czech Michal Březina after the short program . With a personal best of 87.67 points, he was in second place, not two points behind Patrick Chan. Among other things, he showed a clean quadruple Salchow on his birthday and received only level 4 ratings for pirouettes and footwork. However, Březina could not use his good starting position. In the freestyle, he made numerous expensive mistakes, for example in his two quadruple jumps and the triple-axel-triple-toe loop combination. In the end, it was enough for sixth place.

The young Kazakh Denis Ten built on his strong World Cup debut from 2009 and finished the competition in seventh place. He opened the freestyle with a successful quadruple toe loop, but stumbled out of the following triple axel. He recovered from this mistake and landed a strong triple axel in combination with a double toe loop, but by the end of the freestyle he ran out of strength and other minor mistakes followed. Jeremy Abbott, the best American, landed in eighth place . Once again he could not reach his full potential and had to fight for every jump.

The Spaniard Javier Fernández López managed to improve his ranking compared to the previous year and to deliver a single-digit result at the world championships with ninth place for the first time, but after the freestyle disappointment prevailed. After the short program, Fernández was still in fifth place. After the strong start to the season, however, he lost security at the beginning of the year, especially when it came to the triple Axel. He named thoughts about it as a possible reason for the flawed freestyle.

After a long period of time , the Frenchman Samuel Contesti , who started for Italy, once again managed a rousing freestyle, which brought him to tenth place in the final score. To French chansons and a lively and tongue-in-cheek performance, he jumped solidly and without major mistakes, even if without a fourfold jump. Last year's silver medalist, Takahiko Kozuka , took eleventh place, while last year's bronze medalist Artur Gatschinski only made 18th place after numerous mistakes. Kevin Reynolds from Canada showed himself to be strengthened and reached twelfth place. He also showed a four-fold Salchow in an artistically demanding freestyle .

The second American Adam Rippon took 13th place. The Chinese song Nan finished 14th. In the freestyle he showed a clean four-way-triple- toe- loop combination, but fell on his single four-way toe-loop. After a failed short program, the Belgian Kevin van der Perren showed a strong freestyle performance and worked his way up from 18th to 15th place. For Tomáš Verner from the Czech Republic it was only enough to finish 16th after numerous mistakes.

Ladies

Date: Tuesday, March 27, 2012, 10:30 a.m. Qualification; Thursday, March 29, 2012, 12:30 p.m. short program and Saturday, March 31, 2012, 6:30 p.m. freestyle

space	athlete	country	Pt.	Q		KP		K
1	Carolina Kostner	Italy	189.94			3	61.00	1	128.94
2	Alyona Leonova	Russia	184.28			1	64.61	4th	119.67
3	Akiko Suzuki	Japan	180.68			5	59.38	2	121.30
4th	Ashley Wagner	United States	176.77			8th	56.42	3	120.35
5	Kanako Murakami	Japan	175.41			2	62.67	5	112.74
6th	Mao Asada	Japan	164.52			4th	59.49	6th	105.03
7th	Zhang Kexin	People's Republic of China	157.57			9	55.00	7th	102.57
8th	Valentina Marchei	Italy	150.10	4th	88.92	11	52.14	9	097.96
9	Xenia Makarova	Russia	149.48			6th	58.51	14th	090.97
10	Elene Gedevanishvili	Georgia	149.20			7th	58.49	15th	090.71
11	Viktoria Helgesson	Sweden	148.54			10	54.19	11	094.35
12	Yrétha Silété	France	148.18			15th	48.42	8th	099.76
13	Jelena Glebova	Estonia	144.28	2	92.52	14th	49.04	10	095.24
14th	Jenna McCorkell	United Kingdom	143.84	1	95.63	12	50.42	12	093.42
15th	Sonia Lafuente	Spain	140.24	3	91.84	18th	47.36	13	092.88
16	Amélie Lacoste	Canada	138.60			13	49.37	17th	089.23
17th	Natalia Popova	Ukraine	136.36	8th	77.57	20th	46.60	16	089.76
18th	Juulia Turkkila	Finland	135.56			17th	47.75	18th	087.81
19th	Polina Korobeynikova	Russia	129.98	7th	81.70	19th	46.71	19th	083.27
20th	Sarah Hedges	Germany	129.20			21st	46.39	20th	082.81
21st	Kerstin Frank	Austria	126.17	5	85.09	22nd	45.80	21st	080.37
22nd	Alissa Czisny	United States	124.11			16	48.31	22nd	075.80
23	Romy Buhler	Switzerland	116.21	6th	81.74	24	44.02	23	072.19
24	Alisa Mikonsaari	Finland	110.40			23	44.16	24	066.24
Freestyle not achieved
25th	Victoria Muniz	Puerto Rico		9	75.06	25th	43.27
26th	Isabelle Pieman	Belgium				26th	38.45
27	Alina Fyodorova	Latvia		10	73.64	27	38.06
28	Kwak Min-jung	South Korea				28	36.91
29	Clara Peters	Ireland		11	73.36	29	34.03
30th	Lejeanne Marais	South Africa		12	70.50	30th	32.22
Short program not reached
31	Melinda Wang	Chinese Taipei		13	70.43
32	Reyna Hamui	Mexico		14th	69.84
33	Sıla Saygı	Turkey		15th	68.85
34	Inga Janulevičiūtė	Lithuania		16	68.51
35	Karina Johnson	Denmark		17th	68.46
36	Mimi Tanasorn Chindasook	Thailand		18th	67.62
37	Fleur Maxwell	Luxembourg		19th	67.44
38	Suhr Chae-yeon	South Korea		20th	67.17
39	Daša Grm	Slovenia		21st	66.45
40	Chantelle Kerry	Australia		22nd	65.48
41	Eliška Březinová	Czech Republic		23	65.47
42	Anine raven	Norway		24	64.92
43	Sabina Măriuță	Romania		25th	64.52
44	Alexandra Kunova	Slovakia		26th	61.09
45	Georgia Glastris	Greece		27	60.49
46	Ami Parekh	India		28	58.06
47	Zhaira Costiniano	Philippines		29	56.46
48	Daniela Stoeva	Bulgaria		30th	56.38
49	Marina Seeh	Serbia		31	52.65
50	Mirna Librić	Croatia		32	52.16
51	Viktória Pavuk	Hungary		33	51.43

The tenth participation in the world championship brought 25-year-old Carolina Kostner from Italy her first world championship title. She impressed primarily with her artistic performance in the freestyle to Mozart's 23rd Piano Concerto . The silver medal went to the Russian Aljona Leonova , who was even in the lead after the short program. The Japanese Akiko Suzuki , who is already 27 years old, won bronze .

Couples

Date: Wednesday, March 28, 2012, 1:00 p.m. (short program) and Friday, March 30, 2012, 7:30 p.m. (freestyle)

space	athlete	country	Pt.	KP	K
1	Aljona Savchenko / Robin Szolkowy	Germany	201.49	1	2
2	Tatiana Volososchar / Maxim Trankov	Russia	201.38	8th	1
3	Narumi Takahashi / Mervin Tran	Japan	189.69	3	3
4th	Pang Qing / Tong Jian	People's Republic of China	186.05	2	6th
5	Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford	Canada	185.41	5	5
6th	Vera Basarowa / Juri Larionow	Russia	183.68	4th	7th
7th	Juko Kawaguti / Alexander Smirnow	Russia	182.42	11	4th
8th	Caydee Denney / John Coughlin	United States	180.37	7th	8th
9	Sui Wenjing / Han Cong	People's Republic of China	179.44	6th	9
10	Mary Beth Marley / Rockne Brubaker	United States	170.90	10	10
11	Stefania Berton / Ondřej Hotárek	Italy	168.16	9	11
12	Jessica Dubé / Sebastien Wolfe	Canada	156.36	12	12
13	Maylin Hausch / Daniel Wende	Germany	145.80	15th	13
14th	Mari-Doris Vartmann / Aaron Van Cleave	Germany	143.29	16	14th
15th	Nicole della Monica / Matteo Guarise	Italy	137.31	14th	15th
16	Vanessa James / Morgan Ciprès	France	130.70	13	16
Freestyle not achieved
17th	Danielle Montalbano / Evgeni Krasnopolski	Israel	044.69	17th
18th	Anaïs Morand / Timothy Leemann	Switzerland	044.59	18th
19th	Stacey Kemp / David King	United Kingdom	039.33	19th
20th	Ri Ji-hyang / Thae Won-hyok	North Korea	037.43	20th
Short program not reached
21st	Lubov Bakirova / Mikalai Kamianchuk	Belarus
22nd	Stina Martini / Severin Kiefer	Austria
23	Jelisaveta Makarowa / Leri Kentschadze	Bulgaria

Aljona Savchenko and Robin Szolkowy became world champions for the fourth time. Already after the short program, in which Savchenko and Szolkowy had successfully shown a triple throwing axel for the first time, they took the lead. On their big rivals Tatiana Wolossoschar and Maxim Trankow from Russia they were even able to get 8.15 points ahead, as Trankow had to get out of the death spiral. For the Russians this meant only eighth place after the short program. In spite of all this, in the freestyle it was unexpectedly exciting again. Wolossoshar and Trankow had nothing more to lose and electrified the audience with their powerful and flawless freestyle to the film music of Black Swan . Savchenko and Szolkowy, on the other hand, did not remain flawless in their innovative, artistically high-quality freestyle, inspired by Pina Bausch's dance theater . Szolkowy showed a single instead of the planned double axial jump and went wrong in a pirouette. In the end they lost almost their entire lead over the Russians in the freestyle. However, they got 0.11 points. With their fourth title win, Aljona Savchenko and Robin Szolkowy set the German title record for Maxi Herber and Ernst Baier , who also won four world championships between 1936 and 1939. In the pair skating history, only Irina Rodnina and Alexander Saizew (six titles) were more often victorious at world championships .

Narumi Takahashi and Mervin Tran caused a surprise , who won the bronze medal for Japan in pair skating.

Ice dance

Date: Wednesday, March 28, 2012, 7:00 p.m. (short dance) and Thursday, March 29, 2012, 7:00 p.m. (freestyle)

space	athlete	country	Pt.	KT	K
1	Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir	Canada	182.65	1	1
2	Meryl Davis / Charlie White	United States	178.62	2	2
3	Nathalie Péchalat / Fabian Bourzat	France	173.18	3	3
4th	Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje	Canada	166.65	4th	4th
5	Jelena Ilyinych / Nikita Kazalapov	Russia	161.00	5	5
6th	Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte	Italy	160.62	6th	6th
7th	Ekaterina Bobrowa / Dmitri Solovyov	Russia	150.75	9	7th
8th	Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani	United States	144.72	7th	11
9	Ekaterina Ryazanova / Ilya Tkachenko	Russia	144.43	10	8th
10	Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue	United States	143.95	8th	10
11	Nelli Schiganschina / Alexander Gazsi	Germany	141.36	11	9
12	Huang Xintong / Zheng Xun	People's Republic of China	130.27	13	13
13	Kharis Ralph / Asher Hill	Canada	129.55	15th	14th
14th	Penny Coomes / Nicholas Buckland	United Kingdom	129.31	12	17th
15th	Siobhan Heekin-Canedy / Dmitri Dun	Ukraine	128.75	17th	12
16	Lorenza Alessandrini / Simone Vaturi	Italy	126.89	14th	16
17th	Julija Slobina / Alexei Sitnikow	Azerbaijan	126.57	19th	15th
18th	Isabella Tobias / Deividas Stagniūnas	Lithuania	124.07	16	19th
19th	Sara Hurtado / Adrià Díaz	Spain	123.12	18th	18th
20th	Danielle O'Brien / Gregory Merriman	Australia	112.23	20th	20th
Freestyle not achieved
21st	Pernelle Carron / Lloyd Jones	France	045.75	21st
22nd	Irina Štork / Taavi Rand	Estonia	047.24	22nd
23	Zsuzsanna Nagy / Máté Fejes	Hungary	045.70	23
24	Cathy Reed / Chris Reed	Japan	044.19	24
25th	Anna Nagornyuk / Viktor Kowalenko	Uzbekistan	044.08	25th
Short program not reached
26th	Gabriela Kubová / Dmitri Kiselev	Czech Republic
27	Federica Testa / Lukáš Csölley	Slovakia
28	Henna Lindholm / Ossi Kanervo	Finland
29	Alexandra Zvorygina / Maciej Bernadowski	Poland
30th	Ramona Elsener / Florian Roost	Switzerland
31	Alisa Agafonova / Alper Uçar	Turkey
32	Ksenia Pecherkina / Aleksandrs Jakushin	Latvia
33	Corenne Bruhns / Ryan Van Natten	Mexico
34	Ekaterina Bugrov / Vasili Rogov	Israel
35	Cortney Mansour / Daryn Zhunussov	Kazakhstan
36	Barbora Silná / Juri Kurakin	Austria
37	Alexandra Chistiakowa / Dimitar Lychev	Bulgaria
38	Lessja Waladsenkawa / Vitaly Wakunow	Belarus

The Canadians Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir reciprocated for their defeat against the Americans Meryl Davis and Charlie White at the last World Cup and won their second world title after 2010 . As in the previous year, the gap between the two dominant couples was just four points, this time in favor of the Canadians.

The local heroes Nathalie Péchalat and Fabian Bourzat won their long-awaited world championship medal in front of their home crowd in the ninth attempt with bronze. The second Canadian ice dance couple Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje took fourth place. With their free dance to the sad chanson Je suis malade , they created an emotional performance that was enthusiastically received by the audience. Coach Anselika Krylowa was deeply touched after the freestyle.

The Russians Jelena Iljinych and Nikita Kazalapow were fifth and their compatriots Yekaterina Bobrowa and Dmitri Solowjow came in seventh . The Italians Anna Cappellini and Luca Lanotte took sixth place and thus their best career result. In their free dance to Nino Rota's film music for La Strada , they touched and showed not only clear lines but also their dramatic talent. Eighth place went to last year's bronze medalists Maia Shibutani and Alex Shibutani from the USA after mistakes .

Web links

• 2012 World Figure Skating Championships

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Communication No. 1600. (PDF, 16 kB) International Ice Skating Union , November 30, 2009, accessed on June 1, 2018 (English). 
2. ↑ ^{a b c} http://www.goldenskate.com/2012/03/chan-wins-second-consecutive-world-title/
3. ↑ http://www.goldenskate.com/2012/03/savchenko-and-szolkowy-capture-fourth-world-title/
4. ↑ ^{a b} http://www.goldenskate.com/2012/03/virtue-and-moir-recapture-world-title/