World Figure Skating Championships 2018

World Figure Skating Championships 2018
108th edition
Type:	ISU championships
Date:	19.-25. March 2018
Venue:	Mediolanum Forum , Milan , Italy
Gold medalist
Men's:	Nathan Chen
Women:	Kaetlyn Osmond
Couples:	Aljona Savchenko / Bruno Massot
Ice dance:	Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron (3)
Defending champion
Men's:	Yuzuru Hanyu
Women:	Yevgenia Medvedeva
Couples:	Sui Wenjing / Han Cong
Ice dance:	Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir
World figure skating championships
2017 ◄ 2018 ► 2019

The 108th World Figure Skating Championships took place from March 19-25 at the Mediolanum Forum in Milan . The International Skating Union announced the location of the title fights in April 2016. After the World Cup in 1951, Milan hosted the world championships for the second time. It was the fourth event on Italian soil after Milan in 1951, Cortina d'Ampezzo in 1963 and Turin in 2010 .

As usual in an Olympic season, numerous figure skaters canceled their participation or ended their careers. So none of the defending champions did not compete.

Balance sheet

Medal table

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

Medalist

competitor	gold	silver	bronze
Men's	Nathan Chen	Shoma Uno	Mikhail Koljada
Ladies	Kaetlyn Osmond	Wakaba Higuchi	Satoko Miyahara
Couples	Aljona Savchenko / Bruno Massot	Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov	Vanessa James / Morgan Ciprès
Ice dance	Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron	Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue	Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje

Results

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

Men's

space	athlete	country	Pt.	KP		K
1	Nathan Chen	United States	321.40	1	101.94	1	219.46
2	Shoma Uno	Japan	273.77	5	094.26	2	179.51
3	Mikhail Koljada	Russia	272.32	2	100.08	4th	172.24
4th	Oleksiy Bychenko	Israel	258.28	7th	090.99	7th	167.29
5	Kazuki Tomono	Japan	256.11	11	082.61	3	173.50
6th	Deniss Vasiļjevs	Latvia	254.86	9	084.25	5	170.61
7th	Dmitri Aliyev	Russia	252.30	13	082.15	6th	170.15
8th	Keegan brass	Canada	252.30	6th	093.00	11	159.30
9	Misha Ge	Uzbekistan	249.57	8th	086.01	9	163.56
10	Michal Březina	Czech Republic	243.99	17th	078.01	8th	165.98
11	Max Aaron	United States	241.49	15th	079.78	10	161.71
12	Alexander Majorov	Sweden	237.79	10	082.71	13	155.08
13	Keiji Tanaka	Japan	236.66	14th	080.17	12	156.49
14th	Vincent Zhou	United States	235.24	3	096.78	19th	138.46
15th	Paul Fentz	Germany	230.92	12	082.49	16	148.43
16	Romain Ponsart	France	229.20	16	079.55	14th	149.65
17th	Matteo Rizzo	Italy	225.44	18th	077.43	17th	148.01
18th	Brendan Kerry	Australia	223.85	19th	074.99	15th	148.86
19th	Jin Boyang	People's Republic of China	223.41	4th	095.85	23	127.56
20th	Daniel Samohin	Israel	214.01	20th	072.78	18th	141.23
21st	Julian Zhi Jie Yee	Malaysia	209.03	21st	072.43	20th	136.60
22nd	Donovan Carrillo	Mexico	200.76	24	068.13	21st	132.63
23	Slavik Hajrapetjan	Armenia	199.72	23	068.18	22nd	131.54
24	Phillip Harris	United Kingdom	187.69	22nd	068.59	24	119.10
Not qualified for the freestyle
25th	Nam Nguyen	Canada	067.79	25th	067.79	-
26th	Moris Qwitelashvili	Georgia	067.01	26th	067.01	-
27	Stéphane Walker	Switzerland	065.79	27	065.79	-
28	Burak Demirboğa	Turkey	065.43	28	065.43	-
29	Ivan Pavlov	Ukraine	064.18	29	064.18	-
30th	Chih-I Tsao	Chinese Taipei	064.06	30th	064.06	-
31	Larry Loupolover	Azerbaijan	061.82	31	061.82	-
32	Absal Raqymghaliev	Kazakhstan	061.19	32	061.19	-
33	Kim Jin-seo	South Korea	060.72	33	060.72	-
34	Nicholas Vrdoljak	Croatia	059.74	34	059.74	-
35	Valtter Virtanen	Finland	055.49	35	055.49	-
36	Igor Rezniczenko	Poland	051.70	36	051.70	-
37	Javier Raya	Spain	050.00	37	050.00	-

Olympic champion and defending champion Yuzuru Hanyū canceled his participation due to his injury to his right ankle that had not yet healed. The bronze medalist of the Olympic Games, Javier Fernández , did not participate either. Patrick Chan ended his career after the Olympics. Even Adam Rippon and Denis Ten declared their non-participation.

In contrast to the Olympic Games, Nathan Chen managed to complete his short program for Benjamin Clementine's song Nemesis without falling. Although he struggled with his quadruple Lutz triple toe loop combination and his quadruple flip , which led to slight deductions in the degree of execution, the triple Axel in particular did not cause him any problems. Overall, he took the lead in the short program with 101.94 points. When Chen was the last of the starting field to go to Mao's last dancer and Le sacre du printemps in his freestyle , he already knew that all of his competitors had failed. So were Shoma Uno , Mikhail Koljada and Jin Boyang fallen several times and the latter even dropped back to 19th place. Nevertheless, Chen did not simplify his freestyle and showed six quadruple jumps, all of which he successfully landed and for which, apart from the quadruple Salchow and the quadruple-triple-toe loop combination, he also received clearly positive ratings in terms of execution level. For example, he got 2.14 plus points for his fourfold Lutz, which opened the freestyle. In the end, his freestyle, the only fall-free in the last group, brought him a triumphant victory of over 47 points, by far the largest advantage a world champion had since the introduction of the new points system at the world championships in 2005.

Despite three falls, Shōma Uno was able to improve from fifth place in the short program to silver. For Mikhail Koljada , bronze was enough to win his first World Cup medal. World Cup debutant Vincent Zhou , who had run the competition's short program with the highest technical rating, fell back from bronze to 14th place due to an equally flawed freestyle.

Ladies

space	sportswoman	country	Pt.	KP		K
1	Kaetlyn Osmond	Canada	223.23	4th	72.73	1	150.50
2	Wakaba Higuchi	Japan	210.90	8th	65.89	2	145.01
3	Satoko Miyahara	Japan	210.08	3	74.36	3	135.72
4th	Carolina Kostner	Italy	208.88	1	80.27	5	128.61
5	Alina Sagitova	Russia	207.72	2	79.51	7th	128.21
6th	Bradie Tennell	United States	199.89	7th	68.76	4th	131.13
7th	Gabrielle Daleman	Canada	196.72	6th	71.61	8th	125.11
8th	Maria Sotskova	Russia	196.61	5	71.80	9	124.81
9	Loena Hendrickx	Belgium	192.31	10	64.07	6th	128.24
10	Mirai Nagasu	United States	187.52	9	65.21	11	122.31
11	Elisabet Tursynbayeva	Kazakhstan	186.85	11	62.38	10	124.47
12	Mariah Bell	United States	174.40	17th	59.15	12	115.32
13	Nicole Schott	Germany	174.13	12	61.84	14th	112.29
14th	Laurine Lecavelier	France	173.23	15th	59.79	13	113.44
15th	Kim Ha-nul	South Korea	170.68	14th	60.18	15th	110.54
16	Viveca Lindfors	Finland	166.23	13	60.18	16	106.05
17th	Kailani Craine	Australia	154.41	20th	56.90	18th	097.51
18th	Eliška Březinová	Czech Republic	153.14	18th	58.37	19th	094.77
19th	Stanislawa Konstantinowa	Russia	153.03	16	59.19	20th	093.84
20th	Alexia Paganini	Switzerland	149.66	19th	57.86	22nd	091.80
21st	Elisabetta Leccardi	Italy	149.17	23	51.13	17th	098.04
22nd	Daša Grm	Slovenia	144.51	22nd	52.43	21st	092.08
23	Iivett Tóth	Hungary	136.87	24	50.63	23	086.24
Z	Choi Da-bin	South Korea	055.30	21st	55.30	-
Not qualified for the freestyle
25th	Larkyn Austman	Canada	050.17	25th	50.17	-
26th	Li Xiangning	People's Republic of China	050.06	26th	50.06	-
27	Nicole Rajičová	Slovakia	049.87	27	49.87	-
28	Amy Lin	Chinese Taipei	049.31	28	49.31	-
29	Anita Östlund	Sweden	048.99	29	48.99	-
30th	Alisa Stomakhina	Austria	048.71	30th	48.71	-
31	Elžbieta Kropa	Lithuania	046.53	31	46.53	-
32	Natasha McKay	United Kingdom	045.89	32	45.89	-
33	Anne Line Gjersem	Norway	045.25	33	45.25	-
34	Gerli Liinamäe	Estonia	045.14	34	45.14	-
35	Isadora Williams	Brazil	042.16	35	42.16	-
36	Antonina Dubinina	Serbia	041.40	36	41.40	-
37	Angelīna Kučvaļska	Latvia	035.78	37	35.78	-

Z: withdrawn

Defending champion Yevgenia Medvedeva canceled her participation due to injury.

Local hero Carolina Kostner and Olympic champion Alina Sagitowa , who were in the lead after the short program, surprisingly fell out of the medal ranks due to faulty freestyle performances. Kaetlyn Osmond , who won the bronze medal at the Olympic Games, however, again showed a clean long program and thus became the first Canadian world champion since Karen Magnussen in 1973. The Japanese Wakaba Higuchi was in their only second World Cup appearance with a strong free program to Skyfall by make up six places for eighth place in the short program and win silver. Her compatriot Satoko Miyahara made it to the bronze rank .

Couples

space	athlete	country	Pt.	KP		K
1	Aljona Savchenko / Bruno Massot	Germany	245.84	1	82.98	1	162.86
2	Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov	Russia	225.53	2	81.29	2	144.24
3	Vanessa James / Morgan Ciprès	France	218.36	3	75.32	3	143.04
4th	Natalja Sabijako / Alexander Enbert	Russia	207.88	4th	74.38	6th	133.50
5	Nicole Della Monica / Matteo Guarise	Italy	206.06	5	72.53	5	133.53
6th	Kirsten Moore Towers / Michael Marinaro	Canada	204.33	10	70.49	4th	133.84
7th	Yu Xiaoyu / Zhang Hao	People's Republic of China	203.36	9	71.31	7th	132.05
8th	Kristina Astachowa / Alexei Rogonow	Russia	202.16	7th	71.62	9	130.54
9	Peng Cheng / Jin Yang	People's Republic of China	202.07	6th	71.98	10	130.09
10	Valentina Marchei / Ondřej Hotárek	Italy	202.02	8th	71.37	8th	130.65
11	Anna Dušková / Martin Bidaf	Czech Republic	189.60	13	66.29	11	123.31
12	Ryom Tae-ok / Kim Ju-sik	North Korea	188.77	12	66.32	12	122.45
13	Annika Hocke / Ruben Blommaert	Germany	184.83	16	63.26	13	121.57
14th	Miriam Ziegler / Severin Kiefer	Austria	184.30	14th	65.21	14th	119.09
15th	Alexa Scimeca Knierim / Chris Knierim	United States	182.04	11	69.55	15th	112.49
16	Ekaterina Alexandrowskaja / Harley Windsor	Australia	177.46	15th	65.02	16	112.44
Not qualified for the freestyle
17th	Deanna Stellato / Nathan Bartholomay	United States	061.48	17th	61.48	-
18th	Camille Ruest / Andrew Wolfe	Canada	059.98	18th	59.98	-
19th	Paige Conners / Evgeni Krasnopolski	Israel	058.44	19th	58.44	-
20th	Laura Barquero / Aritz Maestu	Spain	058.36	20th	58.36	-
21st	Lana Petranović / Antonio Souza-Kordeiru	Croatia	057.25	21st	57.25	-
22nd	Julianne Séguin / Charlie Bilodeau	Canada	055.68	22nd	55.68	-
23	Ioulia Chtchetinina / Mikhail Akulov	Switzerland	053.62	23	53.62	-
24	Miu Suzaki / Ryuichi Kihara	Japan	053.33	24	53.33	-
25th	Lola Esbrat / Andrei Novoselov	France	051.94	25th	51.94	-
26th	Kyu-eun Kim / Alex Kangchan Kam	South Korea	042.85	26th	42.85	-
27	Zoe Jones / Christopher Boyadji	United Kingdom	042.02	27	42.02	-
28	Elizaveta Kashitsyna / Márk Magyar	Hungary	036.33	28	36.33	-

The defending champions Sui Wenjing and Han Cong had to cancel their participation due to injury. Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford ended their careers after winning the bronze medal in the Olympics. Also Xenija Stolbova and Fyodor Klimov did not participate.

The Olympic champions Aljona Savchenko and Bruno Massot won their first joint world championship title, clearly with a world record of points in the freestyle and overall performance. The Russians Yevgenia Tarasova and Vladimir Morozov came in second, over 20 points behind . The French Vanessa James and Morgan Ciprès won their first world championship medal with bronze.

Ice dance

space	athlete	country	Pt.	KT		K
1	Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron	France	207.20	1	83.73	1	123.47
2	Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue	United States	196.64	2	80.42	2	116.22
3	Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje	Canada	192.35	3	78.31	4th	114.04
4th	Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte	Italy	192.08	4th	77.46	3	114.62
5	Madison Chock / Evan Bates	United States	187.28	5	75.66	5	111.62
6th	Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier	Canada	186.10	6th	74.51	6th	111.59
7th	Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin	Russia	184.01	7th	74.50	7th	109.51
8th	Tiffany Zahorski / Jonathan Guerreiro	Russia	180.42	8th	72.45	8th	107.97
9	Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri	Italy	178.44	9	71.15	9	107.29
10	Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker	United States	165.28	15th	63.48	10	101.80
11	Kana Muramoto / Chris Reed	Japan	164.38	10	65.65	11	098.73
12	Olivia Smart / Adrià Díaz	Spain	162.05	12	63.73	12	098.32
13	Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac	France	159.64	14th	63.50	13	096.14
14th	Carolane Soucisse / Shane Firus	Canada	159.46	11	64.02	14th	095.44
15th	Oleksandra Nasarowa / Maxym Nikitin	Ukraine	158.40	16	63.35	15th	095.05
16	Kavita Lorenz / Joti Polizoakis	Germany	157.02	17th	62.08	16	094.94
17th	Natalia Kaliszek / Maksym Spodyriev	Poland	151.46	13	63.70	19th	087.76
18th	Wang Shiyue / Liu Xinyu	People's Republic of China	150.75	19th	61.18	17th	089.57
19th	Alisa Agafonova / Alper Uçar	Turkey	149.05	20th	60.38	18th	088.67
20th	Allison Reed / Saulius Ambrulevičius	Lithuania	148.30	18th	61.33	20th	086.97
Not qualified for the freestyle dance
21st	Yura Min / Alexander Gamelin	South Korea	058.82	21st	58.82	-
22nd	Tina Garabedian / Simon Proulx-Sénécal	Armenia	058.64	22nd	58.64	-
23	Cecilia Törn / Jussiville Partanen	Finland	057.96	23	57.96	-
24	Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson	United Kingdom	057.56	24	57.56	-
25th	Lucie Myslivečková / Lukáš Csölley	Slovakia	055.54	25th	55.54	-
26th	Cortney Mansour / Michal Češka	Czech Republic	055.27	26th	55.27	-
27	Anna Yanovskaya / Ádám Lukács	Hungary	054.11	27	54.11	-
28	Viktoria Kavaliova / Yurii Bieliaiev	Belarus	050.40	28	50.40	-
29	Teodora Markowa / Simon Dase	Bulgaria	047.57	29	47.57	-
30th	Chantelle Kerry / Andrew Dodds	Australia	046.05	30th	46.05	-
31	Adel Tankova / Ronald Zilberberg	Israel	043.50	31	43.50	-

The Olympic champions and defending champions Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir ended their careers after the Olympic Games. Maia Shibutani and Alex Shibutani as well as Jekaterina Bobrowa and Dmitri Solowjow canceled their participation.

Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron from France became world champions for the third time in their careers. Silver went to the Americans Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue and bronze to the Canadians Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje , who just managed to assert themselves against the acclaimed local heroes Anna Cappellini and Luca Lanotte .

Web links

• milano2018.com: Official website (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ isu.org: Communication No. 2002 - Decisions of the ISU Counci (English)
2. ↑ english.kyodonews.net: Figure skating: Hanyu to miss world championships due to ankle pain Article from March 7, 2018 (English)
3. ↑ http://www.isuresults.com/results/season1718/wc2018/wc2018_Men_SP_Scores.pdf
4. ↑ https://goldenskate.com/2018/03/mens-short/
5. ↑ https://goldenskate.com/2018/03/chen-takes-world-title-with-47-points-to-spare/
6. ↑ http://www.isuresults.com/results/season1718/wc2018/wc2018_Men_FS_Scores.pdf
7. ↑ https://goldenskate.com/2018/03/chen-takes-world-title-with-47-points-to-spare/
8. ↑ http://www.isuresults.com/results/season1718/wc2018/wc2018_Men_SP_Scores.pdf