2007 World Figure Skating Championships

2007 World Figure Skating Championships
Type:	ISU Championship
Date:	March 20 – 25
Season:	2006–07
Location:	Tokyo, Japan
Venue:	Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium
Champions
Men's singles: Brian Joubert
Ladies' singles: Miki Ando
Pairs: Shen Xue / Zhao Hongbo
Ice dance: Albena Denkova / Maxim Staviski
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The 2007 World Figure Skating Championships was a senior international figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. The event was held at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan from March 20 to 25.

Medals table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan  (JPN)	1	2	0	3
2	China  (CHN)	1	1	0	2
3	Bulgaria  (BUL)	1	0	0	1
	France  (FRA)	1	0	0	1
5	Canada  (CAN)	0	1	0	1
6	Germany  (GER)	0	0	1	1
	South Korea  (KOR)	0	0	1	1
	Switzerland  (SUI)	0	0	1	1
	United States  (USA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (9 entries)		4	4	4	12

Competition notes

The competition was open to skaters from ISU member nations who had reached the age of 15 by July 1, 2006. The corresponding competition for younger skaters was the 2007 World Junior Championships.

Based on the results of the 2006 World Championships, each country was allowed between one and three entries per discipline. National associations selected their entries based on their own criteria.

Due to the large number of entries at the World Championships, only the top 24 single skaters and top 20 pairs advanced to the free skating after the short program. In ice dancing, the top 30 couples in the compulsory dance advanced to the original dance, and the top 24 couples after the original dance advanced to the free dance.

Yukari Nakano and Carolina Kostner tied for 5th place with 168.92 points overall. Nakano finished 5th place on the tiebreak (free skating placement) and Kostner ended 6th. ^[1] In the ladies' event, two world records were set: Yuna Kim for the short program with a score of 71.95, ^[2] and Mao Asada for the free skating with a score of 133.13. ^[3]

Shen Xue / Zhao Hongbo from China set a new world record of 71.07 points under the ISU Judging System for pairs' short program. ^[4] Zhao proposed marriage to Shen on the ice following their free skating. ^[5]

Results

Men

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
1	Brian Joubert	France	240.85	1	83.64	3	157.21
2	Daisuke Takahashi	Japan	237.95	3	74.51	1	163.44
3	Stéphane Lambiel	Switzerland	233.35	6	72.70	2	160.65
4	Tomáš Verner	Czech Republic	226.25	9	70.45	4	155.80
5	Evan Lysacek	United States	222.18	5	73.49	5	148.69
6	Jeffrey Buttle	Canada	214.96	2	79.90	8	135.06
7	Nobunari Oda	Japan	209.94	14	67.17	6	142.77
8	Johnny Weir	United States	206.97	4	74.26	10	132.71
9	Kristoffer Berntsson	Sweden	206.29	15	66.09	7	140.20
10	Sergei Davydov	Belarus	203.05	8	70.72	12	132.33
11	Alban Préaubert	France	202.60	10	70.06	11	132.54
12	Stefan Lindemann	Germany	198.78	16	65.40	9	133.38
13	Christopher Mabee	Canada	195.38	7	71.33	14	124.05
14	Yannick Ponsero	France	192.63	12	68.76	15	123.87
15	Ryan Bradley	United States	188.90	19	62.88	13	126.02
16	Emanuel Sandhu	Canada	188.59	11	69.42	16	119.17
17	Karel Zelenka	Italy	180.10	17	63.81	17	116.29
18	Jamal Othman	Switzerland	178.39	18	63.71	20	114.68
19	Sergei Voronov	Russia	176.57	22	60.50	19	116.07
20	Andrei Lutai	Russia	175.46	24	59.37	18	116.09
21	Igor Macypura	Slovakia	174.94	21	61.25	22	113.69
22	Gregor Urbas	Slovenia	174.39	23	59.93	21	114.46
23	Wu Jialiang	China	170.10	13	67.70	24	102.40
24	Anton Kovalevski	Ukraine	169.27	20	61.61	23	107.66
Free Skating Not Reached
25	Ari-Pekka Nurmenkari	Finland		25	55.79
26	Xu Ming	China		26	54.80
27	Alper Uçar	Turkey		27	50.09
28	Sean Carlow	Australia		28	49.73
29	Christian Rauchbauer	Austria		29	49.19
30	Trifun Zivanovic	Serbia		30	48.45
31	Naiden Borichev	Bulgaria		31	46.69
32	Sergei Kotov	Israel		32	43.99
33	Przemysław Domański	Poland		33	42.51
34	Lee Dong-whun	South Korea		34	42.00
35	Javier Fernández	Spain		35	41.57
36	Luis Hernández	Mexico		36	40.33
37	Justin Pietersen	South Africa		37	39.73
38	Boris Martinec	Croatia		38	37.09
39	Zeus Issariotis	Greece		39	37.03
40	Edward Ka-yin Chow	Hong Kong		40	34.63
41	Zoltán Kelemen	Romania		41	33.71
42	Joel Watson	New Zealand		42	30.09

Referee:

• Paolo Pizzocari   Italy

Technical Controller:

• Gale Tanger   United States

Technical Specialist:

• Ricardo Olavarrieta   Mexico

Assistant Technical Specialist:

• Margus Hernitz   Estonia

Judges for the men's short program:

• Albert Zaydman   Israel
• Nikolai Ianev   Bulgaria
• Adriana Domanska   Slovakia
• Nicolai Bellu   Romania
• Alexei Shirshov   Belarus
• Hermann Schulz   Germany
• Sviatoslav Babenko   Russia
• Neil Garrard   South Africa
• Inger Andersson   Sweden
• Claudia Fassora   Italy
• Susan Johnson   United States
• Ubavka Novakovic-Kutinou   Serbia

Judges for the men's free skating:

• Nicolai Bellu   Romania
• Philippe Meriguet   France
• Inger Andersson   Sweden
• Albert Zaydman   Israel
• Patricia Houghton   United Kingdom
• Claudia Fassora   Italy
• Hermann Schulz   Germany
• Nikolai Ianev   Bulgaria
• Alexei Shirshov   Belarus
• Susan Johnson   United States
• Deborah Islam   Canada
• Sviatoslav Babenko   Russia

Ladies

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
1	Miki Ando	Japan	195.09	2	67.98	2	127.11
2	Mao Asada	Japan	194.45	5	61.32	1	133.13
3	Kim Yuna	South Korea	186.14	1	71.95	4	114.19
4	Kimmie Meissner	United States	180.23	4	64.67	3	115.56
5	Yukari Nakano	Japan	168.92	7	60.62	6	108.30
6	Carolina Kostner	Italy	168.92	3	67.15	9	101.77
7	Sarah Meier	Switzerland	160.80	9	58.52	8	102.28
8	Susanna Pöykiö	Finland	160.12	10	57.16	7	102.96
9	Emily Hughes	United States	159.06	6	60.88	13	98.18
10	Joannie Rochette	Canada	158.98	16	49.85	5	109.13
11	Valentina Marchei	Italy	153.60	14	51.88	10	101.72
12	Júlia Sebestyén	Hungary	153.50	8	59.98	15	93.52
13	Elena Sokolova	Russia	149.77	11	55.83	14	93.94
14	Kiira Korpi	Finland	149.47	17	49.63	11	99.84
15	Alissa Czisny	United States	147.74	18	49.43	12	98.31
16	Arina Martinova	Russia	145.28	12	54.69	16	90.59
17	Elene Gedevanishvili	Georgia	144.40	13	53.97	17	90.43
18	Jelena Glebova	Estonia	131.18	22	46.10	18	85.08
19	Anastasia Gimazetdinova	Uzbekistan	130.44	15	49.99	20	80.45
20	Joanne Carter	Australia	127.17	19	48.46	21	78.71
21	Idora Hegel	Croatia	125.66	24	44.91	19	80.75
22	Liu Yan	China	123.22	21	46.59	23	76.63
23	Tamar Katz	Israel	122.51	23	45.66	22	76.85
24	Mira Leung	Canada	120.74	20	47.05	24	73.69
Free Skating Not Reached
25	Kathrin Freudelsperger	Austria		25	42.24
26	Lina Johansson	Sweden		26	41.87
27	Tuğba Karademir	Turkey		27	41.79
28	Irina Movchan	Ukraine		28	40.76
29	Kristin Wieczorek	Germany		29	40.35
30	Roxana Luca	Romania		30	39.65
31	Anna Jurkiewicz	Poland		31	36.39
32	Hristina Vassileva	Bulgaria		32	36.22
33	Radka Bártová	Slovakia		33	36.17
34	Isabelle Pieman	Belgium		34	35.12
35	Ivana Hudziecová	Czech Republic		35	33.86
36	Teodora Poštič	Slovenia		36	33.77
37	Mérovée Ephrem	Monaco		37	33.01
38	Maria-Elena Papasotiriou	Greece		38	32.90
39	Julia Teplih	Latvia		39	31.19
40	Charissa Tansomboon	Thailand		40	30.46
41	Jocelyn Ho	Chinese Taipei		41	30.41
42	Ana Cecilia Cantu	Mexico		42	30.28
43	Ksenia Jastsenjski	Serbia		43	27.56
44	Ami Parekh	India		44	26.82
45	Kristine Y. Lee	Hong Kong		45	23.57

Referee:

• Marina Sanaya   Russia

Technical Controller:

• Charles Cyr   United States

Technical Specialist:

• Ravi Walia   Canada

Assistant Technical Specialist:

• Isabel Duval de Navarre   Germany

Judges for the ladies' short program:

• Katalin Balczo   Hungary
• Robert Rosenbluth   United States
• Lenka Bohunicka   Slovakia
• Adriana Ordeanu   Romania
• Antica Grubisic   Croatia
• Chihee Rhee   South Korea
• Osman Sirvan   Turkey
• Franco Benini   Italy
• Deborah Islam   Canada
• Nikolai Salnikov   Estonia
• Mona Jonsson   Sweden
• Christiane Mörth   Austria

Judges for the ladies' free skating:

• Adriana Ordeanu   Romania
• Robert Rosenbluth   United States
• Katalin Balczo   Hungary
• Deborah Islam   Canada
• Elisabeth Louesdon   France
• Mona Jonsson   Sweden
• Masako Kubota   Japan
• Hely Abbondati   Finland
• Elena Fomina   Russia
• Lenka Bohunicka   Slovakia
• Nikolai Salnikov   Estonia
• Christiane Mörth   Austria

Pairs

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
1	Shen Xue / Zhao Hongbo	China	203.50	1	71.07	1	132.43
2	Pang Qing / Tong Jian	China	188.46	3	66.75	2	121.71
3	Aliona Savchenko / Robin Szolkowy	Germany	187.39	2	67.65	3	119.74
4	Tatiana Volosozhar / Stanislav Morozov	Ukraine	173.62	8	57.62	5	116.00
5	Zhang Dan / Zhang Hao	China	173.39	10	57.00	4	116.39
6	Valérie Marcoux / Craig Buntin	Canada	167.25	5	60.73	6	106.52
7	Jessica Dubé / Bryce Davison	Canada	164.59	7	58.94	7	105.65
8	Rena Inoue / John Baldwin	United States	163.97	6	59.50	8	104.47
9	Yuko Kawaguchi / Alexander Smirnov	Russia	163.62	4	62.07	10	101.55
10	Anabelle Langlois / Cody Hay	Canada	160.01	13	55.96	9	104.05
11	Maria Mukhortova / Maxim Trankov	Russia	150.43	12	56.14	11	94.29
12	Brooke Castile / Benjamin Okolski	United States	139.00	14	54.51	13	84.49
13	Dominika Piątkowska / Dmitri Khromin	Poland	138.98	15	50.18	12	88.80
14	Marylin Pla / Yannick Bonheur	France	131.31	16	48.60	16	82.71
15	Angelika Pylkina / Niklas Hogner	Sweden	130.75	17	47.36	15	83.39
16	Laura Magitteri / Ondřej Hotárek	Italy	130.18	18	46.59	14	83.59
17	Stacey Kemp / David King	United Kingdom	126.95	19	44.96	17	81.99
18	Mari Vartmann / Florian Just	Germany	116.81	20	43.20	18	73.61
WD	Dorota Siudek / Mariusz Siudek	Poland		9	57.23
WD	Maria Petrova / Alexei Tikhonov	Russia		11	56.36
Free Skating Not Reached
21	Marina Aganina / Artem Knyazev	Uzbekistan		21	40.60
22	Diana Rennik / Aleksei Saks	Estonia		22	40.04

Referee:

• Igor Prokop   Slovakia

Technical Controller:

• Alexander Lakernik   Russia

Technical Specialist:

• David Kirby   United Kingdom

Assistant Technical Specialist:

• David Moellenkamp   Canada

Judges for the pairs short program:

• Chihee Rhee   South Korea
• Anna Sierocka   Poland
• Evgeni Rokhin   Uzbekistan
• Yumin Wang   China
• Jan Hoffmann   Germany
• Florence Catry De Surmont   France
• Vladislav Petukhov   Ukraine
• Susan Heffernan   Canada
• Linda Leaver   United States
• Alexander Kogan   Russia
• Alexander Penchev   Bulgaria
• Simone Moore   Australia

Judges for the pairs free skating:

• Christiane Mörth   Austria
• Anna Sierocka   Poland
• Simone Moore   Australia
• Alexander Kogan   Russia
• Lenka Bohunicka   Slovakia
• Franco Benini   Italy
• Nikolai Salnikov   Estonia
• Yumin Wang   China
• Susan Heffernan   Canada
• Chihee Rhee   South Korea
• Jan Hoffmann   Germany
• Evgeni Rokhin   Uzbekistan

Ice dancing

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	CD		OD		FD
1	Albena Denkova / Maxim Staviski	Bulgaria	201.61	2	37.42	1	62.10	1	102.09
2	Marie-France Dubreuil / Patrice Lauzon	Canada	200.46	1	38.96	3	60.54	2	100.96
3	Tanith Belbin / Benjamin Agosto	United States	195.43	5	37.17	2	61.85	4	96.41
4	Isabelle Delobel / Olivier Schoenfelder	France	195.19	4	37.20	5	58.82	3	99.17
5	Oksana Domnina / Maxim Shabalin	Russia	193.44	3	37.29	4	60.34	5	95.81
6	Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir	Canada	183.94	9	31.45	6	57.11	6	95.38
7	Meryl Davis / Charlie White	United States	179.14	10	31.15	8	55.82	7	92.17
8	Jana Khokhlova / Sergei Novitski	Russia	178.29	6	33.32	7	55.88	8	89.09
9	Federica Faiella / Massimo Scali	Italy	170.75	7	33.29	9	53.32	11	84.14
10	Melissa Gregory / Denis Petukhov	United States	170.08	11	30.83	10	53.15	9	86.10
11	Sinead Kerr / John Kerr	United Kingdom	167.14	8	32.09	11	51.51	12	83.54
12	Nathalie Péchalat / Fabian Bourzat	France	162.05	14	28.59	13	49.10	10	84.36
13	Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte	Italy	158.83	12	28.91	16	47.60	13	82.32
14	Alexandra Zaretski / Roman Zaretski	Israel	156.52	13	28.85	12	49.11	14	78.56
15	Nozomi Watanabe / Akiyuki Kido	Japan	152.21	15	28.46	17	47.27	15	76.48
16	Kristin Fraser / Igor Lukanin	Azerbaijan	152.10	16	28.07	14	48.13	16	75.90
17	Anna Zadorozhniuk / Sergei Verbillo	Ukraine	148.13	17	26.92	15	47.84	17	73.37
18	Nelli Zhiganshina / Alexander Gazsi	Germany	142.87	20	25.56	18	45.39	19	71.92
19	Grethe Grünberg / Kristian Rand	Estonia	141.55	23	23.72	19	45.13	18	72.70
20	Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje	Canada	140.14	18	25.76	23	42.58	20	71.80
21	Huang Xintong / Zheng Xun	China	138.44	19	25.61	22	43.91	21	68.92
22	Anastasia Grebenkina / Vazgen Azrojan	Armenia	137.07	21	25.04	21	44.86	23	67.17
23	Katherine Copely / Deividas Stagniūnas	Lithuania	136.63	24	23.46	20	44.87	22	68.30
24	Olga Akimova / Alexander Shakalov	Uzbekistan	130.58	22	24.20	24	41.43	24	64.95
Free Dance Not Reached
25	Barbora Silná / Dmitri Matsjuk	Austria	64.35	25	23.12	25	41.23
26	Zsuzsanna Nagy / György Elek	Hungary	55.38	26	22.19	28	33.19
27	Nicolette Amie House / Aidas Reklys	Lithuania	53.26	28	19.25	26	34.01
28	Christa-Elizabeth Goulakos / Eric Neumann-Aubichon	Greece	53.13	29	19.18	27	33.95
29	Laura Munana / Luke Munana	Mexico	52.35	27	20.30	29	32.05

Referee:

• Mieko Fujimori   Japan

Technical Controller:

• Gilles Vandenbroeck   France

Technical Specialist:

• Andrzej Dostatni   Poland

Assistant Technical Specialist:

• April Sargent Silverstein   United States

Judges for the compulsory dance (rumba):

• Rossella Ceccattini   Italy
• Irina Medvedeva   Ukraine
• Alla Shekhovtseva   Russia
• Garry Hoppe   Israel
• Maria Miller   Poland
• Shawn Rettstatt   United States
• Jodi Abbott   Canada
• Evgeni Rokhin   Uzbekistan
• Hongguo Ren   China
• Elizabeth Ryan   Australia
• Olga Zakova   Czech Republic
• Ulf Denzer   Germany

Judges for the original dance:

• Maria Miller   Poland
• Raia Bisserova-Bakalova   Bulgaria
• Laimute Krauziene   Lithuania
• Mayumi Kato   Japan
• Alla Shekhovtseva   Russia
• Elizabeth Ryan   Australia
• Ulf Denzer   Germany
• Irina Medvedeva   Ukraine
• Jodi Abbott   Canada
• Olga Zakova   Czech Republic
• Rossella Ceccattini   Italy
• Shawn Rettstatt   United States

Judges for the free dance:

• Mayumi Kato   Japan
• Elizabeth Ryan   Australia
• Raia Bisserova-Bakalova   Bulgaria
• Jodi Abbott   Canada
• Shawn Rettstatt   United States
• Maria Miller   Poland
• Rossella Ceccattini   Italy
• Hongguo Ren   China
• Ulf Denzer   Germany
• Olga Zakova   Czech Republic
• Laimute Krauziene   Lithuania
• Garry Hoppe   Israel

Multiple entries for 2008

The following countries secured multiple entries for the 2008 championships based on their performances at the 2007 Worlds.

Spots	Men	Ladies	Pairs	Dance
3	France   Japan   United States	Japan   United States	Canada   China	Bulgaria   Canada   Russia   United States
2	Belarus   Canada   Czech Republic   Sweden   Switzerland	Canada   Finland   Italy   South Korea   Switzerland	Germany   Russia   Ukraine   United States	France   Italy

Prize money

The total prize money for the 2007 World Figure Skating Championships is US$710,000. Pairs and dance teams split the money. All amounts are in US dollars. The breakdown is as follows:

Placement	Prize money (Singles)	Prize money (Pairs/Dance)
1st	$ 45,000	$ 67,500
2nd	$ 27,000	$ 40,500
3rd	$ 18,000	$ 27,000
4th	$ 13,000	$ 19,500
5th	$ 10,000	$ 15,000
6th	$ 7,000	$ 10,500
7th	$ 6,000	$ 9,000
8th	$ 5,000	$ 7,500
9th	$ 3,500	$ 5,250
10th	$ 3,000	$ 4,500
11th	$ 2,500	$ 3,750
12th	$ 2,000	$ 3,000

References

1. Kaye, Rosaleen (March 25, 2007). "2007 World Figure Skating Championships, Ladies' Free Skate Highlights". Archived from the original on January 12, 2010. Retrieved March 4, 2011.
2. Kaye, Rosaleen (March 25, 2007). "2007 World Figure Skating Championships, Ladies' Short Program Highlights". Archived from the original on January 12, 2010. Retrieved March 4, 2011.
3. "Welcome to U.S. Figure Skating". U.S. Figure Skating. Archived from the original on 2007-12-13.
4. "Chinese pair dominates at figure skating worlds - USATODAY.com". USA Today.
5. "Chinese couple cap comeback with figure skating gold". CNN.

External links

• 2007 World Figure Skating Championships at the International Skating Union
• Official site

Further reading

• Figure Skating Today: The Next Wave of Stars by Steve Milton and Gerard Chataigneau (Nov 2, 2007)