2026 World Junior Figure Skating Championships

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2026 World Junior Figure Skating Championships
Type: ISU Championship
Date:March 3 – 8
Season: 2025–26
Location: Tallinn, Estonia
Host: Estonian Skating Union
Venue: Tondiraba Ice Hall
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The 2026 World Junior Figure Skating Championships will be held from 3 to 8 March, 2026, at the Tondiraba Ice Hall in Tallinn, Estonia. The competition will determine the entry quotas for each skating federation at the 2027 World Junior Championships. Medals will be awarded in men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dance.

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Qualification

Skaters were eligible for the 2026 World Junior Championships if they turned 13 years of age before July 1, 2025, and if they have not yet turned 19 (singles) or 21 (ice dancers and female pairs skaters) or 23 (male pairs skaters).

Based on the results of the 2025 World Junior Championships, each ISU member nation could field between one and three entries per discipline. [1]

Number of entries per discipline
SpotsMenWomenPairsIce dance
3Flag of Japan.svg  Japan
Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea 		Flag of Japan.svg  Japan Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
Flag of Georgia.svg  Georgia
Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 		Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States
2Flag of Estonia.svg  Estonia
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand
Flag of Slovakia.svg  Slovakia
Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States 		Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia
Flag of Estonia.svg  Estonia
Flag of France.svg  France
Flag of Georgia.svg  Georgia
Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea
Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland
Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States 		Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China
Flag of France.svg  France
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy
Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland
Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States 		Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
Flag of France.svg  France
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy
Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine

Entries

Member nations started announcing their entries in December 2025. The International Skating Union released the official list of entrants on February 9, 2026. [2]

Entries
CountryMen [3] Women [4] Pairs [5] Ice dance [6]
Flag of Armenia.svg  Armenia Mikayel Salazaryan Izabella Esaian N/a
Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia Julio Potapenko Hana Bath N/a
N/a Sienna Kaczmarczyk N/a
Flag of Austria.svg  Austria Maksym Petrychenko Hannah Frank N/a
Flag of Azerbaijan.svg  Azerbaijan N/a Arina Kalugina N/a
Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium Denis Krouglov Lilou Remeysen N/a
Flag of Bulgaria.svg  Bulgaria Deyan Mihaylov Krista Georgieva N/a
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada Grayson Long Megan Woodley
N/a
N/a
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China Zhao Qihan Wang Yihan
N/aN/a
Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg  Chinese Taipei Li Yu-Hsiang Tsai Yu-Feng N/a
Flag of Croatia.svg  Croatia N/a Paula Kasnar N/a
Flag of Cyprus.svg  Cyprus N/a Vasilisa Bogomolova N/a
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic Jakub Tykal Jana Horčičková
Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark N/a Camille Vinther Poulsen N/a
Flag of Estonia.svg  Estonia Vladislav Churakov Elina Goidina N/a
Ilya Nesterov Maria Eliise Kaljuvere N/a
Flag of Finland.svg  Finland Matias Lindfors Venla Sinisalo N/a
Flag of France.svg  France Jean Médard Eve Dubecq
N/a Stefania Gladki
Flag of Georgia.svg  Georgia Konstantin Supatashvili Inga Gurgenidze N/a
N/a Ketevan Makharadze N/a
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany Genrikh Gartung Anna Gerke N/a
Leon Rojkov N/a
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain Arin Yorke Alice Smith
Flag of Hong Kong.svg  Hong Kong Li Jiarui Ariel Guo N/a
Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary Aleksei Vlasenko Polina Dzsumanyijazova
Flag of Israel.svg  Israel Nikita Sheiko Sophia Shifrin N/a
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy Matteo Marchioni Amanda Ghezzo
N/a
Flag of Japan.svg  Japan Daiya Ebihara Mayuko Oka N/a
Rio Nakata Mei Okada N/a
Taiga Nishino Mao Shimada
Flag of Kazakhstan.svg  Kazakhstan Artur Smagulov Karina Sheina N/a
Flag of Kyrgyzstan.svg  Kyrgyzstan N/a Zhasmin Shlaga N/a
Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia Jānis Znotiņš Kira Baranovska N/a
Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania Luka Imedashvili Milana Siniavskytė N/a
Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands N/a Angel Delevaque N/a
Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand Yanhao Li Renee Tsai N/a
Flag of Norway.svg  Norway Daniil Valanov Pernille With N/a
Flag of Poland.svg  Poland Matvii Yefymenko Weronika Ferlin N/a
Flag of Serbia.svg  Serbia N/a Ekaterina Balaganskaia N/a
Flag of Slovakia.svg  Slovakia Dmitry Rudenko Alica Lengyelová
Lukáš Václavík N/a
Flag of Slovenia.svg  Slovenia N/a Ula Zadnikar N/a
Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea Choi Ha-bin Huh Ji-yu N/a
Lee Jae-keun Kim Yu-seong
Seo Min-kyu N/a
Flag of Spain.svg  Spain André Zapata Ariadna Gupta Espada
Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden Albin Samuelsson Nora Coppens N/a
Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland Ean Weiler Valeriya Ezhova
N/a Leandra Tzimpoukakis N/a
Flag of Thailand.svg  Thailand Hiro Kaewtathip Phattaratida Kaneshige N/a
Flag of Turkey.svg  Turkey Furkan Emre İncel Leyla Çetin N/a
Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine Yehor Kurtsev Sofiia Rymshyna
N/a
Flag of the United Arab Emirates.svg  United Arab Emirates N/a Marie Bierwert N/a
Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States Lucius Kazanecki Angela Shao
Jacob Sanchez Sophie Joline von Felten
N/a

    Changes to preliminary assignments

    DateDisciplineWithdrewAddedNotesRef.
    February 19Women Flag of Italy.svg Anna Pezzetta Flag of Italy.svg Amanda Ghezzo [7]
    Ice dance [8]

    References

    1. ↑ "Communication No. 2732: Entries for ISU Figure Skating and Synchronized Skating Championships 2026" (PDF). International Skating Union. July 18, 2025.
    2. ↑ "ISU World Junior Championships 2026". International Skating Union . 9 February 2026. Retrieved 9 February 2026.
    3. ↑ "ISU World Junior Championships 2026 - Junior Men". International Skating Union . 9 February 2026. Retrieved 9 February 2026.
    4. ↑ "ISU World Junior Championships 2026 - Junior Women". International Skating Union . 9 February 2026. Retrieved 9 February 2026.
    5. ↑ "ISU World Junior Championships 2026 - Junior Pairs". International Skating Union . 9 February 2026. Retrieved 9 February 2026.
    6. ↑ "ISU World Junior Championships 2026 - Junior Ice Dance". International Skating Union . 9 February 2026. Retrieved 9 February 2026.
    7. ↑ "ISU World Junior Championships 2026 Junior Women Entries". Archived from the original on February 21, 2026.
    8. ↑ "ISU World Junior Championships 2026 Junior Ice Dance Entries". Archived from the original on February 21, 2026.
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