2008 World Figure Skating Championships
2008 World Figure Skating Championships | |
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Type: | ISU Championship |
Date: | March 16 – 23 |
Season: | 2007–08 |
Location: | Gothenburg, Sweden |
Venue: | Scandinavium |
Champions | |
Men's singles: | |
Ladies' singles: | |
Pairs: | |
Ice dance: | |
Previous: 2007 World Championships | |
Next: 2009 World Championships |
The 2008 World Figure Skating Championships was a senior international figure skating competition in the 2007–08 figure skating season. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. The event was held at the Scandinavium arena in Gothenburg, Sweden from March 16 to 23.
Qualification
[edit]The competition was open to skaters from ISU member nations who had reached the age of 15 by July 1, 2007. The corresponding competition for younger skaters was the 2008 World Junior Championships.
Based on the results of the 2007 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.
Medals summary
[edit]Medalists
[edit]Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Men | |||
Ladies | |||
Pairs | |||
Ice dancing |
Medals by country
[edit]Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |
2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||
5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||
7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||
Totals (9 entries) | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 |
Competition notes
[edit]The compulsory dance was the Argentine Tango.
Dan Zhang / Hao Zhang from China set a new world record of 74.36 points under the ISU Judging System for pairs' short program.
European champion ice dancers Oksana Domnina / Maxim Shabalin (RUS) withdrew before the event due to an injury to his knee. They were replaced by Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev. Four Continents and Grand Prix Final bronze medalist Evan Lysacek withdrew before the event due to injury.[1] He was replaced by US pewter medalist Jeremy Abbott.
Results
[edit]Men
[edit]Jeffrey Buttle was the sixth Canadian man to win the world title. His win set off a controversy because he did not attempt a quadruple jump. Brian Joubert the silver medalist criticized the system for producing a winner who did not complete or attempt a quadruple jump. This set off the first of many debates on the value of the quads and what men's figure skating should be about that would culminate in the 2010 Olympic Quadruple jump controversy.[2]
Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | FS | ||
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1 | Jeffrey Buttle | 245.17 | 1 | 82.10 | 1 | 163.07 | |
2 | Brian Joubert | 231.22 | 6 | 77.75 | 2 | 153.47 | |
3 | Johnny Weir | 221.84 | 2 | 80.79 | 5 | 141.05 | |
4 | Daisuke Takahashi | 220.11 | 3 | 80.40 | 6 | 139.71 | |
5 | Stéphane Lambiel | 217.88 | 5 | 79.12 | 7 | 138.76 | |
6 | Kevin van der Perren | 216.02 | 9 | 70.24 | 3 | 145.78 | |
7 | Sergei Voronov | 209.93 | 15 | 65.26 | 4 | 144.67 | |
8 | Takahiko Kozuka | 205.15 | 8 | 70.91 | 8 | 134.24 | |
9 | Patrick Chan | 203.55 | 7 | 72.81 | 11 | 130.74 | |
10 | Stephen Carriere | 201.69 | 11 | 68.20 | 9 | 133.49 | |
11 | Jeremy Abbott | 197.26 | 14 | 65.61 | 10 | 131.65 | |
12 | Sergei Davydov | 196.79 | 12 | 68.19 | 12 | 128.60 | |
13 | Adrian Schultheiss | 194.39 | 13 | 66.45 | 13 | 127.94 | |
14 | Kristoffer Berntsson | 193.72 | 10 | 69.02 | 15 | 124.70 | |
15 | Tomáš Verner | 191.94 | 4 | 79.87 | 20 | 112.07 | |
16 | Karel Zelenka | 187.65 | 17 | 64.05 | 16 | 123.60 | |
17 | Gregor Urbas | 187.48 | 18 | 61.65 | 14 | 125.83 | |
18 | Yannick Ponsero | 182.06 | 16 | 64.46 | 18 | 117.60 | |
19 | Yasuharu Nanri | 179.88 | 20 | 60.89 | 17 | 118.99 | |
20 | Anton Kovalevski | 178.13 | 21 | 60.74 | 19 | 117.39 | |
21 | Igor Macypura | 169.93 | 19 | 61.19 | 21 | 108.74 | |
22 | Jamal Othman | 164.02 | 22 | 57.75 | 22 | 106.27 | |
23 | Li Chengjiang | 155.75 | 23 | 53.99 | 23 | 101.76 | |
24 | Abzal Rakimgaliev | 149.92 | 24 | 51.58 | 24 | 98.34 | |
Free Skating Not Reached | |||||||
25 | Alexandr Kazakov | 25 | 51.00 | ||||
26 | Michael Chrolenko | 26 | 50.50 | ||||
27 | Pavel Kaška | 27 | 49.98 | ||||
28 | Boris Martinec | 28 | 48.91 | ||||
29 | Elliot Hilton | 29 | 48.10 | ||||
30 | Javier Fernández | 30 | 47.87 | ||||
31 | Mikko Minkkinen | 31 | 47.15 | ||||
32 | Peter Liebers | 32 | 46.96 | ||||
33 | Zoltán Kelemen | 33 | 45.58 | ||||
34 | Maxim Shipov | 34 | 44.32 | ||||
35 | Sean Carlow | 35 | 43.98 | ||||
36 | Luis Hernández | 36 | 42.74 | ||||
37 | Manuel Koll | 37 | 42.47 | ||||
38 | Justin Pietersen | 38 | 38.67 | ||||
39 | Naiden Borichev | 39 | 38.36 | ||||
40 | Konstantin Tupikov | 40 | 37.47 | ||||
41 | Tristan Thode | 41 | 35.29 | ||||
42 | Kutay Eryoldas | 42 | 35.04 | ||||
43 | Danil Privalov | 43 | 34.73 | ||||
44 | Tigran Vardanjan | 44 | 32.37 | ||||
45 | Saulius Ambrulevičius | 45 | 28.63 | ||||
WD | Alban Préaubert |
Ladies
[edit]Carolina Kostner led the short program with 64.28 points, just 0.18 points higher than Mao Asada who was in second. Kim Yuna fell on her triple Lutz, leaving her in fifth place after the short program. Despite popping a triple lutz at the end of her program and saving multiple jump landings, Kim earned the top free skate score of 123.38 points. Kostner received negative grade of execution on five of her seven jumping passes but still managed the third highest free score. Asada, one of two women attempting the triple Axel in the competition, fell during the takeoff of the axel, but still managed to do two triple-triples and score 1.46 points higher than Kostner, securing the gold medal. Silver went to Kostner and Kim received the bronze medal.
Pairs
[edit]Ice dancing
[edit]Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | CD | OD | FD | |||
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1 | Isabelle Delobel / Olivier Schoenfelder | 212.94 | 1 | 40.73 | 1 | 67.25 | 2 | 104.96 | |
2 | Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir | 208.80 | 2 | 38.71 | 3 | 64.81 | 1 | 105.28 | |
3 | Jana Khokhlova / Sergei Novitski | 203.26 | 3 | 37.98 | 2 | 65.99 | 5 | 99.29 | |
4 | Tanith Belbin / Benjamin Agosto | 203.00 | 5 | 35.02 | 4 | 64.69 | 3 | 103.29 | |
5 | Federica Faiella / Massimo Scali | 201.91 | 4 | 37.15 | 5 | 63.55 | 4 | 101.21 | |
6 | Meryl Davis / Charlie White | 191.19 | 7 | 34.80 | 7 | 60.36 | 6 | 96.03 | |
7 | Nathalie Péchalat / Fabian Bourzat | 190.51 | 6 | 34.82 | 6 | 60.67 | 7 | 95.02 | |
8 | Sinead Kerr / John Kerr | 186.94 | 8 | 33.48 | 8 | 59.86 | 8 | 93.60 | |
9 | Alexandra Zaretski / Roman Zaretski | 179.21 | 9 | 32.51 | 9 | 58.10 | 10 | 88.60 | |
10 | Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte | 179.03 | 11 | 31.52 | 10 | 57.05 | 9 | 90.46 | |
11 | Kristin Fraser / Igor Lukanin | 173.95 | 10 | 31.86 | 11 | 56.35 | 11 | 85.74 | |
12 | Kimberly Navarro / Brent Bommentre | 165.90 | 12 | 31.48 | 13 | 52.10 | 14 | 82.32 | |
13 | Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev | 164.72 | 16 | 29.12 | 12 | 52.88 | 13 | 82.72 | |
14 | Katherine Copely / Deividas Stagniūnas | 164.28 | 13 | 29.85 | 14 | 51.66 | 12 | 82.77 | |
15 | Ekaterina Rubleva / Ivan Shefer | 160.37 | 15 | 29.14 | 15 | 49.52 | 15 | 81.71 | |
16 | Cathy Reed / Chris Reed | 155.15 | 18 | 28.16 | 18 | 47.70 | 16 | 79.29 | |
17 | Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje | 154.84 | 20 | 27.74 | 17 | 48.62 | 17 | 78.48 | |
18 | Anna Zadorozhniuk / Sergei Verbillo | 153.25 | 14 | 29.31 | 16 | 49.17 | 21 | 74.77 | |
19 | Allie Hann-McCurdy / Michael Coreno | 153.13 | 17 | 28.33 | 19 | 47.01 | 18 | 77.79 | |
20 | Nelli Zhiganshina / Alexander Gazsi | 150.82 | 19 | 28.07 | 21 | 45.52 | 19 | 77.23 | |
21 | Barbora Silná / Dmitri Matsjuk | 147.21 | 21 | 24.85 | 20 | 46.90 | 20 | 75.46 | |
22 | Yu Xiaoyang / Wang Chen | 139.20 | 23 | 23.90 | 23 | 43.97 | 23 | 71.33 | |
23 | Kamila Hájková / David Vincour | 138.63 | 22 | 24.06 | 25 | 41.91 | 22 | 72.66 | |
24 | Leonie Krail / Oscar Peter | 126.50 | 25 | 22.38 | 22 | 44.10 | 24 | 60.02 | |
Free Dance Not Reached | |||||||||
25 | Krisztina Barta / Ádám Tóth | 64.08 | 27 | 21.44 | 24 | 42.64 | |||
26 | Joanna Budner / Jan Mościcki | 62.28 | 24 | 23.61 | 28 | 38.67 | |||
27 | Danielle O'Brien / Gregory Merriman | 60.12 | 28 | 20.24 | 27 | 39.88 | |||
28 | Ksenia Shmirina / Egor Maistrov | 59.37 | 29 | 18.87 | 26 | 40.50 | |||
29 | Yu Sun Hye / Ramil Sarkulov | 56.93 | 26 | 21.85 | 30 | 35.08 | |||
30 | Ina Demireva / Juri Kurakin | 53.38 | 30 | 17.75 | 29 | 35.63 | |||
Original Dance Not Reached | |||||||||
31 | Kristina Kiudmaa / Aleksei Trohlev | 31 | 16.72 |
Multiple spots for 2009 Worlds
[edit]The following countries have earned more than one entry to the 2009 World Championships based on performance at the 2008 World Championships.[3]
Spots | Men | Ladies | Pairs | Dance |
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3 | ||||
2 |
References
[edit]- ^ "icenetwork.com: News". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2008-03-13.
- ^ "Weir 3rd at world figure skating; Buttle wins gold". 22 March 2008.
- ^ "International Skating Union Communication No. 1527 Entries ISU Championships 2009". Archived from the original on 2009-01-07.
External links
[edit]- Competitors list
- Entries and results
- "Definite Allotment of ISU Championships 2008" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-09-30. Retrieved 2007-06-15. (74.8 KiB)
- "ISU Constitution & General Regulations 2006" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-09-27. (793 KiB)
- "ISU Special Regulations and Technical Rules: Single and Pair Skating and Ice Dancing 2006" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-01-25. (1.03 MiB)
- "ISU Communication No. 1469: Entries ISU Championships 2008". Archived from the original on 2012-02-08.