2009 World Junior Figure Skating Championships

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2009 World Junior Figure Skating Championships
Type:ISU Championship
Date:February 22 – March 1
Season:2008–09
Location:Sofia, Bulgaria
Host:Bulgarian Skating Federation
Venue:Winter Sports Hall
Champions
Men's singles:
United States Adam Rippon
Ladies' singles:
Russia Alena Leonova
Pair skating:
Russia Lubov Iliushechkina / Nodari Maisuradze
Ice dance:
United States Madison Chock / Greg Zuerlein
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The 2009 World Junior Figure Skating Championships was an international competition in the 2008–09 season. Commonly called "World Juniors" and "Junior Worlds", they are an annual figure skating competition in which elite figure skaters compete for the title of World Junior Champion in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.

The event was held between February 22 and March 1, 2009, at the Winter Sports Hall in Sofia, Bulgaria. The event had been provisionally scheduled to be held in Ostrava, Czech Republic, however, due to financial reasons, the Czech Figure Skating Association could not host. Therefore, on October 13, 2008, the International Skating Union definitively assigned the World Junior Championships to Sofia.[1]

Qualification[]

The competition was open to skaters from ISU member nations who had reached the age of 13 by July 1, 2008, but had not yet turned 19. The upper age limit for men competing in pairs and dance was 21.

The term "Junior" refers to the age level rather than necessarily the skill level. Therefore, some of the skaters competing have competed nationally and internationally at the senior level, but are still age-eligible for World Juniors. Regardless of whether they have competed as seniors, all competitors perform programs that conform to the ISU rules for junior level competition in terms of program lengths, jumping passes, etc.

Number of entries per discipline[]

All members nations have one entry in each discipline by default. Member nations may earn more than entry based on their performance at the previous year's championships.

The following countries earned more than one entry to the 2009 World Junior Championships based on their performance at the 2008 World Junior Championships.[2]

Spots Men Ladies Pairs Dance
3  Russia
 United States 		 United States  China
 Russia 		 Canada
 Russia
 United States
2  Canada
 China
 Czech Republic
 France 		 Canada
 Finland
 Germany
 Japan
 Russia
 Sweden 		 Canada
 Estonia
 United States 		 France
 Italy
 Ukraine

Schedule[]

All times are GMT+2.

  • Tuesday, February 24
    • 13:30 Ice dancing – Compulsory Dance
    • 18:30 Opening Ceremony
    • 19:00 Pairs – Short Program
  • Wednesday, February 25
    • 10:00 Men – Short Program (1st Half)
    • 14:00 Men – Short Program (2nd Half)
    • 19:00 Pairs – Free Skating
  • Thursday, February 26
    • 13:00 Ice dancing – Original Dance
    • 18:30 Men – Free Skating
  • Friday, February 27
    • 09:00 Ladies – Short Program (1st Half)
    • 14:00 Ladies – Short Program (2nd Half)
    • 18:30 Ice dancing – Free Dance
  • Saturday, February 28
    • 13:30 Ladies – Free Skating
  • Sunday, March 1
    • 14:00 Exhibition

Medals table[]

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 United States (USA)2226
2 Russia (RUS)2125
3 Czech Republic (CZE)0101
Totals (3 nations)44412

Results[]

Men[]

The men's podium at the 2009 World Junior Championships. From left: Michal Březina (2nd), Adam Rippon (1st), Artem Grigoriev (3rd).
Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS
1 Adam Rippon  United States 222.00 1 74.30 1 147.70
2 Michal Březina  Czech Republic 204.88 2 69.55 2 135.33
3 Artem Grigoriev  Russia 184.40 4 65.11 3 119.29
4 Denis Ten  Kazakhstan 183.77 5 64.80 4 118.97
5 Curran Oi  United States 182.89 3 69.40 7 113.49
6 Yang Chao  China 177.86 7 62.25 6 115.61
7 Song Nan  China 175.44 10 58.70 5 116.74
8 Elladj Balde  Canada 170.76 8 60.63 8 110.13
9 Kevin Reynolds  Canada 169.36 6 63.81 10 105.55
10 Ross Miner  United States 164.80 9 59.15 9 105.65
11 Nikolai Bondar  Ukraine 161.93 13 57.75 11 104.18
12 Yuzuru Hanyu  Japan 161.77 11 58.18 13 103.59
13 Alexander Majorov  Sweden 154.06 12 58.15 16 95.91
14 Denis Wieczorek  Germany 153.73 15 54.20 15 99.53
15 Florent Amodio  France 153.70 19 49.80 12 103.90
16 Stanislav Kovalev  Russia 151.93 18 50.26 14 101.67
17 Peter Reitmayer  Slovakia 150.85 14 55.65 17 95.20
18 Mark Vaillant  France 145.90 16 52.59 20 93.31
19 Javier Raya  Spain 144.19 17 50.50 19 93.69
20 Petr Coufal  Czech Republic 143.45 21 48.40 18 95.05
21  Italy 133.03 24 45.93 21 87.10
22 Kim Min-seok  South Korea 129.87 23 46.73 22 83.14
23 Viktor Romanenkov  Estonia 124.09 20 49.11 23 74.98
24  Australia 121.93 22 47.04 24 74.89
25  Bulgaria 88.59 37 30.84 25 57.75
Did not advance to free skating
26 Sebastian Iwasaki  Poland 25 45.20
27 Stephen Li-Chung Kuo  Chinese Taipei 26 43.14
28 Ruben Blommaert  Belgium 27 43.12
29 Matthew Parr  United Kingdom 28 42.84
30 Bela Papp  Finland 29 42.59
31 Engin Ali Artan  Turkey 30 40.16
32 Sarkis Hairapetyan  Armenia 31 39.18
33 Saulius Ambrulevičius  Lithuania 32 38.01
34  Belarus 33 37.98
35 Mario-Rafael Ionian  Austria 34 37.74
36 Tomi Pulkkinen   Switzerland 35 33.37
37 Zsolt Kosz  Romania 36 33.24
38  Georgia 38 30.74
39 Boyito Mulder  Netherlands 39 29.71
40  Croatia 40 26.55
41  New Zealand 41 25.91

Ladies[]

The ladies' podium at the 2009 World Junior Championships. From left: Caroline Zhang (2nd), Alena Leonova (1st), Ashley Wagner (3rd).
Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS
1 Alena Leonova  Russia 157.18 3 55.50 2 101.68
2 Caroline Zhang  United States 154.67 10 47.64 1 107.03
3 Ashley Wagner  United States 153.57 2 57.50 3 96.07
4 Joshi Helgesson  Sweden 139.89 4 55.14 6 84.75
5 Katrina Hacker  United States 139.68 5 51.06 4 88.62
6 Elene Gedevanishvili  Georgia 138.32 1 60.32 11 78.00
7 Sarah Hecken  Germany 135.83 9 48.14 5 87.69
8 Ivana Reitmayerová  Slovakia 129.40 6 48.34 8 81.06
9 Oksana Gozeva  Russia 126.70 15 44.54 7 82.16
10 Isabel Drescher  Germany 126.65 8 48.16 10 78.49
11 Francesca Rio  Italy 122.70 7 48.24 12 74.46
12 Maé Bérénice Méité  France 122.53 16 43.98 9 78.55
13 Diane Szmiett  Canada 119.09 12 47.48 15 71.61
14 Miriam Ziegler  Austria 116.20 19 42.92 13 73.28
15 Svetlana Issakova  Estonia 115.14 18 43.38 14 71.76
16 Haruka Imai  Japan 113.24 17 43.58 16 69.66
17 Chaochih Liu  Chinese Taipei 112.49 13 46.82 18 65.67
18 Geng Bingwa  China 111.71 11 47.54 21 64.17
19 Eleonora Vinnichenko  Ukraine 110.66 20 42.42 17 68.24
20 Sonia Lafuente  Spain 109.27 14 46.16 22 63.11
21  Canada 104.82 23 40.38 20 64.44
22 Kwak Min-jeong  South Korea 103.69 24 38.94 19 64.75
23 Karly Robertson  United Kingdom 102.53 22 40.58 23 61.95
24  Belarus 88.50 21 41.18 25 47.32
25  Bulgaria 76.45 44 28.82 24 47.63
Did not advance to free skating
26  Japan 25 38.50
27 Romy Bühler   Switzerland 26 37.60
28 Manouk Gijsman  Netherlands 27 37.44
29 Karina Johnson  Denmark 28 37.26
30 Mimi Tanasorn Chindasook  Thailand 29 37.02
31 Alexandra Rout  New Zealand 30 36.56
32 Angelica Olsson  Sweden 31 36.50
33 Anne Line Gjersem  Norway 32 34.30
34 Alexandria Riordan  Poland 33 34.04
35 Beatrice Rozinskaite  Lithuania 34 33.38
36  Hungary 35 33.26
37 Georgia Glastris  Greece 36 32.74
38  Finland 37 32.36
39 Jaimee Nobbs  Australia 38 32.02
40  Latvia 39 31.28
41  Czech Republic 40 31.06
42 Reyna Hamui  Mexico 41 30.98
43  Philippines 42 30.66
44  Israel 43 29.52
45  Finland 45 28.22
46 Daša Grm  Slovenia 46 28.14
47  Croatia 47 27.08
48  Andorra 48 27.04
49  Belgium 49 26.72
50  Armenia 50 26.50
51 Birce Atabey  Turkey 51 24.14
52  Serbia 52 23.54
53 Naida Akšamija  Bosnia and Herzegovina 53 20.08
54 Anja Chong  Singapore 54 15.46

Pairs[]

The pairs podium at the 2009 World Junior Championships. From left: Anastasia Martiusheva / Alexei Rogonov(2nd), Lubov Iliushechkina / Nodari Maisuradze (1st), Marissa Castelli / Simon Shnapir (3rd).
Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS
1 Lubov Iliushechkina / Nodari Maisuradze  Russia 144.32 1 55.12 2 89.20
2 Anastasia Martiusheva / Alexei Rogonov  Russia 138.59 11 44.60 1 93.99
3 Marissa Castelli / Simon Shnapir  United States 137.47 2 49.10 4 88.37
4 Paige Lawrence / Rudi Swiegers  Canada 137.07 4 48.64 3 88.43
5 Ekaterina Sheremetieva / Mikhail Kuznetsov  Russia 134.80 3 48.84 5 85.96
6 Maddison Bird / Raymond Schultz  Canada 127.63 6 46.60 6 81.03
7 Narumi Takahashi / Mervin Tran  Japan 126.64 8 45.98 7 80.66
8 Zhang Yue / Wang Lei  China 125.30 7 45.98 8 79.32
9 Brynn Carman / Chris Knierim  United States 124.93 9 45.94 9 78.99
10 Anaïs Morand / Antoine Dorsaz   Switzerland 123.60 5 47.28 10 76.32
11 /  China 119.73 10 44.94 11 74.79
12 Maria Sergejeva / Ilja Glebov  Estonia 116.38 12 44.36 12 72.02
13 Krystyna Klimczak / Janusz Karweta  Poland 107.81 14 40.58 13 67.23
14 / Bruno Massot  France 104.26 13 40.98 15 63.28
15 Carolina Gillespie /  Italy 101.43 15 37.94 14 63.49
16 Gabriela Čermanová / Martin Hanulák  Slovakia 101.08 16 37.92 16 63.16
17 Alexandra Herbríková /  Czech Republic 98.26 17 37.40 17 60.86
18 /  Netherlands 97.63 18 37.04 18 60.59
19 /  Hong Kong 91.28 20 33.66 19 57.62
20 Anna Khnychenkova / Sergei Kulbach  Ukraine 87.81 19 34.24 20 53.57
Did not advance to free skating
21 /  United Kingdom 21 30.82

Ice dancing[]

The ice dancing podium at the 2009 World Junior Championships. From left: Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani (2nd), Madison Chock / Greg Zuerlein (1st), Ekaterina Riazanova / Jonathan Guerreiro (3rd).
Rank Name Nation Total points CD OD FD
1 Madison Chock / Greg Zuerlein  United States 172.55 1 33.15 1 57.29 1 82.11
2 Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani  United States 162.15 5 29.71 4 52.10 2 80.34
3 Ekaterina Riazanova / Jonathan Guerreiro  Russia 161.80 7 29.02 2 53.80 3 78.98
4 Madison Hubbell / Keiffer Hubbell  United States 161.34 2 31.39 3 53.44 4 76.51
5 Kharis Ralph / Asher Hill  Canada 152.76 4 30.09 6 49.58 5 73.09
6 Ekaterina Pushkash / Dmitri Kiselev  Russia 150.21 3 30.44 5 50.30 9 69.47
7 Karen Routhier / Eric Saucke-Lacelle  Canada 149.50 6 29.24 8 48.06 6 72.20
8 Lucie Myslivečková / Matěj Novák  Czech Republic 146.04 11 27.80 7 49.18 10 69.06
9 Lorenza Alessandrini / Simone Vaturi  Italy 145.61 10 27.81 9 47.67 8 70.13
10 Terra Findlay / Benoît Richaud  France 145.17 13 26.82 10 47.11 7 71.24
11 Marina Antipova / Artem Kudashev  Russia 138.86 8 28.57 13 45.00 12 65.29
12 Tarrah Harvey / Keith Gagnon  Canada 138.38 12 27.53 12 45.33 11 65.52
13 Alisa Agafonova / Dmitri Dun  Ukraine 134.86 9 27.92 11 45.55 14 61.39
14 Guan Xueting / Wang Meng  China 124.32 15 25.37 25 36.16 13 62.79
15 /  Greece 121.32 18 23.21 16 39.52 15 58.59
16 / Tobias Eisenbauer  Austria 121.07 17 24.52 18 38.81 17 57.74
17 Nikola Višňová / Lukáš Csolley  Slovakia 121.03 20 22.76 15 40.16 16 58.11
18 /  United Kingdom 120.97 14 26.37 14 41.69 22 52.91
19 Charlene Guignard /  France 119.88 16 24.56 19 38.22 18 57.10
20 / Marco Fabbri  Italy 115.66 21 22.61 23 37.38 20 55.67
21 Dora Turoczi / Balazs Major  Hungary 115.16 24 22.23 24 37.17 19 55.76
22 /  Germany 114.29 22 22.48 21 37.65 21 54.16
23 Anastasia Galyeta / Alexei Shumski  Ukraine 113.04 19 23.12 17 39.17 23 50.75
24 Oksana Klimova / Sasha Palomäki  Finland 111.22 23 22.44 20 38.08 24 50.70
25 /  Bulgaria 99.11 29 20.29 29 31.28 25 47.54
Did not advance to free dance
26 Lesia Valadzenkava / Vitali Vakunov  Belarus 57.95 28 20.36 22 37.59
27 Justyna Plutowska / Dawid Pietrzyński  Poland 56.44 25 21.86 26 34.58
28 Ramona Elsener / Florian Roost   Switzerland 54.41 30 19.91 27 34.50
29 /  Estonia 53.47 27 20.45 28 33.02
30 /  Lithuania 52.72 26 21.80 30 30.92
Did not advance to original dance
31 /  Israel 31 19.87
32 Sara Hurtado / Adria Diaz  Spain 32 19.86
33 / Viktor Kovalenko  Uzbekistan 33 19.77

References[]

  1. ^ "INTERNATIONAL SKATING UNION Communication No. 1535". Archived from the original on 2009-01-07. Retrieved 2008-10-14.
  2. ^ "International Skating Union Communication No. 1527 Entries ISU Championships 2009". Archived from the original on 2009-01-07. Retrieved 2008-10-12.

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