The 2014 World Figure Skating Championships was an international figure skating competition held in Saitama, Japan, at the Saitama Super Arena from March 24 to 30. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. The event also determined the number of entries a country may send to the 2015 World Championships.
Records
The following new ISU best scores were set during this competition: Event Component Skaters Score Date Ref Ladies Short program Mao Asada 78.66 27 March 2014
Qualification All skaters that represent an ISU member nations and reached the age of 15 before 1 July 2013 were eligible to compete at the World Championships. National associations select entries according to their own criteria but the ISU rules mandate that their athletes must have achieved the required minimum technical score at an international event prior to the World Championships in order to be eligible to contest this event.
Minimum TES + Minimum technical scores (TES) Discipline SP / SD FS / FD Men 34 63 Ladies 26 46 Pairs 24 41 Ice dancing 28 38 Must be achieved at an ISU-sanctioned international event in the ongoing or preceding season. SP and FS scores may be attained at different events.
Number of entries per discipline Based on the results of the 2013 World Championships, each ISU member nation was allowed to send one to three entries per discipline.
Spots Men Ladies Pairs Dance 3 2 If not listed above, one entry is allowed.
Entries All of the 2013 World champions were absent but the 2014 Olympic men's champion Yuzuru Hanyu, pairs medalists Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov and Aliona Savchenko / Robin Szolkowy, and ice dancing bronze medalists Elena Ilinykh / Nikita Katsalapov, as well as several team medalists, including Yulia Lipnitskaya, competed in Saitama.
Member nations announced the following entries:
Country Men Ladies Pairs Ice dancing Brooklee Han Danielle O'Brien / Gregory Merriman Viktor Pfeifer Kerstin Frank Miriam Ziegler / Severin Kiefer Julia Zlobina / Alexei Sitnikov Jorik Hendrickx Kaat Van Daele Maria Paliakova / Nikita Bochkov Viktoria Kavaliova / Yuri Bieliaiev Elizaveta Makarova / Leri Kenchadze Kevin Reynolds Elladj Baldé Nam Nguyen Kaetlyn Osmond Gabrielle Daleman Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford Kirsten Moore-Towers / Dylan Moscovitch Paige Lawrence / Rudi Swiegers Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje Alexandra Paul / Mitchell Islam Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier Yan Han Li Zijun Peng Cheng / Zhang Hao Sui Wenjing / Han Cong Tomáš Verner Eliška Březinová Gabriela Kubová / Matěj Novák Justus Strid Anita Madsen Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen Viktor Romanenkov Jelena Glebova Natalja Zabijako / Alexandr Zaboev Irina Shtork / Taavi Rand Juulia Turkkila Henna Lindholm / Ossi Kanervo Chafik Besseghier Maé-Bérénice Méité Vanessa James / Morgan Ciprès Daria Popova / Bruno Massot Nathalie Péchalat / Fabian Bourzat Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron Angelina Telegina / Otar Japaridze Peter Liebers Nathalie Weinzierl Aliona Savchenko / Robin Szolkowy Maylin Wende / Daniel Wende Tanja Kolbe / Stefano Caruso Nelli Zhiganshina / Alexander Gazsi Great Britain Jenna McCorkell Amani Fancy / Christopher Boyadji Penny Coomes / Nicholas Buckland Ronald Lam Dóra Turóczi / Balázs Major Alexei Bychenko Netta Schreiber Allison Reed / Vasili Rogov Ivan Righini Carolina Kostner Valentina Marchei Stefania Berton / Ondřej Hotárek Nicole Della Monica / Matteo Guarise Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri Yuzuru Hanyu Tatsuki Machida Takahiko Kozuka Akiko Suzuki Mao Asada Kanako Murakami Narumi Takahashi / Ryuichi Kihara Cathy Reed / Chris Reed Abzal Rakimgaliev Inga Janulevičiūtė Isabella Tobias / Deividas Stagniūnas Kim Lucine Anne Line Gjersem Christopher Caluza Maciej Cieplucha Justyna Plutowska / Peter Gerber Zoltán Kelemen Maxim Kovtun Yulia Lipnitskaya Anna Pogorilaya Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov Vera Bazarova / Yuri Larionov Julia Antipova / Nodari Maisuradze Elena Ilinykh / Nikita Katsalapov Victoria Sinitsina / Ruslan Zhiganshin Nicole Rajičová Federica Testa / Lukáš Csölley Kim Jin-seo Kim Hae-jin Park So-youn Javier Fernández Sonia Lafuente Sara Hurtado / Adrià Díaz Alexander Majorov Joshi Helgesson Stéphane Walker Anna Ovcharova Ramona Elsener / Florian Roost Alisa Agafonova / Alper Uçar Yakov Godorozha Natalia Popova Julia Lavrentieva / Yuri Rudyk Max Aaron Jeremy Abbott Polina Edmunds Gracie Gold Ashley Wagner Marissa Castelli / Simon Shnapir Felicia Zhang / Nathan Bartholomay Madison Chock / Evan Bates Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani Alexandra Aldridge / Daniel Eaton Misha Ge
On 3 March 2014, U.S. Figure Skating stated that Meryl Davis / Charlie White would be replaced by second alternates Alexandra Aldridge / Daniel Eaton. First alternates Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue are unable to compete due to injury — Hubbell sustained a torn labrum. On 4 March, the Spanish federation said that Javier Raya would not compete due to injury. On 7 March, Ukrainian ice dancers Nadezhda Frolenkova / Vitali Nikiforov withdrew due to Frolenkova's back injury. On 20 March, American pair Caydee Denney / John Coughlin withdrew due to Denney's ankle injury and were replaced by Felicia Zhang / Nathan Bartholomay. On 21 March, France's Florent Amodio withdrew from the men's event. On 28 March, Russia's Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev withdrew before the short dance, Soloviev having sustained a groin injury in practice. On 29 March, the Czech Republic's Michal Březina withdrew before the men's free skating. On 29 March, the United Kingdom's Jenna McCorkell withdrew before the ladies' free skating due to a hamstring injury.
Schedule All dates/times are listed as local time in Japan. The Western hemisphere saw some of the events on the previous day, due to the time zone difference.
Competition schedule Event Program Event date Start time Pairs Short program March 26 10:00 a.m. Free skating March 27 11:30 a.m. Men Short program March 26 15:45 p.m. Free skating March 28 17:00 p.m. Ladies Short program March 27 15:45 p.m. Free skating March 29 17:15 p.m. Ice dancing Short dance March 28 10:50 a.m. Free dance March 29 12:30 p.m.
Overview Japan was named as the host in June 2011. Saitama was confirmed as the city in February 2013.
Olympic bronze medalists, Aliona Savchenko / Robin Szolkowy of Germany, took the lead in the pairs' short program, two points ahead of Canada's Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford, who edged Olympic silver medalists Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov of Russia by under a point. Savchenko/Szolkowy ranked first in the free skating by a six-point margin and won their fifth World title by an overall margin of nearly nine points. Stolbova/Klimov were awarded their first World medal, silver, finishing five points ahead of Duhamel/Radford. The latter pair outscored fellow Canadians Kirsten Moore-Towers / Dylan Moscovitch for the bronze for the second year in a row.
Japan's Tatsuki Machida ranked first in the men's short program, with Spain's Javier Fernández and 2014 Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu in second and third respectively. Hanyu placed first in the free skating and won his first World title. Silver went to Machida, finishing 0.33 of a point behind Hanyu. Finishing six points back, Fernández won his second World bronze medal.
The ice dancing event was closely contested. Two points separated the top four in the short dance. 2014 European champions, Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte of Italy, took the lead, outscoring Canada's Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje by 0.5 and France's Nathalie Pechalat / Fabian Bourzat by 1.5. Slightly under three points separated the top four in the free dance and the overall scores were even closer. Cappellini/Lanotte became the second Italian ice dancers to win the World title, finishing 0.02 of a point ahead of silver medalists Weaver/Poje and 0.06 ahead of Pechalat/Bourzat, who won their second World bronze medal. 2014 Olympic bronze medalists, Elena Ilinykh / Nikita Katsalapov of Russia, placed first in the segment but finished off the podium, just 1.05 behind the gold medalists.
2008 and 2010 World champion, Mao Asada of Japan, broke the previous world record set by Kim Yuna in the short program, scoring 78.66, 1.42 points ahead of the 2012 World champion, Carolina Kostner of Italy, and 4.12 ahead of the 2014 European champion, Yulia Lipnitskaya. Asada also placed first in the free skating by a margin of five points. Lipnitskaya and Anna Pogorilaya, both 15-year-old Russians, were second and third respectively and Kostner placed sixth in the segment. Asada won her third world title by a total margin of 9.19 points, Lipnitskaya was awarded the silver medal in her first appearance at the World Championships, and Kostner took the bronze, her sixth World medal.
Results Men Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS 1 Yuzuru Hanyu 282.59 3 91.24 1 191.35 2 Tatsuki Machida 282.26 1 98.21 2 184.05 3 Javier Fernández 275.93 2 96.42 3 179.51 4 Maxim Kovtun 247.37 7 84.66 5 162.71 5 Jeremy Abbott 246.35 8 79.67 4 166.68 6 Takahiko Kozuka 238.02 6 85.54 6 152.48 7 Yan Han 231.91 5 86.70 11 145.21 8 Max Aaron 225.66 9 78.32 8 147.34 9 Chafik Besseghier 224.19 10 76.80 7 147.39 10 Tomáš Verner 223.14 4 89.08 15 134.06 11 Kevin Reynolds 215.51 15 68.52 10 146.99 12 Nam Nguyen 214.06 16 66.75 9 147.31 13 Ivan Righini 213.09 14 69.43 12 143.66 14 Peter Liebers 211.92 11 74.02 14 137.90 15 Alexei Bychenko 211.24 12 69.73 13 141.51 16 Kim Jin-seo 202.80 13 69.56 16 133.24 17 Jorik Hendrickx 196.78 17 65.56 18 131.22 18 Elladj Baldé 195.39 22 62.84 17 132.55 19 Christopher Caluza 193.23 18 64.69 19 128.54 20 Abzal Rakimgaliev 183.55 24 61.77 20 121.78 21 Zoltán Kelemen 176.81 20 63.23 21 113.58 22 Maciej Cieplucha 175.97 21 63.07 22 112.90 23 Stéphane Walker 163.91 19 64.40 23 99.51 24 Michal Březina 62.25 23 62.25 WD Did not advance to free skating 25 Yakov Godorozha 25 61.53 26 Viktor Romanenkov 26 61.14 27 Misha Ge 27 60.34 28 Ronald Lam 28 60.07 29 Kim Lucine 29 58.19 30 Viktor Pfeifer 30 57.17 31 Justus Strid 31 55.62 32 Alexander Majorov 32 55.61
Ladies Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS 1 Mao Asada 216.69 1 78.66 1 138.03 2 Yulia Lipnitskaya 207.50 3 74.54 2 132.96 3 Carolina Kostner 203.83 2 77.24 6 126.59 4 Anna Pogorilaya 197.50 6 66.26 3 131.24 5 Gracie Gold 194.58 5 70.31 7 124.27 6 Akiko Suzuki 193.72 4 71.02 8 122.70 7 Ashley Wagner 193.16 7 63.64 4 129.52 8 Polina Edmunds 187.50 12 60.59 5 126.91 9 Park So-youn 176.61 13 57.22 9 119.39 10 Kanako Murakami 172.44 10 60.86 10 111.58 11 Kaetlyn Osmond 170.64 8 62.92 13 107.72 12 Nathalie Weinzierl 167.72 11 60.82 15 106.90 13 Gabrielle Daleman 164.78 14 55.72 11 109.06 14 Joshi Helgesson 162.91 15 54.96 12 107.95 15 Maé-Bérénice Méité 158.72 9 61.62 16 97.10 16 Valentina Marchei 157.64 22 50.27 14 107.37 17 Li Zijun 150.34 16 54.37 17 95.97 18 Eliška Březinová 145.15 24 49.34 18 95.81 19 Brooklee Han 144.28 18 53.20 19 91.08 20 Anna Ovcharova 143.22 17 54.19 20 89.03 21 Natalia Popova 135.05 21 50.32 21 84.73 22 Anne Line Gjersem 130.03 23 49.48 22 80.55 23 Kim Hae-jin 129.82 19 51.83 23 77.99 24 Jenna McCorkell Great Britain 50.56 20 50.56 WD Did not advance to free skating 25 Nicole Rajičová 25 49.24 26 Jelena Glebova 26 48.09 27 Inga Janulevičiūtė 27 47.20 28 Kaat Van Daele 28 46.05 29 Juulia Turkkila 29 45.57 30 Anita Madsen 30 44.15 31 Kerstin Frank 31 44.11 32 Sonia Lafuente 32 43.94 33 Netta Schreiber 33 43.39
Pairs