The 2018 World Figure Skating Championships were held in Milan, Italy from 19–25 March 2018, at the Mediolanum Forum.
Records
The following new ISU best scores were set during this competition:
Event Component Skater(s) Score Date Ref Pairs Free skating Aliona Savchenko / Bruno Massot 162.8622 March 2018 Total score 245.84 Ice dance Short dance Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron 83.73 23 March 2018 Free dance 123.4724 March 2018 Total score 207.20
Qualification Age and minimum TES requirements Skaters are eligible for the 2018 World Championships if they turned 15 years of age before 1 July 2017 and have met the minimum technical elements score requirements. The ISU accepts scores if they were obtained at senior-level ISU-recognized international competitions at least 21 days before the first official practice day of the championships.
+ Minimum technical scores (TES) Discipline SP / SD FS / FD Men 34 64 Ladies 27 47 Pairs 25 43 Ice dance 29 39 Must be achieved at an ISU-recognized 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 2017 World Championships, each ISU member nation can field one to three entries per discipline.
Spots Men Ladies Pairs Dance 3 2 If not listed above, one entry is allowed.
Schedule Day Date Start Finish Discipline Event Day 1 March 21 10:45 16:36 Ladies Short program 17:30 18:00 Opening ceremony 18:20 23:00 Pairs Short program Day 2 March 22 10:05 15:43 Men Short program 18:55 21:54 Pairs Free skating Pairs Victory ceremony Day 3 March 23 11:00 15:57 Dance Short dance 18:35 22:25 Ladies Free skating Ladies Victory ceremony Day 4 March 24 10:00 14:04 Men Free skating Men Victory ceremony 15:20 18:36 Dance Free dance Dance Victory ceremony Day 5 March 25 14:30 17:00 Exhibition gala Note: times are local times (UTC+1 from March 21 through March 24 and UTC+2 on March 25).
Entries Member nations began announcing their selections in December 2017. The International Skating Union published the full list of entries on 28 February 2018. None of the previous year's defending champions competed.
Country Men Ladies Pairs Ice dance Slavik Hayrapetyan Tina Garabedian / Simon Proulx-Sénécal Brendan Kerry Kailani Craine Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya / Harley Windsor Chantelle Kerry / Andrew Dodds Alisa Stomakhina Miriam Ziegler / Severin Kiefer Larry Loupolover Viktoria Kavaliova / Yurii Bieliaiev Loena Hendrickx Isadora Williams Teodora Markova / Simon Daze Keegan MessingNam Nguyen Larkyn AustmanGabrielle DalemanKaetlyn Osmond Kirsten Moore-Towers / Michael MarinaroCamille Ruest / Andrew WolfeJulianne Séguin / Charlie Bilodeau Piper Gilles / Paul PoirierCarolane Soucisse / Shane FirusKaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje Jin Boyang Li Xiangning Peng Cheng / Jin Yang Yu Xiaoyu / Zhang Hao Wang Shiyue / Liu Xinyu Chih-I Tsao Amy Lin Nicholas Vrdoljak Lana Petranović / Antonio Souza-Kordeiru Michal Březina Eliška Březinová Anna Dušková / Martin Bidař Cortney Mansour / Michal Češka Gerli Liinamäe Valtter Virtanen Viveca Lindfors Cecilia Törn / Jussiville Partanen Romain Ponsart Laurine Lecavelier Lola Esbrat / Andrei Novoselov Vanessa James / Morgan Ciprès Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron Morisi Kvitelashvili Paul Fentz Nicole Schott Annika Hocke / Ruben Blommaert Aliona Savchenko / Bruno Massot Kavita Lorenz / Joti Polizoakis Phillip Harris Natasha McKay Zoe Jones / Christopher Boyadji Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson Ivett Tóth Elizaveta Kashitsyna / Márk Magyar Anna Yanovskaya / Ádám Lukács Oleksii Bychenko Daniel Samohin Paige Conners / Evgeni Krasnopolski Adel Tankova / Ronald Zilberberg Matteo Rizzo Carolina Kostner Elisabetta Leccardi Nicole Della Monica / Matteo Guarise Valentina Marchei / Ondřej Hotárek Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri Keiji Tanaka Kazuki Tomono Shoma Uno Wakaba Higuchi Satoko Miyahara Miu Suzaki / Ryuichi Kihara Kana Muramoto / Chris Reed Abzal Rakimgaliev Elizabet Tursynbayeva Deniss Vasiļjevs Angelīna Kučvaļska Elžbieta Kropa Allison Reed / Saulius Ambrulevičius Julian Yee Donovan Carrillo Ryom Tae-ok / Kim Ju-sik Anne Line Gjersem Ihor Reznichenko Natalia Kaliszek / Maksym Spodyriev Kim Jin-seo Choi Da-bin Kim Ha-nul Kim Kyu-eun / Alex Kangchan Kam Yura Min / Alexander Gamelin Dmitri Aliev Mikhail Kolyada Stanislava Konstantinova Maria Sotskova Alina Zagitova Kristina Astakhova / Alexei Rogonov Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov Natalya Zabiyako / Alexander Enbert Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin Tiffany Zahorski / Jonathan Guerreiro Antonina Dubinina Nicole Rajičová Lucie Myslivečková / Lukáš Csölley Daša Grm Javier Raya Laura Barquero / Aritz Maestu Olivia Smart / Adriàn Díaz Alexander Majorov Anita Östlund Stéphane Walker Alexia Paganini Ioulia Chtchetinina / Mikhail Akulov Burak Demirboğa Alisa Agafonova / Alper Uçar Ivan Pavlov Oleksandra Nazarova / Maxim Nikitin Max Aaron Nathan Chen Vincent Zhou Mariah Bell Mirai Nagasu Bradie Tennell Alexa Scimeca Knierim / Chris Knierim Deanna Stellato / Nathan Bartholomay Madison Chock / Evan Bates Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue Misha Ge
Changes to preliminary assignments Announced Country Discipline Initial Replacement Reason for WD/Other notes Men Patrick Chan Nam Nguyen Chan retired after the Olympics. 16 February Pairs Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford Camille Ruest / Andrew Wolfe Duhamel/Radford retired after the Olympics. Ilyushechkina/ Moscovitch were the first alternates but declined. 20 February Ice dance Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir Carolane Soucisse / Shane Firus 20 February Men Javier Fernández None 25 February Pairs Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov Kristina Astakhova / Alexei Rogonov Stolbova's leg injury.Ksenia Stolbova's Instagram February 25, 2018 28 February Ice dance Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev Tiffany Zahorski / Jonathan Guerreiro Fatigue Ice dance Penny Coomes / Nicholas Buckland Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson Coomes' knee injury rehabilitation. 2 March Men Adam Rippon Max Aaron Jason Brown and Ross Miner declined invitations. 2 March Ice dance Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker 7 March Men Yuzuru Hanyu Kazuki Tomono Pain in Hanyu's right ankle. Takahito Mura declined and retired. 7 March Ladies Alisson Perticheto None 9 March Pairs Sui Wenjing / Han Cong None Stress fracture in Sui's foot. 13 March Ladies Evgenia Medvedeva Stanislava Konstantinova Stress fracture in right foot. 13 March Ladies Anna Khnychenkova None 16 March Ladies Karen Chen Mariah Bell Ashley Wagner declined an invitation. 16 March Pairs Tarah Kayne / Daniel O'Shea Deanna Stellato / Nathan Bartholomay 16 March Pairs Sofiya Karagodina / Semyon Stepanov None 16 March Men Denis Ten Abzal Rakimgaliev
Results Men Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS 1 Nathan Chen 321.40 1 101.94 1 219.46 2 Shoma Uno 273.77 5 94.26 2 179.51 3 Mikhail Kolyada 272.32 2 100.08 4 172.24 4 Alexei Bychenko 258.28 7 90.99 7 167.29 5 Kazuki Tomono 256.11 11 82.61 3 173.50 6 Deniss Vasiļjevs 254.86 9 84.25 5 170.61 7 Dmitri Aliev 252.30 13 82.15 6 170.15 8 Keegan Messing 252.30 6 93.00 11 159.30 9 Misha Ge 249.57 8 86.01 9 163.56 10 Michal Březina 243.99 17 78.01 8 165.98 11 Max Aaron 241.49 15 79.78 10 161.71 12 Alexander Majorov 237.79 10 82.71 13 155.08 13 Keiji Tanaka 236.66 14 80.17 12 156.49 14 Vincent Zhou 235.24 3 96.78 19 138.46 15 Paul Fentz 230.92 12 82.49 16 148.43 16 Romain Ponsart 229.20 16 79.55 14 149.65 17 Matteo Rizzo 225.44 18 77.43 17 148.01 18 Brendan Kerry 223.85 19 74.99 15 148.86 19 Jin Boyang 223.41 4 95.85 23 127.56 20 Daniel Samohin 214.01 20 72.78 18 141.23 21 Julian Zhi Jie Yee 209.03 21 72.43 20 136.60 22 Donovan Carrillo 200.76 24 68.13 21 132.63 23 Slavik Hayrapetyan 199.72 23 68.18 22 131.54 24 Phillip Harris 187.69 22 68.59 24 119.10Did not advance to free skating 25 Nam Nguyen 67.79 25 67.79 colspan=2 26 Morisi Kvitelashvili 67.01 26 67.01 colspan=2 27 Stéphane Walker 65.79 27 65.79 colspan=2 28 Burak Demirboğa 65.43 28 65.43 colspan=2 29 Ivan Pavlov 64.18 29 64.18 colspan=2 30 Chih-I Tsao 64.06 30 64.06 colspan=2 31 Larry Loupolover 61.82 31 61.82 colspan=2 32 Abzal Rakimgaliev 61.19 32 61.19 colspan=2 33 Kim Jin-seo 60.72 33 60.72 colspan=2 34 Nicholas Vrdoljak 59.74 34 59.74 colspan=2 35 Valtter Virtanen 55.49 35 55.49 colspan=2 36 Ihor Reznichenko 51.70 36 51.70 colspan=2 37 Javier Raya 50.00 37 50.00 colspan=2
Ladies Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS 1 Kaetlyn Osmond 223.23 4 72.73 1 150.50 2 Wakaba Higuchi 210.90 8 65.89 2 145.01 3 Satoko Miyahara 210.08 3 74.36 3 135.72 4 Carolina Kostner 208.88 1 80.27 5 128.61 5 Alina Zagitova 207.72 2 79.51 7 128.21 6 Bradie Tennell 199.89 7 68.76 4 131.13 7 Gabrielle Daleman 196.72 6 71.61 8125.11 8 Maria Sotskova 196.61 5 71.80 9 124.81 9 Loena Hendrickx 192.31 10 64.07 6 128.24 10 Mirai Nagasu 187.52 9 65.21 11 122.31 11 Elizabet Tursynbayeva 186.85 11 62.38 10 124.47 12 Mariah Bell 174.40 17 59.15 12 115.25 13 Nicole Schott 174.13 12 61.84 14 112.29 14 Laurine Lecavelier 173.23 15 59.79 13 113.44 15 Kim Ha-nul 170.68 14 60.14 15 110.54 16 Viveca Lindfors 166.23 13 60.18 16 106.05 17 Kailani Craine 154.41 20 56.90 18 97.51 18 Eliška Březinová 153.14 18 58.37 19 94.77 19 Stanislava Konstantinova 153.03 16 59.19 20 93.84 20 Alexia Paganini 149.66 19 57.86 22 91.80 21 Elisabetta Leccardi 149.17 23 51.13 17 98.04 22 Daša Grm 144.51 22 52.43 21 92.08 23 Ivett Tóth 136.87 24 50.63 23 86.24 WD Choi Da-bin 55.30 21 55.30 colspan=2 Did not advance to free skating 25 Larkyn Austman 50.17 25 50.17 colspan=2 26 Li Xiangning 50.06 26 50.06 colspan=2 27 Nicole Rajičová 49.87 27 49.87 colspan=2 28 Amy Lin 49.31 28 49.31 colspan=2 29 Anita Östlund 48.99 29 48.99 colspan=2 30 Alisa Stomakhina 48.71 30 48.71 colspan=2 31 Elžbieta Kropa 46.53 31 46.53 colspan=2 32 Natasha McKay 45.89 32 45.89 colspan=2 33 Anne Line Gjersem 45.25 33 45.25 colspan=2 34 Gerli Liinamäe 45.14 34 45.14 colspan=2 35 Isadora Williams 42.16 35 42.16 colspan=2 36 Antonina Dubinina 41.40 36 41.40 colspan=2 37 Angelīna Kučvaļska 35.78 37 35.78 colspan=2
Pairs Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS 1 Aliona Savchenko / Bruno Massot 245.84 1 82.98 1 162.86 2 Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov 225.53 2 81.29 2 144.24 3 Vanessa James / Morgan Ciprès 218.36 3 75.32 3 143.04 4 Natalya Zabiyako / Alexander Enbert 207.88 4 74.38 6 133.50 5 Nicole Della Monica / Matteo Guarise 206.06 5 72.53 5 133.53 6 Kirsten Moore-Towers / Michael Marinaro 204.33 10 70.49 4 133.84 7 Yu Xiaoyu / Zhang Hao 203.36 9 71.31 7 132.05 8 Kristina Astakhova / Alexei Rogonov 202.16 7 71.62 9 130.54 9 Peng Cheng / Jin Yang 202.07 6 71.98 10 130.09 10 Valentina Marchei / Ondřej Hotárek 202.02 8 71.37 8 130.65 11 Anna Dušková / Martin Bidař 189.60 13 66.29 11 123.31 12 Ryom Tae-ok / Kim Ju-sik 188.77 12 66.32 12 122.45 13 Annika Hocke / Ruben Blommaert 184.83 16 63.26 13 121.57 14 Miriam Ziegler / Severin Kiefer 184.30 14 65.21 14 119.09 15 Alexa Scimeca Knierim / Chris Knierim 182.04 11 69.55 15 112.49 16 Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya / Harley Windsor 177.46 15 65.02 16 112.44Did not advance to free skating 17 Deanna Stellato / Nathan Bartholomay 61.48 17 61.48 colspan=2 18 Camille Ruest / Andrew Wolfe 59.98 18 59.98 colspan=2 19 Paige Conners / Evgeni Krasnopolski 58.44 19 58.44 colspan=2 20 Laura Barquero / Aritz Maestu 58.36 20 58.36 colspan=2 21 Lana Petranović / Antonio Souza-Kordeiru 57.25 21 57.25 colspan=2 22 Julianne Séguin / Charlie Bilodeau 55.68 22 55.68 colspan=2 23 Ioulia Chtchetinina / Mikhail Akulov 53.62 23 53.62 colspan=2 24 Miu Suzaki / Ryuichi Kihara 53.33 24 53.33 colspan=2 25 Lola Esbrat / Andrei Novoselov 51.94 25 51.94 colspan=2 26 Kyu-eun Kim / Alex Kangchan Kam 42.85 26 42.85 colspan=2 27 Zoe Jones / Christopher Boyadji 42.02 27 42.02 colspan=2 28 Elizaveta Kashitsyna / Márk Magyar 36.33 28 36.33 colspan=2
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