The 2018 World Junior Figure Skating Championships were held in Sofia, Bulgaria from 5–11 March 2018.
Records
The following new junior records were set during this competition: Event Component Skater(s) Score Date RefLadies Free skating Alexandra Trusova 153.49 10 March 2018 Total score 225.52
Qualification Minimum TES The ISU stipulates that the minimum scores must be achieved at an ISU-recognized junior international competition in the ongoing or preceding season, no later than 21 days before the first official practice day.
Minimum technical scores (TES) Discipline SP / SD FS / FD Men 20 42 Ladies 20 35 Pairs 20 30 Ice dance 18 28 SP and FS scores may be attained at different events.
Number of entries per discipline Based on the results of the 2017 Junior World Championships, each ISU member nation fielded 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 7 12:00 Dance Short dance 17:30 Opening ceremony 19:00 Pairs Short program Day 2 March 8 11:30 Men Short program 19:00 Pairs Free skating Pairs Victory ceremony Day 3 March 9 10:45 Ladies Short program 19:00 Dance Free dance Dance Victory ceremony Day 4 March 10 11:00 Men Free skating Men Victory ceremony 16:00 Ladies Free skating Ladies Victory ceremony Day 5 March 11 15:00 Exhibition gala
Entries Member nations began announcing their selections in December 2017. The International Skating Union published the full list of entries on 13 February 2018.
Country Men Ladies Pairs Ice dance James Min Luc Maierhofer Stefanie Pesendorfer Larry Loupolover Morgan Flood Yana Buga / Georgy Pokhilyuk Yakau Zenko Aliaksandra Chepeleva Karina Sidarenka / Maksim Yalenich Alexander Zlatkov Alexandra Feigin Yana Bozhilova / Kaloyan Georgiev Conrad Orzel Joseph Phan Aurora Cotop Lori-Ann Matte / Thierry Ferland Evelyn Walsh / Trennt Michaud Marjorie Lajoie / Zachary Lagha Olivia McIsaac / Elliott Graham Chen Hongyi Gao Yumeng / Xie Zhong Tang Feiyao / Yang Yongchao Ning Wanqi / Wang Chao Micah Tang Amy Lin Charles Henry Katanovic Hana Cvijanovic Petr Kotlařík Dahyun Ko Edita Hornakova / Radek Jakubka Natálie Taschlerová / Filip Taschler Aleksandr Selevko Kristina Shkuleta-Gromova Viktoria Semenjuk / Artur Gruzdev Roman Galay Sofia Sula Luc Economides Adam Siao Him Fa Léa Serna Cléo Hamon / Denys Strekalin Loïcia Demougeot / Théo Le Mercier Natacha Lagouge / Corentin Rahier Irakli Maysuradze Irina Gvadeneshvili / Alex Dolishniy Maria Kazakova / Georgy Reviya Jonathan Hess Lea Johanna Dastich Ann-Christin Marold Talisa Thomalla / Robert Kunkel Charise Matthaei / Maximilian Pfisterer Ria Schwendinger / Valentin Wunderlich Harrison Jon-Yen Wong Hiu Ching Kwong Yi Christy Leung Alexander Borovoj Júlia Láng Villő Marton / Danyil Semko Samuel McAllister David Igor Birinberg Mark Gorodnitsky Maya Gorodnitsky Hailey Esther Kops / Artem Tsoglin Shira Ichilov / Vadim Davidovich Matteo Rizzo Lucrezia Beccari Sara Carli / Marco Pauletti Chiara Calderone / Pietro Papetti Sena Miyake Mitsuki Sumoto Rika Kihira Mako Yamashita Yuhana Yokoi Riku Miura / Shoya Ichihashi Haruno Yajima / Daiki Shimazaki Nikita Manko Alana Toktarova Gaukhar Nauryzova / Boyisangur Datiev Kims Georgs Pavlovs Anete Lāce Paulina Ramanauskaitė Chew Kai Xiang Donovan Carrillo Andrea Montesinos Cantú Davide Lewton Brain Kyarha Van Tiel Yamato Rowe Erik Matysiak Oliwia Rzepiel Olexandra Borysova / Cezary Zawadzki Amanda Stan Artur Danielian Alexey Erokhov Roman Savosin Stanislava Konstantinova Alena Kostornaia Alexandra Trusova Polina Kostiukovich / Dmitrii Ialin Anastasia Mishina / Aleksandr Galiamov Daria Pavliuchenko / Denis Khodykin Sofia Shevchenko / Igor Eremenko Anastasia Skoptsova / Kirill Aleshin Arina Ushakova / Maxim Nekrasov Cha Young-hyun Lee Si-hyeong Lim Eun-soo You Young Leona Rogic Chadwick Wang Chloe Ing Silvia Hugec Marusa Udrih Aleix Gabara Isabella Gámez / Tòn Cónsul Malene Nichita-Basquin / Jaime García Gabriel Folkesson Selma Ihr Nurullah Sahaka Maia Mazzara Micah Kai Lynette Başar Oktar Guzide Irmak Bayir Ivan Pavlov Ivan Shmuratko Anastasiia Arkhipova Sofiia Nesterova / Artem Darenskyi Darya Popova / Volodymyr Byelikov Luke Digby Kristen Spours Sasha Fear / George Waddell Tomoki Hiwatashi Alexei Krasnozhon Camden Pulkinen Ting Cui Emmy Ma Sarah Feng / TJ Nyman Audrey Lu / Misha Mitrofanov Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko Caroline Green / Gordon Green Chloe Lewis / Logan Bye
Changes to initial assignments Announced Country Discipline Initial Replacement Reference January 12, 2018 Ladies Starr Andrews Emmy Ma
Results Men
The leader from the short program, Alexei Krasnozhon, sustained an injury on his first jumping pass, a quad Salchow, and subsequently withdrew from the competition.
Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS 1 Alexey Erokhov 231.52 2 76.54 1 154.98 2 Artur Danielian 218.76 8 69.15 2 149.61 3 Matteo Rizzo 211.58 6 70.24 6 141.34 4 Joseph Phan 210.91 14 65.26 3 145.65 5 Roman Savosin 207.91 12 65.36 5 142.55 6 Camden Pulkinen 207.88 17 62.31 4 145.57 7 Tomoki Hiwatashi 206.68 11 67.85 7 138.83 8 Ivan Pavlov 206.38 4 71.05 8 135.33 9 Mitsuki Sumoto 199.51 3 72.94 9 126.57 10 Jonathan Hess 195.32 7 69.88 10 125.44 11 Lee Si-hyeong 194.85 5 70.70 11 124.15 12 Irakli Maysuradze 186.98 9 68.31 15 118.67 13 Conrad Orzel 185.93 15 64.49 12 121.44 14 Mark Gorodnitsky 180.43 18 61.72 14 118.71 15 Luc Economides 179.55 21 58.84 13 120.71 16 Nurullah Sahaka 177.75 13 65.31 18 112.44 17 Adam Siao Him Fa 175.59 16 64.11 19 111.48 18 Sena Miyake 174.66 10 67.98 23 106.68 19 Cha Young-hyun 174.13 23 57.57 16 116.56 20 Petr Kotlařík 173.15 20 60.27 17 112.88 21 Donovan Carrillo 168.68 19 61.37 22 107.31 22 Gabriel Folkesson 166.39 24 57.11 20 109.28 23 Micah Kai Lynette 166.00 22 58.38 21 107.62 WD Alexei Krasnozhon 1 80.28 colspan=2 Did not advance to free skating 25 Başar Oktar 56.84 25 56.84 colspan=2 26 Kai Xiang Chew 56.76 26 56.76 colspan=2 27 Aleksandr Selevko 54.90 27 54.90 colspan=2 28 Ivan Shmuratko 54.51 28 54.51 colspan=2 29 Yakau Zenko 54.15 29 54.15 colspan=2 30 Larry Loupolover 53.67 30 53.67 colspan=2 31 Aleix Gabara 52.22 31 52.22 colspan=2 32 Davide Lewton Brain 51.68 32 51.68 colspan=2 33 Harrison Jon-Yen Wong 49.11 33 49.11 colspan=2 34 Alexander Zlatkov 48.36 34 48.36 colspan=2 35 Roman Galay 47.87 35 47.87 colspan=2 36 Micah Tang 47.37 36 47.37 colspan=2 37 Kims Georgs Pavlovs 46.65 37 46.65 colspan=2 38 David Igor Birinberg 46.03 38 46.03 colspan=2 39 James Min 45.72 39 45.72 colspan=2 40 Alexander Borovoj 43.43 40 43.43 colspan=2 41 Luc Maierhofer 42.52 41 42.52 colspan=2 42 Nikita Manko 41.03 42 41.03 colspan=2 43 Luke Digby 40.37 43 40.37 colspan=2 44 Samuel McAllister 39.97 44 39.97 colspan=2 45 Chadwick Wang 39.54 45 39.54 colspan=2 46 Erik Matysiak 39.48 46 39.48 colspan=2 47 Charles Henry Katanovic 36.80 47 36.80 colspan=2 48 Yamato Rowe 34.37 48 34.37 colspan=2
Ladies Alexandra Trusova set a new junior world record for the free skating (153.49 points) landing a quadruple salchow and quadruple toe. She also set the new combined total record (225.52 points).
Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS 1 Alexandra Trusova 225.52 1 72.03 1 153.49 2 Alena Kostornaia 207.39 2 71.63 2 135.76 3 Mako Yamashita 195.17 3 66.79 3 128.38 4 Stanislava Konstantinova 186.35 6 62.63 5 123.72 5 Lim Eun-soo 185.12 5 62.96 6 122.16 6 Yuhana Yokoi 184.78 8 59.81 4 124.97 7 Ting Cui 180.39 7 62.22 7 118.17 8 Rika Kihira 175.25 4 63.74 9 111.51 9 You Young 171.78 9 59.79 8 111.99 10 Lea Johanna Dastich 164.34 12 55.32 10 109.02 11 Yi Christy Leung 156.22 11 56.97 13 99.25 12 Stefanie Pesendorfer 153.70 13 54.16 12 99.54 13 Anastasiia Arkhipova 151.98 10 59.37 16 92.61 14 Selma Ihr 150.35 14 53.33 14 97.02 15 Alexandra Feigin 147.50 17 51.49 15 96.01 16 Lucrezia Beccari 147.45 23 46.46 11 100.99 17 Aurora Cotop 141.64 21 49.15 17 92.49 18 Chen Hongyi 141.00 18 49.83 18 91.17 19 Emmy Ma 139.98 16 52.78 19 87.20 20 Ann-Christin Marold 135.56 15 52.84 20 82.72 21 Kristen Spours 129.21 19 49.57 21 79.64 22 Alana Toktarova 127.27 22 48.28 22 78.99 23 Chloe Ing 124.26 20 49.27 23 74.99 24 Kyarha van Tiel 116.77 24 45.88 24 70.89Did not advance to free skating 25 Dahyun Ko 45.68 25 45.68 colspan=2 26 Morgan Flood 45.04 26 45.04 colspan=2 27 Andrea Montesinos Cantu 44.26 27 44.26 colspan=2 28 Maya Gorodnitsky 44.24 28 44.24 colspan=2 29 Sofia Sula 44.21 29 44.21 colspan=2 30 Güzide Irmak Bayır 43.09 30 43.09 colspan=2 31 Amy Lin 43.06 31 43.06 colspan=2 32 Júlia Láng 42.00 32 42.00 colspan=2 33 Silvia Hugec 41.49 33 41.49 colspan=2 34 Kristina Škuleta-Gromova 41.30 34 41.30 colspan=2 35 Maïa Mazzara 40.69 35 40.69 colspan=2 36 Hana Cvijanović 40.51 36 40.51 colspan=2 37 Anete Lāce 40.03 37 40.03 colspan=2 38 Léa Serna 39.97 38 39.97 colspan=2 39 Oliwia Rzepiel 39.71 39 39.71 colspan=2 40 Amanda Stan 38.46 40 38.46 colspan=2 41 Hiu Ching Kwong 37.31 41 37.31 colspan=2 42 Aliaksandra Chepeleva 36.63 42 36.63 colspan=2 43 Paulina Ramanauskaitė 33.50 43 33.50 colspan=2 44 Maruša Udrih 32.71 44 32.71 colspan=2
Pairs Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS 1 Daria Pavliuchenko / Denis Khodykin 180.53 1 63.12 1 117.41 2 Polina Kostiukovich / Dmitrii Ialin 167.99 2 61.77 3 106.22 3 Anastasia Mishina / Aleksandr Galiamov 167.24 4 56.95 2 110.29 4 Gao Yumeng / Xie Zhong 164.70 3 59.55 5 105.15 5 Audrey Lu / Misha Mitrofanov 160.09 6 54.38 4 105.71 6 Evelyn Walsh / Trennt Michaud 158.96 5 55.31 6 103.65 7 Talisa Thomalla / Robert Kunkel 144.38 8 52.13 8 92.25 8 Sarah Feng / TJ Nyman 143.10 7 54.09 9 89.01 9 Lori-Ann Matte / Thierry Ferland 142.51 10 50.14 7 92.37 10 Riku Miura / Shoya Ichihashi 137.22 9 50.30 11 86.92 11 Cléo Hamon / Denys Strekalin 133.04 13 44.45 10 88.59 12 Tang Feiyao / Yang Yongchao 130.97 11 48.15 12 82.82 13 Isabella Gamez / Tòn Cónsul 121.00 12 45.04 14 75.96 14 Sofiia Nesterova / Artem Darenskyi 117.73 14 43.91 15 76.18 15 Edita Hornaková / Radek Jakubka 117.55 15 41.37 13 73.82 16 Hailey Esther Kops / Artem Tsoglin 106.01 16 38.81 16 67.20Did not advance to free skating 17 Sara Carli / Marco Pauletti 36.99 17 36.99 colspan=2
Ice dance Rank Name Nation Total points SD FD 1 Anastasia Skoptsova / Kirill Aleshin 155.15 1 66.44 1 88.71 2 Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko 147.68 6 60.85 2 86.83 3 Arina Ushakova / Maxim Nekrasov 146.88 3 61.29 3 85.59 4 Marjorie Lajoie / Zachary Lagha 146.22 2 62.39 5 83.83 5 Sofia Shevchenko / Igor Eremenko 145.85 4 60.95 4 84.90 6 Caroline Green / Gordon Green 141.83 5 60.86 7 80.97 7 Chloe Lewis / Logan Bye 139.17 8 58.07 6 81.10 8 Natacha Lagouge / Corentin Rahier 136.75 7 59.26 9 77.49 9 Maria Kazakova / Georgy Reviya 133.07 11 54.95 8 78.12 10 Ria Schwendinger / Valentin Wunderlich 130.27 10 55.02 10 75.25 11 Darya Popova / Volodymyr Byelikov 125.26 9 55.56 11 69.70 12 Olivia McIsaac / Elliott Graham 121.17 12 52.80 14 68.37 13 Chiara Calderone / Pietro Papetti 120.85 13 51.78 13 69.07 14 Villő Marton / Danyil Semko 119.92 15 50.58 12 69.36 15 Loïcia Demougeot / Théo Le Mercier 117.60 14 51.52 15 66.08 16 Yana Buga / Georgy Pokhilyuk 112.55 18 48.27 16 64.28 17 Shira Ichilov / Vadim Davidovich 112.22 17 49.63 17 62.59 18 Natálie Taschlerová / Filip Taschler 110.30 16 50.25 18 60.05 19 Charise Matthaei / Maximilian Pfisterer 105.45 20 45.93 19 59.52 20 Viktoria Semenjuk / Artur Gruzdev 105.18 19 46.09 20 59.09Did not advance to free dance 21 Sasha Fear / George Waddell 42.57 21 42.57 colspan=2 22 Ning Wanqi / Wang Chao 41.40 22 41.40 colspan=2 23 Haruno Yajima / Daiki Shimazaki 41.16 23 41.16 colspan=2 24 Karina Sidarenka / Maksim Yalenich 40.00 24 40.00 colspan=2 25 Yana Bozhilova / Kaloyan Georgiev 38.81 25 38.81 colspan=2 26 Olexandra Borysova / Cezary Zawadzki 38.67 26 38.67 colspan=2 27 Gaukhar Nauryzova / Boyisangur Datiev 38.33 27 38.33 colspan=2 28 Malene Niquita-Basquin / Jaime García 36.26 28 36.26 colspan=2
Medals summary