2012 World Junior Figure Skating Championships Explained

2012 World Junior Figure Skating Championships
Comptype:	ISU Championship
Startdate:	February 27
Enddate:	March 4
Skatingseason:	2011–12
Location:	Minsk, Belarus
Host:	Skating Union of Belarus
Championmen:	Yan Han
Championladies:	Yulia Lipnitskaya
Championpairs:	Sui Wenjing / Han Cong
Championdance:	Victoria Sinitsina / Ruslan Zhiganshin
Previouscomp:	2011 World Junior Championships
Nextcomp:	2013 World Junior Championships

The 2012 World Junior Figure Skating Championships was an international figure skating competition in the 2011–12 season. Commonly called "World Juniors" and "Junior Worlds", the event determined the World Junior champions in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. The event was held in Minsk, Belarus from 27 February to 4 March 2012.

Qualification

The competition was open to skaters from ISU member nations who were at least 13 but not 19—or 21 for male pair skaters and ice dancers—before July 1, 2011, in their place of birth. Thus, competitors had to be born before July 1, 1998, but not earlier than July 1, 1992, except male pair skaters and ice dancers who could be born no earlier than July 1, 1990. National associations selected their entries according to their own criteria.

The term "Junior" in ISU competition refers to age, not skill level. Skaters may remain age-eligible for Junior Worlds even after competing nationally and internationally at the senior level. At junior events, the ISU requires that all programs conform to junior-specific rules regarding program length, jumping passes, types of elements, etc.

Number of entries per discipline

Based on the results of the 2011 World Junior Championships, the ISU allowed each country one to three entries per discipline. Countries which qualified more than one entry in a discipline:

Spots	Men	Ladies	Pairs	Dance
3
2

If not listed above, one entry was allowed.

Entries

Member nations submitted the following entries:^[1] Elizaveta Tuktamysheva withdrew and was replaced by Polina Shelepen.

Country	Men	Ladies	Pairs	Ice dancing
	Slavik Hayrapetyan
	Brendan Kerry	Brooklee Han	Veera Kestila / Callum Bullard	Hannah Sparke / Lochran Doherty
	Bernhard Pauli	Sabrina Schulz	Stina Martini / Severin Kiefer
	Pavel Ignatenko	Kristina Zakharanka	Maria Paliakova / Mikhail Fomichev	Viktoria Kavaliova / Yurii Bieliaiev
		Eline Anthonissen Anais Claes
	Luiz Manella	Isadora Williams
		Daniela Stoeva	Anjelika Ilieva / Pavel Petrov Savinov
	Liam Firus Nam Nguyen	Kaetlyn Osmond	Katherine Bobak / Ian Beharry Margaret Purdy / Michael Marinaro Hayleigh Bell / Alistair Sylvester	Nicole Orford / Thomas Williams Andréanne Poulin / Marc-André Servant
	Yan Han Zhang He	Li Zijun Zhao Ziquan	Li Meiyi / Jiang Bo Sui Wenjing / Han Cong Yu Xiaoyu / Jin Yang	Zhang Yiyi / Wu Nan
	Chih-I Tsao	Chaochih Liu
		Petra Juric
	Petr Coufal	Elizaveta Ukolova		Karolina Prochazkova / Michal Ceska
		Anita Madsen		Stephanie Baadsgaard Snider / Stepan Dubrovski
	Viktor Romanenkov	Gerli Liinamäe		Johanna Allik / Paul Bellantuono Irina Shtork / Taavi Rand
	Matthias Versluis	Juulia Turkkila		Sara Aghai / Jussiville Partanen
		Lenaelle Gilleron-Gorry	Camille Mendoza / Christopher Boyadji	Elektra Hetman / Benjamin Allain Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron
	Armen Agaian
	Martin Rappe	Angelika Dubinski	Linda Wenzig / Matti Landgraf	Shari Koch / Christian Nuchtern
Great Britain	Harry Mattick	Kate Powell		Olivia Smart / Joseph Buckland
		Oliya Clarkson
	Harry Hau Yin Lee	Sumika Yamada
	Kristóf Forgó	Regina Borbély		Szidónia Merkwart / Ádám Lukács
		Margot Krisberg		Ekaterina Bugrov / Vasili Rogov
	Maurizio Zandron	Carol Bressanutti	Alessandra Cernuschi / Filippo Ambrosini Bianca Manacorda / Nicollo Macii	Sofia Sforza / Francesco Fioretti
	Ryuju Hino Keiji Tanaka Shoma Uno	Satoko Miyahara Miu Sato Risa Shoji
	Denis Ten	Regina Glazman		Karina Uzurova / Ilias Ali
		Alina Fjodorova		Ksenia Pecherkina / Aleksander Jakushin
	Arturas Ganzela	Inga Janulevičiūtė		Ilona Birgelaite / Aivaras Stravinskas
	Julian Zhi Jie Yee
		Michelle Quintero		Pilar Maekawa Moreno / Leonardo Maekawa Moreno
		Maral-Erdene Gansukh
	Florian Gostelie	Kim Bell	Rachel Epstein / Dmitry Epstein
		Madelaine Parker		Ayesha Yigit / Shane Speden
		Anne Line Gjersem
	Michael Christian Martinez
	Kamil Dymowski	Alexandra Kamieniecki	Magdalena Klatka / Radoslaw Chruscinski	Natalia Kaliszek / Michal Kaliszek
	Vlad Ionescu	Sabina Mariuta
	Zhan Bush Artur Dmitriev, Jr.	Adelina Sotnikova Yulia Lipnitskaya Polina Shelepen	Vasilisa Davankova / Andrei Deputat Ekaterina Petaikina / Maxim Kurdyukov Kamila Gainetdinova / Ivan Bich	Victoria Sinitsina / Ruslan Zhiganshin Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin Anna Yanovskaia / Sergei Mozgov
		Sandra Ristivojevic
		Kai Jing Leong
		Monika Simancikova
		Patricia Glescic
	Lee June-hyoung	Kim Hae-jin
	Víctor Bustamante	Elena Mangas	Alexandra Rodriguez / Aritz Maestu	Celia Robledo / Luis Fenero
	Marcus Björk Nicky Obreykov	Joshi Helgesson
	Carlo Röthlisberger	Tina Stuerziner		Victoria Bausback / Demid Rokachev
	Suchet Kongchim	Melanie Swang
	Osman Akgün	Sıla Saygı		Cagla Demirsal / Berk Akalin
	Yakov Godorozha	Alina Milevskaia	Julia Lavrientieva / Yuri Rudik	Maria Nosulia / Evgen Kholoniuk
	Jason Brown Joshua Farris Timothy Dolensky	Gracie Gold Christina Gao Vanessa Lam	Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier Britney Simpson / Matthew Blackmer Kylie Duarte / Colin Grafton	Alexandra Aldridge / Daniel Eaton Lauri Bonacorsi / Travis Mager Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons
				Anna Nagornyuk / Viktor Kovalenko

Some skaters were required to compete in a preliminary round, while others received a direct entry into the short program, after which the number of entries could be reduced further. If a country had a non-direct entry, its lowest-ranked skater according to the Worlds Standings competed in the preliminary round.

Schedule

Minsk time, subject to changes:

Monday, February 27
- 10:00–14:30 – Preliminary round: Men
- 15:30–18:20 – Preliminary round: Dance
- 19:15–22:10 – Preliminary round: Pairs
Tuesday, February 28
- 10:00–16:00 – Preliminary round: Ladies
Wednesday, February 29
- 13:00–16:50 – Short dance
- 18:30–19:00 – Opening ceremony
- 19:15–22:35 – Pairs' short
Thursday, March 1
- 13:30–17:55 – Men's short
- 19:30–22:20 – Pairs' free
Friday, March 2
- 13:00–17:25 – Ladies' short
- 19:00–22:10 – Free dance
Saturday, March 3
- 13:00–16:50 – Men's free
- 18:30–22:15 – Ladies' free
Sunday, March 4
- 14:30–17:00 – Exhibitions

Results

Men

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	PR		SP		FS
1	Yan Han		222.45			2	74.88	1	147.57
2	Joshua Farris		221.97			1	75.43	2	146.54
3	Jason Brown		214.90			4	70.20	3	144.70
4	Denis Ten		208.20			3	73.78	4	134.42
5	Zhan Bush		196.06			5	65.21	6	130.85
6	Zhang He		193.97			6	64.63	7	129.34
7	Keiji Tanaka		189.86			11	57.70	5	132.16
8	Liam Firus		189.06			7	62.10	8	126.96
9	Ryuju Hino		181.34			14	56.59	9	124.75
10	Shoma Uno		175.92			10	57.71	10	118.21
11	Martin Rappe		171.38	5	106.93	12	57.13	12	114.25
12	Timothy Dolensky		169.94			9	57.73	13	112.21
13	Nam Nguyen		168.20	1	116.33	18	51.13	11	117.07
14	Artur Dmitriev Jr		166.96			8	59.36	15	107.60
15	Michael Christian Martinez		165.10	3	109.42	16	55.32	14	109.78
16	Luiz Manella		162.53	4	107.41	17	55.07	16	107.46
17	Petr Coufal		161.10			13	56.74	17	104.36
18	Lee June-hyoung		158.93	2	110.48	15	55.74	18	103.19
19	Harry Mattick	Great Britain	146.78	6	105.17	23	48.24	19	98.54
20	Maurizio Zandron		143.95	7	101.47	19	50.79	21	93.16
21	Matthias Versluis		143.20	8	97.05	20	49.96	20	93.74
22	Brendan Kerry		131.40	10	89.76	22	48.83	22	82.57
23	Chih-I Tsao		129.24	12	85.15	21	49.18	23	80.06
24	Marcus Björk		123.33			24	46.83	24	76.50
Did not advance to free skating
25	Yakov Godorozha					25	44.17
26	Slavik Hayrapetyan			11	88.31	26	43.93
27	Carlo Röthlisberger			14	79.93	27	42.24
28	Kamil Dymowski			13	84.89	28	39.43
29	Daniel Albert Naurits					29	37.03
30	Pavel Ignatenko			9	92.05	30	36.97
Did not advance to short program
31	Víctor Bustamante			15	78.33
32	Osman Akgün			16	77.76
33	Florian Gostelie			17	69.25
34	Suchet Kongchim			18	67.31
35	Arturas Ganzela			19	61.54
36	Julian Zhi Jie Yee			20	61.26
37	Armen Agaian			21	59.73
38	Zsolt Kosz			22	57.06
39	Wayne Wing Yin Chung			23	54.38
40	Bernhard Pauli			24	54.15
WD	Kristóf Forgó

Ladies

Despite finishing out of the top 12, Belarus' Kristina Zakharanka qualified for the short program as she was the representative of the host country.

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	PR		SP		FS
1	Yulia Lipnitskaya		187.05			1	63.09	1	123.96
2	Gracie Gold		171.85			2	58.00	2	113.85
3	Adelina Sotnikova		168.45			3	56.57	3	111.88
4	Satoko Miyahara		157.78			4	52.97	6	104.81
5	Li Zijun		157.31			6	51.74	5	105.57
6	Polina Shelepen		156.02			12	47.99	4	108.03
7	Christina Gao		151.09			5	52.66	7	98.43
8	Kim Hae-jin		149.71	3	93.97	7	51.56	8	98.15
9	Joshi Helgesson		147.88	6	80.36	8	50.74	9	97.14
10	Kaetlyn Osmond		146.25	1	97.36	9	50.15	10	96.10
11	Zhao Ziquan		143.19	2	94.53	10	49.22	11	94.70
12	Miu Sato		141.20			13	46.50	12	94.70
13	Vanessa Lam		138.94			11	48.82	13	90.12
14	Gerli Liinamäe		125.20			17	44.54	14	80.66
15	Monika Simančíková		124.36			16	45.10	15	79.26
16	Isadora Williams		123.93	12	71.30	14	46.22	18	77.71
17	Patricia Gleščič		122.39	7	79.69	15	45.35	19	77.04
18	Carol Bressanutti		119.40			20	41.59	17	77.81
19	Juulia Turkkila		119.21			22	41.03	16	78.18
20	Risa Shoji		113.08			18	43.13	22	69.95
21	Alina Fjodorova		112.99	11	71.52	19	42.49	21	70.50
22	Elizaveta Ukolova		110.97	4	82.09	24	39.61	20	71.36
23	Tina Stürzinger		108.29			21	41.39	23	66.90
24	Sabrina Schulz		104.53			23	39.93	24	64.60
Did not advance to free skating
25	Anine Rabe			9	75.26	25	39.58
26	Anita Madsen			8	76.70	26	39.44
27	Lenaelle Gilleron-Gorry					27	39.38
28	Angelika Dubinski			10	74.88	28	38.57
29	Kristina Zakharanka			14	70.12	29	36.23
30	Brooklee Han			5	82.05	30	35.37
31	Anais Claes					31	28.00
Did not advance to short program
32	Inga Janulevičiūtė			13	71.21
33	Alexandra Kamieniecki			15	69.11
34	Sıla Saygı			16	66.38
35	Margot Krisberg			17	66.11
36	Katie Powell	Great Britain		18	65.01
37	Elena Mangas			19	63.61
38	Eline Anthonissen			20	61.31
39	Melanie Swang			21	60.86
40	Oliya Clarkson			22	60.75
41	Sandra Ristivojevic			23	58.43
42	Kim Bell			24	56.98
43	Isabella Schuster			25	55.30
44	Alina Milevska			26	54.00
45	Regina Glazman			27	53.36
46	Vasilena Yakimova			28	53.23
47	Michelle Quintero			29	53.07
48	Amanda Sunyoto-Yang			30	50.79
49	Madelaine Parker			31	49.37
50	Raisa Rjenovschi			32	49.17
51	Kai Jing Leong			33	46.57
52	Regina Borbély			34	45.39
53	Maral-Erdene Gansukh			35	44.20
54	Ema Lipovscak			36	40.40

Pairs

Sui / Han won their third World Junior title.

Rank	Name	Total points	PR		SP		FS
1	Sui Wenjing / Han Cong	175.69			1	59.29	1	116.40
2	Yu Xiaoyu / Jin Yang	167.48	1	96.37	2	54.72	2	112.76
3	Vasilisa Davankova / Andrei Deputat	153.66			5	50.50	3	103.16
4	Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier	150.55	2	91.58	4	50.81	4	99.74
5	Margaret Purdy / Michael Marinaro	141.76			7	49.51	5	92.25
6	Ekaterina Petaikina / Maxim Kurdyukov	141.19			3	51.18	7	90.01
7	Katherine Bobak / Ian Beharry	139.89			6	49.77	6	90.12
8	Kylie Duarte / Colin Grafton	133.93			8	48.24	8	85.69
9	Li Meiyi / Jiang Bo	128.05	3	88.48	10	46.97	11	81.08
10	Britney Simpson / Matthew Blackmer	127.93			11	46.83	10	81.10
11	Kamila Gainetdinova / Ivan Bich	127.84			9	47.51	12	80.33
12	Hayleigh Bell / Alistair Sylvester	126.73	4	81.11	12	42.01	9	84.72
13	Magdalena Klatka / Radosław Chruściński	118.48	5	75.75	13	41.42	13	77.06
14	Julia Lavrentieva / Yuri Rudik	110.03	10	65.23	15	39.71	15	70.32
15	Stina Martini / Severin Kiefer	109.77	7	71.49	16	38.92	14	70.85
16	Camille Mendoza / Christopher Boyadji	109.64	6	73.64	14	40.67	16	68.97
Did not advance to free skating
17	Rachel Epstein / Dmitry Epstein		9	66.63	17	36.84
18	Bianca Manacorda / Niccolo Macii		8	67.49	18	35.37
19	Maria Paliakova / Mikhail Fomichev		11	63.35	19	33.43
20	Alessandra Cernuschi / Filippo Ambrosini				20	29.91
Did not advance to short program
21	Alexandra Rodriguez / Aritz Maestu		12	59.19
22	Veera Kestila / Callum Bullard		13	56.16
23	Linda Wenzig / Matti Landgraf		14	52.61
24	Anjelika Ilieva / Pavel Petrov Savinov		15	51.53

Ice dancing

All medalists were at their first World Junior Championships. In the free dance, Yanovskaia / Mozgov's music was stopped by the referee when Mozgov's bootstrap came loose.

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	PR		SD		FD
1	Victoria Sinitsina / Ruslan Zhiganshin		153.81			1	63.78	1	90.03
2	Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin		147.74			2	62.68	2	85.06
3	Alexandra Aldridge / Daniel Eaton		141.14			5	57.76	3	83.38
4	Anna Yanovskaia / Sergei Mozgov		140.63			3	58.89	4	81.74
5	Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron		138.70			4	58.09	5	80.61
6	Nicole Orford / Thomas Williams		134.61			6	55.86	6	78.75
7	Lauri Bonacorsi / Travis Mager		128.41			8	54.53	7	73.88
8	Maria Nosulia / Evgeni Kholoniuk		123.93			7	54.91	8	69.02
9	Shari Koch / Christian Nüchtern		117.26	1	72.36	9	51.68	10	65.58
10	Sofia Sforza / Francesco Fioretti		116.25	4	69.24	10	51.06	12	65.19
11	Irina Shtork / Taavi Rand		115.66			11	50.75	13	64.91
12	Anna Nagornyuk / Viktor Kovalenko		112.49	3	70.40	15	45.82	9	66.67
13	Ksenia Pecherkina / Aleksandrs Jakushin		111.11	6	64.24	14	45.84	11	65.27
14	Zhang Yiyi / Wu Nan		109.48	5	64.94	13	46.35	15	63.13
15	Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons		109.16			16	45.37	14	63.79
16	Sara Aghai / Jussiville Partanen		107.84	8	59.81	12	47.15	17	60.69
17	Olivia Smart / Joseph Buckland	Great Britain	106.46	7	61.19	17	45.00	16	61.46
18	Çağla Demirsal / Berk Akalın		101.23	10	58.31	19	43.08	19	58.15
19	Viktoria Kavaliova / Yurii Bieliaiev		100.41	9	58.99	20	42.04	18	58.37
20	Andréanne Poulin / Marc-André Servant		96.44			18	43.81	20	52.63
Did not advance to free dance
21	Karolina Prochazkova / Michal Ceska			2	70.58	21	41.84
22	Karina Uzurova / Ilias Ali			11	58.04	22	40.09
23	Elektra Hetman / Benjamin Allain					23	39.22
24	Celia Robledo / Luis Fenero					24	38.23
25	Victoria Bausback / Demid Rokachev					25	35.27
Did not advance to short dance
26	Johanna Allik / Paul Bellantuono			12	57.30
27	Ekaterina Bugrov / Vasili Rogov			13	56.10
28	Natalia Kaliszek / Michał Kaliszek			14	54.36
29	Stephanie Baadsgaard Snider / Stepan Dubrovski			15	54.21
30	Szidónia Merkwart / Ádám Lukács			16	44.68
31	Ayesha Yigit / Shane Speden			17	40.53
32	Hannah Sparke / Lochran Doherty			18	27.46

Medals summary

Medalists

Medals for overall placement:

align=center	Men	Yan Han	Joshua Farris	Jason Brown
align=center	Ladies	Yulia Lipnitskaya	Gracie Gold	Adelina Sotnikova
align=center	Pair skating	Sui Wenjing / Han Cong	Yu Xiaoyu / Jin Yang	Vasilisa Davankova / Andrei Deputat
align=center	Ice dancing	Victoria Sinitsina / Ruslan Zhiganshin	Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin	Alexandra Aldridge / Daniel Eaton

Small medals for placement in the short segment:

align=center	Men	Joshua Farris	Yan Han	Denis Ten
align=center	Ladies	Yulia Lipnitskaya	Gracie Gold	Adelina Sotnikova
align=center	Pair skating	Sui Wenjing / Han Cong	Yu Xiaoyu / Jin Yang	Ekaterina Petaikina / Maxim Kurdyukov
align=center	Ice dancing	Victoria Sinitsina / Ruslan Zhiganshin	Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin	Anna Yanovskaia / Sergei Mozgov

Small medals for placement in the free segment:

align=center	Men	Yan Han	Joshua Farris	Jason Brown
align=center	Ladies	Yulia Lipnitskaya	Gracie Gold	Adelina Sotnikova
align=center	Pair skating	Sui Wenjing / Han Cong	Yu Xiaoyu / Jin Yang	Vasilisa Davankova / Andrei Deputat
align=center	Ice dancing	Victoria Sinitsina / Ruslan Zhiganshin	Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin	Alexandra Aldridge / Daniel Eaton

By country

Table of medals for overall placement:

External links

2012 World Junior Championships - Starting orders and results at the International Skating Union
2012 World Junior Championships - Entries and schedule at the International Skating Union

Notes and References

http://www.isuresults.com/events/fsevent00011323.htm Entries