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.[1][2]
| 2012 World Junior Figure Skating Championships | |
|---|---|
| Type: | ISU Championship |
| Date: | February 27 – March 4 |
| Season: | 2011–12 |
| Location: | Minsk, Belarus |
| Host: | Skating Union of Belarus |
| Champions | |
Men's singles:  Yan Han | |
Ladies' singles:  Yulia Lipnitskaya | |
| Pairs: Sui Wenjing / Han Cong | |
| Ice dance: Victoria Sinitsina / Ruslan Zhiganshin | |
| Previous: 2011 World Junior Championships | |
| Next: 2013 World Junior Championships | |
Qualification edit
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 edit
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 |  Japan  United States
|
Japan Russia United States
|
 Canada China Russia United States
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Russia United States
|
| 2 | Canada China Russia
|
 Belgium China
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 Czech Republic  Italy Japan
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Canada  Estonia  France  Slovakia  Spain
|
If not listed above, one entry was allowed.
Entries edit
Member nations submitted the following entries:[3] Elizaveta Tuktamysheva withdrew and was replaced by Polina Shelepen.[4]
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 edit
Minsk time (UTC+03:00), subject to changes:[5]
- 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 edit
Men edit
| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | PR | SP[6] | FS[7] | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yan Han | China
|
222.45 | 2 | 74.88 | 1 | 147.57 | ||
| 2 | Joshua Farris | United States
|
221.97 | 1 | 75.43 | 2 | 146.54 | ||
| 3 | Jason Brown | United States
|
214.90 | 4 | 70.20 | 3 | 144.70 | ||
| 4 | Denis Ten |  Kazakhstan
|
208.20 | 3 | 73.78 | 4 | 134.42 | ||
| 5 | Zhan Bush | Russia
|
196.06 | 5 | 65.21 | 6 | 130.85 | ||
| 6 | Zhang He | China
|
193.97 | 6 | 64.63 | 7 | 129.34 | ||
| 7 | Keiji Tanaka | Japan
|
189.86 | 11 | 57.70 | 5 | 132.16 | ||
| 8 | Liam Firus | Canada
|
189.06 | 7 | 62.10 | 8 | 126.96 | ||
| 9 | Ryuju Hino | Japan
|
181.34 | 14 | 56.59 | 9 | 124.75 | ||
| 10 | Shoma Uno | Japan
|
175.92 | 10 | 57.71 | 10 | 118.21 | ||
| 11 | Martin Rappe |  Germany
|
171.38 | 5 | 106.93 | 12 | 57.13 | 12 | 114.25 |
| 12 | Timothy Dolensky | United States
|
169.94 | 9 | 57.73 | 13 | 112.21 | ||
| 13 | Nam Nguyen | Canada
|
168.20 | 1 | 116.33 | 18 | 51.13 | 11 | 117.07 |
| 14 | Artur Dmitriev Jr | Russia
|
166.96 | 8 | 59.36 | 15 | 107.60 | ||
| 15 | Michael Christian Martinez |  Philippines
|
165.10 | 3 | 109.42 | 16 | 55.32 | 14 | 109.78 |
| 16 | Luiz Manella |  Brazil
|
162.53 | 4 | 107.41 | 17 | 55.07 | 16 | 107.46 |
| 17 | Petr Coufal | Czech Republic
|
161.10 | 13 | 56.74 | 17 | 104.36 | ||
| 18 | Lee June-hyoung |  South Korea
|
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 | Italy
|
143.95 | 7 | 101.47 | 19 | 50.79 | 21 | 93.16 |
| 21 | Matthias Versluis |  Finland
|
143.20 | 8 | 97.05 | 20 | 49.96 | 20 | 93.74 |
| 22 | Brendan Kerry |  Australia
|
131.40 | 10 | 89.76 | 22 | 48.83 | 22 | 82.57 |
| 23 | Chih-I Tsao |  Chinese Taipei
|
129.24 | 12 | 85.15 | 21 | 49.18 | 23 | 80.06 |
| 24 | Marcus Björk |  Sweden
|
123.33 | 24 | 46.83 | 24 | 76.50 | ||
| Did not advance to free skating | |||||||||
| 25 | Yakov Godorozha |  Ukraine
|
25 | 44.17 | |||||
| 26 | Slavik Hayrapetyan |  Armenia
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11 | 88.31 | 26 | 43.93 | |||
| 27 | Carlo Röthlisberger |  Switzerland
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14 | 79.93 | 27 | 42.24 | |||
| 28 | Kamil Dymowski |  Poland
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13 | 84.89 | 28 | 39.43 | |||
| 29 | Daniel Albert Naurits | Estonia
|
29 | 37.03 | |||||
| 30 | Pavel Ignatenko |  Belarus
|
9 | 92.05 | 30 | 36.97 | |||
| Did not advance to short program | |||||||||
| 31 | Víctor Bustamante | Spain
|
15 | 78.33 | |||||
| 32 | Osman Akgün |  Turkey
|
16 | 77.76 | |||||
| 33 | Florian Gostelie |  Netherlands
|
17 | 69.25 | |||||
| 34 | Suchet Kongchim |  Thailand
|
18 | 67.31 | |||||
| 35 | Arturas Ganzela |  Lithuania
|
19 | 61.54 | |||||
| 36 | Julian Zhi Jie Yee |  Malaysia
|
20 | 61.26 | |||||
| 37 | Armen Agaian |  Georgia
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21 | 59.73 | |||||
| 38 | Zsolt Kosz |  Romania
|
22 | 57.06 | |||||
| 39 | Wayne Wing Yin Chung |  Hong Kong
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23 | 54.38 | |||||
| 40 | Bernhard Pauli |  Austria
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24 | 54.15 | |||||
| WD | Kristóf Forgó |  Hungary
|
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Ladies edit
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[8] | FS[9] | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yulia Lipnitskaya | Russia
|
187.05 | 1 | 63.09 | 1 | 123.96 | ||
| 2 | Gracie Gold | United States
|
171.85 | 2 | 58.00 | 2 | 113.85 | ||
| 3 | Adelina Sotnikova | Russia
|
168.45 | 3 | 56.57 | 3 | 111.88 | ||
| 4 | Satoko Miyahara | Japan
|
157.78 | 4 | 52.97 | 6 | 104.81 | ||
| 5 | Li Zijun | China
|
157.31 | 6 | 51.74 | 5 | 105.57 | ||
| 6 | Polina Shelepen | Russia
|
156.02 | 12 | 47.99 | 4 | 108.03 | ||
| 7 | Christina Gao | United States
|
151.09 | 5 | 52.66 | 7 | 98.43 | ||
| 8 | Kim Hae-jin | South Korea
|
149.71 | 3 | 93.97 | 7 | 51.56 | 8 | 98.15 |
| 9 | Joshi Helgesson | Sweden
|
147.88 | 6 | 80.36 | 8 | 50.74 | 9 | 97.14 |
| 10 | Kaetlyn Osmond | Canada
|
146.25 | 1 | 97.36 | 9 | 50.15 | 10 | 96.10 |
| 11 | Zhao Ziquan | China
|
143.19 | 2 | 94.53 | 10 | 49.22 | 11 | 94.70 |
| 12 | Miu Sato | Japan
|
141.20 | 13 | 46.50 | 12 | 94.70 | ||
| 13 | Vanessa Lam | United States
|
138.94 | 11 | 48.82 | 13 | 90.12 | ||
| 14 | Gerli Liinamäe | Estonia
|
125.20 | 17 | 44.54 | 14 | 80.66 | ||
| 15 | Monika Simančíková | Slovakia
|
124.36 | 16 | 45.10 | 15 | 79.26 | ||
| 16 | Isadora Williams | Brazil
|
123.93 | 12 | 71.30 | 14 | 46.22 | 18 | 77.71 |
| 17 | Patricia Gleščič |  Slovenia
|
122.39 | 7 | 79.69 | 15 | 45.35 | 19 | 77.04 |
| 18 | Carol Bressanutti | Italy
|
119.40 | 20 | 41.59 | 17 | 77.81 | ||
| 19 | Juulia Turkkila | Finland
|
119.21 | 22 | 41.03 | 16 | 78.18 | ||
| 20 | Risa Shoji | Japan
|
113.08 | 18 | 43.13 | 22 | 69.95 | ||
| 21 | Alina Fjodorova |  Latvia
|
112.99 | 11 | 71.52 | 19 | 42.49 | 21 | 70.50 |
| 22 | Elizaveta Ukolova | Czech Republic
|
110.97 | 4 | 82.09 | 24 | 39.61 | 20 | 71.36 |
| 23 | Tina Stürzinger | Switzerland
|
108.29 | 21 | 41.39 | 23 | 66.90 | ||
| 24 | Sabrina Schulz | Austria
|
104.53 | 23 | 39.93 | 24 | 64.60 | ||
| Did not advance to free skating | |||||||||
| 25 | Anine Rabe |  Norway
|
9 | 75.26 | 25 | 39.58 | |||
| 26 | Anita Madsen |  Denmark
|
8 | 76.70 | 26 | 39.44 | |||
| 27 | Lenaelle Gilleron-Gorry | France
|
27 | 39.38 | |||||
| 28 | Angelika Dubinski | Germany
|
10 | 74.88 | 28 | 38.57 | |||
| 29 | Kristina Zakharanka | Belarus
|
14 | 70.12 | 29 | 36.23 | |||
| 30 | Brooklee Han | Australia
|
5 | 82.05 | 30 | 35.37 | |||
| 31 | Anais Claes | Belgium
|
31 | 28.00 | |||||
| Did not advance to short program | |||||||||
| 32 | Inga Janulevičiūtė | Lithuania
|
13 | 71.21 | |||||
| 33 | Alexandra Kamieniecki | Poland
|
15 | 69.11 | |||||
| 34 | Sıla Saygı | Turkey
|
16 | 66.38 | |||||
| 35 | Margot Krisberg |  Israel
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17 | 66.11 | |||||
| 36 | Katie Powell | Great Britain
|
18 | 65.01 | |||||
| 37 | Elena Mangas | Spain
|
19 | 63.61 | |||||
| 38 | Eline Anthonissen | Belgium
|
20 | 61.31 | |||||
| 39 | Melanie Swang | Thailand
|
21 | 60.86 | |||||
| 40 | Oliya Clarkson |  Grenada
|
22 | 60.75 | |||||
| 41 | Sandra Ristivojevic |  Serbia
|
23 | 58.43 | |||||
| 42 | Kim Bell | Netherlands
|
24 | 56.98 | |||||
| 43 | Isabella Schuster |  Greece
|
25 | 55.30 | |||||
| 44 | Alina Milevska | Ukraine
|
26 | 54.00 | |||||
| 45 | Regina Glazman | Kazakhstan
|
27 | 53.36 | |||||
| 46 | Vasilena Yakimova |  Bulgaria
|
28 | 53.23 | |||||
| 47 | Michelle Quintero |  Mexico
|
29 | 53.07 | |||||
| 48 | Amanda Sunyoto-Yang | Chinese Taipei
|
30 | 50.79 | |||||
| 49 | Madelaine Parker |  New Zealand
|
31 | 49.37 | |||||
| 50 | Raisa Rjenovschi | Romania
|
32 | 49.17 | |||||
| 51 | Kai Jing Leong |  Singapore
|
33 | 46.57 | |||||
| 52 | Regina Borbély | Hungary
|
34 | 45.39 | |||||
| 53 | Maral-Erdene Gansukh |  Mongolia
|
35 | 44.20 | |||||
| 54 | Ema Lipovscak |  Croatia
|
36 | 40.40 | |||||
Pairs edit
Sui / Han won their third World Junior title.[10][11]
Ice dancing edit
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.[12]
Medals summary edit
Medalists edit
Medals for overall placement:
| Discipline | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men | Yan Han
|
 Joshua Farris
|
Jason Brown
|
| Ladies | Yulia Lipnitskaya
|
Gracie Gold
|
Adelina Sotnikova
|
| Pair skating | Sui Wenjing / Han Cong
|
Yu Xiaoyu / Jin Yang
|
Vasilisa Davankova / Andrei Deputat
|
| Ice dancing | Victoria Sinitsina / Ruslan Zhiganshin
|
Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin
|
Alexandra Aldridge / Daniel Eaton
|
Small medals for placement in the short segment:
| Discipline | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men | Joshua Farris
|
Yan Han
|
Denis Ten
|
| Ladies | Yulia Lipnitskaya
|
Gracie Gold
|
Adelina Sotnikova
|
| Pair skating | Sui Wenjing / Han Cong
|
Yu Xiaoyu / Jin Yang
|
Ekaterina Petaikina / Maxim Kurdyukov
|
| Ice dancing | Victoria Sinitsina / Ruslan Zhiganshin
|
Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin
|
Anna Yanovskaia / Sergei Mozgov
|
Small medals for placement in the free segment:
| Discipline | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men | Yan Han
|
Joshua Farris
|
Jason Brown
|
| Ladies | Yulia Lipnitskaya
|
Gracie Gold
|
Adelina Sotnikova
|
| Pair skating | Sui Wenjing / Han Cong
|
Yu Xiaoyu / Jin Yang
|
Vasilisa Davankova / Andrei Deputat
|
| Ice dancing | Victoria Sinitsina / Ruslan Zhiganshin
|
Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin
|
Alexandra Aldridge / Daniel Eaton
|
By country edit
Table of medals for overall placement:
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Russia (RUS) | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 2 | China (CHN) | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 3 | United States (USA) | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| Totals (3 entries) | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 | |
Table of small medals for placement in the short segment:
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Russia (RUS) | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| 2 | China (CHN) | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 3 | United States (USA) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 4 | Kazakhstan (KAZ) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (4 entries) | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 | |
Table of small medals for placement in the free segment:
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Russia (RUS) | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 2 | China (CHN) | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 3 | United States (USA) | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| Totals (3 entries) | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 | |
References edit
- ^ "Decisions of the ISU Council : Provisional Allotments - ISU Championships 2012". International Skating Union. November 30, 2009. Archived from the original on 3 December 2009. Retrieved December 1, 2009.
- ^ Brannen, Sarah S.; Meekins, Drew (March 13, 2012). "The Inside Edge: U.S. skaters reflect on Minsk". Ice Network.
- ^ Entries
- ^ Фигуристке Туктамышевой больше не надо "ковыряться" в юниорах - Мишин [Mishin: Tuktamysheva will no longer compete in juniors]. RIA Novosti (in Russian). February 18, 2012. Archived from the original on February 18, 2012.
- ^ "Entries and Time and Practice Schedule". International Skating Union.
- ^ Flade, Tatjana (March 1, 2012). "Farris Leads Men After Short Program at Junior Worlds". Golden Skate.
- ^ Flade, Tatjana (March 3, 2012). "Han Yan wins historic Junior World title for China". Golden Skate.
- ^ Flade, Tatjana (March 2, 2012). "Lipnitskaia Leads Ladies in Minsk". Golden Skate. Archived from the original on 2014-03-26. Retrieved 2012-03-03.
- ^ Flade, Tatjana (March 3, 2012). "Lipnitskaia golden at Junior Worlds". Golden Skate. Archived from the original on 2012-03-07. Retrieved 2012-03-09.
- ^ Flade, Tatjana (February 29, 2012). "Sui and Han Take Strong Lead in Pairs Short". Golden Skate.
- ^ Flade, Tatjana (March 2, 2012). "Sui and Han Take Third Consecutive Junior World Title". Golden Skate.
- ^ a b Flade, Tatjana (March 3, 2012). "Sinitsina and Zhiganshin cruise to gold at Junior Worlds". Golden Skate.
- ^ Flade, Tatjana (February 29, 2012). "Sinitsina and Zhiganshin Lead Russian Sweep in Short Dance". Golden Skate.
External links edit
- 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