2008 World Figure Skating Championships
| 2008 World Figure Skating Championships | |
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Scandinavium arena during the championship | |
| Type: | ISU Championship |
| Date: | March 16 – 23 |
| Season: | 2007–08 |
| Location: | Gothenburg, Sweden |
| Venue: | Scandinavium |
| Champions | |
Men's singles:  Jeffrey Buttle | |
Ladies' singles:  Mao Asada | |
Pair skating:  Aliona Savchenko / Robin Szolkowy | |
Ice dancing:  Isabelle Delobel / Olivier Schoenfelder | |
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Previous: 2007 World Championships | |
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Next: 2009 World Championships | |
The 2008 World Figure Skating Championships was a senior international figure skating competition in the 2007–08 figure skating season. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. The event was held at the Scandinavium arena in Gothenburg, Sweden from March 16 to 23.
Qualification
The competition was open to skaters from ISU member nations who had reached the age of 15 by July 1, 2007. The corresponding competition for younger skaters was the 2008 World Junior Championships.
Based on the results of the 2007 World Championships, each country was allowed between one and three entries per discipline. National associations selected their entries based on their own criteria.
Due to the large number of entries at the World Championships, only the top 24 single skaters and top 20 pairs advanced to the free skating after the short program. In ice dancing, the top 30 couples in the compulsory dance advanced to the original dance, and the top 24 couples after the original dance advanced to the free dance.
Competition notes
The compulsory dance was the Argentine Tango.
Dan Zhang / Hao Zhang from China set a new world record of 74.36 points under the ISU Judging System for pairs' short program.
European champion ice dancers Oksana Domnina / Maxim Shabalin (RUS) withdrew before the event due to an injury to his knee. They were replaced by Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev. Four Continents and Grand Prix Final bronze medalist Evan Lysacek withdrew before the event due to injury.[1] He was replaced by US pewter medalist Jeremy Abbott.
Medals summary
Medalists
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men | Jeffrey Buttle |
Brian Joubert |
 Johnny Weir |
| Ladies | Mao Asada |
 Carolina Kostner |
 Kim Yuna |
| Pairs | Aliona Savchenko / Robin Szolkowy |
 Zhang Dan / Zhang Hao |
Jessica Dubé / Bryce Davison |
| Ice dancing | Isabelle Delobel / Olivier Schoenfelder |
Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir |
 Jana Khokhlova / Sergei Novitski |
Medals by country
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Canada | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 2 | France | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 3 | Germany | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 | Japan | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | China | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | Italy | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | Russia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 7 | South Korea | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 7 | United States | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Results
Men
Jeffrey Buttle was the sixth Canadian man to win the world title. His win set off a controversy because he did not attempt a quadruple jump. Brian Joubert the silver medalist criticized the system for producing a winner who did not complete or attempt a quadruple jump. This set off the first of many debates on the value of the quads and what men's figure skating should be about that would culminate in the 2010 Olympic Quadruple jump controversy.[2]
Ladies
Carolina Kostner led the short program with 64.28 points, just 0.18 pints higher than Mao Asada who was in second. Kim Yuna fell on her triple Lutz, leaving her in fifth place after the short program. Kim managed a clean free skate, earning the top score of 123.38 points. However that was insufficient to makeup for the short program. Kostner received negative grade of execution on five of her seven jumping passes but still managed the third highest free score. Asada, the only women doing the triple Axel in the competition, fell during the takeoff of the axel, but still managed to do two triple-triples and score 1.46 points higher than Kostner, securing the gold medal. Silver went to Kostner and Kim received the bronze medal.
Pairs
| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | FS | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aliona Savchenko / Robin Szolkowy | Germany | 202.86 | 2 | 72.00 | 1 | 130.86 |
| 2 | Zhang Dan / Zhang Hao | China | 197.82 | 1 | 74.36 | 3 | 123.46 |
| 3 | Jessica Dubé / Bryce Davison | Canada | 192.78 | 4 | 68.66 | 2 | 124.12 |
| 4 | Yuko Kawaguchi / Alexander Smirnov | Russia | 191.33 | 3 | 71.42 | 4 | 119.91 |
| 5 | Pang Qing / Tong Jian | China | 186.78 | 5 | 67.87 | 5 | 118.91 |
| 6 | Meagan Duhamel / Craig Buntin | Canada | 169.61 | 7 | 60.01 | 6 | 109.60 |
| 7 | Maria Mukhortova / Maxim Trankov | Russia | 166.64 | 6 | 64.09 | 9 | 102.55 |
| 8 | Anabelle Langlois / Cody Hay | Canada | 164.67 | 9 | 59.43 | 7 | 105.24 |
| 9 | Tatiana Volosozhar / Stanislav Morozov |  Ukraine | 159.95 | 8 | 59.53 | 10 | 100.42 |
| 10 | Rena Inoue / John Baldwin | United States | 157.20 | 10 | 53.83 | 8 | 103.37 |
| 11 | Brooke Castile / Benjamin Okolski | United States | 146.03 | 12 | 49.59 | 11 | 96.44 |
| 12 | Dong Huibo / Wu Yiming | China | 142.83 | 11 | 50.49 | 12 | 92.34 |
| 13 | Laura Magitteri / Ondřej Hotárek | Italy | 126.38 | 14 | 42.18 | 13 | 84.20 |
| 14 | Adeline Canac / Maximin Coia | France | 124.68 | 16 | 41.75 | 14 | 82.93 |
| 15 | Stacey Kemp / David King |  United Kingdom | 123.98 | 13 | 44.28 | 15 | 79.70 |
| 16 | Dominika Piątkowska / Dmitri Khromin |  Poland | 111.94 | 17 | 38.32 | 16 | 73.62 |
| 17 | Hayley Anne Sacks / Vadim Akolzin |  Israel | 111.23 | 15 | 41.96 | 17 | 69.27 |
| 18 | Marina Aganina / Dmitri Zobnin |  Uzbekistan | 97.31 | 18 | 35.24 | 19 | 62.07 |
| 19 | Ariel Fay Gagnon / Chad Tsagris |  Greece | 95.65 | 19 | 33.34 | 18 | 62.31 |
| 20 | Amy Ireland / Michael Bahoric |  Croatia | 77.39 | 20 | 26.57 | 20 | 50.82 |
| WD | Ekaterina Kostenko / Roman Talan | Ukraine | |||||
Ice dancing
| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | CD | OD | FD | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Isabelle Delobel / Olivier Schoenfelder | France | 212.94 | 1 | 40.73 | 1 | 67.25 | 2 | 104.96 |
| 2 | Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir | Canada | 208.80 | 2 | 38.71 | 3 | 64.81 | 1 | 105.28 |
| 3 | Jana Khokhlova / Sergei Novitski | Russia | 203.26 | 3 | 37.98 | 2 | 65.99 | 5 | 99.29 |
| 4 | Tanith Belbin / Benjamin Agosto | United States | 203.00 | 5 | 35.02 | 4 | 64.69 | 3 | 103.29 |
| 5 | Federica Faiella / Massimo Scali | Italy | 201.91 | 4 | 37.15 | 5 | 63.55 | 4 | 101.21 |
| 6 | Meryl Davis / Charlie White | United States | 191.19 | 7 | 34.80 | 7 | 60.36 | 6 | 96.03 |
| 7 | Nathalie Péchalat / Fabian Bourzat | France | 190.51 | 6 | 34.82 | 6 | 60.67 | 7 | 95.02 |
| 8 | Sinead Kerr / John Kerr | United Kingdom | 186.94 | 8 | 33.48 | 8 | 59.86 | 8 | 93.60 |
| 9 | Alexandra Zaretski / Roman Zaretski | Israel | 179.21 | 9 | 32.51 | 9 | 58.10 | 10 | 88.60 |
| 10 | Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte | Italy | 179.03 | 11 | 31.52 | 10 | 57.05 | 9 | 90.46 |
| 11 | Kristin Fraser / Igor Lukanin |  Azerbaijan | 173.95 | 10 | 31.86 | 11 | 56.35 | 11 | 85.74 |
| 12 | Kimberly Navarro / Brent Bommentre | United States | 165.90 | 12 | 31.48 | 13 | 52.10 | 14 | 82.32 |
| 13 | Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev | Russia | 164.72 | 16 | 29.12 | 12 | 52.88 | 13 | 82.72 |
| 14 | Katherine Copely / Deividas Stagniūnas |  Lithuania | 164.28 | 13 | 29.85 | 14 | 51.66 | 12 | 82.77 |
| 15 | Ekaterina Rubleva / Ivan Shefer | Russia | 160.37 | 15 | 29.14 | 15 | 49.52 | 15 | 81.71 |
| 16 | Cathy Reed / Chris Reed | Japan | 155.15 | 18 | 28.16 | 18 | 47.70 | 16 | 79.29 |
| 17 | Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje | Canada | 154.84 | 20 | 27.74 | 17 | 48.62 | 17 | 78.48 |
| 18 | Anna Zadorozhniuk / Sergei Verbillo | Ukraine | 153.25 | 14 | 29.31 | 16 | 49.17 | 21 | 74.77 |
| 19 | Allie Hann-McCurdy / Michael Coreno | Canada | 153.13 | 17 | 28.33 | 19 | 47.01 | 18 | 77.79 |
| 20 | Nelli Zhiganshina / Alexander Gazsi | Germany | 150.82 | 19 | 28.07 | 21 | 45.52 | 19 | 77.23 |
| 21 | Barbora Silná / Dmitri Matsjuk |  Austria | 147.21 | 21 | 24.85 | 20 | 46.90 | 20 | 75.46 |
| 22 | Yu Xiaoyang / Wang Chen | China | 139.20 | 23 | 23.90 | 23 | 43.97 | 23 | 71.33 |
| 23 | Kamila Hájková / David Vincour |  Czech Republic | 138.63 | 22 | 24.06 | 25 | 41.91 | 22 | 72.66 |
| 24 | Leonie Krail / Oscar Peter |  Switzerland | 126.50 | 25 | 22.38 | 22 | 44.10 | 24 | 60.02 |
| Free Dance Not Reached | |||||||||
| 25 | Krisztina Barta / Ádám Tóth |  Hungary | 64.08 | 27 | 21.44 | 24 | 42.64 | ||
| 26 | Joanna Budner / Jan Mościcki | Poland | 62.28 | 24 | 23.61 | 28 | 38.67 | ||
| 27 | Danielle O'Brien / Gregory Merriman |  Australia | 60.12 | 28 | 20.24 | 27 | 39.88 | ||
| 28 | Ksenia Shmirina / Egor Maistrov |  Belarus | 59.37 | 29 | 18.87 | 26 | 40.50 | ||
| 29 | Yu Sun Hye / Ramil Sarkulov | Uzbekistan | 56.93 | 26 | 21.85 | 30 | 35.08 | ||
| 30 | Ina Demireva / Juri Kurakin |  Bulgaria | 53.38 | 30 | 17.75 | 29 | 35.63 | ||
| Original Dance Not Reached | |||||||||
| 31 | Kristina Kiudmaa / Aleksei Trohlev |  Estonia | 31 | 16.72 | |||||
Multiple spots for 2009 Worlds
The following countries have earned more than one entry to the 2009 World Championships based on performance at the 2008 World Championships.[3]
| Spots | Men | Ladies | Pairs | Dance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | Canada Japan United States |
Japan |
Canada China Germany Russia |
France United States |
| 2 | .svg.png){kind=small} Belgium France Russia  Sweden Switzerland |
Canada  Finland Italy South Korea Switzerland United States |
Ukraine United States |
Canada Israel Italy Russia United Kingdom |
References
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to 2008 World Figure Skating Championships. |
- Competitors list
- Entries and results
- "Definite Allotment of ISU Championships 2008" (PDF). (74.8 KiB)
- "ISU Constitution & General Regulations 2006" (PDF). (793 KiB)
- "ISU Special Regulations and Technical Rules: Single and Pair Skating and Ice Dancing 2006" (PDF). (1.03 MiB)
- "ISU Communication No. 1469: Entries ISU Championships 2008".