The 2007 World Figure Skating Championships was a senior international figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. The event was held at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan from March 20 to 25.

Medals table

Competition notes The competition was open to skaters from ISU member nations who had reached the age of 15 by July 1, 2006. The corresponding competition for younger skaters was the 2007 World Junior Championships.

Based on the results of the 2006 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.

Yukari Nakano and Carolina Kostner tied for 5th place with 168.92 points overall. Nakano finished 5th place on the tiebreak (free skating placement) and Kostner ended 6th. In the ladies' event, two world records were set: Yuna Kim for the short program with a score of 71.95, and Mao Asada for the free skating with a score of 133.13.

Shen Xue / Zhao Hongbo from China set a new world record of 71.07 points under the ISU Judging System for pairs' short program. Zhao proposed marriage to Shen on the ice following their free skating.

Results Men Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS 1 Brian Joubert 240.85 1 83.64 3 157.21 2 Daisuke Takahashi 237.95 3 74.51 1 163.44 3 Stéphane Lambiel 233.35 6 72.70 2 160.65 4 Tomáš Verner 226.25 9 70.45 4 155.80 5 Evan Lysacek 222.18 5 73.49 5 148.69 6 Jeffrey Buttle 214.96 2 79.90 8 135.06 7 Nobunari Oda 209.94 14 67.17 6 142.77 8 Johnny Weir 206.97 4 74.26 10 132.71 9 Kristoffer Berntsson 206.29 15 66.09 7 140.20 10 Sergei Davydov 203.05 8 70.72 12 132.33 11 Alban Préaubert 202.60 10 70.06 11 132.54 12 Stefan Lindemann 198.78 16 65.40 9 133.38 13 Christopher Mabee 195.38 7 71.33 14 124.05 14 Yannick Ponsero 192.63 12 68.76 15 123.87 15 Ryan Bradley 188.90 19 62.88 13 126.02 16 Emanuel Sandhu 188.59 11 69.42 16 119.17 17 Karel Zelenka 180.10 17 63.81 17 116.29 18 Jamal Othman 178.39 18 63.71 20 114.68 19 Sergei Voronov 176.57 22 60.50 19 116.07 20 Andrei Lutai 175.46 24 59.37 18 116.09 21 Igor Macypura 174.94 21 61.25 22 113.69 22 Gregor Urbas 174.39 23 59.93 21 114.46 23 Wu Jialiang 170.10 13 67.70 24 102.40 24 Anton Kovalevski 169.27 20 61.61 23 107.66 Free Skating Not Reached 25 Ari-Pekka Nurmenkari 25 55.79 26 Xu Ming 26 54.80 27 Alper Uçar 27 50.09 28 Sean Carlow 28 49.73 29 Christian Rauchbauer 29 49.19 30 Trifun Zivanovic 30 48.45 31 Naiden Borichev 31 46.69 32 Sergei Kotov 32 43.99 33 Przemysław Domański 33 42.51 34 Lee Dong-whun 34 42.00 35 Javier Fernández 35 41.57 36 Luis Hernández 36 40.33 37 Justin Pietersen 37 39.73 38 Boris Martinec 38 37.09 39 Zeus Issariotis 39 37.03 40 Edward Ka-yin Chow 40 34.63 41 Zoltán Kelemen 41 33.71 42 Joel Watson 42 30.09

Referee: Paolo Pizzocari

Technical Controller: Gale Tanger

Technical Specialist: Ricardo Olavarrieta

Assistant Technical Specialist: Margus Hernitz

Judges for the men's short program: Albert Zaydman Nikolai Ianev Adriana Domanska Nicolai Bellu Alexei Shirshov Hermann Schulz Sviatoslav Babenko Neil Garrard Inger Andersson Claudia Fassora Susan Johnson Ubavka Novakovic-Kutinou

Judges for the men's free skating: Nicolai Bellu Philippe Meriguet Inger Andersson Albert Zaydman Patricia Houghton Claudia Fassora Hermann Schulz Nikolai Ianev Alexei Shirshov Susan Johnson Deborah Islam Sviatoslav Babenko

Ladies Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS 1 Miki Ando 195.09 2 67.98 2 127.11 2 Mao Asada 194.45 5 61.32 1 133.13 3 Kim Yuna 186.14 1 71.95 4 114.19 4 Kimmie Meissner 180.23 4 64.67 3 115.56 5 Yukari Nakano 168.92 7 60.62 6 108.30 6 Carolina Kostner 168.92 3 67.15 9 101.77 7 Sarah Meier 160.80 9 58.52 8 102.28 8 Susanna Pöykiö 160.12 10 57.16 7 102.96 9 Emily Hughes 159.06 6 60.88 13 98.18 10 Joannie Rochette 158.98 16 49.85 5 109.13 11 Valentina Marchei 153.60 14 51.88 10 101.72 12 Júlia Sebestyén 153.50 8 59.98 15 93.52 13 Elena Sokolova 149.77 11 55.83 14 93.94 14 Kiira Korpi 149.47 17 49.63 11 99.84 15 Alissa Czisny 147.74 18 49.43 12 98.31 16 Arina Martinova 145.28 12 54.69 16 90.59 17 Elene Gedevanishvili 144.40 13 53.97 17 90.43 18 Jelena Glebova 131.18 22 46.10 18 85.08 19 Anastasia Gimazetdinova 130.44 15 49.99 20 80.45 20 Joanne Carter 127.17 19 48.46 21 78.71 21 Idora Hegel 125.66 24 44.91 19 80.75 22 Liu Yan 123.22 21 46.59 23 76.63 23 Tamar Katz 122.51 23 45.66 22 76.85 24 Mira Leung 120.74 20 47.05 24 73.69 Free Skating Not Reached 25 Kathrin Freudelsperger 25 42.24 26 Lina Johansson 26 41.87 27 Tuğba Karademir 27 41.79 28 Irina Movchan 28 40.76 29 Kristin Wieczorek 29 40.35 30 Roxana Luca 30 39.65 31 Anna Jurkiewicz 31 36.39 32 Hristina Vassileva 32 36.22 33 Radka Bártová 33 36.17 34 Isabelle Pieman 34 35.12 35 Ivana Hudziecová 35 33.86 36 Teodora Poštič 36 33.77 37 Mérovée Ephrem 37 33.01 38 Maria-Elena Papasotiriou 38 32.90 39 Jūlija Tepliha 39 31.19 40 Charissa Tansomboon 40 30.46 41 Jocelyn Ho 41 30.41 42 Ana Cecilia Cantu 42 30.28 43 Ksenia Jastsenjski 43 27.56 44 Ami Parekh 44 26.82 45 Kristine Y. Lee 45 23.57

Referee: Marina Sanaya

Technical Controller: Charles Cyr

Technical Specialist: Ravi Walia

Assistant Technical Specialist: Isabel Duval de Navarre

Judges for the ladies' short program: Katalin Balczo Robert Rosenbluth Lenka Bohunicka Adriana Ordeanu Antica Grubisic Chihee Rhee Osman Sirvan Franco Benini Deborah Islam Nikolai Salnikov Mona Jonsson Christiane Mörth

Judges for the ladies' free skating: Adriana Ordeanu Robert Rosenbluth Katalin Balczo Deborah Islam Elisabeth Louesdon Mona Jonsson Masako Kubota Hely Abbondati Elena Fomina Lenka Bohunicka Nikolai Salnikov Christiane Mörth

Pairs Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS 1 Shen Xue / Zhao Hongbo 203.50 1 71.07 1 132.43 2 Pang Qing / Tong Jian 188.46 3 66.75 2 121.71 3 Aliona Savchenko / Robin Szolkowy 187.39 2 67.65 3 119.74 4 Tatiana Volosozhar / Stanislav Morozov 173.62 8 57.62 5 116.00 5 Zhang Dan / Zhang Hao 173.39 10 57.00 4 116.39 6 Valérie Marcoux / Craig Buntin 167.25 5 60.73 6 106.52 7 Jessica Dubé / Bryce Davison 164.59 7 58.94 7 105.65 8 Rena Inoue / John Baldwin 163.97 6 59.50 8 104.47 9 Yuko Kawaguchi / Alexander Smirnov 163.62 4 62.07 10 101.55 10 Anabelle Langlois / Cody Hay 160.01 13 55.96 9 104.05 11 Maria Mukhortova / Maxim Trankov 150.43 12 56.14 11 94.29 12 Brooke Castile / Benjamin Okolski 139.00 14 54.51 13 84.49 13 Dominika Piątkowska / Dmitri Khromin 138.98 15 50.18 12 88.80 14 Marylin Pla / Yannick Bonheur 131.31 16 48.60 16 82.71 15 Angelika Pylkina / Niklas Hogner 130.75 17 47.36 15 83.39 16 Laura Magitteri / Ondřej Hotárek 130.18 18 46.59 14 83.59 17 Stacey Kemp / David King 126.95 19 44.96 17 81.99 18 Mari Vartmann / Florian Just 116.81 20 43.20 18 73.61 WD Dorota Siudek / Mariusz Siudek 9 57.23 WD Maria Petrova / Alexei Tikhonov 11 56.36 Free Skating Not Reached 21 Marina Aganina / Artem Knyazev 21 40.60 22 Diana Rennik / Aleksei Saks 22 40.04

Referee: Igor Prokop

Technical Controller: Alexander Lakernik

Technical Specialist: David Kirby

Assistant Technical Specialist: David Moellenkamp

Judges for the pairs short program: Chihee Rhee Anna Sierocka Evgeni Rokhin Yumin Wang Jan Hoffmann Florence Catry De Surmont Vladislav Petukhov Susan Heffernan Linda Leaver Alexander Kogan Alexander Penchev Simone Moore

Judges for the pairs free skating: Christiane Mörth Anna Sierocka Simone Moore Alexander Kogan Lenka Bohunicka Franco Benini Nikolai Salnikov Yumin Wang Susan Heffernan Chihee Rhee Jan Hoffmann Evgeni Rokhin

Ice dancing Rank Name Nation Total points CD OD FD 1 Albena Denkova / Maxim Staviski 201.61 2 37.42 1 62.10 1 102.09 2 Marie-France Dubreuil / Patrice Lauzon 200.46 1 38.96 3 60.54 2 100.96 3 Tanith Belbin / Benjamin Agosto 195.43 5 37.17 2 61.85 4 96.41 4 Isabelle Delobel / Olivier Schoenfelder 195.19 4 37.20 5 58.82 3 99.17 5 Oksana Domnina / Maxim Shabalin 193.44 3 37.29 4 60.34 5 95.81 6 Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir 183.94 9 31.45 6 57.11 6 95.38 7 Meryl Davis / Charlie White 179.14 10 31.15 8 55.82 7 92.17 8 Jana Khokhlova / Sergei Novitski 178.29 6 33.32 7 55.88 8 89.09 9 Federica Faiella / Massimo Scali 170.75 7 33.29 9 53.32 11 84.14 10 Melissa Gregory / Denis Petukhov 170.08 11 30.83 10 53.15 9 86.10 11 Sinead Kerr / John Kerr 167.14 8 32.09 11 51.51 12 83.54 12 Nathalie Péchalat / Fabian Bourzat 162.05 14 28.59 13 49.10 10 84.36 13 Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte 158.83 12 28.91 16 47.60 13 82.32 14 Alexandra Zaretski / Roman Zaretski 156.52 13 28.85 12 49.11 14 78.56 15 Nozomi Watanabe / Akiyuki Kido 152.21 15 28.46 17 47.27 15 76.48 16 Kristin Fraser / Igor Lukanin 152.10 16 28.07 14 48.13 16 75.90 17 Anna Zadorozhniuk / Sergei Verbillo 148.13 17 26.92 15 47.84 17 73.37 18 Nelli Zhiganshina / Alexander Gazsi 142.87 20 25.56 18 45.39 19 71.92 19 Grethe Grünberg / Kristian Rand 141.55 23 23.72 19 45.13 18 72.70 20 Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje 140.14 18 25.76 23 42.58 20 71.80 21 Huang Xintong / Zheng Xun 138.44 19 25.61 22 43.91 21 68.92 22 Anastasia Grebenkina / Vazgen Azrojan 137.07 21 25.04 21 44.86 23 67.17 23 Katherine Copely / Deividas Stagniūnas 136.63 24 23.46 20 44.87 22 68.30 24 Olga Akimova / Alexander Shakalov 130.58 22 24.20 24 41.43 24 64.95 Free Dance Not Reached 25 Barbora Silná / Dmitri Matsjuk 64.35 25 23.12 25 41.23 26 Zsuzsanna Nagy / György Elek 55.38 26 22.19 28 33.19 27 Nicolette Amie House / Aidas Reklys 53.26 28 19.25 26 34.01 28 Christa-Elizabeth Goulakos / Eric Neumann-Aubichon 53.13 29 19.18 27 33.95 29 Laura Munana / Luke Munana 52.35 27 20.30 29 32.05

Referee: Mieko Fujimori

Technical Controller: Gilles Vandenbroeck

Technical Specialist: Andrzej Dostatni

Assistant Technical Specialist: April Sargent Silverstein

Judges for the compulsory dance (rumba): Rossella Ceccattini Irina Medvedeva Alla Shekhovtseva Garry Hoppe Maria Miller Shawn Rettstatt Jodi Abbott Evgeni Rokhin Hongguo Ren Elizabeth Ryan Olga Žáková Ulf Denzer

Judges for the original dance: Maria Miller Raia Bisserova-Bakalova Laimute Krauziene Mayumi Kato Alla Shekhovtseva Elizabeth Ryan Ulf Denzer Irina Medvedeva Jodi Abbott Olga Žáková Rossella Ceccattini Shawn Rettstatt

Judges for the free dance: Mayumi Kato Elizabeth Ryan Raia Bisserova-Bakalova Jodi Abbott Shawn Rettstatt Maria Miller Rossella Ceccattini Hongguo Ren Ulf Denzer Olga Žáková Laimute Krauziene Garry Hoppe

Multiple entries for 2008 The following countries secured multiple entries for the 2008 championships based on their performances at the 2007 Worlds.

Spots Men Ladies Pairs Dance 3 2

Prize money The total prize money for the 2007 World Figure Skating Championships is US$710,000. Pairs and dance teams split the money. All amounts are in US dollars. The breakdown is as follows:

Placement Prize money (Singles) Prize money (Pairs/Dance) 1st $45,000 $67,500 2nd $27,000 $40,500 3rd $18,000 $27,000 4th $13,000 $19,500 5th $10,000 $15,000 6th $7,000 $10,500 7th $6,000 $9,000 8th $5,000 $7,500 9th $3,500 $5,250 10th $3,000 $4,500 11th $2,500 $3,750 12th $2,000 $3,000

References

External links

Official site

Further reading Figure Skating Today: The Next Wave of Stars by Steve Milton and Gerard Chataigneau (Nov 2, 2007)