The 1999 World Figure Skating Championships were held in Helsinki, Finland from March 20 through 28. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.Yagudin repeats as world champion

1999 was the first year that the qualifying competition in the men's and ladies' events counted towards the total score. Qualifying was 20% of the total score, the short program 30%, and the free skating 50%.

Medal tables Medalists Men Alexei Yagudin Evgeni Plushenko Michael Weiss Ladies Maria Butyrskaya Michelle Kwan Julia Soldatova Pair skating Elena Berezhnaya / Anton Sikharulidze Shen Xue / Zhao Hongbo Dorota Zagorska / Mariusz Siudek Ice dancing Anjelika Krylova / Oleg Ovsyannikov Marina Anissina / Gwendal Peizerat Shae-Lynn Bourne / Victor Kraatz

Medals by country

Competition notes Due to the large number of participants, the men's and ladies' qualifying groups were split into groups A and B. In the ladies' qualifying group B, Klara Bramfeldt (SWE) and Marion Krijgsman (NED) tied for 17th place, leading to a three-way tie in overall standings for 33rd place in the ladies' event.

Two judges in the pairs event, Sviatoslav Babenko and Alfred Korytek, were caught cheating during the event. A Canadian camera operator, having overheard fans talking about judges using their feet to send signals, filmed Babenko signalling each pair's placements to Korytek by tapping his foot. The International Skating Union reviewed the footage and suspended both judges.

Results Men Rank Name Nation TFP QB QA SP FS 1 Alexei Yagudin 2.6 1 2 1 2 Evgeni Plushenko 3.0 1 1 2 3 Michael Weiss 6.2 2 4 3 4 Elvis Stojko 8.0 3 3 5 5 Alexei Urmanov 9.8 2 5 6 6 Takeshi Honda 10.0 3 8 4 7 Guo Zhengxin 14.4 7 6 8 8 Laurent Tobel 15.4 6 10 7 9 Andrejs Vlascenko 15.8 4 7 10 10 Anthony Liu 20.2 4 16 9 11 Dmitri Dmitrenko 20.6 6 12 11 12 Timothy Goebel 21.8 5 13 12 13 Stefan Lindemann 22.2 7 9 14 14 Ivan Dinev 22.8 8 11 13 15 Evgeni Pliuta 27.0 9 14 15 16 Trifun Zivanovic 27.0 5 15 16 17 Vakhtang Murvanidze 31.8 9 17 18 18 Emanuel Sandhu 33.4 11 20 17 19 Margus Hernits 34.6 12 18 19 20 Szabolcs Vidrai 36.4 10 19 21 21 Roman Skorniakov 37.0 11 21 20 22 Patrick Meier 38.4 8 22 22 23 Robert Grzegorczyk 41.8 10 23 24 24 Markus Leminen 42.8 12 25 23 Free skating not reached 25 Sergei Rylov 15 24 26 Lee Kyu-hyun 14 26 27 Róbert Kažimír 13 27 28 Cornel Gheorghe 14 28 29 Michael Tyllesen 13 30 30 Alexander Chestnikh 15 29 Short program not reached 31 Clive Shorten 16 31 Vitali Danilchenko 16 33 Neil Wilson 17 33 Yuri Litvinov 17 35 Lukáš Rakowski 18 35 Konstantin Beliaev 18 37 Yon Garcia 19 37 Jan Čejvan 19 39 David Del Pozo 20 39 Sergei Telenkov 20 41 Panagiotis Markouizos 21 41 Angelo Dolfini 21

Referee: Sally-Anne Stapleford

Assistant Referee: Hideo Sugita

Judges: Lone Villefrance Jan Olesinski Merja Kosonen Ute Boehm Peter Rankin Igor Prokop Jörg Badraun Zsofia Wagner Zoya Yordanova

Substitute judge: Vladislav Petukhov

Ladies Rank Name Nation TFP QA QB SP FS 1 Maria Butyrskaya 2.0 1 1 1 2 Michelle Kwan 4.8 1 4 2 3 Julia Soldatova 6.4 3 2 4 4 Tatiana Malinina 6.8 2 5 3 5 Vanessa Gusmeroli 7.6 2 3 5 6 Anna Rechnio 12.6 5 6 7 7 Sarah Hughes 13.6 4 10 6 8 Elena Liashenko 13.8 4 7 8 9 Yulia Lavrenchuk 18.6 8 9 10 10 Viktoria Volchkova 21.8 3 11 14 11 Diána Póth 22.2 6 8 15 12 Angela Nikodinov 22.8 9 17 9 13 Lucinda Ruh 22.8 9 12 12 14 Alisa Drei 25.6 12 13 13 15 Julia Lautowa 28.2 10 22 11 16 Silvia Fontana 28.8 5 18 16 17 Yulia Vorobieva 29.8 7 15 18 18 Jennifer Robinson 31.6 8 14 20 19 Júlia Sebestyén 32.2 14 16 17 20 Fumie Suguri 35.4 6 20 21 21 Eva-Maria Fitze 36.2 7 19 22 22 Sabina Wojtala 37.2 11 23 19 23 Valeria Trifancova 41.0 11 21 24 24 Caroline Gülke 42.6 13 24 23 Free skating not reached 25 Idora Hegel 12 25 26 Marta Andrade 10 27 27 Veronika Dytrtová 14 26 28 Zuzana Paurova 15 28 29 Olga Vassiljeva 13 30 30 Lu Meijia 15 29 Short program not reached 31 Ingrida Snieskiene 16 31 Jung Min-ju 16 33 Marion Krijgsman 17 33 Anna Dimova 17 33 Klara Bramfeldt 17 36 Kaja Hanevold 18 37 Rocio Salas Visuet 19 37 Shirene Human 19 39 Dow-Jane Chi 20 39 Anna Chatziathanassiou 20 41 Helena Pajović 21

Referee: Britta Lindgren

Assistant Referee: Hugh Graham

Judges: Franco Benini Marina Sanaya Bettina Meier Jiasheng Yang Agnes Morvai Maria Hrachovcova Christa Gunsam Pekka Leskinen Kenji Amako

Substitute judge: Marianne Oeverby

Pairs Rank Name Nation TFP SP FS 1 Elena Berezhnaya / Anton Sikharulidze 1.5 1 1 2 Shen Xue / Zhao Hongbo 3.0 2 2 3 Dorota Zagórska / Mariusz Siudek 4.5 3 3 4 Maria Petrova / Alexei Tikhonov 6.5 5 4 5 Sarah Abitbol / Stéphane Bernadis 8.0 6 5 6 Kristy Sargeant / Kris Wirtz 8.0 4 6 7 Tatiana Totmianina / Maxim Marinin 10.5 7 7 8 Peggy Schwarz / Mirko Müller 12.5 9 8 9 Kyoko Ina / John Zimmerman 13.0 8 9 10 Danielle Hartsell / Steve Hartsell 16.5 13 10 11 Yulia Obertas / Dmitri Palamarchuk 16.5 11 11 12 Kateřina Beránková / Otto Dlabola 18.0 12 12 13 Valerie Saurette / Jean-Sébastien Fecteau 18.0 10 13 14 Pang Qing / Tong Jian 21.5 15 14 15 Inga Rodionova / Aleksandr Anichenko 23.0 16 15 16 Mariana Kautz / Norman Jeschke 25.5 19 16 17 Oľga Beständigová / Jozef Beständig 26.0 18 17 18 Ekaterina Danko / Gennadi Emeljenenko 26.5 17 18 19 Maria Krasiltseva / Artem Znachkov 29.0 20 19 WD Laura Handy / Paul Binnebose 14 Free skating not reached 21 Natalia Ponomareva / Evgeni Sviridov 21

Referee: Hely Abbondati

Assistant Referee: Alexander Lakernik

Judges: Jane Garden Volker Waldeck Franklin Nelson Anne Hardy-Thomas Liliana Strechova Evgenia Bogdanova Alfred Korytek Sviatoslav Babenko Maria Zuchowicz

Substitute judge: Alexei Shirshov

Ice dancing Rank Name Nation TFP CD1 CD2 OD FD 1 Anjelika Krylova / Oleg Ovsyannikov 2.6 1 1 2 1 2 Marina Anissina / Gwendal Peizerat 3.6 3 2 1 2 3 Shae-Lynn Bourne / Victor Kraatz 5.8 2 3 3 3 4 Irina Lobacheva / Ilia Averbukh 8.0 4 4 4 4 5 Barbara Fusar-Poli / Maurizio Margaglio 10.2 6 5 5 5 6 Margarita Drobiazko / Povilas Vanagas 11.8 5 6 6 6 7 Kati Winkler / René Lohse 14.0 7 7 7 7 8 Elena Grushina / Ruslan Goncharov 16.0 8 8 8 8 9 Sylwia Nowak / Sebastian Kolasiński 18.0 9 9 9 9 10 Naomi Lang / Peter Tchernyshev 20.0 10 10 10 10 11 Albena Denkova / Maxim Staviyski 22.0 11 11 11 11 12 Tatiana Navka / Roman Kostomarov 24.0 12 12 12 12 13 Galit Chait / Sergey Sakhnovsky 26.0 13 13 13 13 14 Isabelle Delobel / Olivier Schoenfelder 28.6 14 14 15 14 15 Chantal Lefebvre / Michel Brunet 29.4 15 15 14 15 16 Charlotte Clements / Gary Shortland 32.4 16 18 16 16 17 Eve Chalom / Mathew Gates 33.8 17 16 17 17 18 Eliane Hugentobler / Daniel Hugentobler 35.8 18 17 18 18 19 Stephanie Rauer / Thomas Rauer 38.4 21 19 19 19 20 Nakako Tsuzuki / Rinat Farkhoutdinov 40.6 22 21 20 20 21 Francesca Fermi / Diego Rinaldi 42.0 19 20 22 21 22 Zhang Weina / Cao Xianming 43.4 20 24 21 22 23 Gabriela Hrázská / Jiří Procházka 46.2 25 22 23 23 24 Angelika Führing / Bruno Ellinger 47.8 24 23 24 24 25 Pia-Maria Gustafsson / Antti Grönlund 56.0 31 31 31 25 Free dance not reached 26 Tetyana Kurkudym / Yuriy Kocherzhenko 26 25 25 27 Elizaveta Stekolnikova / Mark Fitzgerald 23 27 26 28 Kornélia Bárány / András Rosnik 28 26 28 29 Kristina Kalesnik / Aleksander Terentjev 29 29 27 30 Jenny Dahlen / Igor Lukanin 27 28 29 31 Yang Tae-hwa / Lee Chuen-gun 30 30 30 Original dance not reached 32 Danielle Rigg-Smith / Trent Nelson-Bond 32 32

Referee: Alexander Gorshkov

Assistant Referee: Marie Lundmark

Judges: Elizabeth Clark Walter Zuccaro Yury Balkov Mary Parry Alla Shekhovtseva Ulf Denzer Evgenia Karnolska Hongguo Ren Margaret Faulkner

Substitute judge: Heide Maritczak

References

External links 1999 World Figure Skating Championships at the Internet Archive