The 1985 World Figure Skating Championships were held at the Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan from March 3 to 10. At the event, sanctioned by the International Skating Union, medals were awarded in men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.

Medal tables Medalists Men Alexander Fadeev Brian Orser Brian Boitano Ladies Katarina Witt Kira Ivanova Tiffany Chin Pair skating Elena Valova / Oleg Vasiliev Larisa Selezneva / Oleg Makarov Katherina Matousek / Lloyd Eisler Ice dancing Natalia Bestemianova / Andrei Bukin Marina Klimova / Sergei Ponomarenko Judy Blumberg / Michael Seibert

Medals by country

Results

Men Rank Name Nation TFP CF SP FS 1 Alexander Fadeev 2.0 1 1 1 2 Brian Orser 5.2 4 2 2 3 Brian Boitano 7.6 5 4 3 4 Jozef Sabovčík 8.4 2 3 6 5 Vladimir Kotin 9.6 6 5 4 6 Heiko Fischer 13.0 8 8 5 7 Grzegorz Filipowski 13.6 7 6 7 8 Mark Cockerell 20.4 16 7 8 9 Viktor Petrenko 21.4 12 13 9 10 Neil Paterson 24.8 15 12 11 11 Richard Zander 25.0 11 11 14 12 Falko Kirsten 25.4 19 10 10 13 Petr Barna 26.4 18 9 12 14 Masaru Ogawa 27.0 14 14 13 15 Fernand Fédronic 27.0 3 18 18 16 Lars Åkesson 28.4 9 15 17 17 Gordon Forbes 30.2 13 16 16 18 Cameron Medhurst 32.0 17 17 15 19 Oliver Höner 33.8 10 22 19 20 Alessandro Riccitelli 40.4 20 21 20 Free skating not reached 21 Stephen Pickavance 23 20 22 Oula Jääskeläinen 21 19 23 Xu Zhaoxiao 24 23 24 Lars Dresler 22 24 25 Cho Jae-hyung 25 25 26 Fernando Soria 26 26 27 Cheukfai Lai 27 27

Ladies Rank Name Nation TFP CF SP FS 1 Katarina Witt 3.2 3 1 1 2 Kira Ivanova 3.8 1 3 2 3 Tiffany Chin 5.0 2 2 3 4 Anna Kondrashova 9.0 4 4 5 5 Debi Thomas 10.2 7 5 4 6 Claudia Leistner 13.4 5 11 6 7 Natalia Lebedeva 15.6 8 7 8 8 Agnès Gosselin 20.6 9 13 10 9 Elizabeth Manley 22.0 10 10 12 10 Cynthia Coull 23.0 18 8 9 11 Constanze Gensel 23.2 21 9 7 12 Patricia Neske 24.4 11 17 11 13 Susan Jackson 26.2 14 12 13 14 Simone Koch 27.6 17 6 15 15 Elise Ahonen 31.0 13 18 16 16 Claudia Villiger 31.2 12 15 18 17 Sandra Cariboni 31.2 6 19 20 18 Masako Kato 33.0 14 14 19 19 Lotta Falkenback 34.2 19 22 14 20 Tamara Téglássy 34.6 16 20 17 Free skating not reached 21 Lim Hye-kyung 23 16 22 Amanda James 20 24 23 Jiang Yibing 24 21 24 Petya Gavazova 25 23 25 Marta Olozagarre 22 25 26 Shukching Ngai 26 26 WD Midori Ito WD Katrien Pauwels

Pairs Rank Name Nation TFP SP FS 1 Elena Valova / Oleg Vasiliev 1.8 2 1 2 Larisa Selezneva / Oleg Makarov 2.4 1 2 3 Katherina Matousek / Lloyd Eisler 4.2 3 3 4 Jill Watson / Peter Oppegard 6.4 6 4 5 Melinda Kunhegyi / Lyndon Johnston 7.8 7 5 6 Veronika Pershina / Marat Akbarov 8.0 5 6 7 Cynthia Coull / Mark Rowsom 8.6 4 7 8 Manuela Landgraf / Ingo Steuer 11.2 8 8 9 Natalie Seybold / Wayne Seybold 12.6 9 9 10 Claudia Massari / Daniel Caprano 14.0 10 10 11 Danielle Carr / Stephen Carr 16.4 12 11 12 Jun Fan / Jihong Sun 16.4 11 12 13 Shukling Ngai / Kwokyung Mak 18.2 13 13

Referee: Elemér Terták

Assistant Referee: Donald H. Gilchrist

Judges: Eugen Romminger Ingrid Linke Sergei Kononykhin Frances Dafoe Dagmar Řeháková Shirly Taylor Hugh C. Graham Jr. Klára Kozári Jürg Badraun

Substitute judge: Thérèse Maisel

Ice dancing Rank Name Nation TFP CD OSP FD 1 Natalia Bestemianova / Andrei Bukin 2.0 1 1 1 2 Marina Klimova / Sergei Ponomarenko 4.0 2 2 2 3 Judy Blumberg / Michael Seibert 6.0 3 3 3 4 Tracy Wilson / Robert McCall 8.0 4 4 4 5 Petra Born / Rainer Schönborn 10.0 5 5 5 6 Karen Barber / Nicholas Slater 12.0 6 6 6 7 Natalia Annenko / Genrikh Sretenski 14.0 7 7 7 8 Isabella Micheli / Roberto Pelizzola 16.4 8 9 8 9 Kathrin Beck / Christoff Beck 17.6 9 8 9 10 Karyn Garossino / Rod Garossino 20.0 10 10 10 11 Renée Roca / Donald Adair 22.0 11 11 11 12 Suzanne Semanick / Scott Gregory 24.0 12 12 12 13 Noriko Sato / Tadayuki Takahashi 26.0 13 13 13 14 Klára Engi / Attila Tóth 28.0 14 14 14 15 Sharon Jones / Paul Askham 31.0 16 16 15 16 Antonia Becherer / Ferdinand Becherer 31.0 15 15 16 17 Martine Olivier / Philippe Boissier 34.0 17 17 17 18 Liu Luyang / Zhao Xiaolei 37.0 19 19 18 19 Liane Telling / Michael Fisher 37.0 18 18 19

References

External links Result list provided by the ISU Ladies' placements per Skating Magazine April 1985 skatabase