The 1997 World Figure Skating Championships were held at the CIG de Malley in Lausanne, Switzerland on March 16–23. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, ice dancing.

Medal tables Medalists Men Elvis Stojko Todd Eldredge Alexei Yagudin Ladies Tara Lipinski Michelle Kwan Vanessa Gusmeroli Pair skating Mandy Wötzel / Ingo Steuer Marina Eltsova / Andrei Bushkov Oksana Kazakova / Artur Dmitriev Ice dancing Oksana Grishuk / Evgeni Platov Angelika Krylova / Oleg Ovsiannikov Shae-Lynn Bourne / Victor Kraatz

Medals by country

Competition notes At age 14, Tara Lipinski became the youngest skater to win the World title in ladies' singles.

Legendary coach Carlo Fassi suffered a heart attack and died while at the event with his skater Nicole Bobek.

Results Men 1994 Olympic champion Alexei Urmanov withdrew with a groin injury.

Stojko became the first skater to win a world title with a successful 4T-3T.

Rank Name Nation TFP QA QB SP FS 1 Elvis Stojko 3.0 2 4 1 2 Todd Eldredge 3.0 1 2 2 3 Alexei Yagudin 5.5 6 5 3 4 Viacheslav Zagorodniuk 7.0 3 6 4 5 Ilia Kulik 7.5 2 3 6 6 Andrejs Vlascenko 10.0 4 10 5 7 Michael Weiss 12.5 4 9 8 8 Igor Pashkevich 13.0 5 12 7 9 Jeffrey Langdon 14.5 5 11 9 10 Takeshi Honda 15.5 7 7 12 11 Steven Cousins 19.5 9 17 11 12 Éric Millot 19.5 3 13 13 13 Laurent Tobel 20.0 6 20 10 14 Cornel Gheorghe 23.0 8 18 14 15 Michael Shmerkin 24.0 11 8 20 16 Szabolcs Vidrai 24.5 7 15 17 17 Konstantin Kostin 25.0 8 14 18 18 Michael Tyllesen 25.5 12 19 16 19 Zhengxin Guo 26.0 12 22 15 20 Roman Skorniakov 27.0 13 16 19 21 Michael Hopfes 31.5 10 21 21 22 Anthony Liu 34.0 9 24 22 23 Ivan Dinev 35.5 13 23 24 24 Patrick Meier 36.0 16 26 23 WD Alexei Urmanov 1 1 Free skating not reached 26 Markus Leminen 14 26 27 Gilberto Viadana 14 27 28 Lee Kyu-hyun 11 28 29 Robert Grzegorczyk 15 29 30 Patrick Schmit 10 30 31 Vakhtang Murvanidze 15 31 Short program not reached 32 Jordi Pedro 16 33 Alexander Murashko 17 33 Margus Hernits 17 35 Karel Nekola 18 35 Daniel Hollander 18 37 Ferdi Skoberla 19 37 Róbert Kažimír 19 39 Youri Litvinov 20 39 David Liu 20 41 Ricardo Olaverrieta 21 41 Florian Tuma 21 43 Yan-Ho Brian Chan 22 43 Matthew van den Broeck 22 WD Armen Asoyan

Referee: Britta Lindgren

Assistant Referee: Katsuichiro Hisanaga

Judges: Marie Reine le Gougne Agnes Morvai Sally Rehorick Sviatoslav Babenko George Iashvili Zoya Yordanova Paula Naughton Daniela Cavelli Sissy Krick

Substitute judge: Merja Kosonen

Ladies Rank Name Nation TFP QA QB SP FS 1 Tara Lipinski 2.5 1 1 2 2 Michelle Kwan 3.0 1 4 1 3 Vanessa Gusmeroli 5.0 2 2 4 4 Irina Slutskaya 6.0 3 6 3 5 Maria Butyrskaya 6.5 3 3 5 6 Laetitia Hubert 10.5 9 7 7 7 Krisztina Czakó 10.5 4 5 8 8 Julia Lautowa 14.5 5 11 6 9 Julia Lavrenchuk 15.0 4 9 10 10 Eva-Maria Fitze 16.5 8 16 9 11 Joanne Carter 16.5 10 10 12 12 Olga Markova 19.0 7 15 11 13 Nicole Bobek 20.0 2 8 15 14 Zuzanna Szwed 21.5 5 12 14 15 Lucinda Ruh 22.5 6 18 13 16 Lenka Kulovaná 23.5 7 14 18 17 Tatiana Malinina 25.0 12 17 19 18 Fumie Suguri 25.5 10 21 16 19 Alisa Drei 27.0 8 22 17 20 Mojca Kopač 29.5 13 13 22 21 Julia Vorobieva 30.0 6 20 20 22 Helena Grundberg 32.0 13 23 21 23 Hanae Yokoya 32.5 9 19 23 WD Susan Humphreys 12 21 Free skating not reached 25 Chen Lu 11 25 26 Tony Bombardieri 15 26 27 Zuzana Paurova 14 27 28 Marta Andrade 11 28 29 Ivana Jakupcevic 15 29 30 Sofia Penkova 14 30 Short program not reached 31 Valeria Trifancova 16 31 Yankun Du 16 33 Valentina Gazeleridou 17 33 Shirene Human 17 35 Noemi Bedo 18 35 Zoe Jones 18 37 Patricia Ferriot 19 37 Jung Min-ju 19 39 Ja-Lin Weng 20 39 Kaja Hanevold 20 41 Liina-Grete Lilender 21 41 Rita Dolly Auyeung 21 WD Veronika Dytrt

Referee: Sally-Anne Stapleford

Assistant Referee: Hely Abbondati

Judges: Josette Betsch Alexander Pentchev Maria Zuchowicz Christa Gunsam Judit Fürst-Tombor Jan Hoffmann Gloria Morandi Hisashi Yoshikawa Adriana Domanska

Substitute judge: Bettina Meier

Pairs Rank Name Nation TFP SP FS 1 Mandy Wötzel / Ingo Steuer 1.5 1 1 2 Marina Eltsova / Andrei Bushkov 3.0 2 2 3 Oksana Kazakova / Artur Dmitriev 6.0 6 3 4 Kyoko Ina / Jason Dungjen 6.5 5 4 5 Jenni Meno / Todd Sand 7.0 4 5 6 Kristy Sargeant / Kris Wirtz 10.0 8 6 7 Sarah Abitbol / Stéphane Bernadis 10.5 7 7 8 Dorota Zagorska / Mariusz Siudek 13.5 11 8 9 Elena Berezhnaya / Anton Sikharulidze 13.5 3 12 10 Peggy Schwarz / Mirko Müller 14.5 9 10 11 Xue Shen / Hongbo Zhao 16.0 14 9 12 Marina Khalturina / Andrei Kriukov 16.0 10 11 13 Silvia Dimitrov / Rico Rex 19.0 12 13 14 Marie-Claude Savard-Gagnon / Luc Bradet 21.5 15 14 15 Stephanie Stiegler / John Zimmerman 21.5 13 15 16 Danielle McGrath / Stephen Carr 24.0 16 16 17 Elaine Asanakis / Joel McKeever 26.0 18 17 18 Olena Bilousivska / Stanislav Morozov 26.5 17 18 19 Svetlana Plachonina / Dmitri Kaplun 28.5 19 19 20 Elena Sirokhvatova / Oleg Shliakhov 30.0 20 20 21 Inga Rodionova / Alexander Anichenko 32.0 22 21 22 Jekaterina Nekrassova / Valdis Mintals 34.0 24 22 23 Maria Krasiltseva / Alexander Chestnikh 34.5 23 23 WD Lesley Rogers / Michael Aldred 21 Free skating not reached 25 Elena Ershova / Evgeni Sviridov 25

Referee: Walburga Grimm

Assistant Referee: Markus German

Judges: Frank Parsons Ulf Denzer Debbie Islam Alexei Shirshov Marina Sanaya Anna Sierocka Ubavka Novakovic-Kytinoy Laura McNair Lucy J. Brennan

Substitute judge: Evgenia Bogdanova

Ice dancing Rank Name Nation TFP CD1 CD2 OD FD 1 Pasha Grishuk / Evgeni Platov 2.0 1 1 1 1 2 Anjelika Krylova / Oleg Ovsyannikov 4.0 2 2 2 2 3 Shae-Lynn Bourne / Victor Kraatz 5.8 2 3 3 3 4 Sophie Moniotte / Pascal Lavanchy 8.2 4 5 4 4 5 Marina Anissina / Gwendal Peizerat 8.8 5 4 5 5 6 Elizabeth Punsalan / Jerod Swallow 12.0 6 6 6 6 7 Irina Lobacheva / Ilia Averbukh 14.0 7 7 7 7 8 Irina Romanova / Igor Yaroshenko 16.0 8 8 8 8 9 Barbara Fusar-Poli / Maurizio Margaglio 18.8 9 10 10 9 10 Margarita Drobiazko / Povilas Vanagas 19.2 10 9 9 10 11 Sylwia Nowak / Sebastian Kolasinski 22.4 12 12 11 11 12 Kati Winkler / René Lohse 25.2 13 14 13 12 13 Kateřina Mrázová / Martin Šimeček 25.6 11 11 12 14 14 Tatiana Navka / Nikolai Morozov 26.8 14 13 14 13 15 Elizaveta Stekolnikova / Dmitri Kazarlyga 30.0 15 15 15 15 16 Marika Humphreys / Philip Askew 32.0 16 16 16 16 17 Eve Chalom / Mathew Gates 34.8 18 17 18 17 18 Galit Chait / Sergei Sakhanovsky 35.2 17 18 17 18 19 Albena Denkova / Maxim Staviyski 38.2 20 19 19 19 20 Chantal Lefebvre / Michel Brunet 38.8 19 20 20 20 21 Angelika Füring / Bruno Ellinger 43.2 22 23 22 21 22 Aya Kawai / Hiroshi Tanaka 44.0 21 21 21 23 23 Šárka Vondrková / Lukáš Král 45.2 23 24 23 22 24 Jenny Dahlen / Juris Razgulajevs 47.6 24 22 24 24 Free dance not reached 25 Chantal Loyer / Justin Bell 25 25 25 26 Kristina Kalesnik / Alexander Terentjev 26 27 26 27 Bianca Szijgyarto / Szilárd Tóth 27 26 27 28 Olga Slobodova / Dmitri Beljk 28 29 28 29 Kornelia Barany / Andre Rosnik 29 29 29 30 Lucine Chakmakjian / Corey Lapaige 29 28 29

Referee: Wolfgang Kunz

Assistant Referee: Roland Wehinger

Judges: Robert Horen Gilles Van Den Broeck Halina Gordon-Poltorak John Greenwood Irina Absaliamova Isabella Micheli Evgenia Karnolska Mary Parry Heide Maritczak

Substitute judge: Sumiko Kobayashi

References

External links 1997 Worlds results