The 1986 World Figure Skating Championships were held in Geneva, Switzerland from 18 to 23 March. At the event, sanctioned by the International Skating Union, medals were awarded in men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.

The ISU Representative was Josef Dědič (Czechoslovakia), and the ISU Technical Delegate was Elemér Terták (Hungary).

Soviet judge Natalia Danilenko was suspended for ignoring a new rule requiring mandatory deductions of 0.1 for falls; she gave Alexandr Fadeev a score of 5.9 after he fell twice, instead of a maximum of 5.8.

Medal tables Medalists Men Brian Boitano Brian Orser Alexander Fadeev Ladies Debi Thomas Katarina Witt Tiffany Chin Pair skating Ekaterina Gordeeva / Sergei Grinkov Elena Valova / Oleg Vasiliev Cynthia Coull / Mark Rowsom Ice dancing Natalia Bestemianova / Andrei Bukin Marina Klimova / Sergei Ponomarenko Tracy Wilson / Robert McCall

Medals by country

Results Men Rank Name Nation CP SP FS SP+FS Points Total 1 Brian Boitano 4 5 1 2 5.4 2 Brian Orser 5 1 2 1 5.4 3 Alexander Fadeev 1 2 5 4 6.4 4 Vladimir Kotin 9 3 3 3 9.6 5 Viktor Petrenko 7 6 4 5 10.6 6 Jozef Sabovčík 2 4 9 8 11.8 7 Heiko Fischer 3 7 10 10 14.6 8 Daniel Doran 10 9 6 6 15.6 9 Scott Williams 11 8 7 7 16.8 10 Masaru Ogawa 16 11 8 9 22.0 11 Richard Zander 6 12 14 12 22.4 12 Falko Kirsten 14 13 11 11 24.6 13 Grzegorz Filipowski 12 10 15 13 26.2 14 Oliver Höner 13 16 13 15 27.2 15 Laurent Depouilly 8 17 18 18 29.6 16 Petr Barna 19 18 12 14 30.6 17 Lars Åkesson 15 14 20 20 34.6 18 Neil Paterson 17 15 19 19 35.2 19 Lars Dresler 21 19 17 17 37.2 20 Jaimee Eggleton 24 20 16 16 38.4 Free skating not reached 21 Alessandro Riccitelli 20 21 5 5 25.4 22 Cameron Medhurst 18 22 6 6 25.6 23 Thomas Hlavik 23 23 4 4 27.0 24 Oula Jääskeläinen 25 26 7 7 32.4 25 Miljan Begović 22 28 8 9 32.4 26 András Száraz 27 25 9 8 35.2 27 Boyko Aleksiev 26 27 10 11 36.4 28 Fernando Soria 28 24 11 10 37.4

Referee: Sonia Bianchetti

Assistant Referee: Walburga Grimm

Judges: Tatiana Danilenko Maria Zuchowicz Claire Ferguson Jean Matthews Björn Elwin Junko Hiramatsu Radovan Lipovšćak Christiane Mörth Miranda Marchi

Substitute judge: Josette Betsch

Ladies Rank Name Nation CP SP FS SP+FS Points Total 1 Debi Thomas 2 1 2 1 3.6 2 Katarina Witt 3 4 1 2 4.4 3 Tiffany Chin 4 2 4 3 7.2 4 Kira Ivanova 1 6 8 8 11.0 5 Elizabeth Manley 11 7 3 4 12.4 6 Claudia Leistner 9 5 6 5 13.4 7 Anna Kondrashova 6 2 9 7 13.4 8 Caryn Kadavy 7 9 7 9 14.8 9 Tracey Wainman 5 11 11 11 18.4 10 Natalia Lebedeva 8 10 10 10 18.8 11 Midori Ito 19 8 5 6 19.6 12 Simone Koch 16 13 12 12 26.8 13 Agnès Gosselin 13 18 13 13 28.0 14 Katrien Pauwels 10 15 18 18 30.0 15 Susanne Becher 12 20 15 17 30.2 16 Claudia Villiger 14 12 17 15 30.2 17 Constanze Gensel 23 19 14 14 35.4 18 Tamara Téglássy 22 17 16 16 36.0 19 Elise Ahonen 17 21 19 19 37.6 WD Susan Jackson 18 16 Free skating not reached 21 Beatrice Gelmini 21 14 5 3 23.2 22 Željka Čižmešija 15 22 6 6 23.8 23 Lotta Falkenbäck 20 23 3 4 24.2 24 Pauline Lee 24 24 8 8 32.0 25 Lim Hye-kyung 26 25 7 7 32.6 26 Sandra Escoda 25 27 9 9 34.8 27 Petya Gavazova 27 26 10 10 36.6

Referee: Benjamin T. Wright

Assistant Referee: Erika Schiechtl

Judges: Elfriede Beyer Jacqueline Itschner Charles U. Foster Tjaša Andrée Reinhard Mirmseker Alexander Vedenin Alexander Penchev Leena Vainio Franco Benini

Substitute judge: Monique Georgelin

Pairs Rank Name Nation SP FS Total 1 Ekaterina Gordeeva / Sergei Grinkov 1 1 1.4 2 Elena Valova / Oleg Vasiliev 2 2 2.8 3 Cynthia Coull / Mark Rowsom 4 3 4.6 4 Larisa Selezneva / Oleg Makarov 3 4 5.2 5 Denise Benning / Lyndon Johnston 6 6 8.4 6 Jill Watson / Peter Oppegard 9 5 8.6 7 Gillian Wachsman / Todd Waggoner 5 7 9.0 8 Natalie Seybold / Wayne Seybold 8 8 11.2 9 Katrin Kanitz / Tobias Schröter 7 9 11.8 10 Lenka Knapová / René Novotný 10 10 14.0 11 Manuela Landgraf / Ingo Steuer 11 11 15.4 12 Cheryl Peake / Andrew Naylor 12 12 16.8 13 Kerstin Kimminus / Stefan Pfrengle 14 13 18.6 14 Danielle Carr / Stephen Carr 13 14 19.2 15 Sylvie Vaquero / Didier Manaud 15 15 21.0

Referee: Donald H. Gilchrist

Assistant Referee: Markus Germann

Judges: Shirley Taylor Monique Georgelin Eva von Gamm Gerhardt Bubnik Mikhail Drei E. Newbold Black IV Ralph S. McCreath Geoffrey Yates Günter Teichmann

Substitute judge: Franco Benini

Ice dancing *: Semi-final

Rank Name Nation CD OSP FD Total 1 Natalia Bestemianova / Andrei Bukin 1 2 1 2.4 2 Marina Klimova / Sergei Ponomarenko 2 1 2 3.6 3 Tracy Wilson / Robert McCall 4 4 3 7.0 4 Natalia Annenko / Genrikh Sretenski 3 3 4 7.0 5 Suzanne Semanick / Scott Gregory 5 5 5 10.0 6 Renée Roca / Donald Adair 6 6 6 12.0 7 Kathrin Beck / Christoff Beck 7 7 7 14.0 8 Antonia Becherer / Ferdinand Becherer 8 8 8 16.0 9 Karyn Garossino / Rodn Garossino 9 9 9 18.0 10 Isabella Micheli / Roberto Pelizzola 10 10 10 20.0 11 Klára Engi / Attila Tóth 11 11 11 22.0 12 Isabelle Duchesnay / Paul Duchesnay 12 12 12 24.0 13 Sharon Jones / Paul Askham 13 14 13 26.4 14 Tomoko Tanaka / Hiroyuki Suzuki 14 13 14 27.6 15 Stefania Calegari / Pasquale Camerlengo 15 16 15 30.4 16 Elizabeth Coates / Alan Abretti 16 15 16 31.6 17 Andrea Weppelmann / Hendryk Schamberger 17 17 17 34.0 18 Claudia Schmidlin / Daniel Schmidlin 18 18 18 36.0 19 Monica MacDonald / Rodney Clarke 19 19 19 38.0 20 Hristina Boyanova / Yavor Ivanov 20 20 20 40.0 21* Susanna Pettola / Kim Jacobson 21 21 4 25.0 22* Park Kyung-sook / Han Seung-jong 22 22 5 27.0

Referee: Hans Kutschera

Assistant Referee: Roland Wehinger

Judges: Mary Parry Judit Fürst Kazuo Ohashi Mary Louise Wright Lily Klapp Irina Absaliamova William McLachlan Lysiane Lauret Gerhard Frey

Substitute judge: Heide Maritczak

References

External links Result list provided by the ISU Debi Thomas Wins World Skating Title; Chin Takes Third Figure Skating : Two Soviet Teen-Agers Win Pairs