The 2016 World Junior Figure Skating Championships were held from 14–20 March 2016 in Debrecen, Hungary. Commonly called "World Juniors" and "Junior Worlds", the event determined the World Junior champions in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.
Anna Dušková / Martin Bidař and Daniel Samohin became the first World Junior champions in figure skating from the Czech Republic and Israel, respectively. Japan's Marin Honda won the ladies' title and Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter took the ice dancing event.
Records
The following new junior records were set during this competition: Event Component Skater(s) Score Date RefPairs Short program Anna Dušková / Martin Bidař 64.71 16 March 2016 Total score 181.8217 March 2016Ice dance Short dance Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons 67.88 Free dance Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter 97.4019 March 2016Total score Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons 162.74 Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter 163.65 Men Free skating Daniel Samohin 165.38 20 March 2016
Qualification The competition was open to skaters from ISU member nations who were at least 13 but not 19—or 21 for male pair skaters and ice dancers—before July 1, 2015 in their place of birth. National associations selected their entries according to their own criteria but the ISU mandated that their selections achieve a minimum technical elements score (TES) at an international event prior to the Junior Worlds.
The term "Junior" in ISU competition refers to age, not skill level. Skaters may remain age-eligible for Junior Worlds even after competing nationally and internationally at the senior level. At junior events, the ISU requires that all programs conform to junior-specific rules regarding program length, jumping passes, types of elements, etc.
Minimum TES Minimum technical scores (TES) Discipline Short Free Men 20 42 Ladies 20 35 Pairs 20 30 Ice dancing 18 28 Scores had to be achieved at an ISU-recognized international event in the ongoing or preceding season. SP and FS scores could be attained at different events.
Number of entries per discipline Based on the results of the 2015 World Junior Championships, the ISU allowed each country one to three entries per discipline.
Spots Men Ladies Pairs Dance 3 2 If not listed above, one entry is allowed.
Entries Some national associations began announcing their selections in December 2015. The ISU published a complete list on 25 February 2016.
Country Men Ladies Pairs Ice dancing Anastasia Galustyan James Min Katie Pasfield Mathilda Friend / William Badaoui Luc Maierhofer Natalie Klotz Elizaveta Orlova / Stephano-Valentino Schuster Charlotte Vandersarren Yakau Zenko Maria Oleynik / Yuri Hulitski Teodora Markova Yana Bozhilova / Kaloyan Georgiev Nicolas Nadeau Sarah Tamura Justine Brasseur / Mathieu Ostiguy Bryn Hoffman / Bryce Chudak Hope McLean / Trennt Michaud Mackenzie Bent / Dmitre Razgulajevs Marjorie Lajoie / Zachary Lagha Melinda Meng / Andrew Meng Zhang He Li Tangxu Li Xiangning Gao Yumeng / Li Bowen Li Xibei / Xiang Guangyao Nicholas Vrdoljak Jiří Bělohradský Elizaveta Ukolova Anna Dušková / Martin Bidař Nicole Kuzmich / Alexander Sinicyn Leonora Colmor Jepsen Hector Alonso Serrano Maëva Gallarda Rossell Aleksandr Selevko Kristina Škuleta-Gromova Victoria Semenjuk / Artur Gruzdev Roman Galay Viveca Lindfors Kévin Aymoz Alizée Crozet Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac Angélique Abachkina / Louis Thauron Irakli Maysuradze Catalin Dimitrescu Lea Johanna Dastich Ria Schwendinger / Valentin Wunderlich Great Britain Josh Brown Danielle Harrison Chloe Curtin / Steven Adcock Ekaterina Fedyushchenko / Lucas Kitteridge Maisy Hiu Ching Ma Máté Böröcz Ivett Tóth Kimberly Wei / Ilias Fourati Villő Marton / Danyil Semko Daniel Samohin Mark Gorodnitsky Matteo Rizzo Lucrezia Gennaro Bianca Manacorda / Niccolò Macii Sara Ghislandi / Giona Terzo Ortenzi Shu Nakamura Daichi Miyata Kazuki Tomono Wakaba Higuchi Yuna Shiraiwa Marin Honda Rikako Fukase / Aru Tateno Daniyar Adylov Elizabet Tursynbayeva Ekaterina Khokhlova / Abish Baytkanov Hannah Grace Cook / Temirlan Yerzhanov Deniss Vasiļjevs Glebs Basins Angelīna Kučvaļska Diāna Ņikitina Elzbieta Kropa Guostė Damulevičiūtė / Deividas Kizala Kai Xiang Chew Kyarha van Tiel Sondre Oddvoll Bøe Juni Marie Benjaminsen Aleksandra Rudolf Alexandra Borisova / Cezary Zawadzki Jenna Hertenstein / Damian Binkowski Julia Sauter Dmitri Aliev Alexander Samarin Roman Savosin Alisa Fedichkina Maria Sotskova Polina Tsurskaya Anastasia Gubanova / Alexei Sintsov Ekaterina Borisova / Dmitry Sopot Anastasia Mishina / Vladislav Mirzoev Alla Loboda / Pavel Drozd Betina Popova / Yuri Vlasenko Anastasia Shpilevaya / Grigory Smirnov Michaela Du Toit Shuran Yu Monika Peterka Cha Jun-hwan Byun Se-jong Son Suh-hyun Kim Ha-nul Lee Ho-jung / Richard Kang-in Kam Nicola Todeschini Shaline Ruegger Jakub Kršňák Alexandra Hagarová Matilda Algotsson Thita Lamsam Chih-I Tsao Amy Lin Başar Oktar Elif Erdem Yaroslav Paniot Anastasia Hozhva Renata Ohanesian / Mark Bardei Anzhelika Yurchenko / Volodymyr Byelikov Maria Holubtsova / Kyrylo Byelobrov Tomoki Hiwatashi Vincent Zhou Tyler Pierce Bradie Tennell Chelsea Liu / Brian Johnson Joy Weinberg / Maximiliano Fernandez Lindsay Weinstein / Jacob Simon Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons Elliana Pogrebinsky / Alex Benoit
Changes to initial assignments Announced Discipline Initial Replacement Reason 28 January 2016 Men Nathan Chen Tomoki Hiwatashi Chen's hip surgery 25 February 2016 Ice dance Gwen Sletten / Elliot Verburg Ekaterina Fedyushchenko / Lucas KitteridgeSletten retired. 25 February 2016 Ladies Pernille Sørensen Leonora Colmor Jepsen Sørensen retired. 1 March 2016 Ladies Sara Casella Lucrezia Gennaro 1 March 2016 Men Alexander Maszljanko Máté Böröcz 1 March 2016 Pairs Zhao Ying / Xie Zhong 7 March 2016 Ice dance Valentina Schär / Carlo Röthlisberger 9 March 2016 Men Illya Solomin 10 March 2016 Pairs Amina Atakhanova / Ilia Spiridonov Anastasia Gubanova / Alexei Sintsov Atakhanova's injury 12 March 2016 Men Sota Yamamoto Kazuki Tomono Broken ankle
Results
Men Israel's Daniel Samohin climbed from 9th after the short program to win his country's first World Junior title in figure skating. Nicolas Nadeau, who missed the cut for the free skate in 2015, obtained the silver medal and three spots for Canada in the 2017 men's event. Called up to replace the injured Nathan Chen, Tomoki Hiwatashi was awarded the bronze medal in his first appearance at Junior Worlds.
Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS 1 Daniel Samohin 236.65 9 71.27 1 165.38 2 Nicolas Nadeau 224.76 8 73.90 2 150.86 3 Tomoki Hiwatashi 222.52 6 74.97 3 147.55 4 Alexander Samarin 222.11 2 80.31 5 141.80 5 Vincent Zhou 221.19 4 77.31 4 143.88 6 Dmitri Aliev 211.18 1 80.74 7 130.44 7 Cha Jun-hwan 207.11 7 74.38 6 132.73 8 Deniss Vasiļjevs 204.75 3 78.78 9 125.97 9 Kévin Aymoz 197.76 5 75.53 11 122.23 10 Zhang He 195.70 10 70.85 10 124.85 11 Yaroslav Paniot 189.50 15 62.56 8 126.94 12 Shu Nakamura 186.22 12 66.05 13 120.17 13 Matteo Rizzo 182.96 11 66.79 17 116.17 14 Roman Savosin 181.65 13 64.00 14 117.65 15 Kazuki Tomono 179.61 20 58.33 12 121.28 16 Jiří Bělohradský 178.51 16 61.96 16 116.55 17 Yakau Zenko 174.39 22 57.67 15 116.72 18 Daichi Miyata 169.19 19 59.10 18 110.09 19 Aleksandr Selevko 166.61 17 60.91 20 105.70 20 Chih-I Tsao 164.25 14 63.42 22 100.83 21 Sondre Oddvoll Bøe 163.64 21 57.72 19 105.92 22 Nicola Todeschini 161.15 18 59.59 21 101.56 23 Josh Brown Great Britain 157.16 23 57.65 23 99.51 24 Irakli Maysuradze 154.41 24 56.87 24 97.54 Did not advance to free skating 25 Li Tangxu 53.20 25 53.20 colspan=2 26 Nicholas Vrdoljak 52.12 26 52.12 colspan=2 27 James Min 51.96 27 51.96 colspan=2 28 Héctor Alonso 51.41 28 51.41 colspan=2 29 Byun Se-jong 50.67 29 50.67 colspan=2 30 Luc Maierhofer 50.27 30 50.27 colspan=2 31 Başar Oktar 48.65 31 48.65 colspan=2 32 Daniyar Adylov 47.99 32 47.99 colspan=2 33 Roman Galay 45.47 33 45.47 colspan=2 34 Mark Gorodnitsky 45.28 34 45.28 colspan=2 35 Jakub Kršňák 43.19 35 43.19 colspan=2 36 Glebs Basins 41.93 36 41.93 colspan=2 37 Kai Xiang Chew 39.77 37 39.77 colspan=2 38 Máté Böröcz 37.16 38 37.16 colspan=2
Ladies Youth Olympic and JGP Final champion Polina Tsurskaya withdrew before the short program due to an ankle injury. Short program leader Alisa Fedichkina withdrew before the start of the free skate, also due to an ankle injury.
Japan's Marin Honda ended Russia's five-year streak of World Junior ladies' titles. Despite her teammates' withdrawals, Maria Sotskova was able to retain three spots for Russia by placing in the top two. Wakaba Higuchi of Japan won her second consecutive bronze medal at Junior Worlds.
Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS 1 Marin Honda 192.98 2 66.11 1 126.87 2 Maria Sotskova 188.72 3 64.78 3 123.94 3 Wakaba Higuchi 183.73 5 58.08 2 125.65 4 Yuna Shiraiwa 171.59 8 56.23 5 115.36 5 Elizabet Tursynbayeva 170.83 14 50.11 4 120.72 6 Tyler Pierce 167.19 7 56.56 6 110.63 7 Angelīna Kučvaļska 161.29 6 57.92 8 103.37 8 Ivett Tóth 153.70 15 49.98 7 103.72 9 Kim Ha-nul 150.36 12 52.37 9 97.99 10 Diāna Ņikitina 149.02 10 54.59 12 94.43 11 Bradie Tennell 147.52 4 58.56 14 88.96 12 Lea Johanna Dastich 143.63 18 47.67 10 95.96 13 Sarah Tamura 141.32 16 48.11 13 93.21 14 Amy Lin 139.14 22 44.52 11 94.62 15 Maisy Hiu Ching Ma 138.11 11 52.69 15 85.42 16 Anastasia Galustyan 137.35 9 55.80 16 81.55 17 Anastasia Gozhva 132.27 13 50.99 18 81.28 18 Kyarha van Tiel 127.18 17 47.94 20 79.24 19 Lucrezia Gennaro 125.25 23 43.74 17 81.51 20 Li Xiangning 123.94 24 43.38 19 80.56 21 Alizée Crozet 120.59 21 45.34 21 75.25 22 Juni Marie Benjaminsen 116.63 20 45.70 22 70.93 23 Son Suh-hyun 115.41 19 46.18 23 69.23 Alisa Fedichkina 1 66.11 colspan=2 Did not advance to free skating 25 Viveca Lindfors 43.19 25 43.19 colspan=2 26 Shaline Ruegger 42.66 26 42.66 colspan=2 27 Natalie Klotz 42.25 27 42.25 colspan=2 28 Shuran Yu 42.21 28 42.21 colspan=2 29 Kristina Škuleta-Gromova 41.68 29 41.68 colspan=2 30 Matilda Algotsson 41.00 30 41.00 colspan=2 31 Michaela Du Toit 40.86 31 40.86 colspan=2 32 Julia Sauter 39.67 32 39.67 colspan=2 33 Alexandra Hagarová 39.07 33 39.07 colspan=2 34 Monika Peterka 39.00 34 39.00 colspan=2 35 Katie Pasfield 38.96 35 38.96 colspan=2 36 Danielle Harrison Great Britain 37.59 36 37.59 colspan=2 37 Elizaveta Ukolova 37.57 37 37.57 colspan=2 38 Elif Erdem 37.39 38 37.39 colspan=2 39 Aleksandra Rudolf 35.32 39 35.32 colspan=2 40 Teodora Markova 34.50 40 34.50 colspan=2 41 Elzbieta Kropa 34.34 41 34.34 colspan=2 42 Leonora Colmor Jepsen 34.05 42 34.05 colspan=2 43 Thita Lamsam 33.39 43 33.39 colspan=2 44 Charlotte Vandersarren 32.30 44 32.30 colspan=2 45 Maëva Gallarda Rossell 29.65 45 29.65 colspan=2
Pairs Anna Dušková / Martin Bidař became the first Czech figure skaters to ever win gold at a World Junior Championships and the first pair skaters from outside China, Russia, or the United States to win the competition since 2000. Russian pairs Anastasia Mishina / Vladislav Mirzoev and Ekaterina Borisova / Dmitry Sopot took silver and bronze, respectively, in their first trip to Junior Worlds.