The 2017 World Junior Figure Skating Championships were held March 15–19, 2017 in Taipei, Taiwan. 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.
Pair champions Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya / Harley Windsor became the first skaters representing Australia to win gold at an ISU Figure Skating Championships. The United States received gold in two disciplines, with Vincent Zhou winning the men's singles title and Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons taking the ice dancing title. Russia's Alina Zagitova won the ladies' title in her first appearance at the event.
Records
The following new junior records were set during this competition: Event Component Skater(s) Score Date RefMenFree skating Daniel Samohin 165.6316 March 2017 Vincent Zhou 179.24 Total score 258.11Ice dancing Free dance Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons 97.5418 March 2017Total score Alla Loboda / Pavel Drozd 164.37 Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons 164.83Ladies Free skating Alina Zagitova 138.02 Total score 208.60
Qualification Skaters from all ISU member nations were eligible for the competition if they were at least 13 years old but not 19—or 21 for male pair skaters and ice dancers—before 1 July 2016 in their place of birth. National associations select their entries according to their own criteria but the ISU mandates that their selections achieve a minimum technical elements score (TES) at an international event prior to the World Junior Championships.
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 Must be achieved at an ISU-recognized international event in the ongoing or preceding season. SP and FS scores may be attained at different events.
Number of entries per discipline Based on the results of the 2016 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.
Schedule Day Date Start Discipline Event Day 1 15.03.2017 10:30 Men Short program Opening ceremony 19:00 Pairs Short program Day 2 16.03.2017 11:30 Dance Short dance 17:30 Men Free skating Men Victory ceremony Day 3 17.03.2017 11:00 Ladies Short program 19:00 Pairs Free skating Pairs Victory ceremony Day 4 18.03.2017 11:30 Dance Free dance Dance Victory ceremony Ladies Free skating 16:00 Ladies Victory ceremony
Entries Some member nations announced their selections in January or early February 2017. The International Skating Union published the full list of entries on 24 February 2017. Country Men Ladies Pairs Ice dancing James Min Holly Harris Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya / Harley Windsor Matilda Friend / William Badaoui Alisa Stomakhina Elizaveta Orlova / Stephano Valentino Schuster Morgan Flood Yakau Zenko Hanna Paroshyna Emiliya Kalehanova / Uladzislau Palkhouski Ivo Gatovski Alexandra Feigin Yana Bozhilova / Kaloyan Georgiev Nicolas Nadeau Roman Sadovsky Conrad Orzel Sarah Tamura Evelyn Walsh / Trennt Michaud Lori-Ann Matte / Thierry Ferland Marjorie Lajoie / Zachary Lagha Ashlynne Stairs / Lee Royer Li Tangxu Li Yuheng Li Xiangning Gao Yumeng / Xie Zhong Guo Yuzhu / Zhao Pengkun Chih-I Tsao Amy Lin Hana Cvijanović Petr Kotlařík Michaela Lucie Hanzlíková Nicole Kuzmichova / Alexandr Sinicyn Daniel Albert Naurits Kristina Škuleta-Gromova Viktoria Semenjuk / Artur Gruzdev Benjam Papp Viveca Lindfors Monica Lindfors / Juho Pirinen Kévin Aymoz Luc Economides Julie Frötscher Cléo Hamon / Denys Strekalin Angélique Abachkina / Louis Thauron Natacha Lagouge / Corentin Rahier Irakli Maysuradze Eva Khachaturian / Georgy Reviya Thomas Stoll Lea Johanna Dastich Talisa Thomalla / Robert Kunkel Ria Schwendinger / Valentin Wunderlich Great Britain Graham Newberry Kristen Spours Sasha Fear / Elliot Verburg Yi Christy Leung Wing Yi Valeria So / Marcus Yau Alexander Borovoj Daria Jakab Fruzsina Medgyesi Hanna Jakucs / Daniel Illes Mark Gorodnitsky Daniel Samohin Paige Conners Hailey Esther Kops / Artem Tsoglin Shira Ichilov / Vadim Davidovich Matteo Rizzo Elisabetta Leccardi Irma Caldara / Edoardo Caputo Flora Mühlmeyer / Pietro Papetti Kazuki Tomono Koshiro Shimada Marin Honda Kaori Sakamoto Yuna Shiraiwa Riku Miura / Shoya Ichihashi Rikako Fukase / Aru Tateno Artur Panikhin Aiza Mambekova Hannah Grace Cook / Temirlan Yerzhanov Gļebs Basins Diāna Ņikitina Elžbieta Kropa Guostė Damulevičiūtė / Deividas Kizala Kai Xiang Chew Donovan Carrillo Andrea Montesinos Cantu Davide Lewton Brain Sondre Oddvoll Bøe Juni Marie Benjaminsen Ryszard Gurtler Olexandra Borysova / Cezary Zawadzki Amanda Stan Dmitri Aliev Alexander Petrov Alexander Samarin Alina Zagitova Stanislava Konstantinova Polina Tsurskaya Aleksandra Boikova / Dmitrii Kozlovskii Amina Atakhanova / Ilia Spiridonov Alina Ustimkina / Nikita Volodin Anastasia Shpilevaya / Grigory Smirnov Alla Loboda / Pavel Drozd Anastasia Skoptsova / Kirill Aleshin Leona Rogić Chloe Ing Jakub Kršňák Alexandra Hagarová Nina Polšak Matthew Samuels Cha Jun-hwan Lee Si-hyeong Lim Eun-soo An So-hyun Kim Su-yeon / Kim Hyung-tae Aleix Gabara Valentina Matos Alexanne Bouillon / Tòn Cónsul Malene Niquita-Basquin / Jaime García Nikolaj Majorov Anita Östlund Nurullah Sahaka Yoonmi Lehmann Başar Oktar Güzide Irmak Bayır Yaroslav Paniot Anastasia Hozhva Darya Popova / Volodymyr Byelikov Alexei Krasnozhon Andrew Torgashev Vincent Zhou Starr Andrews Bradie Tennell Chelsea Liu / Brian Johnson Nica Digerness / Danny Neudecker Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons
Changes to initial assignments Announced Discipline Country Initial Replacement Ref 27 February 2017 Men Gabriel Folkesson Nikolaj Majorov 27 February 2017 Ladies Kim Ye-lim An So-hyun 1 March 2017 Men Michel Tsiba 1 March 2017 Ladies Caya Scheepens 1 March 2017 Ladies Emmi Peltonen Viveca Lindfors 1 March 2017 Ice dance Maria Golubtsova / Kirill Belobrov Darya Popova / Volodymyr Byelikov 3 March 2017 Ladies Amber Glenn Starr Andrews 6 March 2017 Men Harrison Jon-Yen Wong 6 March 2017 Ladies Elizabet Tursynbayeva
Results
Men Vincent Zhou set a new junior world record for the free skating (179.24 points) and for the combined total (258.11 points). Daniel Samohin set a new junior world record for the free skating (165.63 points) but the record was later broken by Zhou.
Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS 1 Vincent Zhou 258.11 5 78.87 1 179.24 2 Dmitri Aliev 247.31 1 83.48 3 163.83 3 Alexander Samarin 245.53 3 82.23 4 163.30 4 Alexander Petrov 243.47 4 81.29 5 162.18 5 Cha Jun-hwan 242.45 2 82.34 6 160.11 6 Daniel Samohin 232.63 16 67.00 2 165.63 7 Kévin Aymoz 218.63 6 77.24 8 141.39 8 Alexei Krasnozhon 211.47 8 76.50 10 134.97 9 Kazuki Tomono 211.28 14 68.12 7 143.16 10 Yaroslav Paniot 208.57 10 72.03 9 136.54 11 Matteo Rizzo 197.47 13 68.53 11 128.94 12 Nicolas Nadeau 196.63 7 77.20 15 119.43 13 Conrad Orzel 194.41 18 66.21 12 128.20 14 Koshiro Shimada 194.10 12 68.77 13 125.33 15 Graham Newberry Great Britain 191.78 11 70.80 14 120.98 16 Lee Si-hyeong 186.67 15 67.51 16 119.16 17 Roman Sadovsky 186.53 9 76.27 23 110.26 18 Chih-I Tsao 181.89 20 63.17 17 118.72 19 Sondre Oddvoll Bøe 178.98 19 66.16 18 112.82 20 Daniel Albert Naurits 178.48 17 66.44 20 112.04 21 Li Tangxu 173.08 21 62.08 22 111.00 22 Mark Gorodnitsky 170.59 22 59.27 21 111.32 23 Petr Kotlařík 168.79 24 56.66 19 112.13 24 Thomas Stoll 153.68 23 57.10 24 96.58Did not advance to free skating 25 Andrew Torgashev 55.42 25 55.42 colspan=2 26 Başar Oktar 54.17 26 54.17 colspan=2 27 Donovan Carrillo 53.92 27 53.92 colspan=2 28 Li Yuheng 53.76 28 53.76 colspan=2 29 James Min 53.72 29 53.72 colspan=2 30 Luc Economides 53.52 30 53.52 colspan=2 31 Nikolaj Majorov 52.42 31 52.42 colspan=2 32 Artur Panikhin 51.72 32 51.72 colspan=2 33 Yakau Zenko 50.92 33 50.92 colspan=2 34 Nurullah Sahaka 50.58 34 50.58 colspan=2 35 Irakli Maysuradze 48.66 35 48.66 colspan=2 36 Jakub Kršňák 48.60 36 48.60 colspan=2 37 Ivo Gatovski 48.05 37 48.05 colspan=2 38 Aleix Gabara 47.82 38 47.82 colspan=2 39 Gļebs Basins 45.70 39 45.70 colspan=2 40 Ryszard Gurtler 45.41 40 45.41 colspan=2 41 Alexander Borovoj 45.41 41 45.41 colspan=2 42 Kai Xiang Chew 44.23 42 44.23 colspan=2 43 Davide Lewton Brain 44.14 43 44.14 colspan=2 44 Benjam Papp 43.51 44 43.51 colspan=2 45 Matthew Samuels 41.68 45 41.68 colspan=2
Ladies Alina Zagitova set a new junior world record for the free skating (138.02 points) and for the combined total (208.60 points).
Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS 1 Alina Zagitova 208.60 1 70.58 1 138.02 2 Marin Honda 201.61 2 68.35 2 133.26 3 Kaori Sakamoto 195.54 3 67.78 3 127.76 4 Lim Eun-soo 180.81 4 64.78 4 116.03 5 Yuna Shiraiwa 174.38 5 62.96 5 111.42 6 Stanislava Konstantinova 162.84 6 58.90 6 103.94 7 Bradie Tennell 161.36 7 57.47 7 103.89 8 Lea Johanna Dastich 157.11 13 53.95 8 103.16 9 Yi Christy Leung 156.26 8 56.01 10 100.25 10 Polina Tsurskaya 155.91 11 54.30 9 101.61 11 Li Xiangning 151.03 12 54.24 11 96.79 12 Starr Andrews 149.05 9 55.83 12 93.22 13 Anita Östlund 144.57 15 52.18 13 92.39 14 Viveca Lindfors 143.53 10 55.50 15 88.03 15 Kristen Spours Great Britain 139.34 16 49.83 14 89.51 16 Michaela Lucie Hanzlíková 134.48 21 48.10 16 86.38 17 Sarah Tamura 130.40 19 49.57 18 80.83 18 Elisabetta Leccardi 129.33 14 52.62 21 76.71 19 Andrea Montesinos Cantu 128.55 24 44.66 17 83.89 20 An So-hyun 126.82 17 49.75 20 77.07 21 Amy Lin 125.91 18 49.59 22 76.32 22 Güzide Irmak Bayır 123.23 22 45.40 19 77.83 23 Holly Harris 123.11 20 48.24 24 74.87 24 Valentina Matos 120.41 23 45.40 23 75.01Did not advance to free skating 25 Alexandra Feigin 44.45 25 44.45 colspan=2 26 Anastasia Gozhva 44.21 26 44.21 colspan=2 27 Paige Conners 43.45 27 43.45 colspan=2 28 Kristina Škuleta-Gromova 42.70 28 42.70 colspan=2 29 Yoonmi Lehmann 41.97 29 41.97 colspan=2 30 Diāna Ņikitina 39.39 30 39.39 colspan=2 31 Aiza Mambekova 39.38 31 39.38 colspan=2 32 Fruzsina Medgyesi 39.15 32 39.15 colspan=2 33 Amanda Stan 38.29 33 38.29 colspan=2 34 Chloe Ing 38.22 34 38.22 colspan=2 35 Julie Frötscher 38.20 35 38.20 colspan=2 36 Morgan Flood 36.47 36 36.47 colspan=2 37 Hanna Paroshyna 36.44 37 36.44 colspan=2 38 Elžbieta Kropa 35.14 38 35.14 colspan=2 39 Hana Cvijanović 34.22 39 34.22 colspan=2 40 Alisa Stomakhina 32.95 40 32.95 colspan=2 41 Daria Jakab 32.34 41 32.34 colspan=2 42 Alexandra Hagarová 32.26 42 32.26 colspan=2 43 Juni Marie Benjaminsen 31.83 43 31.83 colspan=2 44 Nina Polšak 29.95 44 29.95 colspan=2 WD Leona Rogić colspan=2
Pairs Alexandrovskaya/Windsor won Australia's first Junior Worlds medal in 41 years — since 1976, when Elizabeth Cain / Peter Cain took the pairs' bronze medal. They also became the first skaters representing Australia to receive gold at an ISU Figure Skating Championships.