2023 World Figure Skating Championships

2023 World Figure Skating Championships
Type:	ISU Championship
Date:	March 22 – March 26
Season:	2022–23
Location:	Saitama, Japan
Host:	Japan Skating Federation
Venue:	Saitama Super Arena
Champions
Men's singles: Shoma Uno
Women's singles: Kaori Sakamoto
Pairs: Riku Miura / Ryuichi Kihara
Ice dance: Madison Chock / Evan Bates
Previous: 2022 World Championships
Next: 2024 World Championships

The 2023 World Figure Skating Championships was held in Saitama, Japan from March 22–26, 2023.[1] The competition determined the entry quotas for each federation at the 2024 World Championships.

Qualification

Age and minimum TES requirements

Skaters were eligible for the 2023 World Championships if they turned 15 years of age before July 1, 2022, and if they met the minimum technical elements score requirements. The ISU accepted scores if they were obtained at senior-level ISU-recognized international competitions during the ongoing season at least 21 days before the first official practice day of the championships or during the preceding season.[2]

Minimum technical scores

Discipline	SP / RD	FS / FD
Men	34	64
Women	32	53
Pairs	29	46
Ice dance	33	49

• SP/RD and FS/FD scores may be attained at different events.

Number of entries per discipline

Based on the results of the 2022 World Championships, each ISU member nation could field one to three entries per discipline.[3] China did not participate due to COVID-19 protocols, and respectively, could only field one entry per discipline. Additionally, Russia and Belarus remained suspended following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[4]

Number of entries per discipline

Spots	Men	Women	Pairs	Ice dance
3	Japan  United States	Belgium  Japan  South Korea  United States	Canada  Japan  United States	France  United States
2	Canada  France  Georgia  Italy	Azerbaijan  Georgia  Germany	Austria  France  Georgia  Germany  Great Britain  Netherlands	Canada  Great Britain  Italy  Lithuania  Spain

• If not listed above, one entry was allowed.

Schedule

Date	Disc.	Time	Segment
Wednesday, March 22	Pairs	11:00	Short program
	Women	15:50
Thursday, March 23	Pairs	11:00	Free skating
	Men	15:50	Short program
Friday, March 24	Ice dance	11:00	Rhythm dance
	Women	17:20	Free skating
Saturday, March 25	Ice dance	12:30	Free dance
	Men	17:20	Free skating

• All times are listed in local time (UTC+09:00).[5]

Entries

Member nations began announcing their selections in December 2022. The International Skating Union published a complete list of entries on February 28, 2023.[6]

Entries - 2023 World Figure Skating Championships

Country	Men[7]	Women[8]	Pairs[9]	Ice dance[10]
Australia	—		Anastasia Golubeva / Hektor Giotopoulos Moore	Holly Harris / Jason Chan
Austria	Maurizio Zandron	Olga Mikutina	—
Azerbaijan	Vladimir Litvintsev	—		Adrienne Carhart / Oleksandr Kolosovskyi
Belgium	—	Loena Hendrickx	—	Olivia Josephine Shilling / Leo Baeten
		Jade Hovine		—
		Nina Pinzarrone
Bulgaria	Alexander Zlatkov	Alexandra Feigin	—
Canada	Keegan Messing	Madeline Schizas	Brooke McIntosh / Benjamin Mimar	Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen
	Conrad Orzel	—	Lia Pereira / Trennt Michaud	Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier
	—		Deanna Stellato-Dudek / Maxime Deschamps	—
China	Jin Boyang	—	Zhang Siyang / Yang Yongchao	Chen Xizi / Xing Jianing
Croatia	Jari Kessler	—
Cyprus	—	Marilena Kitromilis	—
Czech Republic	Georgii Reshtenko	Eliška Březinová	Federica Simioli / Alessandro Zarbo	Natálie Taschlerová / Filip Taschler
Estonia	Mihhail Selevko	Niina Petrõkina	—	Solène Mazingue / Marko Jevgeni Gaidajenko
Finland	—	Janna Jyrkinen	—	Juulia Turkkila / Matthias Versluis
France	Kévin Aymoz	Lorine Schild	Camille Kovalev / Pavel Kovalev	Loïcia Demougeot / Théo le Mercier
	Adam Siao Him Fa	—	Oxana Vouillamoz / Flavien Giniaux	Marie Dupayage / Thomas Nabais
	—		—	Evgenia Lopareva / Geoffrey Brissaud
Georgia	Nika Egadze	Anastasiia Gubanova	Karina Safina / Luka Berulava	Maria Kazakova / Georgy Reviya
	Morisi Kvitelashvili	—
Germany	Nikita Starostin	Kristina Isaev	Alisa Efimova / Ruben Blommaert	Jennifer Janse van Rensburg / Benjamin Steffan
	—	Nicole Schott	Annika Hocke / Robert Kunkel	—
Great Britain	Graham Newberry	Kristen Spours	Lydia Smart / Harry Mattick	Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson
	—		Anastasia Vaipan-Law / Luke Digby	—
Hungary	—	Júlia Láng	Maria Pavlova / Alexei Sviatchenko	Mariia Ignateva / Danijil Szemko
Israel	Mark Gorodnitsky	—		Mariia Nosovitskaya / Mikhail Nosovitskiy
Italy	Daniel Grassl	Lara Naki Gutmann	Sara Conti / Niccolò Macii	Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri
	Matteo Rizzo	—		Victoria Manni / Carlo Röthlisberger
Japan	Kazuki Tomono	Mai Mihara	Riku Miura / Ryuichi Kihara	Kana Muramoto / Daisuke Takahashi
	Shoma Uno	Kaori Sakamoto	—
	Sōta Yamamoto	Rinka Watanabe
Kazakhstan	Mikhail Shaidorov	—		Gaukhar Nauryzova / Boyisangur Datiev
Latvia	Deniss Vasiļjevs	Sofja Stepčenko	—	Aurelija Ipolito / Luke Russell
Lithuania	—			Paulina Ramanauskaitė / Deividas Kizala
				Allison Reed / Saulius Ambrulevičius
Moldova	—	Anastasia Gracheva	—
Netherlands	—	Lindsay van Zundert	Daria Danilova / Michel Tsiba	Chelsea Verhaegh / Sherim van Geffen
		—	Nika Osipova / Dmitry Epstein	—
New Zealand	—			Charlotte Lafond-Fournier / Richard Kang In Kam
Norway	—	Mia Caroline Risa Gomez	—
Philippines	—		Isabella Gamez / Aleksandr Korovin	—
Poland	Vladimir Samoilov	Ekaterina Kurakova	—	Anastasia Polibina / Pavel Golovishnikov
Romania	—	Julia Sauter	—
Slovakia	Adam Hagara	Ema Doboszová	—	Anna Šimová / Kirill Aksenov
Slovenia	—	Daša Grm	—
South Korea	Cha Jun-hwan	Kim Chae-yeon	—
	—	Kim Ye-lim
		Lee Hae-in
Spain	Tomàs-Llorenç Guarino Sabaté	—		Sofía Val / Asaf Kazimov
Sweden	Andreas Nordebäck	—
Switzerland	Lukas Britschgi	Kimmy Repond	—
Turkey	Burak Demirboğa	—
Ukraine	Kyrylo Marsak	—	Violetta Sierova / Ivan Khobta	Mariia Holubtsova / Kyryl Bielobrov
United States	Jason Brown	Amber Glenn	Emily Chan / Spencer Akira Howe	Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko
	Ilia Malinin	Isabeau Levito	Ellie Kam / Danny O'Shea	Madison Chock / Evan Bates
	Andrew Torgashev	Bradie Tennell	Alexa Knierim / Brandon Frazier	Caroline Green / Michael Parsons

Changes to preliminary entries

Changes to preliminary entries

Date	Discipline	Withdrew	Added	Reason	Ref.
February 24	Ice dance	Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker	Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko	Recovery	[11]
March 18	Men	Aleksandr Vlasenko		Medical	[12]

Medal summary

Medalists

Medals awarded to the skaters who achieved the highest overall placements in each discipline:

Discipline	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men	Shoma Uno	Cha Jun-hwan	Ilia Malinin
Women	Kaori Sakamoto	Lee Hae-in	Loena Hendrickx
Pairs	Riku Miura / Ryuichi Kihara	Alexa Knierim / Brandon Frazier	Sara Conti / Niccolò Macii
Ice dance	Madison Chock / Evan Bates	Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri	Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier

Small medals awarded to the skaters who achieved the highest short program or rhythm dance placements in each discipline:

Discipline	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men	Shoma Uno	Ilia Malinin	Cha Jun-hwan
Women	Kaori Sakamoto	Lee Hae-in	Mai Mihara
Pairs	Riku Miura / Ryuichi Kihara	Alexa Knierim / Brandon Frazier	Sara Conti / Niccolò Macii
Ice dance	Madison Chock / Evan Bates	Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri	Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier

Small medals awarded to the skaters who achieved the highest free skating or free dance placements in each discipline:

Discipline	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men	Shoma Uno	Cha Jun-hwan	Ilia Malinin
Women	Lee Hae-in	Kaori Sakamoto	Kim Chae-yeon
Pairs	Alexa Knierim / Brandon Frazier	Riku Miura / Ryuichi Kihara	Sara Conti / Niccolò Macii
Ice dance	Madison Chock / Evan Bates	Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri	Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier

Medals by country

Table of medals for overall placement:

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan	3	0	0	3
2	United States	1	1	1	3
3	South Korea	0	2	0	2
4	Italy	0	1	1	2
5	Belgium	0	0	1	1
	Canada	0	0	1	1
Totals (6 entries)		4	4	4	12

Results

Men's singles

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
	Shoma Uno	Japan	301.14	1	104.63	1	196.51
	Cha Jun-hwan	South Korea	296.03	3	99.64	2	196.39
	Ilia Malinin	United States	288.44	2	100.38	3	188.06
4	Kévin Aymoz	France	282.97	5	95.56	4	187.41
5	Jason Brown	United States	280.04	6	94.17	5	185.87
6	Kazuki Tomono	Japan	273.41	7	92.68	6	180.73
7	Keegan Messing	Canada	265.16	4	98.75	11	166.41
8	Lukas Britschgi	Switzerland	257.34	9	86.18	9	171.16
9	Matteo Rizzo	Italy	256.04	13	79.28	7	176.76
10	Adam Siao Him Fa	France	253.11	12	79.78	8	173.33
11	Vladimir Litvintsev	Azerbaijan	251.76	10	82.71	10	169.05
12	Daniel Grassl	Italy	244.43	8	86.50	14	157.93
13	Deniss Vasiļjevs	Latvia	243.15	11	82.37	13	160.78
14	Mikhail Shaidorov	Kazakhstan	236.93	18	75.41	12	161.52
15	Sōta Yamamoto	Japan	232.39	17	75.48	15	156.91
16	Mark Gorodnitsky	Israel	232.13	14	77.89	16	154.24
17	Mihhail Selevko	Estonia	230.94	15	76.81	17	154.13
18	Andreas Nordebäck	Sweden	223.52	20	73.45	18	150.07
19	Nikita Starostin	Germany	217.87	16	75.53	19	142.34
20	Morisi Kvitelashvili	Georgia	212.32	21	73.05	20	139.27
21	Andrew Torgashev	United States	210.59	22	71.41	21	139.18
22	Jin Boyang	China	204.22	19	75.04	23	129.18
23	Adam Hagara	Slovakia	203.26	24	70.29	22	132.97
24	Maurizio Zandron	Austria	194.31	23	70.36	24	123.95
Did not advance to free skating
25	Kyrylo Marsak	Ukraine	68.60	25	68.60	—
26	Conrad Orzel	Canada	67.65	26	67.65	—
27	Tomàs-Llorenç Guarino Sabaté	Spain	67.60	27	67.60	—
28	Burak Demirboğa	Turkey	65.73	28	65.73	—
29	Nika Egadze	Georgia	65.17	29	65.17	—
30	Alexander Zlatkov	Bulgaria	62.31	30	62.31	—
31	Jari Kessler	Croatia	61.94	31	61.94	—
32	Graham Newberry	Great Britain	61.70	32	61.70	—
33	Vladimir Samoilov	Poland	61.48	33	61.48	—
34	Georgii Reshtenko	Czech Republic	59.93	34	59.93	—

Women's singles

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
	Kaori Sakamoto	Japan	224.61	1	79.24	2	145.37
	Lee Hae-in	South Korea	220.94	2	73.62	1	147.32
	Loena Hendrickx	Belgium	210.42	5	71.94	4	138.48
4	Isabeau Levito	United States	207.65	4	73.03	5	134.62
5	Mai Mihara	Japan	205.70	3	73.46	6	132.24
6	Kim Chae-yeon	South Korea	203.51	12	64.06	3	139.45
7	Nicole Schott	Germany	197.76	7	67.29	9	130.47
8	Kimmy Repond	Switzerland	194.09	13	62.75	8	131.34
9	Niina Petrõkina	Estonia	193.49	6	68.00	12	125.49
10	Rinka Watanabe	Japan	192.81	15	60.90	7	131.91
11	Nina Pinzarrone	Belgium	191.78	14	62.04	10	129.74
12	Amber Glenn	United States	188.33	10	65.52	14	122.81
13	Madeline Schizas	Canada	187.49	16	60.02	11	127.47
14	Anastasiia Gubanova	Georgia	184.92	11	65.40	15	119.52
15	Bradie Tennell	United States	184.14	8	66.45	16	117.69
16	Ekaterina Kurakova	Poland	181.43	9	65.69	17	115.74
17	Lara Naki Gutmann	Italy	178.43	23	55.22	13	123.21
18	Kim Ye-lim	South Korea	174.30	17	60.02	19	114.28
19	Olga Mikutina	Austria	172.31	20	57.05	18	115.26
20	Julia Sauter	Romania	165.62	22	56.02	20	109.60
21	Janna Jyrkinen	Finland	160.91	21	56.06	21	104.85
22	Lindsay van Zundert	Netherlands	159.55	19	57.56	22	101.99
23	Sofja Stepčenko	Latvia	158.38	18	58.87	24	99.51
24	Alexandra Feigin	Bulgaria	155.74	24	54.65	23	101.09
Did not advance to free skating
25	Lorine Schild	France	54.35	25	54.35	—
26	Jade Hovine	Belgium	54.10	26	54.10	—
27	Kristen Spours	Great Britain	53.38	27	53.38	—
28	Ema Doboszová	Slovakia	53.01	28	53.01	—
29	Kristina Isaev	Germany	52.93	29	52.93	—
30	Anastasia Gracheva	Moldova	50.55	30	50.55	—
31	Marilena Kitromilis	Cyprus	48.92	31	48.92	—
32	Eliška Březinová	Czech Republic	47.29	32	47.29	—
33	Daša Grm	Slovenia	47.04	33	47.04	—
34	Júlia Láng	Hungary	44.26	34	44.26	—
35	Mia Caroline Risa Gomez	Norway	43.54	35	43.54	—

Pairs

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
	Riku Miura / Ryuichi Kihara	Japan	222.16	1	80.72	2	141.44
	Alexa Knierim / Brandon Frazier	United States	217.48	2	74.64	1	142.84
	Sara Conti / Niccolò Macii	Italy	208.08	3	73.24	3	134.84
4	Deanna Stellato-Dudek / Maxime Deschamps	Canada	199.97	4	72.81	6	127.16
5	Emily Chan / Spencer Akira Howe	United States	194.73	5	70.23	8	124.50
6	Lia Pereira / Trennt Michaud	Canada	193.00	6	65.31	4	127.69
7	Maria Pavlova / Alexei Sviatchenko	Hungary	190.67	8	64.43	7	126.24
8	Anastasia Golubeva / Hektor Giotopoulos Moore	Australia	189.47	11	61.95	5	127.52
9	Annika Hocke / Robert Kunkel	Germany	184.60	15	60.89	9	123.71
10	Alisa Efimova / Ruben Blommaert	Germany	184.46	7	65.23	10	119.23
11	Brooke McIntosh / Benjamin Mimar	Canada	181.95	10	63.33	11	118.62
12	Ellie Kam / Danny O'Shea	United States	175.59	9	63.40	13	112.19
13	Daria Danilova / Michel Tsiba	Netherlands	173.85	12	61.24	12	112.61
14	Camille Kovalev / Pavel Kovalev	France	172.29	13	61.07	14	111.22
15	Oxana Vouillamoz / Flavien Giniaux	France	157.19	16	58.12	15	99.07
16	Anastasia Vaipan-Law / Luke Digby	Great Britain	153.38	17	55.42	16	97.96
17	Zhang Siyang / Yang Yongchao	China	148.23	20	50.32	17	97.91
18	Isabella Gamez / Aleksandr Korovin	Philippines	147.07	19	53.29	18	93.78
19	Karina Safina / Luka Berulava	Georgia	146.99	14	60.98	20	86.01
20	Nika Osipova / Dmitry Epstein	Netherlands	146.27	18	54.93	19	91.34
Did not advance to the free skating
21	Federica Simoli / Alessandro Zarbo	Czech Republic	49.59	21	49.59	—
22	Violetta Sierova / Ivan Khobta	Ukraine	44.74	22	44.74	—
23	Lydia Smart / Harry Mattick	Great Britain	43.82	23	43.82	—

Ice dance

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	RD		FD
	Madison Chock / Evan Bates	United States	226.01	1	91.94	1	134.07
	Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri	Italy	219.85	2	88.21	2	131.64
	Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier	Canada	217.88	3	87.34	3	130.54
4	Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson	Great Britain	214.73	4	86.56	5	128.17
5	Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen	Canada	214.04	5	85.59	4	128.45
6	Caroline Green / Michael Parsons	United States	201.44	6	78.74	6	122.70
7	Allison Reed / Saulius Ambrulevičius	Lithuania	199.20	7	78.70	7	120.50
8	Natálie Taschlerová / Filip Taschler	Czech Republic	196.39	9	76.56	8	119.83
9	Juulia Turkkila / Matthias Versluis	Finland	193.54	8	76.97	9	116.57
10	Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko	United States	190.10	10	75.24	11	114.86
11	Kana Muramoto / Daisuke Takahashi	Japan	188.87	11	72.92	10	115.95
12	Evgenia Lopareva / Geoffrey Brissaud	France	183.61	12	72.80	13	110.81
13	Maria Kazakova / Georgy Reviya	Georgia	181.22	14	69.43	12	111.79
14	Loïcia Demougeot / Théo Le Mercier	France	176.85	13	69.88	14	106.97
15	Jennifer Janse van Rensburg / Benjamin Steffan	Germany	170.03	15	67.95	16	102.08
16	Holly Harris / Jason Chan	Australia	169.47	16	64.80	15	104.67
17	Mariia Nosovitskaya / Mikhail Nosovitskiy	Israel	163.01	17	64.14	18	98.87
18	Victoria Manni / Carlo Röthlisberger	Italy	162.97	18	64.02	17	98.95
19	Mariia Holubtsova / Kyryl Bielobrov	Ukraine	162.38	19	63.94	19	98.44
20	Mariia Ignateva / Danijil Szemko	Hungary	157.51	20	63.88	20	93.63
Did not advance to free dance
21	Marie Dupayage / Thomas Nabais	France	63.81	21	63.81	—
22	Anastasia Polibina / Pavel Golovishnikov	Poland	61.80	22	61.80	—
23	Anna Šimová / Kirill Aksenov	Slovakia	60.16	23	60.16	—
24	Charlotte Lafond-Fournier / Richard Kang In Kam	New Zealand	58.33	24	58.33	—
25	Chen Xizi / Xing Jianing	China	58.12	25	58.12	—
26	Paulina Ramanauskaitė / Deividas Kizala	Lithuania	58.06	26	58.06	—
27	Aurelija Ipolito / Luke Russell	Latvia	55.90	27	55.90	—
28	Solène Mazingue / Marko Jevgeni Gaidajenko	Estonia	55.67	28	55.67	—
29	Adrienne Carhart / Oleksandr Kolosovskyi	Azerbaijan	55.59	29	55.59	—
30	Sofia Val / Asaf Kazimov	Spain	53.94	30	53.94	—
31	Chelsea Verhaegh / Sherim van Geffen	Netherlands	50.94	31	50.94	—
32	Olivia Josephine Shilling / Leo Baeten	Belgium	50.67	32	50.67	—
33	Gaukhar Nauryzova / Boyisangur Datiev	Kazakhstan	47.77	33	47.77	—

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External links

• World Championships at the International Skating Union
• Results