2009 World Junior Figure Skating Championships

The 2009 World Junior Figure Skating Championships was an international competition in the 2008–09 season. Commonly called "World Juniors" and "Junior Worlds", they are an annual figure skating competition in which elite figure skaters compete for the title of World Junior Champion in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.

The event was held between February 22 and March 1, 2009, at the Winter Sports Hall in Sofia, Bulgaria. The event had been provisionally scheduled to be held in Ostrava, Czech Republic, however, due to financial reasons, the Czech Figure Skating Association could not host. Therefore, on October 13, 2008, the International Skating Union definitively assigned the World Junior Championships to Sofia.

Qualification

The competition was open to skaters from ISU member nations who had reached the age of 13 by July 1, 2008, but had not yet turned 19. The upper age limit for men competing in pairs and dance was 21.

The term "Junior" refers to the age level rather than necessarily the skill level. Therefore, some of the skaters competing have competed nationally and internationally at the senior level, but are still age-eligible for World Juniors. Regardless of whether they have competed as seniors, all competitors perform programs that conform to the ISU rules for junior level competition in terms of program lengths, jumping passes, etc.

Number of entries per discipline

All members nations have one entry in each discipline by default. Member nations may earn more than entry based on their performance at the previous year's championships.

The following countries earned more than one entry to the 2009 World Junior Championships based on their performance at the 2008 World Junior Championships.

Spots	Men	Ladies	Pairs	Dance
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Schedule

All times are GMT+2.

• Tuesday, February 24
  • 13:30 Ice dancing – Compulsory Dance
  • 18:30 Opening Ceremony
  • 19:00 Pairs – Short Program
• Wednesday, February 25
  • 10:00 Men – Short Program (1st Half)
  • 14:00 Men – Short Program (2nd Half)
  • 19:00 Pairs – Free Skating
• Thursday, February 26
  • 13:00 Ice dancing – Original Dance
  • 18:30 Men – Free Skating
• Friday, February 27
  • 09:00 Ladies – Short Program (1st Half)
  • 14:00 Ladies – Short Program (2nd Half)
  • 18:30 Ice dancing – Free Dance
• Saturday, February 28
  • 13:30 Ladies – Free Skating
• Sunday, March 1
  • 14:00 Exhibition

Results

Men

File:2009 WJC Men's Podium.jpg

The men's podium at the 2009 World Junior Championships. From left: Michal Březina (2nd), Adam Rippon (1st), Artem Grigoriev (3rd).

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
1	Adam Rippon		222.00	1	74.30	1	147.70
2	Michal Březina		204.88	2	69.55	2	135.33
3	Artem Grigoriev		184.40	4	65.11	3	119.29
4	Denis Ten		183.77	5	64.80	4	118.97
5	Curran Oi		182.89	3	69.40	7	113.49
6	Yang Chao		177.86	7	62.25	6	115.61
7	Song Nan		175.44	10	58.70	5	116.74
8	Elladj Balde		170.76	8	60.63	8	110.13
9	Kevin Reynolds		169.36	6	63.81	10	105.55
10	Ross Miner		164.80	9	59.15	9	105.65
11	Nikolai Bondar		161.93	13	57.75	11	104.18
12	Yuzuru Hanyu		161.77	11	58.18	13	103.59
13	Alexander Majorov		154.06	12	58.15	16	95.91
14	Denis Wieczorek		153.73	15	54.20	15	99.53
15	Florent Amodio		153.70	19	49.80	12	103.90
16	Stanislav Kovalev		151.93	18	50.26	14	101.67
17	Peter Reitmayer		150.85	14	55.65	17	95.20
18	Mark Vaillant		145.90	16	52.59	20	93.31
19	Javier Raya		144.19	17	50.50	19	93.69
20	Petr Coufal		143.45	21	48.40	18	95.05
21	Ruben Errampalli		133.03	24	45.93	21	87.10
22	Kim Min-seok		129.87	23	46.73	22	83.14
23	Viktor Romanenkov		124.09	20	49.11	23	74.98
24	Matthew Precious		121.93	22	47.04	24	74.89
25	Pavel Petrov Savinov		88.59	37	30.84	25	57.75
Did not advance to free skating
26	Sebastian Iwasaki			25	45.20
27	Stephen Li-Chung Kuo			26	43.14
28	Ruben Blommaert			27	43.12
29	Matthew Parr			28	42.84
30	Bela Papp			29	42.59
31	Engin Ali Artan			30	40.16
32	Sarkis Hairapetyan			31	39.18
33	Saulius Ambrulevičius			32	38.01
34	Dmitri Kagirov			33	37.98
35	Mario-Rafael Ionian			34	37.74
36	Tomi Pulkkinen			35	33.37
37	Zsolt Kosz			36	33.24
38	Beka Shankulashvili			38	30.74
39	Boyito Mulder			39	29.71
40	Ivor Mikolcevic			40	26.55
41	Cameron Hems			41	25.91

Ladies

File:2009 WJC Ladies Podium.jpg

The ladies' podium at the 2009 World Junior Championships. From left: Caroline Zhang (2nd), Alena Leonova (1st), Ashley Wagner (3rd).

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
1	Alena Leonova		157.18	3	55.50	2	101.68
2	Caroline Zhang		154.67	10	47.64	1	107.03
3	Ashley Wagner		153.57	2	57.50	3	96.07
4	Joshi Helgesson		139.89	4	55.14	6	84.75
5	Katrina Hacker		139.68	5	51.06	4	88.62
6	Elene Gedevanishvili		138.32	1	60.32	11	78.00
7	Sarah Hecken		135.83	9	48.14	5	87.69
8	Ivana Reitmayerová		129.40	6	48.34	8	81.06
9	Oksana Gozeva		126.70	15	44.54	7	82.16
10	Isabel Drescher		126.65	8	48.16	10	78.49
11	Francesca Rio		122.70	7	48.24	12	74.46
12	Maé Bérénice Méité		122.53	16	43.98	9	78.55
13	Diane Szmiett		119.09	12	47.48	15	71.61
14	Miriam Ziegler		116.20	19	42.92	13	73.28
15	Svetlana Issakova		115.14	18	43.38	14	71.76
16	Haruka Imai		113.24	17	43.58	16	69.66
17	Chaochih Liu		112.49	13	46.82	18	65.67
18	Geng Bingwa		111.71	11	47.54	21	64.17
19	Eleonora Vinnichenko		110.66	20	42.42	17	68.24
20	Sonia Lafuente		109.27	14	46.16	22	63.11
21	Kathryn Kang		104.82	23	40.38	20	64.44
22	Kwak Min-jeong		103.69	24	38.94	19	64.75
23	Karly Robertson		102.53	22	40.58	23	61.95
24	Katsiarina Pakhamovich		88.50	21	41.18	25	47.32
25	Stefanie Pechlaner		76.45	44	28.82	24	47.63
Did not advance to free skating
26	Mari Suzuki			25	38.50
27	Romy Bühler			26	37.60
28	Manouk Gijsman			27	37.44
29	Karina Johnson			28	37.26
30	Mimi Tanasorn Chindasook			29	37.02
31	Alexandra Rout			30	36.56
32	Angelica Olsson			31	36.50
33	Anne Line Gjersem			32	34.30
34	Alexandria Riordan			33	34.04
35	Beatrice Rozinskaite			34	33.38
36	Chelsea Rose Chiappa			35	33.26
37	Georgia Glastris			36	32.74
38	Matleena Laakso			37	32.36
39	Jaimee Nobbs			38	32.02
40	Zanna Pugaca			39	31.28
41	Kristina Kostková			40	31.06
42	Reyna Hamui			41	30.98
43	Mary Grace Baldo			42	30.66
44	Sofia Bardakov			43	29.52
45	Noora Pitkänen			45	28.22
46	Daša Grm			46	28.14
47	Maria Dikanovic			47	27.08
48	Lydia Fuentes			48	27.04
49	Laurie Lougsami			49	26.72
50	Armine Stambultsyan			50	26.50
51	Birce Atabey			51	24.14
52	Mila Petrovic			52	23.54
53	Naida Akšamija			53	20.08
54	Anja Chong			54	15.46

Pairs

File:2009 WJC Pairs Podium.jpg

The pairs podium at the 2009 World Junior Championships. From left: Anastasia Martiusheva / Alexei Rogonov(2nd), Lubov Iliushechkina / Nodari Maisuradze (1st), Marissa Castelli / Simon Shnapir (3rd).

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
1	Lubov Iliushechkina / Nodari Maisuradze		144.32	1	55.12	2	89.20
2	Anastasia Martiusheva / Alexei Rogonov		138.59	11	44.60	1	93.99
3	Marissa Castelli / Simon Shnapir		137.47	2	49.10	4	88.37
4	Paige Lawrence / Rudi Swiegers		137.07	4	48.64	3	88.43
5	Ekaterina Sheremetieva / Mikhail Kuznetsov		134.80	3	48.84	5	85.96
6	Maddison Bird / Raymond Schultz		127.63	6	46.60	6	81.03
7	Narumi Takahashi / Mervin Tran		126.64	8	45.98	7	80.66
8	Zhang Yue / Wang Lei		125.30	7	45.98	8	79.32
9	Brynn Carman / Chris Knierim		124.93	9	45.94	9	78.99
10	Anaïs Morand / Antoine Dorsaz		123.60	5	47.28	10	76.32
11	Cheng Duo / Gao Yu		119.73	10	44.94	11	74.79
12	Maria Sergejeva / Ilja Glebov		116.38	12	44.36	12	72.02
13	Krystyna Klimczak / Janusz Karweta		107.81	14	40.58	13	67.23
14	Camille Foucher / Bruno Massot		104.26	13	40.98	15	63.28
15	Carolina Gillespie / Daniel Aggiano		101.43	15	37.94	14	63.49
16	Gabriela Čermanová / Martin Hanulák		101.08	16	37.92	16	63.16
17	Alexandra Herbríková / Lukáš Ovčáček		98.26	17	37.40	17	60.86
18	Marylie Jorg / Benjamin Koenderink		97.63	18	37.04	18	60.59
19	Rie Aoi / Wen Xiong Guo		91.28	20	33.66	19	57.62
20	Anna Khnychenkova / Sergei Kulbach		87.81	19	34.24	20	53.57
Did not advance to free skating
21	Tameron Drake / Edward Alton			21	30.82

Ice dancing

File:2009 WJC Ice Dancing Podium.jpg

The ice dancing podium at the 2009 World Junior Championships. From left: Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani (2nd), Madison Chock / Greg Zuerlein (1st), Ekaterina Riazanova / Jonathan Guerreiro (3rd).

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	CD		OD		FD
1	Madison Chock / Greg Zuerlein		172.55	1	33.15	1	57.29	1	82.11
2	Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani		162.15	5	29.71	4	52.10	2	80.34
3	Ekaterina Riazanova / Jonathan Guerreiro		161.80	7	29.02	2	53.80	3	78.98
4	Madison Hubbell / Keiffer Hubbell		161.34	2	31.39	3	53.44	4	76.51
5	Kharis Ralph / Asher Hill		152.76	4	30.09	6	49.58	5	73.09
6	Ekaterina Pushkash / Dmitri Kiselev		150.21	3	30.44	5	50.30	9	69.47
7	Karen Routhier / Eric Saucke-Lacelle		149.50	6	29.24	8	48.06	6	72.20
8	Lucie Myslivečková / Matěj Novák		146.04	11	27.80	7	49.18	10	69.06
9	Lorenza Alessandrini / Simone Vaturi		145.61	10	27.81	9	47.67	8	70.13
10	Terra Findlay / Benoît Richaud		145.17	13	26.82	10	47.11	7	71.24
11	Marina Antipova / Artem Kudashev		138.86	8	28.57	13	45.00	12	65.29
12	Tarrah Harvey / Keith Gagnon		138.38	12	27.53	12	45.33	11	65.52
13	Alisa Agafonova / Dmitri Dun		134.86	9	27.92	11	45.55	14	61.39
14	Guan Xueting / Wang Meng		124.32	15	25.37	25	36.16	13	62.79
15	Nikki Georgiadis / Graham Hockley		121.32	18	23.21	16	39.52	15	58.59
16	Sonja Pauli / Tobias Eisenbauer		121.07	17	24.52	18	38.81	17	57.74
17	Nikola Višňová / Lukáš Csolley		121.03	20	22.76	15	40.16	16	58.11
18	Genevieve Deutch / Evan Roberts		120.97	14	26.37	14	41.69	22	52.91
19	Charlene Guignard / Guillaume Paulmier		119.88	16	24.56	19	38.22	18	57.10
20	Paola Amati / Marco Fabbri		115.66	21	22.61	23	37.38	20	55.67
21	Dora Turoczi / Balazs Major		115.16	24	22.23	24	37.17	19	55.76
22	Dominique Dieck / Michael Zenkner		114.29	22	22.48	21	37.65	21	54.16
23	Anastasia Galyeta / Alexei Shumski		113.04	19	23.12	17	39.17	23	50.75
24	Oksana Klimova / Sasha Palomäki		111.22	23	22.44	20	38.08	24	50.70
25	Lora Semova / Dimitar Lichev		99.11	29	20.29	29	31.28	25	47.54
Did not advance to free dance
26	Lesia Valadzenkava / Vitali Vakunov		57.95	28	20.36	22	37.59
27	Justyna Plutowska / Dawid Pietrzyński		56.44	25	21.86	26	34.58
28	Ramona Elsener / Florian Roost		54.41	30	19.91	27	34.50
29	Kristina Kiudmaa / Aleksei Trohlev		53.47	27	20.45	28	33.02
30	Alissandra Aronow / Aleksandr Pirogov		52.72	26	21.80	30	30.92
Did not advance to original dance
31	Ariana Weintraub / Avidan Brown			31	19.87
32	Sara Hurtado / Adria Diaz			32	19.86
33	Maria Popkova / Viktor Kovalenko			33	19.77

External links

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