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1998 World Figure Skating Championships

Figure skating event


Figure skating event

FieldValue
title1998 World Figure Skating Championships
comptypeISU Championship
startdateMarch 29
enddateApril 5
skatingseason1997–98
locationMinneapolis, USA
venueTarget Center
championmenRUS Alexei Yagudin
championladiesUSA Michelle Kwan
championpairsRUS Elena Berezhnaya / Anton Sikharulidze
championdanceRUS Anjelika Krylova / Oleg Ovsyannikov
previouscomp1997 World Championships
nextcomp1999 World Championships

The 1998 World Figure Skating Championships were held in Minneapolis, USA from March 29 through April 5. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.

Medal tables

Medalists

Ice dancingRUS Anjelika Krylova / Oleg OvsyannikovFRA Marina Anissina / Gwendal PeizeratCAN Shae-Lynn Bourne / Victor Kraatz

Medals by country

Competition notes

Due to the large number of participants, the men's and ladies' qualifying groups were split into groups A and B.

Results

Men

RankNameNationTFPQAQBSPFS456789101112131415161718192021222324Free skating not reached252627282930Short program not reached313133333535
1Alexei Yagudin2.5212
2Todd Eldredge3.0141
3Evgeni Plushenko5.0124
Viacheslav Zagorodniuk5.5353
Andrejs Vlascenko8.0765
Michael Weiss8.5237
Steven Cousins10.5776
Jeffrey Langdon12.0588
Evgeni Pliuta14.55910
Szabolcs Vidrai15.04129
Takeshi Honda16.531111
Zhengxin Guo19.091412
Michael Tyllesen23.0131814
Roman Skorniakov23.562113
Michael Shmerkin24.0111019
Laurent Tobel25.5111916
Anthony Liu26.0122215
Margus Hernits26.5121718
Markus Leminen26.5131320
Patrick Meier28.562317
Ivan Dinev28.541521
Robert Grzegorczyk31.0101623
Sven Meyer34.0102422
Gilberto Viadana34.082024
Patrick Schmit1425
Yamato Tamura926
Sergejs Telenkov1527
Vakhtang MurvanidzeGeorgia1528
Emanuel Sandhu829
Lee Kyu-hyun1430
Gheorghe Chiper16
David Liu16
Juraj Sviatko17
Daniel Peinado17
Panagiotis Markouizo18
Ricardo Olavarrieta18

Referee:

  • Walburga Grimm [[File:International Skating Union.svg|20px]]

Assistant Referee:

  • Charles Foster [[File:International Skating Union.svg|20px]]

Judges:

  • Gavril Velchev
  • Frank Parsons
  • Elfriede Beyer
  • Lucy J. Brennan
  • Seppo Kurtti
  • Prisca Binz-Moser
  • Ingelise Blangsted
  • Agnes Morvai
  • Odile Guedj

Substitute judge:

  • Fabio Bianchetti

Ladies

RankNameNationTFPQAQBSPFS456789101112131415161718192021222324Free skating not reached252627282930Short program not reached313133333535373739WD
1Michelle Kwan1.5111
2Irina Slutskaya4.0242
3Maria Butyrskaya5.5153
Laetitia Hubert5.5834
Anna Rechnio6.0225
Tonia Kwiatkowski10.0486
Elena Liashenko10.0367
Elena Sokolova14.53138
Tanja Szewczenko15.061010
Diána Póth16.58159
Julia Vorobieva16.551111
Julia Lavrenchuk19.041213
Joanne Carter20.061612
Tatiana Malinina21.55718
Lenka Kulovaná22.5101714
Vanessa Gusmeroli23.57919
Marie-Pierre Leray25.0141816
Silvia Fontana25.592115
Júlia Sebestyén27.092017
Angela Derochie29.5111920
Zuzana Paurová30.0111423
Shizuka Arakawa32.072221
Lucinda Ruh34.0102422
Mojca Kopač35.5122324
Alisa Drei1225
Anna Wenzel1426
Anna Lundström1327
Marta Andrade1328
Choi Hyung-kyung1529
Yankun Du1530
Ivana Jakupčević16
Olga Vassiljeva16
Shirene Human17
Valeria Trifancova17
Lauryna Slavinskaite18
Helena Pajović18
Anna Chatziathanassiou19
Roxana Luca19
Rocia Salas20
Kaja Hanevold

Referee:

  • Ronald Pfenning [[File:International Skating Union.svg|20px]]

Assistant Referee:

  • Gerhardt Bubnik [[File:International Skating Union.svg|20px]]

Judges:

  • Julianna Beke
  • Alfred Korytek
  • Marianne Oeverby
  • Hideo Sugita
  • Rafaella Loccatelli
  • Christa Gunsam
  • Jacqueline Itschner
  • Susan Heffernan
  • Liliana Strechova

Substitute judge:

  • Wendy Langdon

Pairs

RankNameNationTFPSPFS4567891011121314151617181920WDWD
1Elena Berezhnaya / Anton Sikharulidze2.021
2Jenni Meno / Todd Sand2.512
3Peggy Schwarz / Mirko Müller4.533
Shen Xue / Zhao Hongbo7.064
Dorota Zagórska / Mariusz Siudek8.046
Marina Eltsova / Andrei Bushkov8.575
Kristy Sargeant / Kris Wirtz9.557
Sarah Abitbol / Stéphane Bernadis12.088
Marie-Claude Savard-Gagnon / Luc Bradet15.0129
Shelby Lyons / Brian Wells15.01010
Marina Khalturina / Andrei Kriukov15.5911
Evgenia Filonenko / Igor Marchenko16.51112
Marsha Poluliaschenko / Andrew Seabrook20.51513
Kateřina Beránková / Otto Dlabola20.51314
Danielle McGrath / Stephen Carr22.01415
Elaine Asanakis / Alcuin Schulten24.01616
Inga Rodionova / Alexander Anichenko26.01817
Oľga Beständigová / Jozef Beständig26.51718
Jelena Sirokhvatova / Juri Salmanov29.02019
Jekaterina Nekrassova / Valdis Mintals29.51920
Oksana Kazakova / Artur Dmitriev
Kyoko Ina / Jason Dungjen

Referee:

  • Sally-Anne Stapleford [[File:International Skating Union.svg|20px]]

Assistant Referee:

  • Marie Lundmark [[File:International Skating Union.svg|20px]]

Judges:

  • Maria Zuchowicz
  • Jiasheng Yang
  • Hugh Graham
  • Igor Prokop
  • Gьnther Teichmann
  • Robert Worsfold
  • Ubavka Novakovic-Kytinoy
  • Susan Lynch
  • Alain Miguel

Substitute judge:

  • Vladislav Petukhov

Ice dancing

RankNameNationTFPCD1CD2ODFD456789101112131415161718192021222324Free dance not reached252627282930
1Anjelika Krylova / Oleg Ovsyannikov2.01111
2Marina Anissina / Gwendal Peizerat4.23222
3Shae-Lynn Bourne / Victor Kraatz5.82333
Irina Lobacheva / Ilia Averbukh8.04444
Barbara Fusar-Poli / Maurizio Margaglio10.46655
Elizabeth Punsalan / Jerod Swallow11.65566
Irina Romanova / Igor Yaroshenko14.69877
Margarita Drobiazko / Povilas Vanagas15.67788
Kati Winkler / René Lohse17.88999
Tatiana Navka / Nikolai Morozov20.611121010
Sylwia Nowak / Sebastian Kolasinski21.610101111
Kateřina Mrázová / Martin Šimeček23.812111212
Elena Grushina / Ruslan Goncharov26.013131313
Galit Chait / Sergei Sakhanovsky29.216151514
Anna Semenovich / Vladimir Fedorov29.415151415
Diane Gerencser / Pasquale Camerlengo31.614161616
Albena Denkova / Maxim Staviyski34.017171717
Isabelle Delobel / Olivier Schoenfelder36.419191818
Chantal Lefebvre / Michel Brunet37.618181919
Zuzana Merzova / Tomas Morbacher40.620202120
Angelika Füring / Bruno Ellinger43.222232221
Elizaveta Stekolnikova / Dmitri Kazarlyga44.220212024
Charlotte Clements / Gary Shortland45.624252322
Dominique Deniaud / Martial Jaffredo46.423222423
Jessica Joseph / Charles Butler262429
Eliane Hugentobler / Daniel Hugentobler282826
Ksenia Smetanenko / Samvel Gezalian272627
Aya Kawai / Hiroshi Tanaka252728
Kornélia Bárány / András Rosnik292929
Margarita Fourer / Timothy Heinecke303030

Referee:

  • Ann Shaw [[File:International Skating Union.svg|20px]]

Assistant Referee:

  • Ludmila Mikhailovskaya [[File:International Skating Union.svg|20px]]

Judges:

  • Katalin Alpern
  • Elena Buriak
  • Monika Zeidler
  • Yury Balkov
  • Isabella Micheli
  • Armelle Van Eybergen
  • Patricia S. French
  • Irina Absaliamova
  • Janet Coton

Substitute judge:

  • Evgenia Karnolska
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