2016 World Junior Figure Skating Championships
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 | Score | Date | Ref |
| Pairs | Short program |  Anna Dušková / Martin Bidař | 64.71 | 16 March 2016 | |
| Pairs | Total score | Anna Dušková / Martin Bidař | 181.82 | 17 March 2016 | |
| Ice dancing | Short dance |  Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons | 67.88 | 17 March 2016 | |
| Ice dancing | Free dance | Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter | 97.40 | 19 March 2016 | |
| Ice dancing | Total score | Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons | 162.74 | 19 March 2016 | |
| Ice dancing | Total score | Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter | 163.65 | 19 March 2016 | |
| 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 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
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.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
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.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.
Pairs
/ 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.Ice dancing
The United States won both the gold and silver medals. Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter overtook short program leaders Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons for the title, finishing ahead by a margin of 0.91. It was the fourth appearance at Junior Worlds for both teams. Russia's Alla Loboda / Pavel Drozd rose from sixth after the short dance to take bronze in their first trip to the event.Medals summary
Medalists
Medals for overall placement:Small medals for placement in the short segment:
Small medals for placement in the free segment:
By country
Table of medals for overall placement:Table of small medals for placement in the short segment:
Table of small medals for placement in the free segment: