2017 World Figure Skating Championships


The 2017 World Figure Skating Championships were held 29 March – 2 April 2017 in Helsinki, Finland. The host was named in June 2014. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pairs, and ice dancing. The event also determined the number of entries for each country at the 2018 World Championships and the 2018 Winter Olympics.

Venues

's main arena, with an ice surface measuring 60 m x 30 m, was used for all competitions and several practice sessions. The rest of the practice sessions took place at Hartwall Arena's practice rink and Pirkkola ice rink. Hartwall Arena's main rink and practice rink facilities are in the same venue. Pirkkola practice rink is about four kilometres from Hartwall Arena.

Records

The following new ISU best scores were set during this competition:
EventComponentSkaterScoreDateRef
Ice dancingShort dance Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir82.4331 March 2017
LadiesFree skate Evgenia Medvedeva154.4031 March 2017
LadiesTotal score Evgenia Medvedeva233.4131 March 2017
MenFree skate Yuzuru Hanyu223.201 April 2017
Ice dancingFree dance Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron119.151 April 2017
Ice dancingTotal score Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir198.621 April 2017

Qualification

Minimum TES

Participants were required to have attained minimum technical element scores at an earlier senior international competition. The scores had to be obtained at least 21 days before the first official practice day of the championships.

Number of entries per discipline

Based on the results of the 2016 World Championships, each ISU member nation was allowed to field one to three entries per discipline.

Entries

Countries began publishing their selections as early as December 2016. The International Skating Union published a complete list on 9 March 2017.
CountryMenLadiesPairsIce dancing
Slavik HayrapetyanAnastasia GalustyanTina Garabedian / Simon Proulx-Sénécal
Brendan KerryKailani CraineEkaterina Alexandrovskaya / Harley Windsor
Kerstin FrankMiriam Ziegler / Severin Kiefer
Larry LoupoloverAnastasia Galyeta / Avidan Brown
Tatiana Danilova / Mikalai KamianchukViktoria Kavaliova / Yurii Bieliaiev
Jorik HendrickxLoena Hendrickx
Isadora Williams
Patrick Chan
Kevin Reynolds		Kaetlyn Osmond
Gabrielle Daleman		Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford
Liubov Ilyushechkina / Dylan Moscovitch
Julianne Séguin / Charlie Bilodeau		Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir
Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje
Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier
Jin BoyangLi Zijun
Li Xiangning		Sui Wenjing / Han Cong
Yu Xiaoyu / Zhang Hao		Wang Shiyue / Liu Xinyu
Chih-I TsaoAmy Lin
Nicholas VrdoljakLana Petranović / Antonio Souza-Kordeiru
Michal BřezinaMichaela Lucie HanzlíkováAnna Dušková / Martin BidařNicole Kuzmichová / Alexandr Sinicyn
Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen
Helery Hälvin
Valtter VirtanenEmmi PeltonenEmilia Simonen / Matthew PenasseCecilia Törn / Jussiville Partanen
Chafik BesseghierLaurine LecavelierVanessa James / Morgan Cipres
Lola Esbrat / Andrei Novoselov		Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron
Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac
Lorenza Alessandrini / Pierre Souquet
Moris KvitelashviliTatiana Kozmava / Oleksii Shumskyi
Paul FentzNicole SchottAliona Savchenko / Bruno Massot
Minerva Fabienne Hase / Nolan Seegert		Kavita Lorenz / Joti Polizoakis
Ivett TóthDaria Beklemisheva / Mark Magyar
Oleksii BychenkoIsabella Tobias / Ilia Tkachenko
Matteo RizzoCarolina KostnerNicole Della Monica / Matteo Guarise
Valentina Marchei / Ondřej Hotárek		Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte
Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri
Yuzuru Hanyu
Shoma Uno
Keiji Tanaka		Wakaba Higuchi
Mai Mihara
Rika Hongo		Sumire Suto / Francis Boudreau-AudetKana Muramoto / Chris Reed
Denis TenElizabet Tursynbayeva
Deniss VasiļjevsAngelīna KučvaļskaOlga Jakushina / Andrey Nevskiy
Goda Butkutė / Nikita ErmolaevTaylor Tran / Saulius Ambrulevičius
Julian Zhi Jie Yee
Ryom Tae-ok / Kim Ju-sik
Anne Line Gjersem
Michael Christian Martinez
Igor ReznichenkoNatalia Kaliszek / Maksym Spodyriev
Mikhail Kolyada
Maxim Kovtun		Evgenia Medvedeva
Anna Pogorilaya
Maria Sotskova		Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov
Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov
Natalia Zabiiako / Alexander Enbert		Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev
Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin
Yu Shuran
Nicole Rajičová
Daša Grm
Kim Jin-seoChoi Da-binYura Min / Alexander Gamelin
Javier Fernández
Javier Raya		Olivia Smart / Adrià Díaz
Alexander MajorovJoshi Helgesson
Stéphane WalkerYasmine Kimiko YamadaIoulia Chtchetinina / Noah Scherer
Alisa Agafonova / Alper Uçar
Ivan PavlovAnna KhnychenkovaOleksandra Nazarova / Maxim Nikitin
Graham NewberryNatasha McKayZoe Jones / Christopher BoyadjiLilah Fear / Lewis Gibson
Jason Brown
Nathan Chen		Mariah Bell
Karen Chen
Ashley Wagner		Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier
Alexa Scimeca Knierim / Chris Knierim		Madison Chock / Evan Bates
Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue
Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani
Misha Ge

Changes to initial assignments

Results

Men

set a new world record for the free skating.

Ladies

set a new world record for the free skating and for the combined total.

Pairs

Ice dancing

and Scott Moir set a new world record for the short dance and for the combined total. Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron set a new world record for the free dance.

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: