2023 World Junior Figure Skating Championships

The 2023 World Junior Figure Skating Championships was held in Calgary, Canada, from February 27 to March 5, 2023. Medals were awarded in men's singles, women's singles, pairs, and ice dance. The competition determined the entry quotas for each federation at the 2024 World Junior Championships.

2023 World Junior Figure Skating Championships
Type:	ISU Championship
Date:	February 27 – March 5
Season:	2022–23
Location:	Calgary, Canada
Host:	Skate Canada
Venue:	WinSport – Arena A
Champions
Men's singles: Kao Miura
Women's singles: Mao Shimada
Pairs: Sophia Baram / Daniel Tioumentsev
Ice dance: Kateřina Mrázková / Daniel Mrázek
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On March 1, 2022, the ISU banned figure skaters and officials from Russia and Belarus from attending all international competitions due to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.^[1]

Qualification

Age and minimum TES requirements

Skaters were eligible for the 2023 World Junior Championships if they turned 13 years of age before July 1, 2022, and if they have not yet turned 19 (singles and females of the other two disciplines) or 21 (male pair skaters and ice dancers).

Additionally, skaters must meet the minimum technical elements score requirements. The ISU accepts scores if they were obtained at junior-level ISU-recognized international competitions during the ongoing or preceding season, no later than 21 days before the first official practice day.^[2]

Minimum technical scores (TES)

Discipline	SP / RD	FS / FD
Men [3]	25	44
Women	25	40
Pairs	23	34
Ice dance	24	38

• 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 Junior Championships, each ISU member nation could field one to three entries per discipline.^[4] China did not participate due to COVID-19 protocols, and could only field one entry.

Number of entries per discipline

Spots	Men	Women	Pairs	Ice dance
3	Canada  Kazakhstan  United States	South Korea  United States	Australia  Canada  Georgia	Canada  United States
2	Estonia  Italy  Japan  Sweden  Switzerland	Estonia  Japan  Switzerland	Czech Republic  France  Germany  Italy  Ukraine  United States	Cyprus  France  Germany  Great Britain  South Korea

• If not listed above, only one entry was allowed.

Entries

Member nations began announcing their selections in December 2022. The International Skating Union published entries on February 7, 2023.

Entries - 2023 World Junior Figure Skating Championships

Country	Men[3]	Women[5]	Pairs[6]	Ice dance[7]
Armenia	Semen Daniliants	—		—
Australia	—	Vlada Vasiliev	Anastasia Golubeva / Hektor Giotopoulos Moore
Austria	Tobia Oellerer	Hannah Frank	—	Anita Straub / Andreas Straub
Belgium	—	Jade Hovine		Sofiia Beznosikova / Max Archadi Brunovitch Leleu
Bulgaria	Filip Kaymakchiev	Chiara Hristova		—
Canada	Wesley Chiu	Kaiya Ruiter	Ava Kemp / Yohnatan Elizarov	Nadiia Bashynska / Peter Beaumont
	Aleksa Rakic	—	Chloe Panetta / Kieran Thrasher	Sandrine Gauthier / Quentin Thieren
	Edward Vasii		Ashlyn Schmitz / Tristan Taylor	Hailey Yu / Brendan Giang
China	Chen Yudong	An Xiangyi	Yang Yixi / Deng Shunyang	Li Xuantong / Wang Xinkang
Chinese Taipei	Li Yu-Hsiang	—	—	—
Cyprus	—	Stefania Yakovleva		Angelina Kudryavtseva / Ilia Karankevich
Czech Republic		Barbora Tykalová	Barbora Kuciánová / Lukáš Vochozka	Kateřina Mrázková / Daniel Mrázek
Denmark		Babeth Hansson-Östergaard	—
Estonia	Arlet Levandi	Maria Eliise Kaljuvere
	Jegor Martsenko	Niina Petrõkina
Finland	Makar Suntsev	Iida Karhunen
France	François Pitot	Lorine Schild	Louise Ehrhard / Matthis Pellegris	Louise Bordet / Thomas Gipoulou
	—		Oxana Vouillamoz / Flavien Giniaux	Celina Fradji / Jean-Hans Fourneaux
Georgia	Konstantin Supatashvili	Inga Gurgenidze	—	Grace Elizabeth Vainik / Yehor Barshak
Germany	Hugo Willi Herrmann	Olesya Ray	Aliyah Ackermann / Tobija Harms	Darya Grimm / Michail Savitskiy
	—		Sonja Löwenherz / Robert Löwenherz	Karla Maria Karl / Kai Hoferichter
Great Britain	Edward Appleby	Alexa Severn	—	Phebe Bekker / James Hernandez
	—	—		Ashlie Slatter / Atl Ongay-Perez
Greece		Stella Makri		—
Hong Kong	Zhao Heung Lai	Tsz Ching Chan
Hungary	Aleksandr Vlasenko	Polina Dzsumanyijazova		Maya Benkiewicz / Mark Shapiro
Israel	Lev Vinokur	Gabriella Grinberg		Elizabeth Tkachenko / Alexei Kiliakov
Italy	Nikolaj Memola	Anna Pezzetta		Noemi Maria Tali / Stefano Frasca
	Raffaele Francesco Zich	—		—
Japan	Kao Miura	Ami Nakai	Haruna Murakami / Sumitada Moriguchi	Nao Kida / Masaya Morita
	Nozomu Yoshioka	Mao Shimada	—	—
Kazakhstan	Rakhat Bralin	Anna Levkovets
	Dias Jirenbayev	—
	Oleg Melnikov
Latvia	Kirills Korkacs	Nikola Fomchenkova
Lithuania	Daniel Korabelnik	Daria Afinogenova
Malaysia	—	Katherine Ong Pui Kuan
Mexico		Natalia Acosta Moises		Harlow Lynella Stanley / Nikita Sosnenko
Netherlands		Julia Van Dijk		—
New Zealand	Li Yanhao	—
Norway	—	Oda Tønnesen Havgar
Philippines		Sofia Lexi Jacqueline Frank
Poland	Jakub Lofek	Noelle Streuli		Sofiia Dovhal / Wiktor Kulesza
Romania	—	Ana Sofia Beschea		—
Slovakia	Adam Hagara	Vanesa Šelmeková
Slovenia	David Sedej	Zoja Kramar
South Korea	Kim Hyun-gyeom	Kim Yu-jae		Hannah Lim / Ye Quan
	—	Kwon Min-sol		Kim Jinny / Lee Na-mu
		Shin Ji-a		—
Spain	Adrián Jimenez de Baldomero	—		Athena Faith Roberts / Eric Alis
Sweden	Casper Johansson	Nina Fredriksson		—
	Andreas Nordebäck	—
Switzerland	Noah Bodenstein	Livia Kaiser		Milla O'Brien / Laurin Wiederkehr
	Naoki Rossi	Kimmy Repond		—
Thailand	—	Phattaratida Kaneshige
Turkey	Ali Efe Güneş	Fatma Yade Karlıklı		Irmak Yücel / Nikita Ivanov
Ukraine	Kyrylo Marsak	Sofiia Hryhorenko	Violetta Sierova / Ivan Khobta	Mariia Pinchuk / Mykyta Pogorielov
United States	Lucas Broussard	Josephine Lee	Sophia Baram / Daniel Tioumentsev	Helena Carhart / Volodymyr Horovyi
	Daniel Martynov	Soho Lee	Naomi Williams / Lachlan Lewer	Jenna Hauer / Benjamin Starr
	Michael Xie	Clare Seo	—	Leah Neset / Artem Markelov

Changes to preliminary assignments

Changes to preliminary assignments

Date	Discipline	Withdrew	Added	Reason	Ref.
February 17	Women	Sarina Joos	Livia Kaiser		[5]
		Anna Deniz Özdemir	Fatma Yade Karlıklı
February 22		Zhasmin Shlaga
February 25	Men	Robert Yampolsky	Michael Xie		[3]
March 3	Ice dance	Anna Šimová / Kirill Aksenov		Visa issue

Medal summary

Medalists

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

Discipline	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men	Kao Miura	Naoki Rossi	Nozomu Yoshioka
Women	Mao Shimada	Shin Ji-a	Ami Nakai
Pairs	Sophia Baram / Daniel Tioumentsev	Anastasia Golubeva / Hektor Giotopoulos Moore	Violetta Sierova / Ivan Khobta
Ice dance	Kateřina Mrázková / Daniel Mrázek	Hannah Lim / Ye Quan	Nadiia Bashynska / Peter Beaumont

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

Discipline	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men	Kao Miura	Wesley Chiu	Naoki Rossi
Women	Mao Shimada	Shin Ji-a	Ami Nakai
Pairs	Sophia Baram / Daniel Tioumentsev	Oxana Vouillamoz / Flavien Giniaux	Anastasia Golubeva / Hektor Giotopoulos Moore
Ice dance	Kateřina Mrázková / Daniel Mrázek	Hannah Lim / Ye Quan	Phebe Bekker / James Hernandez

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

Discipline	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men	Kao Miura	Nozomu Yoshioka	Naoki Rossi
Women	Mao Shimada	Shin Ji-a	Ami Nakai
Pairs	Sophia Baram / Daniel Tioumentsev	Anastasia Golubeva / Hektor Giotopoulos Moore	Violetta Sierova / Ivan Khobta
Ice dance	Kateřina Mrázková / Daniel Mrázek	Hannah Lim / Ye Quan	Nadiia Bashynska / Peter Beaumont

Medals by country

Table of medals for overall placement:

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan	2	0	2	4
2	Czech Republic	1	0	0	1
	United States	1	0	0	1
4	South Korea	0	2	0	2
5	Australia	0	1	0	1
	Switzerland	0	1	0	1
7	Canada	0	0	1	1
	Ukraine	0	0	1	1
Totals (8 entries)		4	4	4	12

Records and achievements

For the all-time highest junior scores, see list of highest junior scores in figure skating.

The following new junior ISU best scores were set during this season:

Disc.	Segment	Skater(s)	Score	Date	Ref.
Ice dance	Total score	Kateřina Mrázková / Daniel Mrázek	177.36	March 4, 2023	[8]

Results

Men

Men's results

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
	Kao Miura	Japan	264.74	1	85.11	1	179.63
	Naoki Rossi	Switzerland	220.68	3	79.46	3	141.22
	Nozomu Yoshioka	Japan	217.79	7	76.44	2	141.35
4	Nikolaj Memola	Italy	216.44	6	76.72	4	139.72
5	Wesley Chiu	Canada	213.88	2	80.56	8	133.32
6	Kim Hyun-gyeom	South Korea	213.56	8	75.77	6	137.79
7	Lucas Broussard	United States	209.47	4	77.01	9	132.46
8	Chen Yudong	China	205.12	14	65.93	5	139.19
9	Arlet Levandi	Estonia	204.73	12	71.01	7	133.72
10	Daniel Martynov	United States	204.67	10	73.93	10	130.74
11	Andreas Nordebäck	Sweden	204.32	5	76.82	12	127.90
12	François Pitot	France	202.43	9	74.91	13	127.52
13	Aleksa Rakic	Canada	200.94	11	71.34	11	129.60
14	Adam Hagara	Slovakia	193.35	13	66.71	14	126.64
15	Kyrylo Marsak	Ukraine	191.65	15	65.55	15	126.10
16	Dias Jirenbayev	Kazakhstan	182.86	22	59.77	16	123.09
17	Edward Appleby	Great Britain	173.87	17	62.49	18	111.38
18	Konstantin Supatashvili	Georgia	173.70	24	58.97	17	114.73
19	Jakub Lofek	Poland	170.42	20	60.95	19	109.47
20	Rakhat Bralin	Kazakhstan	166.47	19	62.47	21	104.00
21	Aleksandr Vlasenko	Hungary	166.41	21	60.65	20	105.76
22	Raffaele Francesco Zich	Italy	165.19	18	62.48	22	102.71
23	Casper Johansson	Sweden	161.91	23	59.25	23	102.66
24	Noah Bodenstein	Switzerland	158.32	16	62.73	24	95.49
Did not advance to free skating
25	Lev Vinokur	Israel	58.90	25	58.90	—
26	Yanhao Li	New Zealand	57.88	26	57.88	—
27	Edward Vasii	Canada	57.22	27	57.22	—
28	Li Yu-Hsiang	Chinese Taipei	56.67	28	56.67	—
29	Makar Suntsev	Finland	56.49	29	56.49	—
30	David Sedej	Slovenia	55.62	30	55.62	—
31	Jegor Martsenko	Estonia	55.58	31	55.58	—
32	Ali Efe Güneş	Turkey	55.16	32	55.16	—
33	Hugo Willi Herrmann	Germany	54.71	33	54.71	—
34	Michael Xie	United States	53.46	34	53.46	—
35	Oleg Melnikov	Kazakhstan	51.79	35	51.79	—
36	Zhao Heung Lai	Hong Kong	51.50	36	51.50	—
37	Semen Daniliants	Armenia	50.79	37	50.79	—
38	Adrián Jiménez de Baldomero	Spain	46.43	38	46.43	—
39	Kirills Korkacs	Latvia	45.40	39	45.40	—
40	Tobia Oellerer	Austria	43.85	40	43.85	—
41	Daniel Korabelnik	Lithuania	38.12	41	38.12	—
42	Filip Kaymakchiev	Bulgaria	36.28	42	36.28	—

Women

Women's results

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
	Mao Shimada	Japan	224.54	1	71.78	1	152.76
	Shin Ji-a	South Korea	201.90	2	71.19	2	130.71
	Ami Nakai	Japan	197.40	3	67.28	3	130.12
4	Kim Yu-jae	South Korea	193.62	4	63.97	4	129.65
5	Kwon Min-sol	South Korea	191.06	6	62.82	5	128.24
6	An Xiangyi	China	183.94	5	63.91	8	120.03
7	Kimmy Repond	Switzerland	180.32	10	57.96	6	122.36
8	Clare Seo	United States	172.62	9	58.41	9	114.21
9	Inga Gurgenidze	Georgia	172.50	19	52.02	7	120.48
10	Kaiya Ruiter	Canada	169.65	11	57.71	11	111.94
11	Lorine Schild	France	168.35	7	61.04	13	107.31
12	Niina Petrõkina	Estonia	167.48	15	55.67	12	111.81
13	Nikola Fomchenkova	Latvia	166.03	17	53.16	10	112.87
14	Maria Eliise Kaljuvere	Estonia	161.08	8	58.42	14	102.66
15	Soho Lee	United States	149.16	16	54.23	15	94.93
16	Polina Dzsumanyijazova	Hungary	144.88	12	57.35	17	87.53
17	Stefania Yakovleva	Cyprus	144.23	22	50.08	16	94.15
18	Noelle Streuli	Poland	140.59	13	56.40	19	84.19
19	Josephine Lee	United States	138.22	14	56.09	21	82.13
20	Barbora Tykalová	Czech Republic	136.07	20	50.41	18	85.66
21	Phattaratida Kaneshige	Thailand	133.18	21	50.11	20	83.07
22	Livia Kaiser	Switzerland	130.95	18	52.71	23	78.24
23	Jade Hovine	Belgium	127.68	24	48.57	22	79.11
24	Julia van Dijk	Netherlands	117.90	23	48.58	24	69.32
Did not advance to free skating
25	Gabriella Grinberg	Israel	47.99	25	47.99	—
26	Iida Karhunen	Finland	47.82	26	47.82	—
27	Anna Pezzetta	Italy	47.47	27	47.47	—
28	Vanesa Šelmeková	Slovakia	47.16	28	47.16	—
29	Olesya Ray	Germany	44.97	29	44.97	—
30	Hannah Frank	Austria	44.59	30	44.59	—
31	Zoja Kramar	Slovenia	42.97	31	42.97	—
32	Nina Fredriksson	Sweden	42.44	32	42.44	—
33	Natalia Acosta Moisés	Mexico	42.40	33	42.40	—
34	Fatma Yade Karlıklı	Turkey	42.15	34	42.15	—
35	Anna Levkovets	Kazakhstan	40.47	35	40.47	—
36	Katherine Ong Pui Kuan	Malaysia	40.24	36	40.24	—
37	Babeth Hansson-Östergaard	Denmark	40.08	37	40.08	—
38	Alexa Severn	Great Britain	39.14	38	39.14	—
39	Oda Tønnesen Havgar	Norway	38.66	39	38.66	—
40	Daria Afinogenova	Lithuania	38.05	40	38.05	—
41	Sofia Lexi Jacqueline Frank	Philippines	37.05	41	37.05	—
42	Vlada Vasiliev	Australia	36.93	42	36.93	—
43	Tsz Ching Chan	Hong Kong	36.32	43	36.32	—
44	Ana-Sofia Beschea	Romania	36.06	44	36.06	—
45	Stella Makri	Greece	35.59	45	35.59	—
46	Chiara Hristova	Bulgaria	35.08	46	35.08	—
47	Sofiia Hryhorenko	Ukraine	28.64	47	28.64	—

Pairs

Pairs' results

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
	Sophia Baram / Daniel Tioumentsev	United States	183.47	1	66.95	1	116.52
	Anastasia Golubeva / Hektor Giotopoulos Moore	Australia	170.36	3	59.18	2	111.18
	Violetta Sierova / Ivan Khobta	Ukraine	159.39	4	58.47	3	100.92
4	Haruna Murakami / Sumitada Moriguchi	Japan	154.71	6	55.69	4	99.02
5	Oxana Vouillamoz / Flavien Giniaux	France	153.59	2	60.58	6	93.01
6	Ava Kemp / Yohnatan Elizarov	Canada	149.03	5	55.88	5	93.15
7	Naomi Williams / Lachlan Lewer	United States	145.05	7	52.13	7	92.92
8	Chloe Panetta / Kieran Thrasher	Canada	135.73	9	47.41	8	88.32
9	Barbora Kuciánová / Lukáš Vochozka	Czech Republic	132.15	8	48.38	10	83.77
10	Yang Yixi / Deng Shunyang	China	131.97	10	47.19	9	84.78
11	Ashlyn Schmitz / Tristan Taylor	Canada	118.92	11	45.83	12	73.09
12	Louise Ehrhard / Matthis Pellegris	France	113.75	13	40.43	11	73.75
13	Aliyah Ackermann / Tobija Harms	Germany	110.44	12	40.96	14	69.48
14	Sonja Löwenherz / Robert Löwenherz	Germany	104.25	14	34.24	13	70.01

Ice dance

Ice dance results

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	RD		FD
	Kateřina Mrázková / Daniel Mrázek	Czech Republic	177.36	1	71.19	1	106.17
	Hannah Lim / Ye Quan	South Korea	174.39	2	71.08	2	103.31
	Nadiia Bashynska / Peter Beaumont	Canada	169.13	4	68.00	3	101.13
4	Phebe Bekker / James Hernandez	Great Britain	169.07	3	68.89	4	100.18
5	Leah Neset / Artem Markelov	United States	162.59	7	64.01	5	98.58
6	Célina Fradji / Jean-Hans Fourneaux	France	156.92	5	65.81	8	91.11
7	Sandrine Gauthier / Quentin Thieren	Canada	156.65	8	63.09	6	93.56
8	Jenna Hauer / Benjamin Starr	United States	154.12	9	62.05	7	92.07
9	Helena Carhart / Volodymyr Horovyi	United States	149.87	11	61.34	9	88.53
10	Angelina Kudryavtseva / Ilia Karankevich	Cyprus	149.86	10	61.35	10	88.51
11	Elizabeth Tkachenko / Alexei Kiliakov	Israel	147.85	13	59.72	11	88.13
12	Mariia Pinchuk / Mykyta Pogorielov	Ukraine	145.31	12	60.91	12	84.40
13	Louise Bordet / Thomas Gipoulou	France	141.56	15	57.59	13	83.97
14	Hailey Yu / Brendan Giang	Canada	140.71	14	57.96	14	82.75
15	Karla Maria Karl / Kai Hoferichter	Germany	138.57	17	56.08	16	82.49
16	Nao Kida / Masaya Morita	Japan	136.72	18	54.19	15	82.53
17	Noemi Maria Tali / Stefano Frasca	Italy	135.81	16	56.89	18	78.92
18	Ashlie Slatter / Atl Ongay-Perez	Great Britain	132.91	20	53.95	17	78.96
19	Grace Elizabeth Vainik / Yehor Barshak	Georgia	126.54	19	54.15	19	72.39
WD	Darya Grimm / Michail Savitskiy	Germany	withdrew	6	65.67	withdrew from competition
Did not advance to free dance
21	Milla O'Brien / Laurin Wiederkehr	Switzerland	49.75	21	49.75	—
22	Li Xuantong / Wang Xinkang	China	49.25	22	49.25	—
23	Sofiia Dovhal / Wiktor Kulesza	Poland	49.16	23	49.16	—
24	Anita Straub / Andreas Straub	Austria	46.85	24	46.85	—
25	Kim Jinny / Lee Na-mu	South Korea	46.37	25	46.37	—
26	Athena Faith Roberts / Eric Alis	Spain	46.06	26	46.06	—
27	Irmak Yücel / Nikita Ivanov	Turkey	41.74	27	41.74	—
28	Maya Benkiewicz / Mark Shapiro	Hungary	40.94	28	40.94	—
29	Sofiia Beznosikova / Max Archadi Brunovitch Leleu	Belgium	40.49	29	40.49	—
30	Harlow Lynella Stanley / Nikita Sosnenko	Mexico	39.65	30	39.65	—

References

1. "ISU Statement on the Ukrainian crisis - Participation in international competitions of Skaters and Officials from Russia and Belarus - International Skating Union". isu.org. Retrieved 2023-01-23.
2. "2023 World Junior Championships Announcement". International Skating Union. 23 April 2022.
3. "ISU World Junior Championships 2023: Junior Men". International Skating Union. February 7, 2023.
4. "Communication No. 2500: Entries for ISU Figure Skating and Synchronized Skating Championships 2023". International Skating Union. August 2, 2022.
5. "ISU World Junior Championships 2023: Junior Women". International Skating Union. February 7, 2023.
6. "ISU World Junior Championships 2023: Junior Pairs". International Skating Union. February 7, 2023.
7. "ISU World Junior Championships 2023: Junior Ice Dance". International Skating Union. February 7, 2023.
8. "ISU Personal Best Scores Statistics: Total Ice Dance". International Skating Union. March 4, 2023.

External links

• World Junior Championships at the International Skating Union