2025 World Junior Figure Skating Championships

The 2025 World Junior Figure Skating Championships were held from February 25 to March 2, 2025, at the Főnix Aréna in Debrecen, Hungary. The competition determined the entry quotas for each skating federation at the 2026 World Junior Championships. Medals were awarded in men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dance.

2025 World Junior Figure Skating Championships
Type:	ISU Championship
Date:	February 25 – March 2
Season:	2024-25
Location:	Debrecen, Hungary
Host:	Hungarian National Skating Federation
Venue:	Főnix Aréna
Champions
Men's singles: Rio Nakata
Women's singles: Mao Shimada
Pairs: Anastasiia Metelkina and Luka Berulava
Ice dance: Noemi Maria Tali and Noah Lafornara
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Qualification

Age and minimum TES requirements

Skaters were eligible for the 2025 World Junior Championships if they turned 13 years of age before July 1, 2024, and if they have not yet turned 19 (singles) or 21 (ice dancers and female pairs skaters) or 23 (male pairs skaters).

Additionally, skaters had to meet the minimum technical elements score requirements. The ISU accepted 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.^[1]

Minimum technical scores

Discipline	CTES
Men	80
Women	72
Pairs	63
Ice dance	71

Number of entries per discipline

Based on the results of the 2024 World Junior Championships, each ISU member nation could field between one and three entries per discipline.^[2]

Number of entries per discipline

Spots	Men	Women	Pairs	Ice dance
3	Japan  South Korea	Japan	Canada  Georgia  United States	Israel  United States
2	Canada  Estonia  France  Great Britain  Slovakia  United States	Canada  Estonia  Finland  France  Italy  South Korea  Switzerland  United States	Czech Republic  France  Italy  Ukraine	Canada  France  Germany  Italy

• If not listed above, one entry was allowed.

Entries

Member nations started announcing their entries in December 2024. The International Skating Union released the official list of entrants on January 29, 2025.^[3]

Entries

Country	Men[4]	Women[5]	Pairs[6]	Ice dance[7]
Armenia	Mikayel Salazaryan	Sofya Titova	—
Australia	—	Hana Bath	—
Austria	Tobia Oellerer	Flora Marie Schaller	—	Anita Straub Andreas Straub
Azerbaijan	—	Arina Kalugina	—
Belgium	Denis Krouglov	—		Sofiia Beznosikova Max Leleu
Bulgaria	Deyan Mihaylov	Lia Lyubenova	—
Canada	David Bondar	Lulu Lin	Martina Ariano Kent Charly Laliberté-Laurent	Sandrine Gauthier Quentin Thieren
	Anthony Paradis	Kara Yun	Jazmine Desroches Kieran Thrasher	Chloe Nguyen Brendan Giang
	—		Ava Kemp Yonathan Elizarov	—
China	Tian Tonghe	Wang Yihan	Zhang Jiaxuan Huang Yihang	Yin Shanjie Yang Shirui
Chinese Taipei	—	Yu-Feng Tsai	—
Croatia	—	Lena Cusak	—
Cyprus	—	Stefania Yakovleva	—
Czech Republic	Jakub Tykal	Jana Horčičková	Debora Anna Cohen Lukáš Vochozka	Eliška Žáková Filip Mencl
Estonia	Vladislav Churakov	Elina Goidina	—	Ksenia Šipunova Miron Korjagin
	Arlet Levandi	Elizabeth Nõu	—
Finland	Matias Lindfors	Iida Karhunen	—
	—	Venla Sinisalo
France	Ilia Gogitidze	Eve Dubecq	Louise Ehrhard Matthis Pellegris	Célina Fradji Jean-Hans Fourneaux
	Gianni Motilla	Stefania Gladki	Romane Télémaque Lucas Coulon	Ambre Perrier Gianesini Samuel Blanc-Klaperman
Georgia	Konstantin Supatashvili	Inga Gurgenidze	Anastasiia Metelkina Luka Berulava	—
Germany	Genrikh Gartung	Anna Gerke	—	Darya Grimm Michail Savitskiy
	—			Lilia Schubert Nikita Remeshevskiy
Great Britain	Tao MacRae	Alice Smith	Zarah Wood Alex Lapsky	Mimi Marler Davies Joseph Black
	Lloyd Thomson	—
Hong Kong	Jiarui Li	Ariel Guo	—
Hungary	Aleksai Vlasenko	Polina Dzsumanyijazova	Lily Wilberforce Mózes József Berei	—
Israel	Tamir Kuperman	Sophia Shifrin	—
Italy	Raffaele Francesco Zich	Amanda Ghezzo	Irina Napolitano Edoardo Comi	Laura Finelli Massimiliano Bucciarelli
	—	Anna Pezzetta	Polina Polman Gabriel Renoldi	Noemi Maria Tali Noah Lafornara
Japan	Shunsuke Nakamura	Ami Nakai	Sae Shimizu Lucas Tsuyoshi Honda	Sara Kishimoto Atsuhiko Tamura
	Rio Nakata	Mao Shimada	—
	Sena Takahashi	Kaoruko Wada
Kazakhstan	Nikita Krivosheyev	Veronika Kim	—
Kyrgyzstan	—	Zhasmin Shlaga	—
Latvia	Kirills Korkacs	Kira Baranovska	—
Lithuania	—	Gabrielė Juškaitė	—
Netherlands	—	Angel Delevaque	—
New Zealand	Yanhao Li	Petra Lahti	—
Poland	Oscar Oliver	Weronika Ferlin	—	Zofia Grzegorzewska Oleg Muratov
Slovakia	Adam Hagara	Olívia Lengyelová	Laura Hečková Alex Války	Aneta Václavíková Ivan Morozov
	Lukáš Václavík	—
Slovenia	David Sedej	Julija Lovrenčič	—
South Korea	Choi Ha-bin	Kim Yu-jae	—
	Lee Jae-keun	Shin Ji-a
	Seo Min-kyu	—
Spain	André Zapata	Ariadna Gupta	Megan Yudin Patrizio Rossi	Sarah Marcilly Vázquez Jolan Engel
Sweden	Casper Johansson	Alexandra Ödman	—	Charlotte Chung Axel Mackenzie
Switzerland	Ean Weiler	Anastasia Brandenburg	Oxana Vouillamoz Tom Bouvart	Gina Zehnder Beda Leon Sieber
	—	Leandra Tzimpoukakis	—
Thailand	—	Phattaratida Kaneshige	—
Turkey	Furkan Emre İncel	—		Irmak Yücel Danil Pak
Ukraine	Yehor Kurtsev	Khrystyna Haliareta	Sofiia Holichenko Artem Darenskyi	Iryna Pidgaina Artem Koval
United States	Patrick Blackwell	Elyce Lin-Gracey	Olivia Flores Luke Wang	Hana Maria Aboian Daniil Veseluhkin
	Jacob Sanchez	Sophie Joline von Felten	Reagan Moss Jakub Galbavy	Caroline Mullen Brendan Mullen
	—		Naomi Williams Lachlan Lewer	Katarina Wolfkostin Dimitry Tsarevski

Changes to preliminary assignments

Date	Discipline	Withdrew	Added	Notes	Ref.
February 5	Men	Tadeáš Václavík	Jakub Tykal		[8]
February 13	Women	Noelle Streuli	Weronika Ferlin		[9]
February 18	Men	Luka Imedashvili			[10]
		Hiro Kaewtathip
	Women	Maria Elise Kaljuvere	Elizabeth Nõu
		Alicia Lengyelová	Olívia Lengyelová
February 23	Pairs	Katalin Janne Salatzki Lukas Röseler

Medal summary

Medalists

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

Discipline	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men	Rio Nakata	Seo Min-kyu	Adam Hagara
Women	Mao Shimada	Shin Ji-a	Elyce Lin-Gracey
Pairs	Anastasiia Metelkina Luka Berulava	Sofiia Holichenko Artem Darenskyi	Martina Ariano Kent Charly Laliberté-Laurent
Ice dance	Noemi Maria Tali Noah Lafornara	Katarina Wolfkostin Dimitry Tsarevski	Darya Grimm Michail Savitskiy

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

Discipline	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men	Seo Min-kyu	Rio Nakata	Jacob Sanchez
Women	Mao Shimada	Inga Gurgenidze	Ami Nakai
Pairs	Anastasiia Metelkina Luka Berulava	Sofiia Holichenko Artem Darenskyi	Zhang Jiaxuan Huang Yihang
Ice dance	Noemi Maria Tali Noah Lafornara	Katarina Wolfkostin Dimitry Tsarevski	Darya Grimm Michail Savitskiy

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

Discipline	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men	Rio Nakata	Seo Min-kyu	Adam Hagara
Women	Mao Shimada	Shin Ji-a	Elyce Lin-Gracey
Pairs	Anastasiia Metelkina Luka Berulava	Sofiia Holichenko Artem Darenskyi	Martina Ariano Kent Charly Laliberté-Laurent
Ice dance	Noemi Maria Tali Noah Lafornara	Katarina Wolfkostin Dimitry Tsarevski	Darya Grimm Michail Savitskiy

Medals by country

Table of medals for overall placement:

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan	2	0	0	2
2	Georgia	1	0	0	1
	Italy	1	0	0	1
4	South Korea	0	2	0	2
5	United States	0	1	1	2
6	Ukraine	0	1	0	1
7	Canada	0	0	1	1
	Germany	0	0	1	1
	Slovakia	0	0	1	1
Totals (9 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	Noemi Maria Tali Noah Lafornara	177.50	February 27, 2025	[11]

Results

Men's singles

Men's results^[12]

Rank	Skater	Nation	Total	SP		FS
	Rio Nakata	Japan	248.99	2	86.04	1	162.95
	Seo Min-kyu	South Korea	241.45	1	86.68	2	154.77
	Adam Hagara	Slovakia	233.93	5	80.89	3	153.04
4	Jacob Sanchez	United States	230.41	3	82.88	5	147.53
5	Choi Ha-bin	South Korea	227.28	6	77.22	4	150.06
6	Shunsuke Nakamura	Japan	225.69	4	81.29	8	144.40
7	Genrikh Gartung	Germany	218.94	8	74.37	7	144.57
8	Arlet Levandi	Estonia	218.90	12	72.42	6	146.48
9	Sena Takahashi	Japan	216.45	7	76.85	11	139.60
10	Yanhao Li	New Zealand	215.85	10	72.96	9	142.89
11	Lee Jae-keun	South Korea	212.02	9	74.24	13	137.78
12	Tamir Kuperman	Israel	209.49	17	68.17	10	141.32
13	Patrick Blackwell	United States	200.06	21	62.00	12	138.06
14	Casper Johansson	Sweden	195.61	18	65.85	14	129.76
15	Tian Tonghe	China	193.39	11	72.46	17	120.93
16	Anthony Paradis	Canada	190.58	14	68.37	16	122.21
17	David Bondar	Canada	190.29	22	61.73	15	128.56
18	Jiarui Li	Hong Kong	179.40	19	63.87	18	115.53
19	Lukáš Václavík	Slovakia	176.36	15	68.26	20	108.10
20	Gianni Motilla	France	173.59	23	61.31	19	112.28
21	Raffaele Francesco Zich	Italy	166.99	13	69.53	23	97.46
22	Denis Krouglov	Belgium	166.41	24	61.31	21	105.10
23	Ilia Gogitidze	France	162.36	20	63.61	22	98.75
24	Ean Weiler	Switzerland	157.98	16	68.19	24	89.79
25	Matias Lindfors	Finland	59.27	25	59.27	Did not advance to free skate
26	Vladislav Churakov	Estonia	58.31	26	58.31
27	Nikita Krivosheyev	Kazakhstan	58.02	27	58.02
28	André Zapata	Spain	57.70	28	57.70
29	Yehor Kurtsev	Ukraine	57.59	29	57.59
30	Jakub Tykal	Czech Republic	56.50	30	56.50
31	Konstantin Supatashvili	Georgia	56.45	31	56.45
32	David Sedej	Slovenia	56.26	32	56.26
33	Deyan Mihaylov	Bulgaria	55.98	33	55.98
34	Tao MacRae	Great Britain	55.57	34	55.57
35	Ze Zeng Fang	Malaysia	50.69	35	50.69
36	Lloyd Thomson	Great Britain	51.41	36	51.41
37	Furkan Emre İncel	Turkey	49.71	37	49.71
38	Kirills Korkacs	Latvia	49.70	38	49.70
39	Mikayel Salazaryan	Armenia	49.15	39	49.15
40	Aleksai Vlasenko	Hungary	46.38	40	46.38
41	Oscar Oliver	Poland	45.88	41	45.88

Women's singles

Women's results

Rank	Skater	Nation	Total	SP		FS
	Mao Shimada	Japan	230.84	1	74.68	1	156.16
	Shin Ji-a	South Korea	190.53	7	63.57	2	126.96
	Elyce Lin-Gracey	United States	188.71	4	66.11	3	122.60
4	Ami Nakai	Japan	185.89	3	66.84	6	119.05
5	Stefania Gladki	France	184.29	9	62.62	5	121.67
6	Inga Gurgenidze	Georgia	183.04	2	67.47	11	115.57
7	Elina Goidina	Estonia	182.18	6	64.15	8	118.03
8	Kaoruko Wada	Japan	181.65	5	64.35	9	117.30
9	Leandra Tzimpoukakis	Switzerland	179.66	10	61.37	7	118.29
10	Hana Bath	Australia	179.00	17	56.95	4	122.05
11	Iida Karhunen	Finland	176.84	11	60.24	10	116.60
12	Wang Yihan	China	175.51	8	63.44	16	112.07
13	Anna Pezzetta	Italy	174.59	12	60.01	13	114.58
14	Arina Kalugina	Azerbaijan	172.43	16	57.04	12	115.39
15	Anastasia Brandenburg	Switzerland	170.52	15	57.94	15	112.58
16	Kim Yu-jae	South Korea	168.63	21	54.30	14	114.33
17	Sophia Shifrin	Israel	168.21	13	59.51	18	108.70
18	Sophie Joline von Felten	United States	165.40	23	53.93	17	111.47
19	Angel Delevaque	Netherlands	161.88	18	56.30	19	105.58
20	Sofya Titova	Armenia	159.79	20	55.13	20	104.66
21	Polina Dzsumanyijazova	Hungary	159.39	14	59.04	22	100.35
22	Stefania Yakovleva	Cyprus	158.12	19	55.45	21	102.67
23	Kira Baranovska	Latvia	149.03	24	53.44	23	95.59
24	Lulu Lin	Canada	143.38	22	53.97	24	89.41
25	Jana Horčičková	Czech Republic	53.43	25	53.43	Did not advance to free skate
26	Veronika Kim	Kazakhstan	53.28	26	53.28
27	Venla Sinisalo	Finland	53.19	27	53.19
28	Kara Yun	Canada	52.91	28	52.91
29	Ariel Guo	Hong Kong	52.64	29	52.64
30	Gabrielė Juškaitė	Lithuania	52.49	30	52.49
31	Anna Gerke	Germany	49.05	31	49.05
32	Eve Dubecq	France	48.47	32	48.47
33	Amanda Ghezzo	Italy	47.61	33	47.61
34	Flora Marie Schaller	Austria	46.44	34	46.44
35	Yu-Feng Tsai	Chinese Taipei	46.12	35	46.12
36	Julija Lovrenčič	Slovenia	45.87	36	45.87
37	Alexandra Ödman	Sweden	44.75	37	44.75
38	Lia Lyubenova	Bulgaria	44.51	38	44.51
39	Alice Smith	Great Britain	43.45	39	43.45
40	Olívia Lengyelová	Slovakia	43.32	40	43.32
41	Petra Lahti	New Zealand	43.30	41	43.30
42	Lena Cusak	Croatia	42.50	42	42.50
43	Khrystyna Haliareta	Ukraine	42.30	43	42.30
44	Ariadna Gupta	Spain	41.42	44	41.42
45	Weronika Ferlin	Poland	39.61	45	39.61
46	Phattaratida Kaneshige	Thailand	38.62	46	38.62
47	Elizabeth Nõu	Estonia	37.85	47	37.85
48	Zhasmin Shlaga	Kyrgyzstan	35.07	48	35.07

Pairs

Pairs' results

Rank	Skater	Nation	Total	SP		FS
	Anastasiia Metelkina Luka Berulava	Georgia	191.01	1	69.18	1	121.83
	Sofiia Holichenko Artem Darenskyi	Ukraine	164.06	2	57.40	2	106.66
	Martina Ariano Kent Charly Laliberté-Laurent	Canada	155.02	4	55.81	3	99.21
4	Oxana Vouillamoz Tom Bouvart	Switzerland	153.25	6	54.82	4	98.43
5	Zhang Jiaxuan Huang Yihang	China	151.41	3	57.38	9	94.03
6	Olivia Flores Luke Wang	United States	148.40	8	51.02	5	97.38
7	Romane Télémaque Lucas Coulon	France	147.35	7	53.17	8	94.18
8	Jazmine Desroches Kieran Thrasher	Canada	147.35	5	55.05	11	92.30
9	Naomi Williams Lachlan Lewer	United States	146.86	9	50.95	6	95.91
10	Ava Kemp Yonathan Elizarov	Canada	145.37	10	50.20	7	95.17
11	Sae Shimizu Lucas Tsuyoshi Honda	Japan	141.83	11	49.33	10	92.50
12	Irina Napolitano Edoardo Comi	Italy	137.81	14	46.49	12	91.32
13	Louise Ehrhard Matthis Pellegris	France	135.31	13	47.34	13	87.97
14	Laura Hečková Alex Války	Slovakia	124.97	16	45.95	14	80.02
15	Polina Polman Gabriel Renoldi	Italy	124.01	12	48.28	15	75.73
16	Megan Yudin Patrizio Rossi	Spain	118.43	15	46.23	16	72.20
17	Reagan Moss Jakub Galbavy	United States	45.52	17	45.52	Did not advance to free skate
18	Debora Anna Cohen Lukáš Vochozka	Czech Republic	45.19	18	45.19
19	Zarah Wood Alex Lapsky	Great Britain	43.23	19	43.23
20	Lily Wilberforce Mózes József Berei	Hungary	40.23	20	40.23

Ice dance

Ice dance results

Rank	Skater	Nation	Total	RD		FD
	Noemi Maria Tali Noah Lafornara	Italy	177.50	1	70.92	1	106.58
	Katarina Wolfkostin Dimitry Tsarevski	United States	167.51	2	65.71	2	101.80
	Darya Grimm Michail Savitskiy	Germany	164.26	3	65.42	3	98.84
4	Iryna Pidgaina Artem Koval	Ukraine	158.93	5	62.54	4	96.39
5	Célina Fradji Jean-Hans Fourneaux	France	157.71	4	62.87	5	94.84
6	Caroline Mullen Brendan Mullen	United States	153.76	6	61.83	8	91.93
7	Hana Maria Aboian Daniil Veseluhkin	United States	153.21	7	59.64	6	93.57
8	Sandrine Gauthier Quentin Thieren	Canada	150.74	8	58.37	7	92.37
9	Chloe Nguyen Brendan Giang	Canada	146.27	9	57.46	10	88.81
10	Ambre Perrier Gianesini Samuel Blanc-Klaperman	France	145.98	11	56.38	9	89.60
11	Sofiia Beznosikova Max Leleu	Belgium	144.25	10	56.38	11	87.87
12	Gina Zehnder Beda Leon Sieber	Switzerland	138.99	12	55.72	13	83.27
13	Lilia Schubert Nikita Remeshevskiy	Germany	136.88	13	53.38	12	83.50
14	Aneta Václavíková Ivan Morozov	Slovakia	134.92	14	52.62	15	82.30
15	Laura Finelli Massimiliano Bucciarelli	Italy	134.88	16	51.75	14	83.13
16	Sara Kishimoto Atsuhiko Tamura	Japan	132.95	15	52.04	16	80.91
17	Anita Straub Andreas Straub	Austria	127.02	18	47.57	17	79.45
18	Irmak Yücel Danil Pak	Turkey	126.82	17	48.15	18	78.67
19	Eliška Žáková Filip Mencl	Czech Republic	116.84	19	46.96	19	69.88
20	Mimi Marler Davies Joseph Black	Great Britain	104.31	20	43.14	20	61.17
21	Sarah Marcilly Vázquez Jolan Engel	Spain	42.99	21	42.99	Did not advance to free dance
22	Zofia Grzegorzewska Oleg Muratov	Poland	42.74	22	42.74
23	Ksenia Šipunova Miron Korjagin	Estonia	40.34	23	40.34
24	Yin Shanjie Yang Shirui	China	40.15	24	40.15
25	Charlotte Chung Axel Mackenzie	Sweden	38.23	25	38.23