1991 World Figure Skating Championships
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| 1991 World Figure Skating Championships | |
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| Type: | ISU Championship |
| Date: | March 12 – March 17 |
| Season: | 1990-1991 |
| Location: |  Munich |
| Venue: | Olympiahalle |
| Champions | |
Men's singles: Kurt Browning |
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Ladies' singles: Kristi Yamaguchi |
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Pair skating: Natalia Mishkutenok & Artur Dmitriev |
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Ice dancing: Isabelle Duchesnay & Paul Duchesnay |
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| Navigation | |
| Previous: | 1990 World Championships |
| Next: | 1992 World Championships |
The 1991 World Figure Skating Championships were the World Figure Skating Championships of the 1990-1991 season. Elite senior-level figure skaters from ISU Member Nations competed for the title of World Champion. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.
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Medalists [edit]
Medal table [edit]
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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| 1 | Soviet Union |
1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 2 | United States |
1 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| 3 | Canada |
1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 4 | France |
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Results [edit]
Men [edit]
Kurt Browning won his third world championship in a row. Elvis Stojko (CAN) lands the first quad in combination, the first quadruple toe loop-double toe loop combination, at the World Championships. [5]
| Rank | Name | Nation |
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| 1 | Kurt Browning | Canada |
| 2 | Viktor Petrenko | Soviet Union |
| 3 | Todd Eldredge | United States |
| 4 | Petr Barna |  Czechoslovakia |
| 5 | Christopher Bowman | United States |
| 6 | Elvis Stojko | Canada |
| 7 | Michael Slipchuk | Canada |
| 8 | Alexei Urmanov | Soviet Union |
| 9 | Éric Millot | France |
| 10 | Masakazu Kagiyama |  Japan |
| 11 | Paul Wylie | United States |
| 12 | Oula Jääskeläinen |  Finland |
| 13 | Oliver Höner |  Switzerland |
| 14 | Jung Sung-Il |  South Korea |
| 15 | Mirko Eichhorn | Germany |
| 16 | Steven Cousins |  United Kingdom |
| 17 | Cameron Medhurst |  Australia |
| 18 | Daniel Weiss | Germany |
| 19 | Gilberto Viadana |  Italy |
| 20 | Ronny Winkler | Germany |
| Free Skating Not Reached | ||
| 21 | Ralph Burghart |  Austria |
| 22 | Viacheslav Zagorodniuk | Soviet Union |
| 23 | Cornel Gheorghe |  Romania |
| 24 | Jan Erik Digernes |  Norway |
| 25 | Henrik Walentin |  Denmark |
| 26 | Péter Kovács |  Hungary |
| 27 | David Liu |  Chinese Taipei |
| 28 | Tomislav Cizmesija |  Yugoslavia |
| 29 | Maarten van Mechelen |  Luxembourg |
| 30 | Jorge La Farga |  Spain |
| 31 | Nikolai Tonev |  Bulgaria |
| 32 | Alexandre Geers |  Belgium |
| 33 | Ricardo Olavarrieta |  Mexico |
Ladies [edit]
The U.S. became the only nation to ever sweep the ladies' podium at a World Championships.[6]
Midori Ito and Laetitia Hubert collided with each other during a practice session.[7] In the short program, Ito stumbled over an opening in the boards and into a camera but was back on the ice after three seconds.[7]
Pairs [edit]
| Rank | Name | Nation | TFP | SP | FS |
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| 1 | Natalia Mishkutenok / Artur Dmitriev | Soviet Union |
2.0 | 2 | 1 |
| 2 | Isabelle Brasseur / Lloyd Eisler | Canada |
2.5 | 1 | 2 |
| 3 | Natasha Kuchiki / Todd Sand | United States |
5.5 | 5 | 3 |
| 4 | Elena Bechke / Denis Petrov | Soviet Union |
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| 5 | Evgenia Shishkova / Vadim Naumov | Soviet Union |
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| 6 | Radka Kovaříková / René Novotný | Czechoslovakia |
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| 7 | Peggy Schwarz / Alexander König | Germany |
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| 8 | Stacey Ball / Jean-Michel Bombardier | Canada |
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| 9 | Calla Urbanski / Rocky Marval | United States |
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| 10 | Jenni Meno / Scott Wendland | United States |
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| 11 | Christine Hough / Doug Ladret | Canada |
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| 12 | Anuschka Gläser / Stefan Pfrengle | Germany |
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| 13 | Cheryl Peake / Andrew Naylor | United Kingdom |
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| 14 | Anna Gorecki / Arkadius Gorecki | Germany |
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| 15 | Rena Inoue / Tomoaki Koyama | Japan |
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| 16 | Danielle Carr / Stephen Carr | Australia |
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| 17 | Anna Tabacchi / Massimo Salvade | Italy |
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| 18 | Saski Bourgeois / Guy Bourgeois |  Greece |
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| 19 | Katarzyna Głowacka / Krzysztof Korcarz |  Poland |
Ice dancing [edit]
References [edit]
- ^ http://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/15/sports/figure-skating-browning-s-triple-jumps-lead-to-3d-title-in-row.html?scp=2&sq=World+Figure+Skating&st=nyt
- ^ http://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/17/sports/figure-skating-skating-sweep-for-the-us-women.html?scp=1&sq=World+Figure+Skating&st=nyt
- ^ http://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/14/sports/figure-skating-brilliant-victory-for-soviet-pair-and-surprising-3d-for-us.html?scp=3&sq=World+Figure+Skating&st=nyt
- ^ http://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/29/sports/the-year-in-review-winners-of-1991-individual-and-team-championships.html?scp=4&sq=World+Figure+Skating+Isabelle+Duchesnay+&st=nyt
- ^ USA Today quad timeline
- ^ http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1119009/index.htm
- ^ a b Janofsky, Michael (March 16, 1991). "Ito Survives Hard Knocks and Gains 3d Place". The New York Times.
- World Figure Skating Championships Results: Men PDF (9.95 KB)
- World Figure Skating Championships Results: Ladies PDF (14.2 KB)
- World Figure Skating Championships Results: Pairs PDF (19.4 KB)
- World Figure Skating Championships Results: Dance PDF (15.5 KB)
- results
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