2011 World Figure Skating Championships
| 2011 World Figure Skating Championships | |
|---|---|
| Type: | ISU Championship |
| Date: | April 24 – May 1 |
| Season: | 2010–2011 |
| Location: |  Moscow, Russia |
| Venue: | Megasport Arena |
| Defending champions | |
Men's singles:  Daisuke Takahashi | |
| Ladies' singles: Mao Asada | |
Pairs:  Pang Qing & Tong Jian | |
Ice dance:  Tessa Virtue & Scott Moir | |
| Champions | |
| Men's singles: Patrick Chan | |
Pairs:  Aliona Savchenko & Robin Szolkowy | |
| Previous: 2010 World Figure Skating Championships | |
| Next: 2012 World Figure Skating Championships | |
The 2011 World Figure Skating Championships will be the World Figure Skating Championships for the 2010–2011 season. They are an annual figure skating competition in which elite figure skaters compete for the title of World Champion.
The competition was originally assigned to Nagano, Japan,[1] and later moved to Tokyo, to be held from March 21–27, 2011 at the Yoyogi National Gymnasium with the Japan Skating Federation hosting.[2] It was postponed in the wake of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami and later reassigned to Moscow, Russia.[3]
Reaction to the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
Immediately following the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, the JSF reported to the ISU that the competition venue was undamaged and the event would be held as planned.[4][5] However, on March 13, the ISU released a statement saying that it was considering canceling the event and, later that day, the German skating federation announced that it would not send any skaters to the World Championships, with other countries undecided.[6] Although most foreign skaters had planned to fly to Japan from March 16 and later,[6][7] a few had already arrived in the country on March 11, among them European champion Florent Amodio, and were advised to return home by their skating federations, based on governmental travel advisories and uncertainty about the nuclear situation.[8]
On March 14, 2011, the ISU published a statement that 2011 Worlds would not be held in Tokyo during the dates originally planned, and that a decision regarding rescheduling or a complete cancellation would be made after further evaluation.[9] The ISU began considering various possibilities, including holding the event in another country.[10] ISU President Ottavio Cinquanta suggested the event could be canceled or postponed until October,[11] with the ISU saying they would make an announcement by March 21.[12] The JSF head, Seiko Hashimoto, said that her federation was hoping to reschedule the event to September or October,[13] but Japanese skating fans disapproved and felt moving it to another country would be a better option.[14] Although it would oblige a number of skaters to back out of agreements to appear in skating tours, an important source of income for many,[15] many coaches and officials voiced their preference for April-May, citing greater complications arising from an autumn Worlds.[16][17][18] However, others noted it would be very difficult for a new host to organize the event in under a month.[19] Typically, a host country of a World Championships has over two years and the shortest period was in 2000 when France organized the event in seven months. On March 21, the ISU announced that the JSF had relinquished its hosting rights and that it was looking into alternate locations,[20] while noting there would be major logistical challenges to organize the event on short notice.[21] The criteria for new candidate hosts included a start date in April or May, 700 hotel rooms, a television production, and two rinks: A competition rink with a minimum 8000 seats and available from the Thursday early morning through Sunday late evening of the following week, and a practice rink from Friday early morning through Friday late evening of the following week.[22] Local expertise, good transportation infrastructure,[23] and quick visa processing were also important factors. ISU President Ottavio Cinquanta said he would support a bid by the Japanese federation to host the 2015 World Championships.[24]
Bids for re-vote
On March 22, 2011, the International Skating Union announced that six candidates had applied to host the relocated championships.[25]
Vancouver, Canada
Lake Placid or Colorado Springs, United States
Moscow, Russia
Zagreb, Croatia
Turku, Finland
Graz, Austria
On March 24, 2011, the ISU announced that Moscow's Megasport Arena had been chosen as the replacement host for the 2011 World Figure Skating Championships.[15][26]
Competition notes
Russia pledged to speed up processing of visas and Vladimir Putin dismissed concerns about the cost of organizing the event on short notice.[27][26] The country had also accepted hosting duties of the World Pentathlon Championships after political instability caused Egypt to step down.[27] The city of Moscow will spend 200 million rubles (5 million euros or $7 million USD) on the event.[28] Tickets are to go on sale after April 10, with a price range between 200 and 3,000 rubles.[29]
Laura Lepistö withdrew in early March due to a back injury and was replaced by Juulia Turkkila.[30]
Shawn Sawyer also dropped out due to a scheduling conflict with a show and was replaced by Kevin Reynolds, while Myriane Samson withdrew due to a knee injury and was replaced by Amelie Lacoste.[31] Sinead Kerr and John Kerr dropped out to recover from shoulder surgery.[32]
There was one accident in the pairs short program. Eric Radford's nose was broken when Meagan Duhamel's elbow hit him on the descent from a twist, their first element, but they completed the program without a break.[33][34]
Qualification
The event is open to figure skaters from ISU member nations who reached the age of 15 by July 1, 2010. The following countries earned more than one entry based on performance at the 2010 World Championships.
Due to the large number of competitors, the men's, ladies', and ice dance competitions require a preliminary round prior to the main competition for skaters not attaining a qualifying score. The top 12 men and ladies will advance to the short program and the top 10 ice dance teams will advance to the short dance.
| Spots | Men | Ladies | Pairs | Dance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | Canada Japan  United States
|
Japan |
China Russia
|
Canada United States
|
| 2 |  Belgium  Czech Republic  France  Italy  Sweden
|
Canada  Finland Italy Russia  South Korea Sweden United States
|
Canada Germany United States |
France  Hungary  Israel Italy Russia  United Kingdom
|
Entries
195 athletes from 44 countries are scheduled to participate.[35]
Schedule
- Sunday, April 24
- Official practices
- Monday, April 25
- 14:00 Qualification round: Men
- Tuesday, April 26
- 12:00 Qualification round: Ice dancing
- 15:30 Qualification round: Ladies
- Wednesday, April 27
- 13:00 Men's short program
- 18:30 Pairs short program
- Thursday, April 28
- 13:30 Men's free skating
- 18:30 Pairs free skating
- Friday, April 29
- 13:30 Ladies short program
- 18:30 Short dance
- Saturday, April 30
- 13:30 Ladies' free skating
- 18:30 Free dance
- Sunday, May 1
- 14:00 Exhibitions
Results
Men
| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | PR | SP | FS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Patrick Chan | Canada
|
280.98 | 1 93.02 |
1 187.96 | |
| 2 | Takahiko Kozuka | Japan
|
258.41 | 1 165.00 |
6 77.62 |
2 180.79 |
| 3 | Artur Gachinski | Russia
|
241.86 | 4 78.34 |
3 163.52 | |
| 4 | Michal Březina | Czech Republic
|
233.61 | 3 130.87 |
7 77.50 |
5 156.11 |
| 5 | Daisuke Takahashi | Japan
|
232.97 | 3 80.25 |
6 152.72 | |
| 6 | Nobunari Oda | Japan
|
232.50 | 2 81.81 |
9 150.69 | |
| 7 | Florent Amodio | France
|
229.68 | 5 77.64 |
7 152.04 | |
| 8 | Brian Joubert | France
|
227.67 | 9 71.29 |
4 156.38 | |
| 9 | Richard Dornbush |  United States
|
222.42 | 11 70.54 |
8 151.88 | |
| 10 | Javier Fernández |  Spain
|
218.26 | 14 69.16 |
10 149.10 | |
| 11 | Ross Miner | United States
|
217.93 | 13 70.40 |
11 147.53 | |
| 12 | Tomáš Verner | Czech Republic
|
216.87 | 8 75.94 |
13 140.93 | |
| 13 | Ryan Bradley | United States
|
212.71 | 12 70.45 |
12 142.26 | |
| 14 | Denis Ten |  Kazakhstan
|
209.99 | 10 71.00 |
14 138.99 | |
| 15 | Peter Liebers | Germany
|
205.59 | 4 129.89 |
16 67.73 |
15 137.86 |
| 16 | Anton Kovalevski |  Ukraine
|
201.64 | 17 65.16 |
16 136.48 | |
| 17 | Kevin van der Perren | Belgium
|
197.10 | 15 68.34 |
18 128.76 | |
| 18 | Samuel Contesti | Italy
|
196.40 | 18 64.59 |
17 131.81 | |
| 19 | Jorik Hendrickx | Belgium
|
188.24 | 10 109.59 |
22 60.74 |
19 127.50 |
| 20 | Kevin Reynolds | Canada
|
187.23 | 19 64.36 |
21 122.87 | |
| 21 | Paolo Bacchini | Italy
|
183.13 | 6 122.29 |
23 58.96 |
20 124.17 |
| 22 | Song Nan | China
|
176.09 | 20 63.78 |
23 112.31 | |
| 23 | Kim Lucine |  Monaco
|
171.93 | 8 117.78 |
24 58.81 |
22 113.12 |
| 24 | Joey Russell | Canada
|
168.73 | 7 118.37 |
21 61.69 |
24 107.04 |
| Did not advance to free skating | ||||||
| 25 | Adrian Schultheiss | Sweden
|
58.41 | 25 | ||
| 26 | Viktor Pfeifer |  Austria
|
56.68 | 5 123.22 |
26 | |
| 27 | Kim Min-Seok | South Korea
|
56.19 | 12 98.67 |
27 | |
| 28 | Alexander Majorov | Sweden
|
54.24 | 2 136.64 |
28 | |
| 29 | Maxim Shipov | Israel
|
50.10 | 9 116.42 |
29 | |
| 30 | Misha Ge |  Uzbekistan
|
49.61 | 11 109.39 |
30 | |
| Did not advance to short program | ||||||
| 31 | Mark Webster |  Australia
|
13 95.84 |
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| 32 | Justus Strid |  Denmark
|
14 95.16 |
|||
| 33 | David Richardson | Great Britain
|
15 93.20 |
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| 34 | Tigran Vardanjan | Hungary
|
16 91.16 |
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| 35 | Mikael Redin |  Switzerland
|
17 90.79 |
|||
| 36 | Kutay Eryoldas |  Turkey
|
18 86.60 |
|||
| 37 | Stephen Li-Chung Kuo |  Chinese Taipei
|
19 85.71 |
|||
| 38 | Bela Papp | Finland
|
20 83.47 |
|||
| 39 | Harry Hau Yin Lee |  Hong Kong
|
39 82.39 |
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| 40 | Vitali Luchanok |  Belarus
|
40 81.51 |
|||
| 41 | Sarkis Hayrapetyan |  Armenia
|
41 77.25 |
|||
| 42 | Georgi Kenchadze |  Bulgaria
|
42 73.72 |
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Ladies
Pairs
Ice dancing
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