# 2015 World Figure Skating Championships

The 2015 World Figure Skating Championships was an international figure skating competition in the 2014–15 season. Figure skaters competed for the title of World champion in men's singles, ladies' singles, pairs, and ice dancing.
In June 2012, it was announced that Shanghai, China would host the 2015 Worlds. All events were held at the Shanghai Oriental Sports Center.

## Qualification

Skaters are eligible for the event if they are representing an ISU member nations and have reached the age of 15 before 1 July 2014 in their place of birth. National associations select their entries according to their own criteria but the ISU mandates that their selections achieve a minimum technical elements score (TES) at an international event prior to the World Championships.

### Minimum TES

Minimum technical scores (TES) :
| Discipline | SP / SD | FS / FD |
| Men | 34 | 64 |
| Ladies | 27 | 47 |
| Pairs | 25 | 43 |
| Ice dancing | 29 | 39 |
| Must be achieved at an ISU-recognized international event in the ongoing or preceding season. SP and FS scores may be attained at different events. |||

### Number of entries per discipline

Based on the results of the 2014 World Championships, each ISU member nation can field one to three entries per discipline.
| Spots | Men | Ladies | Pairs | Dance |
| 3 | Japan United States | Japan Russia United States | Canada China Russia | Canada Russia United States |
| 2 | Canada China Czech Republic France Russia Spain | Canada Italy South Korea | France Germany Italy United States | France Italy United Kingdom |
| If not listed above, one entry is allowed. |||||

## Entries

Member nations began announcing their selections in January 2015.
| Country | Men | Ladies | Pairs | Ice dancing |
| Armenia | | Anastasia Galustyan | | |
| Australia | Brendan Kerry | Brooklee Han | | |
| Austria | | Kerstin Frank | Miriam Ziegler / Severin Kiefer | Barbora Silna / Juri Kurakin |
| Belarus | Pavel Ignatenko | | Maria Paliakova / Nikita Bochkov | Viktoria Kavaliova / Yurii Bieliaiev |
| Canada | Nam Nguyen Jeremy Ten | Gabrielle Daleman Alaine Chartrand | Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford Lubov Ilyushechkina / Dylan Moscovitch Julianne Séguin / Charlie Bilodeau | Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier Alexandra Paul / Mitchell Islam |
| China | Song Nan Yan Han | Li Zijun | Pang Qing / Tong Jian Peng Cheng / Zhang Hao Sui Wenjing / Han Cong | Wang Shiyue / Liu Xinyu |
| Czech Republic | Michal Březina Petr Coufal | Eliška Březinová | | |
| Denmark | | | | Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen |
| Estonia | | | | Irina Shtork / Taavi Rand |
| Finland | | Kiira Korpi | | Cecilia Torn / Jussiville Partanen |
| France | Florent Amodio Chafik Besseghier | Maé-Bérénice Méité | Vanessa James / Morgan Ciprès | Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron |
| Georgia | | Elene Gedevanishvili | | |
| Germany | Peter Liebers | Nicole Schott | Mari Vartmann / Aaron Van Cleave | Nelli Zhiganshina / Alexander Gazsi |
| Great Britain | | | Amani Fancy / Christopher Boyadji | Olivia Smart / Joseph Buckland |
| Hong Kong | Ronald Lam | | | |
| Hungary | | Ivett Tóth | | Carolina Moscheni / Ádám Lukács |
| Israel | Alexei Bychenko | Netta Schreiber | | Allison Reed / Vasili Rogov |
| Italy | Ivan Righini | Roberta Rodeghiero Giada Russo | Nicole Della Monica / Matteo Guarise Valentina Marchei / Ondřej Hotárek | Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte Charlene Guignard / Marco Fabbri |
| Japan | Yuzuru Hanyu Takahiko Kozuka Takahito Mura | Satoko Miyahara Rika Hongo Kanako Murakami | Narumi Takahashi / Ryuichi Kihara | Cathy Reed / Chris Reed |
| Kazakhstan | Denis Ten | | | |
| South Korea | Lee June-hyoung | Kim Hae-jin Park So-youn | | Rebeka Kim / Kirill Minov |
| Latvia | | Angelīna Kučvaļska | | Olga Jakushina / Andrey Nevskiy |
| Lithuania | | Aleksandra Golovkina | | |
| Netherlands | | Niki Wories | | |
| Norway | | Anne Line Gjersem | | |
| Poland | | | | Natalia Kaliszek / Maksym Spodyriev |
| Philippines | Michael Christian Martinez | Alisson Krystle Perticheto | | |
| Russia | Maxim Kovtun Sergei Voronov | Elena Radionova Elizaveta Tuktamysheva Anna Pogorilaya | Kristina Astakhova / Alexei Rogonov Yuko Kavaguti / Alexander Smirnov Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov | Elena Ilinykh / Ruslan Zhiganshin Ksenia Monko / Kirill Khaliavin Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin |
| Slovakia | | Nicole Rajicova | | Federica Testa / Lukáš Csölley |
| Slovenia | | Daša Grm | | |
| Spain | Javier Fernández | | | Sara Hurtado / Adrià Díaz |
| Sweden | Alexander Majorov | Joshi Helgesson | | |
| Switzerland | Stéphane Walker | Eveline Brunner | | |
| Turkey | | | | Alisa Agafonova / Alper Uçar |
| Ukraine | Yaroslav Paniot | Natalia Popova | | Oleksandra Nazarova / Maxim Nikitin |
| United States | Jason Brown Joshua Farris Adam Rippon | Polina Edmunds Gracie Gold Ashley Wagner | Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier Alexa Scimeca / Chris Knierim | Madison Chock / Evan Bates Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani |
| Uzbekistan | Misha Ge | | | |
* Anna Ovcharova declined Switzerland's nomination after a poor performance at the 2015 Hellmut Seibt Memorial and was replaced by Eveline Brunner.
* On March 19, 2015 Penny Coomes / Nicholas Buckland withdrew due to Coomes having an illness. They were not replaced.

## Results
### Men

The Men's short program was held on March 27. The free skate was held on March 28.
| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Javier Fernández | Spain | 273.90 | 2 | 92.74 | 2 | 181.16 |
| 2 | Yuzuru Hanyu | Japan | 271.08 | 1 | 95.20 | 3 | 175.88 |
| 3 | Denis Ten | Kazakhstan | 267.72 | 3 | 85.89 | 1 | 181.83 |
| 4 | Jason Brown | United States | 248.29 | 6 | 84.32 | 5 | 163.97 |
| 5 | Nam Nguyen | Canada | 242.59 | 9 | 77.73 | 4 | 164.86 |
| 6 | Misha Ge | Uzbekistan | 234.89 | 8 | 78.52 | 7 | 156.37 |
| 7 | Maxim Kovtun | Russia | 230.70 | 16 | 70.82 | 6 | 159.88 |
| 8 | Adam Rippon | United States | 229.71 | 11 | 75.14 | 8 | 154.57 |
| 9 | Florent Amodio | France | 229.62 | 7 | 80.84 | 11 | 148.78 |
| 10 | Yan Han | China | 229.15 | 5 | 84.45 | 13 | 144.70 |
| 11 | Joshua Farris | United States | 223.04 | 13 | 73.52 | 10 | 149.52 |
| 12 | Takahiko Kozuka | Japan | 222.69 | 19 | 70.15 | 9 | 152.54 |
| 13 | Sergei Voronov | Russia | 218.41 | 4 | 84.70 | 17 | 133.71 |
| 14 | Ronald Lam | Hong Kong | 214.36 | 14 | 72.66 | 14 | 141.70 |
| 15 | Michal Březina | Czech Republic | 213.83 | 10 | 76.84 | 15 | 136.99 |
| 16 | Takahito Mura | Japan | 211.74 | 23 | 64.93 | 12 | 146.81 |
| 17 | Alexei Bychenko | Israel | 209.26 | 12 | 74.98 | 16 | 137.28 |
| 18 | Chafik Besseghier | France | 199.86 | 18 | 70.27 | 19 | 129.59 |
| 19 | Lee June-hyoung | South Korea | 197.52 | 24 | 64.51 | 18 | 133.01 |
| 20 | Brendan Kerry | Australia | 194.57 | 17 | 70.36 | 21 | 124.21 |
| 21 | Michael Christian Martinez | Philippines | 192.38 | 22 | 67.03 | 20 | 125.35 |
| 22 | Jeremy Ten | Canada | 183.79 | 15 | 72.28 | 22 | 111.51 |
| 23 | Alexander Majorov | Sweden | 176.55 | 21 | 67.53 | 23 | 109.02 |
| 24 | Yaroslav Paniot | Ukraine | 174.52 | 20 | 69.09 | 24 | 105.43 |
| Did not advance to free skate ||||||||
| 25 | Ivan Righini | Italy | | 25 | 63.05 | — | — |
| 26 | Song Nan | China | | 26 | 61.69 | — | — |
| 27 | Petr Coufal | Czech Republic | | 27 | 60.31 | — | — |
| 28 | Pavel Ignatenko | Belarus | | 28 | 58.78 | — | — |
| 29 | Peter Liebers | Germany | | 29 | 54.28 | — | — |
| 30 | Stéphane Walker | Switzerland | | 30 | 53.42 | — | — |

### Ladies

The Ladies short program was held on March 26. The free skate was held on March 28, 2015.
| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Elizaveta Tuktamysheva | Russia | 210.36 | 1 | 77.62 | 1 | 132.74 |
| 2 | Satoko Miyahara | Japan | 193.60 | 3 | 67.02 | 4 | 126.58 |
| 3 | Elena Radionova | Russia | 191.47 | 2 | 69.51 | 6 | 121.96 |
| 4 | Gracie Gold | United States | 188.96 | 8 | 60.73 | 2 | 128.23 |
| 5 | Ashley Wagner | United States | 185.01 | 11 | 57.81 | 3 | 127.20 |
| 6 | Rika Hongo | Japan | 184.58 | 5 | 62.17 | 5 | 122.41 |
| 7 | Kanako Murakami | Japan | 179.66 | 4 | 65.48 | 8 | 114.18 |
| 8 | Polina Edmunds | United States | 177.83 | 7 | 61.71 | 7 | 116.12 |
| 9 | Li Zijun | China | 165.22 | 6 | 61.83 | 11 | 103.39 |
| 10 | Maé-Bérénice Méité | France | 162.75 | 12 | 57.08 | 10 | 105.67 |
| 11 | Alaine Chartrand | Canada | 161.18 | 10 | 60.24 | 12 | 100.94 |
| 12 | Park So-youn | South Korea | 160.75 | 15 | 53.95 | 9 | 106.80 |
| 13 | Anna Pogorilaya | Russia | 160.31 | 9 | 60.50 | 13 | 99.81 |
| 14 | Joshi Helgesson | Sweden | 155.35 | 13 | 56.28 | 14 | 99.07 |
| 15 | Nicole Rajičová | Slovakia | 152.61 | 14 | 54.40 | 15 | 98.21 |
| 16 | Angelīna Kučvaļska | Latvia | 141.54 | 23 | 45.74 | 16 | 95.80 |
| 17 | Anne Line Gjersem | Norway | 139.75 | 20 | 49.25 | 17 | 90.50 |
| 18 | Daša Grm | Slovenia | 137.45 | 22 | 47.21 | 18 | 90.24 |
| 19 | Kim Hae-jin | South Korea | 136.24 | 18 | 50.03 | 19 | 86.21 |
| 20 | Roberta Rodeghiero | Italy | 134.74 | 17 | 51.42 | 21 | 83.32 |
| 21 | Gabrielle Daleman | Canada | 133.57 | 21 | 48.13 | 20 | 85.44 |
| 22 | Elene Gedevanishvili | Georgia | 132.25 | 16 | 52.11 | 22 | 80.14 |
| 23 | Nicole Schott | Germany | 127.56 | 19 | 49.29 | 23 | 78.27 |
| 24 | Giada Russo | Italy | 120.11 | 24 | 43.85 | 24 | 76.26 |
| Did not advance to free skate ||||||||
| 25 | Natalia Popova | Ukraine | | 25 | 43.60 | — | — |
| 26 | Ivett Tóth | Hungary | | 26 | 43.47 | — | — |
| 27 | Eliška Březinová | Czech Republic | | 27 | 43.37 | — | — |
| 28 | Aleksandra Golovkina | Lithuania | | 28 | 43.16 | — | — |
| 29 | Anastasia Galustyan | Armenia | | 29 | 41.84 | — | — |
| 30 | Netta Schreiber | Israel | | 30 | 41.84 | — | — |
| 31 | Kiira Korpi | Finland | | 31 | 41.11 | — | — |
| 32 | Niki Wories | Netherlands | | 32 | 40.38 | — | — |
| 33 | Eveline Brunner | Switzerland | | 33 | 39.69 | — | — |
| 34 | Alisson Krystle Perticheto | Philippines | | 34 | 38.75 | — | — |
| 35 | Brooklee Han | Australia | | 35 | 35.54 | — | — |
| WD | Kerstin Frank | Austria | withdrew from competition | withdrew from competition | withdrew from competition | withdrew from competition | withdrew from competition |

### Pairs

The pairs short program was held on March 25. The free skate was held on March 26.
| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford | Canada | 221.53 | 1 | 76.98 | 1 | 144.55 |
| 2 | Sui Wenjing / Han Cong | China | 214.12 | 3 | 71.63 | 2 | 142.49 |
| 3 | Pang Qing / Tong Jian | China | 212.77 | 2 | 72.59 | 3 | 140.18 |
| 4 | Peng Cheng / Zhang Hao | China | 206.63 | 5 | 69.67 | 4 | 136.96 |
| 5 | Yuko Kavaguti / Alexander Smirnov | Russia | 198.91 | 4 | 71.59 | 6 | 127.32 |
| 6 | Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov | Russia | 198.46 | 6 | 67.71 | 5 | 130.75 |
| 7 | Alexa Scimeca / Chris Knierim | United States | 185.81 | 7 | 65.56 | 7 | 120.25 |
| 8 | Julianne Séguin / Charlie Bilodeau | Canada | 178.03 | 10 | 60.53 | 10 | 117.50 |
| 9 | Vanessa James / Morgan Ciprès | France | 177.34 | 12 | 58.28 | 8 | 119.06 |
| 10 | Kristina Astakhova / Alexei Rogonov | Russia | 173.58 | 13 | 55.55 | 9 | 118.03 |
| 11 | Valentina Marchei / Ondřej Hotárek | Italy | 172.55 | 9 | 60.56 | 11 | 111.99 |
| 12 | Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier | United States | 172.51 | 8 | 61.32 | 12 | 111.19 |
| 13 | Lubov Iliushechkina / Dylan Moscovitch | Canada | 169.91 | 11 | 60.32 | 13 | 109.59 |
| 14 | Nicole Della Monica / Matteo Guarise | Italy | 151.77 | 14 | 54.48 | 15 | 97.29 |
| 15 | Mari Vartmann / Aaron Van Cleave | Germany | 147.84 | 15 | 47.76 | 14 | 100.08 |
| 16 | Amani Fancy / Christopher Boyadji | Great Britain | 130.22 | 16 | 46.69 | 16 | 83.53 |
| Did not advance to free skate ||||||||
| 17 | Maria Paliakova / Nikita Bochkov | Belarus | | 17 | 46.17 | — | — |
| 18 | Miriam Ziegler / Severin Kiefer | Austria | | 18 | 45.99 | — | — |
| 19 | Narumi Takahashi / Ryuichi Kihara | Japan | | 19 | 44.54 | — | — |

### Ice dancing

The short dance was held on March 25. The free dance was held on March 27, 2015.
| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SD | SD | FD | FD |
| 1 | Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron | France | 184.28 | 4 | 71.94 | 1 | 112.34 |
| 2 | Madison Chock / Evan Bates | United States | 181.34 | 1 | 74.47 | 2 | 106.87 |
| 3 | Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje | Canada | 179.42 | 2 | 72.68 | 3 | 106.74 |
| 4 | Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte | Italy | 177.50 | 3 | 72.39 | 4 | 105.11 |
| 5 | Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani | United States | 172.03 | 6 | 69.32 | 5 | 102.71 |
| 6 | Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier | Canada | 165.22 | 7 | 65.90 | 6 | 99.32 |
| 7 | Elena Ilinykh / Ruslan Zhiganshin | Russia | 164.84 | 5 | 69.46 | 9 | 95.38 |
| 8 | Ksenia Monko / Kirill Khaliavin | Russia | 159.13 | 10 | 62.36 | 8 | 96.77 |
| 9 | Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin | Russia | 156.95 | 14 | 59.62 | 7 | 97.33 |
| 10 | Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue | United States | 156.56 | 11 | 61.43 | 10 | 95.13 |
| 11 | Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen | Denmark | 156.23 | 9 | 62.40 | 11 | 93.83 |
| 12 | Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri | Italy | 153.84 | 12 | 61.02 | 12 | 92.82 |
| 13 | Alexandra Paul / Mitchell Islam | Canada | 152.59 | 8 | 64.38 | 14 | 88.21 |
| 14 | Sara Hurtado / Adrià Díaz | Spain | 148.67 | 15 | 59.16 | 13 | 89.51 |
| 15 | Federica Testa / Lukáš Csölley | Slovakia | 142.29 | 13 | 60.07 | 15 | 82.22 |
| 16 | Alisa Agafonova / Alper Uçar | Turkey | 136.47 | 16 | 56.07 | 16 | 80.40 |
| 17 | Oleksandra Nazarova / Maxim Nikitin | Ukraine | 133.80 | 17 | 55.08 | 17 | 78.72 |
| 18 | Carolina Moscheni / Ádám Lukács | Hungary | 131.01 | 19 | 53.05 | 18 | 77.96 |
| 19 | Wang Shiyue / Liu Xinyu | China | 128.77 | 18 | 54.38 | 19 | 74.39 |
| 20 | Allison Reed / Vasili Rogov | Israel | 124.32 | 20 | 51.12 | 20 | 73.20 |
| Did not advance to free dance ||||||||
| 21 | Barbora Silná / Juri Kurakin | Austria | | 21 | 49.57 | — | — |
| 22 | Cathy Reed / Chris Reed | Japan | | 22 | 48.32 | — | — |
| 23 | Irina Shtork / Taavi Rand | Estonia | | 23 | 48.04 | — | — |
| 24 | Natalia Kaliszek / Maksym Spodyriev | Poland | | 24 | 45.46 | — | — |
| 25 | Cecilia Törn / Jussiville Partanen | Finland | | 25 | 45.11 | — | — |
| 26 | Rebeka Kim / Kirill Minov | South Korea | | 26 | 45.09 | — | — |
| 27 | Olivia Smart / Joseph Buckland | Great Britain | | 27 | 44.32 | — | — |
| 28 | Viktoria Kavaliova / Yurii Bieliaiev | Belarus | | 28 | 43.21 | — | — |
| 29 | Olga Jakushina / Andrey Nevskiy | Latvia | | 29 | 42.37 | — | — |
| WD | Nelli Zhiganshina / Alexander Gazsi | Germany | withdrew from competition | withdrew from competition | withdrew from competition | withdrew from competition | withdrew from competition |

## Medals summary
### Medalists

Medals for overall placement:
| Discipline | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men | Javier Fernández | Yuzuru Hanyu | Denis Ten |
| Ladies | Elizaveta Tuktamysheva | Satoko Miyahara | Elena Radionova |
| Pairs | Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford | Sui Wenjing / Han Cong | Pang Qing / Tong Jian |
| Ice dancing | Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron | Madison Chock / Evan Bates | Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje |
Small medals for placement in the short segment:
| Discipline | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men | Yuzuru Hanyu | Javier Fernández | Denis Ten |
| Ladies | Elizaveta Tuktamysheva | Elena Radionova | Satoko Miyahara |
| Pairs | Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford | Pang Qing / Tong Jian | Sui Wenjing / Han Cong |
| Ice dancing | Madison Chock / Evan Bates | Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje | Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte |
Small medals for placement in the free segment:
| Discipline | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men | Denis Ten | Javier Fernández | Yuzuru Hanyu |
| Ladies | Elizaveta Tuktamysheva | Gracie Gold | Ashley Wagner |
| Pairs | Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford | Sui Wenjing / Han Cong | Pang Qing / Tong Jian |
| Ice dancing | Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron | Madison Chock / Evan Bates | Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje |

### By country

Table of medals for overall placement:
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Canada (CAN) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 1 | Russia (RUS) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 3 | France (FRA) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 | Spain (ESP) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | Japan (JPN) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 6 | China (CHN) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 7 | United States (USA) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | Kazakhstan (KAZ) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (8 entries) | Totals (8 entries) | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 |