# 2009 World Junior Figure Skating Championships

The 2009 World Junior Figure Skating Championships was an international competition in the 2008–09 season. Commonly called "World Juniors" and "Junior Worlds", they are an annual figure skating competition in which elite figure skaters compete for the title of World Junior Champion in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.
The event was held between February 22 and March 1, 2009, at the Winter Sports Hall in Sofia, Bulgaria. The event had been provisionally scheduled to be held in Ostrava, Czech Republic, however, due to financial reasons, the Czech Figure Skating Association could not host. Therefore, on October 13, 2008, the International Skating Union definitively assigned the World Junior Championships to Sofia.

## Qualification

The competition was open to skaters from ISU member nations who had reached the age of 13 by July 1, 2008, but had not yet turned 19. The upper age limit for men competing in pairs and dance was 21.
The term "Junior" refers to the age level rather than necessarily the skill level. Therefore, some of the skaters competing have competed nationally and internationally at the senior level, but are still age-eligible for World Juniors. Regardless of whether they have competed as seniors, all competitors perform programs that conform to the ISU rules for junior level competition in terms of program lengths, jumping passes, etc.

### Number of entries per discipline

All members nations have one entry in each discipline by default. Member nations may earn more than entry based on their performance at the previous year's championships.
The following countries earned more than one entry to the 2009 World Junior Championships based on their performance at the 2008 World Junior Championships.
| Spots | Men | Ladies | Pairs | Dance |
| 3 | Russia United States | United States | China Russia | Canada Russia United States |
| 2 | Canada China Czech Republic France | Canada Finland Germany Japan Russia Sweden | Canada Estonia United States | France Italy Ukraine |

## Schedule

All times are GMT+2.
* Tuesday, February 24
** 13:30 Ice dancing – Compulsory Dance
** 18:30 Opening Ceremony
** 19:00 Pairs – Short Program
* Wednesday, February 25
** 10:00 Men – Short Program (1st Half)
** 14:00 Men – Short Program (2nd Half)
** 19:00 Pairs – Free Skating
* Thursday, February 26
** 13:00 Ice dancing – Original Dance
** 18:30 Men – Free Skating
* Friday, February 27
** 09:00 Ladies – Short Program (1st Half)
** 14:00 Ladies – Short Program (2nd Half)
** 18:30 Ice dancing – Free Dance
* Saturday, February 28
** 13:30 Ladies – Free Skating
* Sunday, March 1
** 14:00 Exhibition

## Medals table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | United States (USA) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
| 2 | Russia (RUS) | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 3 | Czech Republic (CZE) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Totals (3 entries) | Totals (3 entries) | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 |

## Results
### Men

| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Adam Rippon | United States | 222.00 | 1 | 74.30 | 1 | 147.70 |
| 2 | Michal Březina | Czech Republic | 204.88 | 2 | 69.55 | 2 | 135.33 |
| 3 | Artem Grigoriev | Russia | 184.40 | 4 | 65.11 | 3 | 119.29 |
| 4 | Denis Ten | Kazakhstan | 183.77 | 5 | 64.80 | 4 | 118.97 |
| 5 | Curran Oi | United States | 182.89 | 3 | 69.40 | 7 | 113.49 |
| 6 | Yang Chao | China | 177.86 | 7 | 62.25 | 6 | 115.61 |
| 7 | Song Nan | China | 175.44 | 10 | 58.70 | 5 | 116.74 |
| 8 | Elladj Balde | Canada | 170.76 | 8 | 60.63 | 8 | 110.13 |
| 9 | Kevin Reynolds | Canada | 169.36 | 6 | 63.81 | 10 | 105.55 |
| 10 | Ross Miner | United States | 164.80 | 9 | 59.15 | 9 | 105.65 |
| 11 | Nikolai Bondar | Ukraine | 161.93 | 13 | 57.75 | 11 | 104.18 |
| 12 | Yuzuru Hanyu | Japan | 161.77 | 11 | 58.18 | 13 | 103.59 |
| 13 | Alexander Majorov | Sweden | 154.06 | 12 | 58.15 | 16 | 95.91 |
| 14 | Denis Wieczorek | Germany | 153.73 | 15 | 54.20 | 15 | 99.53 |
| 15 | Florent Amodio | France | 153.70 | 19 | 49.80 | 12 | 103.90 |
| 16 | Stanislav Kovalev | Russia | 151.93 | 18 | 50.26 | 14 | 101.67 |
| 17 | Peter Reitmayer | Slovakia | 150.85 | 14 | 55.65 | 17 | 95.20 |
| 18 | Mark Vaillant | France | 145.90 | 16 | 52.59 | 20 | 93.31 |
| 19 | Javier Raya | Spain | 144.19 | 17 | 50.50 | 19 | 93.69 |
| 20 | Petr Coufal | Czech Republic | 143.45 | 21 | 48.40 | 18 | 95.05 |
| 21 | Ruben Errampalli | Italy | 133.03 | 24 | 45.93 | 21 | 87.10 |
| 22 | Kim Min-seok | South Korea | 129.87 | 23 | 46.73 | 22 | 83.14 |
| 23 | Viktor Romanenkov | Estonia | 124.09 | 20 | 49.11 | 23 | 74.98 |
| 24 | Matthew Precious | Australia | 121.93 | 22 | 47.04 | 24 | 74.89 |
| 25 | Pavel Petrov Savinov | Bulgaria | 88.59 | 37 | 30.84 | 25 | 57.75 |
| Did not advance to free skating ||||||||
| 26 | Sebastian Iwasaki | Poland | | 25 | 45.20 | | |
| 27 | Stephen Li-Chung Kuo | Chinese Taipei | | 26 | 43.14 | | |
| 28 | Ruben Blommaert | Belgium | | 27 | 43.12 | | |
| 29 | Matthew Parr | United Kingdom | | 28 | 42.84 | | |
| 30 | Bela Papp | Finland | | 29 | 42.59 | | |
| 31 | Engin Ali Artan | Turkey | | 30 | 40.16 | | |
| 32 | Sarkis Hairapetyan | Armenia | | 31 | 39.18 | | |
| 33 | Saulius Ambrulevičius | Lithuania | | 32 | 38.01 | | |
| 34 | Dmitri Kagirov | Belarus | | 33 | 37.98 | | |
| 35 | Mario-Rafael Ionian | Austria | | 34 | 37.74 | | |
| 36 | Tomi Pulkkinen | Switzerland | | 35 | 33.37 | | |
| 37 | Zsolt Kosz | Romania | | 36 | 33.24 | | |
| 38 | Beka Shankulashvili | Georgia | | 38 | 30.74 | | |
| 39 | Boyito Mulder | Netherlands | | 39 | 29.71 | | |
| 40 | Ivor Mikolcevic | Croatia | | 40 | 26.55 | | |
| 41 | Cameron Hems | New Zealand | | 41 | 25.91 | | |

### Ladies

| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Alena Leonova | Russia | 157.18 | 3 | 55.50 | 2 | 101.68 |
| 2 | Caroline Zhang | United States | 154.67 | 10 | 47.64 | 1 | 107.03 |
| 3 | Ashley Wagner | United States | 153.57 | 2 | 57.50 | 3 | 96.07 |
| 4 | Joshi Helgesson | Sweden | 139.89 | 4 | 55.14 | 6 | 84.75 |
| 5 | Katrina Hacker | United States | 139.68 | 5 | 51.06 | 4 | 88.62 |
| 6 | Elene Gedevanishvili | Georgia | 138.32 | 1 | 60.32 | 11 | 78.00 |
| 7 | Sarah Hecken | Germany | 135.83 | 9 | 48.14 | 5 | 87.69 |
| 8 | Ivana Reitmayerová | Slovakia | 129.40 | 6 | 48.34 | 8 | 81.06 |
| 9 | Oksana Gozeva | Russia | 126.70 | 15 | 44.54 | 7 | 82.16 |
| 10 | Isabel Drescher | Germany | 126.65 | 8 | 48.16 | 10 | 78.49 |
| 11 | Francesca Rio | Italy | 122.70 | 7 | 48.24 | 12 | 74.46 |
| 12 | Maé Bérénice Méité | France | 122.53 | 16 | 43.98 | 9 | 78.55 |
| 13 | Diane Szmiett | Canada | 119.09 | 12 | 47.48 | 15 | 71.61 |
| 14 | Miriam Ziegler | Austria | 116.20 | 19 | 42.92 | 13 | 73.28 |
| 15 | Svetlana Issakova | Estonia | 115.14 | 18 | 43.38 | 14 | 71.76 |
| 16 | Haruka Imai | Japan | 113.24 | 17 | 43.58 | 16 | 69.66 |
| 17 | Chaochih Liu | Chinese Taipei | 112.49 | 13 | 46.82 | 18 | 65.67 |
| 18 | Geng Bingwa | China | 111.71 | 11 | 47.54 | 21 | 64.17 |
| 19 | Eleonora Vinnichenko | Ukraine | 110.66 | 20 | 42.42 | 17 | 68.24 |
| 20 | Sonia Lafuente | Spain | 109.27 | 14 | 46.16 | 22 | 63.11 |
| 21 | Kathryn Kang | Canada | 104.82 | 23 | 40.38 | 20 | 64.44 |
| 22 | Kwak Min-jeong | South Korea | 103.69 | 24 | 38.94 | 19 | 64.75 |
| 23 | Karly Robertson | United Kingdom | 102.53 | 22 | 40.58 | 23 | 61.95 |
| 24 | Katsiarina Pakhamovich | Belarus | 88.50 | 21 | 41.18 | 25 | 47.32 |
| 25 | Stefanie Pechlaner | Bulgaria | 76.45 | 44 | 28.82 | 24 | 47.63 |
| Did not advance to free skating ||||||||
| 26 | Mari Suzuki | Japan | | 25 | 38.50 | | |
| 27 | Romy Bühler | Switzerland | | 26 | 37.60 | | |
| 28 | Manouk Gijsman | Netherlands | | 27 | 37.44 | | |
| 29 | Karina Johnson | Denmark | | 28 | 37.26 | | |
| 30 | Mimi Tanasorn Chindasook | Thailand | | 29 | 37.02 | | |
| 31 | Alexandra Rout | New Zealand | | 30 | 36.56 | | |
| 32 | Angelica Olsson | Sweden | | 31 | 36.50 | | |
| 33 | Anne Line Gjersem | Norway | | 32 | 34.30 | | |
| 34 | Alexandria Riordan | Poland | | 33 | 34.04 | | |
| 35 | Beatrice Rozinskaite | Lithuania | | 34 | 33.38 | | |
| 36 | Chelsea Rose Chiappa | Hungary | | 35 | 33.26 | | |
| 37 | Georgia Glastris | Greece | | 36 | 32.74 | | |
| 38 | Matleena Laakso | Finland | | 37 | 32.36 | | |
| 39 | Jaimee Nobbs | Australia | | 38 | 32.02 | | |
| 40 | Zanna Pugaca | Latvia | | 39 | 31.28 | | |
| 41 | Kristina Kostková | Czech Republic | | 40 | 31.06 | | |
| 42 | Reyna Hamui | Mexico | | 41 | 30.98 | | |
| 43 | Mary Grace Baldo | Philippines | | 42 | 30.66 | | |
| 44 | Sofia Bardakov | Israel | | 43 | 29.52 | | |
| 45 | Noora Pitkänen | Finland | | 45 | 28.22 | | |
| 46 | Daša Grm | Slovenia | | 46 | 28.14 | | |
| 47 | Maria Dikanovic | Croatia | | 47 | 27.08 | | |
| 48 | Lydia Fuentes | Andorra | | 48 | 27.04 | | |
| 49 | Laurie Lougsami | Belgium | | 49 | 26.72 | | |
| 50 | Armine Stambultsyan | Armenia | | 50 | 26.50 | | |
| 51 | Birce Atabey | Turkey | | 51 | 24.14 | | |
| 52 | Mila Petrovic | Serbia | | 52 | 23.54 | | |
| 53 | Naida Akšamija | Bosnia and Herzegovina | | 53 | 20.08 | | |
| 54 | Anja Chong | Singapore | | 54 | 15.46 | | |

### Pairs

| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Lubov Iliushechkina / Nodari Maisuradze | Russia | 144.32 | 1 | 55.12 | 2 | 89.20 |
| 2 | Anastasia Martiusheva / Alexei Rogonov | Russia | 138.59 | 11 | 44.60 | 1 | 93.99 |
| 3 | Marissa Castelli / Simon Shnapir | United States | 137.47 | 2 | 49.10 | 4 | 88.37 |
| 4 | Paige Lawrence / Rudi Swiegers | Canada | 137.07 | 4 | 48.64 | 3 | 88.43 |
| 5 | Ekaterina Sheremetieva / Mikhail Kuznetsov | Russia | 134.80 | 3 | 48.84 | 5 | 85.96 |
| 6 | Maddison Bird / Raymond Schultz | Canada | 127.63 | 6 | 46.60 | 6 | 81.03 |
| 7 | Narumi Takahashi / Mervin Tran | Japan | 126.64 | 8 | 45.98 | 7 | 80.66 |
| 8 | Zhang Yue / Wang Lei | China | 125.30 | 7 | 45.98 | 8 | 79.32 |
| 9 | Brynn Carman / Chris Knierim | United States | 124.93 | 9 | 45.94 | 9 | 78.99 |
| 10 | Anaïs Morand / Antoine Dorsaz | Switzerland | 123.60 | 5 | 47.28 | 10 | 76.32 |
| 11 | Cheng Duo / Gao Yu | China | 119.73 | 10 | 44.94 | 11 | 74.79 |
| 12 | Maria Sergejeva / Ilja Glebov | Estonia | 116.38 | 12 | 44.36 | 12 | 72.02 |
| 13 | Krystyna Klimczak / Janusz Karweta | Poland | 107.81 | 14 | 40.58 | 13 | 67.23 |
| 14 | Camille Foucher / Bruno Massot | France | 104.26 | 13 | 40.98 | 15 | 63.28 |
| 15 | Carolina Gillespie / Daniel Aggiano | Italy | 101.43 | 15 | 37.94 | 14 | 63.49 |
| 16 | Gabriela Čermanová / Martin Hanulák | Slovakia | 101.08 | 16 | 37.92 | 16 | 63.16 |
| 17 | Alexandra Herbríková / Lukáš Ovčáček | Czech Republic | 98.26 | 17 | 37.40 | 17 | 60.86 |
| 18 | Marylie Jorg / Benjamin Koenderink | Netherlands | 97.63 | 18 | 37.04 | 18 | 60.59 |
| 19 | Rie Aoi / Wen Xiong Guo | Hong Kong | 91.28 | 20 | 33.66 | 19 | 57.62 |
| 20 | Anna Khnychenkova / Sergei Kulbach | Ukraine | 87.81 | 19 | 34.24 | 20 | 53.57 |
| Did not advance to free skating ||||||||
| 21 | Tameron Drake / Edward Alton | United Kingdom | | 21 | 30.82 | | |

### Ice dancing

| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | CD | CD | OD | OD | FD | FD |
| 1 | Madison Chock / Greg Zuerlein | United States | 172.55 | 1 | 33.15 | 1 | 57.29 | 1 | 82.11 |
| 2 | Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani | United States | 162.15 | 5 | 29.71 | 4 | 52.10 | 2 | 80.34 |
| 3 | Ekaterina Riazanova / Jonathan Guerreiro | Russia | 161.80 | 7 | 29.02 | 2 | 53.80 | 3 | 78.98 |
| 4 | Madison Hubbell / Keiffer Hubbell | United States | 161.34 | 2 | 31.39 | 3 | 53.44 | 4 | 76.51 |
| 5 | Kharis Ralph / Asher Hill | Canada | 152.76 | 4 | 30.09 | 6 | 49.58 | 5 | 73.09 |
| 6 | Ekaterina Pushkash / Dmitri Kiselev | Russia | 150.21 | 3 | 30.44 | 5 | 50.30 | 9 | 69.47 |
| 7 | Karen Routhier / Eric Saucke-Lacelle | Canada | 149.50 | 6 | 29.24 | 8 | 48.06 | 6 | 72.20 |
| 8 | Lucie Myslivečková / Matěj Novák | Czech Republic | 146.04 | 11 | 27.80 | 7 | 49.18 | 10 | 69.06 |
| 9 | Lorenza Alessandrini / Simone Vaturi | Italy | 145.61 | 10 | 27.81 | 9 | 47.67 | 8 | 70.13 |
| 10 | Terra Findlay / Benoît Richaud | France | 145.17 | 13 | 26.82 | 10 | 47.11 | 7 | 71.24 |
| 11 | Marina Antipova / Artem Kudashev | Russia | 138.86 | 8 | 28.57 | 13 | 45.00 | 12 | 65.29 |
| 12 | Tarrah Harvey / Keith Gagnon | Canada | 138.38 | 12 | 27.53 | 12 | 45.33 | 11 | 65.52 |
| 13 | Alisa Agafonova / Dmitri Dun | Ukraine | 134.86 | 9 | 27.92 | 11 | 45.55 | 14 | 61.39 |
| 14 | Guan Xueting / Wang Meng | China | 124.32 | 15 | 25.37 | 25 | 36.16 | 13 | 62.79 |
| 15 | Nikki Georgiadis / Graham Hockley | Greece | 121.32 | 18 | 23.21 | 16 | 39.52 | 15 | 58.59 |
| 16 | Sonja Pauli / Tobias Eisenbauer | Austria | 121.07 | 17 | 24.52 | 18 | 38.81 | 17 | 57.74 |
| 17 | Nikola Višňová / Lukáš Csolley | Slovakia | 121.03 | 20 | 22.76 | 15 | 40.16 | 16 | 58.11 |
| 18 | Genevieve Deutch / Evan Roberts | United Kingdom | 120.97 | 14 | 26.37 | 14 | 41.69 | 22 | 52.91 |
| 19 | Charlene Guignard / Guillaume Paulmier | France | 119.88 | 16 | 24.56 | 19 | 38.22 | 18 | 57.10 |
| 20 | Paola Amati / Marco Fabbri | Italy | 115.66 | 21 | 22.61 | 23 | 37.38 | 20 | 55.67 |
| 21 | Dora Turoczi / Balazs Major | Hungary | 115.16 | 24 | 22.23 | 24 | 37.17 | 19 | 55.76 |
| 22 | Dominique Dieck / Michael Zenkner | Germany | 114.29 | 22 | 22.48 | 21 | 37.65 | 21 | 54.16 |
| 23 | Anastasia Galyeta / Alexei Shumski | Ukraine | 113.04 | 19 | 23.12 | 17 | 39.17 | 23 | 50.75 |
| 24 | Oksana Klimova / Sasha Palomäki | Finland | 111.22 | 23 | 22.44 | 20 | 38.08 | 24 | 50.70 |
| 25 | Lora Semova / Dimitar Lichev | Bulgaria | 99.11 | 29 | 20.29 | 29 | 31.28 | 25 | 47.54 |
| Did not advance to free dance ||||||||||
| 26 | Lesia Valadzenkava / Vitali Vakunov | Belarus | 57.95 | 28 | 20.36 | 22 | 37.59 | | |
| 27 | Justyna Plutowska / Dawid Pietrzyński | Poland | 56.44 | 25 | 21.86 | 26 | 34.58 | | |
| 28 | Ramona Elsener / Florian Roost | Switzerland | 54.41 | 30 | 19.91 | 27 | 34.50 | | |
| 29 | Kristina Kiudmaa / Aleksei Trohlev | Estonia | 53.47 | 27 | 20.45 | 28 | 33.02 | | |
| 30 | Alissandra Aronow / Aleksandr Pirogov | Lithuania | 52.72 | 26 | 21.80 | 30 | 30.92 | | |
| Did not advance to original dance ||||||||||
| 31 | Ariana Weintraub / Avidan Brown | Israel | | 31 | 19.87 | | | | |
| 32 | Sara Hurtado / Adria Diaz | Spain | | 32 | 19.86 | | | | |
| 33 | Maria Popkova / Viktor Kovalenko | Uzbekistan | | 33 | 19.77 | | | | |