# 1996 World Junior Figure Skating Championships

The 1996 World Junior Figure Skating Championships was a figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union in which younger figure skaters competed for the title of World Junior Champion. It was held from 26 November – 2 December 1995 in Brisbane, Australia. Due to the large number of participants, the men's and ladies' qualifying groups were split into groups A and B.

## Medals table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Russia (RUS) | 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| 2 | Ukraine (UKR) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 3 | France (FRA) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 | Japan (JPN) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | China (CHN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 5 | United States (USA) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (6 entries) | Totals (6 entries) | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 |

## Results
### Men

Zhengxin Guo landed a clean quadruple toe-loop in his free skating performance.
| Rank | Name | Nation | TFP | QA | QB | SP | FS |
| 1 | Alexei Yagudin | Russia | 1.5 | | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | Takeshi Honda | Japan | 3.0 | 1 | | 2 | 2 |
| 3 | Zhengxin Guo | China | 5.5 | | 11 | 5 | 3 |
| 4 | Szabolcs Vidrai | Hungary | 5.5 | | | 3 | 4 |
| 5 | Sergei Davydov | Russia | 7.0 | 2 | | 4 | 5 |
| 6 | Evgeni Plushenko | Russia | 10.5 | 3 | | 7 | 7 |
| 7 | Timothy Goebel | United States | 12.0 | | 4 | 12 | 6 |
| 8 | Yamato Tamura | Japan | 14.0 | | 2 | 8 | 10 |
| 9 | Jere Michael | United States | 15.5 | 5 | | 13 | 9 |
| 10 | Neil Wilson | United Kingdom | 16.0 | 4 | | 16 | 8 |
| 11 | David Jäschke | Germany | 16.0 | | 13 | 10 | 11 |
| 12 | Naoki Shigematsu | Japan | 16.5 | | | 9 | 12 |
| 13 | Stanick Jeannette | France | 17.0 | | 3 | 6 | 14 |
| 14 | Gabriel Monnier | France | 22.5 | | 6 | 11 | 17 |
| 15 | Florian Tuma | Austria | 24.0 | | 5 | 22 | 13 |
| 16 | Vitali Danilchenko | Ukraine | 24.5 | | 14 | 17 | 16 |
| 17 | Róbert Kažimír | Slovakia | 27.5 | 6 | | 23 | 15 |
| 18 | Maxim Shevtsov | Ukraine | 28.0 | | 10 | 18 | 19 |
| 19 | Lee Kyu-hyun | South Korea | 28.0 | 12 | | 14 | 21 |
| 20 | Andre Kaden | Germany | 28.5 | 7 | | 21 | 18 |
| 21 | Ivan Dinev | Bulgaria | 29.5 | | 12 | 19 | 20 |
| 22 | Frédéric Dambier | France | 29.5 | | 7 | 15 | 22 |
| 23 | Gheorghe Chiper | Romania | 34.0 | 9 | | 20 | 24 |
| 24 | Daniel Bellemare | Canada | 35.0 | 8 | | 24 | 23 |
| 25 | Michael Amentas | Australia | 40.0 | | 17 | 30 | 25 |
| Free skating not reached ||||||||
| 26 | Roman Martõnenko | Estonia | | | 9 | 25 | |
| 27 | Edoardo de Bernadis | Italy | | 10 | | 26 | |
| 28 | Zoltan Koszegi | Hungary | | | 8 | 27 | |
| 29 | Adam Zalegowski | Poland | | 11 | | 28 | |
| 30 | Vakhtang Murvanidze | Georgia | | 13 | | 29 | |
| 31 | Ricky Cockerill | New Zealand | | 14 | | 31 | |
| Short program not reached ||||||||
| 32 | Yan Ho Chan | Hong Kong | | 15 | | | |
| 32 | Collin Thompson | Canada | | | 15 | | |
| 34 | Ferdi Skoberla | South Africa | | 16 | | | |
| 34 | Alexei Gruber | Israel | | | 16 | | |
| 36 | Artem Knyazev | Uzbekistan | | 17 | | | |

### Ladies

| Rank | Name | Nation | TFP | QA | QB | SP | FS |
| 1 | Elena Ivanova | Russia | 1.5 | | | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | Elena Pingacheva | Russia | 4.0 | | 3 | 4 | 2 |
| 3 | Nadezhda Kanaeva | Russia | 4.0 | | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 4 | Fumie Suguri | Japan | 5.5 | 1 | | 3 | 4 |
| 5 | Tara Lipinski | United States | 7.5 | | | 7 | 5 |
| 6 | Vanessa Gusmeroli | France | 9.5 | | | 5 | 7 |
| 7 | Shizuka Arakawa | Japan | 11.0 | | | 6 | 8 |
| 8 | Shelby Lyons | United States | 14.0 | | 2 | 16 | 6 |
| 9 | Lucinda Ruh | Switzerland | 15.0 | | | 12 | 9 |
| 10 | Lyudmyla Ivanova | Ukraine | 15.0 | 5 | | 10 | 10 |
| 11 | Alisa Drei | Finland | 16.5 | 2 | | 9 | 12 |
| 12 | Julia Lautowa | Austria | 17.5 | | 4 | 13 | 11 |
| 13 | Maria Nikitochkina | Belarus | 18.0 | | | 8 | 14 |
| 14 | Eva-Maria Fitze | Germany | 20.5 | 4 | | 15 | 13 |
| 15 | Diána Póth | Hungary | 21.5 | 3 | | 11 | 16 |
| 16 | Fanny Cagnard | France | 25.0 | 9 | | 20 | 15 |
| 17 | Julia Lavrenchuk | Ukraine | 25.0 | | | 14 | 18 |
| 18 | Barbara Maros | Hungary | 26.0 | | 5 | 18 | 17 |
| 19 | Joanne Carter | Australia | 28.5 | 8 | | 17 | 20 |
| 20 | Sofia Penkova | Bulgaria | 30.5 | 7 | | 23 | 19 |
| 21 | Klara Bramfeldt | Sweden | 31.5 | 11 | | 21 | 21 |
| 22 | Zoe Jones | United Kingdom | 31.5 | 10 | | 19 | 22 |
| 23 | Sabina Wojtala | Poland | 34.0 | 6 | | 22 | 23 |
| 24 | Kaja Hanevold | Norway | 36.0 | 12 | | 24 | 24 |
| Free skating not reached ||||||||
| 25 | Niping Tian | China | | | 6 | 25 | |
| 26 | Christel Borghi | Switzerland | | | 8 | 26 | |
| 27 | Zuzana Paurová | Slovakia | | | 9 | 27 | |
| 28 | Jung Min-ju | South Korea | | | 11 | 28 | |
| 29 | Rita Chałubińska | Poland | | | 10 | 29 | |
| 30 | Ana Ivancic | Croatia | | | 7 | 30 | |
| Short program not reached ||||||||
| 31 | Madaline Matei | Romania | | | 12 | | |
| 33 | Simone Joseph | South Africa | | 13 | | | |
| 33 | Rita Dolly Auyeung | Hong Kong | | | 13 | | |
| 35 | Elisa Caraza | Mexico | | 14 | | | |
| 35 | Michelle Whelan | New Zealand | | | 13 | | |
| WD | Júlia Sebestyén | Hungary | | | | | |

### Pairs

| Rank | Name | Nation | TFP | SP | FS |
| 1 | Victoria Maxiuta / Vladislav Zhovnirski | Russia | 2.0 | 2 | 1 |
| 2 | Evgenia Filonenko / Igor Marchenko | Ukraine | 2.5 | 1 | 2 |
| 3 | Danielle Hartsell / Steve Hartsell | United States | 5.5 | 5 | 3 |
| 4 | Magdalena Sroczyńska / Sławomir Borowiecki | Poland | 6.0 | 4 | 4 |
| 5 | Irina Maslennikova / Konstantin Krasnenkov | Russia | 6.5 | 3 | 5 |
| 6 | Natalie Vlandis / Jered Guzman | United States | 9.5 | 7 | 6 |
| 7 | Viktoria Shliakhova / Alexander Maskov | Russia | 10.0 | 6 | 7 |
| 8 | Lilia Mashkovskaya / Viacheslav Chiliy | Ukraine | 12.0 | 8 | 8 |
| 9 | Sabrina Lefrançois / Nicolas Osserland | France | 13.5 | 9 | 9 |
| 10 | Nicole Hentschel / Matthias Bleyer | Germany | 15.5 | 11 | 10 |
| 11 | Marni Wade / Lenny Faustino | Canada | 17.0 | 10 | 12 |
| 12 | Erin Elbe / Jeffrey Weiss | United States | 17.5 | 13 | 11 |
| 13 | Anna Adashkevich / Vitali Dubina | Ukraine | 19.0 | 12 | 13 |
| 14 | Ulrike Rumi / David Jäschke | Germany | 21.0 | 14 | 14 |
| 15 | Isabelle Gauthier / Danny Provost | Canada | 22.5 | 15 | 15 |
| 16 | Ekaterina Danko / Gennadi Emelinenko | Belarus | 24.0 | 16 | 16 |
| 17 | Ulrike Gerstl / Björn Lobenwein | Germany | 25.5 | 17 | 17 |
| 18 | Emily Minns / Terence Lyness | Australia | 26.0 | 18 | 18 |
| 19 | Olga Boguslavska / Jurij Salmanov | Latvia | 28.5 | 19 | 19 |

### Ice dancing

| Rank | Name | Nation | TFP | C1 | C2 | OD | FD |
| 1 | Ekaterina Davydova / Roman Kostomarov | Russia | 3.0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| 2 | Isabelle Delobel / Olivier Schoenfelder | France | 3.0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 3 | Natalia Gudina / Vitali Kurkudym | Ukraine | 6.8 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 |
| 4 | Amanda Cotroneo / Mark Bradshaw | Canada | 8.0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 5 |
| 5 | Nina Ulanova / Mikhail Stifunin | Russia | 10.4 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 4 |
| 6 | Magali Sauri / Nicolas Salicis | France | 11.2 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 6 |
| 7 | Jolanta Bury / Łukasz Zalewski | Poland | 13.4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 7 |
| 8 | Marta Grimaldi / Giulio Feliziani | Italy | 16.0 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| 9 | Anastasia Belova / Maxim Staviski | Russia | 18.4 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 9 |
| 10 | Jessica Joseph / Charles Butler | United States | 19.6 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 10 |
| 11 | Anne-Sophie Lefebvre / Marcel Taberlet | France | 22.4 | 12 | 12 | 11 | 11 |
| 12 | Alexandra Kauc / Michał Przyk | Poland | 24.6 | 11 | 11 | 12 | 13 |
| 13 | Stephanie Rauer / Thomas Rauer | Germany | 25.2 | 14 | 13 | 13 | 12 |
| 14 | Stefania de Luca / Massimiliano Acquaviva | Italy | 28.8 | 15 | 14 | 15 | 14 |
| 15 | Agata Błażowska / Marcin Kozubek | Poland | 29.0 | 13 | 15 | 14 | 15 |
| 16 | Krisztina Szabó / Tamás Sári | Hungary | 32.4 | 17 | 17 | 16 | 16 |
| 17 | Andrea Kuncová / Jiří Procházka | Czech Republic | 34.6 | 16 | 16 | 17 | 18 |
| 18 | Eliane Hugentobler / Daniel Hugentobler | Switzerland | 35.0 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 17 |
| 19 | Sinead Kerr / Jamie Ferguson | United Kingdom | 38.0 | 19 | 19 | 19 | 19 |
| 20 | Laura Currie / Jeff Smith | Canada | 40.2 | 20 | 21 | 20 | 20 |
| 21 | Zuzana Babušíková / Marián Mesároš | Slovakia | 41.8 | 21 | 20 | 21 | 21 |
| 22 | Rie Arikawa / Kenji Miyamoto | Japan | 44.0 | 22 | 22 | 22 | 22 |
| 23 | Yang Tae-hwa / Lee Chuen-gun | South Korea | 46.0 | 23 | 23 | 23 | 23 |
| 24 | Yulia Ryzhova / Andrei Dryganov | Uzbekistan | 48.0 | 24 | 24 | 24 | 24 |