# 1988 World Figure Skating Championships

The 1988 World Figure Skating Championships were held in Budapest, Hungary from March 22 to 27. Medals were awarded in men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.

## Medal tables
### Medalists

| Discipline | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men | Brian Boitano | Brian Orser | Viktor Petrenko |
| Ladies | Katarina Witt | Elizabeth Manley | Debi Thomas |
| Pairs | Elena Valova / Oleg Vassiliev | Ekaterina Gordeeva / Sergei Grinkov | Larissa Selezneva / Oleg Makarov |
| Ice dancing | Natalia Bestemianova / Andrei Bukin | Marina Klimova / Sergei Ponomarenko | Tracy Wilson / Robert McCall |

### Medals by country

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Soviet Union (URS) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
| 2 | United States (USA) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 3 | East Germany (GDR) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | Canada (CAN) | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Totals (4 entries) | Totals (4 entries) | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 |

## Results
### Men

Kurt Browning of Canada landed the first ratified quadruple jump (a toe loop) in his free skating. Jozef Sabovcik of Czechoslovakia had landed a quad toe loop at the 1986 European Championships which was recognized at the event but then ruled invalid three weeks later due to a touchdown with his free foot.
| Rank | Name | Nation | TFP | CF | OP | FS | OP+FS |
| 1 | Brian Boitano | United States | 4.2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| 2 | Brian Orser | Canada | 4.8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 3 | Viktor Petrenko | Soviet Union | 9.8 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 4 |
| 4 | Grzegorz Filipowski | Poland | 9.8 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 6 |
| 5 | Christopher Bowman | United States | 11.8 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 5 |
| 6 | Kurt Browning | Canada | 13.0 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 3 |
| 7 | Heiko Fischer | West Germany | 13.8 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 9 |
| 8 | Petr Barna | Czechoslovakia | 16.6 | 11 | 5 | 8 | 8 |
| 9 | Paul Wylie | United States | 17.0 | 13 | 8 | 6 | 7 |
| 10 | Vladimir Petrenko | Soviet Union | 19.2 | 8 | 11 | 10 | 10 |
| 11 | Cameron Medhurst | Australia | 23.4 | 14 | 10 | 11 | 11 |
| 12 | Oliver Höner | Switzerland | 25.6 | 9 | 13 | 15 | 15 |
| 13 | Neil Paterson | Canada | 27.6 | 18 | 12 | 12 | 12 |
| 14 | Lars Dresler | Denmark | 29.2 | 17 | 15 | 13 | 13 |
| 15 | Paul Robinson | United Kingdom | 31.0 | 19 | 14 | 14 | 14 |
| 16 | Ralph Burghart | Austria | 36.0 | 10 | 25 | 20 | 21 |
| 17 | Ronny Winkler | East Germany | 36.6 | 23 | 17 | 16 | 16 |
| 18 | Peter Johansson | Sweden | 38.4 | 25 | 16 | 17 | 17 |
| 19 | Daniel Weiss | West Germany | 39.8 | 16 | 18 | 23 | 22 |
| 20 | András Száraz | Hungary | 40.0 | 22 | 22 | 18 | 18 |
| 21 | Alessandro Riccitelli | Italy | 41.2 | 21 | 19 | 21 | 20 |
| 22 | Oula Jääskeläinen | Finland | 43.6 | 27 | 21 | 19 | 19 |
| 23 | Frédéric Lipka | France | 44.4 | 20 | 26 | 22 | 23 |
| WD | Makoto Kano | Japan | | 15 | 20 | | |
| Free skating not reached ||||||||
| 25 | Tomislav Cizmesija | Yugoslavia | | 24 | 28 | | |
| 26 | David Liu | Chinese Taipei | | 28 | 24 | | |
| 27 | Joaquin Guerrero | Mexico | | 30 | 23 | | |
| 28 | Alexandre Geers | Belgium | | 29 | 29 | | |
| WD | Alexander Fadeev | Soviet Union | | 1 | | | |

### Ladies

| Rank | Name | Nation | TFP | CF | OP | FS | OP+FS |
| 1 | Katarina Witt | East Germany | 2.4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | Elizabeth Manley | Canada | 4.8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| 3 | Debi Thomas | United States | 6.2 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 4 |
| 4 | Claudia Leistner | West Germany | 11.0 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5 |
| 5 | Jill Trenary | United States | 11.8 | 4 | 11 | 5 | 6 |
| 6 | Midori Ito | Japan | 12.6 | 14 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| 7 | Caryn Kadavy | United States | 13.8 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 7 |
| 8 | Simone Koch | East Germany | 16.4 | 10 | 6 | 8 | 8 |
| 9 | Natalia Lebedeva | Soviet Union | 18.6 | 8 | 7 | 11 | 10 |
| 10 | Joanne Conway | United Kingdom | 20.2 | 7 | 10 | 12 | 12 |
| 11 | Tamara Téglássy | Hungary | 21.6 | 15 | 9 | 9 | 9 |
| 12 | Marina Kielmann | West Germany | 25.2 | 16 | 14 | 10 | 11 |
| 13 | Yvonne Gómez | Spain | 26.0 | 11 | 16 | 13 | 13 |
| 14 | Natalia Gorbenko | Soviet Union | 27.2 | 9 | 17 | 15 | 14 |
| 15 | Beatrice Gelmini | Italy | 29.2 | 12 | 15 | 16 | 15 |
| 16 | Lotta Falkenbäck | Sweden | 35.4 | 19 | 25 | 14 | 16 |
| 17 | Charlene Wong | Canada | 36.0 | 17 | 12 | 21 | 19 |
| 18 | Yvonne Pokorny | Austria | 38.4 | 22 | 13 | 20 | 18 |
| 19 | Claude Péri | France | 38.6 | 24 | 18 | 17 | 17 |
| 20 | Stefanie Schmid | Switzerland | 39.0 | 21 | 21 | 18 | 20 |
| 21 | Junko Yaginuma | Japan | 40.2 | 18 | 26 | 19 | 21 |
| 22 | Željka Čižmešija | Yugoslavia | 40.4 | 13 | 24 | 23 | 24 |
| 23 | Mirela Gawłowska | Poland | 43.2 | 20 | 23 | 22 | 22 |
| 24 | Gina Fulton | United Kingdom | 44.8 | 23 | 20 | 23 | 23 |
| Free skating not reached ||||||||
| 25 | Tracy Brook | Australia | | 26 | 19 | | |
| 26 | Anisette Torp-Lind | Denmark | | 28 | 22 | | |
| 27 | Jana Petruskova | Czechoslovakia | | 25 | 28 | | |
| 28 | Elina Hanninen | Finland | | 27 | 30 | | |
| 29 | Chi Hyun-jung | South Korea | | 30 | 27 | | |
| 30 | Diana Marcos | Mexico | | 29 | 31 | | |
| 31 | Asia Aleksieva | Bulgaria | | 31 | 29 | | |

### Pairs

| Rank | Name | Nation | TFP | SP | FS |
| 1 | Elena Valova / Oleg Vasiliev | Soviet Union | 1.8 | 2 | 1 |
| 2 | Ekaterina Gordeeva / Sergei Grinkov | Soviet Union | 2.4 | 1 | 2 |
| 3 | Larisa Selezneva / Oleg Makarov | Soviet Union | 4.2 | 3 | 3 |
| 4 | Gillian Wachsman / Todd Waggoner | United States | 6.0 | 5 | 4 |
| 5 | Denise Benning / Lyndon Johnston | Canada | 7.4 | 6 | 5 |
| 6 | Jill Watson / Peter Oppegard | United States | 8.6 | 4 | 7 |
| 7 | Isabelle Brasseur / Lloyd Eisler | Canada | 8.8 | 7 | 6 |
| 8 | Mandy Wötzel / Axel Rauschenbach | East Germany | 11.2 | 8 | 8 |
| 9 | Christine Hough / Doug Ladret | Canada | 12.6 | 9 | 9 |
| 10 | Natalie Seybold / Wayne Seybold | United States | 14.0 | 10 | 10 |
| 11 | Lenka Knapová / René Novotný | Czechoslovakia | 15.4 | 11 | 11 |
| 12 | Cheryl Peake / Andrew Naylor | United Kingdom | 16.8 | 12 | 12 |
| 13 | Anuschka Gläser / Stefan Pfrengle | West Germany | 18.2 | 13 | 13 |
| 14 | Lisa Cushley / Neil Cushley | United Kingdom | 19.6 | 14 | 14 |
| 15 | Danielle Carr / Stephen Carr | Australia | 21.0 | 15 | 15 |
| 16 | Akiko Nogami / Yoichi Yamazaki | Japan | 22.4 | 16 | 16 |

### Ice dancing

| Rank | Name | Nation | TFP | CD | OSP | FD |
| 1 | Natalia Bestemianova / Andrei Bukin | Soviet Union | 2.0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | Marina Klimova / Sergei Ponomarenko | Soviet Union | 4.0 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| 3 | Tracy Wilson / Robert McCall | Canada | 6.0 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| 4 | Natalia Annenko / Genrikh Sretenski | Soviet Union | 8.0 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| 5 | Kathrin Beck / Christoff Beck | Austria | 11.0 | 5 | 5 | 6 |
| 6 | Isabelle Duchesnay / Paul Duchesnay | France | 11.6 | 7 | 6 | 5 |
| 7 | Klára Engi / Attila Tóth | Hungary | 13.8 | 6 | 8 | 7 |
| 8 | Antonia Becherer / Ferdinand Becherer | West Germany | 15.6 | 8 | 7 | 8 |
| 9 | Susie Wynne / Joseph Druar | United States | 18.0 | 9 | 9 | 9 |
| 10 | Lia Trovati / Roberto Pelizzola | Italy | 20.0 | 10 | 10 | 10 |
| 11 | Karyn Garossino / Rod Garossino | Canada | 22.0 | 11 | 11 | 11 |
| 12 | Sharon Jones / Paul Askham | United Kingdom | 24.0 | 12 | 12 | 12 |
| 13 | April Sargent / Russ Witherby | United States | 26.0 | 13 | 13 | 13 |
| 14 | Viera Řeháková / Ivan Havránek | Czechoslovakia | 28.0 | 14 | 14 | 14 |
| 15 | Melanie Cole / Michael Farrington | Canada | 30.0 | 15 | 15 | 15 |
| 16 | Dominique Yvon / Frédéric Palluel | France | 32.0 | 16 | 16 | 16 |
| 17 | Honorata Górna / Andrzej Dostatni | Poland | 34.0 | 17 | 17 | 17 |
| 18 | Andrea Weppelmann / Hendryk Schamberger | West Germany | 36.4 | 18 | 19 | 18 |
| 19 | Tomoko Tanaka / Hiroyuki Suzuki | Japan | 37.6 | 19 | 18 | 19 |
| 20 | Susanna Rahkamo / Petri Kokko | Finland | 40.0 | 20 | 20 | 20 |
| 21 | Krisztina Kerekes / Csaba Szentpéteri | Hungary | 42.0 | 21 | 21 | 21 |
| 22 | Monica MacDonald / Rodney Clarke | Australia | 44.0 | 22 | 22 | 22 |
| 23 | Desiree Schlegel / Patrik Brecht | Switzerland | 46.0 | 23 | 23 | 23 |
| 24 | Birgit Pleninger / Michael Steiner | Austria | 48.0 | 24 | 24 | 24 |
| Free dance not reached |||||||
| 25 | Yucca Liu / Jim Sun | Chinese Taipei | | 25 | 25 | |