# 2003 World Figure Skating Championships

The 2003 World Figure Skating Championships were held at the MCI Center in Washington, D.C., USA from March 24 to 30. The senior-level international figure skating competition was sanctioned by the International Skating Union. Medals were awarded in men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Russia (RUS) | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
| 2 | United States (USA) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 3 | Canada (CAN) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 | China (CHN) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | Japan (JPN) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 6 | Bulgaria (BUL) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (6 entries) | Totals (6 entries) | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 |

## Competition notes

Due to the large number of participants, the men's and ladies' qualifying groups and the ice dancing compulsory dance were split into groups A and B. Ice dancers in both groups performed the same compulsory dance. The compulsory dance was the Austrian Waltz.
Michelle Kwan won her fifth and final world championship, the most of any ladies skater since 1960.

## Results
### Men

| Rank | Name | Nation | TFP | QB | QA | SP | FS |
| 1 | Evgeni Plushenko | Russia | 2.0 | | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | Timothy Goebel | United States | 4.0 | | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| 3 | Takeshi Honda | Japan | 5.6 | 2 | | 3 | 3 |
| 4 | Li Chengjiang | China | 8.0 | | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| 5 | Michael Weiss | United States | 8.4 | 1 | | 5 | 5 |
| 6 | Brian Joubert | France | 13.2 | 9 | | 6 | 6 |
| 7 | Sergei Davydov | Belarus | 13.6 | 6 | | 7 | 7 |
| 8 | Emanuel Sandhu | Canada | 16.0 | | 5 | 10 | 8 |
| 9 | Ilia Klimkin | Russia | 20.4 | 4 | | 13 | 11 |
| 10 | Stéphane Lambiel | Switzerland | 20.8 | | 3 | 16 | 10 |
| 11 | Zhang Min | China | 21.8 | 5 | | 18 | 9 |
| 12 | Stanislav Timchenko | Russia | 22.8 | 8 | | 11 | 13 |
| 13 | Ryan Jahnke | United States | 24.6 | 3 | | 9 | 18 |
| 14 | Ivan Dinev | Bulgaria | 25.2 | 7 | | 14 | 14 |
| 15 | Jeffrey Buttle | Canada | 26.2 | | 6 | 8 | 19 |
| 16 | Stanick Jeannette | France | 28.0 | 12 | | 12 | 16 |
| 17 | Andrejs Vlascenko | Germany | 29.0 | | 11 | 21 | 12 |
| 18 | Gheorghe Chiper | Romania | 30.4 | | 8 | 17 | 17 |
| 19 | Kevin van der Perren | Belgium | 31.0 | | 7 | 22 | 15 |
| 20 | Roman Skorniakov | Uzbekistan | 33.0 | 10 | | 15 | 20 |
| 21 | Vakhtang Murvanidze | Georgia | 37.0 | | 9 | 19 | 22 |
| 22 | Tomáš Verner | Czech Republic | 37.4 | 11 | | 20 | 21 |
| 23 | Silvio Smalun | Germany | 42.0 | | 10 | 25 | 23 |
| 24 | Gregor Urbas | Slovenia | 43.0 | 13 | | 23 | 24 |
| Free skating not reached ||||||||
| 25 | Karel Zelenka | Italy | | 14 | | 24 | |
| 26 | Sergei Kotov | Israel | | | 13 | 27 | |
| 27 | Zoltán Tóth | Hungary | | 15 | | 26 | |
| 28 | Ari-Pekka Nurmenkari | Finland | | | 12 | 28 | |
| 29 | Juraj Sviatko | Slovakia | | | 14 | 29 | |
| 30 | Konstantin Tupikov | Ukraine | | | 15 | 30 | |
| Short program not reached ||||||||
| 31 | Kristoffer Berntsson | Sweden | | 16 | | | |
| 31 | Maciej Kuś | Poland | | | 16 | | |
| 33 | Yon García | Spain | | | 17 | | |
| 33 | Lee Dong-whun | South Korea | | 17 | | | |
| 35 | Clemens Jonas | Austria | | 18 | | | |
| 35 | Aidas Reklys | Lithuania | | | 18 | | |
| 37 | Bradley Santer | Australia | | | 19 | | |
| 37 | Manuel Segura | Mexico | | 19 | | | |
| 39 | Sean Carlow | Australia | | 20 | | | |
| 39 | Aramais Grigorian | Armenia | | | 20 | | |

### Ladies

| Rank | Name | Nation | TFP | QA | QB | SP | FS |
| 1 | Michelle Kwan | United States | 2.0 | 1 | | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | Elena Sokolova | Russia | 4.0 | 2 | | 2 | 2 |
| 3 | Fumie Suguri | Japan | 6.2 | | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 4 | Sasha Cohen | United States | 7.8 | 3 | | 6 | 3 |
| 5 | Viktoria Volchkova | Russia | 9.2 | | 3 | 5 | 5 |
| 6 | Sarah Hughes | United States | 13.2 | 6 | | 8 | 6 |
| 7 | Elena Liashenko | Ukraine | 14.2 | 5 | | 7 | 8 |
| 8 | Shizuka Arakawa | Japan | 15.2 | 4 | | 11 | 7 |
| 9 | Jennifer Robinson | Canada | 15.2 | | 2 | 9 | 9 |
| 10 | Carolina Kostner | Italy | 17.0 | | 9 | 4 | 11 |
| 11 | Yoshie Onda | Japan | 23.8 | | 4 | 12 | 15 |
| 12 | Alisa Drei | Finland | 24.0 | 8 | | 18 | 10 |
| 13 | Ludmila Nelidina | Russia | 24.0 | | 5 | 15 | 13 |
| 14 | Júlia Sebestyén | Hungary | 24.0 | 10 | | 10 | 14 |
| 15 | Julia Lautowa | Austria | 27.0 | 12 | | 17 | 12 |
| 16 | Galina Maniachenko | Ukraine | 27.2 | | 7 | 14 | 16 |
| 17 | Joannie Rochette | Canada | 32.2 | 9 | | 16 | 19 |
| 18 | Fang Dan | China | 32.6 | 7 | | 13 | 22 |
| 19 | Sarah Meier | Switzerland | 35.2 | 13 | | 20 | 18 |
| 20 | Mojca Kopač | Slovenia | 35.4 | | 13 | 22 | 17 |
| 21 | Jenna McCorkell | United Kingdom | 35.8 | 11 | | 19 | 20 |
| 22 | Anne-Sophie Calvez | France | 36.0 | | 6 | 21 | 21 |
| 23 | Anastasia Gimazetdinova | Uzbekistan | 41.0 | | 8 | 23 | 24 |
| 24 | Idora Hegel | Croatia | 43.2 | | 10 | 27 | 23 |
| Free skating not reached ||||||||
| 25 | Sara Falotico | Belgium | | 15 | | 24 | |
| 26 | Miriam Manzano | Australia | | 14 | | 25 | |
| 27 | Olga Vassiljeva | Estonia | | | 15 | 26 | |
| 28 | Vanessa Giunchi | Italy | | | 12 | 28 | |
| 29 | Johanna Götesson | Sweden | | | 11 | 29 | |
| 30 | Tuğba Karademir | Turkey | | | 14 | 30 | |
| Short program not reached ||||||||
| 31 | Tamara Dorofejev | Hungary | | 16 | | | |
| 31 | Daria Timoshenko | Azerbaijan | | | 16 | | |
| 33 | Zuzana Babiaková | Slovakia | | 17 | | | |
| 33 | Gintarė Vostrecovaitė | Lithuania | | | 17 | | |
| 35 | Lucie Krausová | Czech Republic | | 18 | | | |
| 35 | Georgina Papavasiliou | Greece | | | 18 | | |
| 37 | Diane Chen | Chinese Taipei | | | 19 | | |
| 37 | Roxana Luca | Romania | | 19 | | | |
| 39 | Ana Cecilia Cantu | Mexico | | 20 | | | |
| 39 | Hristina Vassileva | Bulgaria | | | 20 | | |
| 41 | Cho Hae-lyeum | South Korea | | | 21 | | |
| 41 | Shirene Human | South Africa | | 21 | | | |

### Pairs

| Rank | Name | Nation | TFP | SP | FS |
| 1 | Shen Xue / Zhao Hongbo | China | 2.0 | 2 | 1 |
| 2 | Tatiana Totmianina / Maxim Marinin | Russia | 2.5 | 1 | 2 |
| 3 | Maria Petrova / Alexei Tikhonov | Russia | 4.5 | 3 | 3 |
| 4 | Pang Qing / Tong Jian | China | 8.0 | 8 | 4 |
| 5 | Anabelle Langlois / Patrice Archetto | Canada | 8.0 | 6 | 5 |
| 6 | Zhang Dan / Zhang Hao | China | 9.5 | 7 | 6 |
| 7 | Dorota Zagórska / Mariusz Siudek | Poland | 9.5 | 5 | 7 |
| 8 | Julia Obertas / Alexei Sokolov | Russia | 10.0 | 4 | 8 |
| 9 | Tiffany Scott / Philip Dulebohn | United States | 15.5 | 13 | 9 |
| 10 | Rena Inoue / John Baldwin, Jr. | United States | 15.5 | 11 | 10 |
| 11 | Kateřina Beránková / Otto Dlabola | Czech Republic | 17.0 | 10 | 12 |
| 12 | Sarah Abitbol / Stéphane Bernadis | France | 17.5 | 9 | 13 |
| 13 | Jacinthe Larivière / Lenny Faustino | Canada | 18.5 | 15 | 11 |
| 14 | Yuko Kavaguti / Alexander Markuntsov | Japan | 20.0 | 12 | 14 |
| 15 | Eva-Maria Fitze / Rico Rex | Germany | 23.0 | 16 | 15 |
| 16 | Katie Orscher / Garrett Lucash | United States | 23.0 | 14 | 16 |
| 17 | Tatiana Volosozhar / Petro Kharchenko | Ukraine | 25.5 | 17 | 17 |
| 18 | Maria Guerassimenko / Vladimir Futáš | Slovakia | 27.0 | 18 | 18 |
| 19 | Diana Rennik / Aleksei Saks | Estonia | 28.5 | 19 | 19 |
| 20 | Marina Aganina / Artem Knyazev | Uzbekistan | 30.0 | 20 | 20 |
| Free skating not reached ||||||
| 21 | Olga Boguslavska / Andrei Brovenko | Latvia | | 21 | |

### Ice dancing

| Rank | Name | Nation | TFP | CDA | CDB | OD | FD |
| 1 | Shae-Lynn Bourne / Victor Kraatz | Canada | 2.6 | | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| 2 | Irina Lobacheva / Ilia Averbukh | Russia | 3.0 | 1 | | 1 | 2 |
| 3 | Albena Denkova / Maxim Staviski | Bulgaria | 5.6 | | 2 | 3 | 3 |
| 4 | Tatiana Navka / Roman Kostomarov | Russia | 7.6 | | 3 | 4 | 4 |
| 5 | Elena Grushina / Ruslan Goncharov | Ukraine | 8.8 | 2 | | 5 | 5 |
| 6 | Galit Chait / Sergei Sakhnovski | Israel | 10.8 | 3 | | 6 | 6 |
| 7 | Tanith Belbin / Benjamin Agosto | United States | 12.8 | | 4 | 7 | 7 |
| 8 | Naomi Lang / Peter Tchernyshev | United States | 14.4 | 4 | | 8 | 8 |
| 9 | Isabelle Delobel / Olivier Schoenfelder | France | 16.4 | 5 | | 9 | 9 |
| 10 | Marie-France Dubreuil / Patrice Lauzon | Canada | 18.0 | | 5 | 10 | 10 |
| 11 | Federica Faiella / Massimo Scali | Italy | 20.0 | | 6 | 11 | 11 |
| 12 | Megan Wing / Aaron Lowe | Canada | 22.0 | 7 | | 12 | 12 |
| 13 | Kristin Fraser / Igor Lukanin | Azerbaijan | 23.2 | 6 | | 13 | 13 |
| 14 | Natalia Gudina / Alexei Beletski | Israel | 25.6 | | 8 | 14 | 14 |
| 15 | Oksana Domnina / Maxim Shabalin | Russia | 26.8 | | 7 | 15 | 15 |
| 16 | Veronika Morávková / Jiří Procházka | Czech Republic | 28.8 | 8 | | 16 | 16 |
| 17 | Zhang Weina / Cao Xianming | China | 31.4 | | 9 | 18 | 17 |
| 18 | Nóra Hoffmann / Attila Elek | Hungary | 31.8 | 9 | | 17 | 18 |
| 19 | Pamela O'Connor / Jonathon O'Dougherty | United Kingdom | 34.8 | | 11 | 19 | 19 |
| 20 | Nozomi Watanabe / Akiyuki Kido | Japan | 36.0 | 10 | | 20 | 20 |
| 21 | Jessica Huot / Juha Valkama | Finland | 39.2 | 11 | | 23 | 21 |
| 22 | Julia Golovina / Oleg Voyko | Ukraine | 39.6 | | 10 | 21 | 23 |
| 23 | Roxane Petetin / Matthieu Jost | France | 40.0 | | 12 | 22 | 22 |
| 24 | Anastasia Grebenkina / Vazgen Azrojan | Armenia | 43.2 | 12 | | 24 | 24 |
| Free dance not reached ||||||||
| 25 | Natalie Buck / Trent Nelson-Bond | Australia | | | 13 | 25 | |
| 26 | Marina Timofeieva / Evgeni Striganov | Estonia | | | 14 | 26 | |
| 27 | Agnieszka Dulej / Sławomir Janicki | Poland | | 13 | | 27 | |
| 28 | Clover Mory Zatzman / Aurimas Radisauskas | Lithuania | | | 15 | 28 | |
| 29 | Tatiana Siniaver / Tornike Tukvadze | Georgia | | 14 | | 29 | |