The 2007

World Junior Figure Skating Championships The World Junior Figure Skating Championships are an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union (ISU). Medals are awarded in men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dance. The first World J ...

were held in

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from February 26 to March 4. The event is open to figure skaters from ISU member nations who have reached the age of 13 by 1 July the previous year, but have not yet turned 19. The upper age limit for men competing in pairs and dance is 21. Skaters compete in four disciplines: men's singles, ladies' singles,

pair skating Pair skating is a figure skating discipline defined by the International Skating Union (ISU) as "the skating of two persons in unison who perform their movements in such harmony with each other as to give the impression of genuine Pair Skating ...

, and

ice dancing Ice dance (sometimes referred to as ice dancing) is a discipline of figure skating that historically draws from ballroom dancing. It joined the World Figure Skating Championships in 1952, and became a Winter Olympic Games medal sport in 1976. A ...

. The term "Junior" refers to the age level rather than 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. The

compulsory dance The compulsory dance (CD), now called the pattern dance, is a part of the figure skating segment of ice dance competitions in which all the competing couples perform the same standardized steps and holds to the music of a specified tempo and gen ...

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Medals table

Results

Men

Ladies

American ladies swept the podium.

Pairs

Ice dancing

Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev won the ice dancing title. Grethe Grünberg /

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's silver medal is the first medal for Estonia at an ISU Championship. Kaitlyn Weaver dislocated her left shoulder in the warm-up before the original dance but was able to compete and won the bronze medal with

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. Emily Samuelson /

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were forced to withdraw after he accidentally stepped on his partner's hand, lacerating a tendon.

Prize money

The total prize money for the 2007 World Junior Figure Skating Championships is US$200,000. Pairs and dance teams split the money. Everything is in US dollars. The breakdown is as follows:

References

External links

Official site

ISU site

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World Junior Figure Skating Championships

World Junior 2007