Index - 1998 World Figure Skating Championships

• In order by Country
• In order by Placement

MINNEAPOLIS, USA

1998 Worlds Official Site

*** 1998 WORLDS FIGURE SKATING NEWS ***

A number of skaters were disqualified from this event due to age ineligibility. Skaters must turn 15 years old by the previous July 1st to compete in the Olympics or in ISU-sanctioned senior championships (this includes both partners in pairs and dance), or may advance to the senior level by winning the Junior Worlds title in their discipline. Evegny Plushenko was able to compete in this seniors event because he won the mens event at Junior Worlds.

Even more skaters withdrew due to illness, injury, or turning professional (keep in mind this is a year when Worlds followed on the heels of the Olympics).

In 1998 I did not track placements in the qualifying rounds for single events (dumb of me). The exceptions are skaters who did not place high enough to get to the short program phase.

1998 WORLDS ENTRIES AND PLACEMENTS BY COUNTRY
	Entry Placement	Entry Placement	Entry Placement
ARMENIA	ARM
Ladies	Merine Tadevosyan Withdrew
Men	Edgar Grigoryan Withdrew	Armen Asoyan Withdrew
Pairs	Maria Krasiltseva Aleksandr Chestnikh Withdrew
Dance	Xenia Smetanenko Samvel Gezalian CP: 27 CP: 26 OD: 27 Final: DNQ
AUSTRALIA	AUS
Ladies	Joanne Carter SP: 16 FS: 12 Final: 13
Men	Anthony Liu SP: 22 FS: 15 Final: 17
Pairs	Danielle McGrath Stephen Carr SP: 14 FS: 15 Final: 15
Dance	Margarita Fourer Timothy Heinecke CP: 30 CP: 30 OD: 30 Final: DNQ
AUSTRIA	AUT
Ladies	Julia Lautowa Withdrew	Anna Wenzel SP: 26 Final: DNQ
Dance	Angelika Fuhring Bruno Ellinger CP: 22 CP: 23 OD: 22 FD: 21 Final: 21
AZERBAIJAN	AZE
Ladies	Yulia Vorobieva SP: 11 FS: 11 Final: 11
Men	Igor Pashkevitch Withdrew	Sergei Rylov Withdrew
Pairs	Inga Rodionova Alexander Anichenko SP: 18 FS: 17 Final: 17
BELARUS	BLR
Pairs	Danko Katsiaryna Emelianenko Guennadi Withdrew
Dance	Tatjana Navka Nikolai Morosov CP: 11 CP: 12 OD: 10 FD: 10 Final: 10
BULGARIA	BUL
Men	Ivan Dinev SP: 15 FS: 21 Final: 21
Pairs	Anna Dimova Kristo Tourlakov Withdrew
Dance	Albena Denkova Maxim Staviyski CP: 17 CP: 17 OD: 17 FD: 17 Final: 17
CANADA	CAN
Ladies	Angela Derochie SP: 19 FS: 20 Final: 20
Men	Elvis Stojko Withdrew	Jeffrey Langdon SP: 8 FS: 8 Final: 8	Emanuel Sandhu SP: 29 Final: DNQ
Pairs	Kristy Sargeant Kris Wirtz SP: 5 FS: 7 Final: 7	Marie-Claude Savard-Gagnon Luc Bradet SP: 12 FS: 9 Final: 9
Dance	Shae-Lynn Bourne Victor Kraatz CP: 2 CP: 3 OD: 3 FD: 3 Final: 3	Chantal Lefebvre Michel Brunet CP: 18 CP: 18 OD: 19 FD: 19 Final: 19
CHINA	CHN
Ladies	Yankun Du SP: 30 Final: DNQ
Men	Zhengxin Guo SP: 14 FS: 12 Final: 12
Pairs	Xue Shen Hongbo Zhao SP: 6 FS: 4 Final: 4
CROATIA	CRO
Ladies	Ivana Jakupcevic Final: DNQ - Qualifing
CZECH REPUBLIC	CZE
Ladies	Lenka Kulovana SP: 17 FS: 14 Final: 15
Men	Radek Horak Withdrew
Pairs	Katerina Berankova Otto Dlabola SP: 13 FS: 14 Final: 14
Dance	Katerina Mrazova Martin Simecek CP: 12 CP: 11 OD: 12 FD: 12 Final: 12
DENMARK	DEN
Men	Michael Tyllesen SP: 18 FS: 14 Final: 13
ESTONIA	EST
Ladies	Jekaterina Golovatenko Withdrew	Olga Vassilyeva DNQ - Qualifying
Men	Margus Hernits SP: 17 FS: 18 Final: 18
Pairs	Jekaterina Nekrassova Valdis Mintals SP: 19 FS: 20 Final: 20
Dance	Kristina Kalesnik Aleksandr Terentjev Withdrew
FINLAND	FIN
Ladies	Alisa Drei SP: 25 Final: DNQ
Men	Markus Leminen SP: 13 FS: 20 Final: 20
FRANCE	FRA
Ladies	Marie Pierre Leray SP: 18 FS: 16 Final: 17	Vanessa Gusmeroli SP: 9 FS: 19 Final: 16	Laetitia Hubert SP: 3 FS: 4 Final: 4
Men	Laurent Tobel SP: 19 FS: 16 Final: 16
Pairs	Sarah Abitbol Stephane Bernadis SP: 8 FS: 8 Final: 8	Sabrina Lefrancois Nicolas Osseland Withdrew
Dance	Dominique Deniaud Martial Jaffredo CP: 23 CP: 22 OD: 24 FD: 23 Final: 24	Marina Anissina Gwendal Peizerat CP: 3 CP: 2 OD: 2 FD: 2 Final: 2	Isabelle Delobel Olivier Schoenfelder CP: 19 CP: 19 OD: 18 FD: 18 Final: 18
GEORGIA	GEO
Men	Vakhtang Murvanidze SP: 28 Final: DNQ
GERMANY	GER
Ladies	Tanja Szweczenko SP: 10 FS: 10 Final: 9
Men	Sven Meyer SP: 24 FS: 22 Final: 23	Andreis Vlascenko SP: 6 FS: 5 Final: 5
Pairs	Peggy Schwarz Mirko Mueller SP: 3 FS: 3 Final: 3
Dance	Kati Winkler Rene Lohse CP: 8 CP: 9 OD: 9 FD: 9 Final: 9
GREAT BRITAIN	GRB
Men	Steven Cousins SP: 7 FS: 6 Final: 7
Pairs	Marsha Poluliaschenko Andrew Seabrook SP: 15 FS: 13 Final: 13
Dance	Charlotte Clements Gary Shortland CP: 24 CP: 25 OD: 23 FD: 22 Final: 23
GREECE	GRE
Ladies	Anna Chatziathanassiou DNQ - Qualifying
Men	Panagiotis Markouizos DNQ - Qualifying
Pairs	Elaine Asanaki Alcuin Schulten SP: 16 FS: 16 Final: 16
HONG KONG	HKG
Ladies	Rita Dolly Auyeung Withdrew
Men	Derek Hay Wai Leung DNQ - Age Ineligible
HUNGARY	HUN
Ladies	Diana Poth SP: 15 FS: 9 Final: 10	Julia Sebestyen SP: 20 FS: 17 Final: 19
Men	Szabolcs Vidrai SP: 12 FS: 9 Final: 10
Dance	Zita Gebora Andras Visontai DNQ - Age Ineligible	Kornelia Barany Andre Rosnik CP: 29 CP: 29 OD: 29 Final: DNQ
ISRAEL	ISR
Men	Michael Shmerkin SP: 10 FS: 19 Final: 15
Dance	Galit Chait Sergei Sakhnovsky CP: 16 CP: 15 OD: 15 FD: 14 Final: 14
ITALY	ITA
Ladies	Silvia Fontana SP: 21 FS: 15 Final: 18
Men	Gilberto Viadana SP: 20 FS: 24 Final: 24
Dance	Barbara Fusar-Poli Maurizio Margaglio CP: 6 CP: 6 OD: 5 FD: 5 Final: 5	Diane Gerencser Pasquale Camerlengo CP: 14 CP: 16 OD: 16 FD: 16 Final: 16
JAPAN	JPN
Ladies	Shizuka Arakawa SP: 22 FS: 21 Final: 22
Men	Takeshi Honda SP: 11 FS: 11 Final: 11	Yamato Tamura SP: 25 Final: DNQ
Dance	Aya Kawai Hiroshi Tanaka CP: 25 CP: 27 OD: 28 Final: DNQ
KAZAKHSTAN	KAZ
Men	Youriy Litvinov Withdrew
Pairs	Marina Khalturina Andrei Krukov SP: 9 FS: 11 Final: 11
Dance	Elizaveta Stekolnikova Dmitriy Kazarlyga CP: 20 CP: 21 OD: 20 FD: 24 Final: 22
LATVIA	LAT
Ladies	Valeria Trifancova DNQ - Qualifying
Men	Sergueis Telenkov SP: 27 Final: DNQ
Pairs	Jelena Sirohvatova Juri Salmanov SP: 20 FS: 19 Final: 19
LITHUANIA	LIT
Ladies	Lauryna Slavinskaite DNQ - Qualifying
Dance	Margarita Drobiazko Povilas Vanagas CP: 7 CP: 7 OD: 8 FD: 8 Final: 8
LUXEMBOURG	LUX
Men	Patrick Schmit SP: 25 Final: DNQ
MEXICO	MEX
Ladies	Rocia Salas Visuet DNQ - Qualifying
Men	Ricardo Olavarrieta DNQ - Qualifying
NORWAY	NOR
Ladies	Kaja Hanevold Withdrew
POLAND	POL
Ladies	Anna Rechnio SP: 2 FS: 5 Final: 5
Men	Robert Grzegorczyk SP: 16 FS: 23 Final: 22
Pairs	Dorota Zagorska Mariusz Siudek SP: 4 FS: 6 Final: 5
Dance	Sylwia Nowak Sebastian Kolasinski CP: 10 CP: 10 OD: 11 FD: 11 Final: 11
REP. OF KOREA	ROK - South Korea
Ladies	Hyung-Kyung Choi SP: 29: Final: DNQ
Men	Kyu-Hyun Lee SP: 30 Final: DNQ
ROMANIA	ROM
Ladies	Roxana Luca DNQ - Qualifying
Men	Gheorghe Chiper DNQ - Qualifying
RUSSIA	RUS
Ladies	Maria Butyrskaya SP: 5 FS: 3 Final: 3	Elena Sokolova SP: 13 FS: 8 Final: 8	Irina Slutskaya SP: 4 FS: 2 Final: 2
Men	Ilia Kulik Withdrew	Alexei Yagudin SP: 1 FS: 2 Final: 1	Evgeni Plushenko SP: 2 FS: 4 Final: 3
Pairs	Oksana Kazakova Artur Dmitriev Withdrew	Elena Berezhnaya Anton Sikharulidze SP: 2 FS: 1 Final:1	Marina Yeltsova Andrei Bushkov SP: 7 FS: 5 Final: 6
Dance	Anna Semenovich Vladimir Fedorov CP: 1 CP: 1 OD: 1 FD: 1 Final: 1	Anjelika Krylova Oleg Ovsyannikov CP: 1 CP: 1 OD: 1 FD: 1 Final: 1	Irina Lobacheva Ilia Averbukh CP: 4 CP: 4 OD: 4 FD: 4 Final: 4
SLOVAK REPUBLIC	SVK
Ladies	Zuzana Paurova SP: 14 FS: 23 Final: 21
Men	Juraj Sviatko DNQ - Qualifying
Pairs	Olga Bestandigova Jozef Bestandig SP: 17 FS: 18 Final: 18
Dance	Zuzana Merzova Tomas Morbacher CP: 21 CP: 20 OD: 21 FD: 20 Final: 20
SLOVENIA	SLO
Ladies	Mojca Kopac SP: 23 FS: 24 Final: 24
Men	Jan Cejvan Withdrew
SOUTH AFRICA	SAF
Ladies	Shirene Human DNQ - Qualifying
SPAIN	SPN
Ladies	Marta Andrade SP: 28 Final: DNQ
Men	Daniel Peinado DNQ - Qualifying
SWEDEN	SWE
Ladies	Anna Lundstrom SP: 27 Final: DNQ
SWITZERLAND	SWI
Ladies	Lucinda Ruh SP: 24 FS: 22 Final: 23
Men	Patrick Meier SP: 23 FS: 17 Final: 20
Dance	Elaine Hugentobler Daniel Hugentobler CP: 28 CP: 28 OD: 26 Final: DNQ
CHINESE TAIPEI	TPE - Taiwan is not officially recognised by the ISU. Taiwanese athletes compete under the name "Chinese Taipei" using a different flag.
Men	David Liu DNQ - Qualifying
UKRAINE	UKR
Ladies	Elena Liashenko SP: 6 FS: 7 Final: 7	Yulia Lavrenchuk SP: 12 FS: 13 Final: 12
Men	Evgeny Pliuta SP: 9 FS: 10 Final: 9	Viacheslav Zagorodniuk SP: 5 FS: 3 Final: 4
Pairs	Evgenia Filonenko Igor Marchenko SP: 11 FS: 12 Final: 12
Dance	Elena Grushina Ruslan Goncharov CP: 13 CP: 13 OD: 13 FD: 13 Final: 13	Irina Romanova Igor Yaroshenko CP: 9 CP: 8 OD: 7 FD: 7 Final: 7
USA	USA
Ladies	Michelle Kwan SP: 1 FS: 1 Final: 1	Tonia Kwiatkowski SP: 8 FS: 6 Final: 6	Nicole Bobek Withdrew
Men	Todd Eldredge SP: 4 FS: 1 Final: 2	Michael Weiss SP: 3 FS: 7 Final: 6
Pairs	Kyoko Ina Jason Dungjen Withdrew	Jenni Meno Todd Sand SP: 1 FS: 2 Final: 2	Shelby Lyons Brian Wells SP: 10 FS: 10 Final: 10
Dance	Elizabeth Punsalan Jerod Swallow CP: 5 CP: 5 OD: 6 FD: 6 Final: 6	Jessica Joseph Charles Butler CP: 26 CP: 24 OD: 25 Final: DNQ
UZBEKISTAN	UZB
Ladies	Tatiana Malinina SP: 7 FS: 18 Final: 14
Men	Roman Skorniakov SP: 21 FS: 13 Final: 14
Pairs	Nataly Ponomareva Evgeny Sviridov DNQ - Age Ineligible
YUGOSLOVIA	YUG
Ladies	Helena Pajovic DNQ - Qualifying