2006 World Figure Skating Championships
Type:	ISU Championship
Date:	March 19 – March 26
Season:	2005–2006
Location:	Calgary
Venue:	Pengrowth Saddledome
Champions
Men's singles: Stéphane Lambiel
Ladies singles: Kimmie Meissner
Pair skating: Pang Qing & Tong Jian
Ice dancing: Albena Denkova & Maxim Staviski
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The World Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union in which elite figure skaters compete for the title of World Champion. This event is considered the most prestigious of the ISU Championships.

The 2006 Worlds were held at the Pengrowth Saddledome in Calgary, Alberta, Canada from March 19 to 26th, 2006. None of the gold medalists from the 2006 Olympics chose to contend. Stéphane Lambiel, the only defending champion, won his event.

The compulsory dance was the Ravensburger Waltz. Due to the large number of participants, the ladies and men's qualifying groups were split into groups A and B. This was the last World Championships to have a qualifying round. Following the 2006 Worlds, the ISU Congress voted to remove it. Following these Worlds, all skaters would compete in the short program, with the top twenty-four then advancing to the free skate.

[edit] Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	1	0	3	4
2	China	1	1	0	2
3	Bulgaria	1	0	0	1
3	Switzerland	1	0	0	1
3	Canada	0	1	0	1
3	France	0	1	0	1
3	Japan	0	1	0	1
3	Russia	0	0	1	1

[edit] Results

[edit] Men

Rank	Name	Nation	Total Points	QA	QB	SP	FS
1	Stéphane Lambiel	Switzerland	274.22	1		4	1
2	Brian Joubert	France	270.83		3	1	2
3	Evan Lysacek	United States	255.22	2		8	3
4	Nobunari Oda	Japan	251.21		1	3	5
5	Emanuel Sandhu	Canada	249.89	6		2	4
6	Jeffrey Buttle	Canada	241.59		2	7	7
7	Johnny Weir	United States	235.57		4	5	8
8	Alban Preaubert	France	230.95		5	17	6
9	Li Chengjiang	China	229.03	5		6	15
10	Ilia Klimkin	Russia	227.78	3		10	10
11	Matthew Savoie	United States	227.41		8	9	9
12	Sergei Davydov	Belarus	222.44		6	12	11
13	Tomáš Verner	Czech Republic	221.83		7	11	14
14	Gheorghe Chiper	Romania	219.34		9	15	12
15	Zhang Min	China	216.59	4		19	13
16	Anton Kovalevski	Ukraine	211.93	9		14	19
17	Andrei Griazev	Russia	208.37		10	21	16
18	Roman Serov	Israel	207.14	8		16	20
19	Ivan Dinev	Bulgaria	206.86	11		18	18
20	Silvio Smalun	Germany	206.58	7		13	21
21	Shawn Sawyer	Canada	201.05	10		25	17
22	Gregor Urbas	Slovenia	198.54		11	20	23
23	Kristoffer Berntsson	Sweden	192.47		12	23	22
24	Trifun Zivanovic	Serbia and Montenegro	183.05		14	22	24
Free Skate Not Reached
25	Karel Zelenka	Italy	FNR		13	24
26	Viktor Pfeifer	Austria	FNR	12		26
27	Igor Matsipura	Slovakia	FNR	13		28
28	Jamal Othman	Switzerland	FNR	14		27
29	Ari-Pekka Nurmenkari	Finland	FNR	15		29
30	John Hamer	United Kingdom	FNR		15	30
Short Program Not Reached
31	Aidas Reklys	Lithuania	NQD	16
32	Sean Carlow	Australia	NQD		16
33	Alper Uçar	Turkey	NQD		17
34	Bertalan Zakany	Hungary	NQD	17
35	Michael Novales	Philippines	NQD		18
36	Tristan Thode	New Zealand	NQD	18
37	Zeus Issariotis	Greece	NQD	19
38	Luis Hernandez	Mexico	NQD		19
39	Edward Ka-Yin Chow	Hong Kong	NQD		20
40	Justin Pietersen	South Africa	NQD	20

Panel of judges Qualifying Group A Men

• Referee: Junko Hiramatsu  Japan
• Technical Controller: Steve Winkler  United States
• Technical Specialist: Pirjo Uimonen  Finland
• Assistant Technical Specialist: Isabel Duval de Navarre  Germany
• Judge No.1 Katarina Grof Mitrovic  Serbia and Montenegro
• Judge No.2 Merja Kosonen  Finland
• Judge No.3 Stanislava Smidova  Czech Republic
• Judge No.4 Karin Ehrhardt  Austria
• Judge No.5 Francis Betsch  France
• Judge No.6 Igor Obraztsov  Russia
• Judge No.7 Deborah Islam  Canada
• Judge No.8 Allan Böhm  Slovakia
• Judge No.9 Deborah Currie  United States
• Judge No.10 Nobuhiko Yoshioka  Japan

Panel of judges Qualifying Group B Men

• Referee: Ubavka Novakovic-Kutinou  Serbia
• Technical Controller: Benoit Lavoie  Canada
• Technical Specialist: Scott Davis  United States
• Assistant Technical Specialist: Isabel Duval de Navarre  Germany
• Judge No.1 Paolo Pizzocari  Italy
• Judge No.2 Katarina Henriksson  Sweden
• Judge No.3 Jiasheng Yang  China
• Judge No.4 Marina Beschea  Romania
• Judge No.5 Heinz-Ulrich Walther  Germany
• Judge No.6 Teri Sedej  Slovenia
• Judge No.7 Beatrice Pfister  Switzerland
• Judge No.8 Alfred Korytek  Ukraine
• Judge No.9 Osman Sirvan  Turkey
• Judge No.10 Margaret Worsfold  United Kingdom

Panel of judges Short program Men

• Referee: Junko Hiramatsu  Japan
• Technical Controller: Benoit Lavoie  Canada
• Technical Specialist: Scott Davis  United States
• Assistant Technical Specialist: Pirjo Uimonen  Finland
• Judge No.1 Beatrice Pfister  Switzerland
• Judge No.2 Francis Betsch  France
• Judge No.3 Deborah Islam  Canada
• Judge No.4 Nobuhiko Yoshioka  Japan
• Judge No.5 Merja Kosonen  Finland
• Judge No.6 Jiasheng Yang  China
• Judge No.7 Heinz-Ulrich Walther  Germany
• Judge No.8 Alfred Kprytek  Ukraine
• Judge No.9 Allan Böhm  Slovakia
• Judge No.10 Stanislava Smidova  Czech Republic
• Judge No.11 Teri Sedej  Slovenia
• Judge No.12 Marina Beschea  Romania

Panel of judges Free program Men

• Referee: Junko Hiramatsu  Japan
• Technical Controller: Benoit Lavoie  Canada
• Technical Spezialist: Scott Davis  United States
• Assistant Technical Spezialist: Pirjo Uimonen  Finland
• Judge No.1 Beatrice Pfister  Switzerland
• Judge No.2 Francis Betsch  France
• Judge No.3 Deborah Islam  Canada
• Judge No.4 Nobuhiko Yoshioka  Japan
• Judge No.5 Merja Kosonen  Finland
• Judge No.6 Jiasheng Yang  China
• Judge No.7 Heinz-Ulrich Walther  Germany
• Judge No.8 Alfred Korytek  Ukraine
• Judge No.9 Allan Böhm  Slovakia
• Judge No.10 Stanislava Smidova  Czech Republic
• Judge No.11 Teri Sedej  Slovenia
• Judge No.12 Marina Beschea  Romania

[edit] Ladies

Rank	Name	Nation	Total Points	QB	QA	SP	FS
1	Kimmie Meissner	United States	218.33		2	5	1
2	Fumie Suguri	Japan	209.74		1	2	2
3	Sasha Cohen	United States	208.88		3	1	4
4	Elena Sokolova	Russia	202.27	6		3	3
5	Yukari Nakano	Japan	195.65	2		6	6
6	Sarah Meier	Switzerland	195.11		5	4	5
7	Joannie Rochette	Canada	189.41	1		7	8
8	Emily Hughes	United States	184.75	3		10	7
9	Susanna Poykio	Finland	180.06		7	9	9
10	Kiira Korpi	Finland	176.65	5		11	10
11	Yoshie Onda	Japan	172.46		6	12	12
12	Carolina Kostner	Italy	172.45	4		16	11
13	Mira Leung	Canada	168.80		4	14	13
14	Elene Gedevanishvili	Georgia	164.92	9		8	17
15	Idora Hegel	Croatia	163.58	7		17	14
16	Liu Yan	China	159.05	8		19	15
17	Amanda Nylander	Sweden	154.08		10	18	19
18	Tuğba Karademir	Turkey	153.25		14	22	16
19	Arina Martinova	Russia	149.89		13	15	21
20	Galina Efremenko	Ukraine	149.65	14		21	18
21	Anastasia Gimazetdinova	Uzbekistan	149.43	11		13	22
22	Júlia Sebestyén	Hungary	142.30		11	24	20
23	Valentina Marchei	Italy	141.51		12	20	23
24	Annette Dytrt	Germany	137.31	10		23	24
Free Skate Not Reached
25	Viktória Pavuk	Hungary	FNR		8	28
26	Katarina Gerboldt	Russia	FNR	13		27
27	Michelle Cantu	Mexico	FNR		15	25
28	Nadège Bobillier	France	FNR		9	29
29	Andrea Kreuzer	Austria	FNR	15		26
30	Teodora Poštič	Slovenia	FNR	12		30
Short Program Not Reached
31	Miriam Manzano	Australia	NQD		16
32	Roxana Luca	Romania	NQD		17
33	Tammy Sutan	Thailand	NQD	16
34	Sonia Radeva	Bulgaria	NQD	17
35	Diane Chen	Chinese Taipei	NQD	18
36	Ksenia Jastsenjski	Serbia and Montenegro	NQD	19
37	Jacqueline Belenyesiová	Slovakia	NQD		18
38	Choi Ji Eun	South Korea	NQD	20
39	Olga Zadvornova	Latvia	NQD	21
40	Alisa Kireeva	Ukraine	NQD		19
41	Jenna-Anne Buys	South Africa	NQD		20
42	Laura Fernandez	Spain	NQD	22
43	Elena Muhhina	Estonia	NQD		21
WD	Kristina Mikhailova	Belarus

[edit] Pairs

Rank	Name	Nation	Total Points	SP	FS
1	Pang Qing / Tong Jian	China	189.20	2	1
2	Zhang Dan / Zhang Hao	China	186.42	1	4
3	Maria Petrova / Alexei Tikhonov	Russia	186.22	3	2
4	Rena Inoue / John Baldwin	United States	183.17	6	3
5	Valerie Marcoux / Craig Buntin	Canada	181.09	4	5
6	Aliona Savchenko / Robin Szolkowy	Germany	170.08	5	7
7	Jessica Dube / Bryce Davison	Canada	169.72	7	6
8	Julia Obertas / Sergei Slavnov	Russia	164.16	8	8
9	Dorota Zagorska / Mariusz Siudek	Poland	160.79	9	9
10	Tatiana Volosozhar / Stanislav Morozov	Ukraine	147.90	11	10
11	Marcy Hinzmann / Aaron Parchem	United States	140.22	10	13
12	Maria Mukhortova / Maxim Trankov	Russia	135.70	12	12
13	Marylin Pla / Yannick Bonheur	France	135.02	14	11
14	Dominika Piatkowska / Dmitri Khromin	Poland	123.37	13	14
15	Rumiana Spassova / Stanimir Todorov	Bulgaria	117.61	16	15
16	Marina Aganina / Artem Knyazev	Uzbekistan	114.52	15	16
17	Stacey Kemp / David King	United Kingdom	106.10	18	18
18	Mari Vartmann / Florian Just	Germany	105.49	19	17
19	Julia Beloglazova / Andrei Bekh	Ukraine	104.83	17	19
20	Emma Brien / Stuart Beckingham	Australia	86.84	20	20

[edit] Ice Dancing

Rank	Name	Nation	Total Points	CD	OD	FD
1	Albena Denkova / Maxim Staviski	Bulgaria	199.14	1	1	3
2	Marie-France Dubreuil / Patrice Lauzon	Canada	198.69	2	3	1
3	Tanith Belbin / Benjamin Agosto	United States	196.74	3	4	4
4	Margarita Drobiazko / Povilas Vanagas	Lithuania	195.87	5	5	2
5	Isabelle Delobel / Olivier Schoenfelder	France	195.44	4	2	5
6	Galit Chait / Sergei Sakhnovski	Israel	181.29	6	7	6
7	Oksana Domnina / Maxim Shabalin	Russia	178.39	7	6	7
8	Federica Faiella / Massimo Scali	Italy	172.10	9	10	8
9	Melissa Gregory / Denis Petukhov	United States	171.06	10	9	10
10	Megan Wing / Aaron Lowe	Canada	170.51	8	8	11
11	Sinead Kerr / John Kerr	United Kingdom	167.83	12	11	9
12	Jana Khokhlova / Sergei Novitski	Russia	162.15	11	16	12
13	Christina Beier / William Beier	Germany	154.94	13	14	13
14	Kristin Fraser / Igor Lukanin	Azerbaijan	154.28	14	13	15
15	Nathalie Pechalat / Fabian Bourzat	France	154.00	15	12	17
16	Morgan Matthews / Maxim Zavozin	United States	152.97	16	18	14
17	Nozomi Watanabe / Akiyuki Kido	Japan	152.96	17	15	16
18	Nora Hoffmann / Attila Elek	Hungary	150.78	18	17	18
19	Alexandra Kauc / Michal Zych	Poland	144.21	19	20	19
20	Alexandra Zaretski / Roman Zaretski	Israel	140.14	24	22	20
21	Anna Zadorozhniuk / Sergei Verbillo	Ukraine	139.72	21	21	21
22	Yu Xiaoyang / Wang Chen	China	136.14	23	23	22
23	Elena Romanovskaya / Alexander Grachev	Russia	135.43	20	19	24
24	Alla Beknazarova / Vladimir Zuev	Ukraine	132.00	22	24	23
Free Dance Not Reached
25	Olga Akimova / Alexander Shakalov	Uzbekistan	FNR	27	25
26	Laura Munana / Luke Munana	Mexico	FNR	26	27
27	Kamila Hajkova / David Vincour	Czech Republic	FNR	28	26
28	Natalie Buck / Trent Nelson-Bond	Australia	FNR	29	28
29	Alisa Allapach / Peter Kongkasem	Thailand	FNR	30	29
WD	Anastasia Grebenkina / Vazgen Azrojan	Armenia		25

[edit] References

• 2006 World Figure Skating Championships

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