The 2010 World Junior Figure Skating Championships will be the World Junior Figure Skating Championships for the 2009–2010 figure skating season. Commonly called "World Juniors" and "Junior Worlds", they are an annual figure skating competition in which elite figure skaters compete for the title of World Junior Champion. The event will crown the World Junior Champions in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.

The event will be held between March 8 and 14, 2010 at the De Uithof in The Hague, Netherlands^[1].

[edit] Qualification

The competition will be open to skaters from ISU Member Nations who have reached the age of 13 by July 1, 2009, but had not yet turned 19. The upper age limit for men competing in pairs and dance will be 21.

The term "Junior" refers to the age level rather than necessarily 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. Regardless of whether they have competed as seniors, all competitors perform programs that conform to the ISU rules for junior level competition in terms of program lengths, jumping passes, etc.

[edit] Multiple entries

All members nations have one entry in each discipline by default. Member nations may earn more than entry based on their performance at the previous year's championships.

The following countries earned more than one entry to the 2010 World Junior Championships based on their performance at the 2009 World Junior Figure Skating Championships.^[2]

Spots	Men	Ladies	Pairs	Dance
3	China  United States	Russia  United States	Canada  Russia  United States	Canada  Russia  United States
2	Canada  Czech Republic  Kazakhstan  Russia	Germany  Georgia  Slovakia  Sweden	China  Japan  Switzerland	Czech Republic  France  Italy

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