Lineal Olympic/World Champions

[Imagine]

Let's play a little game. What if the World/Olympic Championship title was a lineal title? What would that look like? To simplify, only a first place finish over the reigning champion in an international competition counts as a win. A title is always on the line at an Olympics/Worlds; if the champion(s) does not show, he/she/they vacate. I'll arbitrarily start from CoP scoring forward, just because I don't want to look up records from like the 19th century or something.

Example for Ladies:

01. Irina Slutskaya (Wins 2005 Worlds)
02. Asada Mao (Defeats Slutskaya at 2005 Grand Prix Final)
03. Arakawa Shizuka (Wins 2006 Olympics, Asada vacates due to being age-ineligible)
04. Kimmie Meissner (Wins 2006 Worlds, Arakawa vacates due to retirement)
05. Ando Miki (Defeats Meissner at 2006 Skate America)
06. Kim Yuna (Defeats Ando at 2006 Trophée Éric Bompard)
07. Ando Miki (Defeats Kim at 2007 Worlds)
08. Kimmie Meissner (Defeats Ando at 2007 Skate America)
09. Asada Mao (Defeats Meissner at 2007 Trophée Éric Bompard)
10. Kim Yuna (Defeats Asada at 2007 Grand Prix Final)
11. Asada Mao (Defeats Kim at 2008 Worlds)
12. Joannie Rochette (Defeats Asada at 2008 Trophée Éric Bompard)
13. Asada Mao (Defeats Rochette at 2008 Grand Prix Final)
14. Kim Yuna (Defeats Asada at 2009 Four Continents)
15. Asada Mao (Defeats Kim at 2010 Worlds)
16. Carolina Kostner (Defeats Asada at 2010 NHK Trophy)
17. Alissa Czisny (Defeats Costner at 2010 Grand Prix Final)
18. Ando Miki (Defeats Czisny at 2011 Four Continents)
19. Carolina Kostner (Wins 2012 Worlds, Ando Vacates due to no-show)
20. Kim Yuna (Defeats Kostner at 2013 Worlds)
21. Adelina Sotnikova (Defeats Kim at 2014 Olympics)
22. Asada Mao (Wins 2014 Worlds, Sotnikova vacates due to no-show)
23. Elizaveta Tuktamysheva (Wins 2015 Worlds, Asada vacates due to no-show)
24. Ashley Wagner (Defeats Tuktamysheva at 2015 Skate Canada)
25. Miyahara Satoko (Defeats Wagner at 2015 NHK Trophy)
26. Evgenia Medvedeva (Defeats Miyahara at 2015 Grand Prix Final)
27. Alina Zagitova (Defeats Medvedeva at 2018 European Championships)
28. Kaetlyn Osmond (Defeats Zagitova at 2018 Worlds)

Reigning Champion: Kaetlyn Osmond
Most Title Wins: Asada Mao, 6-time Champion
Longest Consecutive Title Reign: Evgenia Medvedeva - 804 Days
Shortest Total Title Reign: Miyahara Satoko - 14 days
Longest Total Title Reign: ??? (Don't feel like doing the math, someone figure it out)

 

[chopinskate]

I don't want to look up records from like the 19th century or something.

But that would be so much more thematic...

 

[DSQ]

It would certainly make senior b’s less desirable to compete in as you’d risk losing your title for little reward. I think it would also probably make most competitions undesirable but it would make worlds very very exciting.

Every competition the title holder turned up to would be a showdown.