2003 World Championships - Washington DC, USA videos

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2003 World Figure Skating Championships - Washington, DC, USA

Link to full results http://www.icecalc.org/events/wc2003/results/
(NOTE - This was the final year of the 6.0 system)

DAY 1
Men Qualifying
2003 World Figure Skating Men Qualifying part 1
2003 World Figure Skating Qualifying part 2
Group B
5 Ilia Klimkin RUS
9 Sergei Davydov BLR
10 Michael Weiss USA
12 Takeshi Honda JPN
15 Min Zhang CHN
17 Ryan JAHNKE USA

Group A
5 Timothy GOEBEL USA
7 Evgeni PLUSHENKO RUS
10 Andrejs VLASCENKO GER
11 Emanuel SANDHU CAN
12 Stephane LAMBIEL SUI
15 Jeffrey BUTTLE CAN

Pairs Short Program
Bin Yao Feature
1 Olga BOGUSLAVSKA / Andrei BROVENKO LAT
2 Sarah ABITBOL / Stephane BERNADIS FRA
3 Maria GUERASSIMENKO / Vladimir FUTAS SVK
4 Anabelle LANGLOIS / Patrice ARCHETTO CAN
5 Dorota ZAGORSKA / Mariusz SIUDEK POL
6 Marina AGANINA / Artem KNYAZEV UZB
7 Kathryn ORSCHER / Garrett LUCASH USA
8 Katerina BERANKOVA / Otto DLABOLA CZE
9 Dan ZHANG / Hao ZHANG CHN
10 Jacinthe LARIVIERE / Lenny FAUSTINO CAN
11 Tatiana TOTMIANINA / Maxim MARININ RUS
12 Yuko KAWAGUCHI / Alexander MARKUNTSOV JPN
13 Tiffany SCOTT / Philip DULEBOHN USA
14 Eva-Maria FITZE / Rico REX GER
15 Diana RENNIK / Aleksei SAKS EST
16 Qing PANG / Jian TONG CHN
17 Tatiana VOLOSOZHAR / Petro KHARCHENKO UKR
18 Xue SHEN / Hongbo ZHAO CHN
19 Rena INOUE / John BALDWIN, Jr. USA
20 Julia OBERTAS / Alexei SOKOLOV RUS
21 Maria PETROVA / Alexei TIKHONOV RUS

2003 World Figure Skating Pairs Short part 1 TSN
2003 World Figure Skating Pairs Short part 2 ESPN

 

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Day 2

Ice Dancing Compulsory Dance - Austrian Waltz
Group A - see playlist
Group B - see playlist

Mens Short Program
1 Sergei KOTOV ISR
2 Zoltan TOTH HUN
3 Juraj SVIATKO SVK
4 Gregor URBAS SLO
5 Karel ZELENKA ITA
6 Konstantin TUPIKOV UKR
7 Silvio SMALUN GER
8 Ari-Pekka NURMENKARI FIN
9 Tomas VERNER CZE
10 Roman SKORNIAKOV UZB
11 Andrejs VLASCENKO GER
12 Stanick JEANNETTE FRA
13 Stanislav TIMCHENKO RUS
14 Gheorge CHIPER ROM
15 Vakhtang MURVANIDZE GEO
16 Ivan DINEV BUL
17 Brian JOUBERT FRA
18 Kevin VAN DER PERREN BEL
19 Ilia KLIMKIN RUS
20 Chengjiang LI CHN
21 Sergei DAVYDOV BLR
22 Jeffrey BUTTLE CAN
23 Emanuel SANDHU CAN
24 Min ZHANG CHN
25 Evgeni PLUSHENKO RUS
26 Ryan JAHNKE USA
27 Takeshi HONDA JPN
28 Stephane LAMBIEL SUI
29 Timothy GOEBEL USA
30 Michael WEISS USA
2003 World Figure Skating Championships Men Short
2003 World Figure Skating Championships Men's Short Program JSKY Sports

 

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Day 3

Ladies Qualifying Round
Group A
8 Sarah HUGHES USA
17 Sasha Cohen USA
Group B

Pairs Free Skate
1 Diana RENNIK / Aleksei SAKS EST
2 Marina AGANINA / Artem KNYAZEV UZB
3 Tatiana VOLOSOZHAR / Petro KHARCHENKO UKR
4 Maria GUERASSIMENKO / Vladimir FUTAS SVK
5 Tiffany SCOTT / Philip DULEBOHN USA **NEW
6 Kathryn ORSCHER / Garrett LUCASH USA
7 Eva-Maria FITZE / Rico REX GER
8 Jacinthe LARIVIERE / Lenny FAUSTINO CAN
9 Rena INOUE / John BALDWIN, Jr. USA
10 Katerina BERANKOVA / Otto DLABOLA CZE
11 Sarah ABITBOL / Stephane BERNADIS FRA
12 Yuko KAWAGUCHI / Alexander MARKUNTSOV JPN
13 Anabelle LANGLOIS / Patrice ARCHETTO CAN
14 Qing PANG / Jian TONG CHN
15 Dorota ZAGORSKA / Mariusz SIUDEK POL
16 Dan ZHANG / Hao ZHANG CHN
17 Maria PETROVA / Alexei TIKHONOV RUS **NEW
18 Julia OBERTAS / Alexei SOKOLOV RUS
19 Tatiana TOTMIANINA / Maxim MARININ RUS
20 Xue SHEN / Hongbo ZHAO CHN
2003 World Figure Skating Championships Pairs Free 1
2003 World Figure Skating Championships Pairs Free 2
2003 World Figure Skating Championships Pairs Free 3

 

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Day 4

Ice Dancing - Original Dance: Memories of a Grand Ball
(playlist starts with skaters #5 listed#34 in playlist)
1 Agnieszka DULEJ / Slawonir JANICKI POL
2 Natalie BUCK / Trent NELSON-BOND AUS
3 Pamela O'CONNER / Jonathon O'DOUGHERTY GBR
4 Marina TIMOFEIEVA / Evgeni STRIGANOV EST
5 Tatiana SINIAVER / Tornike TUKVADZE GEO
6 Jessica HUOT / Juha VALKAMA FIN
7 Roxane PETETIN / Mathieu JOST FRA
8 Clover Mory ZATZMAN / Aurimas RADISAUSKAS LTU
9 Anastasia GREBENKINA / Vazgen AZROJAN ARM
10 Natalia GUDINA / Alexei BELETSKI ISR
11 Kristin FRASER / Igor LUKANIN AZE
12 Federica FAIELLA / Massimo SCALI ITA
13 Megan WING / Aaron LOWE CAN
14 Veronika MORAVKOVA / Jiri PROCHAZKA CZE
15 Oksana DOMNINA / Maxim SHABALIN RUS
16 Nora HOFFMANN / Attila ELEK HUN
17 Nozomi WATANABE / Akiyuki KIDO JPN
18 Weina ZHANG / Xiaoming CAO CHN
19 Julia GOLOVINA / Oleg VOIKO UKR
20 Shae-Lynn BOURNE / Victor KRAATZ CAN
21 Marie-France DUBREUIL / Patrice LAUZON CAN
22 Elena GRUSHINA / Ruslan GONCHAROV UKR
23 Irina LOBACHEVA / Ilia AVERBUKH RUS
24 Galit CHAIT / Sergei SAKHNOVSKI ISR
25 Tatiana NAVKA / Roman KOSTOMAROV RUS
26 Albena DENKOVA / Maxim STAVIYSKI BUL
27 Isabelle DELOBEL / Olivier SCHOENFELDER FRA
28 Naomi LANG / Peter TCHERNYSHEV USA
29 Tanith BELBIN / Benjamin AGOSTO USA
Final Standings – Original Dance

Mens Free Skate
1 Tomas VERNER CZE
2 Silvio SMALUN GER
3 Andrejs VLASCENKO GER
4 Gregor URBAS SLO
5 Kevin VAN DER PERREN BEL
6 Vakhtang MURVANIDZE GEO
7 Min ZHANG CHN
8 Roman SKORNIAKOV UZB
9 Stephane LAMBIEL SUI
10 Gheorge CHIPER ROM
11 Ivan DINEV BUL
12 Stanick JEANNETTE FRA
13 Emanuel SANDHU CAN
14 Ilia KLIMKIN RUS
15 Stanislav TIMCHENKO RUS
16 Ryan JAHNKE USA
17 Jeffrey BUTTLE CAN
18 Brian JOUBERT FRA
19 Takeshi HONDA JPN
20 Sergei DAVYDOV BLR
21 Timothy GOEBEL USA
22 Michael WEISS USA
23 Evgeni PLUSHENKO RUS
24 Chengjiang LI CHN
2003 World Figure Skating Men Free part 1
2003 World Figure Skating Men Free part 2
2003 World Figure Skating Men (Japanese commentary)

 

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Day 5

Ladies Short Program - playlist
1 Miriam MANZANO AUS
2 Sarah MEIER SUI
3 Olga VASSILJEVA EST
4 Tugba KARADEMIR TUR
5 Mojca KOPAC SLO
6 Sara FALOTICO BEL
7 Vanessa GIUNCHI ITA
8 Idora HEGEL CRO
9 Jenna McCORKELL GBR
10 Julia LAUTOWA AUT
11 Johanna GOETESSON SWE
12 Julia SEBESTYEN HUN
13 Carolina KOSTNER ITA
14 Dan FANG CHN
15 Anastasia GIMAZETDINOVA UZB
16 Galina MANIACHENKO UKR
17 Alisa DREI FIN
18 Joannie ROCHETTE CAN
19 Anne Sophie CALVEZ FRA
20 Ludmila NELIDINA RUS
21 Shizuka ARAKAWA JPN
22 Sarah HUGHES USA
23 Yoshie ONDA JPN
24 Elena LIASHENKO UKR
25 Viktoria VOLCHKOVA RUS
26 Sasha COHEN USA
27 Fumie SUGURI JPN
28 Jennifer ROBINSON CAN
29 Michelle KWAN USA
30 Elena SOKOLOVA RUS

Ice Dancing - Free Dance
(playlist starts with skaters #3 in position #61)
1 Anastasia GREBENKINA / Vazgen AZROJAN ARM
2 Roxane PETETIN / Mathieu JOST FRA
3 Julia GOLOVINA / Oleg VOIKO UKR
4 Jessica HUOT / Juha VALKAMA FIN
5 Veronika MORAVKOVA / Jiri PROCHAZKA CZE
6 Pamela O'CONNER / Jonathon O'DOUGHERTY GBR
7 Nozomi WATANABE / Akiyuki KIDO JPN
8 Nora HOFFMANN / Attila ELEK HUN
9 Weina ZHANG / Xiaoming CAO CHN
10 Kristin FRASER / Igor LUKANIN AZE
11 Natalia GUDINA / Alexei BELETSKI ISR
12 Federica FAIELLA / Massimo SCALI ITA
13 Megan WING / Aaron LOWE CAN
14 Oksana DOMNINA / Maxim SHABALIN RUS
15 Tanith BELBIN / Benjamin AGOSTO USA
16 Marie-France DUBREUIL / Patrice LAUZON CAN
17 Isabelle DELOBEL / Olivier SCHOENFELDER FRA
18 Galit CHAIT / Sergei SAKHNOVSKI ISR
19 Naomi LANG / Peter TCHERNYSHEV USA
20 Shae-Lynn BOURNE / Victor KRAATZ CAN
21 Elena GRUSHINA / Ruslan GONCHAROV UKR
22 Irina LOBACHEVA / Ilia AVERBUKH RUS
23 Albena DENKOVA / Maxim STAVIYSKI BUL
24 Tatiana NAVKA / Roman KOSTOMAROV RUS
Final Result Dance Event
Medal Ceremony Dance Event

 

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Day 6

Ladies Free Skating
(playlist starts with skater #4 in position #31)
1 Anne Sophie CALVEZ FRA
2 Sarah MEIER SUI
3 Idora HEGEL CRO
4 Jenna McCORKELL GBR
5 Anastasia GIMAZETDINOVA UZB
6 Mojca KOPAC SLO
7 Alisa DREI FIN
8 Ludmila NELIDINA RUS
9 Galina MANIACHENKO UKR
10 Julia LAUTOWA AUT
11 Dan FANG CHN
12 Joannie ROCHETTE CAN
13 Julia SEBESTYEN HUN
14 Yoshie ONDA JPN
15 Shizuka ARAKAWA JPN
16 Sarah HUGHES USA
17 Elena LIASHENKO UKR
18 Jennifer ROBINSON CAN
19 Carolina KOSTNER ITA
20 Michelle KWAN USA
21 Viktoria VOLCHKOVA RUS
22 Elena SOKOLOVA RUS
23 Sasha COHEN USA
24 Fumie SUGURI JPN
Final Result & Medal Ceremony

 

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As always, if you come across any of the missing skates - please leave us a link

 

[Mathman]

Please, please, please, everybody, if you have never seen this one you owe it to yourself to click. (Shen and Zhao Turandot)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qqHEd0Bq9o&list=PL952FDA0A330BAED0&index=30&t=0s

One of the most emotionally affecting programs of all time. The audience was spellbound. In fact, I think that there was a large section of Chinese and Chinese-American fans from the Washington DC area who had come out just to see this pair.

This was Michelle Kwan's last (of five) world championship victories. A superbly constructed program. Irina Slutskaya did not compete because of illness, but teammate Elena Sokolova took up the slack and gave Michelle a run for her money with a 7 triple performance, the finest of her career.

Michelle had considered retiring that season, having been disappointed at the 2002 Olympics. But when Skate America came around in the fall of 2002, it turned out that expected headliners Sarah Hughes, Sale and Pelletier, and Berezhnaya and Sikharulidze, all withdrew (and men's champion Alexei Yagudin only did the short program and was unable to skate the long.)

Faced with a box office dud, the USFSA made Michelle an "offer she couldn't refuse" to come in at the last minute and save the event. (In fact, she even quoted Michael Corleone in The Godfather -- "just when I think I'm out, they pull me back in.") She won. According to the Grand Prix rules that year, that one first place turned out to qualify her for the Grand Prix Final even though she did not skate in a second event. But she declined.

However, since Worlds was in the USA that year, she felt re-energized enough to go to US Nationals (winning her 7th title) and the world championship.

 

[ragdoll]

Thanks a lot, labgoat! Will enjoy playing many of those today. I could watch Denkova/Staviski's original dance ten times, I think. I never get tired of that.

 

[iluvtodd]

Thanks, labgoat! We were so lucky to be there for most of the week of competition!

 

[labgoat]

Thanks a lot, labgoat! Will enjoy playing many of those today. I could watch Denkova/Staviski's original dance ten times, I think. I never get tired of that.

So glad you enjoyed it. I've watched many of the programs individually, but watching them in the context of the entire competition brings these events back to life.

Since skating is getting harder and harder to watch online, i thought i would share my links. I chose these years specifically because they do not have established playlists and the videos are skated all over in bits and pieces.

I have found playlists seem to get videos blocked more easily - once you find one video, others are named similarly and are easy to find.

 

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Please, please, please, everybody, if you have never seen this one you owe it to yourself to click. (Shen and Zhao Turandot)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qqHEd0Bq9o&list=PL952FDA0A330BAED0&index=30&t=0s

One of the most emotionally affecting programs of all time. The audience was spellbound. In fact, I think that there was a large section of Chinese and Chinese-American fans from the Washington DC area who had come out just to see this pair.

This was Michelle Kwan's last (of five) world championship victories. A superbly constructed program. Irina Slutskaya did not compete because of illness, but teammate Elena Sokolova took up the slack and gave Michelle a run for her money with a 7 triple performance, the finest of her career.

Michelle had considered retiring that season, having been disappointed at the 2002 Olympics. But when Skate America came around in the fall of 2002, it turned out that expected headliners Sarah Hughes, Sale and Pelletier, and Berezhnaya and Sikharulidze, all withdrew (and men's champion Alexei Yagudin only did the short program and was unable to skate the long.)

Faced with a box office dud, the USFSA made Michelle an "offer she couldn't refuse" to come in at the last minute and save the event. (In fact, she even quoted Michael Corleone in The Godfather -- "just when I think I'm out, they pull me back in.") She won. According to the Grand Prix rules that year, that one first place turned out to qualify her for the Grand Prix Final even though she did not skate in a second event. But she declined.

However, since Worlds was in the USA that year, she felt re-energized enough to go to US Nationals (winning her 7th title) and the world championship.

I can remember cheering and tearing up over this program. No wonder Sui & Han wanted to honor their great coaches!

 

[ladyjane]

Strangely, this is one of the Worlds I remember very well, especially the Ladies, the Ice Dance and the Pairs. The first because to me these were two of Michelle's most memorable programmes (although I realise that others may disagree) with her SP with no smile but so impressive and her LP which was so musical. Both were outstanding choreographically. and she didn;t even do a triple-triple. Is this the last time a lady won with no triple-triple? I don't know, I do know Michelle has done triple-triples in her time. And to see Elena again, whose skates I also remember very well. The freshness in her skating, technically very strong. One can never forget her expression and her joy.

I also remembered Shen and Zhao's Turandot very well. Probably because it made me cry (and it did again just now). A programme that never fails to move me. It's also the worlds when I started to enjoy Totmiannina and Marinin for the first time despite this not being their best programme ever - but their 'blandness' had gone, making it a memorable programme all the same. Maria Petrova and Alexei Tikhonov were also back in the game, and I have always liked their skating, so that was memorable too.



What about Ice Dance? Well, I just love Shae Lynne and Victor who deservedly won (albeit with only a slight difference), but their Exhibition was the one one I remembered best of all - even though I had to look that one up elsewhere. Victor's moves are superb. Even Yuzu could take lessons from Victor on that score. And here's (part 2 of the) the exhibtion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huN_kHA1JOI. Watch out for Victor and Shae Lynne.

However, somehow the men's event rings no particular bells. I know Plushenko did well, and a rewatch just now proved that. But I hadn't remembered his performance (sorry Plushyfan) and the same applies to the other men during this event.

However, another compliment to Labgoat is justified. You've given me more to watch than the ISU or - worse - my Television broadcaster ever did, and I haven't even finished your list of WC yet!

 

[labgoat]

I am happy to share...skating can be such a relief at this time and entire competitions are hard to find. My lists have been a work in progress for many years. At this eventmy skate of the championships was Shen & Zhao FS, i too loved the emerging stye of Totmianina & Marinin. I was thrilled by Ryan Jahnke's Qualifying skate and the debut skate of Carolina Kostner.

I hope that my collection of links will represent as many of the skaters who appeared at Worlds. It is a wonderful achievement and i love to make them available. Hopefully these links will provide you with some new favorites. Watching an event in its entirety provides us with a snapshot into the skating quality, trends and technical expertise of the field as a whole and helps explain who finished where in a way that individual viewing of skates does not.

 

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more skaters added to Men Free Skate

 

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2003 World Figure Skating Gala exhibition part 1 CTV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6detZb4rIc

2003 World Figure Skating exhibition part 2 CTV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huN_kHA1JOI

 

[mrrice]

This was a great Worlds for Elena Sokolova.