2025 Junior Worlds: Info and pre-game chat

[gsk8]

The 2025 World Junior Figure Skating Championships will take place in February 25 - March 2, 2025, in Debrecen, Hungary.

"Junior Worlds" is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union. ISU Member nations select their entries according to their own criteria. Competitors must be at least 13 years old but not yet 19 before July 1, 2024. Exceptions are for men competing in pair skating and ice dancing where the age maximum is 21.

Combined Total Elements Scores (CTES)

Skaters/couples participating in the following Figure Skating Championships must have reached the following Combined Total Elements Scores (SP/RD + FS/FD) during the ongoing season (2024/25) or the immediately preceding season (2023/24):

JUNIOR MEN | 80.00
JUNIOR WOMEN | 72.00
JUNIOR PAIR SKATING | 63.00
JUNIOR ICE DANCE | 71.00

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• Announcement
• Entries/Results

 

[saine]

Switzerland announced their entries:

Women
Anastasia Brandenburg
Leandra Tzimpoukakis
(alternates: 1 - Elizabeth Dibbern, 2 - Olivia Basca)

Men
Ean Weiler
(alternate - Aurelian Chervet)

Pairs
Oxana Vouillamoz/Tom Bouvart*
(alternates - Chiara Michaela Pazienza/Maxim Knorr*)
*pending minimums, both teams will compete at Bavarian Open for the Junior CTES

Ice Dance
Gina Zehnder/Beda Leon Sieber
(alternates - Seraina Tscharner/Laurin Wiederkehr)

https://www.swissiceskating.ch/1_kunstlauf/4_leistungssport/3_dokumente/jwc2025.pdf

 

[Gia_Sesshoumaru]

Japan has announced its team -

Men - Rio Nakata; Sena Takahashi; Shunsuke Nakamura (Alts - Taiga Nishio; Haru Kakiuchi; Daiya Ebihara)
Women - Mao Shimada; Kaoroku Wada; Ami Nakai (Alts - Ikura Kushida; Mei Okada; Haruna Murakami)
Pairs - Sae Shimizu / Lucas Tsuyoshi Honda
Ice Dance - Sara Kishimoto / Atsuhito Tamura (Alt - Kaho Yamashita / Yuto Nagata)

 

[labgoat]

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[Gia_Sesshoumaru]

Team South Korea

Men - Minkyu Seo; Hyungyeom Kim; Habin Choi
Women - Jia Shin; Yujae Kim

 

[Gia_Sesshoumaru]

Team Canada

Men - David Bondar; Anthony Paradis
Women - Lulu Lin; Kara Yun
Pairs - Martina Ariano Kent / Charly Laliberte-Laurent; Jazmine Desrochers / Kieran Thrasher; Ava Kemp / Yonathan Elizarov
Ice Dance - Sandrine Gauthier / Quentin Thieren; Chloe Nguyen / Brendan Giang

Canadian Figure Skating Teams Announced for 2025 ISU Championships

OTTAWA, ON (January 20, 2025) – Skate Canada has named [...]

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[gsk8]

Team USA

Women
Elyce Lin-Gracey
Sophie Joline von Felten

Alternate 1: Logan Higase-Chen
Alternate 2: Sherry Zhang
Alternate 3: Josephine Lee

Ice Dance
Hana Maria Aboian and Daniil Veseluhkin
Caroline Mullen and Brendan Mullen
Katarina Wolfkostin and Dimitry Tsarevski

Alternate 1: Elliana Peal and Ethan Peal
Alternate 2: Olivia Ilin and Dylan Cain
Alternate 3: Michelle Deych and Ryan Hu

Pairs
Olivia Flores and Luke Wang
Reagan Moss and Jakub Galbavy
Naomi Williams and Lachlan Lewer

Alternate 1: Saya Carpenter and Jon Maravilla
Alternate 2: Addyson McDanold and Aaron Felberbaum
Alternate 3: Elizabeth Hansen and William Church

Men
Patrick Blackwell
Jacob Sanchez

Alternate 1: Aleksandr Fegan
Alternate 2: Lorenzo Elano
Alternate 3: Kai Kovar

 

[TT_Fin]

Team Finland as expected, according to the rules:

Women: Iida Karhunen, Venla Sinisalo
Subsitutes Annika Pellonmaa, Karina Innos, Darja Trubitson

Men: Matias Lindfors
subsitute Arttu Juusola

None of the id pairs got the minimums.

So looks Matias is ok anyway though he is not listed to any other competions. But looks Lotta Artimo is injured as she should have been an alternative instead of Darja based on the fed's rules.

 

[saine]

Entries are up.

 

[DemTuppesSeine]

Not really surprised to see M/B on the list...

 

[TT_Fin]

What was the stupid reason to increase age limit of men?

 

[brblja]

Eight groups in both men and women Those minimums are definitely going up next year.

 

[saine]

Eight groups in both men and women Those minimums are definitely going up next year.

Last year had 41 men and 46 women, so it's two more entries this year for each. Since JGP spots are determined by placement, I don't think they'll raise them much if they do. They want to have participants in them to help develop at the Junior level.

25-30 place get 1 entry in 4 events
31 and lower get 1 entry in 3 events
No entries gets 1 entry in 2 events

Federations are encouraged to send a skater, even if they aren't likely to qualify for the free skate.

Ice Dance is the only category that has fewer entries compared to last year (25 for 2025, 31 in 2024.) If they do adjust minimums, I'd look at that one.

 

[brblja]

Yeah, you’re right, I forgot for a moment that the junior field rules are so different.

 

[4everchan]

ugh at the Georgians for showing up this year when they have exclusively been doing senior events, and won last year. That should be illegal.
It also means that other nations, who do have better depth in pairs may get less spots for next year JGPs or JWC considering they will definitely take first place.

It's very hard to remain nice about this one. I will just scream out loud how I feel, so only my next door neighbours hear it and that way, I will preserve the decency of this post.

 

[TT_Fin]

Eight groups in both men and women Those minimums are definitely going up next year.

Yes. In only Finland there are 8 who have the minimums and they would have more on the list if some skaters would have chosen juniors but they skate only in seniors. I think in big feds there are mass of those.

IMO ISU could have the same rule as JGP/GP. If you go to JWC, you are not allowed to take part in WC. It would be harsh for some small feds, but I think this would be a good rule anyway. Georgians go there because they can and they probably are prepared to win. 23 years old and 13 years old do not belong to same competition and the decision and the reason is hard to understand.

 

[saine]

Luka Berulava answered why they were doing it in their mixed zone interview:

Luka: “Well, the answer is actually short. We want to compete. We want to use the opportunity to compete. The ISU rules allow us to compete, so we want to grab the chance to gain experience and earn world standing points. That’s why we’re doing it. The rules allow it.”

They wouldn't actually gain any world standing points by doing it for their Senior standings. The Europeans bronze is more than the Junior Worlds gold. It would only help their Junior standings since only Junior competitions count for those. That only helps if they're planning on competing in it again next season, on top of Europeans, the Olympics and Worlds (they'll be eligible for one more season after this one.)

I understand why the ISU raised the age limit, to help teams have a longer time to develop before moving up to senior. But teams who medal at Europeans and Senior GPF shouldn't need Junior Worlds to get more experience. They just look silly competing against children.

 

[4everchan]

Luka Berulava answered why they were doing it in their mixed zone interview:

They wouldn't actually gain any world standing points by doing it for their Senior standings. The Europeans bronze is more than the Junior Worlds gold. It would only help their Junior standings since only Junior competitions count for those. That only helps if they're planning on competing in it again next season, on top of Europeans, the Olympics and Worlds (they'll be eligible for one more season after this one.)

I understand why the ISU raised the age limit, to help teams have a longer time to develop before moving up to senior. But teams who medal at Europeans and Senior GPF shouldn't need Junior Worlds to get more experience. They just look silly competing against children.

They don't want world standing points. They want prize money

 

[saine]

Jakub Tykal has replaced Tadeas Vaclavik in Men

 

[4everchan]

Jakub Tykal has replaced Tadeas Vaclavik in Men

oh... Vlaclavik was among the favourites (or am I confusing him with someone else)... so that's tough news

Ok.. well... I had the feeling the flag wasn't the good one for the Vaclavik I was thinking about... and yeah... he is safe. Two Vaclaviks.. one w/d but the one who did well at JGP is still skating..

PHEW