2026 Junior Worlds: General Info and Pregame Chat

[gsk8]

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The 2026 Junior World Figure Skating Championships will take place in March 3-8, 2026, in Tallinn, Estonia, at the Tondiraba Ice Hall. "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. Only skaters who have reached the age of fifteen and who have not reached the age of nineteen before July 1 preceding the Championships may compete.

Skaters/teams participating must have reached the following Combined Total Elements Scores (SP/RD + FS/FD) during the ongoing season (2025/26) or the immediately preceding season (2024/25):

Men: 80.00 | Women: 72.00 | Pairs: 63.00 | Ice Dance: 71.00

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[saine]

Switzerland's entries

Women
Valeriya Ezhova
Leandra Tzimpoukakis
(alt 1 - Elisabeth Dibbern, alt 2 - Anastasia Brandenburg)

Men
Ean Weiler
(alt 1 - Sandro De Angelo, alt 2 - Gion Schmid)

Pairs
Laura Gauch/Linus Mager (pending minimums)

Ice Dance
Seraina Tscharner/Laurin Wiederkehr
(alt - Leonie Woodtli / Timon David Suhner pending minimums)

https://www.swissiceskating.ch/1_kunstlauf/4_leistungssport/3_dokumente/wjc2026_1.pdf

 

[FlossieH]

GBR team

Men: Arin Yorke
Women: Alice Smith
Pairs: Neamh Davison and Daniel Borisov
Ice dance: Mimi Marler Davies and Joseph Black

 

[dorispulaski]

USA team

Women
Angela Shao, Broadmoor SC
Sophie Joline von Felten, SC of Boston

Men
Lucius Kazanecki, Washington FSC
Jacob Sanchez, Hudson Valley FSC

Pairs
Olivia Flores, Thunderbirds FSC/Luke Wang, Los Angeles FSC
Reagan Moss, SC of New York/Jakub Galbavy, SC of New York

Dance
Hana Maria Aboian, Peninsula SC/Daniil Veselukhin, SC of New York
Jasmine Robertson, Scott Hamilton SC/Chase Rohner, All Year FSC
Jane Calhoun, Broadmoor SC/Mark Zheltyshev, Broadmoor SC

 

[FlossieH]

Hmm. Not sure that I agree with Jacob Sanchez and Flores/Wang when they have only competed as seniors this season, but I know others don't mind seniors dropping back down to junior worlds just for that one competition.

 

[dorispulaski]

Team Canada

Canadian Figure Skating Teams Announced for Two Upcoming ISU Championships

OTTAWA, ON (Jan. 12, 2026) – Skate Canada has named its [...]

skatecanada.ca

Women
Victoria Barakhtina

Men
Grayson Long

Pairs
Jazmine Desrochers & Kieran Thrasher
Ava Kemp & Yohnatan Elizarov
Julia Quattrocchi & Étienne Lacasse

Ice Dance
Summer Homick & Nicholas Buelow
Layla Veillon & Alexander Brandys

 

[dorispulaski]

Japanese Junior Worlds team
https://www.goldenskate.com/forum/t...al-selection-announcement.102568/post-3518775

Men:
Rio Nakata
Taiga Nishino,
Daiya Ebihara
(Sub: 1 Sena Takahashi; 2 Ryoto Mori)

Women:
Mao Shimada
Mayuko Oka
Mei Okata
(Sub: 1 Sumika Kanazawa; 2 Yo Takagi)

Ice Dance
Kaho Yamashita / Yuto Nagata
(Sub: Ayumi Shibayama / Tomoki Kimura)

Pairs: NA

 

[dorispulaski]

https://www.goldenskate.com/forum/threads/2025-2026-south-korean-figure-skating.101061/post-3521183

Team Korea JWC team

Men:
Seo Minkyu
Choi Habin
Lee Jaekeun

Women:
Kim Yuseong
Huh Jiyu

 

[TT_Fin]

Team Finland:

Edustajat taitoluistelun junioreiden MM-kilpailuihin - Suomen Taitoluisteluliitto ry

Suomen Taitoluisteluliiton hallitus on vahvistanut Suomen joukkueen taitoluistelun junioreiden MM-kilpailuihin Tallinnaan 3.–8.3.2026. Naiset: Venla Sinisalo Varalla järjestyksessä: Annika Pellonmaa, Lotta Artimo Miehet: Matias Lindfors Miehissä muut eivät saavuttaneet vaadittavia ISU:n...

www.taitoluisteluliitto.fi

Women: Venla Sinisalo
substitutes in order: Annika Pellonmaa, Lotta Artimo

Men: Matias Lindfors
no subsitutes in men

ID: Eva Rozhnova – Platon Zubkov
substitutes: Iris Lahti – Oskari Liedenpohja

 

[saine]

Entries - https://isu-skating.com/figure-skating/entries/isu-world-junior-championships-2026/

Metelkina/Berulava are not entered thankfully, doing this on top of the Olympics would be too much.

Canada also changed its entry for Junior Women to Megan Woodley, this was updated on the assignments page yesterday and is reflected in the entries.

 

[brblja]

Nine warm-up groups for women?? The short is going to be a bloodbath.

 

[Jeanie19]

Nine warm-up groups for women?? The short is going to be a bloodbath.

It truly is. Over half won't make the free.

 

[lariko]

Entries - https://isu-skating.com/figure-skating/entries/isu-world-junior-championships-2026/

Metelkina/Berulava are not entered thankfully, doing this on top of the Olympics would be too much.

Canada also changed its entry for Junior Women to Megan Woodley, this was updated on the assignments page yesterday and is reflected in the entries.

Oh no... is Barakhtina injured? I hope not...

 

[saine]

Oh no... is Barakhtina injured? I hope not...

I think it's probably an issue of getting a visa.

 

[ramurphy2005]

Entries are up:

https://isu-skating.com/figure-skating/entries/isu-world-junior-championships-2026/

 

[ladyjane]

So glad to see Angel there! Hopefully, it means she is healed!

 

[dorispulaski]

I am assuming that we can watch this on the ISU YouTube channel.

I hope I am right!

 

[gsk8]

Don't know. Still buried in Olympics right now.

 

[dorispulaski]

• Tickets

All event pass is about 91€

 

[lariko]

• Tickets

All event pass is about 91€

A bargain!