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World medalists who shared same Jr Podium

Giselle

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Oct 15, 2014
So it's the off season, time for random questions!
I realized today that 2005–06 Jr GPF podium in Ice dance all became Sr. World champions in their career!

The 2005–06 JGPF podium was :
1. Virtue/Moir (WC in 2010, 2012, 2017)
2. Davis/White (2011, 2013)
3. Cappellini/Lanotte (2014)

And I couldn't think of any other examples where a whole JGP final or Junior World podium went on to become Senior World Champions (I probably missed some years).

So I started looking at Junior podiums who became World medalists and I found a few :

The 2010 (and 2011) Junior World podium in pairs :
1. Sui Wenjing / Han Cong (World medalist in 2015, 2016, World champions in 2017)
2. Narumi Takahashi / Mervin Tran (2012)
3. Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov (2014)

The 2013 Junior World podium in Ladies :
1. Elena Radionova (2015)
2. Yulia Lipnitskaya (2014)
3. Anna Pogorilaya (2016)

There's probably more, who am I missing?
 
I don't think there's that many.

JGPF 2004-2005: Mao, Yuna & Kimmie (all world champs!)
 
Michelle Kwan and Irina Slutskaya in 1994

Michelle Kwan- Gold

Irina Slutskaya- Bronze

The Silver Medalist is a skater I don't remember named Krisztina Czakó. Can anyone shed some light on her career?
 
Czako skated for Hungrary. She went to her first Olympics when she was really long. Her most memorable program was to the music of the Addams Family.
 
Every time I see her name I think of her one-foot-1A-change-of-edge-counter-2A sequence.
 
Mao Asada and Yuna Kim
JWC 2005 and JWC 2006
WC 2007, WC2008, WC2010.
 
Miki Ando and Carolina Kostner

2nd and 3rd at Junior Worlds in 2003
1st and 3rd 8 years later in 2011
 
Hanyu and Gachinski (gold and bronze at WJC 2010) were both World medalists... although, it's rather surprising that Gachinski got there a year earlier.

Weir and Lysacek were also on the WJC podium together (gold and silver in 2001), and later won World medals.

Bonaly has been on the WJC podium with Sato (1990 - Sato gold, Bonaly silver) and Lu Chen (1991 - Bonaly gold, Chen silver), and then podiumed with them at Worlds.
 
Bobrova & Soloviev and Weaver & Poje (JWC 2007) both went on to win World medals in different seasons.
 
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