The 2003

World Figure Skating Championships The World Figure Skating Championships (''"Worlds"'') is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union. Medals are awarded in the categories of men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dance. ...

were held at the

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from March 24 to 30. The senior-level international

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was sanctioned by the

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. Medals were awarded in men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and

ice dancing Ice dance (sometimes referred to as ice dancing) is a discipline of figure skating that historically draws from ballroom dancing. It joined the World Figure Skating Championships in 1952, and became a Winter Olympic Games medal sport in 1976. A ...

Medal table

Competition notes

Due to the large number of participants, the men's and ladies' qualifying groups and the ice dancing compulsory dance were split into groups A and B. Ice dancers in both groups performed the same compulsory dance. The

compulsory dance The compulsory dance (CD), now called the pattern dance, is a part of the figure skating segment of ice dance competitions in which all the competing couples perform the same standardized steps and holds to the music of a specified tempo and gen ...

was the Austrian Waltz.

Michelle Kwan Michelle Wingshan Kwan (born July 7, 1980) is a retired competitive figure skater and diplomat serving as United States Ambassador to Belize. In figure skating Kwan is a two-time Olympic medalist (silver in 1998, bronze in 2002), a five-time ...

won her fifth and final world championship, the most of any ladies skater since 1960.

Results

Men

Ladies

Pairs

Ice dancing

External links

2003 World Figure Skating Championships
{{2002–03 in figure skating World Figure Skating Championships

International figure skating competitions hosted by the United States

Sports competitions in Washington, D.C.