The 1998

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 in

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, USA from March 29 through April 5. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles,

pair skating Pair skating is a figure skating discipline defined by the International Skating Union (ISU) as "the skating of two persons in unison who perform their movements in such harmony with each other as to give the impression of genuine Pair Skating a ...

, 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 tables

Medalists

Medals by country

Competition notes

Due to the large number of participants, the men's and ladies' qualifying groups were split into groups A and B.

Results

Men

Referee: * Walburga Grimm International Skating Union

Assistant Referee: * Charles Foster International Skating Union

Judges: * Gavril Velchev * Frank Parsons *

Elfriede Beyer Elfriede, also known as Elfreda, Elfrida, Alfrida, Elfrieda, Elftrude, Elftraut among other variants, is a female given name, derived from ''Ælfþryð'' (Aelfthryth) meaning "elf-strength". The name fell out of fashion in the Middle Ages and was ...

* Lucy J. Brennan * Seppo Kurtti * Prisca Binz-Moser * Ingelise Blangsted * Agnes Morvai * Odile Guedj Substitute judge: *

Fabio Bianchetti Fabio Bianchetti is a member of the International Skating Union Technical Committee. He took the Judge's Oath at the 2006 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony. He is the son of Sonia Bianchetti Sonia, Sonja or Sonya, a name of Greek origin meaning ...

Ladies

Referee: * Ronald Pfenning International Skating Union

Assistant Referee: * Gerhardt Bubnik International Skating Union

Judges: * Julianna Beke * Alfred Korytek * Marianne Oeverby * Hideo Sugita * Rafaella Loccatelli * Christa Gunsam * Jacqueline Itschner * Susan Heffernan * Liliana Strechova Substitute judge: * Wendy Langdon

Pairs

Referee: * Sally-Anne Stapleford

Assistant Referee: * Marie Lundmark

Judges: *

Maria Zuchowicz Maria Zuchowicz (born in Poznań, in 1930 – 24 November 2020) was a Polish lawyer and figure skating official. She was Chairperson of Appeal Commission of the International Skating Union and Vice-President of the Polish Figure Skating Associa ...

* Jiasheng Yang * Hugh Graham * Igor Prokop * Gьnther Teichmann * Robert Worsfold * Ubavka Novakovic-Kytinoy * Susan Lynch * Alain Miguel Substitute judge: * Vladislav Petukhov

Ice dancing

Referee: * Ann Shaw International Skating Union

Assistant Referee: * Ludmila Mikhailovskaya International Skating Union

Judges: * Katalin Alpern * Elena Buriak * Monika Zeidler * Yury Balkov * Isabella Micheli * Armelle Van Eybergen * Patricia S. French * Irina Absaliamova * Janet Coton Substitute judge: * Evgenia Karnolska

External links

1998 Worlds results
{{1997–98 in figure skating World Figure Skating Championships

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