The 1999

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from March 20 through 28. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and

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/ref> 1999 was the first year that the qualifying competition in the men's and ladies' events counted towards the total score. Qualifying was 20% of the total score, the short program 30%, and the free skating 50%.

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. In the ladies' qualifying group B, Klara Bramfeldt (SWE) and Marion Krijgsman (NED) tied for 17th place, leading to a three-way tie in overall standings for 33rd place in the ladies' event.

Results

Men

Referee: * Sally-Anne Stapleford International Skating Union

Assistant Referee: * Hideo Sugita International Skating Union

Judges: * Lone Villefrance * Jan Olesinski * Merja Kosonen * Ute Boehm * Peter Rankin * Igor Prokop * Jörg Badraun * Zsofia Wagner * Zoya Yordanova Substitute judge: * Vladislav Petukhov

Ladies

Referee: * Britta Lindgren International Skating Union

Assistant Referee: * Hugh Graham International Skating Union

Judges: *

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Marina Sanaya Marina Valterovna Sanaya (Melnyk) (russian: Марина Вальтеровна Саная (Мельник); 7 January 1959 – 6 October 2016) was a figure skating official and competitor who represented the Soviet Union. Competing at the age o ...

* Bettina Meier * Jiasheng Yang * Agnes Morvai * Maria Hrachovcova * Christa Gunsam *

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* Kenji Amako Substitute judge: * Marianne Oeverby

Pairs

Referee: * Hely Abbondati International Skating Union

Assistant Referee: *

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Judges: * Jane Garden * Volker Waldeck * Franklin Nelson * Anne Hardy-Thomas *

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* Evgenia Bogdanova * Alfred Korytek * Sviatoslav Babenko * Maria Zuchowicz Substitute judge: * Alexei Shirshov

Ice dancing

Referee: * Alexander Gorshkov International Skating Union

Assistant Referee: * Marie Lundmark International Skating Union

Judges: * Elizabeth Clark * Walter Zuccaro * Yury Balkov * Mary Parry * Alla Shekhovtseva * Ulf Denzer * Evgenia Karnolska * Hongguo Ren * Margaret Faulkner Substitute judge: * Heide Maritczak

References

External links

1999 World Figure Skating Championships at the Internet Archive
{{1998–99 in figure skating World Figure Skating Championships

World Figure Skating Championships 1999 International figure skating competitions hosted by Finland International sports competitions in Helsinki 2000s in Helsinki March 1999 sports events in Europe