1999 World Figure Skating Championships
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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 Assistant Referee: * Hideo Sugita 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 Assistant Referee: * Hugh Graham 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 *
Pekka Leskinen Juha Pekka Leskinen (born 26 February 1954) is a Finnish former competitive figure skater. He represented Finland at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck Innsbruck (; bar, Innschbruck, label=Austro-Bavarian ) is the capital of Tyrol and the ...
* Kenji Amako Substitute judge: * Marianne Oeverby


Pairs

Referee: * Hely Abbondati 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 Assistant Referee: * Marie Lundmark 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
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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. ...
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. ...
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