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The 2001
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 single skating, men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ...
were held at the
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from March 17 to 25. 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. Ac ...
. This event was the primary means of deciding the number of entries each country would have to the 2002 Olympics.


Medal table


Competition notes

Due to the large number of participants, the men's and ladies' qualifying groups were split into groups A and B. The ice dancers were also split into two groups for the compulsory dances, which were the same for both groups. Group B skated both compulsory dances, followed immediately by Group A skating both compulsory dances. The
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was played for the first time at a World Figure Skating Championships.


Results


Men

Referee: *
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Assistant Referee: * Ronald T. Pfenning Judges: * Alexander Pentchev * Nicolae Bellu *
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* Deborah Islam * Mieko Fujimori * Felicitas Babusikova Substitute judge: *
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Ladies

Referee: *
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Assistant Referee: * Britta Lindgren Judges: * Zoya Yordanova * Igor Prokop * Florin Gafencu * Joseph L. Inman * Jiasheng Yang * Hermi Ottemann * Davorin Orban * Lone Villefrance * Hideo Sugita Substitute judge: * Judit Fьrst-Tombor


Pairs

Referee: *
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Assistant Referee: * Lucy J. Brennan Judges: *
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* Benoit Lavoie * Paolo Pizzocari * Ubavka Novakovic-Kytinoy * Roger Glenn Substitute judge: *
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Ice dancing

Referee: * Courtney Jones Assistant Referee: * Ann Shaw Judges: * Christine Hurth * Alla Shekhovtseva *
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* Hilary Selby * Irina Nechkina Substitute judge: * Linda K. Leaver


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