The 2005

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 14 to 20. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of 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 ...

. The 2005 Worlds was the primary means of deciding the number of entries each country would have to the 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

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 Midnight Blues.

Results

Men

Ladies

Pairs

Ice dancing

External links

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Lambiel wins
* https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45001-2005Mar17.html?nav=rss_sports/leaguesandsports/olympics

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