World Juniors 2025 - Women FS

[JoannaLouise]

I know her win isn't exactly a surprise, but wow, what a skate!

 

[Former Lurve Goddess]

Please don't jinx Mao, Ted!

 

[Jammers]

Tell me again how the sport is better by being Junior next season instead of being in Milan. This is no 15 year old she's just months away from turning 17.

 

[Vagabond]

Coach shots!

 

[Colonel Green]

Tell me again how the sport is better by being Junior next season instead of being in Milan. This is no 15 year old she's just months away from turning 17.

Anywhere you draw the age line there will be people just on the wrong side of it.

 

[my little pony]

Mao should have her own merch

 

[Citlali]

Love, love, love this podium

 

[her grace]

Bummed that Bath’s gonna miss out on a small medal for FS by one place. What a skate that was!

Congrats to medalists and honorable mention to Gladki for her clean FS.

 

[PRlady]

Holy crap. Is the world record going to be set in juniors? It deserves a WR score.

No senior is going to beat that score in Boston. Amazing.

 

[Coco]

I have wondered if perhaps there should be an exception for age ineligible skaters who medal for 3 consecutive years at Junior Worlds and/or Jr. GP Final. Just move 'em up.

 

[floridaice]

and I feel that is underscored

 

[Karen-W]

Tell me again how the sport is better by being Junior next season instead of being in Milan. This is no 15 year old she's just months away from turning 17.

This argument is so old and tiresome. Twenty years old and tiresome. Yawn.

 

[Aceon6]

Anywhere you draw the age line there will be people just on the wrong side of it.

Mao Asada, meet Mao Shimada

 

[victorskid]

Free skate results:

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1​	Mao SHIMADA	JPN	156.16​	89.23​		66.93​	8.21​	8.32​	8.54​	0.00​	#24​
2​	Jia SHIN	KOR	126.96​	67.11​		60.85​	7.57​	7.61​	7.61​	1.00​	#18​
3​	Elyce LIN-GRACEY	USA	122.60​	64.53​		58.07​	7.25​	7.18​	7.32​	0.00​	#21​
4​	Hana BATH	AUS	122.05​	70.09​		51.96​	6.39​	6.43​	6.64​	0.00​	#8​
5​	Stefania GLADKI	FRA	121.67​	66.90​		55.77​	7.11​	6.96​	6.82​	1.00​	#16​
6​	Ami NAKAI	JPN	119.05​	60.83​		59.22​	7.39​	7.18​	7.61​	1.00​	#22​
7​	Leandra TZIMPOUKAKIS	SUI	118.29​	66.04​		52.25​	6.57​	6.39​	6.61​	0.00​	#15​
8​	Elina GOIDINA	EST	118.03​	62.29​		56.74​	7.14​	7.04​	7.07​	1.00​	#19​
9​	Kaoruko WADA	JPN	117.30​	56.37​		60.93​	7.57​	7.54​	7.71​	0.00​	#20​
10​	Iida KARHUNEN	FIN	116.60​	63.30​		53.30​	6.71​	6.61​	6.64​	0.00​	#14​
11​	Inga GURGENIDZE	GEO	115.57​	57.79​		57.78​	7.25​	7.14​	7.25​	0.00​	#23​
12​	Arina KALUGINA	AZE	115.39​	71.22​		46.17​	5.43​	5.61​	6.25​	2.00​	#9​
13​	Anna PEZZETTA	ITA	114.58​	59.28​		55.30​	6.86​	6.71​	7.14​	0.00​	#13​
14​	Yujae KIM	KOR	114.33​	63.22​		51.11​	6.50​	6.18​	6.46​	0.00​	#4​
15​	Anastasia BRANDENBURG	SUI	112.58​	62.04​		50.54​	6.39​	6.43​	6.11​	0.00​	#10​
16​	Yihan WANG	CHN	112.07​	59.29​		53.78​	6.71​	6.68​	6.75​	1.00​	#17​
17​	Sophie Joline von FELTEN	USA	111.47​	65.45​		47.02​	5.82​	5.79​	6.00​	1.00​	#2​
18​	Sophia SHIFRIN	ISR	108.70​	58.48​		50.22​	6.21​	6.21​	6.39​	0.00​	#12​
19​	Angel DELEVAQUE	NED	105.58​	60.21​		45.37​	5.64​	5.64​	5.71​	0.00​	#7​
20​	Sofya TITOVA	ARM	104.66​	55.19​		49.47​	6.21​	6.14​	6.18​	0.00​	#5​
21​	Stefania YAKOVLEVA	CYP	102.67​	55.75​		46.92​	5.82​	5.86​	5.89​	0.00​	#6​
22​	Polina DZSUMANYIJAZOVA	HUN	100.35​	53.52​		48.83​	6.11​	6.00​	6.18​	2.00​	#11​
23​	Kira BARANOVSKA	LAT	95.59​	51.97​		44.62​	5.64​	5.39​	5.68​	1.00​	#1​
24​	Lulu LIN	CAN	89.41​	49.13​		43.28​	5.46​	5.11​	5.64​	3.00​	#3​

Protocols: https://results.isu.org/results/sea...OR----FNL-000100--_JudgesDetailsperSkater.pdf

Overall results:

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1	Mao SHIMADA	JPN	230.84	1	1
2	Jia SHIN	KOR	190.53	7	2
3	Elyce LIN-GRACEY	USA	188.71	4	3
4	Ami NAKAI	JPN	185.89	3	6
5	Stefania GLADKI	FRA	184.29	9	5
6	Inga GURGENIDZE	GEO	183.04	2	11
7	Elina GOIDINA	EST	182.18	6	8
8	Kaoruko WADA	JPN	181.65	5	9
9	Leandra TZIMPOUKAKIS	SUI	179.66	10	7
10	Hana BATH	AUS	179.00	17	4
11	Iida KARHUNEN	FIN	176.84	11	10
12	Yihan WANG	CHN	175.51	8	16
13	Anna PEZZETTA	ITA	174.59	12	13
14	Arina KALUGINA	AZE	172.43	16	12
15	Anastasia BRANDENBURG	SUI	170.52	15	15
16	Yujae KIM	KOR	168.63	21	14
17	Sophia SHIFRIN	ISR	168.21	13	18
18	Sophie Joline von FELTEN	USA	165.40	23	17
19	Angel DELEVAQUE	NED	161.88	18	19
20	Sofya TITOVA	ARM	159.79	20	20
21	Polina DZSUMANYIJAZOVA	HUN	159.39	14	22
22	Stefania YAKOVLEVA	CYP	158.12	19	21
23	Kira BARANOVSKA	LAT	149.03	24	23
24	Lulu LIN	CAN	143.38	22	24

 

[Colonel Green]

Jia clearly happy to be done with this (for one season, anyway).

 

[Tak]

I saw Mao skate at the Japan Inter-high school championship, a month ago.
She did fall on 4T there, but everything else was beautifully done.
Really reminded me of Midori Ito at her prime, 1988-90.
She seems to have exceeded that level here!

 

[kwanfan1818]

Higher TES than Nakata’s.

 

[her grace]

Shin’s probably thrilled to say goodbye to Shimada for a season and compete in seniors without her. Silver fairy, indeed!

 

[floridaice]

Coach shots!

My husband walked in just in time to see this -- I told him that it's much better to have Hamada happy about your skate than upset.

 

[PRlady]

With apologies to my (sick) granddaughter and the National Zoo that we couldn’t do this morning, that was even better.

 

[Former Lurve Goddess]

I have wondered if perhaps there should be an exception for age ineligible skaters who medal for 3 consecutive years at Junior Worlds and/or Jr. GP Final. Just move 'em up.

I'd be OK with that if the skater only missed the cutoff by a bit so they'd still have had their 17th birthday before Euros/4CCs/Olympics/Worlds.

 

[her grace]

I have wondered if perhaps there should be an exception for age ineligible skaters who medal for 3 consecutive years at Junior Worlds and/or Jr. GP Final. Just move 'em up.

I think that would just mean more drugged Russians moving up early

 

[PRlady]

I don’t think there’s a Russian in the pipeline who will beat Mao, but in general that’s a good argument.

 

[Jammers]

Anywhere you draw the age line there will be people just on the wrong side of it.

The ISU had a panic attack because of the Russian girls and moved it up too high 16 should have been the age set and now we know whoever wins the Olympics most likely is not even the best skater in the world let alone in her own country.

 

[Former Lurve Goddess]

I think that would just mean more drugged Russians moving up early

Yeah, that would totally be the big danger of such a policy.

 

[Colonel Green]

The ISU had a panic attack because of the Russian girls and moved it up too high 16 should have been the age set and now we know whoever wins the Olympics most likely is not even the best skater in the world let alone in her own country.

Some people claimed the same with the Russian juniors under the previous age limit.

 

[Karen-W]

The ISU had a panic attack because of the Russian girls and moved it up too high 16 should have been the age set and now we know whoever wins the Olympics most likely is not even the best skater in the world let alone in her own country.

Again, this is the same old story we've been hearing for decades now. It was Mao Asada & Yuna Kim twenty years ago, it was the Russian A-team in 2018. If she is that good, she will be an Olympic medalist in 2030 - just like Asada, Kim, Shcherbakova & Trusova before her...

 

[Former Lurve Goddess]

My nonagenarian polygot father's comment on the comp (for the part he was awaked for at least): "these girls are all really good."

 

[Jammers]

See Elyce good things happen when you hold it together and fight.

 

[Jammers]

Again, this is the same old story we've been hearing for decades now. It was Mao Asada & Yuna Kim twenty years ago, it was the Russian A-team in 2018. If she is that good, she will be an Olympic medalist in 2030 - just like Asada, Kim, Shcherbakova & Trusova before her...

Yeah but those women competed at the Olympics in their prime Mao has to wait until she's in her 20's before she's eligible for the Olympics.