2026 Junior Worlds - Free Dance

[Sylvia]

This is the first event on Saturday, March 7, 2026.

Time schedule for Saturday (11:30-14:31 in Tallinn / 4:30-7:31 am Eastern time): https://results.isu.org/results/sea...JUNIOR----FNL-000100--_StartListwithTimes.pdf

ISU Livestream with Ted Barton & Mark Hanretty: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s85xiiUng0E

Junior Free Dance starting order/live results: https://results.isu.org/results/season2526/wjc2026/SEG008.htm

StN. Name Nation Rank Points

Warm-Up Group 1
1 Yuxuan XING / Han Wan CHAU HKG 20 47.09
2 Lara SUNDBERG / Hector GONZALEZ ELVIRA ESP 19 47.54
3 Shanjie YIN / Shirui YANG CHN 18 48.79
4 Seraina TSCHARNER / Laurin WIEDERKEHR SUI 17 49.21
5 Summer HOMICK / Nicholas BUELOW CAN 16 49.38

Warm-Up Group 2
6 Kaho YAMASHITA / Yuto NAGATA JPN 15 50.13
7 Mimi MARLER DAVIES / Joseph BLACK GBR 14 50.66
8 Michelle DEYCH / Ryan HU USA 13 50.78
9 Tetiana BIELODONOVA / Ivan KACHUR UKR 12 51.55
10 Diane SZNAJDER / Jachym NOVAK CZE 11 52.67

Ice Resurfacing

Warm-Up Group 3
11 Anita STRAUB / Andreas STRAUB AUT 10 54.67
12 Alexia KRUK / Jan EISENHABER GER 9 56.50
13 Zoe BIANCHI / Daniel BASILE ITA 8 57.94
14 Jasmine ROBERTSON / Chase ROHNER USA 7 59.16
15 Dania MOUADEN / Theo BIGOT FRA 6 60.60

Warm-Up Group 4
16 Arianna SOLDATI / Nicholas TAGLIABUE ITA 5 61.55
17 Layla VEILLON / Alexander BRANDYS CAN 4 63.81
18 Iryna PIDGAINA / Artem KOVAL UKR 3 65.45
19 Ambre PERRIER GIANESINI / Samuel BLANC KLAPERMAN FRA 2 66.31
20 Hana Maria ABOIAN / Daniil VESELUKHIN USA 1 66.45

 

[Kateri]

"Showcased" really is Mark's word of the tournament, to the point he's kinda forgotten what it means. He just said a team were "showcasing fatigue".

 

[victorskid]

"Showcased" really is Mark's word of the tournament, to the point he's kinda forgotten what it means. He just said a team were "showcasing fatigue".

That will be me by the end of today - without waiting for my alarm I woke up in time to see the second couple; I have a scheduled 2-hr Zoom meeting (with a very frustrating volunteer group) in the middle of the next event; this afternoon I'm joining neighbours for some sort of celebration of life for another neighbour who died between Christmas and New Years. It's scheduled to take place at a local Legion from 3 to 5 p.m.

 

[her grace]

Yamashita/Nagata

Nice control through the one foot turns, but only level one, could skate closer together, strong lifts, mini-lift where she lifts him ETA: this may have been a choreo assisted jump—I’m still waking up

 

[her grace]

Anyone know what happened to the Canadians?

 

[her grace]

Davies/Black

She has nice positions in the lifts, some work to do on clarity of edge to gain the levels, clean skate with a nice presence

 

[her grace]

Deych/Hu

Lovely carriage, level one for him on twizzles—he wobbled and checked some turns, not getting any levels on steps; their basic skating looks stronger than the previous teams in this WU group, though. Not their best performance of this program—looked a little slow out there. I wonder how much they’ve been practicing this program

 

[her grace]

Swiss team continues to rise

 

[victorskid]

Anyone know what happened to the Canadians?

I know she had twizzle trouble and Mark mentioned some other problems but I hadn't had my coffee yet and don't remember.

UPDATE: the video is now posted @her grace : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXZtQ3CBtwE

 

[her grace]

Bielodonova/Kachur

Nice twizzles, impressive handstand look in straight line lift, I like this—choreography has lots of interesting shapes and they were very into it

 

[her grace]

Sznajder/Novak

Well-synchronized twizzles (level 3 for her), nice maturity and intensity
in their presentation, like every team in this WU group, not getting step levels

 

[victorskid]

Videos of the first 10 couples are here: https://www.youtube.com/@SkatingISU/videos

Ice resurfacing underway.

FD results after 2 of 4 groups:
1 Diane SZNAJDER / Jachym NOVAK CZE 86.03 47.03 39.00 6.50 6.61 6.39 0.00 #10
2 Tetiana BIELODONOVA / Ivan KACHUR UKR 82.39 45.53 36.86 6.14 6.18 6.11 0.00 #9
3 Seraina TSCHARNER / Laurin WIEDERKEHR SUI 80.77 45.27 35.50 6.07 5.86 5.82 0.00 #4
4 Kaho YAMASHITA / Yuto NAGATA JPN 77.43 41.79 35.64 5.93 6.00 5.89 0.00 #6
5 Summer HOMICK / Nicholas BUELOW CAN 76.84 40.20 36.64 6.11 6.25 5.96 0.00 #5
6 Michelle DEYCH / Ryan HU USA 75.09 39.95 35.14 5.96 5.75 5.86 0.00 #8
7 Shanjie YIN / Shirui YANG CHN 74.57 41.21 33.36 5.61 5.50 5.57 0.00 #3
8 Mimi MARLER DAVIES / Joseph BLACK GBR 72.80 38.16 34.64 5.89 5.75 5.68 0.00 #7
9 Yuxuan XING / Han Wan CHAU HKG 72.16 39.86 32.30 5.36 5.43 5.36 0.00 #1
10 Lara SUNDBERG / Hector GONZALEZ ELVIRA ESP 68.11 35.33 32.78 5.57 5.43 5.39 0.00 #2

Overall FD standings so far:
1 Diane SZNAJDER / Jachym NOVAK CZE 138.70 11 1
2 Tetiana BIELODONOVA / Ivan KACHUR UKR 133.94 12 2
3 Seraina TSCHARNER / Laurin WIEDERKEHR SUI 129.98 17 3
4 Kaho YAMASHITA / Yuto NAGATA JPN 127.56 15 4
5 Summer HOMICK / Nicholas BUELOW CAN 126.22 16 5
6 Michelle DEYCH / Ryan HU USA 125.87 13 6
7 Mimi MARLER DAVIES / Joseph BLACK GBR 123.46 14 8
8 Shanjie YIN / Shirui YANG CHN 123.36 18 7
9 Yuxuan XING / Han Wan CHAU HKG 119.25 20 9
10 Lara SUNDBERG / Hector GONZALEZ ELVIRA ESP 115.65 19 10

 

[her grace]

Straub/Straub

Felt like their speed was uneven and mostly generated by crossovers, she got a level 2 on steps, nice lifts. Everything was pleasant, but I’d have it behind Czechs

 

[Karen-W]

Well, I woke up in time for the last two groups. Just a reminder about JGP entries for next season:

ISU Members are entitled to enter Competitors in the different events of the ISU Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating in Ice Dance according to the following system (see annexed Table D):

a) 2 entries in 7 events:
ISU Members placed one (1) to three (3) at the previous ISU World Junior Figure Skating Championships may enter two (2) Ice Dance couples in all seven (7) events of the ISU Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating.

b) 1 entry in 7 events:
ISU Members placed four (4) to six (6) at the previous ISU World Junior Figure Skating Championships are entitled to enter one (1) Ice Dance couple in seven (7) events of the ISU Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating.

c) 1 entry in 6 events:
ISU Members placed seven (7) to ten (10) at the previous ISU World Junior Figure Skating Championships are entitled to enter one (1) Ice Dance couple in six (6) events of the ISU Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating in the category concerned.

d) 1 entry in 5 events:
ISU Members with Skaters who qualified for the Final Free Dance, but were not placed in the first ten(10) ISU Members of the previous ISU World Junior Figure Skating Championships, may enter one(1) Ice Dance couple in five (5) events of the ISU Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating.

e) 1 entry in 4 events:
ISU Members with Skaters, who placed 21 to 25 in the Rhythm Dance of the previous ISU World Junior Figure Skating Championships, may enter one (1) Ice Dance couple in four (4) events of the ISU Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating in the category concerned (EST, FIN, POL, SWE).

f) 1 entry in 3 events:
ISU Members with Skaters, who placed 26 and lower in the Rhythm Dance of the previous ISU World Junior Figure Skating Championships but participated in the category concerned, may enter one (1)Ice Dance couple in three (3) events of the ISU Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating in the category concerned (HUN, ISR, AZE, SVK, BUL).

g) 1 entry in 2 events:
ISU Members, who have not participated in the previous ISU World Junior Figure Skating Championships in the category concerned, may enter one (1) Ice Dance Couple in two (2) events of the ISU Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating in the category concerned.

h) Organizing ISU Member:
The Organizing ISU Member may enter in its event up to three (3) Ice Dance Couples. (CHN, LAT, THA, TUR, GEO, SLO, POL)

 

[Andrey aka Pushkin]

I'd fix his hair and her twizzles.
The cute Germans are cute.

 

[her grace]

Kruk/Eisenhaber

Well-matched one foot turns (level 2 for her) and steps (level 2s), twizzles a bit rough, think they could develop their storytelling more, nice choreo hydroblading move at end of program

 

[her grace]

Bianchi/Basile

They have a wonderful smooth way of moving, twizzles could use more ice coverage, lifts that expressed the music, think they could connect more with each other, fantastic basics and foundation to build on

 

[Wyliefan]

Chase is a bit stumbly today.

ETA: Oh gosh! More than a bit!

 

[her grace]

Robertson/Rohner

He looked a little stiff at beginning and no surprise struggles through the twizzles, she is looking relaxed and into her knees and unfortunately the contrast between partners is apparent, errors from him on step sequence and he falls in choreo step sequence. Going to drop

 

[Andrey aka Pushkin]

Now this is what I'm talking about.
A couple of a pretty girl and a boy who is not yet quite sure how many limbs he has, skating to the most yawn inducing warhorse splatting all around.
Everything I wanted!

 

[Kateri]

LMAO at Deych still wearing her flower crown in the audience. Mark was saying that she wrote to the crown-crafter to beg her for one, and now I guess she's wearing it forever!

 

[Andrey aka Pushkin]

And now for the main reason why we're all here today!
Dania and Theo

 

[Karen-W]

Ouch for Robertson/Rohner. The USFS is going to be sweating out the placement of AboVes now. They need to place in the top 2 or we drop to 2 teams for Jr Worlds next year.

 

[her grace]

Mouaden/Bigot

Fantastic unison, level 2s on turns, cool entrance to rotational lift, bringing the energy even in the boardography, exciting and dynamic

 

[Wyliefan]

Dania looked tight through the twizzles, but survived. Another great skate for them.

 

[victorskid]

They are being very quick putting up the FD videos - the first 13 are already here (as we are watching #15): https://www.youtube.com/@SkatingISU/videos

 

[Andrey aka Pushkin]

Cizeron who?
Take your stupid Olympic gold medal and send it to the real champions!!!



In a couple of years when they're both legal, I will be throwing panties.

 

[Karen-W]

FYI - Veillon/Brandys' costumes are still as ugly as they were back in the fall.

 

[Wyliefan]

I believe Hana Maria borrowed Madison Chock's bedsheet for a costume.

 

[Wyliefan]

HOW do Sol/Tag endure that music every day?