1989 World Figure Skating Championships

Annual figure skating competition held in 1989 1989 World Figure Skating Championships ISU Championship March 14 19 1988–89 Paris, France Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy CAN Kurt Browning JPN Midori Ito URS Ekaterina Gordeeva / Sergei Grinkov URS Marina Klimova / Sergei Ponomarenko 1988 World Championships 1990 World Championships The 1989 World Figure Skating Championships was held March 14–19 at the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy in Paris. Medals were awarded in men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. Medal tables Medalists Men CAN Kurt Browning USA Christopher Bowman POL Grzegorz Filipowski Ladies JPN Midori Ito FRG Claudia Leistner USA Jill Trenary Pair skating URS Ekaterina Gordeeva / Sergei Grinkov CAN Cindy Landry / Lyndon Johnston URS Elena Bechke / Denis Petrov Ice dancing URS Marina Klimova / Sergei Ponomarenko URS Maya Usova / Aleksandr Zhulin FRA Isabelle Duchesnay / Paul Duchesnay Medals by country 2 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 Results Men Kurt Browning became the first man to win a world championship while completing a quadruple jump.https://www.nytimes.com/1989/03/17/sports/results-plus-632189.html?scp=2&sq=kurt+browning&st=nyt Results Plus The New York Times 17 March 1989 Rank Name Nation TFP CF OP FS 1 Kurt Browning 3.6 5 1 1 2 Christopher Bowman 5.8 4 2 3 3 Grzegorz Filipowski 6.2 3 5 2 4 Alexander Fadeev 6.2 1 3 4 5 Petr Barna 10.2 7 4 5 6 Viktor Petrenko 10.4 2 6 6 7 Daniel Doran 16.0 6 11 7 8 Oliver Höner 18.0 10 10 8 9 Michael Slipchuk 19.4 13 7 10 10 Cameron Medhurst 20.8 11 9 11 11 Makoto Kano 21.0 18 8 9 12 Daniel Weiss 25.2 9 16 12 13 Axel Médéric 26.0 12 12 14 14 Dmitri Gromov 27.6 14 15 13 15 András Száraz 31.8 15 13 18 16 Mirko Eichhorn 33.2 20 17 15 17 Ralph Burghart 34.6 8 19 20 18 Alessandro Riccitelli 34.8 17 20 16 19 Peter Johansson 35.0 19 14 19 20 Henrik Walentin 37.0 23 18 17 Free skating not reached 21 Christian Newberry 16 25 22 Jung Sung-il 22 21 23 Iwo Svec 21 23 24 Oula Jääskeläinen 25 22 25 David Liu 26 24 26 Boyko Aleksiev Bulgaria 1971 24 26 27 Alexandre Geers 27 27 WD Ricardo Olavarrieta DNF 28 Ladies Midori Ito was the first Japanese skater to win gold and the first woman to do a triple axel in a major ISU competition.https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-03-19-sp-421-story.html Archives Rank Name Nation TFP CF OP FS 1 Midori Ito 4.0 6 1 1 2 Claudia Leistner 4.2 1 3 2 3 Jill Trenary 5.0 2 2 3 4 Patricia Neske 11.6 5 6 6 5 Natalia Lebedeva 11.6 3 4 8 6 Kristi Yamaguchi 11.8 12 5 4 7 Evelyn Großmann 16.6 14 10 5 8 Natalia Gorbenko 17.4 4 8 11 9 Beatrice Gelmini 18.6 11 7 10 10 Surya Bonaly 18.8 16 9 7 11 Karen Preston 22.4 17 11 9 12 Simone Lang 23.8 10 13 12 13 Yvonne Pokorny 27.0 9 14 15 14 Tamara Téglássy 28.8 13 16 14 15 Junko Yaginuma 29.2 15 12 16 16 Charlene Wong 29.2 8 15 17 17 Željka Čižmešija 34.2 7 19 20 18 Yvonne Gómez 34.6 24 20 13 19 Helene Persson 37.2 21 18 18 20 Petra Vonmoos 38.0 22 17 19 Free skating not reached 21 Tracy Brook 23 21 22 Lily Lyoonjung Lee 20 25 23 Louisa Danskin 19 27 24 Anisette Torp-Lind 27 22 25 Jacqueline Soames 26 23 26 Mari Niskanen 25 24 27 Tsvetelina Yankova Bulgaria 1971 30 26 28 Diana Marcos 28 28 29 Charuda Upatham 29 29 WD Sandy Suy DNF 18 Pairs Rank Name Nation TFP SP FS 1 Ekaterina Gordeeva / Sergei Grinkov 1.5 1 1 2 Cindy Landry / Lyndon Johnston 3.0 2 2 3 Elena Bechke / Denis Petrov 5.0 4 3 4 Peggy Schwarz / Alexander König 6.5 3 5 5 Kristi Yamaguchi / Rudy Galindo 7.0 6 4 6 Elena Kvitchenko / Rashid Kadyrkaev 9.5 5 7 7 Isabelle Brasseur / Lloyd Eisler 10.0 8 6 8 Natalie Seybold / Wayne Seybold 11.0 6 8 9 Anuschka Gläser / Stefan Pfrengle 13.5 9 9 10 Danielle Carr / Stephen Carr 15.0 10 10 11 Cheryl Peake / Andrew Naylor 16.5 11 11 Ice dancing Rank Name Nation TFP CD OSP FD 1 Marina Klimova / Sergei Ponomarenko 2.0 1 1 1 2 Maya Usova / Alexander Zhulin 4.0 2 2 2 3 Isabelle Duchesnay / Paul Duchesnay 7.2 3 5 3 4 Klára Engi / Attila Tóth 7.4 4 3 4 5 Susie Wynne / Joseph Druar 9.4 5 4 5 6 Larisa Fedorinova / Evgeni Platov 12.0 6 6 6 7 Stefania Calegari / Pasquale Camerlengo 14.0 7 7 7 8 Karyn Garossino / Rod Garossino 16.0 8 8 8 9 Sharon Jones / Paul Askham 18.0 9 9 9 10 Andrea Juklova / Martin Šimeček 20.4 11 10 10 11 Michelle McDonald / Mark Mitchell 22.8 13 11 11 12 Dominique Yvon / Frédéric Palluel 24.0 12 12 12 13 Susanna Rahkamo / Petri Kokko 26.8 15 13 13 14 Andrea Weppelmann / Hendryk Schamberger 28.0 14 14 14 15 Anna Croci / Luca Mantovani 30.8 17 15 15 16 Małgorzata Grajcar / Andrzej Dostatni 32.0 16 16 16 17 Krisztina Kerekes / Csaba Szentpéteri 34.4 18 17 17 18 Diane Gerencser / Alexander Stanislavov 36.4 19 19 19 19 Kaoru Takino / Kenji Takino 38.4 20 19 19 Free dance not reached 20 Monica MacDonald / Duncan Smart 22 21 21 Ursula Holik / Herbert Holik 23 22 22 Park Kyung-sook / Han Seung-jong 24 23 23 Petya Gavazova / Nikolai Tonev Bulgaria 1971 25 24 WD April Sargent / Russ Witherby DNF 10 References External links results Category:World Figure Skating Championships World Figure Skating Championships F F Category:International figure skating competitions hosted by France Category:March 1989 sports events in Europe Category:International sports competitions in Paris Category:1989 in Paris