title: 2005 World Figure Skating Championships
text: # 2005 World Figure Skating Championships
  
  The 2005 World Figure Skating Championships were held at the Luzhniki Sports Palace in Moscow, Russia from March 14 to 20. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.
  
  The 2005 Worlds was the primary means of deciding the number of entries each country would have to the Olympics.
  
  ## Medal table
  
  | Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | Russia (RUS) | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
  | 2 | Switzerland (SUI) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
  | 3 | United States (USA) | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
  | 4 | Canada (CAN) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
  | 5 | China (CHN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
  | 5 | Italy (ITA) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
  | 5 | Ukraine (UKR) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
  | Totals (7 entries) | Totals (7 entries) | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 |
  
  ## 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 was the Midnight Blues.
  
  ## Results
  
  ### Men
  
  | Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | QB | QB | QA | QA | SP | SP | FS | FS |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | Stéphane Lambiel | Switzerland | 262.46 | 1 | 38.00 | | | 1 | 80.28 | 1 | 144.18 |
  | 2 | Jeffrey Buttle | Canada | 245.69 | 4 | 32.00 | | | 3 | 77.39 | 2 | 136.30 |
  | 3 | Evan Lysacek | United States | 239.29 | 3 | 32.13 | | | 4 | 73.42 | 4 | 133.74 |
  | 4 | Johnny Weir | United States | 236.06 | | | 4 | 32.20 | 9 | 70.50 | 6 | 133.36 |
  | 5 | Li Chengjiang | China | 235.67 | | | 3 | 32.23 | 6 | 72.61 | 7 | 130.83 |
  | 6 | Brian Joubert | France | 235.29 | 2 | 33.00 | | | 2 | 79.66 | 13 | 122.63 |
  | 7 | Emanuel Sandhu | Canada | 231.16 | | | 7 | 29.73 | 11 | 67.30 | 3 | 134.13 |
  | 8 | Kevin van der Perren | Belgium | 229.94 | 8 | 29.92 | | | 12 | 66.51 | 5 | 133.51 |
  | 9 | Frédéric Dambier | France | 226.88 | 11 | 28.48 | | | 10 | 68.10 | 8 | 130.30 |
  | 10 | Timothy Goebel | United States | 222.57 | 9 | 29.78 | | | 14 | 62.95 | 9 | 129.84 |
  | 11 | Andrei Griazev | Russia | 216.62 | | | 8 | 29.54 | 8 | 70.69 | 16 | 116.39 |
  | 12 | Stefan Lindemann | Germany | 213.54 | | | 2 | 32.50 | 23 | 53.46 | 10 | 127.58 |
  | 13 | Ivan Dinev | Bulgaria | 213.09 | | | 6 | 30.71 | 18 | 55.66 | 11 | 126.72 |
  | 14 | Kristoffer Berntsson | Sweden | 211.97 | 12 | 28.21 | | | 13 | 64.54 | 14 | 119.22 |
  | 15 | Daisuke Takahashi | Japan | 210.35 | 6 | 30.13 | | | 7 | 72.18 | 18 | 108.04 |
  | 16 | Zhang Min | China | 208.10 | 7 | 30.12 | | | 22 | 54.81 | 12 | 123.17 |
  | 17 | Sergei Dobrin | Russia | 207.20 | | | 5 | 31.70 | 15 | 58.58 | 15 | 116.92 |
  | 18 | Gheorghe Chiper | Romania | 199.18 | 10 | 29.25 | | | 17 | 56.87 | 17 | 113.06 |
  | 19 | Roman Serov | Israel | 191.21 | 13 | 26.89 | | | 16 | 58.13 | 20 | 106.19 |
  | 20 | Karel Zelenka | Italy | 189.67 | | | 10 | 27.90 | 19 | 55.55 | 19 | 106.22 |
  | 21 | Jamal Othman | Switzerland | 186.48 | | | 11 | 27.08 | 21 | 54.89 | 21 | 104.51 |
  | 22 | Sergei Davydov | Belarus | 178.73 | | | 9 | 29.38 | 26 | 49.59 | 22 | 99.76 |
  | 23 | Viktor Pfeifer | Austria | 178.06 | 14 | 25.48 | | | 20 | 54.94 | 23 | 97.64 |
  | WD | Evgeni Plushenko | Russia | | | | 1 | 37.98 | 5 | 73.28 | | |
  | Free skating not reached ||||||||||||
  | 25 | Vakhtang Murvanidze | Georgia | FNR | | | 12 | 25.07 | 24 | 52.59 | | |
  | 26 | Samuel Contesti | France | FNR | 5 | 30.82 | | | 29 | 46.80 | | |
  | 27 | Zoltán Tóth | Hungary | FNR | | | 15 | 23.35 | 25 | 51.91 | | |
  | 28 | Ari-Pekka Nurmenkari | Finland | FNR | | | 13 | 24.83 | 27 | 48.85 | | |
  | 29 | John Hamer | United Kingdom | FNR | | | 14 | 23.78 | 28 | 47.28 | | |
  | 30 | Trifun Zivanovic | Serbia and Montenegro | FNR | 15 | 24.07 | | | 30 | 44.27 | | |
  | Short program not reached ||||||||||||
  | 31 | Tomáš Verner | Czech Republic | NQD | 16 | 23.94 | | | | | | |
  | 32 | Bradley Santer | Australia | NQD | | | 16 | 21.12 | | | | |
  | 33 | Andrei Dobrokhodov | Azerbaijan | NQD | | | 17 | 20.99 | | | | |
  | 34 | Silvio Smalun | Germany | NQD | 17 | 20.95 | | | | | | |
  | 35 | Konstantin Tupikov | Ukraine | NQD | | | 18 | 20.71 | | | | |
  | 36 | Maciej Kuś | Poland | NQD | 18 | 20.70 | | | | | | |
  | 37 | Yon Garcia | Spain | NQD | 19 | 20.59 | | | | | | |
  | 38 | Gregor Urbas | Slovenia | NQD | | | 19 | 20.48 | | | | |
  | 39 | Aidas Reklys | Lithuania | NQD | | | 20 | 19.84 | | | | |
  | 40 | Ricky Cockerill | New Zealand | NQD | | | 21 | 17.47 | | | | |
  | 41 | Alper Uçar | Turkey | NQD | 20 | 16.79 | | | | | | |
  | 42 | Gareth Echardt | South Africa | NQD | | | 22 | 16.47 | | | | |
  | 43 | Humberto Contreras | Mexico | NQD | 21 | 16.09 | | | | | | |
  | 44 | Edward Ka-Yin Chow | Hong Kong | NQD | 22 | 13.86 | | | | | | |
  | WD | Takeshi Honda | Japan | | | | | | | | | |
  
  ### Ladies
  
  | Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | QB | QB | QA | QA | SP | SP | FS | FS |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | Irina Slutskaya | Russia | 222.71 | | | 1 | 29.77 | 1 | 62.84 | 1 | 130.10 |
  | 2 | Sasha Cohen | United States | 214.39 | 1 | 28.41 | | | 2 | 61.37 | 2 | 124.61 |
  | 3 | Carolina Kostner | Italy | 200.56 | | | 3 | 26.45 | 4 | 60.82 | 4 | 113.29 |
  | 4 | Michelle Kwan | United States | 200.19 | | | 5 | 24.99 | 3 | 61.22 | 3 | 113.98 |
  | 5 | Fumie Suguri | Japan | 196.01 | | | 2 | 27.19 | 10 | 56.28 | 5 | 112.54 |
  | 6 | Miki Ando | Japan | 193.14 | 2 | 27.66 | | | 7 | 59.30 | 7 | 106.18 |
  | 7 | Elena Sokolova | Russia | 189.48 | 3 | 24.39 | | | 6 | 59.63 | 8 | 105.46 |
  | 8 | Susanna Pöykiö | Finland | 187.67 | 4 | 23.69 | | | 8 | 56.99 | 6 | 106.99 |
  | 9 | Shizuka Arakawa | Japan | 185.73 | | | 4 | 25.79 | 5 | 59.95 | 9 | 99.99 |
  | 10 | Elena Liashenko | Ukraine | 174.18 | | | 6 | 24.58 | 11 | 55.19 | 12 | 94.41 |
  | 11 | Joannie Rochette | Canada | 172.99 | 5 | 23.65 | | | 9 | 56.40 | 15 | 92.94 |
  | 12 | Júlia Sebestyén | Hungary | 167.56 | 6 | 22.91 | | | 12 | 52.49 | 16 | 92.16 |
  | 13 | Idora Hegel | Croatia | 164.97 | 8 | 22.33 | | | 13 | 48.42 | 13 | 94.22 |
  | 14 | Sarah Meier | Switzerland | 164.68 | | | 7 | 22.57 | 20 | 44.35 | 10 | 97.76 |
  | 15 | Annette Dytrt | Germany | 163.49 | 7 | 22.50 | | | 14 | 47.93 | 14 | 93.06 |
  | 16 | Joanne Carter | Australia | 163.38 | 9 | 20.41 | | | 15 | 47.37 | 11 | 95.60 |
  | 17 | Jennifer Kirk | United States | 156.81 | | | 9 | 21.27 | 18 | 46.26 | 17 | 89.28 |
  | 18 | Viktória Pavuk | Hungary | 148.46 | 12 | 18.09 | | | 17 | 46.38 | 18 | 83.99 |
  | 19 | Lina Johansson | Sweden | 145.94 | 11 | 19.39 | | | 19 | 44.51 | 20 | 82.04 |
  | 20 | Cynthia Phaneuf | Canada | 143.44 | | | 8 | 21.77 | 22 | 42.95 | 21 | 78.72 |
  | 21 | Liu Yan | China | 142.33 | 10 | 19.55 | | | 25 | 39.80 | 19 | 82.98 |
  | 22 | Jenna McCorkell | United Kingdom | 142.00 | | | 10 | 18.58 | 16 | 47.02 | 22 | 76.40 |
  | 23 | Candice Didier | France | 129.68 | | | 12 | 17.52 | 21 | 43.57 | 23 | 68.59 |
  | 24 | Karen Venhuizen | Netherlands | 125.58 | | | 11 | 17.62 | 24 | 41.81 | 24 | 66.15 |
  | Free skating not reached ||||||||||||
  | 25 | Andrea Kreuzer | Austria | FNR | | | 14 | 16.68 | 23 | 42.27 | | |
  | 26 | Sara Falotico | Belgium | FNR | 13 | 17.62 | | | 27 | 37.84 | | |
  | 27 | Tuğba Karademir | Turkey | FNR | 15 | 16.42 | | | 26 | 38.73 | | |
  | 28 | Roxana Luca | Romania | FNR | | | 13 | 16.71 | 28 | 37.29 | | |
  | 29 | Fleur Maxwell | Luxembourg | FNR | | | 15 | 16.48 | 29 | 34.05 | | |
  | 30 | Choi Ji-eun | South Korea | FNR | 14 | 16.54 | | | 30 | 31.67 | | |
  | Short program not reached ||||||||||||
  | 31 | Tamar Katz | Israel | NQD | | | 16 | 16.00 | | | | |
  | 32 | Sonia Radeva | Bulgaria | NQD | 16 | 15.56 | | | | | | |
  | 33 | Laura Fernandez | Spain | NQD | | | 17 | 14.91 | | | | |
  | 34 | Jelena Glebova | Estonia | NQD | 17 | 14.91 | | | | | | |
  | 35 | Evgenia Melnik | Belarus | NQD | | | 18 | 14.74 | | | | |
  | 36 | Michelle Cantu | Mexico | NQD | 18 | 14.50 | | | | | | |
  | 37 | Daria Timoshenko | Azerbaijan | NQD | 19 | 14.33 | | | | | | |
  | 38 | Gintarė Vostrecovaitė | Lithuania | NQD | 20 | 14.11 | | | | | | |
  | 39 | Shirene Human | South Africa | NQD | 21 | 14.01 | | | | | | |
  | WD | Nina Bates | Bosnia and Herzegovina | | | | | | | | | |
  | WD | Diane Chen | Chinese Taipei | | | | | | | | | |
  
  ### Pairs
  
  | Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | Tatiana Totmianina / Maxim Marinin | Russia | 198.49 | 1 | 70.12 | 1 | 128.37 |
  | 2 | Maria Petrova / Alexei Tikhonov | Russia | 188.21 | 2 | 66.94 | 2 | 121.27 |
  | 3 | Zhang Dan / Zhang Hao | China | 180.22 | 4 | 64.19 | 3 | 116.03 |
  | 4 | Pang Qing / Tong Jian | China | 177.33 | 5 | 64.02 | 4 | 113.31 |
  | 5 | Julia Obertas / Sergei Slavnov | Russia | 174.43 | 6 | 61.14 | 5 | 113.29 |
  | 6 | Aliona Savchenko / Robin Szolkowy | Germany | 169.02 | 8 | 58.74 | 6 | 110.28 |
  | 7 | Dorota Zagórska / Mariusz Siudek | Poland | 167.68 | 7 | 60.02 | 7 | 107.66 |
  | 8 | Utako Wakamatsu / Jean-Sébastien Fecteau | Canada | 159.42 | 9 | 57.19 | 8 | 102.23 |
  | 9 | Valérie Marcoux / Craig Buntin | Canada | 156.83 | 10 | 55.94 | 9 | 100.89 |
  | 10 | Tatiana Volosozhar / Stanislav Morozov | Ukraine | 156.38 | 11 | 55.75 | 11 | 100.63 |
  | 11 | Rena Inoue / John Baldwin, Jr. | United States | 155.64 | 12 | 54.98 | 10 | 100.66 |
  | 12 | Kathryn Orscher / Garrett Lucash | United States | 143.16 | 14 | 44.93 | 12 | 98.23 |
  | 13 | Marylin Pla / Yannick Bonheur | France | 135.22 | 13 | 49.55 | 13 | 85.67 |
  | 14 | Marina Aganina / Artem Knyazev | Uzbekistan | 123.60 | 15 | 44.44 | 15 | 79.16 |
  | 15 | Oľga Beständigová / Jozef Beständig | Slovakia | 123.40 | 18 | 42.95 | 14 | 80.45 |
  | 16 | Diana Rennik / Aleksei Saks | Estonia | 122.59 | 16 | 43.53 | 16 | 79.06 |
  | 17 | Rumiana Spassova / Stanimir Todorov | Bulgaria | 115.85 | 20 | 39.96 | 17 | 75.89 |
  | 18 | Julia Shapiro / Vadim Akolzin | Israel | 115.02 | 17 | 43.06 | 18 | 71.96 |
  | 19 | Olga Boguslavska / Andrei Brovenko | Latvia | 108.78 | 19 | 42.72 | 19 | 66.06 |
  | WD | Shen Xue / Zhao Hongbo | China | | 3 | 66.00 | | |
  
  ### Ice dancing
  
  | Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | CD | CD | OD | OD | FD | FD |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | Tatiana Navka / Roman Kostomarov | Russia | 227.81 | 1 | 45.97 | 1 | 68.67 | 1 | 113.17 |
  | 2 | Tanith Belbin / Benjamin Agosto | United States | 221.26 | 2 | 42.18 | 2 | 67.54 | 2 | 111.54 |
  | 3 | Elena Grushina / Ruslan Goncharov | Ukraine | 213.95 | 3 | 41.30 | 3 | 63.17 | 4 | 109.48 |
  | 4 | Isabelle Delobel / Olivier Schoenfelder | France | 211.15 | 6 | 40.51 | 6 | 60.25 | 3 | 110.39 |
  | 5 | Albena Denkova / Maxim Staviski | Bulgaria | 208.46 | 4 | 40.81 | 4 | 62.79 | 5 | 104.86 |
  | 6 | Galit Chait / Sergei Sakhnovski | Israel | 204.31 | 7 | 39.13 | 5 | 61.19 | 6 | 103.99 |
  | 7 | Marie-France Dubreuil / Patrice Lauzon | Canada | 198.98 | 5 | 40.51 | 8 | 58.30 | 7 | 100.17 |
  | 8 | Oksana Domnina / Maxim Shabalin | Russia | 190.20 | 8 | 36.26 | 7 | 58.86 | 8 | 95.08 |
  | 9 | Federica Faiella / Massimo Scali | Italy | 186.90 | 9 | 36.19 | 9 | 56.13 | 9 | 94.58 |
  | 10 | Megan Wing / Aaron Lowe | Canada | 180.42 | 10 | 35.11 | 10 | 52.52 | 10 | 92.79 |
  | 11 | Melissa Gregory / Denis Petukhov | United States | 173.00 | 11 | 34.40 | 12 | 50.22 | 11 | 88.38 |
  | 12 | Sinead Kerr / John Kerr | United Kingdom | 170.08 | 12 | 32.63 | 11 | 50.71 | 13 | 86.74 |
  | 13 | Kristin Fraser / Igor Lukanin | Azerbaijan | 167.24 | 14 | 31.16 | 13 | 48.82 | 12 | 87.26 |
  | 14 | Svetlana Kulikova / Vitali Novikov | Russia | 166.51 | 13 | 31.21 | 14 | 48.72 | 14 | 86.58 |
  | 15 | Nóra Hoffmann / Attila Elek | Hungary | 156.70 | 15 | 30.17 | 17 | 45.34 | 16 | 81.19 |
  | 16 | Nozomi Watanabe / Akiyuki Kido | Japan | 155.74 | 17 | 29.20 | 15 | 46.57 | 18 | 79.97 |
  | 17 | Anastasia Grebenkina / Vazgen Azrojan | Armenia | 154.84 | 18 | 28.53 | 16 | 46.02 | 17 | 80.29 |
  | 18 | Natalia Gudina / Alexei Beletski | Israel | 153.33 | 19 | 28.40 | 18 | 42.85 | 15 | 82.08 |
  | 19 | Nathalie Péchalat / Fabian Bourzat | France | 149.63 | 16 | 30.00 | 23 | 40.71 | 19 | 78.92 |
  | 20 | Christina Beier / William Beier | Germany | 142.69 | 21 | 27.24 | 20 | 41.66 | 20 | 73.79 |
  | 21 | Julia Golovina / Oleg Voiko | Ukraine | 137.37 | 23 | 25.24 | 21 | 41.57 | 21 | 70.56 |
  | 22 | Alexandra Kauc / Michał Zych | Poland | 136.37 | 22 | 26.58 | 22 | 40.92 | 22 | 68.87 |
  | 23 | Yang Fang / Gao Chongbo | China | 135.65 | 20 | 27.57 | 19 | 42.67 | 23 | 65.41 |
  | 24 | Alessia Aureli / Andrea Vaturi | Italy | 126.87 | 26 | 23.83 | 24 | 38.66 | 24 | 64.38 |
  | Free dance not reached ||||||||||
  | 25 | Laura Munana / Luke Munana | Mexico | FNR | 25 | 23.95 | 25 | 36.31 | | |
  | 26 | Judith Haunstetter / Arne Hönlein | Germany | FNR | 27 | 22.91 | 27 | 33.00 | | |
  | 27 | Olga Akimova / Alexander Shakalov | Uzbekistan | FNR | 24 | 24.25 | 29 | 31.35 | | |
  | 28 | Natalie Buck / Trent Nelson-Bond | Australia | FNR | 28 | 21.85 | 28 | 32.85 | | |
  | 29 | Daniela Keller / Fabian Keller | Switzerland | FNR | 29 | 21.05 | 26 | 33.23 | | |
  | 30 | Anna Galcheniuk / Oleg Krupen | Belarus | FNR | 30 | 13.36 | 30 | 28.14 | | |
  