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The 2022 World Figure Skating Championships were held in Montpellier, France, from March 21–27, 2022. [1] Figure skaters competed for the title of world champion in men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dance. The competition was used to determine the entry quotas for each federation at the 2023 World Championships.
The World Figure Skating Championships have been cancelled 16 times in the competition's history: from 1915 through 1921 due to World War I; from 1940 through 1946 due to World War II; [8] in 1961 as a result of the loss of the entire U.S. Figure Skating team in the crash of Sabena Flight 548; and in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The 2021–22 figure skating season began on July 1, 2021 and ended on June 30, 2022. During this season, elite skaters competed on the ISU Championship level at the 2022 European, Four Continents, World Junior, and World Championships, as well as at the 2022 Winter Olympics.
The 2022 world championships, starting Wednesday in Montpellier, France, are a bit different from previous ones with a number of top competitors out.
FILE - Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron of France perform in the rhythm dance program at the Figure Skating World Championships in Montpellier, south of France, March 25, 2022.
Berezhnaya wished to return to the ice and doctors agreed that physical exercise would be therapeutic. [14] On 15 March 1996, only two months after the accident, she began skating carefully with Sikharulidze's help and Moskvina observing. [13] [14] Berezhnaya said, "I didn't have any false dreams about the future. All I thought about was those ...
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On March 1, 2022, the International Skating Union banned figure skaters and officials from Russia and Belarus from attending all international competitions due to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. [1] As a result, they missed the final events of the 2021–22 season, notably the 2022 World Championships and 2022 World Junior Championships.