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The 2009 World Figure Skating Championships was a senior international figure skating competition in the 2008–09 season.Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.
The World Team Trophy was held for the first time in Tokyo, Japan, from April 16 to 19, 2009. Traditionally, the competitive skating season had concluded with the World Championships. The new event was announced at a news conference during the 2008 World Championships, in the hope of encouraging countries to develop top figure skaters in all ...
The 2008–09 figure skating season began on July 1, 2008, and ended on June 30, 2009. During this season, elite skaters competed on the Championship level at the 2009 European, Four Continents, World Junior, and 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; [11] in 1961 as a result of the loss of the entire U.S. Figure Skating team in the crash of Sabena Flight 548; [12] [13] and in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The 2009 World Allround Speed Skating Championships were held at the indoor ice rink of the Vikingskipet Olympic Arena in Hamar on 7 and 8 February 2009. The Czech Martina Sáblíková and the Dutch Sven Kramer became world champion. Martina Sáblíková is the first Czech Allround champion. Sven Kramer won for the third time.
With her partner Maxime Deschamps, the 40-year-old former retiree defeated athletes less than half her age and became the oldest woman to win a World Figure Skating Championship.
The 2009 World Junior Figure Skating Championships was an international competition in the 2008–09 season.Commonly called "World Juniors" and "Junior Worlds", they are an annual figure skating competition in which elite figure skaters compete for the title of World Junior Champion in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.
The emotions only got more intense when the score came in: 227.79, the highest score in the history of the World Figure Skating Championship, beating the record of 224.92 set by fellow American ...