2017 World Junior Figure Skating Championships
The 2017 World Junior Figure Skating Championships were held March 15–19, 2017 in Taipei City, Taiwan. Commonly called "World Juniors" and "Junior Worlds", the event determined the World Junior champions in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.
Pair champions Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya / Harley Windsor became the first skaters representing Australia to win gold at an ISU Figure Skating Championships. The United States received gold in two disciplines, with Vincent Zhou winning the men's singles title and Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons taking the ice dancing title. Russia's Alina Zagitova won the ladies' title in her first appearance at the event.
Records
The following new junior records were set during this competition:| Event | Component | Skater | Score | Date | Ref |
| Men | Free skating |  Daniel Samohin | 165.63 | 16 March 2017 | |
| Men | Free skating |  Vincent Zhou | 179.24 | 16 March 2017 | |
| Men | Total score | Vincent Zhou | 258.11 | 16 March 2017 | |
| Ice dancing | Free dance | Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons | 97.54 | 18 March 2017 | |
| Ice dancing | Total score |  Alla Loboda / Pavel Drozd | 164.37 | 18 March 2017 | |
| Ice dancing | Total score | Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons | 164.83 | 18 March 2017 | |
| Ladies | Free skating | Alina Zagitova | 138.02 | 18 March 2017 | |
| Ladies | Total score | Alina Zagitova | 208.60 | 18 March 2017 |
Qualification
Skaters from all ISU member nations were eligible for the competition if they were at least 13 years old but not 19—or 21 for male pair skaters and ice dancers—before 1 July 2016 in their place of birth. National associations select their entries according to their own criteria but the ISU mandates that their selections achieve a minimum technical elements score at an international event prior to the World Junior Championships.The term "Junior" in ISU competition refers to age, not skill level. Skaters may remain age-eligible for Junior Worlds even after competing nationally and internationally at the senior level. At junior events, the ISU requires that all programs conform to junior-specific rules regarding program length, jumping passes, types of elements, etc.
Minimum TES
Number of entries per discipline
Based on the results of the 2016 World Junior Championships, the ISU allowed each country one to three entries per discipline.Schedule
Entries
Some member nations announced their selections in January or early February 2017. The International Skating Union published the full list of entries on 24 February 2017.| Country | Men | Ladies | Pairs | Ice dancing |
| James Min | Holly Harris | Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya / Harley Windsor | Matilda Friend / William Badaoui | |
| Alisa Stomakhina | Elizaveta Orlova / Stephano Valentino Schuster | |||
| Morgan Flood | ||||
| Yakau Zenko | Hanna Paroshyna | Emiliya Kalehanova / Uladzislau Palkhouski | ||
| Ivo Gatovski | Alexandra Feigin | Yana Bozhilova / Kaloyan Georgiev | ||
| Nicolas Nadeau Roman Sadovsky Conrad Orzel | Sarah Tamura | Evelyn Walsh / Trennt Michaud Lori-Ann Matte / Thierry Ferland | Marjorie Lajoie / Zachary Lagha Ashlynne Stairs / Lee Royer | |
| Li Tangxu Li Yuheng | Li Xiangning | Gao Yumeng / Xie Zhong | Guo Yuzhu / Zhao Pengkun | |
| Chih-I Tsao | Amy Lin | |||
| Hana Cvijanović | ||||
| Petr Kotlařík | Michaela Lucie Hanzlíková | Nicole Kuzmichova / Alexandr Sinicyn | ||
| Daniel Albert Naurits | Kristina Škuleta-Gromova | Viktoria Semenjuk / Artur Gruzdev | ||
| Benjam Papp | Viveca Lindfors | Monica Lindfors / Juho Pirinen | ||
| Kévin Aymoz Luc Economides | Julie Frötscher | Cléo Hamon / Denys Strekalin | Angélique Abachkina / Louis Thauron Natacha Lagouge / Corentin Rahier | |
| Irakli Maysuradze | Eva Khachaturian / Georgy Reviya | |||
| Thomas Stoll | Lea Johanna Dastich | Talisa Thomalla / Robert Kunkel | Ria Schwendinger / Valentin Wunderlich | |
 Great Britain | Graham Newberry | Kristen Spours | Sasha Fear / Elliot Verburg | |
| Yi Christy Leung | Wing Yi Valeria So / Marcus Yau | |||
| Alexander Borovoj | Daria Jakab Fruzsina Medgyesi | Hanna Jakucs / Daniel Illes | ||
| Mark Gorodnitsky Daniel Samohin | Paige Conners | Hailey Esther Kops / Artem Tsoglin | Shira Ichilov / Vadim Davidovich | |
| Matteo Rizzo | Elisabetta Leccardi | Irma Caldara / Edoardo Caputo | Flora Mühlmeyer / Pietro Papetti | |
| Kazuki Tomono Koshiro Shimada | Marin Honda Kaori Sakamoto Yuna Shiraiwa | Riku Miura / Shoya Ichihashi | Rikako Fukase / Aru Tateno | |
| Artur Panikhin | Aiza Mambekova | Hannah Grace Cook / Temirlan Yerzhanov | ||
| Gļebs Basins | Diāna Ņikitina | |||
| Elžbieta Kropa | Guostė Damulevičiūtė / Deividas Kizala | |||
| Kai Xiang Chew | ||||
| Donovan Carrillo | Andrea Montesinos Cantu | |||
| Davide Lewton Brain | ||||
| Sondre Oddvoll Bøe | Juni Marie Benjaminsen | |||
| Ryszard Gurtler | Olexandra Borysova / Cezary Zawadzki | |||
| Amanda Stan | ||||
| Dmitri Aliev Alexander Petrov Alexander Samarin | Alina Zagitova Stanislava Konstantinova Polina Tsurskaya | Aleksandra Boikova / Dmitrii Kozlovskii Amina Atakhanova / Ilia Spiridonov Alina Ustimkina / Nikita Volodin | Anastasia Shpilevaya / Grigory Smirnov Alla Loboda / Pavel Drozd Anastasia Skoptsova / Kirill Aleshin | |
| Leona Rogić | ||||
| Chloe Ing | ||||
| Jakub Kršňák | Alexandra Hagarová | |||
| Nina Polšak | ||||
| Matthew Samuels | ||||
| Cha Jun-hwan Lee Si-hyeong | Lim Eun-soo An So-hyun | Kim Su-yeon / Kim Hyung-tae | ||
| Aleix Gabara | Valentina Matos | Alexanne Bouillon / Tòn Cónsul | Malene Niquita-Basquin / Jaime García | |
| Nikolaj Majorov | Anita Östlund | |||
| Nurullah Sahaka | Yoonmi Lehmann | |||
| Başar Oktar | Güzide Irmak Bayır | |||
| Yaroslav Paniot | Anastasia Hozhva | Darya Popova / Volodymyr Byelikov | ||
| Alexei Krasnozhon Andrew Torgashev Vincent Zhou | Starr Andrews Bradie Tennell | Chelsea Liu / Brian Johnson Nica Digerness / Danny Neudecker | Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons |
Changes to initial assignments
Results
Men
set a new junior world record for the free skating and for the combined total. Daniel Samohin set a new junior world record for the free skating but the record was later broken by Zhou.Ladies
set a new junior world record for the free skating and for the combined total.Pairs
Alexandrovskaya/Windsor won Australia's first Junior Worlds medal in 41 years — since 1976, when Elizabeth Cain / Peter Cain took the pairs' bronze medal. They also became the first skaters representing Australia to receive gold at an ISU Figure Skating Championships.Ice dancing
and Michael Parsons set a new junior world record for the free dance and for the combined total. Alla Loboda and Pavel Drozd set a new junior world record for the combined total but the record was later broken by Parsons/Parsons.Medals summary
Medalists
Medals for overall placement:Small medals for placement in the short segment:
Small medals for placement in the free segment:
By country
Table of medals for overall placement:Table of small medals for placement in the short segment:
Table of small medals for placement in the free segment: