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World Figure Skating Championships 2017: Evgenia Medvedeva tops short program – as it happened

Evgenia Medvedeva
Evgenia Medvedeva of Russia soared in Wednesday’s short program at the world championships in Helsinki. Photograph: Grigory Dukor/Reuters

Thanks as always for following along with us. Join us on Friday for the free skate when the next world champion will be determined!

Ladies' scores after short program

Here’s a look at the leaderboard after today’s short program. The top 24 skaters have qualified for Friday’s free skate.

1 Evgenia MEDVEDEVA RUS 79.01
2 Kaetlyn OSMOND CAN 75.98
3 Gabrielle DALEMAN CAN 72.19
4 Anna POGORILAYA RUS 71.52
5 Karen CHEN USA 69.98
6 Maria SOTSKOVA RUS 69.76
7 Ashley WAGNER USA 69.04
8 Carolina KOSTNER ITA 66.33
9 Wakaba HIGUCHI JPN 65.87
10 Elizabet TURSYNBAEVA KAZ 65.48
11 Dabin CHOI KOR 62.66
12 Rika HONGO JPN 62.55
13 Mariah BELL USA 61.02
14 Ivett TOTH HUN 61.00
15 Mai MIHARA JPN 59.59
16 Xiangning LI CHN 58.28
18 Nicole RAJICOVA SVK 57.08
19 Kailani CRAINE AUS 56.97
20 Zijun LI CHN 56.30
21 Angelina KUCHVALSKA LAT
22 Laurine LECAVELIER FRA 55.49
23 Anastasia GALUSTYAN ARM 55.20
24 Nicole SCHOTT GER 54.83
25 Shuran YU SGP 52.87
26 Joshi HELGESSON SWE 52.07
27 Helery HÄLVIN EST 51.94
28 Amy LIN TPE 51.86
29 Emmi PELTONEN FIN 50.74
30 Isadora WILLIAMS BRA 50.65
31 Kerstin FRANK AUT 50.54
32 Natasha MCKAY GBR 50.10
33 Yasmine Kimiko YAMADA SUI
34 Anne Line GJERSEM NOR 46.99
35 Anna KHNYCHENKOVA UKR 46.98
36 Dasa GRM SLO 46.63
37 Michaela-Lucie HANZLIKOVA CZE 32.21

37) Anna Pogorilaya (RSA)

Short program: 71.52 (currently in fourth place)

The 18-year-old from Moscow, who took bronze at worlds last year, nails her triple lutz-triple toe combo, triple loop and double axel to the remixed version of the tango song Por una Cabeza from Scent of a Woman. Yet she’s curiously given a score of 71.52, only good for fourth. Feels low from where i’m sitting.

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36) Rika Hongo (JPN)

Short program: 62.55 (currently in 11th place)

Two notable errors cost the 20-year-old: a two-footed landing on her triple flip and an underrotation on the back end of a triple toe-triple toe combo. That’s enough to drop the two-time Four Continents bronze medalist down to 11th overall.

35) Maria Sotskova (RUS)

Short program: 69.76 (currently in fifth place)

A solid performance by the 16-year-old to Butterflies Are Free by Alfred Schnittke. Triple lutz-triple toe, triple flip and double axel each landed with precision, even if downgraded a bit.

Maria Sotskova
Maria Sotskova of Russia performs her short program. Photograph: Ivan Sekretarev/AP

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34) Ashley Wagner (USA)

Short program: 69.04 (currently in fifth place)

The veteran who finally broke through for a silver medal at worlds last year follows it up with a clean skate here. She connects a series of difficult elements – triple flip-triple toe, triple loop, double axel – with a level-three step sequence. Set to the tune of Sweet Dreams (Are Made of These) by Annie Lennox, it’s a fun performance that captures her spirit. But Wagner is dinged a bit on grades of execution and winds up with a score of 69.04, good for fifth but within striking distance ahead of Friday.

Ashley Wagner’s short program.

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33) Gabrielle Daleman (CAN)

Short program: 72.19 (currently in third place)

The 19-year-old from Toronto – fresh off her silver medal at Four Continents – skates to a Jules Massenet medley and hits it out of the park, nailing the elements one by one: triple flip-triple toe combo, triple loop and double axel. Just a wonderful performance and it lifts her into third place with four skaters to go. Ashley Wagner up next ...

32) Evgenia Medvedeva (RUS)

Short program: 79.01 (currently in first place)

Now here’s Evgenia Medvedeva, unbeaten over the last 16 months and looking to become the first woman to repeat as world champion since Michelle Kwan in 2001. The 17-year-old been a model of consistency in her first two seasons at the senior level and enters this week’s worlds having won 11 consecutive events. This skate – to River Flows in You by Lorenzo de Luca and The Winter by Balmorhea – is no different. The triple flip-triple toe combo, triple loop and double axel were all on point. Just a typically flawless exhbition from the best in the world today. Her score of 79.01 is only 21 hundredths of a point less than her world record short-program score set at the Grand Prix final last year.

Evgenia Medvedeva’s short program.

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The final group of skaters is on the ice: Russia’s Evgenia Medvedeva, Canada’s Gabrielle Daleman, Ashley Wagner of the United States, Russia’s Maria Sotskova, Japan’s Rika Hongo and Russia’s Anna Pogorilaya. They’ll get under way after a six-minute warm-up period.

One more 15min break for ice resurfacing before the last group steps on. Here’s a look at the leaderboard ahead of the final six skaters.

Short program standings
Short program standings ahead of Wednesday’s final group. Photograph: ISU

31) Elizabet Tursynbaeva (KAZ)

Short program: 65.48 (currently in 11th place)

The 17-year-old Kazakh skates clean, hitting her triple lutz-triple toe, triple loop and double axel to I Got Rhythm by Nikki Yanofsky to move into fifth. She entered this competition without much fanfare but has now put herself in an excellent position entering Friday’s free skate.

30) Nicole Rajicova (SVK)

Short program: 57.08 (currently in 11th place)

The 21-year-old turns in a solid skate to Love Story by Francis Lai, sticking her triple loop and double axel – though her hand may have come down on the triple lutz-double toe combo. She’ll go into 11th place.

29) Angelina Kuchvalska (LAT)

Short program: 55.92 (currently in 13th place)

The two-time Latvian national champion skates to If You Go Away by Shirley Bassey and Duende by Bozzio Levin Stevens. A safe, mostly clean skate, excepting the hand down on an underrotated triple lutz that cost her.

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28) Karen Chen (USA)

Short program: 69.98 (currently in second place)

It was unclear what to expect from the 17-year-old who shined in winning the US national championships in January but sank to 12th at Four Continents (and was involved in a nasty collision recently in practice). But she delivers the goods here, surpassing her personal best by more than five points. The triple lutz-triple toe combo was ruled clean and the triple loop and double axel were beyond dispute. The glowing score is good for second and will surely put her in an excellent position entering Friday.

Karen Chen’s short program.

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27) Dabin Choi (KOR)

Short program: 62.66 (currently in fourth place)

The 17-year-old Choi, fresh off her Asian Winter Games gold medal, skates to It’s Over Isn’t It? (from “Steven Universe” soundtrack) and Someone In the Crowd (from the “La La Land” soundtrack) – the latter of which I suspect we’ll be hearing at figure skating competitions for decades to come. And she turns in a measured, inspired performance, nailing her elements (triple lutz-triple toe, triple flip, double axel) and commanding the crowd. It’s a season-best score of 62.66, good for fourth overall.

Dabin Choi
Dabin Choi performs a Biellmann spin during her short program. Photograph: Alexander Demianchuk/TASS

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26) Kaetlyn Osmond (CAN)

Short program: 75.98 (currently in first place)

The Edmonton native and three-time Canadian national champion performs to an Edith Piaf medley of Sous le ciel de Paris and Milord, the latter of which pulls the crowd into the performance. She nails one element after another with class and brio: triple flip-triple toe, then a triple lutz, then a double axel. All smiles at the finish and deservedly so. What a showing, particularly after a fall-filled Four Continents. Surely this will put her into the lead. And it does! A season-best 75.98 that vaults her ahead of Kostner.

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Now it’s time for the sixth group: Canada’s Kaetlyn Osmond, Korea’s Dabin Choi, Karen Chen of the United States (fresh off her first national title), Latvia’s Angelina Kuchvalska, Slovakia’s Nicole Rajicova and Kazakhstan’s Elizabet Tursynbaeva.

A quick look at the overall standings with 12 skaters left.

25) Nicole Schott (GER)

Short program: 54.83 (currently in 12th place)

The two-time German national champion (in 2012 and 2015) skates to Cell Block Tango from the musical Chicago. She sticks the triple loop, but tumbles to the ice on an underroateded triple toe-triple toe combo, costing her a one-point deduction. When it’s over she’s given a score of 54.83, good for 12th overall.

Nicole Schott
Nicole Schott of Germany falls during her short program. Photograph: Mauri Ratilainen/EPA

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24) Mai Mihara (JPN)

Short program: 59.59 (currently in fifth place)

Now another Japanese debutante in Mihara, the Four Continents champion who’s generated less attention than her teammates Haguchi and Miyahara. The 17-year-old Kobe native skates to Rondo Capriccioso by Camille Saint-Saens and it’s a rocky one as she repeats an element and falls on the double flip, costing her a one-point deduction. It’s still good eough for a score of 59.59 and fifth, but her expression in the kiss-and-cry zone says it all.

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23) Wakaba Higuchi (JPN)

Short program: 65.87 (currently in second place)

The two-time world junior bronze medalist is making her worlds debut and it’s a promising one! Skating to La Cena (from “La Califfa”) by Ennio Morricone, the 16-year-old nails the double axel, triple lutz-triple toe combo and triple flip, posting a score of 65.87 and moving into second behind only Kostner.

Wakaba Higuchi’s short program.

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22) Ivett Toth (HUN)

Short program: 61.00 (currently in third place)

Toth, already a four-time Hungarian national champion at 18 years old, nails her triple toe-triple toe combo, triple lutz and double axel to a medley of Michael Jackson’s Earth Song and Smooth Criminal. The Budapest native is up to third, only two hundreths of a point behind Bell.

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21) Zijun Li (CHI)

Short program: 56.30 (currently in sixth place)

The 20-year-old from Changchun – fresh off her silver medal at the 2017 Asian Winter Games – skates to Le Diable Matou by Dompierre. Triple flip and double axel look solid, but she’s harshly graded on the back end of a triple toe-triple toe combo that only looked slightly underrotoated. She goes into sixth with a score of 56.30.

The fifth group is on the ice: China’s Zijun Li, Hungary’s Ivett Toth, Japan’s Wakaba Higuchi, Japan’s Mai Mihara and Germany’s Nicole Schott. A six-minute warm-up and they’ll get under way at 2.01pm local time.

Another 15min break as the ice is resurfaced. Here’s a look at the standings with 20 skaters down and 17 to go.

20) Laurine LeCavelier (FRA)

Short program: 55.49 (currently in sixth place)

The 20-year-old veteran, skating to Experience by Ludovico Einaudi, falls badly on her opening triple lutz-triple toe combo but rebounds nicely on the triple loops and double axel for a score of 55.49, good for sixth.

19) Mariah Bell (USA)

Short program: 61.02 (currently in second place)

Bell, the first of the three Americans on today’s slate, underrotates and puts a hand down on her first element: the triple lutz-triple toe combo. But she recovers nicely to nail the triple flip and double axel. An excellent skate to a medley from the musical Chicago after a rocky week of practice.

Mariah Bell’s short program.

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18) Isadora Williams (BRA)

Short program: 50.65 (currently in 11th place)

The US-based Williams delivers a solid skate. Triple lutz-double toe, triple loop, double axel. It’s her season-best score by nearly five full points, but only good for 11th.

17) Loena Hendrickx (BEL)

Short program: 57.54 (currently in third place)

The 17-year-old from outside Antwerp, fresh off her top-10 finish at the European Championships, makes an inspired worlds debut to The Prayer by Celine Dion and Josh Groban. If not for the step out on the triple flip, the score might have been even higher. As it is, her season-best tally of 57.54 lifts her into third and qualifies her for the free skate. She’s definitely one to watch, this one.

Loena Hendrickx
Loena Hendrickx of Belgium performs her short program. Photograph: LEHTIKUVA/Reuters

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16) Kerstin Frank (AUT)

Short program: 50.54 (currently in 10th place)

The five-time Austrian national champion – looking to reach the free skate at worlds for the 10th time of her career – skates to Swing Swing Swing by Keely Smith and Sing Sing Sing performed by Benny Goodman. She botches her opening triple lutz-double toe combination when her hand touches the ice, but recovers nicely with the triple toe and double axel.

Now the fourth group is on the ice: Austria’s Kerstin Frank, Belgium’s Loena Hendrickx, Brazil’s Isadora Williams, Mariah Bell of the United States and France’s Laurine LeCavelier. They’ll begin in the next few minutes.

Kostner and Li, sitting first and second respectively, have officially qualified for Friday’s free skate.

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15) Natasha McKay (GBR)

Short program: 50.10 (currently in 10th place)

Dundee’s own Natasha McKay, the reigning British champion, skates to El Tango de Roxanne from Moulin Rouge soundtrack. She nails her triple loop-double toe, triple salchow and double axel! All smiles! A warm, inviting performance and it translates to her season and personal best short-program score.

14) Helery Halvin (AUS)

Short program: 51.94 (currently in seventh place)

The three-time Estonian national champion, skating to You Raise Me Up by Westlife, delivers a fine routine including a triple lutz-double toe, triple flip and double axel. A fine performance though probably not enough to make it to Friday’s free skate. (Which is a shame since she’s been skating to Celine Dion’s I Surrender all season.)

13) Kailani Craine (AUS)

Short program: 56.97 (currently in third place)

The 18-year-old from New South Wales shines to Dream a Little Dream performed by Ella Fitzgerald. Solid on the triple flip-double toe, triple loop and double axel. Her season-best score puts her in excellent position to qualify for Friday’s free skate.

12) Amy Lin (TPE)

Short program: 51.86 (currently in sixth place)

The California-based 17-year-old turns in a delightfully jazzy performance to Skyliner from I’ll Be Seeing You: A Tribute to Carmen McRae. Solid throughout on the triple lutz, triple toe-double toe and double axel – and she’s rewarded by the judges with her season-best score to move into sixth place.

11) Yasmine Kimiko Yamada (SUI)

Short program: 47.86 (currently in seventh place)

The 19-year-old from Zurich skates to Peggy Lee’s Why Don’t You Do Right – le swoon! – and sticks her triple toe-triple toe before underrotating on a triple loop, losing more points on a two-footed landing. She sticks the double axel to finish strong and is given a season-best score of 47.86 for her efforts, good for seventh overall.

The third group is on the ice: Switzerland’s Yasmine Kimiko Yamada, Chinese Taipei’s Amy Lin, Australia’s Kailani Craine, Estonia’s Helery Halvin and Great Britain’s Natasha McKay.

Six minutes of warm-ups now before competition resumes with Yamada.

We’ll have a 15min break now as the ice is resurfaced. Here’s a look at the standings with two groups down and five to go.

10) Xiangning Li (CHN)

Short program: 58.28 (currently in second place)

It’s a season-best score for the 16-year-old, who skates confidently and beautifully to Waltz from Coppelia by Leo Delibes. She earns some slight deductions for the underrotated triple flip-triple toe, but sticks the triple lutz and double axel. A fine showing that moves her into second.

Xiangning Li
Xiangning Li of China performs her short program. Photograph: LEHTIKUVA/Reuters

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9) Michaela-Lucie Hanzlikova (CZE)

Short program: 32.21 (currently in ninth place)

What a terribly disappointing showing for the 17-year-old and reigning Czech national champion. She falls three times during her skate to Hip Hip, Chin Chin by Club des Belugas: on the triple loop, on the double axel and on a downgraded triple salchow. A technical elements score of 16.55 and program components score of 19.66 – less 4.00 points in deductions – and Hanzlikova is holding up the rear.

Michaela-Lucie Hanzlikova
Michaela-Lucie Hanzlikova of the Czech Republic falls during her short program. Photograph: LEHTIKUVA/Reuters

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8) Carolina Kostner (ITA)

Short program: 66.33 (currently in second place)

Huge cheers for the fan favorite and Olympic bronze medalist from three years ago. An expressive performance to God of Thunder by Kitaro then Bonzo’s Montreux by John Bonham. A big triple toe-triple toe but things get a bit hairy on the double axel and she will be downgraded for the flying camel at the end. Not the veteran’s finest skate. It’s enough to jump into first place by more than 11 points, but it’s hard to see her getting on the podium with that score.

Carolina Kostner’s short program.

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7) Shuran Yu (SGP)

Short program: 52.87 (currently in second place)

The 16-year-old – the first skater of the day born in the year 2000 or after – makes a smashing worlds debut skating to a Blues Instrumental by Jethro Tull and Maria Maria by Wyclef Jean. A triple toe-triple toe, triple salchow and double axel – it all comes together for a season-best score of 50.74, which lifts her into second place.

6) Emmi Peltonen (FIN)

Short program: 50.74 (currently in third place)

Big cheers for the hometown favorite, who skates to Libertango by Astor Piazzolla. The highlist is a triple toe-triple toe, but she picks up deductions on the single loop and finishes with a score of 50.74, good for third.

Emmi Peltonen of Finland
Emmi Peltonen of Finland performs her short program. Photograph: LEHTIKUVA/Reuters

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Now the second group is on the ice: Finland’s Emmi Peltonen, Singapore’s Shuran Yu, Italy’s Carolina Kostner, Czech Republic’s Michaela-Lucie Hanzlikova and China’s Xiangning Li.

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Here are the standings after the first of today’s seven groups. It’s Armenia’s Anastasia Galsutyan on top.

5) Anastasia Galsutyan (ARM)

Short program: 55.20 (currently in first place)

A fine performance by the 17-year-old Armenian to move into first! Highlights include a triple lutz-double toe loop, a triple flip and a double axel. A gorgeously skated program to Susan Boyle’s rendition of I Dreamed A Dream from Les Mis.

4) Dara Grm (SLO)

Short program: 46.63 (currently in fourth place)

The 25-year-old former Slovenian national champion skates to Blucobalto by Negramaro and Sax performed by Fleur East. The highlight is a triple flip-double toe loop landed cleanly. But not technically demanding enough to challenge for a top score.

Dasa Grm
Dasa Grm of Slovenia performs her short program. Photograph: LEHTIKUVA/Reuters

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3) Anna Khnychenkova (UKR)

Short program: 46.98 (currently in third place)

Next is the 22-year-old from Ukraine, who struggles through a short program that incorporates the Godfather theme and Mambo Italiano. That’s nearly seven points off her personal-best short program of 53.86 from last year’s worlds.

2) Joshi Helgesson (SWE)

Short program: 52.07 (currently in first place)

The 23-year-old, who is coached by two-time Olympic silver medalists Brian Orser, skates to Let Me Entertain You from the musical Gypsy as perfomed by Debbie Gibson. A mostly clean program save for a fall on her triple lutz, which earns her a one-point deduction. But she’s into first with a score of 52.07.

1) Anne Line Gjersem (NOR)

Short program: 46.99 (currently first place)

The 23-year-old from Norway gets us started, performing her short program to Smile, the Charlie Chaplin song performed by Martina McBride. Attempts a triple-triple in the program, perhaps for the first time this season? It’s under-rotated but she will get credit for the attempt.

Anne Line Gjersem
Anne Line Gjersem of Norway performs her short program. Photograph: LEHTIKUVA/Reuters

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The first group of skaters is on the ice – that’s Anne Line Gjersem of Norway, Joshi Helgesson of Sweden, Anna Khnychenkova of Ukraine, Dasa Grm of Slovenia and Anastasia Galustyan of Armenia – as Hartwell Arena continues to fill.

Gjersemi is first up at 10.47am local time. All times are two hours ahead of BST and seven hours ahead of New York.

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Today's starting order

Good day and welcome to Hartwall Arena in Helsinki for the first day of the world figure skating championships! The big story is Russia’s Yevgenia Medvedev, the 17-year-old who is unbeaten over the last 16 months and looking to become the first woman to repeat as world champion since Michelle Kwan in 2001.

She’ll be pushed by Anna Pogorilaya and Maria Sotskova of Russia, Kaetlyn Osmond and Gabrielle Daleman of Canada, Mai Mihara and Japan, Carolina Kostner of Italy and, of course, American veteran Ashley Wagner, who is competing at the seventh worlds of her career after finally making the podium last year in Boston to break Team USA’s decade-long drought. And let’s not forget Karen Chen, the teenage rookie who bested Wagner at US nationals in January.

The first warm-up will begin five minutes from now at 10.40am local time.

Ladies' short program schedule
Today’s schedule. Photograph: ISU

Bryan will be here shortly. In the meantime, here’s a lookahead to this week’s ladies’ competition from the Associated Press.

Evgenia Medvedeva isn’t your typical Russian figure skating champ.

Relaxed and chatty, with a passion for Internet memes, the 17-year-old wears her status as reigning world champion lightly ahead of this week’s worlds. On the ice, she’s formidably consistent.

Recent Russian stars have tended to burn brightly for a year, then struggle, but Medvedeva has gone from strength to strength since winning the world title last year.

Doubters “said it was a title for a single season but I’m happy that she’s disproving them,” her choreographer Ilya Averbukh told The Associated Press in a recent interview. “She set herself the big target of an Olympic medal next year and she treats every competition as a step on the road to the Olympics.”

Medvedeva will be the first female singles skater to win back-to-back titles since Michelle Kwan of the US in 2001 if she defends her title this week in Finland. She’d also avoid the fate of fellow Russians like Olympic gold medalist Adelina Sotnikova and 2015 world champion Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, who both slumped after big wins.

Averbukh credits tough competition in a training group which also includes newly crowned world junior champion Alina Zagitova, and a supportive family, for helping Medvedeva stay focused.

Medvedeva has kicked the social media habit in the weeks leading up to worlds. For a skater who otherwise thrives on live-blogging her favorite TV shows – even posting a picture dressed as a character from a Japanese anime series about skating – that’s a signal of devotion.

Her free program showcases her emotional range, putting her in the character of a woman hearing the heartbreaking news of a loved one’s death. The Russian youngster is also stretching her abilities, performing one more combination than needed at the European championships, and adding an extra triple jump at Russian nationals even though she knew it wouldn’t be scored.

Medvedeva comes in on hot form to Wednesday’s short program and Friday’s free skate after setting a world-record total score of 229.71 points at the European championships in January, and will have plenty of Russian fans behind her in Helsinki. However, there are several talented skaters waiting to take the gold if Medvedeva slips.

This season, Russian Anna Pogorilaya finished second to Medvedeva at the European Championships respectively, while Canadian Kaetlyn Osmond must return to form following a fourth-place showing at last month’s Four Continents Championship, and American veteran Ashley Wagner is struggling to match the skating that won her a world silver medal in 2016. One top skater won’t be in Helsinki – Grand Prix finals silver medalist Satoko Miyahara of Japan has withdrawn with a hip injury.

Osmond says she’s been focusing on psychological exercises after feeling disconnected during the free skate which dropped her out of the medal positions at Four Continents.

“If I feel that way in competition again where my feet don’t feel like they’re fully under me, or my head doesn’t feel completely there, I can easily just switch it and bring myself back to the moment,” she said last week. “I wanted a perfect skate and I almost became obsessed with the perfection ... Perfection is going to mess with my head, so we’ve been aiming toward excellence.”

Wagner’s had a mixed season, with victory at Skate America in October, but sixth place at the Cup of China a month later. That result “killed my momentum,” she told reporters last week.

“I might be going in as the reigning world silver medalist, but at the same time I have to prove myself all over again,” Wagner said last week. “I definitely have a huge task.”

This year’s world championships have the added spice of determining how many spots countries will receive for next year’s Olympics, based on the positions of that country’s two best skaters.

With the US aiming for maximum participation, Wagner sees her role at her seventh career worlds as taking the heat off rookie teammates Karen Chen, the current U.S. champion, and Mariah Bell.

“We are sending two rookies in but I think that I have the experience,” she said. “I’ve been on every variation of a worlds team that you can think of.”

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