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Medalists: 1. Ekaterina Gordeeva / Sergei Grinkov (URSS) 2. Isabelle Brasseur / Lloyd Eisler (CAN) 3. Natalia Mishkutenok / Artur Dmitriev (URSS)

The 1990 World Figure Skating Championships were held at the Halifax Metro Centre in Halifax, Canada from March 6 to 11.

Medalists: 1. Marina Klimova / Sergei Ponomarenko (USSR) 2. Maya Usova / Alexander Zhulin (USSR) 3. Isabelle Duchesnay / Paul Duchesnay (FRA)

Medalists: 1. Ekaterina Gordeeva / Sergei Grinkov (USSR) 2. Cindy Landry / Lyndon Johnston (CAN) 3. Elena Bechke / Denis Petrov (USSR)

Medalists: 1. Midori Ito (JPN) 2. Claudia Leistner (FRG) 3. Jill Trenary (USA)

Medalists: 1. Kurt Browning (CAN) 2. Christopher Bowman (USA) 3. Grzegorz Filipowski (POL)

The 1989 World Figure Skating Championships was held at the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy in Paris, France from March 14 to 19. Medals were awarded in men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.

The compulsory dance (CD), now called the pattern dance, is a part of the figure skating segment of ice dance competitions in which all the competing couples perform the same standardized steps and holds to the music of a specified tempo and genre. One or more compulsory dances were usually skated as the first phase of ice dancing competitions. The 2009–10 season was the final season in which the segment was included in International Skating Union (ISU) junior and senior level competition. In June 2010, the ISU replaced the name "compulsory dance" with "pattern dance" for ice dance, and merged it into the short dance (SD) beginning in the 2010–11 figure skating season. 1. Blues Inventors – Robert Dench and Lesley Turner First Performance – London, Streatham Ice Rink, 1934 2. Midnight Blues Inventors – Roy, Sue Bradshaw, Mark Bradshaw, and Julie MacDonald. First Performance – Vancouver, Canada, 2001 3. European Waltz Inventor – unknown First Performance – before 1900 but the exact date and location are unknown. 4. American Waltz Inventor – unknown First performance – unknown 5. Starlight Waltz Inventors – Courtney J. L. Jones and Peri V. Horne First Performance – London, Queens Ice Rink, 1963 6. Westminster Waltz Inventors – Eric van der Weyden and Eva Keats First Performance – London, Westminster Ice Rink, 1938 7. Viennese Waltz Inventors – Eric van der Weyden and Eva Keats First Performance – London, Streatham Ice Rink, 1934 8. Ravensburger Waltz Inventors – Angelika and Erich Buck and Betty Callaway First Performance – Krefeld, West German Figure Skating Championships – 1973 9. Golden Waltz Inventors – Natalia Dubova, Marina Klimova and Sergei Ponomarenko First Performance – Moscow Cup 1987, Moscow USSR 10. Paso Doble Inventors – Reginald B. Wilkie and Daphne B. Wallis First Performance – London, Westminster Ice Rink, 1938 11. Rhumba Inventor – Walter Gregory First Performance – London, Westminster Ice Rink, 1938 12. Cha Cha Congelado Inventors – Bernard Ford, Kelly Johnson, Laurie Palmer and Steven Belanger First Performance – Richmond Hill, Ontario, 1989 13. Fourteenstep Inventor – Franz Scholler First performance – in Vienna, 1889, as the Ten Step or Scholler March 14. Quickstep Inventors – Reginald J. Wilkie and Daphne B. Wallis First Performance – London, Westminster Ice Rink, 1938 15. Foxtrot Inventors – Eric van der Weyden and Eva Keats First performance – London, Westminster Ice Rink, 1933 16. Rocker Foxtrot Inventors – Eric van der Weyden and Eva Keats First performance – London, Streatham Ice Rink, 1934 17. Yankee Polka Inventors – James Sladky, Judy Schwomeyer and Ron Ludington First Performance – Wilmington, Skating Club of Wilmington, 1969

With the participation of John Curry, Katherine Foulkes Peggy Fleming, Scott Hamilton, Linda Fratianne, Kitty and Peter Carruthers, Fumio Igarashi, Elaine Zayak, David Santee, Lisa-Marie Allen, Jo Jo Starbuck & Kenneth Shelley, Tai Babilonia & Randy Gardner.

In order of skating: 1. Isabelle Duchesnay / Paul Duchesnay (FRA) 2. Tracy Wilson / Robert McCall (CAN) 3. Kathrin Beck / Christoff Beck (AUT) 4. Natalia Annenko / Genrikh Sretenski (USR) 5. Marina Klimova / Sergei Ponomarenko (USR) 6. Natalia Bestemianova / Andrei Bukin (USR) Medalists: 1. Natalia Bestemianova / Andrei Bukin (USR) 2. Marina Klimova / Sergei Ponomarenko (USR) 3. Tracy Wilson / Robert McCall (CAN)

In order of skating: 1. Jill Watson / Peter Oppegard (USA) 2. Larisa Selezneva / Oleg Makarov (USR) 3. Ekaterina Gordeeva / Sergei Grinkov (USR) 4. Elena Valova / Oleg Vasiliev (USR) Medalists: 1. Elena Valova / Oleg Vasiliev (USR) 2. Ekaterina Gordeeva / Sergei Grinkov (USR) 3. Larisa Selezneva / Oleg Makarov (USR)

In order of skating: 1. Midori Ito (JPN) 2. Jill Trenary (USA) 3. Caryn Kadavy (USA) 4. Elizabeth Manley (CAN) 5. Katarina Witt (GDR) 6. Claudia Leistner (FRG) 7. Debi Thomas (USA) Medalists: 1. Katarina Witt (GDR) 2. Elizabeth Manley (CAN) 3. Debi Thomas (USA)

In order of skating: 1. Midori Ito (JPN) 2. Elizabeth Manley (CAN) 3. Katarina Witt (GDR) 4. Jill Trenary (USA) 5. Debi Thomas (USA)

In order of skating: 1. Kurt Browning (CAN) 2. Christopher Bowman (USA) 3. Viktor Petrenko (USR) 4. Brian Boitano (USA) 5. Brian Orser (CAN) Medalists: 1. Brian Boitano (USA) 2. Brian Orser (CAN) 3. Viktor Petrenko (USR)

The 1988 World Figure Skating Championships were held in Budapest, Hungary from March 22 to 27. In order of skating: 1. Brian Boitano (USA) 2. Brian Orser (CAN)

Skating order: 1. Isabelle Duchesnay / Paul Duchesnay (FRA) 2. Suzanne Semanick / Scott Gregory (USA) 3. Antonia Becherer / Ferdinand Becherer (FRG) 4. Klára Engi / Attila Tóth (HUNG) 5. Marina Klimova / Sergei Ponomarenko (URS) 6. Natalia Bestemianova / Andrei Bukin (URS) 7. Tracy Wilson / Robert McCall (USA) 8. Kathrin Beck / Christoff Beck (AUT) 9. Natalia Annenko / Genrikh Sretenski (URS) Medalists: 1. Natalia Bestemianova / Andrei Bukin (URS) 2. Marina Klimova / Sergei Ponomarenko (URS) 3. Tracy Wilson / Robert McCall (USA)

Skating order: 1. Anna Kondrashova (URS) 2. Midori Ito (JPN) 3. Jill Trenary (USA) 4. Katarina Witt (GDR) 5. Elizabeth Manley (USA) 6. Kira Ivanova (USA) 7. Debi Thomas (USA) Medalists: 1. Katarina Witt (GDR) 2. Elizabeth Manley (USA) 3. Debi Thomas (USA)

Medalists: 1. Brian Boitano (USA) 2. Brian Orser (CAN) 3. Viktor Petrenko (URS)

Skating order: 1. Brian Boitano (USA) 2. Alexander Fadeev (URS) 3. Brian Orser (CAN) 4. Grzegorz Filipowski (POL) 5. Vladimir Kotin (URS) 6. Viktor Petrenko (URS)

Skating order: 1. Oliver Höner (SUI) 2. Heiko Fischer (FRG) 3. Kurt Browning (CAN) 4. Richard Zander (FRG) 5. Paul Wylie (USA) 6. Christopher Bowman (USA)

Champions: Men's singles - Brian Boitano (USA) Ladies' singles - Katarina Witt (GDR) Pair skating - Elena Valova / Oleg Vassiliev (USSR) Ice dance - Natalia Bestemianova / Andrei Bukin (USSR)

Skating order: 1. Paul Robinson (GBR) 2. Petr Barna (TCH) 3. Lars Dresler (DEN) 4. Axel Médéric (FRA) 5. Cameron Medhurst (AUS) 6. Neil Paterson (CAN)

Skating order: 1. Michael Huth (FRG) 2. Peter Johansson (SWE) 3. Zhang Shubin (CHN) 4. Makoto Kano (JPN) 5. Alessandro Riccitelli (ITA) 6. Jung Sung-Il (KOR)