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The ISU World Standings and Season's World Ranking are the objective merit-based method used by the International Skating Union (ISU) for single & pair skating and ice dance, as well as synchronized skating. Only eligible skaters/teams will be considered in the ISU World Standings and Season's World Ranking.

Skaters/teams receive points based on their final placement at an event and the event's weight over the current and preceding two seasons. The ISU World Standings and Season's World Ranking are updated after each eligible events. At the end of the current season, the points from the earliest season are deleted. If pairs and ice dance couples officially split up, their partnership will be removed from the Standings and Ranking. When a skater officially announces his or her retirement from competition, the standing and rank of the skater will be removed.

Overview

The ISU Council had implemented the former world standings system for single & pair skating and ice dance for several seasons before 2010. The world standings system for synchronized skating and the season's world ranking had not been implemented until 2010.

According to the "ISU Communication 1629" and "ISU Communication 1630" published by the ISU on July 21, 2010,^[1]^[2]^[3] the ISU Council decided to implement two types of World Standings / Ranking, namely "ISU World Standings" and "ISU Season's World Ranking", since the 2010–11 season.

The ISU World Standings for single & pair skating and ice dance, are taking into account results of the preceding two seasons and the current season, and remains the basis for the draws at ISU events and part of the criteria for the selection of competitors for the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating and other ISU events designated by the ISU Council.

The ISU Season's World Ranking, is based on the results of the current ongoing season only. It has the main purpose to reflect the current competitive performances of the skaters and give the public and the media an indication of the current actual competitiveness of the skaters.

The ISU World Standings for synchronized skating, are taking into account results of the preceding two seasons and the current season. The standings will also guarantee objectivity and a help for the process of individual entries to ISU events. There will be a separate ranking for "Senior" and "Junior".

The ISU World Standings and Season's World Ranking do not necessarily reflect the capabilities of some skaters/teams. Due to limits on entries to events (no more than three from each country), and varying numbers of high-level skaters/teams in each country, skaters/teams from some countries may find it more difficult to qualify to compete at major events. Thus, a skater/team with a lower season's best but from a country with few high-level skaters/teams may qualify to a major event while a skater/team with a much higher season's best but from a country with more than three high-level skaters/teams may not be sent. As a result, it is possible for a skater/team who regularly scores higher to end up with a much lower world standing.

Principles

Since the introduction of the world standings system, the method used to calculate the standing points of a skater has changed several times.

Points distribution (since the 2010–11 season)

For single & pair skating and ice dance

According to the "ISU Communication 1629" published by the ISU on July 21, 2010,^[1]^[2] the world standing of a skater is calculated based on the results over the current and preceding two seasons. Competitors receive points based on their final placement at an event and the event's weight. The following events receive points:

ISU Championships (Worlds, Europeans, Four Continents, and Junior Worlds) and Olympic Winter Games: The best result by points per season, the best two results by points over three seasons.
ISU Grand Prix and Final, ISU Junior Grand Prix and Final: The two best results by points per season, the best four results by points over three seasons.
International senior calendar competitions: The two best results by points per season, the best four results by points over three seasons.

Current and intermediate season's earned points will count 100%, and previous season's earned points will count 70%. Following the current season's World Championships, the results from the earliest season are deleted. A new partnership starts with zero points — there is no transfer of world standing points if pairs or ice dance couples split up and form a new partnership, and the previous partnership will be removed from the World Standings. When a skater officially announces his or her retirement from competition, the standing of the skater will be removed.

The season's world ranking of a skater is calculated similarly to the overall world standing but is based on the results of the ongoing season only.^[1]^[2]

The ISU World Standings and Season's World Ranking order will be updated after each event mentioned in the following table. Only eligible skaters will be considered in the ISU World Standings and Season's World Ranking.

Distribution of Points (10% Steps)^[1]^[2]

Place	WC/OWG	EC/FC	WJC	GPF	GP	JGPF	JGP	CS	IC
1	1200	840	500	800	400	350	250	300	250
2	1080	756	450	720	360	315	225	270	225
3	972	680	405	648	324	284	203	243	203
4	875	612	365	583	292	255	182	219	182
5	787	551	328	525	262	230	164	198	164
6	709	496	295	472	236	207	148	178
7	638	446	266		213	186	133	160
8	574	402	239		191	167	120	144
9	517	362	215				108
10	465	325	194				97
11	418	293	174
12	377	264	157
13	339	237	141
14	305	214	127
15	275	192	114
16	247	173	103
17	222	156	93
18	200	140	83
19	180	126	75
20	162	113	68
21	146	102	61
22	131	92	55
23	118	83	49
24	106	74	44
Event	11043	7729	4601	3748	2278	1994	1630	1712	1024

WC = World Championships
OWG = Olympic Winter Games
EC = European Championships
FC = Four Continents Championships
WJC = World Junior Championships
GPF = Grand Prix Final
GP = Grand Prix
JGPF = Junior Grand Prix Final
JGP = Junior Grand Prix
CS = Challenger Series
IC = International Senior Competitions

For synchronized skating

According to the "ISU Communication 1630" published by the ISU on July 21, 2010,^[3] the world standing of a team is calculated based on the results over the current and preceding two seasons.

The ISU World Standings order will be updated after each event mentioned in the following table. Only eligible teams will participate in the ISU World Standings.

Distribution of Points (10% Steps)^[3]

Place	WC	WJC/WJCC	IC	IJC
1	840	600	400	250
2	756	540	360	225
3	680	486	324	203
4	612	437	292	182
5	551	394	262	164
6	496	354	236	148
7	446	319	213	133
8	402	287	191	120
9	362	258	108
10	325	232	97
11	293	209
12	264	188
13	237	169
14	214	153
15	192	137
16	173	124
17	156	111
18	140	100
19	126	90
20	113	81
21	102	73
22	92	66
23	83	59
24	74	53
Event	7729	5520	2278	1630

WC = World Championships
WJC = World Junior Championships
WJCC = World Junior Challenge Cup
IC = International Senior Competitions
IJC = International Junior Competitions

ISU World Standings for single & pair skating and ice dance

Current Standings

Men's singles

Rank	Skater	Points
Top 10 standings as of December 16, 2024^[4]
1	Ilia Malinin	5144
2	Adam Siao Him Fa	4327
3	Yuma Kagiyama	3818
4	Shun Sato	3736
5	Kao Miura	3548
6	Lukas Britschgi	3338
7	Mikhail Shaidorov	3326
8	Matteo Rizzo	3048
9	Junhwan Cha	3010
10	Sota Yamamoto	2970

Women's singles

Rank	Skater	Points
Top 10 standings as of March 24, 2024^[5]
1	Kaori Sakamoto	5595
2	Isabeau Levito	4810
3	Loena Hendrickx	4468
4	Lee Hae-in	3864
5	Kim Chae-yeon	3655
6	Anastasiia Gubanova	3601
7	Rinka Watanabe	3555
8	Kim Ye-lim	3453
9	Hana Yoshida	3444
10	Mai Mihara	3383

Pairs

Rank	Couple	Points
Top 10 standings as of February 29, 2024^[6]
1	Sara Conti / Niccolo Macii	4606
2	Deanna Stellato-Dudek / Maxime Deschamps	4499
3	Rebecca Ghilardi / Filippo Ambrosini	4336
4	Riku Miura / Ryuichi Kihara	4115
5	Alexa Knierim / Brandon Frazier	3804
6	Annika Hocke / Robert Kunkel	3171
7	Maria Pavlova / Alexei Sviatchenko	3109
8	Valentina Plazas / Maximiliano Fernandez	2914
9	Emily Chan / Spencer Howe	2770
10	Lucrezia Beccari / Matteo Guarise	2684

Ice dance

Rank	Couple	Points
Top 10 standings as of March 2, 2024^[7]
1	Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri	5108
2	Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson	4757
3	Madison Chock / Evan Bates	4389
4	Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier	4270
5	Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen	4221
6	Allison Reed / Saulius Ambrulevicius	3517
7	Evgenia Lopareva / Geoffrey Brissaud	3487
8	Marjorie Lajoie / Zachary Lagha	3404
9	Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko	3402
10	Juulia Turkkila / Matthias Versluis	3372

Season-end No. 1 skaters

The remainder of this section is a complete list, by discipline, of all skaters who are the No. 1 in the season-end standings ordered chronologically.