ISU World Standings and Season's World Ranking

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.

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	Move^*	Skater	Points
Top 10 standings as of April 20, 2020[4]
1	2	Yuzuru Hanyu	3786
2	7	Alexander Samarin	3046
3	10	Dmitri Aliev	2957
4	3	Nathan Chen	2880
5	7	Matteo Rizzo	2859
6	1	Jason Brown	2844
7	18	Daniel Grassl	2658
8	9	Morisi Kvitelashvili	2651
9	7	Shoma Uno	2640
10	9	Cha Jun-hwan	2603

^*As of 20 April 2020[4]

Ladies' singles

Rank	Skater	Points
Top 10 standings as of February 8, 2020[5]
1	Alena Kostornaia	4708
2	Alina Zagitova	4702
3	Satoko Miyahara	4089
4	Rika Kihira	3864
5	Evgenia Medvedeva	3734
6	Kaori Sakamoto	3724
7	Bradie Tennell	3255
8	Wakaba Higuchi	3187
9	Anna Shcherbakova	3126
10	Elizabet Tursynbaeva	3108

^*Change since April 9, 2019[5]

Pairs

Rank	Move^*	Couple	Points
Top 10 standings as of April 9, 2019[6]
1		Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov	5103
2	2	Natalia Zabiiako / Alexander Enbert	4600
3		Vanessa James / Morgan Ciprès	4485
4	2	Aljona Savchenko / Bruno Massot	4196
5		Nicole Della Monica / Matteo Guarise	3893
6	2	Kirsten Moore-Towers / Michael Marinaro	3481
7		Sui Wenjing / Han Cong	3400
8	2	Peng Cheng / Jin Yang	3364
9	8	Aleksandra Boikova / Dmitrii Kozlovskii	3178
10	4	Yu Xiaoyu / Zhang Hao	3117

^*Change since December 12, 2018

Ice dance

Rank	Move^*	Couple	Points
Top 10 standings as of April 9, 2019[7]
1		Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue	5202
2	1	Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron	4804
3	1	Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir	4510
4	2	Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin	3966
5		Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri	3933
6	2	Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev	3730
7	5	Madison Chock / Evan Bates	3722
8	3	Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker	3708
9	1	Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier	3634
10	8	Victoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov	3547

^*Change since December 12, 2018

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.