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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 prior 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 their 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 2026–27 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 "ISU Communication 2812" published by the ISU on July 29, 2026 modified the distribution of points for each event, starting with the 2026-27 season.^[4] This new point system rewards higher-tiered international competitions over the lower-tiered, while also replacing the algorithmic '10% Steps' point distribution with manually tailored point spreads.

The following events earn points, with limits on how many results go towards a skater's world standing:

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, Semi-Finals (from 2027/28), 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 Competitions Senior (including ISU Challenger Series) and Junior: 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 their retirement from competition, the standings 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.

Distribution of Points^[4]

Place	WC/OWG	GPF	EC/FC	WJC	GPSF	GP	JGPF	JGP	CS	IC	JIC
1	1300	1000	850	600	750	500	450	300	350	200	100
2	1150	880	760	540	670	450	400	270	310	150	80
3	1020	780	680	490	590	400	360	245	275	100	60
4	900	700	610	450	510	360	320	220	240		40
5	810	640	550	410	430	320	280	200	210		20
6	740	600	500	370	350	280	250	180	185
7	680		460	340		240		160	165
8	630		420	310		200		140	150
9	580		380	280				120
10	530		340	250				100
11	480		300	220
12	430		260	190
13	380		230	160
14	330		200	140
15	290		180	120
16	250		160	110
17	210		140	100
18	180		120	90
19	150		110	80
20	130		100	70
21	120		90	65
22	110		80	60
23	105		75	55
24	100		70	50
Event	11605	4600	7665	5550	3300	2750	2060	1935	1885	450	300

WC = World Championships
OWG = Olympic Winter Games
GPF = Grand Prix Final
EC = European Championships
FC = Four Continents Championships
WJC = World Junior Championships
GPSF = Grand Prix Semi-Finals (from 2027/28)
GP = Grand Prix
JGPF = Junior Grand Prix Final
JGP = Junior Grand Prix
CS = Challenger Series
IC = Senior International Competition
JIC = Junior International Competition

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 Communication 2813" published by the ISU on July 29, 2026 modified the distribution of points for each event, starting with the 2026-27 season.^[5]

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

Distribution of Points^[5]

Place	Championships (incl. Synchro9)		Challenger Series Competitions		International Competitions (incl. Synchro9)
Place	WC	WJC	CS Sen.	CS Jun.	IC Sen.	IC Jun.
1	850	600	500	300	250	200
2	760	540	450	270	225	180
3	680	490	400	245	200	160
4	610	450	360	220	180	140
5	550	410	320	200	165	125
6	500	370	280	180	150	110
7	460	340	240	160	135	100
8	420	310	210	140	120	90
9	380	280	180	120
10	340	250	150	100
11	300	220
12	260	190
13	230	160
14	200	140
15	180	120
16	160	110
17	140	100
18	120	90
19	110	80
20	100	70
Event	7350	5320	3090	1935	1425	1105

WC = World Championships (incl. Synchro9 World Championships)
WJC = Junior World Championships (incl. Synchro9 Junior World Championships)
CS Sen. = Challenger Series Senior
CS Jun. = Challenger Series Junior
IC Sen. = International Competition Senior and International Synchro9
IC Jun. = International Competition Junior and International Junior Synchro9

ISU World Standings for single & pair skating and ice dance

Current standings

Men's singles

Top 10 as of October 5, 2026^[6]
Rank	Skater	Points
1	Ilia Malinin	4590
2	Mikhail Shaidorov	4193
3	Yuma Kagiyama	4123
4	Shun Sato	3949
5	Adam Siao Him Fa	3660
6	Daniel Grassl	3374
7	Nika Egadze	3352
8	Kevin Aymoz	2946
9	Aleksandr Selevko	2890
9	Lukas Britschgi	2890

Women's singles

Top 10 as of October 5, 2026^[7]
Rank	Skater	Points
1	Alysa Liu	4248
2	Mone Chiba	4164
3	Amber Glenn	3671
4	Isabeau Levito	3245
5	Ami Nakai	3232
6	Lara Naki Gutmann	3028
7	Bradie Tennell	2934
8	Anastasiia Gubanova	2867
9	Niina Petrokina	2685
10	Sarah Everhardt	2668

Pairs

Top 10 as of October 5, 2026^[8]
Rank	Team	Points
1	Minerva Fabienne Hase / Nikita Volodin	4624
2	Anastasiia Metelkina / Luka Berulava	4540
3	Alisa Efimova / Misha Mitrofanov	3244
4	Lia Pereira / Trennt Michaud	2901
5	Deanna Stellato-Dudek / Maxime Deschamps	2890
6	Ellie Kam / Danny O'Shea	2810
7	Maria Pavlova / Alexei Sviatchenko	2793
8	Yuna Nagaoka / Sumitada Moriguchi	2328
9	Zhang Jiaxuan / Huang Yihang	2065
10	Annika Hocke / Robert Kunkel	1964

Ice dance

Top 10 as of October 5, 2026^[9]
Rank	Team	Points
1	Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson	4307
2	Madison Chock / Evan Bates	3960
3	Evgeniia Lopareva / Geoffrey Brissaud	3535
4	Piper Gilles / Paul Poirer	3467
5	Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri	3434
6	Olivia Smart / Tim Dieck	3418
7	Emilea Zingas / Vadym Kolesnik	3185
8	Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko	3177
9	Allison Reed / Saulius Ambrulevičius	2982
10	Diana Davis / Gleb Smolkin	2958

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.