Four Australian skaters represented their country at the World Junior Figure Skating Championships last week in Oberstdorf, Germany. Tina Wang in Junior Ladies, Nicholas Fernandez in Junior Men and Danielle O'Brien and Gregory Merriman in Junior Ice Dancing.
 
In the Junior Men's, Fernandez finished in 32nd place on 39.32 points in the short program, missing a place in the 24-man free program.
 
Canadian skater Patrick Chan topped the short program on 64.10 points, but faded to fourth in the free program, ending in second place overall behind American Stephen Carriere.
 
Carriere, who had been in sixth place after the short program, finished on 188.87 points, with Chan taking the silver on 184.55 points.
 
Tina Wang also missed a place in the final in the Junior Women's event, scoring 35.77 points to finish in 31st position in a field of 52 skaters.
 
Caroline Zhang earned the highest short program scores from the judges with 59.17 points, then went on to also win the free program and claim the gold medal in an American trifecta.
 
The O'Brien/Merriman combination placed 20th of 27 pairs in the Junior Ice Dancing, scoring 101.66 points overall from the compulsory dance, the original dance and the free dance.
 
Ekaterina Bobrova and Dmitri Soloviev took the gold on 161.89 points.