2000 World Figure Skating Championships

The 2000 World Figure Skating Championships had been held at the Palais des Exposition Nice in Nice, France from March 23 to April 3. The event was sanctioned by the International Skating Union. Medals were awarded in men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.

Competition notes
Due to a large number of participants, the men's and ladies' qualifying groups were split into groups A and B.

This event had originally been awarded to Brisbane, Australia. However, in late August 1999, the ISU reassigned the event to Nice, allegedly due to the Australian organizers' failure to provide adequate broadcast services.

There were two accidents resulting in withdrawals. Julia Obertas / Dmitri Palamarchuk, who were 10th after the short program, withdrew from the pairs event after a fall during the free skating. Palamarchuk caught an edge (right skate) while executing an overhead lift with Obertas – she was uninjured in the resulting fall but he hit his head on the ice. Palamarchuk lay on the ice for several minutes before getting up and leaving the ice on his own but then lost consciousness and was taken to hospital – no damage was found but he was kept overnight for observation.

In the ice dancing event, Albena Denkova / Maxim Staviski, who were 8th after the original dance also forced to withdraw. She was seriously injured in the practice before the free dance when Peter Tchernyshev's blade slashed her leg above her boot, severing two tendons and a muscle.

Pair skater Stéphane Bernadis said he was attacked on March 28 by an unknown assailant with a razor – resulting in an eight-inch cut down his left forearm – when he opened his hotel room door. Bernadis said he had received a death threat three weeks earlier.

Over 52,000 tickets were sold.

Men
Referee:
 * Jan Hoffmann International Skating Union.svg

Assistant Referee:
 * Ronald T. Pfenning International Skating Union.svg

Judges:
 * Jane Garden 🇨🇦
 * Christiane Miles
 * Alexander Pentchev 🇧🇬
 * Laura McNair 🇬🇧
 * Florin Gafencu
 * Elizabeth Ryan 🇦🇺
 * Hideo Sugita 🇯🇵
 * Zsofia Wagner 🇭🇺
 * Philippe Meriguet 🇫🇷

Substitute judge:
 * Igor Obraztsov 🇷🇺

Ladies
Referee:
 * Sally-Anne Stapleford International Skating Union.svg

Assistant Referee:
 * Junko Hiramatsu International Skating Union.svg

Judges:
 * Margo Pauw
 * Vladislav Petukhov 🇺🇦
 * Hisashi Yoshikawa 🇯🇵
 * Judit Fьrst-Tombor 🇭🇺
 * Fabio Bianchetti 🇮🇹
 * Nenad Orban
 * Adriana Ordeanu
 * Bjцrg Rosto Jensen 🇳🇴
 * Elfriede Beyer 🇩🇪

Substitute judge:
 * Hely Abbondati 🇫🇮

Pairs
Referee:
 * Alexander Lakernik International Skating Union.svg

Assistant Referee:
 * Rita Zonnekeyn International Skating Union.svg

Judges:
 * Marina Sanaya 🇷🇺
 * Evgenia Bogdanova 🇦🇿
 * Marie Reine Le Gougne 🇫🇷
 * Joseph L. Inman 🇺🇸
 * Susan Blatz 🇨🇦
 * Alexei Shirshov 🇧🇾
 * Anna Sierocka 🇵🇱
 * Adriana Domanska 🇸🇰
 * Jarmila Portova 🇨🇿

Substitute judge:
 * Jiasheng Yang 🇨🇳

Ice dancing
Referee:
 * Courtney Jones International Skating Union.svg

Assistant Referee:
 * Ludmila Mikhailovskaya International Skating Union.svg

Judges (free dance):
 * Jean-Bernard Hamel 🇫🇷
 * Isabella Micheli 🇮🇹
 * Elizabeth Clark 🇨🇦
 * Eugenia Gasiorowska 🇱🇹
 * Katalin Alpern 🇮🇱
 * Akos Pethes 🇭🇺
 * Robert J. Horen 🇺🇸
 * Halina Gordon-Poltorak 🇵🇱
 * Mieko Fujimori 🇯🇵

Substitute judge:
 * Yury Kliushnikov 🇺🇦