2006 World Figure Skating Championships

The 2006 World Figure Skating Championships was a senior international figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union. It was held at the Pengrowth Saddledome in Calgary, Canada from March 19 to 26, 2006.

Competition notes
The competition was open to skaters from ISU member nations who had reached the age of 15 by July 1, 2005. The corresponding competition for younger skaters was the 2006 World Junior Championships.

Based on the results of the 2005 World Championships, each country was allowed between one and three entries per discipline. National associations selected their entries based on their own criteria.

None of the gold medalists from the 2006 Olympics competed at the 2006 World Championships. Stéphane Lambiel, the only defending World champion, won his event.

The compulsory dance was the Ravensburger Waltz.

Due to the large number of participants, the ladies and men's qualifying groups were split into groups A and B. This was the last World Championships to have a qualifying round. Following the 2006 Worlds, the ISU Congress voted to remove it. Following these Worlds, all skaters would compete in the short program, with the top twenty-four then advancing to the free skating.

Men
Panel of judges Men's Qualifying Group A
 * Referee: Junko Hiramatsu 🇯🇵
 * Technical Controller: Steve Winkler 🇺🇸
 * Technical Specialist: Pirjo Uimonen 🇫🇮
 * Assistant Technical Specialist: Isabel Duval de Navarre 🇩🇪
 * Judge No.1 Katarina Grof Mitrovic
 * Judge No.2 Merja Kosonen 🇫🇮
 * Judge No.3 Stanislava Smidova 🇨🇿
 * Judge No.4 Karin Ehrhardt 🇦🇹
 * Judge No.5 Francis Betsch 🇫🇷
 * Judge No.6 Igor Obraztsov 🇷🇺
 * Judge No.7 Deborah Islam 🇨🇦
 * Judge No.8 Allan Böhm 🇸🇰
 * Judge No.9 Deborah Currie 🇺🇸
 * Judge No.10 Nobuhiko Yoshioka 🇯🇵

Panel of judges Men's Qualifying Group B
 * Referee: Ubavka Novakovic-Kutinou 🇷🇸
 * Technical Controller: Benoit Lavoie 🇨🇦
 * Technical Specialist: Scott Davis 🇺🇸
 * Assistant Technical Specialist: Isabel Duval de Navarre 🇩🇪
 * Judge No.1 Paolo Pizzocari 🇮🇹
 * Judge No.2 Katarina Henriksson 🇸🇪
 * Judge No.3 Jiasheng Yang 🇨🇳
 * Judge No.4 Marina Beschea
 * Judge No.5 Heinz-Ulrich Walther 🇩🇪
 * Judge No.6 Teri Sedej
 * Judge No.7 Beatrice Pfister
 * Judge No.8 Alfred Korytek 🇺🇦
 * Judge No.9 Osman Sirvan 🇹🇷
 * Judge No.10 Margaret Worsfold 🇬🇧

Panel of judges Men's Short program
 * Referee: Junko Hiramatsu 🇯🇵
 * Technical Controller: Benoit Lavoie 🇨🇦
 * Technical Specialist: Scott Davis 🇺🇸
 * Assistant Technical Specialist: Pirjo Uimonen 🇫🇮
 * Judge No.1 Beatrice Pfister
 * Judge No.2 Francis Betsch 🇫🇷
 * Judge No.3 Deborah Islam 🇨🇦
 * Judge No.4 Nobuhiko Yoshioka 🇯🇵
 * Judge No.5 Merja Kosonen 🇫🇮
 * Judge No.6 Jiasheng Yang 🇨🇳
 * Judge No.7 Heinz-Ulrich Walther 🇩🇪
 * Judge No.8 Alfred Kprytek 🇺🇦
 * Judge No.9 Allan Böhm 🇸🇰
 * Judge No.10 Stanislava Smidova 🇨🇿
 * Judge No.11 Teri Sedej
 * Judge No.12 Marina Beschea

Panel of judges Men's Free skating
 * Referee: Junko Hiramatsu 🇯🇵
 * Technical Controller:	Benoit Lavoie 🇨🇦
 * Technical Specialist:	Scott Davis 🇺🇸
 * Assistant Technical Specialist: Pirjo Uimonen 🇫🇮
 * Judge No.1 Beatrice Pfister
 * Judge No.2 Francis Betsch 🇫🇷
 * Judge No.3 Deborah Islam 🇨🇦
 * Judge No.4 Nobuhiko Yoshioka 🇯🇵
 * Judge No.5 Merja Kosonen 🇫🇮
 * Judge No.6 Jiasheng Yang 🇨🇳
 * Judge No.7 Heinz-Ulrich Walther 🇩🇪
 * Judge No.8 Alfred Korytek 🇺🇦
 * Judge No.9 Allan Böhm 🇸🇰
 * Judge No.10 Stanislava Smidova 🇨🇿
 * Judge No.11 Teri Sedej
 * Judge No.12 Marina Beschea