2002 World Junior Figure Skating Championships
The World Junior Figure Skating Championships is an annual event sanctioned by the International Skating Union in which younger figure skaters compete for the title of World Junior Champion. The 2002 competition took place between March 3 and March 10, 2002 in the Hamar Olympic Amphitheatre, in Hamar, Norway. Due to the large number of participants, the ladies and men's qualifying groups were split into groups A and B. The first compulsory dance was the Viennese Waltz and the second was the Quickstep.
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