1989 World Figure Skating Championships

Kurt Browning became the first man to win a world championship while completing a quadruple jump.[1]

Rank	Name	Nation	TFP	CF	OP	FS
1	Kurt Browning	Canada	3.6	5	1	1
2	Christopher Bowman	United States	5.8	4	2	3
3	Grzegorz Filipowski	Poland	6.2	3	5	2
4	Alexander Fadeev	Soviet Union	6.2	1	3	4
5	Petr Barna	Czechoslovakia	10.2	7	4	5
6	Viktor Petrenko	Soviet Union	10.4	2	6	6
7	Daniel Doran	United States	16.0	6	11	7
8	Oliver Höner	Switzerland	18.0	10	10	8
9	Michael Slipchuk	Canada	19.4	13	7	10
10	Cameron Medhurst	Australia	20.8	11	9	11
11	Makoto Kano	Japan	21.0	18	8	9
12	Daniel Weiss	West Germany	25.2	9	16	12
13	Axel Médéric	France	26.0	12	12	14
14	Dmitri Gromov	Soviet Union	27.6	14	15	13
15	András Száraz	Hungary	31.8	15	13	18
16	Mirko Eichhorn	East Germany	33.2	20	17	15
17	Ralph Burghart	Austria	34.6	8	19	20
18	Alessandro Riccitelli	Italy	34.8	17	20	16
19	Peter Johansson	Sweden	35.0	19	14	19
20	Henrik Walentin	Denmark	37.0	23	18	17
Free skating not reached
21	Christian Newberry	United Kingdom		16	25
22	Jung Sung-il	South Korea		22	21
23	Iwo Svec	West Germany		21	23
24	Oula Jääskeläinen	Finland		25	22
25	David Liu	Chinese Taipei		26	24
26	Boyko Aleksiev	Bulgaria		24	26
27	Alexandre Geers	Belgium		27	27
WD	Ricardo Olavarrieta	Mexico	DNF	28

Midori Ito was the first Japanese skater to win gold and the first woman to do a triple axel in a major ISU competition.[2]

Rank	Name	Nation	TFP	CF	OP	FS
1	Midori Ito	Japan	4.0	6	1	1
2	Claudia Leistner	West Germany	4.2	1	3	2
3	Jill Trenary	United States	5.0	2	2	3
4	Patricia Neske	West Germany	11.6	5	6	6
5	Natalia Lebedeva	Soviet Union	11.6	3	4	8
6	Kristi Yamaguchi	United States	11.8	12	5	4
7	Evelyn Großmann	East Germany	16.6	14	10	5
8	Natalia Gorbenko	Soviet Union	17.4	4	8	11
9	Beatrice Gelmini	Italy	18.6	11	7	10
10	Surya Bonaly	France	18.8	16	9	7
11	Karen Preston	Canada	22.4	17	11	9
12	Simone Lang	East Germany	23.8	10	13	12
13	Yvonne Pokorny	Austria	27.0	9	14	15
14	Tamara Téglássy	Hungary	28.8	13	16	14
15	Junko Yaginuma	Japan	29.2	15	12	16
16	Charlene Wong	Canada	29.2	8	15	17
17	Željka Čižmešija	Yugoslavia	34.2	7	19	20
18	Yvonne Gómez	Spain	34.6	24	20	13
19	Helene Persson	Sweden	37.2	21	18	18
20	Petra Vonmoos	Switzerland	38.0	22	17	19
Free skating not reached
21	Tracy Brook	Australia		23	21
22	Lily Lyoonjung Lee	South Korea		20	25
23	Louisa Danskin	United Kingdom		19	27
24	Anisette Torp-Lind	Denmark		27	22
25	Jacqueline Soames	United Kingdom		26	23
26	Mari Niskanen	Finland		25	24
27	Tsvetelina Yankova	Bulgaria		30	26
28	Diana Marcos	Mexico		28	28
29	Charuda Upatham	Thailand		29	29
WD	Sandy Suy	Belgium	DNF	18