Some 170 participants from 54 countries have now registered for the juniors World Championships. They will bring around 180 coaches with them, along with all the usual officials and jury members. A total of some 600 people.

The skaters come from all corners of the world: from New Zealand to Andorra and from China to Turkey. And countries are represented you might not expect to have much involvement in winter sports, like Brazil, Mexico, the Philippines and Puerto Rico. Leading figure-skating countries like the United States, Russia, China and the Ukraine will be bringing the largest delegations, but other nations such as France, Italy, Estonia, Germany and Great Britain will also have substantial representation.

All registrations have to be in by 15 February and the first skaters will be expected in the Netherlands from 5 March. They will all be collected from Schiphol Airport and accommodated in hotels in The Hague, and their daily transportation will be laid on to and from the skating rink in the Uithof. They will have access to it from Sunday 7 March to train, and the first competition begins on Tuesday 9 March at 13.30.