Nathan Chen in sixth place after short program at 2017 World Figure Skating Championships

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2. It isn't as bad as I thought and we still have ice dancing.

Here is the full results page:
http://www.isuresults.com/results/season1617/wc2017/

Jason Brown was in 8th place and skated clean. Both American men could move into medals contention with clean programs. The combination of Chen and Brown will need to gain one ordinal position to qualify three men for the Olympics.

I don't have much expectations for pairs skating these days. Kniernam/Kniernam finished in 11th and Denney/Frazier were in 20th so only one pair will qualify next year for the Olympics.

I also missed seeing that Karen Chen (USA) is in fifth place in the ladies competition. Both of them are close enough to the second and third place competitors that they could rise to the medals stand. Mariah Bell is in 13th. If they maintain those standings then they could qualify a third woman for the Olympics.