List of ISU World Standings and Season's World Ranking statistics
Rk Season Skater Birthday Date Age
Youngest skaters 1 2013-14 Yuzuru Hanyu 7 Dec 1994 28 Mar 2014 19 years , 111 days
Youngest skaters 2 2001-02 Evgeni Plushenko 3 Nov 1982 21 Mar 2002 19 years , 138 days
Youngest skaters 3 2018-19 Nathan Chen 5 May 1999 23 Mar 2019 19 years , 322 days
Rk Season Skater Birthday Date Age
Oldest skaters 1 2010-11 Daisuke Takahashi 16 Mar 1986 28 Apr 2011 25 years , 43 days
Oldest skaters 2 2009-10 Evan Lysacek 4 Jun 1985 25 Mar 2010 24 years , 294 days
Oldest skaters 3 2005-06 Jeffrey Buttle 1 Sep 1982 23 Mar 2006 23 years , 203 days
ISU World Standings for single & pair skating and ice dance -- Season-end No . 1 skaters
Yuzuru Hanyu holds the record of five consecutive seasons ended as world No . 1 in men 's single skating since the 2001-2002 season . Chronological *Date of when the free skating of the World Figure Skating Championships took place on . # Date of when the 2020 World Figure Skating Championships was officially cancelled . Records and statistics The following tables show the numbers of season-end No . 1 skaters by nation , and the times as season-end No . 1 by nation . Rk Nation skaters 1 CAN 2 1 JPN 2 1 USA 2 4 CZE 1 4 RUS 1 Total 8 Rk Nation Times 1 JPN 8 2 RUS 4 3 CAN 3 3 USA 3 5 CZE 1 Total 19 The following table shows the skaters who are the No . 1 in the season-end world standings ordered by the numbers of seasons as season-end No . 1 . Rk Nation Skater Number of seasons as season-end No . 1 Seasons 1 JPN Yuzuru Hanyu 5 2013–14 , 2014–15 , 2015–16 , 2016–17 , 2017–18 2 RUS Evgeni Plushenko 4 2001–02 , 2002–03 , 2003–04 , 2004–05 3 JPN Daisuke Takahashi 3 2006–07 , 2007–08 , 2010–11 4 CAN Patrick Chan 2 2011–12 , 2012–13 4 USA Nathan Chen 2 2018–19 , 2019–20 6 CAN Jeffrey Buttle 1 2005–06 6 CZE Tomáš Verner 1 2008–09 6 USA Evan Lysacek 1 2009–10 Total 19 - The following table shows the skaters who have been the No . 1 in the season-end world standings for at least two consecutive seasons ordered by the numbers of consecutive seasons as season-end No . 1 . Rk Nation Skater Number of consecutive seasons as season-end No . 1 Seasons 1 JPN Yuzuru Hanyu 5 2013–14 , 2014–15 , 2015–16 , 2016–17 , 2017–18 2 RUS Evgeni Plushenko 4 2001–02 , 2002–03 , 2003–04 , 2004–05 3 JPN Daisuke Takahashi 2 2006–07 , 2007–08 3 CAN Patrick Chan 2 2011–12 , 2012–13 3 USA Nathan Chen 2 2018–19 , 2019–20 Total 15 - The following table shows the youngest/oldest skaters who are the No . 1 in the season-end world standings .
The ISU World Standings and Season's World Ranking are the objective merit-based method used by the International Skating Union (ISU) for single & pair skating and ice dance, as well as synchronized skating. The ISU Council had implemented the former world standings system for single & pair skating and ice dance for several seasons before 2010. The world standings system for synchronized skating and the season's world ranking had not been implemented until 2010. The current Standings and Ranking system has been implemented since the 2010-11 season. Eighteen single skaters and nineteen couples have been top of the season-end World Standings since the 2001-02 season. Ten single skaters and eleven couples have holden the Season's World number-one rank since the 2010-11 season.