I partecipanti alla Selezione Preliminare sono stati 151, provenienti da 29 paesi e dai 5 continenti.
Otto sono stati ammessi direttamente al primo turno, in quanto vincitori di altri concorsi internazionali membri del WFIMC.
| N. | Paese | Nome | Cognome | Età | |
| 1 | CHN | Bowen | Li | 23 | Admitted |
| 2 | GER | Knut | Hanssen | 26 | Admitted |
| 3 | CHN | Zikai | Zhang | 21 | |
| 4 | CHN | Ziyu | Liu | 21 | |
| 5 | CHN | Yanfeng | Bai | 21 | Admitted |
| 6 | KOR | Narae | Lee | 29 | |
| 7 | CHN | Hehuan | Yu | 24 | |
| 8 | BLR | Andrey | Ivanov | 29 | |
| 9 | CHN | Shengye | Cheng | 18 | |
| 10 | JPN | Takuma | Ishii | 29 | Admitted |
| 11 | UKR | Antuanetta | Mishchenko | 27 | |
| 12 | ITA | Cesare | Grassi | 28 | |
| 13 | BLR | Yevgeni | Galanov | 28 | |
| 14 | CRC | Maria Daniela | Navarro Mora | 23 | |
| 15 | ITA | Angelo | Villari | 28 | |
| 16 | ITA | Giacomo | Menegardi | 19 | |
| 17 | CHN | Zhiang | Xu | 24 | |
| 18 | JPN | Ayumi | Ibaraki | 22 | |
| 19 | KOR | Ahyoung | Won | 27 | |
| 20 | KOR | Minhyuk | Song | 26 | |
| 21 | KOR | Da Bin | Son | 29 | |
| 22 | RUS | Dmitry | Sin | 24 | |
| 23 | RUS | Vladislav | Chubenko | 24 | |
| 24 | KOR | Ungyung | Jeong | 29 | |
| 25 | KOR | Hans | Suh | 29 | Admitted |
| 26 | CHN | Hao | Yilei | 23 | Admitted |
| 27 | CHN | Zhenyl | Wu | 25 | |
| 28 | CHN | Zhiye | Lin | 23 | |
| 29 | KOR | Kisuk | Kwon | 27 | |
| 30 | CHN | Zhiqi | Yuan | 18 | |
| 31 | TUR | Mertol | Demirelli | 23 | |
| 32 | CHN | Yilan | Zhao | 24 | |
| 33 | TWA | Yun-An | Lee | 26 | |
| 34 | ITA | Josef Edoardo | Mossali | 18 | |
| 35 | KOR | Jeonghun | Kim | 24 | |
| 36 | NED | He | Chang | 24 | |
| 37 | UKR | Oleksii | Kanke | 21 | |
| 38 | KOR | Su Yeon | Kim | 25 | Admitted |
| 39 | ITA | Axel | Trolese | 22 | |
| 40 | ITA | Federico Gad | Crema | 20 | |
| 41 | RUS | Alexander | Koryakin | 30 | Admitted |
| 42 | GER | Elias | Opferkuch | 23 | |
| 43 | JPN | Ryusuke | Sasaki | 21 | |
| 44 | LET | Anton | Rosputko | 26 | |
| 45 | LET | Antonina | Suhanova | 28 | |
| 46 | JPN | Hikari | Matsushita | 17 | |
| 47 | JPN | Mariko | Nogami | 28 | |
| 48 | TWA | Zu-An | Shen | 25 | |
| 49 | RUS | Danila | Khaibullina | 27 | |
| 50 | TCH | Robert | Bily | 22 | |
| 51 | RUS | Vladimir | Kuzin | 28 | |
| 52 | JPN | Kido | Miyu | 24 | |
| 53 | JPN | Takafumi | Mizuno | 23 | |
| 54 | KOR | Suah | Ye | 19 | |
| 55 | ITA | Pietro | Bonfilio | 29 | |
| 56 | FRA | Alexandre | Lory | 28 | |
| 57 | CHN | Guanzheng | Chen | 20 | |
| 58 | ITA | Marco | Rizzello | 22 | |
| 59 | KOR | Beor | Lee | 25 | |
| 60 | JPN | Yuki | Osaki | 26 | |
| 61 | JPN | Shuma | Usui | 30 | |
| 62 | RUS | Anastasiia | Chzhan | 23 | |
| 63 | JPN | Fukuyo | Nakamura | 26 | |
| 64 | ITA | Nicola | Parisi | 20 | |
| 65 | TWA | Yi-Teng | Huang | 21 | |
| 66 | UKR | Danylo | Saienko | 28 | |
| 67 | KOR | Jin-Hyeon | Lee | 28 | |
| 68 | JPN | Ryutaro | Suzuki | 29 | |
| 69 | JPN | Akane | Yoshida | 26 | |
| 70 | CHN | Chia-Ying | Tang | 25 | |
| 71 | JPN | Sohgo | Sawada | 20 | |
| 72 | ROM | Silviu | Dumitrache | 26 | |
| 73 | KOR | Daeyoung | Kim | 27 | |
| 74 | JPN | Kyoko | Hirota | 26 | |
| 75 | AUT | Maximilian | Kromer | 23 | |
| 76 | KOR | Ju Yen | Chai | 28 | |
| 77 | ITA | Tiziano | Rossetti | 27 | |
| 78 | ESP | Leo | De Maria | 23 | |
| 79 | GER | Hanna | Schwalbe | 18 | |
| 80 | KOR | Yunjae | Lee | 26 | |
| 81 | JPN | Wataru | Mashimo | 22 | |
| 82 | JPN | Shuta | Kimoto | 24 | |
| 83 | JPN | Mayaka | Nakagawa | 25 | |
| 84 | CHN | Shiwen | Yang | 16 | |
| 85 | JPN | Yumeka | Nakagawa | 18 | |
| 86 | NOR | Lars Fredrik | Nystad | 28 | |
| 87 | KOR | Jeongro | Park | 30 | |
| 88 | FRA | Marcel | Tadakoro | 26 | |
| 89 | ITA | Davide | Montalenti | 23 | |
| 90 | KOR | Jung Eun Séverine | Kim | 25 | |
| 91 | JPN | Ken | Nakasako | 26 | |
| 92 | CHN | Antonio Chen | Guang | 25 | |
| 93 | GBR/GER | Niklas | Oldemeier | 26 | |
| 94 | JPN | Ayumi | Hirata | 28 | |
| 95 | JPN | Moeko | Ezaki | 26 | |
| 96 | RUS | Konstantin | Khachikyan | 24 | |
| 97 | JPN | Nakako | Kurita | 29 | |
| 98 | CHN | Yixiang | Hou | 26 | |
| 99 | GBR | Luke | Jones | 24 | |
| 100 | BLR | Volha | Karmyzava | 26 | |
| 101 | CHN | Xu | Guo | 24 | |
| 102 | ITA | Alberto | Ferro | 23 | |
| 103 | KOR | Jihyung | Youn | 20 | |
| 104 | RUS | Andrey | Anokhin | 25 | |
| 105 | KOR | Seunghui | Kim | 20 | |
| 106 | KOR | Snagwon | Lee | 27 | |
| 107 | KOR | Minhyun | Cho | 28 | |
| 108 | KOR | Yeontaek | Oh | 26 | |
| 109 | SUI | Gabiz | Reichert | 25 | |
| 110 | AUS | Kathy | Chow | 26 | |
| 111 | ITA | Federico | Pulina | 23 | |
| 112 | JPN | Aruki | Fujikawa | 27 | |
| 113 | KOR | Junhee | Kim | 29 | |
| 114 | KOR | Minsung | Lee | 29 | |
| 115 | RUS | Samson | Tsoy | 30 | |
| 116 | ESP | Jorge | Nava | 28 | |
| 117 | KOR | Doyeon | Kim | 27 | |
| 118 | KOR | Eunji | Park | 26 | |
| 119 | ITA | Matteo | Cardelli | 27 | |
| 120 | KOR | Sunhyun | Park | 26 | |
| 121 | CHN | Junjie | Xi | 29 | |
| 122 | BIH | Melika | Buza | 20 | |
| 123 | SLO | Tim | Jancar | 25 | |
| 124 | GER | Susanna | De Secondi | 23 | |
| 125 | ITA | Martina | Consonni | 22 | |
| 126 | KOR | Joon | Yoon | 26 | |
| 127 | JPN | Takeshi | Shimozato | 26 | |
| 128 | JPN | Motohiro | Sato | 26 | |
| 129 | TWA | Shihhsien | Yeh | 27 | |
| 130 | KOR | Ye Chin | Hwang | 27 | |
| 131 | ITA | Matteo | Bevilacqua | 22 | |
| 132 | NED | Nicolas | van Poucke | 27 | |
| 133 | UKR | Tetiana | Shafran | 30 | |
| 134 | CAN/ALG | Mehdi | Ghazi | 30 | |
| 135 | KOR | Hee Jun | Han | 29 | |
| 136 | KOR | In-Ju | Bang | 28 | |
| 137 | CAN | Karnsiri | Laothamatas | 24 | |
| 138 | GRE | Grigoris | Ioannou | 24 | |
| 139 | KOR | Minjae | Kim | 27 | |
| 140 | JPN | Hayato | Sumino | 24 | |
| 141 | KOR | Dongkyu Leo | Kim | 25 | |
| 142 | CHN | Ke | Ma | 25 | |
| 143 | GBR | Jinah | Shim | 27 | |
| 144 | USA | Christine | Wu | 26 | |
| 145 | JPN | Mayuki | Miyashita | 19 | |
| 146 | KOR | Siwon | Kim | 30 | |
| 147 | RUS | Pavel | Boika | 23 | |
| 148 | KOR | Dasom | Nah | 28 | |
| 149 | POL | Mischa | Kozlowski | 30 | |
| 150 | RUS | Alena | Klyavina | ? | |
| 151 | KOR | SooJung | Kim | ? |