1948 World Figure Skating Championships

1948 World Figure Skating Championships
Type:	ISU Championship
Date:	February 11 – 15
Season:	1948
Location:	Davos, Switzerland
Champions
	Men's singles: ; Richard Button
	Ladies' singles: ; Barbara Ann Scott
	Pair skating: ; Micheline Lannoy / Pierre Baugniet
	Previous: ; 1947 World Championships
	Next: ; 1949 World Championships

The World Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union in which figure skaters compete for the title of World Champion.

The 1948 competitions for men, ladies, and pair skating took place from February 11 to 15 in Davos, Switzerland. These were the second World Figure Skating Championships after World War II. Skaters from Germany and Japan were still not allowed to compete.

Results

Men

Rank	Name	Nation	Places
1	Dick Button	United States	11
2	Hans Gerschwiler	Switzerland	19
3	Ede Király	Hungary	28
4	John Lettengarver	United States	32
5	James Grogan	United States	52
6	Graham Sharp	United Kingdom	53
7	Helmut Seibt	Austria	76
8	Hellmuth May	Austria	79
9	Wallace Diestelmeyer	Canada	85
10	Ladislav Čáp	Czechoslovakia	84
11	Fernand Leemans	Belgium	80
12	Zdeněk Fikar	Czechoslovakia	105
13	Per Cock-Clausen	Denmark	115
WD	Edi Rada	Austria

Judges:

Adolf Rosdol Austria
A. Voordeckers Belgium
Melville F. Rogers Canada
Vladimir Koudelka Czechoslovakia
H. Meistrup Denmark
Hubert M. Martineau United Kingdom
Marcel Vadas Hungary
H. Storke United States
E. Kirchhofer Switzerland

Ladies

Rank	Name	Nation	Places
1	Barbara Ann Scott	Canada	11
2	Eva Pawlik	Austria	25
3	Jiřína Nekolová	Czechoslovakia	32
4	Jeanette Altwegg	United Kingdom	36
5	Alena Vrzáňová	Czechoslovakia	39
6	Yvonne Sherman	United States	71
7	Marta Bachem-Musilek	Austria	81
8	Bridget Shirley Adams	United Kingdom	83
9	Andrea Kékesy	Hungary	93
10	Dagmar Lerchova	Czechoslovakia	109
11	Marika Saáry	Hungary	102
12	Marilyn Ruth Take	Canada	97
13	Suzanne Morrow	Canada	107
14	Maja Hug	Switzerland	124
15	Marion Davies	United Kingdom	113
16	Barbara Wyatt	United Kingdom	135
17	Beryl Bailey	United Kingdom	141
18	Jacqueline du Bief	France	149
19	Jill Hood-Linzee	United Kingdom	163
20	Lotti Höner	Switzerland	179

Judges:

Hans Meixner Austria
Melville F. Rogers Canada
K. Zemek Czechoslovakia
Georges Torchon France
Kenneth M. Beaumont United Kingdom
Elemér Terták Hungary
H. Meistrup Denmark
M. Bernard Fox United States
A. Winkler Switzerland

Pairs

Rank	Name	Nation	Places
1	Micheline Lannoy / Pierre Baugniet	Belgium	13.5
2	Andrea Kékesy / Ede Király	Hungary	24.5
3	Suzanne Morrow / Wallace Diestelmeyer	Canada	26
4	Karol Kennedy / Peter Kennedy	United States	38.5
5	Yvonne Sherman / Robert Swenning	United States	45
6	Winifred Silverthorne / Dennis Silverthorne	United Kingdom	51.5
7	Marianne Nagy / László Nagy	Hungary	72
8	Jennifer Nicks / John Nicks	United Kingdom	80.5
9	Blažena Knittlová / Karel Vosátka	Czechoslovakia	86.5
10	Luny Kuster-Unold / Hans Unold	Switzerland	91
11	Herta Ratzenhofer / Emil Ratzenhofer	Austria	92
12	Joan Oglivie-Thompson / Robert Thompson	United Kingdom	95
13	Susi Giebsch / Helmut Seibt	Austria	104
14	Eliane Steinemann / André Calame	Switzerland	125
WD	Denise Favart / Jacques Favart	France

Judges:

Rudolf Kaler Austria
A. Voordeckers Belgium
Melville F. Rogers Canada
Vladimir Koudelka Czechoslovakia
Georges Torchon France
Mollie Phillips United Kingdom
Marcel Vadas Hungary
Harold G. Storke United States
James Koch Switzerland

Sources

Result List provided by the ISU

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