1972 World Figure Skating Championships
1972 World Figure Skating Championships | |
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Type: | ISU Championship |
Date: | March 7 – 11 |
Season: | 1971–72 |
Location: | Calgary, Canada |
Venue: | Stampede Corral |
Champions | |
Men's singles: | |
Ladies' singles: | |
Pair skating: | |
Ice dance: | |
Previous: 1971 World Championships | |
Next: 1973 World Championships |
The 1972 World Figure Skating Championships were held at the Stampede Corral in Calgary, Canada from March 7 to 11. At the event, sanctioned by the International Skating Union, medals were awarded in men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dance.
The ISU Representative was John R. Shoemaker (United States) and the ISU Technical Delegates were Hermann Schiechtl (West Germany) and Donald H. Gilchrist (Canada).
A day before the start of the competition, Irina Rodnina / Alexei Ulanov had an accident on a lift; she was hospitalized with a concussion and an intracranial hematoma but went on to compete and win the gold medal.[1] It was Rodnina/Ulanov's final competition together; he would team up with the silver medalist, Lyudmila Smirnova.
Medal table
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | |
2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||
4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||
6 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | |
Totals (6 nations) | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 |
Results
Men
Rank | Name | Nation | Age | CF | FS | Points | Places | ||
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1 | Ondrej Nepela | 21 | 1 | 3 | 2722.8 | 9 | |||
2 | Sergei Chetverukhin | 26 | 2 | 2 | 2673.8 | 19 | |||
3 | Vladimir Kovalev | 19 | 3 | 5 | 2607.5 | 34 | |||
4 | John Misha Petkevich | 22 | 5 | 4 | 2585.5 | 39 | |||
5 | Toller Cranston | 22 | 9 | 1 | 2566.1 | 45 | |||
6 | Jan Hoffmann | 16 | 4 | 9 | 2559.7 | 59 | |||
7 | Kenneth Shelley | 20 | 7 | 6 | 2538.7 | 67 | |||
8 | Gordon McKellen | 18 | 10 | 8 | 2528.3 | 69 | |||
9 | John Curry | 22 | 6 | 7 | 2534.8 | 70 | |||
10 | Sergei Volkov | 22 | 8 | 10 | 2499.0 | 86 | |||
11 | Jacques Mrozek | 21 | 11 | 11 | 2448.8 | 100 | |||
12 | Zdeněk Pazdírek | 18 | 14 | 12 | 116 | ||||
13 | Didier Gailhauguet | 19 | 12 | 13 | 116 | ||||
14 | Josef Schneider | 13 | 15 | 128 | |||||
15 | Yutaka Higuchi | 22 | 16 | 14 | 136 | ||||
16 | Jozef Žídek | 17 | 16 | 141 | |||||
17 | Stefano Bargauan | 15 | 17 | 144 | |||||
18 | Harald Kuhn | 19 | 18 | 166 | |||||
19 | Pekka Leskinen | 18 | 18 | 19 | 167 | ||||
WD | Haig Oundjian | 22 | DNF |
Referee:
Assistant Referee:
- Sonia Bianchetti
Italy
Judges:
- Helga von Wiecki
East Germany - Mollie Phillips
United Kingdom - Dorothy Burkholder
United States - William E. Lewis
Canada - Gerhardt Bubnik
Czechoslovakia - Franz Heinlein
Austria - Masao Hasegawa
Japan - Monique Petis
France - Tatiana Danilenko
Soviet Union
Substitute judge:
- János Zsigmondy
West Germany
Ladies
Rank | Name | Nation | Age | CF | FS | Points | Places | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Beatrix Schuba | 20 | 1 | 9 | 2778.5 | 13 | |||
2 | Karen Magnussen | 19 | 2 | 2 | 2745.2 | 16 | |||
3 | Janet Lynn | 18 | 3 | 1 | 2713.0 | 25 | |||
4 | Zsuzsa Almassy | 21 | 4 | 6 | 2643.3 | 37 | |||
5 | Sonja Morgenstern | 17 | 6 | 3 | 2581.1 | 52 | |||
6 | Jean Scott | 20 | 5 | 10 | 2555.1 | 57 | |||
7 | Dorothy Hamill | 15 | 8 | 5 | 2548.3 | 62 | |||
8 | Suna Murray | 16 | 7 | 7 | 2517.5 | 74 | |||
9 | Cathy Lee Irwin | 19 | 9 | 8 | 2499.9 | 81 | |||
10 | Christine Errath | 15 | 11 | 4 | 2519.9 | 79 | |||
11 | Ludmila Bezakova | 10 | 13 | 2426.9 | 102 | ||||
12 | Karin Iten | 15 | 12 | 16 | 2387.8 | 118 | |||
13 | Gerti Schanderl | 15 | 11 | 2385.3 | 119 | ||||
14 | Cinzia Frosio | 13 | 12 | 2380.1 | 120 | ||||
15 | Daria Prychun | 16 | 14 | 14 | 2370.9 | 127 | |||
16 | Marie-Claude Bierre | 17 | 15 | 2319.9 | 146 | ||||
17 | Dianne de Leeuw | 16 | 16 | 19 | 2296.6 | 151 | |||
18 | Chang Myung-su | 15 | 18 | 18 | 2221.6 | 169 | |||
19 | Sharon Burley | 15 | 19 | 21 | 2195.8 | 175 | |||
20 | Shuko Takeyama | 20 | 20 | 2193.3 | 178 | ||||
21 | Marina Sanaya | 13 | 21 | 17 | 2189.3 | 178 |
Referee:
Assistant Referee:
Judges:
- Ramona McIntyre
United States - Suzanne Francis
Canada - Jeanine Donnier-Blanc
France - Giovanni DeMori
Italy - Walburga Grimm
East Germany - Ludwig Gassner
Austria - Zoltán Balázs
Hungary - René Schlageter
Switzerland - Wilhelm Kahle
West Germany
Substitute judge:
- Milan Duchón
Czechoslovakia
Pairs
Referee:
Assistant Referee:
- Hanry M. Beatty
United States
Judges:
- Pamela Davis
United Kingdom - Walburga Grimm
East Germany - Maria Zuchowicz
Poland - Elsbeth Bon
Netherlands - Inkeri Soininen
Finland - Suzanne Francis
Canada - János Zsigmondy
West Germany - Ardelle K. Sanderson
United States - Valentin Piseev
Soviet Union
Substitute judge:
- René Schlageter
Switzerland
Ice dance
Rank | Name | Nation | Age | CD | FD | Points | Places | ||
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1 | Liudmila Pakhomova / Alexander Gorshkov | 25/25 | 1 | 251.9 | 1 | 262.7 | 514.6 | 14 | |
2 | Angelika Buck / Erich Buck | 21/23 | 2 | 250.7 | 2 | 261.3 | 512.0 | 17 | |
3 | Judy Schwomeyer / James Sladky | 21/25 | 3 | 248.7 | 3 | 260.0 | 508.7 | 24 | |
4 | Janet Sawbridge / Peter Dalby | 24/25 | 4 | 242.0 | 4 | 255.0 | 495.0 | 38 | |
5 | Tatiana Voitiuk / Viacheslav Zhigalin | 20/22 | 5 | 234.9 | 5 | 250.8 | 485.7 | 46 | |
6 | Hilary Green / Glyn Watts | 21/23 | 6 | 233.3 | 6 | 250.9 | 484.2 | 50 | |
7 | Anne Millier / Harvey Millier III | 7 | 221.9 | 7 | 244.9 | 466.8 | 67 | ||
8 | Elena Zharkova / Gennadi Karponosov | 8 | 219.1 | 8 | 242.3 | 461.4 | 75 | ||
9 | Louise Soper / Barry Soper | 9 | 217.9 | 9 | 241.0 | 458.9 | 80 | ||
10 | Mary Karen Campbell / Johnny Johns | 10 | 216.1 | 10 | 237.2 | 453.3 | 91 | ||
11 | Diana Skotnická / Martin Skotnický | /25 | 11 | 212.6 | 11 | 234.8 | 447.4 | 99 | |
12 | Anne-Claude Wolfers / Roland Mars | 12 | 209.5 | 13 | 226.7 | 436.2 | 108 | ||
13 | Teresa Weyna / Piotr Bojańczyk | 21/25 | 13 | 208.0 | 12 | 226.7 | 434.7 | 110 | |
14 | Sylvia Fuchs / Michael Fuchs | 14 | 197.7 | 14 | 215.5 | 413.2 | 126 | ||
15 | Astrid Kopp / Axel Kopp | 15 | 195.3 | 15 | 208.2 | 403.5 | 135 | ||
16 | Keiko Achiwa / Yasuhiro Noto | 16 | 182.3 | 16 | 195.8 | 378.1 | 144 |
Referee:
Assistant Referee:
- George J. Blundun
Canada
Judges:
- Pamela Davis
United Kingdom - Claude Lambert
France - Audrey Moore
Canada - Milan Duchón
Czechoslovakia - Benjamin T. Wright
United States - Eugen Romminger
West Germany - Zoltán Balázs
Hungary - Igor Kabanov
Soviet Union - Maria Zuchowicz
Poland
References
- ↑ Pushkina, Oksana (October 3, 2004). Ирина Константиновна Роднина [Irina Konstantinovna Rodnina]. peoples.ru (in Russian). Archived from the original on 6 June 2011. Retrieved April 23, 2011.
Sources
- Result list provided by the ISU
- The Calgary Gerald (Calgary, Alberta, March 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 1972)