1955 World Figure Skating Championships

1955 World Figure Skating Championships
Type:ISU Championship
Date:February 15 – 18
Season:1955
Location: Vienna, Austria
Champions
Men's singles:
Hayes Alan Jenkins
Ladies' singles:
Tenley Albright
Pairs:
Frances Dafoe / Norris Bowden
Ice dance:
Jean Westwood / Lawrence Demmy
Previous:
1954 World Championships
Next:
1956 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 1955 competitions for men, ladies, pair skating, and ice dancing took place from February 15th to 18th in Vienna, Austria.

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Austria)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 United States2215
2 Great Britain1113
3 Canada1001
4 Austria*0112
5 Hungary0011
Totals (5 entries)44412

Results

Men

Rank Name Places
1 Hayes Jenkins 11
2 Ronald Robertson 16
3 David Jenkins 28
4 Alain Giletti 37
5 Karol Divín 58
6 Michael Booker 58
7 Norbert Felsinger 60
8 Charles Snelling 69
9 Alain Calmat 79
10 Hugh Graham 79
11 István Szenes 103
12 Hans Müller 114
13 Tilo Gutzeit 114
14 Brian Tuck 119

Judges:

Ladies

Rank Name Points Places
1 Tenley Albright 190.96 9
2 Carol Heiss 180.31 28
3 Hanna Eigel 179.78 29
4 Ingrid Wendl 178.46 41
5 Erica Batchelor 177.56 43
6 Yarmila Pachl 175.16 58
7 Patricia Firth 174.49 59
8 Yvonne Sugden 174.59 64
9 Ann Johnston 172.51 77
10 Catherine Machado 169.43 87
11 Rosi Pettinger 161.98 105
12 Dawn Hunter 158.42 121
13 Ilse Musyl 157.99 126
14 Dagmar Řeháková 157.89 129
15 Joan Haanappel 156.06 138
16 Fiorella Negro 161.98 141
17 Alice Fischer 153.37 158.5
18 Miroslava Náchodská 153.03 162
19 Maryvonne Huet 152.54 162.5
20 Erika Rücker 150.66 175
21 Sjoukje Dijkstra 151.57 176
WD Hanna Walter DNS

Judges:

Pairs

Rank Name Points Places
1 Frances Dafoe / Norris Bowden 10.88 17.5
2 Sissy Schwarz / Kurt Oppelt 10.82 17.5
3 Marianna Nagy / László Nagy 10.57 28
4 Carole Ormaca / Robin Greiner 10.27 46
5 Barbara Wagner / Robert Paul 10.08 65
6 Věra Suchánková / Zdeněk Doležal 10.06 66.5
7 Marika Kilius / Franz Ningel 10.01 68.5
8 Lucille Ash / Sully Kothmann 10.02 70.5
9 Alice Zettel / Klaus Loichinger 9.96 70.5
10 Liesl Ellend / Konrad Lienert 9.82 82.5
11 Éva Szöllősi / Gábor Vida 9.78 83
12 Vivien Higson / Robert Hudson 9.79 87.5

Judges:

Ice dance

Rank Name Points Places
1 Jean Westwood / Lawrence Demmy 37.09 7
2 Pamela Weight / Paul Thomas 36.52 14
3 Barbara Radford / Raymond Lockwood 35.29 21
4 Carmel Bodel / Edward Bodel 34.23 28
5 Joan Zamboni / Roland Junso 34.11 34
6 Phyllis Forney / Martin Forney 33.23 43
7 Fanny Besson / Jean Guhel 50
8 Sigrid Knake / Günther Koch 69
9 Lucia Fischer / Rudolf Zorn 31.20 69
10 Bona Giammona / Giancarlo Sioli 75
11 Lindis Johnston / Jeffrey Johnston 77
12 Catharina Odink / Jacobus Odink 80
13 Claude Weinstein / Claude Lambert 83
14 Edith Peikert / Hans Kutschera 30.33 84
15 Luise Lehner / Georg Lenitz 28.38 104

Judges:

  • Pauline L. Barrajo
  • P. Farinet
  • Hans Meixner
  • Henri Meudec
  • R. Sackett
  • László Szollás
  • A. Voordeckers

Sources

  • Result List provided by the ISU
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