1962 World Figure Skating Championships

1962 World Figure Skating Championships
Type:ISU Championship
Date:March 14 – 17
Season:1962
Location:Prague, Czechoslovakia
Venue:Sportovní hala ČSTV
Champions
Men's singles:
Donald Jackson
Ladies' singles:
Sjoukje Dijkstra
Pairs:
Maria Jelinek
and Otto Jelinek
Ice dance:
Eva Romanová
and Pavel Roman
Previous:
1960 World Championships
Next:
1963 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 1962 competitions for men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dance took place from March 14 to 17 at the Sportovní hala ČSTV in Prague, Czechoslovakia.[1] The Figure Skating World Championships in Prague were originally planned for 1961, but were cancelled due to the crash of Sabena Flight 548, which killed everyone on board the plane, including the entire US figure skating team.

East Germany participated in the World Figure Skating Championships for the first time.

This competition is best remembered for Donald Jackson's come-from-behind victory in the men's event with a tour-de-force free skating that included the first triple lutz jump ever landed in competition as well as a triple salchow jump and 20 other double and single jumps, including jumps in opposite directions and jumps with variations in arm position or delayed rotation. Jackson received 7 perfect 6.0 scores for this performance.[2]

Prague hometown favorites Eva Romanová / Pavel Roman won the dance event - breaking the British domination of this discipline - and Canadians Maria Jelinek / Otto Jelinek were the winners in the pairs. As children, the Jelineks had defected from Czechoslovakia with their parents after the post-war Communist takeover, and there were significant fears for their safety in returning to their home country. The "official" story that had been circulated at the time of the previous year's planned competition was that they were merely of Czech descent.[3] The Jelineks' chief competitors, 1960 runners-up Marika Kilius / Hans-Jürgen Bäumler, were forced to withdraw from the competition after colliding on side-by-side jumps during their program,[4] and the silver medal was won by Lyudmila Belousova / Oleg Protopopov.

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Czechoslovakia)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Canada2114
2 Czechoslovakia*1102
3 Netherlands1001
4 France0112
5 Soviet Union0101
6 Austria0011
 West Germany0011
Totals (7 entries)44412

Results

Men

Rank Name Points Places
1 Donald Jackson 2277.1 13
2 Karol Divín 2255.9 17
3 Alain Calmat 2200.7 25
4 Donald McPherson 2172.3 37
5 Manfred Schnelldorfer 2094.0 54
6 Monty Hoyt 2059.1 59
7 Emmerich Danzer 2033.8 68
8 Scott Allen 2002.8 81
9 Peter Jonas 2005.5 82
10 Nobuo Satō 1984.7 92
11 Bodo Bockenauer 97
12 Robin Jones 101
13 Sepp Schönmetzler 109
14 Valeriy Meshkov 1895.7 117
15 Per Kjølberg 137
16 Károly Újlaky 1832.4 142
17 Robert Dureville 149
18 Alain Trouillet 159

Judges:

  • Ernst K. Bauch
  • Pamela Davis
  • Jeanine Donnier-Blanc
  • Milan Duchón
  • Georgiy Felitsyn
  • Norman V. S. Gregory
  • A. Koutny
  • Adolf Walker
  • Franz Wojtanowskyj

Ladies

Rank Name Points Places
1 Sjoukje Dijkstra 2350.0 9
2 Wendy Griner 2273.2 21
3 Regine Heitzer 2218.3 39
4 Petra Burka 2219.7 42
5 Barbara Roles 2200.9 52
6 Nicole Hassler 2172.0 64
7 Jana Mrázková 2151.8 71
8 Karin Frohner 2144.6 79
9 Miwa Fukuhara 2137.0 81
10 Lorraine Hanlon 2103.0 98
11 Jacqueline Harbord 101
12 Helli Sengstschmid 101
13 Eva Grožajová 105
14 Franziska Schmidt 108
15 Karin Gude 122
16 Victoria Fisher 148
17 Ann-Margreth Frei 159
18 Sandra Brugnera 161
19 Helga Zöllner 1968.7 166
20 Tatyana Nemtsova 1952.2 174
21 Gabriele Seyfert 178

Judges:

  • Ernst K. Bauch
  • Jeanine Donnier-Blanc
  • M. Drake
  • H. Dudová
  • Paul Engelfriet
  • Martin Felsenreich
  • A. Koutny
  • Melville Rogers
  • Adolf Walker

Pairs

Rank Name Points Places
1 Maria Jelinek / Otto Jelinek 102.2 15
2 Lyudmila Belousova / Oleg Protopopov 102.1 16.5
3 Margret Göbl / Franz Ningel 100.1 25.5
4 Debbi Wilkes / Guy Revell 93.3 45
5 Milada Kubíková / Jaroslav Votruba 95.1 52.5
6 Gertrude Desjardins / Maurice Lafrance 92.3 59.5
7 Gerda Johner / Rüdi Johner 91.0 63.5
8 Dorothyann Nelson / Pieter Kollen 90.2 70.5
9 Irene Müller / Hans-Georg Dallmer 89.0 73.5
10 Judianne Fotheringill / Jerry Fotheringill 87.4 73.5
11 Valerie Hunt / Peter Burrows 81.5
12 Diana Hinko / Bernhard Henhappel 107.5
13 Mieko Ōiwa / Yutaka Dōke 113
WD Marika Kilius / Hans-Jürgen Bäumler DNF

Judges:

Ice dance

Rank Name Points Places
1 Eva Romanová / Pavel Roman 318.5 15
2 Christiane Guhel / Jean Guhel 315.8 26
3 Virginia Thompson / William McLachlan 316.8 23
4 Linda Shearman / Michael Phillips 310.2 42
5 Paulette Doan / Kenneth Ormsby 311.0 45
6 Donna Mitchell / John Mitchell 306.4 55.5
7 Dorothyann Nelson / Pieter Kollen 306.6 57
8 Yvonne Littlefield / Peter Betts 303.0 64.5
9 Mary Parry / Roy Mason 297.2 77
10 Györgyi Korda / Pál Vásárhelyi 281.3 99
11 Helga Burkhardt / Hannes Burkhardt 108
12 Olga Gilardi / Germano Ceccattini 114
13 Marlyse Fornachon / Charly Pichard 116
14 Armelle Flichy / Pierre Brun 119
15 Christel Trebesiner / Georg Felsinger 131
16 Gabriele Rauch / Rudi Matysik 142
17 Keiko Kaneko / Mikio Takeuchi 143

Judges:

  • Pamela Davis
  • M. Drake
  • Norman V. S. Gregory
  • Ferenc Kertész
  • Eugen Kirchhofer
  • L. Lauret
  • Hans Meixner
  • Emil Skákala
  • Hermann Wollersen

References

  1. ^ "První medaile uděleny". Rudé právo (in Czech). Prague. 15 March 1962. p. 4. Retrieved 4 September 2024.
  2. ^ Beverley Smith, Figure Skating: A Celebration, ISBN 0-7710-2819-9
  3. ^ Henry Jelinek, Jr. and Ann Pinchot, On Thin Ice
  4. ^ "Champions of the World", Skating magazine, June 1963
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