1963 World Figure Skating Championships

1963 World Figure Skating Championships
Type:ISU Championship
Date:February 28 – March 3
Season:1963
Location: Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy
Champions
Men's singles:
Donald McPherson
Ladies' singles:
Sjoukje Dijkstra
Pairs:
Marika Kilius / Hans-Jürgen Bäumler
Ice dance:
Eva Romanová / Pavel Roman
Previous:
1962 World Championships
Next:
1964 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 1963 competitions for men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dance took place from February 28 to March 3 in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. The competition was held in the open-air ice stadium, with events running as late as 1 or 2am, by which time it was very cold. This caused the ice to become hard and brittle, as well as causing discomfort to those in attendance.[1]

Perhaps due to the poor ice conditions, the men's competition was marred by many falls. Both the winner Donald McPherson and second-place finisher Alain Calmat fell on triple loop attempts, but neither Manfred Schnelldorfer nor Karol Divín, who had been placed 1-2 after the compulsory figures, performed well in the free skating.[1]

Marika Kilius and Hans-Jürgen Bäumler won the pair competition, although some questioned whether some of their lifts, including a "triple Axel lift" (an Axel lasso lift with 3.5 rotations), were legal under the ISU rules of the time. The Canadian team of Debbi Wilkes and Guy Revell had to withdraw after Wilkes suffered a head injury in a fall while posing for press photos.[1]

Disaster also struck the American dance team Yvonne Littlefield and Peter Betts. They placed 9th in the compulsory dances, but in the free dance Betts's blade came unscrewed from the boot and they were unable to finish their program. Meanwhile, the defending champions Eva Romanová and Pavel Roman came from behind to retain title after being defeated in the compulsory dances by the British team, Linda Shearman and Michael Phillips, who had also defeated the Romans at the European Championships earlier that year.[1]

Defending champion Sjoukje Dijkstra also retained her title, building a big lead in the compulsory figures and following it with a good performance in the free skate, in which she now included a double Lutz for the first time.[1] Nicole Hassler, second in the free skate and third overall, had two strong double Axels at the end of her program.[2] The Japanese competitor Miwa Fukuhara, who finished 6th overall, included a triple salchow in her program.[1]

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Italy)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Canada1012
 West Germany1012
3 Czechoslovakia1001
 Netherlands1001
5 France0112
 Soviet Union0112
7 Austria0101
 Great Britain0101
Totals (8 entries)44412

Results

Men

Rank Name Places
1 Donald McPherson 18
2 Alain Calmat 22
3 Manfred Schnelldorfer 22
4 Karol Divín 34
5 Scott Allen 40
6 Peter Jonas 59
7 Sepp Schönmetzler 71
8 Donald Knight 79
9 Emmerich Danzer 80
10 Nobuo Satō 83
11 Monty Hoyt 88
12 Robert Dureville 117
13 Hugo Dümmler 122
14 Jenő Ébert 130
15 William Neale 136
16 Valeriy Meshkov 144
17 Giordano Abbondati 145
18 Malcolm Cannon 159
19 Wouter Toledo 161

Judges:

  • Charlotte Benedict-Stieber
  • Zdeněk Fikar
  • Edwin Kucharz
  • J. A. McKechnie
  • Giovanni de Mori
  • Pamela Peat
  • John R. Shoemaker
  • Néri Valdes
  • Adolf Walker

Ladies

Rank Name Places
1 Sjoukje Dijkstra 9
2 Regine Heitzer 22
3 Nicole Hassler 30
4 Wendy Griner 36
5 Petra Burka 39
6 Miwa Fukuhara 68
7 Inge Paul 73
8 Jana Mrázková 73
9 Helli Sengstschmid 75
10 Lorraine Hanlon 89
11 Diana Clifton-Peach 97
12 Ingrid Ostler 110
13 Karen Howland 130
14 Franziska Schmidt 128
15 Eva Grožajová 138
16 Ann-Margreth Frei 140
17 Junko Ueno 147
18 Sandra Brugnera 160
19 Christine Haigler 161
20 Shirra Kenworthy 167
21 Zsuzsa Szentmiklóssy 191
22 Karin Dehle 198
23 Tatyana Nemtsova 204
24 Elżbieta Kościk 215

Judges:

  • Charlotte Benedict-Stieber
  • Walter Fritz
  • Theo Klemm
  • Oskar Madl
  • E. R. S. McLauchlin
  • Gérard Rodrigues-Henriques
  • Ardelle Sanderson
  • Emil Skákala
  • Sergey Vasilyev

Pairs

Rank Name Places
1 Marika Kilius / Hans-Jürgen Bäumler 9
2 Lyudmila Belousova / Oleg Protopopov 20
3 Tatyana Zhuk / Aleksandr Gavrilov 31
4 Gertrude Desjardins / Maurice Lefrance 31.5
5 Milada Kubíková / Jaroslav Votruba 51.5
6 Gerda Johner / Rüdi Johner 58.5
7 Judianne Fotheringill / Jerry Fotheringill 64
8 Vivian Joseph / Ronald Joseph 66.5
9 Patti Gustafson / Pieter Kollen 84
10 Sonja Pfersdorf / Günther Matzdorf 84
11 Linda Ward / Neil Carpenter 95
12 Gunilla Lindberg / Gunnar de Shàrengrad 107

Judges:

Ice dance

Rank Name Places
1 Eva Romanová / Pavel Roman 14
2 Linda Shearman / Michael Phillips 15
3 Paulette Doan / Kenneth Ormsby 26
4 Janet Sawbridge / David Hickinbottom 36
5 Donna Mitchell / John Mitchell 47
6 Mary Parry / Roy Mason 62
7 Sally Schantz / Stanley Urban 66
8 Lorna Dyer / John Carrell 71
9 Györgyi Korda / Pál Vásárhelyi 82
10 Carole Forrest / Kevin Lethbridge 93
11 Marlyse Fornachon / Charly Pichard 96
12 Armelle Flichy / Pierre Brun 116
13 Helga Burkhardt / Hannes Burkhardt 117
14 Jitka Babická / Jaromír Holan 120
15 Christel Trebesiner / Georg Felsinger 132
16 Ghislaine Houdas / Francis Gamichon 141
17 Yvonne Littlefield / Peter Betts 152
18 Maria Toncelli / Vinicio Toncelli 153

Judges:

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Arctic Cold Chills World Championships", Skating magazine, May 1963
  2. ^ "Informal Comments on Worlds", Skating magazine, May 1963
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