1972 World Figure Skating Championships

1972 World Figure Skating Championships
Type:ISU Championship
Date:March 7 – 11
Season:1971–72
Location: Calgary, Alberta,
Canada
Venue:Stampede Corral
Champions
Men's singles:
Ondrej Nepela
Ladies' singles:
Beatrix Schuba
Pairs:
Irina Rodnina / Aleksey Ulanov
Ice dance:
Lyudmila Pakhomova / Aleksandr Gorshkov
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.

A day before the start of the competition, Irina Rodnina / Aleksey Ulanov had an accident on a lift; Rodnina 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. Ulanov would team up with the silver medalist, Lyudmila Smirnova.

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Canada)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Soviet Union2215
2 Austria1001
 Czechoslovakia1001
4 Canada*0101
 West Germany0101
6 United States0033
Totals (6 entries)44412

Results

Men

Rank Name CF FS Points Places
1 Ondrej Nepela 1 3 2722.8 9
2 Sergey Chetverukhin 2 2 2673.8 19
3 Vladimir Kovalyov 3 5 2607.5 34
4 John Petkevich 5 4 2585.5 39
5 Toller Cranston 9 1 2566.1 45
6 Jan Hoffmann 4 9 2559.7 59
7 Kenneth Shelley 7 6 2538.7 67
8 Gordon McKellen 10 8 2528.3 69
9 John Curry 6 7 2534.8 70
10 Sergey Volkov 8 10 2499.0 86
11 Jacques Mrozek 11 11 2448.8 100
12 Zdeněk Pazdírek 14 12 116
13 Didier Gailhauguet 12 13 116
14 Josef Schneider 13 15 128
15 Yutaka Higuchi 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 19 167
WD Haig Oundjian DNS

Judges:

  • Gerhardt Bubník
  • Dorothy Burkholder
  • Tatyana Danilenko
  • Masao Hasegawa
  • Franz Heinlein
  • William Lewis
  • Monique Petis
  • Mollie Phillips
  • Helga Wiecki
  • János Zsigmondy (substitute)

Ladies

Rank Name CF FS Points Places
1 Beatrix Schuba 1 9 2778.5 13
2 Karen Magnussen 2 2 2745.2 16
3 Janet Lynn 3 1 2713.0 25
4 Zsuzsa Almássy 4 6 2643.3 37
5 Sonja Morgenstern 6 3 2581.1 52
6 Jean Scott 5 10 2555.1 57
7 Dorothy Hamill 8 5 2548.3 62
8 Suna Murray 7 7 2517.5 74
9 Cathy Irwin 9 8 2499.9 79
10 Christine Errath 11 4 2519.9 81
11 Ľudmila Bezáková 10 13 2426.9 102
12 Karin Iten 12 16 2387.8 118
13 Gerti Schanderl 15 11 2385.3 119
14 Cinzia Frosio 13 12 2380.1 120
15 Darya Prichun 14 14 2370.9 127
16 Marie-Claude Bierre 17 15 2319.9 146
17 Dianne de Leeuw 16 19 2296.6 151
18 Chang Myung-su 18 18 2221.6 169
19 Sharon Burley 19 21 2195.8 175
20 Shūko Takeyama 20 20 2193.3 178
21 Marina Sanaya 21 17 2189.3 178

Judges:

  • Zoltán Balázs
  • Jeanine Donnier-Blanc
  • Milan Duchón (substitute)
  • Suzanne Francis
  • Ludwig Gassner
  • Walburga Grimm
  • Wilhelm Kahle
  • Ramona McIntyre
  • Giovanni de Mori
  • René Schlageter

Pairs

Rank Name SP FS Points Places
1 Irina Rodnina / Aleksey Ulanov 1 106.2 1 315.6 421.8 9
2 Lyudmila Smirnova / Andrey Suraykin 2 104.4 3 312.3 416.7 21.5
3 Alicia Starbuck / Kenneth Shelley 5 99.6 2 312.6 412.2 28.5
4 Manuela Groß / Uwe Kagelmann 3 102.0 4 307.8 409.8 38
5 Almut Lehmann / Herbert Wiesinger 4 100.9 5 306.9 407.8 42
6 Irina Chernyayeva / Vasiliy Blagov 6 99.5 6 304.5 404.0 55
7 Annette Kansy / Axel Salzmann 8 98.2 7 300.9 399.1 68
8 Sandra Bezic / Val Bezic 7 98.3 8 301.2 399.5 70
9 Melissa Militano / Mark Militano 9 96.6 9 298.5 395.1 76
10 Corinna Halke / Eberhard Rausch 11 94.8 10 268.9 363.7 95
11 Mary Petrie / John Hubbell 13 92.7 11 285.0 377.7 102
12 Grażyna Osmańska / Adam Brodecki 10 96.5 12 284.1 380.6 106
13 Gabriele Cieplik / Reinhard Ketterer 12 94.4 13 280.8 375.2 114
14 Barbara Brown / Douglas Berndt 14 90.9 14 278.4 369.3 123
15 Linda Connolly / Colin Taylforth 15 90.5 15 272.4 362.9 132

Judges:

Ice dance

Rank Name CD FD Points Places
1 Lyudmila Pakhomova / Aleksandr Gorshkov 1 251.9 1 262.7 514.6 14
2 Angelika Buck / Erich Buck 2 250.7 2 261.3 512.0 17
3 Judy Schwomeyer / James Sladky 3 248.7 3 260.0 508.7 24
4 Janet Sawbridge / Peter Dalby 4 242.0 4 255.0 495.0 38
5 Tetyana Voytyuk / Vyacheslav Zhyhalyn 5 234.9 5 250.8 485.7 46
6 Hilary Green / Glynn Watts 6 233.3 6 250.9 484.2 50
7 Anne Millier / Harvey Millier 7 221.9 7 244.9 466.8 67
8 Yelena Zharkova / Gennadiy Karponosov 8 219.1 8 242.3 461.4 75
9 Louise Lind / Barry Soper 9 217.9 9 241.0 458.9 80
10 Mary Campbell / Johnny Johns 10 216.1 10 237.2 453.3 91
11 Diana Skotnická / Martin Skotnický 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 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 / Yasuyuki Noto 16 182.3 16 195.8 378.1 144

Judges:

  • Zoltán Balázs
  • Pamela Davis
  • Milan Duchón
  • Igor Kabanov
  • Claude Lambert
  • Audrey Moore
  • Eugen Romminger
  • Benjamin T. Wright
  • Maria Zuchowicz

References

  1. ^ 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

  • The Calgary Gerald (Calgary, Alberta, March 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 1972)
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