1908 World Figure Skating 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.

1908 World Figure Skating Championships
Type:	ISU Championship
Season:	1908
Location:	Troppau, Austria-Hungary (singles) Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire (pairs)
Venue:	Yusupovsky Garden, Saint Petersburg
Champions
Men's singles: Ulrich Salchow
Ladies' singles: Lily Kronberger
Pairs: Anna Hübler / Heinrich Burger
Previous: 1907 World Championships
Next: 1909 World Championships

Men's and ladies' competitions were held on January 25–26 in Troppau, Austria-Hungary (modern-day Opava, Czech Republic). Pairs' competition took place on February 16 in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire. It was the first World Championships in which pair skating was contested.

Medal table

  *   Host nations (Austrian Empire, Russian Empire)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany	1	2	1	4
2	Hungary	1	0	0	1
	Sweden	1	0	0	1
4	Great Britain	0	1	0	1
5	Russia*	0	0	1	1
Totals (5 entries)		3	3	2	8

Results

Men

Rank	Name	Places
1	Ulrich Salchow	9
2	Gilbert Fuchs	12
3	Heinrich Burger	21

Judges:

• Otto Bohatsch
• C. Dorasil
• P. Engelhardt
• H. D. Faith
• I. Forssling
• Gustav Hügel
• Otto Schöning

Ladies

Rank	Name	Points	Places
1	Lily Kronberger	204.90	5
2	Elsa Rendschmidt		10

Judges:

• P. Engelhardt
• H. D. Faith
• I. Forssling
• Gustav Hügel
• Otto Schöning

Pairs

Rank	Name	Places
1	Anna Hübler / Heinrich Burger	5
2	Phyllis Johnson / James Johnson	11.5
3	Lidia Popova / Alexander Fischer	13.5

Judges:

• Aleksandr Ivashentsov
• J. Kettnitz
• V. Shnobel
• Vyacheslav Sreznevsky
• Rudolf Sundgren

Sources

• Result List provided by the ISU