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. The ISU Representative was John R. Shoemaker (United States) and the ISU Technical Delegates were Hermann Schiechtl (West Germany) and Donald Gilchrist (Canada).
| 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 | |
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 edit
* Host nation (Canada)
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Soviet Union | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| 2 | Austria | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Czechoslovakia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 4 | Canada* | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 West Germany | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 6 |  United States | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Totals (6 entries) | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 | |
Results edit
Men edit
| Rank | Name | Age | CF | FS | Points | Places |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ondrej Nepela |
21 | 1 | 3 | 2722.8 | 9 |
| 2 | Sergey Chetverukhin |
26 | 2 | 2 | 2673.8 | 19 |
| 3 | Vladimir Kovalyov |
19 | 3 | 5 | 2607.5 | 34 |
| 4 |  John Petkevich |
22 | 5 | 4 | 2585.5 | 39 |
| 5 | Toller Cranston |
22 | 9 | 1 | 2566.1 | 45 |
| 6 |  Jan Hoffmann |
16 | 4 | 9 | 2559.7 | 59 |
| 7 | Kenneth Shelley |
20 | 7 | 6 | 2538.7 | 67 |
| 8 | Gordon McKellen |
18 | 10 | 8 | 2528.3 | 69 |
| 9 |  John Curry |
22 | 6 | 7 | 2534.8 | 70 |
| 10 | Sergey Volkov |
22 | 8 | 10 | 2499.0 | 86 |
| 11 |  Jacques Mrozek |
21 | 11 | 11 | 2448.8 | 100 |
| 12 | Zdeněk Pazdírek |
18 | 14 | 12 | 116 | |
| 13 | Didier Gailhauguet |
19 | 12 | 13 | 116 | |
| 14 | Josef Schneider |
13 | 15 | 128 | ||
| 15 |  Yutaka Higuchi |
22 | 16 | 14 | 136 | |
| 16 | Jozef Žídek |
17 | 16 | 141 | ||
| 17 |  Stefano Bargauan |
18 | 15 | 17 | 144 | |
| 18 | Harald Kuhn |
19 | 18 | 166 | ||
| 19 |  Pekka Leskinen |
18 | 18 | 19 | 167 | |
| WD | Haig Oundjian |
22 | DNS |
- Referee:
Donald Gilchrist - Assistant Referee:
Sonia Bianchetti
Judges:
Gerhardt Bubník
Dorothy Burkholder
Tatyana Danilenko
Masao Hasegawa
Franz Heinlein- William Lewis
Monique Petis
Mollie Phillips
Helga Wiecki
János Zsigmondy (substitute)
Ladies edit
| Rank | Name | Age | CF | FS | Points | Places |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beatrix Schuba |
20 | 1 | 9 | 2778.5 | 13 |
| 2 | Karen Magnussen |
19 | 2 | 2 | 2745.2 | 16 |
| 3 | Janet Lynn |
18 | 3 | 1 | 2713.0 | 25 |
| 4 |  Zsuzsa Almássy |
21 | 4 | 6 | 2643.3 | 37 |
| 5 | Sonja Morgenstern |
17 | 6 | 3 | 2581.1 | 52 |
| 6 | Jean Scott |
20 | 5 | 10 | 2555.1 | 57 |
| 7 | Dorothy Hamill |
15 | 8 | 5 | 2548.3 | 62 |
| 8 | Suna Murray |
16 | 7 | 7 | 2517.5 | 74 |
| 9 | Cathy Irwin |
19 | 9 | 8 | 2499.9 | 79 |
| 10 | Christine Errath |
15 | 11 | 4 | 2519.9 | 81 |
| 11 | Ľudmila Bezáková |
10 | 13 | 2426.9 | 102 | |
| 12 |  Karin Iten |
15 | 12 | 16 | 2387.8 | 118 |
| 13 | Gerti Schanderl |
15 | 15 | 11 | 2385.3 | 119 |
| 14 | Cinzia Frosio |
13 | 12 | 2380.1 | 120 | |
| 15 | Darya Prichun |
16 | 14 | 14 | 2370.9 | 127 |
| 16 | Marie-Claude Bierre |
17 | 15 | 2319.9 | 146 | |
| 17 |  Dianne de Leeuw |
16 | 16 | 19 | 2296.6 | 151 |
| 18 |  Chang Myung-su |
15 | 18 | 18 | 2221.6 | 169 |
| 19 |  Sharon Burley |
15 | 19 | 21 | 2195.8 | 175 |
| 20 | Shūko Takeyama |
20 | 20 | 2193.3 | 178 | |
| 21 | Marina Sanaya |
13 | 21 | 17 | 2189.3 | 178 |
- Referee: Josef Dědič
- Assistant Referee:
Elemér Terták
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 edit
| Rank | Name | Age | SP | FS | Points | Places | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Irina Rodnina / Aleksey Ulanov |
22/24 | 1 | 106.2 | 1 | 315.6 | 421.8 | 9 |
| 2 | Lyudmila Smirnova / Andrey Suraykin |
22/23 | 2 | 104.4 | 3 | 312.3 | 416.7 | 21.5 |
| 3 | Alicia Starbuck / Kenneth Shelley |
20/20 | 5 | 99.6 | 2 | 312.6 | 412.2 | 28.5 |
| 4 | Manuela Groß / Uwe Kagelmann |
15/21 | 3 | 102.0 | 4 | 307.8 | 409.8 | 38 |
| 5 | Almut Lehmann / Herbert Wiesinger |
18/23 | 4 | 100.9 | 5 | 306.9 | 407.8 | 42 |
| 6 | Irina Chernyayeva / Vasiliy Blagov |
16/17 | 6 | 99.5 | 6 | 304.5 | 404.0 | 55 |
| 7 | Annette Kansy / Axel Salzmann |
16/21 | 8 | 98.2 | 7 | 300.9 | 399.1 | 68 |
| 8 | Sandra Bezic / Val Bezic |
15/19 | 7 | 98.3 | 8 | 301.2 | 399.5 | 70 |
| 9 | Melissa Militano / Mark Militano |
16/17 | 9 | 96.6 | 9 | 298.5 | 395.1 | 76 |
| 10 | Corinna Halke / Eberhard Rausch |
14/24 | 11 | 94.8 | 10 | 268.9 | 363.7 | 95 |
| 11 | Mary Petrie / John Hubbell |
20/23 | 13 | 92.7 | 11 | 285.0 | 377.7 | 102 |
| 12 |  Grażyna Osmańska / Adam Brodecki |
21/22 | 10 | 96.5 | 12 | 284.1 | 380.6 | 106 |
| 13 | Gabriele Cieplik / Reinhard Ketterer |
/24 | 12 | 94.4 | 13 | 280.8 | 375.2 | 114 |
| 14 | Barbara Brown / Douglas Berndt |
18/22 | 14 | 90.9 | 14 | 278.4 | 369.3 | 123 |
| 15 | Linda Connolly / Colin Taylforth |
19/18 | 15 | 90.5 | 15 | 272.4 | 362.9 | 132 |
- Referee: Karl Enderlin
- Assistant Referee: Henry M. Beatty
Judges:
Elsbeth Bon- Pamela Davis
- Suzanne Francis
- Walburga Grimm
- Valentin Piseyev
- Ardelle Sanderson
- René Schlageter (substitute)
Inkeri Soininen
Maria Zuchowicz- János Zsigmondy
Ice dance edit
| Rank | Name | Age | CD | FD | Points | Places | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lyudmila Pakhomova / Aleksandr Gorshkov |
25/25 | 1 | 251.9 | 1 | 262.7 | 514.6 | 14 |
| 2 | Angelika Buck / Erich Buck |
21/23 | 2 | 250.7 | 2 | 261.3 | 512.0 | 17 |
| 3 | Judy Schwomeyer / James Sladky |
21/25 | 3 | 248.7 | 3 | 260.0 | 508.7 | 24 |
| 4 | Janet Sawbridge / Peter Dalby |
24/25 | 4 | 242.0 | 4 | 255.0 | 495.0 | 38 |
| 5 | Tetyana Voytyuk / Vyacheslav Zhyhalyn |
20/22 | 5 | 234.9 | 5 | 250.8 | 485.7 | 46 |
| 6 | Hilary Green / Glynn Watts |
21/23 | 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 |
18/21 | 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 |
/21 | 10 | 216.1 | 10 | 237.2 | 453.3 | 91 |
| 11 | Diana Skotnická / Martin Skotnický |
/25 | 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 |
21/25 | 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 | |
- Referee: Lawrence Demmy
- Assistant Referee: George J. Blundun
Judges:
- Zoltán Balázs
- Pamela Davis
- Milan Duchón
- Igor Kabanov
- Claude Lambert
- Audrey Moore
- Eugen Romminger
- Benjamin T. Wright
- Maria Zuchowicz
References edit
- ^ 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 edit
- Result list provided by the ISU
- The Calgary Gerald (Calgary, Alberta, March 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 1972)