1929 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.

1929 World Figure Skating Championships
Type:	ISU Championship
Season:	1929
Location:	London, United Kingdom (men) Budapest, Hungary (ladies and pairs)
Champions
Men's singles: Gillis Grafström
Ladies' singles: Sonja Henie
Pair skating: Lilly Scholz / Otto Kaiser
Previous: 1928 World Championships
Next: 1930 World Championships

Men's competitions took place from March 4th to 5th in London, United Kingdom. Ladies' and pairs' competitions took place from February 2nd to 3rd in Budapest, Hungary.

Results

Men

Rank	Name	Age	Points	Places
1	Gillis Grafström	35	353.15	6
2	Karl Schäfer	19	346.50	10
3	Ludwig Wrede	34	323.70	16
4	John Page	29	312.70	24
5	Hugo Distler			25
6	Markus Nikkanen	25		26
7	Ian Bowhill	26		32

Judges:

• Eduard Engelmann
• L. Liebermann
• André Poplimont
• Ulrich Salchow
• V. C. Wilson

Ladies

Medalwinners and 4th and 5th-place pictured.

Rank	Name	Age	Points	Places
1	Sonja Henie	16	280.40	5
2	Fritzi Burger	18	259.25	12
3	Melitta Brunner	22	254.65	13
4	Ilse Hornung	20	236.10	20
5	Grete Kubitschek	26	216.65	26
6	Yvonne de Ligne-Geurts	19	208.50	29

Judges:

• B. Børjeson
• Herbert Clarke
• Eduard Engelmann
• Walter Jakobsson
• Fernand de Montigny

Pairs

Rank	Name	Age	Points	Places
1	Lilly Scholz / Otto Kaiser	25/27	11.25	6
2	Melitta Brunner / Ludwig Wrede	21/34	10.75	13
3	Olga Orgonista / Sándor Szalay	27/35	10.30	18
4	Gisela Hochhaltinger / Otto Preißecker	/30	10.35	21.5
5	Emília Rotter / László Szollás	21/20	10.30	21.5
6	Else Hoppe / Oscar Hoppe	/43	10.05	25
7	Maria Schwendtbauer / Gustav Aichinger		8.30	35

Judges:

• B. Børjeson
• Otto Bohatsch
• C. J. Clarke
• Ludowika Jakobsson-Eilers
• Tivadar Meszléri

Sources

• Result List provided by the ISU