1927 World Figure Skating Championships

1927 World Figure Skating Championships
1927 World Figure Skating Championships
Type:	ISU Championship
Season:	1927
Location:	Davos, Switzerland (men) ; Oslo, Norway (ladies) ; Vienna, Austria (pairs)
Champions
	Men's singles: ; Willy Böckl
	Ladies' singles: ; Sonja Henie
	Pair skating: ; Herma Szabo / Ludwig Wrede
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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.

Men's competitions took place from February 5th to 6th in Davos, Switzerland. Ladies' competitions took place from February 19th to 20th in Oslo, Norway. Pairs' competitions took place from February 22nd to 23rd in Vienna, Austria.

Results[]

Men[]

Rank	Name	Nation	Places
1	Willy Böckl	Austria	11
2	Otto Preißecker	Austria	15
3	Karl Schäfer	Austria	24
4	Georges Gautschi	Switzerland	26
5	John F. Page	United Kingdom	30
6	Ludwig Wrede	Austria	42
7		Germany	48
8	Jean Henrion	France	56

Judges:

Germany
Eduard Engelmann jr. Austria
Austria
Fritz Kachler Austria
J. G. Künzli Switzerland
T. D. Richardson United Kingdom
Artur Vieregg Germany

Ladies[]

Szabo retired after she was defeated by Sonja Henie of Norway. This result was controversial because the judging panel consisted of three Norwegians, a German, and an Austrian. The three Norwegian judges placed Henie first, while the German and Austrian judges placed Szabo first.^[1]^[2]

Rank	Name	Nation	judge 1	judge 2	judge 3	judge 4	judge 5	Places
1	Sonja Henie	Norway	1	1	1	2	2	7
2	Herma Plank-Szabo	Austria	2	2	2	1	1	8
3	Karen Simensen	Norway	3	3	3	4	4	17
4	Ellen Brockhöft	Germany	4	4	4	3	3	18

Judges:

Pairs[]

Rank	Name	Nation	Places
1	Herma Plank-Szabo / Ludwig Wrede	Austria	6.5
2	Lilly Scholz / Otto Kaiser	Austria	9
3	Else Hoppe / Oscar Hoppe	Czechoslovakia	14.5
4	/	Austria	20

Judges:

References[]

^ Nationalism in Winter Sports Judging and its Lessons for Organizational Decision Making, by Eric Zitzewitz, accessed July 3, 2006.
^ Worlds Greatest Skaters Archived 2007-07-21 at archive.today, accessed July 3, 2006.

Sources[]

Result List provided by the ISU

[judging-1] Nationalism in Winter Sports Judging and its Lessons for Organizational Decision Making, by Eric Zitzewitz, accessed July 3, 2006.

[judging2-2] Worlds Greatest Skaters Archived 2007-07-21 at archive.today, accessed July 3, 2006.

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