1953 World Figure Skating Championships

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1953 World Figure Skating Championships
Type:	ISU Championship
Date:	February 8 – 15
Season:	1953
Location:	Davos, Switzerland
Champions
Men's singles: Hayes Alan Jenkins
Ladies' singles: Tenley Albright
Pair skating: Jennifer Nicks / John Nicks
Ice dance: Jean Westwood / Lawrence Demmy
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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.

The 1953 competitions for men, ladies, pair skating, and ice dancing took place from February 8th to 15th in Davos, Switzerland.

Results[]

Men[]

Rank	Name	Nation	Places
1	Hayes Alan Jenkins	United States	13
2	James Grogan	United States	16
3	Carlo Fassi	Italy	36
4	Ronald Robertson	United States	37
5	Alain Giletti	France	44
6	Dudley Richards	United States	49
7	Peter Firstbrook	Canada	59
8	Peter Dunfield	Canada	73
9	Michael Booker	United Kingdom	81
10	Freimut Stein	West Germany	88
11	Kurt Oppelt	Austria	102
12	Hubert Köpfler	Switzerland	106
13	György Czakó	Hungary	115
WD		West Germany

Judges:

• J. D. Greig  Canada
•  France
•  West Germany
•  United Kingdom
• H. Hoyoux  Belgium
• Ercole Cattaneo  Italy
• A. J. Krupy  United States
•  Austria
• A. Jaisli   Switzerland

Ladies[]

Rank	Name	Nation	Places
1	Tenley Albright	United States	7
2	Gundi Busch	West Germany	16
3	Valda Osborn	United Kingdom	28
4	Carol Heiss	United States	27
5	Suzanne Morrow	Canada	28
6	Vera Smith	Canada	48
7		United States	49
8	Yvonne Sugden	United Kingdom	53
9	Erica Batchelor	United Kingdom	70
10		United Kingdom	74
11		Austria	72
12	Mary Kenner	Canada	86
13		United Kingdom	83
14	Rosi Pettinger	West Germany	97
15		Switzerland	109
16		United States	112
17	Yolande Jobin	Switzerland	112
18	Eszter Jurek	Hungary	129
19	Alida Elisabeth Stoppelman	Netherlands	130
WD	Helga Dudzinski	West Germany

Judges:

• E. Labin  Austria
• J. D. Greig  Canada
•  West Germany
• Mollie Phillips  United Kingdom
•  France
• J. Krupy  United States
• A. Jaisli   Switzerland

Pairs[]

Rank	Name	Nation	Places
1	Jennifer Nicks / John Nicks	United Kingdom	10.5
2	Frances Dafoe / Norris Bowden	Canada	16
3	Marianna Nagy / László Nagy	Hungary	23.5
4	Silvia Grandjean / Michel Grandjean	Switzerland	24
5	/ Raymond Lockwood	United Kingdom	39
6	Sissy Schwarz / Kurt Oppelt	Austria	43.5
7	/	United Kingdom	44.5
8	/ Gabor Vida	Hungary	57
9	Eva Neeb / Karl Probst	West Germany	61
10	/	Belgium	66

Judges:

• W. Malek  Austria
• H. Hoyoux  Belgium
• J. D. Greig  Canada
• Werner Rittberger  West Germany
• P. L. Borrajo  United Kingdom
• Elemér Terták  Hungary
• E. Finsterwald   Switzerland

Ice dancing[]

Rank	Name	Nation	Places
1	Jean Westwood / Lawrence Demmy	United Kingdom	6
2	Joan Dewhirst / John Slater	United Kingdom	10
3	Carol Peters / Daniel Ryan	United States	16
4	Nesta Davies / Paul Thomas	United Kingdom	20
5	/ Donald Jacoby	United States	23
6	/	Netherlands	30
7	Carmel Bodel / Edward Bodel	United States	35
8	/	Switzerland	42
9	/	Austria	45
10	/	Netherlands	50
11	/	Austria	54
12	/	Austria	59

Judges:

•  Austria
• A. Voordeckers  Belgium
•  United Kingdom
• E. Finsterwald   Switzerland
• R. Sackett  United States

Sources[]

• Result List provided by the ISU