1972 World Figure Skating Championships
1972 World Figure Skating Championships | |
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Type: | ISU Championship |
Date: | March 7 – 11 |
Season: | 1971–72 |
Location: | Calgary, Canada |
Venue: | Stampede Corral |
Champions | |
Men's singles: ![]() | |
Ladies' singles: ![]() | |
Pair skating: ![]() | |
Ice dance: ![]() | |
Previous: 1971 World Championships | |
Next: 1973 World Championships |
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 H. Gilchrist (Canada).
A day before the start of the competition, Irina Rodnina / Alexei Ulanov had an accident on a lift; she 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; he would team up with the silver medalist, Lyudmila Smirnova.
Medal table[]
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | ![]() | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
2 | ![]() | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
![]() | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
4 | ![]() | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
![]() | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
6 | ![]() | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
Totals (6 nations) | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 |
Results[]
Men[]
Rank | Name | Nation | Age | CF | FS | Points | Places | ||
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1 | Ondrej Nepela | ![]() |
21 | 1 | 3 | 2722.8 | 9 | ||
2 | Sergei Chetverukhin | ![]() |
26 | 2 | 2 | 2673.8 | 19 | ||
3 | Vladimir Kovalev | ![]() |
19 | 3 | 5 | 2607.5 | 34 | ||
4 | John Misha 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 | Sergei 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 | ![]() |
13 | 15 | 128 | |||||
15 | Yutaka Higuchi | ![]() |
22 | 16 | 14 | 136 | |||
16 | Jozef Žídek | ![]() |
17 | 16 | 141 | ||||
17 | Stefano Bargauan | ![]() |
15 | 17 | 144 | ||||
18 | ![]() |
19 | 18 | 166 | |||||
19 | Pekka Leskinen | ![]() |
18 | 18 | 19 | 167 | |||
WD | Haig Oundjian | ![]() |
22 | DNF |
Referee:
- Donald H. Gilchrist
Canada
Assistant Referee:
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Italy
Judges:
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East Germany
- Mollie Phillips
United Kingdom
-
United States
- William E. Lewis
Canada
-
Czechoslovakia
-
Austria
-
Japan
-
France
-
Soviet Union
Substitute judge:
-
West Germany
Ladies[]
Rank | Name | Nation | Age | CF | FS | Points | Places | ||
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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 Almassy | ![]() |
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 Lee Irwin | ![]() |
19 | 9 | 8 | 2499.9 | 81 | ||
10 | Christine Errath | ![]() |
15 | 11 | 4 | 2519.9 | 79 | ||
11 | Ľudmila Bezáková | ![]() |
10 | 13 | 2426.9 | 102 | |||
12 | Karin Iten | ![]() |
15 | 12 | 16 | 2387.8 | 118 | ||
13 | Gerti Schanderl | ![]() |
15 | 11 | 2385.3 | 119 | |||
14 | Cinzia Frosio | ![]() |
13 | 12 | 2380.1 | 120 | |||
15 | ![]() |
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 | ![]() |
20 | 20 | 2193.3 | 178 | ||||
21 | Marina Sanaya | ![]() |
13 | 21 | 17 | 2189.3 | 178 |
Referee:
- Josef Dědič
Czechoslovakia
Assistant Referee:
- Elemér Terták
Hungary
Judges:
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United States
- Suzanne Francis
Canada
-
France
-
Italy
-
East Germany
-
Austria
-
Hungary
-
Switzerland
-
West Germany
Substitute judge:
-
Czechoslovakia
Pairs[]
Rank | Name | Nation | Age | SP | FS | Points | Places | ||
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1 | Irina Rodnina / Alexei Ulanov | ![]() |
22/24 | 1 | 106.2 | 1 | 315.6 | 421.8 | 9 |
2 | Liudmila Smirnova / Andrei Suraikin | ![]() |
22/23 | 2 | 104.4 | 3 | 312.3 | 416.7 | 21.5 |
3 | JoJo 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 Cherniaeva / Vasili 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 | 70 |
8 | Sandra Bezic / Val Bezic | ![]() |
15/19 | 7 | 98.3 | 8 | 301.2 | 399.5 | 68 |
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 | 106 |
12 | Grażyna Osmańska / Adam Brodecki | ![]() |
21/22 | 10 | 96.5 | 12 | 284.1 | 380.6 | 102 |
13 | / 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
Switzerland
Assistant Referee:
-
United States
Judges:
-
United Kingdom
-
East Germany
- Maria Zuchowicz
Poland
-
Netherlands
-
Finland
- Suzanne Francis
Canada
-
West Germany
-
United States
- Valentin Piseev
Soviet Union
Substitute judge:
-
Switzerland
Ice dance[]
Rank | Name | Nation | Age | CD | FD | Points | Places | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Liudmila Pakhomova / Alexander 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 | Tatiana Voitiuk / Viacheslav Zhigalin | ![]() |
20/22 | 5 | 234.9 | 5 | 250.8 | 485.7 | 46 |
6 | Hilary Green / Glyn Watts | ![]() |
21/23 | 6 | 233.3 | 6 | 250.9 | 484.2 | 50 |
7 | Anne Millier / Harvey Millier III | ![]() |
7 | 221.9 | 7 | 244.9 | 466.8 | 67 | |
8 | Elena Zharkova / Gennadi Karponosov | ![]() |
8 | 219.1 | 8 | 242.3 | 461.4 | 75 | |
9 | / | ![]() |
9 | 217.9 | 9 | 241.0 | 458.9 | 80 | |
10 | Mary Karen Campbell / Johnny Johns | ![]() |
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 | / | ![]() |
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 | / | ![]() |
14 | 197.7 | 14 | 215.5 | 413.2 | 126 | |
15 | / | ![]() |
15 | 195.3 | 15 | 208.2 | 403.5 | 135 | |
16 | / | ![]() |
16 | 182.3 | 16 | 195.8 | 378.1 | 144 |
Referee:
- Lawrence Demmy
United Kingdom
Assistant Referee:
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Canada
Judges:
-
United Kingdom
-
France
-
Canada
-
Czechoslovakia
-
United States
-
West Germany
-
Hungary
-
Soviet Union
- Maria Zuchowicz
Poland
References[]
- ^ 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[]
- Result list provided by the ISU
- The Calgary Gerald (Calgary, Alberta, March 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 1972)
- World Figure Skating Championships
- 1972 in figure skating
- Figure skating in Canada
- International figure skating competitions hosted by Canada
- 1972 in Canadian sports
- 1972 in Alberta
- Sports competitions in Calgary
- 20th century in Calgary
- March 1972 sports events in Canada