1982 World Figure Skating Championships

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1982 World Figure Skating Championships
Type:	ISU Championship
Date:	March 9 – 14
Season:	1981–82
Location:	Copenhagen, Denmark
Venue:	Brøndby Hall
Champions
Men's singles: Scott Hamilton
Ladies' singles: Elaine Zayak
Pair skating: Sabine Baeß / Tassilo Thierbach
Ice dance: Jayne Torvill / Christopher Dean
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The 1982 World Figure Skating Championships were held in Copenhagen, Denmark from March 9 to 14. At the event, sanctioned by the International Skating Union, medals were awarded in men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.

The ISU Representative was Olaf Poulsen and the ISU Technical Delegate was Josef Dědič. It was the first worlds with different judging panels for compulsory figures, short programs, and compulsory dance on one side and for the free skatings and free dance on the other.

Medal tables[]

Medalists[]

Discipline	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men	Scott Hamilton	Norbert Schramm	Brian Pockar
Ladies	Elaine Zayak	Katarina Witt	Claudia Kristofics-Binder
Pair skating	Sabine Baeß / Tassilo Thierbach	Marina Pestova / Stanislav Leonovich	Caitlin Carruthers / Peter Carruthers
Ice dancing	Jayne Torvill / Christopher Dean	Natalia Bestemianova / Andrei Bukin	Irina Moiseeva / Andrei Minenkov

Medals by country[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	2	0	1	3
2	East Germany (GDR)	1	1	0	2
3	Great Britain (GBR)	1	0	0	1
4	Soviet Union (URS)	0	2	1	3
5	West Germany (FRG)	0	1	0	1
6	Austria (AUT)	0	0	1	1
	Canada (CAN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (7 nations)		4	4	4	12

Results[]

Men[]

Rank	Name	Nation	CP	SP	FS	SP+FS	Points	Total
1	Scott Hamilton	United States	2	1	1	1		2.6
2	Norbert Schramm	West Germany	6	2	2	2		6.4
3	Brian Pockar	Canada	5	7	4	5		9.8
4	Brian Orser	Canada	12	3	3	3		11.4
5	Jean-Christophe Simond	France	1	8	8	7		11.8
6	Robert Wagenhoffer	United States	9	4	5	4		12.0
7	Igor Bobrin	Soviet Union	4	9	6	6		12.0
8	David Santee	United States	3	16	7	9		15.2
9	Fumio Igarashi	Japan	8	14	9	10		19.4
10	Alexander Fadeev	Soviet Union	15	6	10	8		21.4
11	Vladimir Kotin	Soviet Union	11	12	12	13		23.4
12	Takashi Mura	Japan	14	11	11	11		23.8
13	Grzegorz Filipowski	Poland	10	13	13	14		24.2
14		France	7	15	15	16		25.2
15	Rudi Cerne	West Germany	16	5	14	12		25.6
16	Jozef Sabovčík	Czechoslovakia	13	10	16	15		27.8
17		France	19	17	17	17		35.2
18	Mitsuru Matsumura	Japan	18	18	18	18		36.0
19	Lars Åkesson	Sweden	17	20	21	21		39.2
20	Thomas Hlavik	Austria	21	19	20	19		40.2
21	Mark Pepperday	United Kingdom	27	25	19	20		45.2
22	Todd Sand	Denmark	22	21	25	24		46.6
23	Bruno Delmaestro	Italy	24	28	22	22		47.6
24		Switzerland	25	23	24	23		48.2
25	Miljan Begović	Yugoslavia	20	24	29	28		50.6
26	Michael Pasfield	Australia	26	22	27	26		51.4
27	Xu Zhaoxiao	China	30	29	23	25		52.6
28		Belgium	23	27	28	29		52.6
29	Ed van Campen	Netherlands	28	26	26	27		53.2
30		Spain	29	30	30	30		59.4

Referee:

•  Italy

Assistant Referee:

•  Austria

Judges for the compulsory figures and the short program:

• Markus Germann   Switzerland
• Maria Zuchowicz  Poland
•  United States
•  East Germany
•  France
• Giordano Abbondati  Italy
•  Austria

Substitute judge:

•  Canada

Judges for the free skating:

•  Czechoslovakia
•  Yugoslavia
• Sally-Anne Stapleford  United Kingdom
•  Sweden
•  Japan
• Norris Bowden  Canada
• Leena Vainio  Finland

Substitute judge:

•  East Germany

Ladies[]

Rank	Name	Nation	CP	SP	FS	SP+FS	Points	Total
1	Elaine Zayak	United States	4	10	1	3		7.4
2	Katarina Witt	East Germany	9	1	2	1		7.8
3	Claudia Kristofics-Binder	Austria	1	9	4	5		8.2
4	Claudia Leistner	West Germany	14	2	3	2		12.2
5	Elena Vodorezova	Soviet Union	5	3	8	7		12.2
6	Rosalynn Sumners	United States	11	4	5	4		13.2
7	Vikki de Vries	United States	8	7	6	6		13.6
8	Kay Thomson	Canada	6	6	9	9		15.0
9	Kristiina Wegelius	Finland	2	5	12	10		15.2
10	Deborah Cottrill	United Kingdom	3	8	17	13		22.0
11	Carola Paul	East Germany	13	12	10	11		22.6
12	Janina Wirth	East Germany	12	13	11	12		23.4
13	Elizabeth Manley	Canada	23	11	7	8		25.2
14	Sanda Dubravčić	Yugoslavia	10	14	19	18		30.6
15	Manuela Ruben	West Germany	18	19	13	14		31.4
16	Sandra Cariboni	Switzerland	15	20	16	17		33.0
17	Karen Wood	United Kingdom	22	18	14	15		34.4
18	Sonja Stanek	Austria	7	15	25	21		35.2
19	Catarina Lindgren	Sweden	25	17	15	16		36.8
20	Myriam Oberwiler	Switzerland	20	21	18	19		38.4
21	Béatrice Farinacci	France	16	26	20	20		40.0
22		Japan	21	23	22	22		43.8
23		United Kingdom	19	16	28	26		45.8
24	Parthena Sarafidis	Austria	24	27	21	23		46.2
25	Hanne Gamborg	Denmark	26	24	23	24		48.2
26	Karin Telser	Italy	17	25	29	28		49.2
27	Vicki Holland	Australia	30	22	24	25		50.8
28		Finland	29	28	26	27		54.6
29		Netherlands	28	31	27	29		56.2
30	Katrien Pauwels	Belgium	27	29	32	31		59.8
31		Spain	32	30	30	30		61.2
32	Zhenghua Bao	China	34	32	31	32		64.2
33		South Korea	33	33	33	33		66.0
WD		New Zealand	31

Referee:

• Elemér Terták  Hungary

Assistant Referee:

•  Norway

Judges for the compulsory figures and the short program:

• Leena Vainio  Finland
• Margaret Berezowski  Canada
•  Netherlands
•  Japan
• Jacqueline Kendall-Baker  Australia
•  West Germany
•  Soviet Union

Substitute judge:

• Sally-Anne Stapleford  United Kingdom

Judges for the free skating:

• Markus Germann   Switzerland
• Maria Zuchowicz  Poland
•  United States
•  East Germany
•  France
• Giordano Abbondati  Italy
•  Austria

Substitute judge:

•  Canada

Pairs[]

Rank	Name	Nation	SP	FS	Points	Total
1	Sabine Baeß / Tassilo Thierbach	East Germany	1	1		1.4
2	Marina Pestova / Stanislav Leonovich	Soviet Union	2	2		2.8
3	Kitty Carruthers / Peter Carruthers	United States	4	3		4.6
4	Barbara Underhill / Paul Martini	Canada	5	4		6.0
5	Irina Vorobieva / Igor Lisovski	Soviet Union	3	5		6.2
6	Veronika Pershina / Marat Akbarov	Soviet Union	6	6		8.4
7	Birgit Lorenz / Knut Schubert	East Germany	7	7		9.8
8	Lea Ann Miller / William Fauver	United States	9	8		11.6
9	/ Lloyd Eisler	Canada	8	9		12.2
10	/ Burt Lancon	United States	10	10		14.0
11	/	West Germany	12	11		15.8
12	/ Xavier Videau	France	11	12		16.4
13	Luan Bo / Yao Bin	China	13	13		18.2

Referee:

•  United States

Assistant Referee:

•   Switzerland

Judges for the short program:

•  United States
•  Soviet Union
• Norris Bowden  Canada
• Markus Germann   Switzerland
•  United Kingdom
•  Japan
• Giordano Abbondati  Italy

Substitute judge:

•  Sweden

Judges for the free skating:

•  West Germany
•  East Germany
•  France
•  Yugoslavia
• Jacqueline Kendall-Baker  Australia
•  Netherlands
•  Czechoslovakia

Substitute judge:

•  Sweden

Ice dancing[]

Rank	Name	Nation	CD	FD	Total
1	Jayne Torvill / Christopher Dean	United Kingdom	1	1	2
2	Natalia Bestemianova / Andrei Bukin	Soviet Union	2	2	4
3	Irina Moiseeva / Andrei Minenkov	Soviet Union	4	3	7
4	Judy Blumberg / Michael Seibert	United States	3	4	7
5	Carol Fox / Richard Dalley	United States	5	5	10
6	Olga Volozhinskaya / Alexander Svinin	Soviet Union	6	6	12
7	Karen Barber / Nicholas Slater	United Kingdom	7	8	15
8	Elisa Spitz / Scott Gregory	United States	9	7	16
9	Jana Beránková / Jan Barták	Czechoslovakia	8	9	17
10	Tracy Wilson / Robert McCall	Canada	10	10	20
11	Nathalie Hervé / Pierre Béchu	France	11	11	22
12	/	West Germany	13	12	25
13	Wendy Sessions / Stephen Williams	United Kingdom	12	13	25
14	Petra Born / Rainer Schönborn	West Germany	14	14	28
15	Noriko Sato / Tadayuki Takahashi	Japan	16	15	31
16	/	Netherlands	15	16	31
17	Martine Olivier /	France	18	17	35
18	/	Switzerland	19	18	37
19	/	Finland	20	19	39
20	/	Sweden	21	20	41
WD	Isabella Micheli / Roberto Pelizzola	Italy	17

Referee:

• Lawrence Demmy  United Kingdom

Assistant Referee:

•  Austria

Judges for the compulsory dance:

•  Canada
• István Sugár  Hungary
•  Czechoslovakia
•  France
•  United Kingdom
•  Austria
•   Switzerland

Substitute judge:

•  Japan

Judges for the free dance:

•  West Germany
•  Soviet Union
•   Switzerland
• Mary Louise Wright  United States
•  Italy
•  Japan
• Maria Zuchowicz  Poland

Substitute judge:

•  Austria

Sources[]

• Result list provided by the ISU