1972 World Figure Skating Championships
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| 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 |
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Men's singles: Ondrej Nepela |
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Ladies' singles: Beatrix Schuba |
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Pair skating: Irina Rodnina / Alexei Ulanov |
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| Ice dancing: Lyudmila Pakhomova / Alexandr Gorshkov |
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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 dancing.
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.
Contents
Medal table
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Soviet Union |
2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| 2 | Austria |
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2 | Czechoslovakia |
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 |  Canada |
0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 |  West Germany |
0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 |  United States |
0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
Results
Men
| Rank | Name | Nation | Age | CF | FS | Points | Places | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ondrej Nepela | Czechoslovakia |
21 | 1 | 3 | 2722.8 | 9 | ||
| 2 | Sergei Chetverukhin | Soviet Union |
26 | 2 | 2 | 2673.8 | 19 | ||
| 3 | Vladimir Kovalev | Soviet Union |
19 | 3 | 5 | 2607.5 | 34 | ||
| 4 | John Misha Petkevich | United States |
22 | 5 | 4 | 2585.5 | 39 | ||
| 5 | Toller Cranston | Canada |
22 | 9 | 1 | 2566.1 | 45 | ||
| 6 | Jan Hoffmann |  East Germany |
16 | 4 | 9 | 2559.7 | 59 | ||
| 7 | Kenneth Shelley | United States |
20 | 7 | 6 | 2538.7 | 67 | ||
| 8 | Gordon McKellen | United States |
18 | 10 | 8 | 2528.3 | 69 | ||
| 9 | John Curry |  United Kingdom |
22 | 6 | 7 | 2534.8 | 70 | ||
| 10 | Sergei Volkov | Soviet Union |
22 | 8 | 10 | 2499.0 | 86 | ||
| 11 | Jacques Mrozek |  France |
21 | 11 | 11 | 2448.8 | 100 | ||
| 12 | Zdeněk Pazdírek | Czechoslovakia |
18 | 14 | 12 | 116 | |||
| 13 | Didier Gailhauguet | France |
19 | 12 | 13 | 116 | |||
| 14 | Josef Schneider | Austria |
13 | 15 | 128 | ||||
| 15 | Yutaka Higuchi |  Japan |
22 | 16 | 14 | 136 | |||
| 16 | Josef Zidek | Czechoslovakia |
17 | 16 | 141 | ||||
| 17 | Stefano Bargauan |  Italy |
15 | 17 | 144 | ||||
| 18 | Harald Kuhn | West Germany |
19 | 18 | 166 | ||||
| 19 | Pekka Leskinen |  Finland |
18 | 18 | 19 | 167 | |||
| WD | Haig Oundjian | United Kingdom |
22 | DNF | |||||
Referee:
Assistant Referee:
Judges:
- Helga von Wiecki East Germany
- Mollie Phillips United Kingdom
- Dorothy Burkholder United States
- William E. Lewis Canada
- Gerhardt Bubnik Czechoslovakia
- Franz Heinlein Austria
- Masao Hasegawa Japan
- Monique Petis France
- Tatiana Danilenko Soviet Union
Substitute judge:
Ladies
| Rank | Name | Nation | Age | CF | FS | Points | Places | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beatrix Schuba | Austria |
20 | 1 | 9 | 2778.5 | 13 | ||
| 2 | Karen Magnussen | Canada |
19 | 2 | 2 | 2745.2 | 16 | ||
| 3 | Janet Lynn | United States |
18 | 3 | 1 | 2713.0 | 25 | ||
| 4 | Zsuzsa Almassy |  Hungary |
21 | 4 | 6 | 2643.3 | 37 | ||
| 5 | Sonja Morgenstern | East Germany |
17 | 6 | 3 | 2581.1 | 52 | ||
| 6 | Jean Scott | United Kingdom |
20 | 5 | 10 | 2555.1 | 57 | ||
| 7 | Dorothy Hamill | United States |
15 | 8 | 5 | 2548.3 | 62 | ||
| 8 | Suna Murray | United States |
16 | 7 | 7 | 2517.5 | 74 | ||
| 9 | Cathy Lee Irwin | Canada |
19 | 9 | 8 | 2499.9 | 81 | ||
| 10 | Christine Errath | East Germany |
15 | 11 | 4 | 2519.9 | 79 | ||
| 11 | Ludmila Bezakova | Czechoslovakia |
10 | 13 | 2426.9 | 102 | |||
| 12 | Karin Iten |  Switzerland |
15 | 12 | 16 | 2387.8 | 118 | ||
| 13 | Gerti Schanderl | West Germany |
15 | 11 | 2385.3 | 119 | |||
| 14 | Cinzia Frosio | Italy |
13 | 12 | 2380.1 | 120 | |||
| 15 | Daria Prychun | Canada |
16 | 14 | 14 | 2370.9 | 127 | ||
| 16 | Marie-Claude Bierre | France |
17 | 15 | 2319.9 | 146 | |||
| 17 | Dianne de Leeuw |  Netherlands |
16 | 16 | 19 | 2296.6 | 151 | ||
| 18 | Chang Myung-su |  South Korea |
15 | 18 | 18 | 2221.6 | 169 | ||
| 19 | Sharon Burley |  Australia |
15 | 19 | 21 | 2195.8 | 175 | ||
| 20 | Shuko Takeyama | Japan |
20 | 20 | 2193.3 | 178 | |||
| 21 | Marina Sanaya | Soviet Union |
13 | 21 | 17 | 2189.3 | 178 | ||
Referee:
Assistant Referee:
Judges:
- Ramona McIntyre United States
- Suzanne Francis Canada
- Jeanine Donnier-Blanc France
- Giovanni DeMori Italy
- Walburga Grimm East Germany
- Ludwig Gassner Austria
- Zoltán Balázs Hungary
- René Schlageter Switzerland
- Wilhelm Kahle West Germany
Substitute judge:
Pairs
| Rank | Name | Nation | Age | SP | FS | Points | Places | ||
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| 1 | Irina Rodnina / Alexei Ulanov | Soviet Union |
22/24 | 1 | 106.2 | 1 | 315.6 | 421.8 | 9 |
| 2 | Liudmila Smirnova / Andrei Suraikin | Soviet Union |
22/23 | 2 | 104.4 | 3 | 312.3 | 416.7 | 21.5 |
| 3 | JoJo Starbuck / Kenneth Shelley | United States |
20/20 | 5 | 99.6 | 2 | 312.6 | 412.2 | 28.5 |
| 4 | Manuela Groß / Uwe Kagelmann | East Germany |
15/21 | 3 | 102.0 | 4 | 307.8 | 409.8 | 38 |
| 5 | Almut Lehmann / Herbert Wiesinger | West Germany |
18/23 | 4 | 100.9 | 5 | 306.9 | 407.8 | 42 |
| 6 | Irina Cherniaeva / Vasili Blagov | Soviet Union |
16/17 | 6 | 99.5 | 6 | 304.5 | 404.0 | 55 |
| 7 | Annett Kanzy / Axel Salzmann | East Germany |
16/21 | 8 | 98.2 | 7 | 300.9 | 399.1 | 70 |
| 8 | Sandra Bezic / Val Bezic | Canada |
15/19 | 7 | 98.3 | 8 | 301.2 | 399.5 | 68 |
| 9 | Melissa Militano / Mark Militano | United States |
16/17 | 9 | 96.6 | 9 | 298.5 | 395.1 | 76 |
| 10 | Corinna Halke / Eberhard Rausch | West Germany |
14/24 | 11 | 94.8 | 10 | 268.9 | 363.7 | 95 |
| 11 | Mary Petrie / John Hubbell | Canada |
20/23 | 13 | 92.7 | 11 | 285.0 | 377.7 | 106 |
| 12 | Grażyna Osmańska / Adam Brodecki |  Poland |
21/22 | 10 | 96.5 | 12 | 284.1 | 380.6 | 102 |
| 13 | Gabriele Cieplik / Reinhard Ketterer | West Germany |
/24 | 12 | 94.4 | 13 | 280.8 | 375.2 | 114 |
| 14 | Barbara Brown / Douglas Berndt | United States |
18/22 | 14 | 90.9 | 14 | 278.4 | 369.3 | 123 |
| 15 | Linda Connolly / Colin Taylforth | United States |
19/18 | 15 | 90.5 | 15 | 272.4 | 362.9 | 132 |
Referee:
Assistant Referee:
Judges:
- Pamela Davis United Kingdom
- Walburga Grimm East Germany
- Maria Zuchowicz Poland
- Elsbeth Bon Netherlands
- Inkeri Soininen Finland
- Suzanne Francis Canada
- János Zsigmondy West Germany
- Ardelle K. Sanderson United States
- Valentin Piseev Soviet Union
Substitute judge:
Ice dancing
| Rank | Name | Nation | Age | CD | FD | Points | Places | ||
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| 1 | Liudmila Pakhomova / Alexander Gorshkov | Soviet Union |
25/25 | 1 | 251.9 | 1 | 262.7 | 514.6 | 14 |
| 2 | Angelika Buck / Erich Buck | West Germany |
21/23 | 2 | 250.7 | 2 | 261.3 | 512.0 | 17 |
| 3 | Judy Schwomeyer / James Sladky | United States |
21/25 | 3 | 248.7 | 3 | 260.0 | 508.7 | 24 |
| 4 | Janet Sawbridge / Peter Dalby | United Kingdom |
24/25 | 4 | 242.0 | 4 | 255.0 | 495.0 | 38 |
| 5 | Tatiana Voitiuk / Viacheslav Zhigalin | Soviet Union |
20/22 | 5 | 234.9 | 5 | 250.8 | 485.7 | 46 |
| 6 | Hilary Green / Glyn Watts | United Kingdom |
21/23 | 6 | 233.3 | 6 | 250.9 | 484.2 | 50 |
| 7 | Anne Millier / Harvey Millier III | United States |
7 | 221.9 | 7 | 244.9 | 466.8 | 67 | |
| 8 | Elena Zharkova / Gennadi Karponosov | Soviet Union |
8 | 219.1 | 8 | 242.3 | 461.4 | 75 | |
| 9 | Louise Soper / Barry Soper | Canada |
9 | 217.9 | 9 | 241.0 | 458.9 | 80 | |
| 10 | Mary Karen Campbell / Johnny Johns | United States |
10 | 216.1 | 10 | 237.2 | 453.3 | 91 | |
| 11 | Diana Skotnická / Martin Skotnický | Czechoslovakia |
/25 | 11 | 212.6 | 11 | 234.8 | 447.4 | 99 |
| 12 | Anne-Claude Wolfers / Roland Mars | France |
12 | 209.5 | 13 | 226.7 | 436.2 | 108 | |
| 13 | Teresa Weyna / Piotr Bojańczyk | Poland |
21/25 | 13 | 208.0 | 12 | 226.7 | 434.7 | 110 |
| 14 | Sylvia Fuchs / Michael Fuchs | West Germany |
14 | 197.7 | 14 | 215.5 | 413.2 | 126 | |
| 15 | Astrid Kopp / Axel Kopp | West Germany |
15 | 195.3 | 15 | 208.2 | 403.5 | 135 | |
| 16 | Keiko Achiwa / Yasuhiro Noto | Japan |
16 | 182.3 | 16 | 195.8 | 378.1 | 144 | |
Referee:
Assistant Referee:
Judges:
- Pamela Davis United Kingdom
- Claude Lambert France
- Audrey Moore Canada
- Milan Duchón Czechoslovakia
- Benjamin T. Wright United States
- Eugen Romminger West Germany
- Zoltán Balázs Hungary
- Igor Kabanov Soviet Union
- Maria Zuchowicz Poland
References
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Sources
- Result list provided by the ISU
- The Calgary Gerald (Calgary, Alberta, March 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 1972)
