1906 World Figure Skating Championships

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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 1906 men competition took place on February 4th, 1906 in Munich, German Empire. Ulrich Salchow did not participate because he feared that the judgement would not be fair in Gilber Fuchs’ hometown Munich.

The 1906 ladies competition took place January 28th to 29th, 1906 in Davos, Switzerland. It was the first World Championships in figure skating for ladies.

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[edit] Results

[edit] Men

Rank Name Nation Places
1 Gilbert Fuchs German Empire 5
2 Heinrich Burger German Empire 14
3 Bror Meyer Flag of Sweden Sweden 17
4 Karl Zenger German Empire 20
5 Per Thorén Flag of Sweden Sweden 23
6 Anton Steiner Austria 27
7 Martin Gordan German Empire 34

Judges were

  • C. Gützlaff German Empire
  • L. Fänner Austria
  • O. Henning German Empire
  • R. Holletschek German Empire
  • O. Schöning German Empire

[edit] Ladies

Rank Name Nation Places
1 Madge Syers-Cave Flag of the United Kingdom United Kingdom 5
2 Jenny Herz Austria 13
3 Lily Kronberger Flag of Hungary Hungary 13.5
4 Elsa Rendschmidt German Empire 21.5
5 Grennhough Smith Flag of the United Kingdom United Kingdom 22

Judges were

[edit] References

  • Result List provided by the ISU

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