1972 World Figure Skating Championships

1972 World Figure Skating Championships
Type: ISU Championship
Date: March 7 – March 11
Season: 1971–72
Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Venue: Stampede Corral
Champions
Men's singles:
Czechoslovakia Ondrej Nepela
Ladies' singles:
Austria Beatrix Schuba
Pair skating:
Soviet Union Irina Rodnina / Alexei Ulanov
Ice dancing:
Soviet Union Lyudmila Pakhomova / Alexandr Gorshkov
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The 1972 World Figure Skating Championships were held at the Stampede Corral in Calgary, Alberta, Canada from March 7 to March 11, 1972. 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.

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 CP FP Placings
1 Ondrej Nepela  Czechoslovakia 1 3 9
2 Sergei Chetverukhin  Soviet Union 2 2 19
3 Vladimir Kovalev  Soviet Union 3 5 34
4 John Misha Petkevich  United States 5 4 39
5 Toller Cranston  Canada 9 1 46
6 Jan Hoffmann  East Germany 4 9 57
7 Kenneth Shelley  United States 7 6 67
8 Gordon McKellen Jr.  United States 10 8 69
9 John Curry  United Kingdom 6 7 70
10 Sergei Volkov  Soviet Union 8 10 86
11 Jacques Mrozek  France 11 11 100
12 Zdeněk Pazdírek  Czechoslovakia 14 12 116
13 Didier Gailhauguet  France 12 13 116
14 Josef Schneider  Austria 13 15 128
15 Yutaka Higuchi  Japan 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 19 167
WD Haig Oundjian  United Kingdom

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Ladies

Rank Name Nation CP FP Placings
1 Beatrix Schuba  Austria 1 9 13
2 Karen Magnussen  Canada 2 2 16
3 Janet Lynn  United States 3 1 25
4 Zsuzsa Almássy  Hungary 4 6 37
5 Sonja Morgenstern  East Germany 6 3 52
6 Jean Scott  United Kingdom 5 10 57
7 Dorothy Hamill  United States 8 5 62
8 Suna Murray  United States 7 7 74
9 Cathy Lee Irwin  Canada 9 8 81
10 Christine Errath  East Germany 11 4 79
11 Ľudmila Bezáková  Czechoslovakia 10 13 102
12 Karin Iten   Switzerland 12 16 118
13 Gerti Schanderl  West Germany 15 11 119
14 Cinzia Frosio  Italy 13 12 120
15 Daria Prychun  Canada 14 14 127
16 Marie-Claude Bierre  France 17 15 146
17 Dianne de Leeuw  Netherlands 16 19 151
18 Myung Su Chang  Republic of Korea 18 18 169
19 Sharon Burley  Australia 19 21 175
20 Shuko Takeyama  Japan 20 20 178
21 Marina Sanaya  Soviet Union 21 17 178

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Pairs

Rank Name Nation SP FP Placings
1 Irina Rodnina / Alexei Ulanov  Soviet Union 1 1 9
2 Liudmila Smirnova / Andrei Suraikin  Soviet Union 2 3 21.5
3 JoJo Starbuck / Kenneth Shelley  United States 6 2 28.5
4 Manuela Groß / Uwe Kagelmann  East Germany 3 4 38
5 Almut Lehmann / Herbert Wiesinger  West Germany 4 5 42
6 Irina Cherniaeva / Vasili Blagov  Soviet Union 5 6 55
7 Annett Kanzy / Axel Salzmann  East Germany 7 7 70
8 Sandra Bezic / Val Bezic  Canada 8 8 68
9 Melissa Militano / Mark Militano  United States 10 9 76
10 Corinna Halke / Eberhard Rausch  West Germany 11 10 95
11 Mary Petrie / John Hubbell  Canada 13 11 106
12 Grażyna Osmańska / Adam Brodecki  Poland 9 12 102
13 Gabriele Cieplik / Reinhard Ketterer  West Germany 12 13 114
14 Barbara Brown / Douglas Berndt  United States 14 14 123
15 Linda Connolly / Colin Taylforth  United Kingdom 15 15 132

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Ice dancing

Rank Name Nation CD FD Placings
1 Liudmila Pakhomova / Alexander Gorshkov  Soviet Union 1 1 14
2 Angelika Buck / Erich Buck  West Germany 2 2 17
3 Judy Schwomeyer / James Sladky  United States 3 3 24
4 Janet Sawbridge / Peter Dalby  United Kingdom 4 4 38
5 Tatiana Voitiuk / Viacheslav Zhigalin  Soviet Union 5 5 46
6 Hilary Green / Glyn Watts  United Kingdom 6 6 50
7 Anne Millier / Harvey Millier III  United States 7 7 67
8 Elena Zharkova / Gennadi Karponosov  Soviet Union 8 8 75
9 Louise Soper / Barry Soper  Canada 9 9 80
10 Mary Karen Campbell / Johnny Johns  United States 10 10 91
11 Diana Skotnická / Martin Skotnický  Czechoslovakia 11 11 99
12 Anne-Claude Wolfers / Roland Mars  France 12 13 108
13 Teresa Weyna / Piotr Bojańczyk  Poland 13 12 110
14 Sylvia Fuchs / Michael Fuchs  West Germany 14 14 126
15 Astrid Kopp / Axel Kopp  West Germany 15 15 135
16 Keiko Achiwa / Yasuhiro Noto  Japan 16 16 144

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References

  1. ↑ 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.