1963 World Figure Skating Championships

1963 World Figure Skating Championships
Type: ISU Championship
Date: February 28 – March 3
Season: 1963
Location: Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy
Champions
Men's singles:
Canada Donald McPherson
Ladies' singles:
Netherlands Sjoukje Dijkstra
Pair skating:
West Germany Marika Kilius / Hans-Jürgen Bäumler
Ice dancing:
Czechoslovakia Eva Romanová / Pavel Roman
Previous:
1962 World Championships
Next:
1964 World Championships

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 1963 competitions for men, ladies, pair skating, and ice dancing took place from February 28 to March 3 in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. The competition was held in the open-air ice stadium, with events running as late as 1 or 2am, by which time it was very cold. This caused the ice to become hard and brittle, as well as causing discomfort to those in attendance.[1]

Perhaps due to the poor ice conditions, the men's competition was marred by many falls. Both the winner Donald McPherson and second-place finisher Alain Calmat fell on triple loop attempts, but neither Manfred Schnelldorfer nor Karol Divín, who had been placed 1-2 after the compulsory figures, performed well in the free skating.[1]

Marika Kilius and Hans-Jürgen Bäumler won the pair competition, although some questioned whether some of their lifts, including a "triple axel lift" (an axel lasso lift with 3.5 rotations), were legal under the ISU rules of the time. The Canadian team of Debbi Wilkes and Guy Revell had to withdraw after Wilkes suffered a head injury in a fall while posing for press photos.[1]

Disaster also struck the American dance team Yvonne Littlefield and Peter Betts. They placed 9th in the compulsory dances, but in the free dance Betts's blade came unscrewed from the boot and they were unable to finish their program. Meanwhile, the defending champions Eva Romanová and Pavel Roman came from behind to retain title after being defeated in the compulsory dances by the British team, Linda Shearman and Michael Phillips, who had also defeated the Romans at the European Championships earlier that year.[1]

Defending champion Sjoukje Dijkstra also retained her title, building a big lead in the compulsory figures and following it with a good performance in the free skate, in which she now included a double lutz for the first time.[1] Nicole Hassler, second in the free skate and third overall, had two strong double axels at the end of her program.[2] The Japanese competitor Miwa Fukuhara, who finished 6th overall, included a triple salchow in her program.[1]

Results

Men

Rank Name Nation Places
1 Donald McPherson  Canada 18
2 Alain Calmat  France 22
3 Manfred Schnelldorfer  West Germany 22
4 Karol Divín  Czechoslovakia 34
5 Scott Allen  United States 40
6 Peter Jonas  Austria 59
7 Sepp Schönmetzler  West Germany 71
8 Donald Knight  Canada 79
9 Emmerich Danzer  Austria 80
10 Nobuo Sato  Japan 88
11 Monty Hoyt  United States 83
12 Robert Dureville  France 117
13 Hugo Dümler  West Germany 122
14 Jenő Ébert  Hungary 130
15 Bill Neale  Canada 136
16 Valeri Meshkov  Soviet Union 145
17 Giordano Abbondati  Italy 144
18 Malcolm Cannon  United Kingdom 159
19 Wouter Toledo  Netherlands 161

Judges:

Ladies

Rank Name Nation Places
1 Sjoukje Dijkstra  Netherlands 9
2 Regine Heitzer  Austria 22
3 Nicole Hassler  France 30
4 Wendy Griner  Canada 36
5 Petra Burka  Canada 39
6 Miwa Fukuhara  Japan 68
7 Inge Paul  West Germany 75
8 Jana Mrázková  Czechoslovakia 73
9 Helli Sengstschmid  Austria 73
10 Lorraine Hanlon  United States 89
11 Diana Clifton-Peach  United Kingdom 97
12 Ingrid Ostler  Austria 110
13 Karen Howland  United States 130
14 Fränzi Schmidt   Switzerland 128
15 Eva Grožajová  Czechoslovakia 138
16 Ann-Margreth Frei  Sweden 140
17 Junko Ueno  Japan 147
18 Sandra Brugnera  Italy 161
19 Christine Haigler  United States 167
20 Shirra Kenworthy  Canada 160
21 Zsuzsa Szentmiklóssy  Hungary 191
22 Anne Karin Dehle  Norway 198
23 Tatiana Nemtsova  Soviet Union 204
24 Elżbieta Kościk  Poland 215

Judges:

Pairs

Rank Name Nation Places
1 Marika Kilius / Hans-Jürgen Bäumler  West Germany 9
2 Ludmila Belousova / Oleg Protopopov  Soviet Union 20
3 Tatyana Zhuk / Alexander Gavrilov  Soviet Union 31
4 Gertrude Desjardins / Maurice Lefrance  Canada 31.5
5 Milada Kubíková / Jaroslav Votruba  Czechoslovakia 51.5
6 Gerda Johner / Rüdi Johner   Switzerland 58.5
7 Judianne Fotheringill / Jerry Fotheringill  United States 64
8 Vivian Joseph / Ronald Joseph  United States 66.5
9 Patty Gustafson / Pieter Kollen  United States 84
10 Sonja Pfersdorf / Günther Matzdorf  West Germany 84
11 Linda Ann Ward / Neil Carpenter  Canada 95
12 Gunilla Lindberg / Gunnar de Sharengrad  Sweden 107

Judges:

Ice dancing

Rank Name Nation Places
1 Eva Romanová / Pavel Roman  Czechoslovakia 14
2 Linda Shearman / Michael Phillips  United Kingdom 15
3 Paulette Doan / Kenneth Ormsby  Canada 26
4 Janet Sawbridge / David Hickinbottom  United Kingdom 36
5 Donna Mitchell / John Mitchell  Canada 47
6 Mary Parry / Roy Mason  United Kingdom 62
7 Sally Schantz / Stanley Urban  United States 66
8 Lorna Dyer / John Carrell  United States 71
9 Györgyi Korda / Pál Vásárhelyi  Hungary 82
10 Carol Forrest / Kevin Lethbridge  Canada 93
11 Marlise Fornachon / Charly Pichard   Switzerland 96
12 Armelle Flichy / Pierre Brun  France 120
13 Helga Burkhardt / Hannes Burkhardt  West Germany 116
14 Jitka Babická / Jaromír Holan  Czechoslovakia 117
15 Christel Trebesiner / Gerald Felsinger  Austria 132
16 Ghislaine Houdas / Francis Gamichon  France 141
17 Yvonne Littlefield / Peter Betts  United States 152
18 Maria Grazia Toncelli / Vinicio Toncelli  Italy 153

Judges:

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Arctic Cold Chills World Championships", Skating magazine, May 1963
  2. ↑ "Informal Comments on Worlds", Skating magazine, May 1963

Sources

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