1972 World Figure Skating Championships

1972 World Figure Skating Championships
Type:	ISU Championship
Date:	March 7 – 11
Season:	1971–72
Location:	Calgary, Canada
Venue:	Stampede Corral
Champions
Men's singles: Ondrej Nepela
Ladies' singles: Beatrix Schuba
Pair skating: Irina Rodnina / Alexei Ulanov
Ice dancing: Lyudmila Pakhomova / Alexandr Gorshkov
Previous: 1971 World Championships
Next: 1973 World Championships

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.

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:

• Donald H. Gilchrist  Canada

Assistant Referee:

• Sonia Bianchetti  Italy

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:

• János Zsigmondy  West Germany

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:

• Josef Dědič  Czechoslovakia

Assistant Referee:

• Elemér Terták  Hungary

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:

• Milan Duchón  Czechoslovakia

Pairs

Rank	Name	Nation	Age	SP		FS		Points	Places
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:

• Karl Enderlin   Switzerland

Assistant Referee:

• Hanry M. Beatty  United States

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:

• René Schlageter   Switzerland

Ice dancing

Rank	Name	Nation	Age	CD		FD		Points	Places
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:

• Lawrence Demmy  United Kingdom

Assistant Referee:

• George J. Blundun  Canada

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

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.

Sources

• Result list provided by the ISU
• The Calgary Gerald (Calgary, Alberta, March 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 1972)