1973 World Figure Skating Championships

1973 World Figure Skating Championships
Type:	ISU Championship
Date:	February 26 – March 3
Season:	1972–73
Location:	Bratislava, Czechoslovakia
Champions
Men's singles: Ondrej Nepela
Ladies' singles: Karen Magnussen
Pair skating: Irina Rodnina / Alexandr Zaitsev
Ice dancing: Lyudmila Pakhomova / Alexandr Gorshkov
Previous: 1972 World Championships
Next: 1974 World Championships

The 1973 World Figure Skating Championships were held from February 26 to March 3 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, sanctioned by the International Skating Union. Medals were awarded in men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. It was the last year in which solid gold medals were awarded in figure skating.^[1]

The opening ceremony was held at the Philharmonic of Bratislava. The Chairman of the organising committee was Miroslav Cerveka.

Irina Rodnina won her first World title with her new partner, Alexander Zaitsev after her previous partner, Alexei Ulanov, chose to skate with Lyudmila Smirnova. The music stopped during Rodnina/Zaitsev's free program but the pair successfully completed the program in silence and received a standing ovation.^[2][3]

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	2	2	0	4
2	Canada	1	0	0	1
2	Czechoslovakia	1	0	0	1
4	United States	0	1	0	1
4	West Germany	0	1	0	1
6	East Germany	0	0	3	3
7	United Kingdom	0	0	1	1

Results

Men

Rank	Name	Nation	CP	SP	FP	Points	Placings
1	Ondrej Nepela	Czechoslovakia	1	2	2	355.66	10
2	Sergei Chetverukhin	Soviet Union	2	3	1	348.91	17
3	Jan Hoffmann	East Germany	3	7	6	340.55	35
4	John Curry	United Kingdom	4	8	7	338.43	39
5	Toller Cranston	Canada	6	1	5	336.50	54
6	Yuri Ovchinnikov	Soviet Union	8	5	3	334.01	54
7	Gordon McKellen, Jr.	United States	5	4	8	330.84	62
8	Ron Shaver	Canada	12	6	4	330.58	61
9	Jacques Mrozek	France	9	10	11	320.01	91
10	Zdeněk Pazdírek	Czechoslovakia	10	12	9	319.43	95
11	Daniel Höner	Switzerland	7	11	12	319.08	97
12	Robert Bradshaw	United States	13	9	10	316.62	103
13	László Vajda	Hungary	11	14	13	314.77	112
14	Minoru Sano	Japan	14	13	14	308.37	130
15	Erich Reifschneider	West Germany	15	15	16	303.72	144
16	Igor Lisovski	Soviet Union	18	17	17	302.24	147
17	Bernd Wunderlich	East Germany	20	18	15	300.38	148
18	Miroslav Šoška	Czechoslovakia	17	16	18	299.99	151
19	Robert Rubens	Canada	19	19	19	295.16	168
20	Gunther Hilgarth	Austria	16	20	21	275.29	187
21	Jacek Tascher	Poland	23	23	20	273.30	191
22	Rolando Bragaglia	Italy	22	21	22	270.19	193
23	Gheorghe Fazekas	Romania	21	24	24	262.23	205
24	Silvo Svajger	Yugoslavia	24	22	23	255.29	214

Referee:

• Sonia Bianchetti  Italy

Assistant Referee:

• Miroslav Hasenöhrl  Czechoslovakia

Judges:

• Boris Anokhin  Soviet Union
• Dorothy Leamen  Canada
• Luciana Brasa  Italy
• Walburga Grimm  East Germany
• Kazuo Ohashi  Japan
• Dagmar Rehakova  Czechoslovakia
• Ramona McIntyre  United States
• Irina Minculescu  Romania
• Geoffrey Yates  United Kingdom

Substitute judge:

• Jürg Wilhelm   Switzerland

Ladies

Sonja Balun of Austria and Krisztina Homolya of Hungary withdrew before the opening ceremony.

Results of the ladies' event:^[4]

Rank	Name	Nation	CP	SP	FP	Points	Placings
1	Karen Magnussen	Canada	1	1	2	356.39	9
2	Janet Lynn	United States	2	12	1	347.85	18
3	Christine Errath	East Germany	5	2	5	340.90	31
4	Dorothy Hamill	United States	8	3	4	337.93	35
5	Jean Scott	United Kingdom	4	10	11	332.10	47
6	Karin Iten	Switzerland	3	14	14	329.08	60
7	Liana Drahová	Czechoslovakia	9	9	6	327.53	69
8	Sonja Morgenstern	East Germany	10	5	7	326.53	76
9	Juli McKinstry	United States	12	7	9	323.26	91
10	Lynn Nightingale	Canada	15	4	3	325.61	78
11	Maria McLean	United Kingdom	7	11	13	322.68	96
12	Cathy Lee Irwin	Canada	11	13	10	320.95	108
13	Gerti Schanderl	West Germany	14	6	8	319.69	114
14	Anett Pötzsch	East Germany	13	8	12	316.21	125
15	Dianne de Leeuw	Netherlands	6	15	16	316.11	123
16	Marina Sanaya	Soviet Union	23	16	15	296.67	149
17	Emi Watanabe	Japan	18	23	17	294.35	154
18	Marie-Claude Bierre	France	16	18	22	288.34	171
19	Cinzia Frosio	Italy	19	19	19	287.45	175
20	Lise-Lotte Öberg	Sweden	21	17	18	285.55	177
21	Sharon Burley	Australia	20	20	21	286.58	178
22	Hannele Koskinen	Finland	27	22	20	275.77	204
23	Grażyna Dudek	Poland	26	21	23	276.57	201
24	Helena Gazvoda	Yugoslavia	25	26	24	268.04	220
25	Chang Myung-su	South Korea	17	28	27	264.92	227
26	Bente Tverran	Norway	24	27	26	261.03	235
27	Ágnes Erös	Hungary	28	24	25	262.58	231
WD	Susanna Althura	Austria	22	25			DNF
	Krisztina Gomolya	Hungary					DNS
	Sonja Balun	Austria					DNS

Referee:

• Major Josef Dědič  Czechoslovakia

Assistant Referee:

• Oskar Madl  Austria

Judges:

• Helga von Wiecki  East Germany
• Mary Louise Wright  United States
• Ludwig Gassner  Austria
• Vera Lynfield  United Kingdom
• Elisbeth Bon-Meyer  Netherlands
• Inkeri Soininen  Finland
• Dr. Jakob Biedermann   Switzerland
• Joan Maclagan  Canada
• Márta Léces  Hungary

Substitute judge:

• Sydney Croll  Australia

Pairs

Rank	Name	Nation	SP	FP	Points	Placings
1	Irina Rodnina / Alexander Zaitsev	Soviet Union	1	1	423.9	9
2	Liudmila Smirnova / Alexei Ulanov	Soviet Union	2	2	416.2	18
3	Manuela Groß / Uwe Kagelmann	East Germany	3	3	409.2	29
4	Almut Lehmann / Herbert Wiesinger	West Germany	6	5	402.9	43
5	Romy Kermer / Rolf Österreich	East Germany	4	4	401.3	46
6	Sandra Bezic / Val Bezic	Canada	7	6	399.8	51
7	Irina Cherniaeva / Vasili Blagov	Soviet Union	5	7	398.3	56
8	Melissa Militano / Mark Militano	United States	8	8	390.7	73
9	Marian Murray / Glenn Moore	Canada	9	9	386.0	80
10	Karin Künzle / Christian Künzle	Switzerland	11	10	373.9	92
11	Ilona Urbanová / Alex Zach	Czechoslovakia	10	11	369.4	106
12	Corinna Halke / Eberhard Rausch	West Germany	12	12	366.6	108
13	Gale Fuhrman / Joel Fuhrman	United States	15	13	360.9	121
14	Florence Cahn / Jean-Roland Racle	France	13	14	362.0	120
15	Ursula Nemec / Michael Nemec	Austria	16	15	346.0	137
16	Teresa Skrzek / Piotr Sczypa	Poland	14	16	350.4	135

Referee:

• Karl Enderlin   Switzerland

Assistant Referee:

• Donald H. Gilchrist  Canada

Judges:

• Erich Soukup  Czechoslovakia
• Valentin Piseev  Soviet Union
• Wladyslaw Kolodziej  Poland
• Alice Pinos  Canada
• Jürg Wilhelm   Switzerland
• Willi Wernz  West Germany
• Walburga Grimm  East Germany
• Walter Hüttner  Austria
• Edith M. Shoemaker  United States

Substitute judge:

• Monique Georgelin  France

Ice dancing

Rank	Name	Nation	CD	FD	Points	Placings
1	Liudmila Pakhomova / Alexander Gorshkov	Soviet Union	1	1	524.20	9
2	Angelika Buck / Erich Buck	West Germany	2	2	514.55	18
3	Hilary Green / Glyn Watts	United Kingdom	3	3	499.05	29
4	Janet Sawbridge / Peter Dalby	United Kingdom	4	6	493.25	38
5	Tatiana Voitiuk / Viacheslav Zhigalin	Soviet Union	5	4	488.30	43
6	Mary Karen Campbell / Johnny Johns	United States	6	7	479.30	60
7	Irina Moiseeva / Andrei Minenkov	Soviet Union	7	5	475.80	63.5
8	Diana Skotnická / Martin Skotnický	Czechoslovakia	8	8	470.85	72.5
9	Louise Soper / Barry Soper	Canada	9	9	471.00	73
10	Anne Millier / Harvey Millier III	United States	10	11	459.15	93
11	Matilde Ciccia / Lamberto Ceserani	Italy	12	10	452.10	100
12	Rodalind Druce / David Baker	United Kingdom	11	13	448.70	107
13	Krisztina Regőczy / András Sallay	Hungary	13	12	442.70	115
14	Halina Gordon / Wojciech Bankowski	Poland	14	15	425.80	130
15	Barbara Berezowski / David Porter	Canada	15	14	426.35	131
16	Anne-Claude Wolfers / Roland Mars	France	16	16	408.80	146
17	Christina Henke / Udo Dönsdorf	West Germany	17	17	402.00	151
18	Brigitte Scheijbal / Walter Leschetizky	Austria	18	18	393.65	160

Referee:

• Hermann Schiechtl  West Germany

Assistant Referee:

• Lawrence Demmy  United Kingdom

Judges:

• Edith M. Shoemaker  United States
• Elek Riedl  Hungary
• Lysiane Lauret  France
• Eugen Romminger  West Germany
• Helena Pachlová  Czechoslovakia
• Mollie Phillips  United Kingdom
• Maria Zuchowicz  Poland
• Irina Absaliamova  Soviet Union
• Frances Gunn  Canada

Substitute judge:

• Cia Bordogna  Italy

References

1. McKay, Kevin (January 2010). "Top of the World". Senior Living magazine.
2. Encyclopædia Britannica: Irina Rodnina
3. 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.
4. Cross, Jeff (1973). Karen. Don Mills,Ontario: Collier-Macmillan Canada,Ltd.

Sources

• Result list provided by the ISU