1927 World Figure Skating Championships

1927 World Figure Skating Championships
1927 World Figure Skating Championships
Type:	ISU Championship
Season:	1927
Location:	Davos, Switzerland (men) ; Oslo, Norway (ladies) ; Vienna, Austria (pairs)
Champions
	Men's singles: ; Willy Böckl
	Ladies' singles: ; Sonja Henie
	Pairs: ; Herma Szabo / Ludwig Wrede
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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.

Men's competitions took place from February 5th to 6th in Davos, Switzerland. Ladies' competitions took place from February 19th to 20th in Oslo, Norway. Pairs' competitions took place from February 22nd to 23rd in Vienna, Austria.

Medal table

* Host nations (Austria, Norway)

Results

Men

Rank	Name	Places
1	Willy Böckl	11
2	Otto Preißecker	15
3	Karl Schäfer	24
4	Georges Gautschi	26
5	John Page	30
6	Ludwig Wrede	42
7	Herbert Haertel	48
8	Jean Henrion	56

Judges:

Kurt Dannenberg
Eduard Engelmann
Josef Fellner
Fritz Kachler
J. G. Künzli
Thomas Richardson
Artur Vieregg

Ladies

This result was controversial because the three Norwegian member of the judging panel placed the Sonja Henie on the first place, while the other two placed Herma Szabo, who retired after the competition. ^[1]^[2]

Rank	Name	Judges					Places
Rank	Name	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	Places
1	Sonja Henie^[3]	1	1	1	2	2	7
2	Herma Plank-Szabo	2	2	2	1	1	8
3	Karen Simensen	3	3	3	4	4	17
4	Ellen Brockhöft	4	4	4	3	3	18

Judges:

Arne Christiansen
O. R. Kolderup
Knut Oeren Meinich
Walter Müller
Artur Vieregg

Pairs

Rank	Name	Places
1	Herma Plank-Szabo / Ludwig Wrede	6.5
2	Lilly Scholz / Otto Kaiser	9
3	Else Hoppe / Oscar Hoppe	14.5
4	Hansi Eissert / Georg Pamperl	20

Judges:

Walter Jakobsson
Otto Maly
Walter Müller
Max Rendschmidt
K. Scheibner

References

^ Nationalism in Winter Sports Judging and its Lessons for Organizational Decision Making, by Eric Zitzewitz, accessed July 3, 2006.
^ Worlds Greatest Skaters Archived 2007-07-21 at archive.today, accessed July 3, 2006.
^ Hines, James R. (2011). Historical Dictionary of Figure Skating. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press. p. xxiii. ISBN 978-0-8108-6859-5.

Sources

Result List provided by the ISU

[judging-1] Nationalism in Winter Sports Judging and its Lessons for Organizational Decision Making, by Eric Zitzewitz, accessed July 3, 2006.

[judging2-2] Worlds Greatest Skaters Archived 2007-07-21 at archive.today, accessed July 3, 2006.

[3] Hines, James R. (2011). Historical Dictionary of Figure Skating. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press. p. xxiii. ISBN 978-0-8108-6859-5.

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Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Austria*	2	3	1	6
2	Norway*	1	0	1	2
3	Czechoslovakia	0	0	1	1
Totals (3 entries)		3	3	3	9

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