1929 World Figure Skating Championships

1929 World Figure Skating Championships
Type:	ISU Championship
Season:	1929
Location:	London, UK (men) Budapest, Hungary (ladies and pairs)
Champions
Men's singles: Gillis Grafström
Ladies' singles: Sonja Henie
Pairs: Lilly Scholz / Otto Kaiser
Previous: 1928 World Championships
Next: 1930 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 1929 men competitions took place from March 4th to 5th in London, United Kingdom. The 1929 ladies and pairs competitions took place from February 2nd to 3rd in Budapest, Hungary.

Results

Men

Rank	Name	Nation	Age	Points	Places
1	Gillis Grafström	Sweden	35	353.15	6
2	Karl Schäfer	Austria	19	346.50	10
3	Ludwig Wrede	Austria	34	323.70	16
4	John F. Page	United Kingdom	29	312.70	24
5	Hugo Distler	Austria			25
6	Markus Nikkanen	Finland	25		26
7	Ian Bowhill	United Kingdom	26		32

Judges:

• Mr. Eduard Engelmann jr. Austria
• Mr. L. Liebermann Switzerland
• Mr. André G. Poplimont Belgium
• Mr. Ulrich Salchow Sweden
• Mr. V. C. Wilson United Kingdom

Ladies

Rank	Name	Nation	Age	Points	Places
1	Sonja Henie	Norway	16	280.40	5
2	Fritzi Burger	Austria	18	259.25	12
3	Melitta Brunner	Austria	22	254.65	13
4	Ilse Hornung	Austria	20	236.10	20
5	Grete Kubitschek	Austria		216.65	26
6	Yvonne de Ligne-Geurts	Belgium	19	208.50	29

Judges:

• Mr. Herbert J. Clarke United Kingdom
• Mr. Walter Jakobsson Finland
• Mr. B. Björjeson Norway
• Mr. Fernand de Montigny Belgium
• Mr, Eduard Engelmann jr. Austria

Pairs

Rank	Name	Nation	Age	Points	Places
1	Lilly Scholz / Otto Kaiser	Austria	25/27	11.25	6
2	Melitta Brunner / Ludwig Wrede	Austria	21/34	10.75	13
3	Olga Orgonista / Sándor Szalay	Hungary	27/35	10.30	18
4	Gisela Hochhaltinger / Otto Preißecker	Austria	/30	10.35	21.5
5	Emília Rotter / László Szollás	Hungary	21/20	10.30	21.5
6	Else Hoppe / Oscar Hoppe	Czechoslovakia		10.05	25
7	Maria Schwendtbauer / Gustav Aichinger	Germany		8.30	35

Judges:

• Mrs. Ludowika Jakobsson Finland
• Mr. C. J. Clarke United Kingdom
• Mr. B. Björjeson Norway
• Mr. Otto Bohatsch Austria
• Mr. Theodor Meszléri Hungary

Sources

• Result List provided by the ISU