1971 World Figure Skating Championships

1971 World Figure Skating Championships
Type:	ISU Championship
Date:	February 23 – 28
Season:	1970–71
Location:	Lyon, France
Venue:	Palais des Sports de Gerland
Champions
Men's singles: Ondrej Nepela
Ladies' singles: Beatrix Schuba
Pairs: Irina Rodnina / Aleksey Ulanov
Ice dance: Lyudmila Pakhomova / Aleksandr Gorshkov
Previous: 1970 World Championships
Next: 1972 World Championships

The 1971 World Figure Skating Championships were held in Lyon, France, from February 23 to 28. At the event, sanctioned by the International Skating Union, medals were awarded in men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dance.

Medal table

  *   Host nation (France)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	2	1	1	4
2	Austria	1	0	0	1
	Czechoslovakia	1	0	0	1
4	United States	0	1	2	3
5	France*	0	1	0	1
	West Germany	0	1	0	1
7	Canada	0	0	1	1
Totals (7 entries)		4	4	4	12

Results

Men

Rank	Name	CP	FP	Points	Placings
1	Ondrej Nepela	1	1	2737.5	12
2	Patrick Péra	2	3	2706.7	18
3	Sergey Chetverukhin	3	8	2629.3	34
4	Jan Hoffmann	4	2	2632.7	34
5	John Petkevich	5	4	2598.9	44
6	Haig Oundjian	6	7	2551.0	58
7	Yuriy Ovchinnikov	7	9	2529.6	66
8	Kenneth Shelley	9	5	2540.7	70
9	Gordon McKellen	11	10	2498.4	89
10	Didier Gailhaguet	10	11	2502.1	89
11	Toller Cranston	15	6		90
12	Günter Anderl	8	14		115
13	Jacques Mrozek	14	11		116
14	John Curry	13	13		117
15	Daniel Höner	12	16		137
16	Jozef Žídek	18	15		148
17	Zdeněk Pazdírek	17	19		155
18	Stefano Bargauan	16	18		157.5
19	Klaus Grimmelt	21	17		167.5
20	Yutaka Higuchi	19	20		180
21	György Fazekas	20	21		186

• Referee: Elemér Terták
• Assistant Referee: Donald Gilchrist

Judges:

• Michele Beltrami
• Vera Curceac
• Tatyana Danilenko
• Milan Duchón
• Norman E. Fuller
• Monique Georgelin
• Kinuko Ueno
• Helga Wiecki
• Geoffrey Yates

Ladies

The results of the women's free skate caused an uproar in the arena and were one step towards the demise of compulsory figures. Janet Lynn skated a clean free skate that was well-loved by the crowd, and she placed first in that segment with scores ranging from 5.8 to 6.0; however, due to her scores in the compulsory figures segment of the competition, which were not aired on television, she could not advance to a medal position despite her performance. Coverage on the Wide World of Sports showed Lynn looking at the medalist stand. The crowd in the arena booed; Pierre Brunet, a well-known coach, approached Lynn and told her to take a bow to appease the spectators, a move she later regretted as distracting from the medalists: "I have not been in touch with Karen or Trixi, but I've apologized to Julie for that because it was wrong for me to do that. I was a young girl; I should have had better judgment and said no, but my superiors told me that's what I needed to do."

Rank	Name	CP	FP	Points	Placings
1	Beatrix Schuba	1	7	2763.0	10
2	Julie Holmes	2	5	2697.3	24.5
3	Karen Magnussen	4	2	2697.7	27
4	Janet Lynn	5	1	2680.0	34
5	Rita Trapanese	3	8	2623.6	47.5
6	Sonja Morgenstern	9	3	2606.6	52
7	Zsuzsa Almássy	6	4	2599.9	57
8	Charlotte Walter	8	14	2480.7	83
9	Christine Errath	13	6	2493.5	86
10	Suna Murray	14	9	2475.0	91
11	Yelena Aleksandrova	10	13	2450.5	100
12	Patricia Dodd	7	16		103
13	Kazumi Yamashita	12	11		116
14	Ľudmila Bezáková	11	15		122
15	Jean Scott	15	10		132
16	Diane Hall	19	12		132
17	Anita Johansson	16	18		145
18	Judith Beyer	20	17		159
19	Ruth Hutchinson	17	20		168
20	Sonja Balun	22	19		177
21	Joëlle Cartaux	18	22		188
22	Cinzia Frosio	21	21		197

• Referee: Josef Dědič
• Assistant Referee: Sonia Bianchetti

Judges:

• Eva von Gamm
• Ludwig Gassner
• Barbara Graham
• Walburga Grimm
• Éva György
• Nonna Nestogina
• Elof Niklasson
• Giorgio Siniscalco
• Mary Wright

Pairs

Rank	Name	SP	FP	Points	Placings
1	Irina Rodnina / Aleksey Ulanov	2	1	419.4	11
2	Lyudmila Smirnova / Andrey Suraykin	1	2	418.9	17
3	Alicia Starbuck / Kenneth Shelley	3	3	410.3	29
4	Manuela Groß / Uwe Kagelmann	4	4	404.1	37
5	Almut Lehmann / Herbert Wiesinger	5	5	399.7	48
6	Melissa Militano / Mark Militano	6	6	394.9	56
7	Annette Kansy / Axel Salzmann	8	7	392.3	62
8	Galina Karelina / Georgiy Proskurin	6	8	387.9	76
9	Sandra Bezic / Val Bezic	9	9	384.1	80
10	Grażyna Osmańska / Adam Brodecki	11	10	381.0	88
11	Barbara Brown / Doug Berndt	12	11		98
12	Brunhilde Baßler / Eberhard Rausch	10	12		104
13	Linda Connolly / Colin Taylforth	13	13		118
14	Florence Cahn / Jean-Roland Racle	14	14		121
15	Kotoe Nagasawa / Hiroshi Nagakubo	17	15		137
16	Karin Künzle / Christian Künzle	18	16		146
17	Teresa Skrzek / Piotr Szczypa	16	17		149
WD	Evelyne Schneider / Wilhelm Bietak	15			DNF

• Referee: Karl Enderlin
• Assistant Referee: Néri Valdes

Judges:

• Pamela Davis
• Norman E. Fuller
• Eva von Gamm
• Edwin Kucharz
• Carla Listing
• Nonna Nestogina
• Monique Petis
• Jürg Wilhelm
• Maria Zuchowicz

Ice dance

Rank	Name	CD	FD	Points	Placings
1	Lyudmila Pakhomova / Aleksandr Gorshkov	1	1	515.8	16
2	Angelika Buck / Erich Buck	3	2	512.7	20
3	Judy Schwomeyer / James Sladky	2	3	514.5	21
4	Susan Getty / Roy Bradshaw	4	4	502.9	33
5	Tetyana Voytyuk / Vyacheslav Zhyhalyn	5	5	490.1	47
6	Janet Sawbridge / Peter Dalby	6	7	484.4	58
7	Hilary Green / Glynn Watts	10	8	473.3	71
8	Yelena Zharkova / Gennadiy Karponosov	7	6	475.3	71
9	Anne Millier / Harvey Millier	9	10	467.5	80
10	Mary Campbell / Johnny Johns	8	9	466.5	88
11	Louise Lind / Barry Soper	11	11		103
12	Diana Skotnická / Martin Skotnický	13	12		109.5
13	Anne-Claude Wolfers / Roland Mars	12	13		113
14	Teresa Weyna / Piotr Bojańczyk	14	14		117.5
15	Ilona Berecz / István Sugár	15	16		134
16	Matilde Ciccia / Lamberto Ceserani	16	15		142
17	Tatiana Grossen / Alessandro Grossen	17	17		157
18	Astrid Kopp / Axel Kopp	18	18		158
19	Angelika Wiesner / Hans-Jürgen Wiesner	19	20		174
20	Brigitte Scheijbal / Kurt Jaschek	20	19		177

• Referee: Emil Skákala
• Assistant Referee: Henri Meudec

Judges:

• George J. Blundun
• Igor Kabanov
• Klára Kozári
• Lysiane Lauret
• George Marsh
• Dagmar Řeháková
• Erika Schiechtl
• Mary Wright
• Maria Zuchowicz