1972 World Figure Skating Championships

1972 World Figure Skating Championships
Type:	ISU Championship
Date:	March 7 – 11
Season:	1971–72
Location:	Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Venue:	Stampede Corral
Champions
Men's singles: Ondrej Nepela
Ladies' singles: Beatrix Schuba
Pairs: Irina Rodnina / Aleksey Ulanov
Ice dance: Lyudmila Pakhomova / Aleksandr 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 dance.

A day before the start of the competition, Irina Rodnina / Aleksey Ulanov had an accident on a lift; Rodnina was hospitalized with a concussion and an intracranial hematoma but went on to compete and win the gold medal. It was Rodnina/Ulanov's final competition together. Ulanov would team up with the silver medalist, Lyudmila Smirnova.

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Canada)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	2	2	1	5
2	Austria	1	0	0	1
	Czechoslovakia	1	0	0	1
4	Canada*	0	1	0	1
	West Germany	0	1	0	1
6	United States	0	0	3	3
Totals (6 entries)		4	4	4	12

Results

Men

Rank	Name	CF	FS	Points	Places
1	Ondrej Nepela	1	3	2722.8	9
2	Sergey Chetverukhin	2	2	2673.8	19
3	Vladimir Kovalyov	3	5	2607.5	34
4	John Petkevich	5	4	2585.5	39
5	Toller Cranston	9	1	2566.1	45
6	Jan Hoffmann	4	9	2559.7	59
7	Kenneth Shelley	7	6	2538.7	67
8	Gordon McKellen	10	8	2528.3	69
9	John Curry	6	7	2534.8	70
10	Sergey Volkov	8	10	2499.0	86
11	Jacques Mrozek	11	11	2448.8	100
12	Zdeněk Pazdírek	14	12		116
13	Didier Gailhauguet	12	13		116
14	Josef Schneider	13	15		128
15	Yutaka Higuchi	16	14		136
16	Jozef Žídek	17	16		141
17	Stefano Bargauan	15	17		144
18	Harald Kuhn	19	18		166
19	Pekka Leskinen	18	19		167
WD	Haig Oundjian				DNS

• Referee: Donald Gilchrist
• Assistant Referee: Sonia Bianchetti

Judges:

• Gerhardt Bubník
• Dorothy Burkholder
• Tatyana Danilenko
• Masao Hasegawa
• Franz Heinlein
• William Lewis
• Monique Petis
• Mollie Phillips
• Helga Wiecki
• János Zsigmondy (substitute)

Ladies

Rank	Name	CF	FS	Points	Places
1	Beatrix Schuba	1	9	2778.5	13
2	Karen Magnussen	2	2	2745.2	16
3	Janet Lynn	3	1	2713.0	25
4	Zsuzsa Almássy	4	6	2643.3	37
5	Sonja Morgenstern	6	3	2581.1	52
6	Jean Scott	5	10	2555.1	57
7	Dorothy Hamill	8	5	2548.3	62
8	Suna Murray	7	7	2517.5	74
9	Cathy Irwin	9	8	2499.9	79
10	Christine Errath	11	4	2519.9	81
11	Ľudmila Bezáková	10	13	2426.9	102
12	Karin Iten	12	16	2387.8	118
13	Gerti Schanderl	15	11	2385.3	119
14	Cinzia Frosio	13	12	2380.1	120
15	Darya Prichun	14	14	2370.9	127
16	Marie-Claude Bierre	17	15	2319.9	146
17	Dianne de Leeuw	16	19	2296.6	151
18	Chang Myung-su	18	18	2221.6	169
19	Sharon Burley	19	21	2195.8	175
20	Shūko Takeyama	20	20	2193.3	178
21	Marina Sanaya	21	17	2189.3	178

• Referee: Josef Dědič
• Assistant Referee: Elemér Terták

Judges:

• Zoltán Balázs
• Jeanine Donnier-Blanc
• Milan Duchón (substitute)
• Suzanne Francis
• Ludwig Gassner
• Walburga Grimm
• Wilhelm Kahle
• Ramona McIntyre
• Giovanni de Mori
• René Schlageter

Pairs

Rank	Name	SP		FS		Points	Places
1	Irina Rodnina / Aleksey Ulanov	1	106.2	1	315.6	421.8	9
2	Lyudmila Smirnova / Andrey Suraykin	2	104.4	3	312.3	416.7	21.5
3	Alicia Starbuck / Kenneth Shelley	5	99.6	2	312.6	412.2	28.5
4	Manuela Groß / Uwe Kagelmann	3	102.0	4	307.8	409.8	38
5	Almut Lehmann / Herbert Wiesinger	4	100.9	5	306.9	407.8	42
6	Irina Chernyayeva / Vasiliy Blagov	6	99.5	6	304.5	404.0	55
7	Annette Kansy / Axel Salzmann	8	98.2	7	300.9	399.1	68
8	Sandra Bezic / Val Bezic	7	98.3	8	301.2	399.5	70
9	Melissa Militano / Mark Militano	9	96.6	9	298.5	395.1	76
10	Corinna Halke / Eberhard Rausch	11	94.8	10	268.9	363.7	95
11	Mary Petrie / John Hubbell	13	92.7	11	285.0	377.7	102
12	Grażyna Osmańska / Adam Brodecki	10	96.5	12	284.1	380.6	106
13	Gabriele Cieplik / Reinhard Ketterer	12	94.4	13	280.8	375.2	114
14	Barbara Brown / Douglas Berndt	14	90.9	14	278.4	369.3	123
15	Linda Connolly / Colin Taylforth	15	90.5	15	272.4	362.9	132

• Referee: Karl Enderlin
• Assistant Referee: Henry M. Beatty

Judges:

• Elsbeth Bon
• Pamela Davis
• Suzanne Francis
• Walburga Grimm
• Valentin Piseyev
• Ardelle Sanderson
• René Schlageter (substitute)
• Inkeri Soininen
• Maria Zuchowicz
• János Zsigmondy

Ice dance

Rank	Name	CD		FD		Points	Places
1	Lyudmila Pakhomova / Aleksandr Gorshkov	1	251.9	1	262.7	514.6	14
2	Angelika Buck / Erich Buck	2	250.7	2	261.3	512.0	17
3	Judy Schwomeyer / James Sladky	3	248.7	3	260.0	508.7	24
4	Janet Sawbridge / Peter Dalby	4	242.0	4	255.0	495.0	38
5	Tetyana Voytyuk / Vyacheslav Zhyhalyn	5	234.9	5	250.8	485.7	46
6	Hilary Green / Glynn Watts	6	233.3	6	250.9	484.2	50
7	Anne Millier / Harvey Millier	7	221.9	7	244.9	466.8	67
8	Yelena Zharkova / Gennadiy Karponosov	8	219.1	8	242.3	461.4	75
9	Louise Lind / Barry Soper	9	217.9	9	241.0	458.9	80
10	Mary Campbell / Johnny Johns	10	216.1	10	237.2	453.3	91
11	Diana Skotnická / Martin Skotnický	11	212.6	11	234.8	447.4	99
12	Anne-Claude Wolfers / Roland Mars	12	209.5	13	226.7	436.2	108
13	Teresa Weyna / Piotr Bojańczyk	13	208.0	12	226.7	434.7	110
14	Sylvia Fuchs / Michael Fuchs	14	197.7	14	215.5	413.2	126
15	Astrid Kopp / Axel Kopp	15	195.3	15	208.2	403.5	135
16	Keiko Achiwa / Yasuyuki Noto	16	182.3	16	195.8	378.1	144

• Referee: Lawrence Demmy
• Assistant Referee: George J. Blundun

Judges:

• Zoltán Balázs
• Pamela Davis
• Milan Duchón
• Igor Kabanov
• Claude Lambert
• Audrey Moore
• Eugen Romminger
• Benjamin T. Wright
• Maria Zuchowicz

Sources

• The Calgary Gerald (Calgary, Alberta, March 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 1972)