1908 World Figure Skating Championships

1908 World Figure Skating Championships
Type:	ISU Championship
Season:	1908
Location:	Troppau, Austria-Hungary (singles) Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire (pairs)
Venue:	Yusupovsky Garden (StP's)
Champions
Men's singles: Ulrich Salchow
Ladies' singles: Lily Kronberger
Pairs: Anna Hübler / Heinrich Burger
Previous: 1907 World Championships
Next: 1909 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.

Men's and ladies' competitions were held on January 25–26 in Troppau, Austria-Hungary (modern-day Opava, Czech Republic). Pairs' competition took place on February 16 in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire. It was the first World Championships in which pair skating was contested.

Results

Men

Rank	Name	Nation	Places
1	Ulrich Salchow	Sweden	9
2	Gilbert Fuchs	Germany	12
3	Heinrich Burger	Germany	21

Judges:

• Otto Bohatsch Austria
• C. Dorasil Germany (Czechoslovakia)
• P. Engelhardt Germany
• H. D. Faith United Kingdom
• I. Forssling Sweden
• Gustav Hügel Austria
• Otto Schöning Germany

Ladies

Rank	Name	Nation	Places
1	Lily Kronberger	Hungary	5
2	Elsa Rendschmidt	Germany	10

Judges:

• H. D. Faith United Kingdom
• Otto Schöning Germany
• I. Forssling Sweden
• Gustav Hügel Austria
• P. Engelhardt Germany

Pairs

Rank	Name	Nation	Places
1	Anna Hübler / Heinrich Burger	Germany	5
2	Phyllis Johnson / James H. Johnson	United Kingdom	11.5
3	Lidia Popova / Alexander Fischer	Russia	13.5

Judges:

• Rudolf Sundgren Finland
• V. Shnobel Russia
• J. Kettnitz Russia
• A. Ivashenztsov Russia
• Viacheslav Sresnevsky Russia

Sources

• Result List provided by the ISU