1973 World Figure Skating Championships
The 1973 World Figure Skating Championships were held from February 26 to March 3 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, sanctioned by the International Skating Union. Medals were awarded in men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dance. It was the last year in which solid gold medals were awarded in figure skating.[1]
1973 World Figure Skating Championships | |
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Type: | ISU Championship |
Date: | February 26 – March 3 |
Season: | 1972–73 |
Location: | Bratislava, Czechoslovakia |
Champions | |
Men's singles: | |
Ladies' singles: | |
Pair skating: | |
Ice dance: | |
Previous: 1972 World Championships | |
Next: 1974 World Championships |
The opening ceremony was held at the Philharmonic of Bratislava. The Chairman of the organising committee was Miroslav Cerveka.
Irina Rodnina won her first World title with her new partner, Alexander Zaitsev after her previous partner, Alexei Ulanov, chose to skate with Lyudmila Smirnova. The music was sabotaged and stopped during Rodnina/Zaitsev's free program but the pair successfully completed the program in silence and received a standing ovation.[2][3]
Medal table
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | |
2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||
4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||
6 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | |
7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Totals (7 nations) | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 |
Results
Men
Rank | Name | Nation | CP | SP | FP | Points | Placings |
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1 | Ondrej Nepela | 1 | 2 | 2 | 355.66 | 10 | |
2 | Sergei Chetverukhin | 2 | 3 | 1 | 348.91 | 17 | |
3 | Jan Hoffmann | 3 | 7 | 6 | 340.55 | 35 | |
4 | John Curry | 4 | 8 | 7 | 338.43 | 39 | |
5 | Toller Cranston | 6 | 1 | 5 | 336.50 | 54 | |
6 | Yuri Ovchinnikov | 8 | 5 | 3 | 334.01 | 54 | |
7 | Gordon McKellen, Jr. | 5 | 4 | 8 | 330.84 | 62 | |
8 | Ron Shaver | 12 | 6 | 4 | 330.58 | 61 | |
9 | Jacques Mrozek | 9 | 10 | 11 | 320.01 | 91 | |
10 | Zdeněk Pazdírek | 10 | 12 | 9 | 319.43 | 95 | |
11 | Daniel Höner | 7 | 11 | 12 | 319.08 | 97 | |
12 | Robert Bradshaw | 13 | 9 | 10 | 316.62 | 103 | |
13 | László Vajda | 11 | 14 | 13 | 314.77 | 112 | |
14 | Minoru Sano | 14 | 13 | 14 | 308.37 | 130 | |
15 | Erich Reifschneider | 15 | 15 | 16 | 303.72 | 144 | |
16 | Igor Lisovski | 18 | 17 | 17 | 302.24 | 147 | |
17 | Bernd Wunderlich | 20 | 18 | 15 | 300.38 | 148 | |
18 | Miroslav Šoška | 17 | 16 | 18 | 299.99 | 151 | |
19 | Robert Rubens | 19 | 19 | 19 | 295.16 | 168 | |
20 | Gunther Hilgarth | 16 | 20 | 21 | 275.29 | 187 | |
21 | Jacek Tascher | 23 | 23 | 20 | 273.30 | 191 | |
22 | Rolando Bragaglia | 22 | 21 | 22 | 270.19 | 193 | |
23 | Gheorghe Fazekas | 21 | 24 | 24 | 262.23 | 205 | |
24 | Silvo Svajger | 24 | 22 | 23 | 255.29 | 214 |
Referee:
- Sonia Bianchetti
Italy
Assistant Referee:
- Miroslav Hasenöhrl
Czechoslovakia
Judges:
- Boris Anokhin
Soviet Union - Dorothy Leamen
Canada - Luciana Brasa
Italy - Walburga Grimm
East Germany - Kazuo Ohashi
Japan - Dagmar Rehakova
Czechoslovakia - Ramona McIntyre
United States - Irina Minculescu
Romania - Geoffrey Yates
United Kingdom
Substitute judge:
- Jürg Wilhelm
Switzerland
Ladies
Sonja Balun of Austria and Krisztina Homolya of Hungary withdrew before the opening ceremony.
Rank | Name | Nation | CP | SP | FP | Points | Placings |
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1 | Karen Magnussen | 1 | 1 | 2 | 356.39 | 9 | |
2 | Janet Lynn | 2 | 12 | 1 | 347.85 | 18 | |
3 | Christine Errath | 5 | 2 | 5 | 340.90 | 31 | |
4 | Dorothy Hamill | 8 | 3 | 4 | 337.93 | 35 | |
5 | Jean Scott | 4 | 10 | 11 | 332.10 | 47 | |
6 | Karin Iten | 3 | 14 | 14 | 329.08 | 60 | |
7 | Liana Drahová | 9 | 9 | 6 | 327.53 | 69 | |
8 | Sonja Morgenstern | 10 | 5 | 7 | 326.53 | 76 | |
9 | Juli McKinstry | 12 | 7 | 9 | 323.26 | 91 | |
10 | Lynn Nightingale | 15 | 4 | 3 | 325.61 | 78 | |
11 | Maria McLean | 7 | 11 | 13 | 322.68 | 96 | |
12 | Cathy Lee Irwin | 11 | 13 | 10 | 320.95 | 108 | |
13 | Gerti Schanderl | 14 | 6 | 8 | 319.69 | 114 | |
14 | Anett Pötzsch | 13 | 8 | 12 | 316.21 | 125 | |
15 | Dianne de Leeuw | 6 | 15 | 16 | 316.11 | 123 | |
16 | Marina Sanaya | 23 | 16 | 15 | 296.67 | 149 | |
17 | Emi Watanabe | 18 | 23 | 17 | 294.35 | 154 | |
18 | Marie-Claude Bierre | 16 | 18 | 22 | 288.34 | 171 | |
19 | Cinzia Frosio | 19 | 19 | 19 | 287.45 | 175 | |
20 | Liselotte Öberg | 21 | 17 | 18 | 285.55 | 177 | |
21 | Sharon Burley | 20 | 20 | 21 | 286.58 | 178 | |
22 | Hannele Koskinen | 27 | 22 | 20 | 275.77 | 204 | |
23 | Grażyna Dudek | 26 | 21 | 23 | 276.57 | 201 | |
24 | Helena Gazvoda | 25 | 26 | 24 | 268.04 | 220 | |
25 | Chang Myung-su | 17 | 28 | 27 | 264.92 | 227 | |
26 | Bente Tverran | 24 | 27 | 26 | 261.03 | 235 | |
27 | Ágnes Erös | 28 | 24 | 25 | 262.58 | 231 | |
WD | Susanne Altura | 22 | 25 | DNF | |||
Krisztina Gomolya | DNS | ||||||
Sonja Balun | DNS |
Referee:
- Major Josef Dědič
Czechoslovakia
Assistant Referee:
- Oskar Madl
Austria
Judges:
- Helga von Wiecki
East Germany - Mary Louise Wright
United States - Ludwig Gassner
Austria - Vera Lynfield
United Kingdom - Elisbeth Bon-Meyer
Netherlands - Inkeri Soininen
Finland - Dr. Jakob Biedermann
Switzerland - Joan Maclagan
Canada - Márta Léces
Hungary
Substitute judge:
- Sydney Croll
Australia
Pairs
Rank | Name | Nation | SP | FP | Points | Placings |
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1 | Irina Rodnina / Alexander Zaitsev | 1 | 1 | 423.9 | 9 | |
2 | Liudmila Smirnova / Alexei Ulanov | 2 | 2 | 416.2 | 18 | |
3 | Manuela Groß / Uwe Kagelmann | 3 | 3 | 409.2 | 29 | |
4 | Almut Lehmann / Herbert Wiesinger | 6 | 5 | 402.9 | 43 | |
5 | Romy Kermer / Rolf Österreich | 4 | 4 | 401.3 | 46 | |
6 | Sandra Bezic / Val Bezic | 7 | 6 | 399.8 | 51 | |
7 | Irina Cherniaeva / Vasili Blagov | 5 | 7 | 398.3 | 56 | |
8 | Melissa Militano / Mark Militano | 8 | 8 | 390.7 | 73 | |
9 | Marian Murray / Glenn Moore | 9 | 9 | 386.0 | 80 | |
10 | Karin Künzle / Christian Künzle | 11 | 10 | 373.9 | 92 | |
11 | Ilona Urbanová / Alex Zach | 10 | 11 | 369.4 | 106 | |
12 | Corinna Halke / Eberhard Rausch | 12 | 12 | 366.6 | 108 | |
13 | Gale Fuhrman / Joel Fuhrman | 15 | 13 | 360.9 | 121 | |
14 | Florence Cahn / Jean-Roland Racle | 13 | 14 | 362.0 | 120 | |
15 | Ursula Nemec / Michael Nemec | 16 | 15 | 346.0 | 137 | |
16 | Teresa Skrzek / Piotr Sczypa | 14 | 16 | 350.4 | 135 |
Referee:
Assistant Referee:
- Donald H. Gilchrist
Canada
Judges:
- Erich Soukup
Czechoslovakia - Valentin Piseev
Soviet Union - Wladyslaw Kolodziej
Poland - Alice Pinos
Canada - Jürg Wilhelm
Switzerland - Willi Wernz
West Germany - Walburga Grimm
East Germany - Walter Hüttner
Austria - Edith M. Shoemaker
United States
Substitute judge:
- Monique Georgelin
France
Ice dance
Rank | Name | Nation | CD | FD | Points | Placings |
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1 | Liudmila Pakhomova / Alexander Gorshkov | 1 | 1 | 524.20 | 9 | |
2 | Angelika Buck / Erich Buck | 2 | 2 | 514.55 | 18 | |
3 | Hilary Green / Glyn Watts | 3 | 3 | 499.05 | 29 | |
4 | Janet Sawbridge / Peter Dalby | 4 | 6 | 493.25 | 38 | |
5 | Tatiana Voitiuk / Viacheslav Zhigalin | 5 | 4 | 488.30 | 43 | |
6 | Mary Karen Campbell / Johnny Johns | 6 | 7 | 479.30 | 60 | |
7 | Irina Moiseeva / Andrei Minenkov | 7 | 5 | 475.80 | 63.5 | |
8 | Diana Skotnická / Martin Skotnický | 8 | 8 | 470.85 | 72.5 | |
9 | Louise Soper / Barry Soper | 9 | 9 | 471.00 | 73 | |
10 | Anne Millier / Harvey Millier III | 10 | 11 | 459.15 | 93 | |
11 | Matilde Ciccia / Lamberto Ceserani | 12 | 10 | 452.10 | 100 | |
12 | Rosalind Druce / David Barker | 11 | 13 | 448.70 | 107 | |
13 | Krisztina Regőczy / András Sallay | 13 | 12 | 442.70 | 115 | |
14 | Halina Gordon / Wojciech Bankowski | 14 | 15 | 425.80 | 130 | |
15 | Barbara Berezowski / David Porter | 15 | 14 | 426.35 | 131 | |
16 | Anne-Claude Wolfers / Roland Mars | 16 | 16 | 408.80 | 146 | |
17 | Christina Henke / Udo Dönsdorf | 17 | 17 | 402.00 | 151 | |
18 | Brigitte Scheijbal / Walter Leschetizky | 18 | 18 | 393.65 | 160 |
Referee:
- Hermann Schiechtl
West Germany
Assistant Referee:
Judges:
- Edith M. Shoemaker
United States - Elek Riedl
Hungary - Lysiane Lauret
France - Eugen Romminger
West Germany - Helena Pachlová
Czechoslovakia - Mollie Phillips
United Kingdom - Maria Zuchowicz
Poland - Irina Absaliamova
Soviet Union - Frances Gunn
Canada
Substitute judge:
- Cia Bordogna
Italy
References
- McKay, Kevin (January 2010). "Top of the World". Senior Living magazine.
- Encyclopædia Britannica: Irina Rodnina
- Pushkina, Oksana (October 3, 2004). Ирина Константиновна Роднина [Irina Konstantinovna Rodnina]. peoples.ru (in Russian). Archived from the original on 6 June 2011. Retrieved April 23, 2011.
- Cross, Jeff (1973). Karen. Don Mills,Ontario: Collier-Macmillan Canada,Ltd.
Sources
- Result list provided by the ISU