Jump to content

1955 World Figure Skating Championships

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1955 World Figure Skating Championships
Type:ISU Championship
Date:February 15 – 18
Season:1955
Location:Austria Vienna, Austria
Champions
Men's singles:
United States Hayes Alan Jenkins
Ladies' singles:
United States Tenley Albright
Pairs:
Canada Frances Dafoe / Norris Bowden
Ice dance:
United Kingdom Jean Westwood / Lawrence Demmy
Navigation
Previous:
1954 World Championships
Next:
1956 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 1955 competitions for men, ladies, pair skating, and ice dancing took place from February 15th to 18th in Vienna, Austria.

Medal table

[edit]

  *   Host nation (Austria)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 United States2215
2 Great Britain1113
3 Canada1001
4 Austria*0112
5 Hungary0011
Totals (5 entries)44412

Results

[edit]

Men

[edit]
Rank Name Places
1 United States Hayes Jenkins 11
2 United States Ronald Robertson 16
3 United States David Jenkins 28
4 France Alain Giletti 37
5 Czechoslovakia Karol Divín 58
6 United Kingdom Michael Booker 58
7 Austria Norbert Felsinger 60
8 Canada Charles Snelling 69
9 France Alain Calmat 79
10 United Kingdom Hugh Graham 79
11 Hungary István Szenes 103
12 Switzerland Hans Müller 114
13 West Germany Tilo Gutzeit 114
14 United Kingdom Brian Tuck 119

Judges:

Ladies

[edit]
Rank Name Points Places
1 United States Tenley Albright 190.96 9
2 United States Carol Heiss 180.31 28
3 Austria Hanna Eigel 179.78 29
4 Austria Ingrid Wendl 178.46 41
5 United Kingdom Erica Batchelor 177.56 43
6 Canada Yarmila Pachl 175.16 58
7 United States Patricia Firth 174.49 59
8 United Kingdom Yvonne Sugden 174.59 64
9 Canada Ann Johnston 172.51 77
10 United States Catherine Machado 169.43 87
11 West Germany Rosi Pettinger 161.98 105
12 Australia Dawn Hunter 158.42 121
13 Austria Ilse Musyl 157.99 126
14 Czechoslovakia Dagmar Řeháková 157.89 129
15 Netherlands Joan Haanappel 156.06 138
16 Italy Fiorella Negro 161.98 141
17 Switzerland Alice Fischer 153.37 158.5
18 Czechoslovakia Miroslava Náchodská 153.03 162
19 France Maryvonne Huet 152.54 162.5
20 West Germany Erika Rücker 150.66 175
21 Netherlands Sjoukje Dijkstra 151.57 176
WD Austria Hanna Walter DNS

Judges:

Pairs

[edit]
Rank Name Points Places
1 Canada Frances Dafoe / Norris Bowden 10.88 17.5
2 Austria Sissy Schwarz / Kurt Oppelt 10.82 17.5
3 Hungary Marianna Nagy / László Nagy 10.57 28
4 United States Carole Ormaca / Robin Greiner 10.27 46
5 Canada Barbara Wagner / Robert Paul 10.08 65
6 Czechoslovakia Věra Suchánková / Zdeněk Doležal 10.06 66.5
7 West Germany Marika Kilius / Franz Ningel 10.01 68.5
8 United States Lucille Ash / Sully Kothmann 10.02 70.5
9 West Germany Alice Zettel / Klaus Loichinger 9.96 70.5
10 Austria Liesl Ellend / Konrad Lienert 9.82 82.5
11 Hungary Éva Szöllősi / Gábor Vida 9.78 83
12 United Kingdom Vivien Higson / Robert Hudson 9.79 87.5

Judges:

Ice dance

[edit]
Rank Name Points Places
1 United Kingdom Jean Westwood / Lawrence Demmy 37.09 7
2 United Kingdom Pamela Weight / Paul Thomas 36.52 14
3 United Kingdom Barbara Radford / Raymond Lockwood 35.29 21
4 United States Carmel Bodel / Edward Bodel 34.23 28
5 United States Joan Zamboni / Roland Junso 34.11 34
6 United States Phyllis Forney / Martin Forney 33.23 43
7 France Fanny Besson / Jean Guhel 50
8 West Germany Sigrid Knake / Günther Koch 69
9 Austria Lucia Fischer / Rudolf Zorn 31.20 69
10 Italy Bona Giammona / Giancarlo Sioli 75
11 Canada Lindis Johnston / Jeffrey Johnston 77
12 Netherlands Catharina Odink / Jacobus Odink 80
13 France Claude Weinstein / Claude Lambert 83
14 Austria Edith Peikert / Hans Kutschera 30.33 84
15 Austria Luise Lehner / Georg Lenitz 28.38 104

Judges:

  • United Kingdom Pauline L. Barrajo
  • Italy P. Farinet
  • Austria Hans Meixner
  • France Henri Meudec
  • United States R. Sackett
  • Hungary László Szollás
  • Belgium A. Voordeckers

Sources

[edit]
  • Result List provided by the ISU