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1963 World Figure Skating Championships

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1963 World Figure Skating Championships
Type:ISU Championship
Date:February 28 – March 3
Season:1963
Location:Italy Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy
Champions
Men's singles:
Canada Donald McPherson
Ladies' singles:
Netherlands Sjoukje Dijkstra
Pairs:
West Germany Marika Kilius / Hans-Jürgen Bäumler
Ice dance:
Czechoslovakia Eva Romanová / Pavel Roman
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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 1963 competitions for men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dance took place from February 28 to March 3 in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. The competition was held in the open-air ice stadium, with events running as late as 1 or 2am, by which time it was very cold. This caused the ice to become hard and brittle, as well as causing discomfort to those in attendance.[1]

Perhaps due to the poor ice conditions, the men's competition was marred by many falls. Both the winner Donald McPherson and second-place finisher Alain Calmat fell on triple loop attempts, but neither Manfred Schnelldorfer nor Karol Divín, who had been placed 1-2 after the compulsory figures, performed well in the free skating.[1]

Marika Kilius and Hans-Jürgen Bäumler won the pair competition, although some questioned whether some of their lifts, including a "triple Axel lift" (an Axel lasso lift with 3.5 rotations), were legal under the ISU rules of the time. The Canadian team of Debbi Wilkes and Guy Revell had to withdraw after Wilkes suffered a head injury in a fall while posing for press photos.[1]

Disaster also struck the American dance team Yvonne Littlefield and Peter Betts. They placed 9th in the compulsory dances, but in the free dance Betts's blade came unscrewed from the boot and they were unable to finish their program. Meanwhile, the defending champions Eva Romanová and Pavel Roman came from behind to retain title after being defeated in the compulsory dances by the British team, Linda Shearman and Michael Phillips, who had also defeated the Romans at the European Championships earlier that year.[1]

Defending champion Sjoukje Dijkstra also retained her title, building a big lead in the compulsory figures and following it with a good performance in the free skate, in which she now included a double Lutz for the first time.[1] Nicole Hassler, second in the free skate and third overall, had two strong double Axels at the end of her program.[2] The Japanese competitor Miwa Fukuhara, who finished 6th overall, included a triple salchow in her program.[1]

Medal table

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  *   Host nation (Italy)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Canada1012
 West Germany1012
3 Czechoslovakia1001
 Netherlands1001
5 France0112
 Soviet Union0112
7 Austria0101
 Great Britain0101
Totals (8 entries)44412

Results

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Men

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Rank Name Places
1 Canada Donald McPherson 18
2 France Alain Calmat 22
3 West Germany Manfred Schnelldorfer 22
4 Czechoslovakia Karol Divín 34
5 United States Scott Allen 40
6 Austria Peter Jonas 59
7 West Germany Sepp Schönmetzler 71
8 Canada Donald Knight 79
9 Austria Emmerich Danzer 80
10 Japan Nobuo Satō 83
11 United States Monty Hoyt 88
12 France Robert Dureville 117
13 West Germany Hugo Dümmler 122
14 Hungary Jenő Ébert 130
15 Canada William Neale 136
16 Soviet Union Valeriy Meshkov 144
17 Italy Giordano Abbondati 145
18 United Kingdom Malcolm Cannon 159
19 Netherlands Wouter Toledo 161

Judges:

  • Netherlands Charlotte Benedict-Stieber
  • Czechoslovakia Zdeněk Fikar
  • Austria Edwin Kucharz
  • Canada J. A. McKechnie
  • Italy Giovanni de Mori
  • United Kingdom Pamela Peat
  • United States John R. Shoemaker
  • France Néri Valdes
  • West Germany Adolf Walker

Ladies

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Rank Name Places
1 Netherlands Sjoukje Dijkstra 9
2 Austria Regine Heitzer 22
3 France Nicole Hassler 30
4 Canada Wendy Griner 36
5 Canada Petra Burka 39
6 Japan Miwa Fukuhara 68
7 West Germany Inge Paul 73
8 Czechoslovakia Jana Mrázková 73
9 Austria Helli Sengstschmid 75
10 United States Lorraine Hanlon 89
11 United Kingdom Diana Clifton-Peach 97
12 Austria Ingrid Ostler 110
13 United States Karen Howland 130
14 Switzerland Franziska Schmidt 128
15 Czechoslovakia Eva Grožajová 138
16 Sweden Ann-Margreth Frei 140
17 Japan Junko Ueno 147
18 Italy Sandra Brugnera 160
19 United States Christine Haigler 161
20 Canada Shirra Kenworthy 167
21 Hungary Zsuzsa Szentmiklóssy 191
22 Norway Karin Dehle 198
23 Soviet Union Tatyana Nemtsova 204
24 Poland Elżbieta Kościk 215

Judges:

  • Netherlands Charlotte Benedict-Stieber
  • Switzerland Walter Fritz
  • West Germany Theo Klemm
  • Austria Oskar Madl
  • Canada E. R. S. McLauchlin
  • France Gérard Rodrigues-Henriques
  • United States Ardelle Sanderson
  • Czechoslovakia Emil Skákala
  • Soviet Union Sergey Vasilyev

Pairs

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Rank Name Places
1 West Germany Marika Kilius / Hans-Jürgen Bäumler 9
2 Soviet Union Lyudmila Belousova / Oleg Protopopov 20
3 Soviet Union Tatyana Zhuk / Aleksandr Gavrilov 31
4 Canada Gertrude Desjardins / Maurice Lefrance 31.5
5 Czechoslovakia Milada Kubíková / Jaroslav Votruba 51.5
6 Switzerland Gerda Johner / Rüdi Johner 58.5
7 United States Judianne Fotheringill / Jerry Fotheringill 64
8 United States Vivian Joseph / Ronald Joseph 66.5
9 United States Patti Gustafson / Pieter Kollen 84
10 West Germany Sonja Pfersdorf / Günther Matzdorf 84
11 Canada Linda Ward / Neil Carpenter 95
12 Sweden Gunilla Lindberg / Gunnar de Shàrengrad 107

Judges:

Ice dance

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Rank Name Places
1 Czechoslovakia Eva Romanová / Pavel Roman 14
2 United Kingdom Linda Shearman / Michael Phillips 15
3 Canada Paulette Doan / Kenneth Ormsby 26
4 United Kingdom Janet Sawbridge / David Hickinbottom 36
5 Canada Donna Mitchell / John Mitchell 47
6 United Kingdom Mary Parry / Roy Mason 62
7 United States Sally Schantz / Stanley Urban 66
8 United States Lorna Dyer / John Carrell 71
9 Hungary Györgyi Korda / Pál Vásárhelyi 82
10 Canada Carole Forrest / Kevin Lethbridge 93
11 Switzerland Marlyse Fornachon / Charly Pichard 96
12 France Armelle Flichy / Pierre Brun 116
13 West Germany Helga Burkhardt / Hannes Burkhardt 117
14 Czechoslovakia Jitka Babická / Jaromír Holan 120
15 Austria Christel Trebesiner / Georg Felsinger 132
16 France Ghislaine Houdas / Francis Gamichon 141
17 United States Yvonne Littlefield / Peter Betts 152
18 Italy Maria Toncelli / Vinicio Toncelli 153

Judges:

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f "Arctic Cold Chills World Championships", Skating magazine, May 1963
  2. ^ "Informal Comments on Worlds", Skating magazine, May 1963

Sources

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  • Result List provided by the ISU