1948 World Figure Skating 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 1948 competitions for men, ladies, and pair skating took place from February 11 to 15 in Davos, Switzerland. These were the second World Figure Skating Championships after World War II. Skaters from Germany and Japan were still not allowed to compete.

Results

Men

Rank	Name	Places
1	Template:Flagicon Dick Button	11
2	Template:Flagicon Hans Gerschwiler	19
3	Template:Flagicon Ede Király	28
4	Template:Flagicon John Lettengarver	32
5	Template:Flagicon James Grogan	52
6	Template:Flagicon Graham Sharp	53
7	Template:Flagicon Helmut Seibt	76
8	Template:Flagicon Hellmuth May	79
9	Template:Flagicon Wallace Diestelmeyer	85
10	Template:Flagicon Vladislav Čáp	84
11	Template:Flagicon Fernand Leemans	80
12	Template:Flagicon Zdeněk Fikar	105
13	Template:Flagicon Per Cock-Clausen	115
WD	Template:Flagicon Edi Rada	DNS

Judges:

• Template:Flagicon Eugen Kirchhofer
• Template:Flagicon Vladimir Koudelka
• Template:Flagicon Hubert Martineau
• Template:Flagicon Harry Meistrup
• Template:Flagicon Melville Rogers
• Template:Flagicon Adolf Rosdol
• Template:Flagicon Harold G. Stroke
• Template:Flagicon Marcell Vadas
• Template:Flagicon A. Voordeckers

Ladies

Rank	Name	Places
1	Template:Flagicon Barbara Ann Scott	11
2	Template:Flagicon Eva Pawlik	25
3	Template:Flagicon Jiřína Nekolová	32
4	Template:Flagicon Jeanette Altwegg	36
5	Template:Flagicon Alena Vrzáňová	39
6	Template:Flagicon Yvonne Sherman	71
7	Template:Flagicon Marta Bachem-Musilek	81
8	Template:Flagicon Bridget Adams	83
9	Template:Flagicon Andrea Kékesy	93
10	Template:Flagicon Dagmar Lerchová	109
11	Template:Flagicon Mária Saáry	102
12	Template:Flagicon Marilyn Take	97
13	Template:Flagicon Suzanne Morrow	107
14	Template:Flagicon Maja Hug	124
15	Template:Flagicon Marion Davies	113
16	Template:Flagicon Barbara Wyatt	135
17	Template:Flagicon Beryl Bailey	141
18	Template:Flagicon Jacqueline du Bief	149
19	Template:Flagicon Jill Hood-Linzee	163
20	Template:Flagicon Lotti Höner	179

Judges:

• Template:Flagicon Kenneth Beaumont
• Template:Flagicon Bernard Fox
• Template:Flagicon Harry Meistrup
• Template:Flagicon Hans Meixner
• Template:Flagicon Melville Rogers
• Template:Flagicon Elemér Terták
• Template:Flagicon Georges Torchon
• Template:Flagicon A. Winkler
• Template:Flagicon K. Zemek

Pairs

Rank	Name	Places
1	Template:Flagicon Micheline Lannoy / Pierre Baugniet	13.5
2	Template:Flagicon Andrea Kékesy / Ede Király	24.5
3	Template:Flagicon Suzanne Morrow / Wallace Diestelmeyer	26
4	Template:Flagicon Karol Kennedy / Peter Kennedy	38.5
5	Template:Flagicon Yvonne Sherman / Robert Swenning	45
6	Template:Flagicon Winifred Silverthorne / Dennis Silverthorne	51.5
7	Template:Flagicon Marianna Nagy / László Nagy	72
8	Template:Flagicon Jennifer Nicks / John Nicks	80.5
9	Template:Flagicon Blažena Knittlová / Karel Vosátka	86.5
10	Template:Flagicon Luny Unold / Hans Kuster	91
11	Template:Flagicon Herta Ratzenhofer / Emil Ratzenhofer	92
12	Template:Flagicon Joan Oglivie-Thompson / Robert Thompson	95
13	Template:Flagicon Susi Giebisch / Helmut Seibt	104
14	Template:Flagicon Eliane Steinemann / André Calame	125
WD	Template:Flagicon Denise Favart / Jacques Favart	DNS

Judges:

• Template:Flagicon Rudolf Kaler
• Template:Flagicon James Koch
• Template:Flagicon Vladimir Koudelka
• Template:Flagicon Mollie Phillips
• Template:Flagicon Melville Rogers
• Template:Flagicon Harold G. Storke
• Template:Flagicon Georges Torchon
• Template:Flagicon Marcell Vadas
• Template:Flagicon A. Voordeckers