1952 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 1952 competitions for men, ladies, pair skating, and ice dancing took place from February 27 to March 1 in Paris, France. The World Championships in ice dancing were the first of its kind.

Results

Men

Rank	Name	Places
1	Template:Flagicon Dick Button	7
2	Template:Flagicon James Grogan	19
3	Template:Flagicon Hayes Jenkins	21
4	Template:Flagicon Helmut Seibt	25
5	Template:Flagicon Dudley Richards	34
6	Template:Flagicon Carlo Fassi	44
7	Template:Flagicon Peter Firstbrook	46
8	Template:Flagicon Alain Giletti	57
9	Template:Flagicon Martin Felsenreich	66
10	Template:Flagicon Adrian Swan	67
11	Template:Flagicon François Pache	76

Judges:

• Template:Flagicon Jakob Biedermann
• Template:Flagicon Ercole Cattaneo
• Template:Flagicon Donald Gilchrist
• Template:Flagicon Oskar Madl
• Template:Flagicon Gérard Rodrigues-Henriques
• Template:Flagicon Harold G. Storke
• Template:Flagicon J. Wilson

Ladies

Rank	Name	Places
1	Template:Flagicon Jacqueline du Bief	9
2	Template:Flagicon Sonya Klopfer	21
3	Template:Flagicon Virginia Baxter	24
4	Template:Flagicon Suzanne Morrow	43
5	Template:Flagicon Barbara Wyatt	55
6	Template:Flagicon Gundi Busch	59
7	Template:Flagicon Marlene Smith	64
8	Template:Flagicon Valda Osborn	65
9	Template:Flagicon Erica Batchelor	82
10	Template:Flagicon Vera Smith	90
11	Template:Flagicon Helga Dudzinski	96
12	Template:Flagicon Patricia Devries	110
13	Template:Flagicon Eva Weidler	123
14	Template:Flagicon Annelies Schilhan	132
15	Template:Flagicon Nancy Hallam-Burley	129
16	Template:Flagicon Ghislaine Kopf	124
17	Template:Flagicon Lidy Stoppelman	158
18	Template:Flagicon Yolande Jobin	161
19	Template:Flagicon Gweneth Molony	170
20	Template:Flagicon Doris Zerbe	175
21	Template:Flagicon Liliane de Becker	192
22	Template:Flagicon Nicole Vanderberghe	195
WD	Template:Flagicon Tenley Albright	DNS

Judges:

• Template:Flagicon Ercole Cattaneo
• Template:Flagicon Norman V. S. Gregory
• Template:Flagicon V. P. Gross
• Template:Flagicon Eugen Kirchhofer
• Template:Flagicon Alex Krupy
• Template:Flagicon Mollie Phillips
• Template:Flagicon Gérard Rodrigues-Henriques
• Template:Flagicon A. Voordeckers
• Template:Flagicon Franz Wojtanowskyj

Pairs

Rank	Name	Places
1	Template:Flagicon Ria Baran / Paul Falk	9
2	Template:Flagicon Karol Kennedy / Peter Kennedy	23.5
3	Template:Flagicon Jennifer Nicks / John Nicks	29
4	Template:Flagicon Frances Dafoe / Norris Bowden	31.5
5	Template:Flagicon Janet Gerhauser / John Nightingale	48.5
6	Template:Flagicon Silvia Grandjean / Michel Grandjean	49.5
7	Template:Flagicon Sissy Schwarz / Kurt Oppelt	68
8	Template:Flagicon Caryl Johns / Jack Jost	72
9	Template:Flagicon Jacqueline Mason / Mervyn Bower	81
10	Template:Flagicon Peri Horne / Raymond Lockwood	83

Judges:

• Template:Flagicon J. Biedermann
• Template:Flagicon Ercole Cattaneo
• Template:Flagicon Pamela Davis
• Template:Flagicon Donald Gilchrist
• Template:Flagicon V. P. Gross
• Template:Flagicon A. W. Knetemann
• Template:Flagicon Alex Krupy
• Template:Flagicon Hans Meixner
• Template:Flagicon Gérard Rodrigues-Henriques

Ice dance

Rank	Name	Places
1	Template:Flagicon Jean Westwood / Lawrence Demmy	7
2	Template:Flagicon Joan Dewhirst / John Slater	14
3	Template:Flagicon Carol Peters / Daniel Ryan	23
4	Template:Flagicon Carmel Bodel / Edward Bodel	26
5	Template:Flagicon Lydia Boon / Aadrian van Dam	35
6	Template:Flagicon Ilse Reitmayer / Hans Kutschera	44
7	Template:Flagicon Catharina Odink / Jacobus Odink	54
8	Template:Flagicon Albertina Brown / Nigel Brown	54
9	Template:Flagicon Paulin Haffner / Herbert Huber	58

Judges:

• Template:Flagicon Norman V. S. Gregory
• Template:Flagicon Eugen Kirchhofer
• Template:Flagicon Hans Meixner
• Template:Flagicon Henri Meudec
• Template:Flagicon Mollie Phillips
• Template:Flagicon R. Sackett
• Template:Flagicon A. Voordeckers

Sources

• Result List provided by the ISU