1953 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 1953 competitions for men, ladies, pair skating, and ice dancing took place from February 8 to 15 in Davos, Switzerland.

Results

Men

Rank	Name	Age	CF		FS		Points	Places
1	Template:Flagicon Hayes Jenkins	19	2	925.2	1	727.2	183.6	13
2	Template:Flagicon James Grogan	21	1	931.9	3	704.3	181.8	16
3	Template:Flagicon Carlo Fassi	24	3	907.1	6	659.8	174.1	36
4	Template:Flagicon Ronald Robertson	15	7	851.8	2	707.9	173.3	37
5	Template:Flagicon Alain Giletti	13	5	864.7	4	675.2	171.4	44
6	Template:Flagicon Dudley Richards	21	6	870.6	5	673.8	171.6	49
7	Template:Flagicon Peter Firstbrook	19	4	871.4	8	640.6	168.0	59
8	Template:Flagicon Peter Dunfield	21	8	790.7	7	656.5	160.8	73
9	Template:Flagicon Michael Booker	15	9	778.4	9	622.9	155.7	81
10	Template:Flagicon Freimut Stein	28	10	764.4	10	609.9	152.7	88
11	Template:Flagicon Kurt Oppelt	20	13	712.8	11	592.2	145.0	102
12	Template:Flagicon Hubert Köpfler	17	11	745.4	12	553.3	144.3	106
13	Template:Flagicon György Czakó	19	14	701.6	13	543.1	138.3	115
WD	Template:Flagicon Klaus Loichinger		12	729.5				DNF

Judges:

• Template:Flagicon Ercole Cattaneo
• Template:Flagicon Pamela Davis
• Template:Flagicon John D. Greig
• Template:Flagicon Henri Hoyoux
• Template:Flagicon A. Jaisli
• Template:Flagicon Alex Krupy
• Template:Flagicon Hans Meixner
• Template:Flagicon Gérard Rodrigues-Henriques
• Template:Flagicon Adolf Walker

Ladies

Rank	Name	Age	CF		FS		Total	Points	Places
1	Template:Flagicon Tenley Albright	17	1	757.3	1	560.73	1318.03	188.29	7
2	Template:Flagicon Gundi Busch	17	2	730.9	3	531.27	1262.17	180.31	16
3	Template:Flagicon Valda Osborn	18	3	719.7		513.77	1233.47	176.21	28
4	Template:Flagicon Carol Heiss	13	5	705.4	2	531.29	1236.69	176.67	27
5	Template:Flagicon Suzanne Morrow	22	4	716.7		516.63	1233.33	176.19	28
6	Template:Flagicon Vera Smith	20					1198.68	171.24	48
7	Template:Flagicon Margaret Graham						1189.79	169.97	49
8	Template:Flagicon Yvonne Sugden	13					1175.51	167.93	53
9	Template:Flagicon Erica Batchelor	19					1145.62	163.66	70
10	Template:Flagicon Ann Robinson						1141.28	163.04	74
11	Template:Flagicon Annelies Schilhan	16	12	642.1		499.11	1141.21	163.03	72
12	Template:Flagicon Mary Kenner	19							86
13	Template:Flagicon Norma Skevington								83
14	Template:Flagicon Rosi Pettinger	19							97
15	Template:Flagicon Doris Zerbe								109
16	Template:Flagicon Margaret Dean								112
17	Template:Flagicon Yolande Jobin	22							112
18	Template:Flagicon Eszter Jurek	16							129
19	Template:Flagicon Lidy Stoppelman	19							130
WD	Template:Flagicon Helga Dudzinski	23							DNF
WD	Template:Flagicon Sissy Schwarz	16							DNF

Judges:

• Template:Flagicon John D. Greig
• Template:Flagicon A. Jaisli
• Template:Flagicon Alex Krupy
• Template:Flagicon Ernst Labin
• Template:Flagicon Mollie Phillips
• Template:Flagicon Gérard Rodrigues-Henriques
• Template:Flagicon Adolf Walker

Pairs

Rank	Name	Age	Total	Points	Places
1	Template:Flagicon Jennifer Nicks / John Nicks	20/23	77.0	11.00	10.5
2	Template:Flagicon Frances Dafoe / Norris Bowden	23/26	76.37	10.91	16
3	Template:Flagicon Marianna Nagy / László Nagy	24/25	74.62	10.66	23.5
4	Template:Flagicon Silvia Grandjean / Michel Grandjean	18/21	74.27	10.61	24
5	Template:Flagicon Peri Horne / Raymond Lockwood	20/24	71.40	10.20	39
6	Template:Flagicon Sissy Schwarz / Kurt Oppelt	16/20	70.14	10.02	43.5
7	Template:Flagicon Jane Higson / Robert Hudson		70.07	10.01	44.5
8	Template:Flagicon Éva Szöllősi / Gábor Vida	18/23	67.48	9.64	57
9	Template:Flagicon Eva Neeb / Karl Probst	19/	66.78	9.54	61
10	Template:Flagicon Charlotte Michiels / Gaston van Ghelder		65.88	9.34	66

Judges:

• Template:Flagicon Pauline L. Barrajo
• Template:Flagicon Emile Finsterwald
• Template:Flagicon John D. Greig
• Template:Flagicon Henri Hoyoux
• Template:Flagicon Walter Malek
• Template:Flagicon Werner Rittberger
• Template:Flagicon Elemér Terták

Ice dance

Rank	Name	Age	CD		FD		Points	Places
1	Template:Flagicon Jean Westwood / Lawrence Demmy	22/22	1	111.4	1	73.85	37.05	6
2	Template:Flagicon Joan Dewhirst / John Slater	17/25	2	110.0	2	73.05	36.61	10
3	Template:Flagicon Carol Peters / Daniel Ryan	20/23	3	104.4	3	70.7	35.02	14
4	Template:Flagicon Nesta Davies / Paul Thomas		5	102.6	4	68.0	34.12	20
5	Template:Flagicon Virginia Hoyns / Donald Jacoby		4	101.0	6	67.45	33.69	23
6	Template:Flagicon Lydia Boon / Aadrian van Dam		6	96.9	7	66.7	32.72	30
7	Template:Flagicon Carmel Bodel / Edward Bodel	40/32	7	88.9	5	67.85	31.35	35
8	Template:Flagicon Albertina Brown / Nigel Brown		8	83.0	9	61.1	28.82	42
9	Template:Flagicon Helga Binder / Edwin Führich		10	81.8	8	61.5	28.66	45
10	Template:Flagicon Catharina Odink / Jacobus Odink		9	83.7	12	55.0	27.74	50
11	Template:Flagicon Lucia Fischer / Rudolf Zorn		11	82.0	11	55.4	27.48	54
12	Template:Flagicon Luise Lehner / Hans Kutschera		12	76.5	10	55.9	26.48	59

Judges:

• Template:Flagicon Pamela Davis
• Template:Flagicon Emile Finsterwald
• Template:Flagicon Hans Meixner
• Template:Flagicon R. Sackett
• Template:Flagicon A. Voordeckers

Sources

• Result List provided by the ISU