1956 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 1956 competitions for men, ladies, pair skating, and ice dancing took place from February 16 to 19 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, West Germany.

Results

Men

Rank	Name	Places
1	Template:Flagicon Hayes Jenkins	10
2	Template:Flagicon Ronald Robertson	17
3	Template:Flagicon David Jenkins	28
4	Template:Flagicon Charles Snelling	42
5	Template:Flagicon Michael Booker	48
6	Template:Flagicon Karol Divín	48
7	Template:Flagicon Alain Calmat	65
8	Template:Flagicon Norbert Felsinger	71
9	Template:Flagicon Tilo Gutzeit	77
10	Template:Flagicon François Pache	91
11	Template:Flagicon Allan Ganter	109
12	Template:Flagicon Hans-Jürgen Bäumler	111
13	Template:Flagicon Hans Müller	113
14	Template:Flagicon Hanno Ströher	115
15	Template:Flagicon Darío Villalba	137
16	Template:Flagicon Charles Keeble	142
WD	Template:Flagicon Manfred Schnelldorfer	DNS

Judges:

• Template:Flagicon K. Beyer
• Template:Flagicon Sydney R. Croll
• Template:Flagicon H. Deistler
• Template:Flagicon Emile Finsterwald
• Template:Flagicon H. Kendall Kelley
• Template:Flagicon Ralph McCreath
• Template:Flagicon Mollie Phillips
• Template:Flagicon Gérard Rodrigues-Henriques
• Template:Flagicon B. Srbová

Ladies

Rank	Name	Places
1	Template:Flagicon Carol Heiss	13
2	Template:Flagicon Tenley Albright	14
3	Template:Flagicon Ingrid Wendl	33
4	Template:Flagicon Yvonne Sugden	37
5	Template:Flagicon Hanna Eigel	48
6	Template:Flagicon Catherine Machado	49
7	Template:Flagicon Hanna Walter	71
8	Template:Flagicon Erica Batchelor	72
9	Template:Flagicon Ann Johnston	72
10	Template:Flagicon Mary Dorsey	97
11	Template:Flagicon Joan Haanappel	103
12	Template:Flagicon Diana Peach	107
13	Template:Flagicon Fiorella Negro	128
14	Template:Flagicon Emma Giardini	130
15	Template:Flagicon Jindra Kramperová	131
16	Template:Flagicon Sjoukje Dijkstra	144
17	Template:Flagicon Karin Borner	155
18	Template:Flagicon Ilse Musyl	161
19	Template:Flagicon Alice Fischer	168
20	Template:Flagicon Ina Bauer	171
21	Template:Flagicon Jana Dočekalová	175

Judges:

• Template:Flagicon Ercole Cattaneo
• Template:Flagicon Otto Dallmayr
• Template:Flagicon Pamela Davis
• Template:Flagicon Emile Finsterwald
• Template:Flagicon V. P. Gross
• Template:Flagicon Ernst Labin
• Template:Flagicon Ralph McCreath
• Template:Flagicon Gérard Rodrigues-Henriques
• Template:Flagicon B. Srbová

Pairs

Rank	Name	Places
1	Template:Flagicon Sissy Schwarz / Kurt Oppelt	14
2	Template:Flagicon Frances Dafoe / Norris Bowden	15
3	Template:Flagicon Marika Kilius / Franz Ningel	30
4	Template:Flagicon Carole Ormaca / Robin Greiner	34
5	Template:Flagicon Barbara Wagner / Robert Paul	42.5
6	Template:Flagicon Lucille Ash / Sully Kothmann	68.5
7	Template:Flagicon Joyce Coates / Anthony Holles	70
8	Template:Flagicon Liesl Ellend / Konrad Lienert	74.5
9	Template:Flagicon Carolyn Patricia Krau / Rodney Ward	75.5
10	Template:Flagicon Eva Neeb / Karl Probst	80.5
11	Template:Flagicon Jacqueline Mason / Mervyn Bower	88.5

Judges:

• Template:Flagicon Pauline L. Barrajo
• Template:Flagicon K. Beyer
• Template:Flagicon Ercole Cattaneo
• Template:Flagicon Sydney R. Croll
• Template:Flagicon Otto Dallmayr
• Template:Flagicon Emile Finsterwald
• Template:Flagicon Ralph McCreath
• Template:Flagicon B. Srbová
• Template:Flagicon Franz Wojtanowskyj

Ice dance

Rank	Name	Places
1	Template:Flagicon Pamela Weight / Paul Thomas	7
2	Template:Flagicon June Markham / Courtney Jones	15
3	Template:Flagicon Barbara Thompson / Gerard Rigby	29
4	Template:Flagicon Joan Zamboni / Roland Junso	37
5	Template:Flagicon Fanny Besson / Jean Guhel	38
6	Template:Flagicon Carmel Bodel / Edward Bodel	39
7	Template:Flagicon Sidney Arnold / Franklin Nelson	47
8	Template:Flagicon Sigrid Knake / Günther Koch	49
9	Template:Flagicon Lindis Johnston / Jeffrey Johnston	74.5
10	Template:Flagicon Gerda Wohlgemuth / Hannes Burkhardt	76.5
11	Template:Flagicon Edith Peikert / Hans Kutschera	77
12	Template:Flagicon Bona Giammona / Giancarlo Sioli	82
13	Template:Flagicon Lucia Fischer / Rudolf Zorn	88
14	Template:Flagicon Catharina Odink / Jacobus Odink	91
15	Template:Flagicon Adriana Giuggiolini / Germano Ceccattini	94
16	Template:Flagicon Rita Paucka / Peter Kwiet	109
17	Template:Flagicon Maria Locatelli / Vinicio Toncelli	117

Judges:

• Template:Flagicon P. Farinet
• Template:Flagicon A. Jobin
• Template:Flagicon H. Kendall Kelley
• Template:Flagicon Henri Meudec
• Template:Flagicon Hermann Schiechtl
• Template:Flagicon D. Ward
• Template:Flagicon Franz Wojtanowskyj

Sources

• Result List provided by the ISU