1963 World Figure Skating Championships

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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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Results

Men

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

Judges:

Ladies

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

Judges:

Pairs

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

Judges:

Ice dance

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

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