1981 World Figure Skating Championships

The 1981 World Figure Skating Championships was the 71st edition of World Figure Skating Championship, held in Hartford, Connecticut, United States from March 3 to 8. At the event, sanctioned by the International Skating Union, medals were awarded in men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.

The ISU Representative was Olaf Poulsen and the ISU Technical Delegate was Josef Dědič.

The judging system was modified since 1980. For the singles events, the short program was worth 20% and the free skating 50% while the value of compulsory figures was reduced to 30% of the final result. The rank in each category was multiplied with a factor and these three numbers were added to the total score. The factor for the compulsory figures was 0.6, for the short program 0.4 and for the free skating 1.0. The rank within these three categories were judged according to the 6.0-judging system. In pairs, the short program had the factor 0.4 and the free skating 1.0. The ranks within the two pair categories were also judged according to the 6.0-judging system.

Medal tables

Medalists

Discipline	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men	Template:Flagicon Scott Hamilton	Template:Flagicon David Santee	Template:Flagicon Igor Bobrin
Ladies	Template:Flagicon Denise Biellmann	Template:Flagicon Elaine Zayak	Template:Flagicon Claudia Kristofics-Binder
Pair skating	Template:Flagicon Irina Vorobeva / Igor Lisovski	Template:Flagicon Sabine Baeß / Tassilo Thierbach	Template:Flagicon Christina Riegel / Andreas Nischwitz
Ice dancing	Template:Flagicon Jayne Torvill / Christopher Dean	Template:Flagicon Irina Moiseeva / Andrei Minenkov	Template:Flagicon Natalia Bestemianova / Andrei Bukin

Results

Men

Rank	Name	Nation	CP	SP	FS	SP+FS	Points	Total
1	Scott Hamilton		4	1	1	1		3.8
2	David Santee		2	3	3	3		5.4
3	Igor Bobrin		5	4	2	2		6.6
4	Fumio Igarashi		6	2	4	4		8.4
5	Jean-Christophe Simond		1	5	6	6		8.6
6	Brian Orser		9	6	5	5		12.8
7	Norbert Schramm		7	7	7	7		14.0
8	Brian Pockar		3	8	11	10		16.0
9	Vladimir Kotin		10	10	10	9		20.0
10	Robert Wagenhoffer		14	12	8	8		21.2
11	Grzegorz Filipowski		8	11	12	12		21.2
12	Jozef Sabovčík		11	9	13	13		23.2
13	Falko Kirsten		15	14	9	11		23.6
14	Thomas Öberg		12	13	14	14		26.4
15	Takashi Mura		17	15	15	15		31.2
16	Bruno Watschinger		13	16	17	17		31.2
17	Christopher Howarth		18	18	16	16		34.0
18	Michael Pasfield		19	17	18	18		36.2
19	Todd Sand		20	19	19	19		38.6
20	Xu Zhaoxiao		21	20	20	20		40.6
WD	Miljan Begovic		16

Referee:

• Donald H. Gilchrist

Assistant Referee:

• Elemér Terták

Judges:

• Walburga Grimm
• Junko Hiramatsu
• Monique Georgelin
• Gerhard Frey
• Maria Zuchowicz
• Sergei Kononykhin
• Linda Petersen
• Hugh C. Graham jr.
• Geoffrey Yates

Substitute judge:

• Bojan Lipovšćak

Ladies

Rank	Name	Nation	CP	SP	FS	SP+FS	Points	Total
1	Denise Biellmann		4	2	1	1		4.2
2	Elaine Zayak		7	3	2	2		7.4
3	Claudia Kristofics-Binder		1	6	5	5		8.0
4	Deborah Cottrill		2	8	4	4		8.4
5	Katarina Witt		11	1	3	3		10.0
6	Kristiina Wegelius		3	5	7	7		10.8
7	Priscilla Hill		5	10	9	8		16.0
8	Carola Paul		16	7	6	6		18.4
9	Karin Riediger		9	14	8	9		19.0
10	Tracey Wainman		6	15	10	12		19.6
11	Sanda Dubravčić		8	12	12	13		21.6
12	Kira Ivanova		13	4	13	11		22.4
13	Manuela Ruben		17	9	11	10		24.8
14	Anne-Sophie de Kristoffy		15	11	16	15		29.4
15	Karen Wood		18	16	14	14		31.2
16	Andrea Rohm		14	18	17	17		32.6
17	Reiko Kobayashi		10	13	22	19		33.2
18	Catarina Lindgren		19	20	15	16		34.4
19	Corinne Wyrsch		20	22	18	18		38.8
20	Sonja Stanek		12	19	24	23		38.8
21	Masako Kato		21	23	19	21		40.8
22	Editha Dotson		23	17	21	20		41.6
23	Päivi Nieminen		25	21	20	22		43.4
24	Vicki Holland		26	26	23	24		49.0
25	Rudina Pasveer		22	27	26	26		50.0
26	Lisa Coppola		27	24	25	25		50.8
27	Hanne Gamborg		24	25	27	27		51.4
28	Lim Hye-kyung		28	28	28	28		56.0
29	Rosario Esteban		30	31	29	29		59.4
30	Denyse Adam		29	30	30	30		59.4
31	Bao Zhenghua		31	29	31	31		61.2

Referee:

• Sonia Bianchetti

Assistant Referee:

• Charles U. Foster

Judges:

• Tjaša Andrée
• Ludwig Gassner
• Karl-David Runeskog
• Jane Sullivan
• Kuniko Ueno
• Helga von Wiecki
• Marie Lundmark
• Eugen Romminger
• David Dore

Substitute judge:

• Pamela Davis

Pairs

Rank	Name	Nation	SP	FS	Points	Total
1	Irina Vorobieva / Igor Lisovski		1	1		1.4
2	Sabine Baeß / Tassilo Thierbach		2	2		2.8
3	Christina Riegel / Andreas Nischwitz		4	3		4.6
4	Marina Cherkasova / Sergei Shakhrai		3	4		5.2
5	Kitty Carruthers / Peter Carruthers		7	5		7.8
6	Veronika Pershina / Marat Akbarov		5	6		8.0
7	Barbara Underhill / Paul Martini		10	7		11.0
8	Susan Garland / Robert Daw		8	8		11.2
9	Birgit Lorenz / Knut Schubert		6	9		11.4
10	Lea Ann Miller / William Fauver		9	10		13.6
11	Luan Bo / Yao Bin		11	11		15.4

Referee:

• Benjamin T. Wright

Assistant Referee:

• Martin Felsenreich

Judges:

• Maya Reinhart
• Jacqueline Kendall-Baker
• Walburga Grimm
• Dorothy MacLeod
• Pamela Davis
• Liudmila Kubashevskaya
• Maria Zuchowicz
• E. Newbold Black IV.
• Eugen Romminger

Substitute judge:

• Junko Hiramatsu

Ice dancing

Rank	Name	Nation	CD	FD	Total
1	Jayne Torvill / Christopher Dean		1	1	2
2	Irina Moiseeva / Andrei Minenkov		2	2	4
3	Natalia Bestemianova / Andrei Bukin		4	3	7
4	Judy Blumberg / Michael Seibert		3	4	7
5	Olga Volozhinskaya / Alexander Svinin		6	5	11
6	Carol Fox / Richard Dalley		5	6	11
7	Karen Barber / Nicholas Slater		7	7	14
8	Nathalie Hervé / Pierre Béchu		9	8	17
9	Jana Berankova / Jan Bartak		8	9	17
10	Birgit Goller / Peter Klisch		10	10	20
11	Wendy Sessions / Stephen Williams		11	11	22
12	Kelly Johnson / Kris Barber		13	12	25
13	Marie McNeil / Robert McCall		12	13	25
14	Judit Péterfy / Csaba Bálint		14	14	28
15	Elisabetta Parisi / Roberto Pelizzola		15	15	30
16	Noriko Sato / Tadayuki Takahashi		17	16	33
17	Gabriella Remport / Sándor Nagy		16	17	33
18	Maria Kniffer / Manfed Hübler		19	18	37
19	Karen Mankovich / Douglas Mankovich		18	21	39
20	Marianne van Bommel / Wayne Deweyert		21	19	40
21	Petra Born / Rainer Schönborn		20	20	40

Sources

• Result list provided by the ISU