The 1973 World Figure Skating Championships were held from February 26 to March 3 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, sanctioned by the International Skating Union. Medals were awarded in men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dance. It was the last year in which solid gold medals were awarded in figure skating.

The opening ceremony was held at the Philharmonic of Bratislava. The Chairman of the organising committee was Miroslav Červenka. In the ladies' single skating withdrew before the opening ceremony Sonja Balun from Austria and Zsuzsa Homolya from Hungary.

Irina Rodnina won her first World title with her new partner, Aleksandr Zaytsev after her previous partner, Aleksey Ulanov, chose to skate with Lyudmila Smirnova. Rodnina/Zaitsev's music stopped during their short program, possibly due to a Czech worker acting in retaliation for the suppression of the Prague Spring.

Medal table

Results Men Rank Name CP SP FP Points Places 1 Ondrej Nepela 1 2 2 355.66 10 2 Sergey Chetverukhin 2 3 1 348.91 17 3 Jan Hoffmann 3 7 6 340.55 35 4 John Curry 4 8 7 338.43 39 5 Toller Cranston 6 1 5 336.50 54 6 Yuriy Ovchinnikov 8 5 3 334.01 54 7 Gordon McKellen 5 4 8 330.84 61 8 Ronald Shaver 12 6 4 330.58 62 9 Jacques Mrozek 9 10 11 320.01 91 10 Zdeněk Pazdírek 10 12 9 319.43 95 11 Daniel Höner 7 11 12 319.08 97 12 Robert Bradshaw 13 9 10 316.62 103 13 László Vajda 11 14 13 314.77 112 14 Minoru Sano 14 13 14 308.37 130 15 Erich Reifschneider 15 15 16 303.72 144 16 Igor Lisovskiy 18 17 17 302.24 147 17 Bernd Wunderlich 20 18 15 300.38 148 18 Miroslav Šoška 17 16 18 299.99 151 19 Robert Rubens 19 19 19 295.16 168 20 Günther Hilgarth 16 20 21 275.29 187 21 Jacek Tascher 23 23 20 273.30 191 22 Rolando Bragaglia 22 21 22 270.19 193 23 György Fazekas 21 24 24 262.23 205 24 Silvo Švejger 24 22 23 255.29 214

Referee: Sonia Bianchetti Assistant Referee: Miroslav Hasenöhrl

Judges: Boris Lvov-Anokhin Львов-Анохин, Борис Александрович Luciana Brasa Walburga Grimm Dorothy Leamen Ramona McIntyre Irina Minculescu Kazuo Ōhashi Dagmar Řeháková Jürg Wilhelm (substitute) Geoffrey Yates

Ladies Rank Name CP SP FP Points Places 1 Karen Magnussen 1 1 2 356.39 9 2 Janet Lynn 2 12 1 347.85 18 3 Christine Errath 5 2 5 340.90 31 4 Dorothy Hamill 8 3 4 337.93 35 5 Jean Scott 4 10 11 332.10 47 6 Karin Iten 3 14 14 329.08 60 7 Liana Drahová 9 9 6 327.53 69 8 Sonja Morgenstern 10 5 7 326.53 76 9 Juli McKinstry 12 7 9 323.26 78 10 Lynn Nightingale 15 4 3 325.61 91 11 Maria McLean 7 11 13 322.68 96 12 Cathy Irwin 11 13 10 320.95 108 13 Gerti Schanderl 14 6 8 319.69 114 14 Anett Pötzsch 13 8 12 316.21 123 15 Dianne de Leeuw 6 15 16 316.11 125 16 Marina Sanaya 23 16 15 296.67 149 17 Emi Watanabe 18 23 17 294.35 154 18 Marie-Claude Bierre 16 18 22 288.34 171 19 Cinzia Frosio 19 19 19 287.45 175 20 Lise-Lotte Öberg 21 17 18 285.55 177 21 Sharon Burley 20 20 21 286.58 178 22 Hannele Koskinen 27 22 20 275.77 201 23 Grażyna Dudek 26 21 23 276.57 204 24 Helena Gazvoda 25 26 24 268.04 220 25 Chang Myung-su 17 28 27 264.92 227 26 Bente Tverran 24 27 26 261.03 231 27 Ágnes Erős 28 24 25 262.58 235 WD Susanne Altura 22 25 DNF

Referee: Josef Dědič Assistant Referee: Oskar Madl

Judges: Jakob Biedermann Elsbeth Bon Sydney R. Croll (substitute) Ludwig Gassner Márta Mesterházi-Nagy, Mrs. Léces Hungarian names#Married names Vera Lynfield Joan Maclagan Inkeri Soininen Helga Wiecki Mary Wright

Pairs Rank Name SP FP Points Places 1 Irina Rodnina / Aleksandr Zaytsev 1 1 423.9 9 2 Lyudmila Smirnova / Aleksey Ulanov 2 2 416.2 18 3 Manuela Groß / Uwe Kagelmann 3 3 409.2 29 4 Almut Lehmann / Herbert Wiesinger 6 5 402.9 43 5 Romy Kermer / Rolf Österreich 4 4 401.3 46 6 Sandra Bezic / Val Bezic 7 6 399.8 51 7 Irina Chernyayeva / Vasiliy Blagov 5 7 398.3 56 8 Melissa Militano / Mark Militano 8 8 390.7 73 9 Marian Murray / Glenn Moore 9 9 386.0 80 10 Karin Künzle / Christian Künzle 11 10 373.9 92 11 Ilona Urbanová / Aleš Zach 10 11 369.4 106 12 Corinna Halke / Eberhard Rausch 12 12 366.6 108 13 Gale Fuhrman / Joel Fuhrman 15 13 360.9 120 14 Florence Cahn / Jean-Roland Racle 13 14 362.0 121 15 Ursula Nemec / Michael Nemec 16 15 346.0 135 16 Teresa Skrzek / Piotr Szczypa 14 16 350.4 137

Referee: Karl Enderlin Assistant Referee: Donald Gilchrist

Judges: Monique Georgelin (substitute) Walburga Grimm Walter Hüttner Władysław Kołodziej Alice Pinos Valentin Piseyev Edith M. Shoemaker Erich Soukup Willi Wernz Jürg Wilhelm

Ice dance Rank Name CD FD Points Places 1 Lyudmila Pakhomova / Aleksandr Gorshkov 1 1 524.20 9 2 Angelika Buck / Erich Buck 2 2 514.55 18 3 Hilary Green / Glynn Watts 3 3 499.05 29 4 Janet Sawbridge / Peter Dalby 4 6 493.25 38 5 Tetyana Voytyuk / Vyacheslav Zhyhalyn 5 4 488.30 43 6 Mary Campbell / Johnny Johns 6 7 479.30 60 7 Irina Moiseyeva / Andrey Minenkov 7 5 475.80 63.5 8 Diana Skotnická / Martin Skotnický 8 8 470.85 72.5 9 Louise Soper / Barry Soper 9 9 471.00 73 10 Anne Millier / Harvey Millier 10 11 459.15 93 11 Matilde Ciccia / Lamberto Ceserani 12 10 452.10 100 12 Rosalind Druce / David Barker 11 13 448.70 107 13 Krisztina Regőczy / András Sallay 13 12 442.70 115 14 Halina Gordon / Wojciech Bańkowski 14 15 425.80 130 15 Barbara Berezowski / David Porter 15 14 426.35 131 16 Anne-Claude Wolfers / Roland Mars 16 16 408.80 146 17 Christina Henke / Udo Dönsdorf 17 17 402.00 151 18 Brigitte Scheijbal / Walter Leschetizky 18 18 393.65 160

Referee: Hermann Schiechtl Assistant Referee: Lawrence Demmy

Judges: Irina Absalyamova Cia Benacchi-Bordogna (substitute) Frances Gunn Lysiane Lauret Helena Pachlová Mollie Phillips Elek Riedl Eugen Romminger Edith M. Shoemaker Maria Zuchowicz

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