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 1952 competitions for men, ladies, pair skating, and ice dancing took place from February 27 to March 1 in Paris, France. The World Championships in ice dancing were the first of its kind.
Medal table
Results Men Rank Name Places 1 Dick Button 7 2 James Grogan 19 3 Hayes Jenkins 21 4 Helmut Seibt 25 5 Dudley Richards 34 6 Carlo Fassi 44 7 Peter Firstbrook 46 8 Alain Giletti 57 9 Martin Felsenreich 66 10 Adrian Swan 67 11 François Pache 76
Judges: Jakob Biedermann Ercole Cattaneo Donald Gilchrist Oskar Madl Gérard Rodrigues-Henriques Harold G. Storke J. Wilson
Ladies Rank Name Places 1 Jacqueline du Bief 9 2 Sonya Klopfer 21 3 Virginia Baxter 24 4 Suzanne Morrow 43 5 Barbara Wyatt 55 6 Gundi Busch 59 7 Marlene Smith 64 8 Valda Osborn 65 9 Erica Batchelor 82 10 Vera Smith 90 11 Helga Dudzinski 96 12 Patricia Devries 110 13 Eva Weidler 123 14 Annelies Schilhan 132 15 Nancy Hallam-Burley 129 16 Ghislaine Kopf 124 17 Lidy Stoppelman 158 18 Yolande Jobin 161 19 Gweneth Molony 170 20 Doris Zerbe 175 21 Liliane de Becker 192 22 Nicole Vanderberghe 195 WD Tenley Albright DNS
Judges: Ercole Cattaneo Norman V. S. Gregory V. P. Gross Eugen Kirchhofer Alex Krupy Mollie Phillips Gérard Rodrigues-Henriques A. Voordeckers Franz Wojtanowskyj
Pairs Rank Name Places 1 Ria Baran / Paul Falk 9 2 Karol Kennedy / Peter Kennedy 23.5 3 Jennifer Nicks / John Nicks 29 4 Frances Dafoe / Norris Bowden 31.5 5 Janet Gerhauser / John Nightingale 48.5 6 Silvia Grandjean / Michel Grandjean 49.5 7 Sissy Schwarz / Kurt Oppelt 68 8 Caryl Johns / Jack Jost 72 9 Jacqueline Mason / Mervyn Bower 81 10 Peri Horne / Raymond Lockwood 83
Judges: J. Biedermann Ercole Cattaneo Pamela Davis Donald Gilchrist V. P. Gross A. W. Knetemann Alex Krupy Hans Meixner Gérard Rodrigues-Henriques
Ice dance Rank Name Places 1 Jean Westwood / Lawrence Demmy 7 2 Joan Dewhirst / John Slater 14 3 Carol Peters / Daniel Ryan 23 4 Carmel Bodel / Edward Bodel 26 5 Lydia Boon / Aadrian van Dam 35 6 Ilse Reitmayer / Hans Kutschera 44 7 Catharina Odink / Jacobus Odink 54 8 Albertina Brown / Nigel Brown 54 9 Paulin Haffner / Herbert Huber 58
Judges: Norman V. S. Gregory Eugen Kirchhofer Hans Meixner Henri Meudec Mollie Phillips R. Sackett A. Voordeckers
Sources Result List provided by the ISU