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 1955 competitions for men, ladies, pair skating, and ice dancing took place from February 15th to 18th in Vienna, Austria.
Medal table
Results Men Rank Name Places 1 Hayes Jenkins 11 2 Ronald Robertson 16 3 David Jenkins 28 4 Alain Giletti 37 5 Karol Divín 58 6 Michael Booker 58 7 Norbert Felsinger 60 8 Charles Snelling 69 9 Alain Calmat 79 10 Hugh Graham 79 11 István Szenes 103 12 Hans Müller 114 13 Tilo Gutzeit 114 14 Brian Tuck 119
Judges: Jean Creux Donald Gilchrist Alexander Gordon V. Koudelka Oskar Madl Gérard Rodrigues-Henriques R. Sackett Elemér Terták Adolf Walker
Ladies Rank Name Points Places 1 Tenley Albright 190.96 9 2 Carol Heiss 180.31 28 3 Hanna Eigel 179.78 29 4 Ingrid Wendl 178.46 41 5 Erica Batchelor 177.56 43 6 Yarmila Pachl 175.16 58 7 Patricia Firth 174.49 59 8 Yvonne Sugden 174.59 64 9 Ann Johnston 172.51 77 10 Catherine Machado 169.43 87 11 Rosi Pettinger 161.98 105 12 Dawn Hunter 158.42 121 13 Ilse Musyl 157.99 126 14 Dagmar Řeháková 157.89 129 15 Joan Haanappel 156.06 138 16 Fiorella Negro 161.98 141 17 Alice Fischer 153.37 158.5 18 Miroslava Náchodská 153.03 162 19 Maryvonne Huet 152.54 162.5 20 Erika Rücker 150.66 175 21 Sjoukje Dijkstra 151.57 176 WD Hanna Walter DNS
Judges: Jean Creux Pamela Davis Josef Dědič Donald Gilchrist F. Händel A. Krunoy Edwin Kucharz Gérard Rodrigues-Henriques Mario Verdi
Pairs Rank Name Points Places 1 Frances Dafoe / Norris Bowden 10.88 17.5 2 Sissy Schwarz / Kurt Oppelt 10.82 17.5 3 Marianna Nagy / László Nagy 10.57 28 4 Carole Ormaca / Robin Greiner 10.27 46 5 Barbara Wagner / Robert Paul 10.08 65 6 Věra Suchánková / Zdeněk Doležal 10.06 66.5 7 Marika Kilius / Franz Ningel 10.01 68.5 8 Lucille Ash / Sully Kothmann 10.02 70.5 9 Alice Zettel / Klaus Loichinger 9.96 70.5 10 Liesl Ellend / Konrad Lienert 9.82 82.5 11 Éva Szöllősi / Gábor Vida 9.78 83 12 Vivien Higson / Robert Hudson 9.79 87.5
Judges: J. Creux Donald H. Gilchrist F. Händel V. Koudelka A. Krunoy Mollie Phillips Elemér Terták M. Verdi Franz Wojtanowskyj
Ice dance Rank Name Points Places 1 Jean Westwood / Lawrence Demmy 37.09 7 2 Pamela Weight / Paul Thomas 36.52 14 3 Barbara Radford / Raymond Lockwood 35.29 21 4 Carmel Bodel / Edward Bodel 34.23 28 5 Joan Zamboni / Roland Junso 34.11 34 6 Phyllis Forney / Martin Forney 33.23 43 7 Fanny Besson / Jean Guhel 50 8 Sigrid Knake / Günther Koch 69 9 Lucia Fischer / Rudolf Zorn 31.20 69 10 Bona Giammona / Giancarlo Sioli 75 11 Lindis Johnston / Jeffrey Johnston 77 12 Catharina Odink / Jacobus Odink 80 13 Claude Weinstein / Claude Lambert 83 14 Edith Peikert / Hans Kutschera 30.33 84 15 Luise Lehner / Georg Lenitz 28.38 104
Judges: Pauline L. Barrajo P. Farinet Hans Meixner Henri Meudec R. Sackett László Szollás A. Voordeckers
Sources Result List provided by the ISU