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 1962 competitions for men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dance took place from March 14 to 17 at the Sportovní hala ČSTV in Prague, Czechoslovakia. The Figure Skating World Championships in Prague were originally planned for 1961, but were cancelled due to the crash of Sabena Flight 548, which killed everyone on board the plane, including the entire US figure skating team.
East Germany participated in the World Figure Skating Championships for the first time.
This competition is best remembered for Donald Jackson's come-from-behind victory in the men's event with a tour-de-force free skating that included the first triple lutz jump ever landed in competition as well as a triple salchow jump and 20 other double and single jumps, including jumps in opposite directions and jumps with variations in arm position or delayed rotation. Jackson received 7 perfect 6.0 scores for this performance.Beverley Smith, Figure Skating: A Celebration,
Prague hometown favorites Eva Romanová / Pavel Roman won the dance event - breaking the British domination of this discipline - and Canadians Maria Jelinek / Otto Jelinek were the winners in the pairs. As children, the Jelineks had defected from Czechoslovakia with their parents after the post-war Communist takeover, and there were significant fears for their safety in returning to their home country. The "official" story that had been circulated at the time of the previous year's planned competition was that they were merely of Czech descent.Henry Jelinek, Jr. and Ann Pinchot, On Thin Ice The Jelineks' chief competitors, 1960 runners-up Marika Kilius / Hans-Jürgen Bäumler, were forced to withdraw from the competition after colliding on side-by-side jumps during their program,"Champions of the World", Skating magazine, June 1963 and the silver medal was won by Lyudmila Belousova / Oleg Protopopov.
Medal table
Results Men Rank Name Points Places 1 Donald Jackson 2277.1 13 2 Karol Divín 2255.9 17 3 Alain Calmat 2200.7 25 4 Donald McPherson 2172.3 37 5 Manfred Schnelldorfer 2094.0 54 6 Monty Hoyt 2059.1 59 7 Emmerich Danzer 2033.8 68 8 Scott Allen 2002.8 81 9 Peter Jonas 2005.5 82 10 Nobuo Satō 1984.7 92 11 Bodo Bockenauer 97 12 Robin Jones 101 13 Sepp Schönmetzler 109 14 Valeriy Meshkov 1895.7 117 15 Per Kjølberg 137 16 Károly Újlaky 1832.4 142 17 Robert Dureville 149 18 Alain Trouillet 159
Judges: Ernst K. Bauch Pamela Davis Jeanine Donnier-Blanc Milan Duchoň Georgiy Felitsyn Norman V. S. Gregory A. Koutny Adolf Walker Franz Wojtanowskyj
Ladies Rank Name Points Places 1 Sjoukje Dijkstra 2350.0 9 2 Wendy Griner 2273.2 21 3 Regine Heitzer 2218.3 39 4 Petra Burka 2219.7 42 5 Barbara Roles 2200.9 52 6 Nicole Hassler 2172.0 64 7 Jana Mrázková 2151.8 71 8 Karin Frohner 2144.6 79 9 Miwa Fukuhara 2137.0 81 10 Lorraine Hanlon 2103.0 98 11 Jacqueline Harbord 101 12 Helli Sengstschmid 101 13 Eva Grožajová 105 14 Franziska Schmidt 108 15 Karin Gude 122 16 Victoria Fisher 148 17 Ann-Margreth Frei 159 18 Sandra Brugnera 161 19 Helga Zöllner 1968.7 166 20 Tatyana Nemtsova 1952.2 174 21 Gabriele Seyfert 178
Judges: Ernst K. Bauch Jeanine Donnier-Blanc M. Drake Helena Dudová Paul Engelfriet Martin Felsenreich A. Koutny Melville Rogers Adolf Walker
Pairs Rank Name Points Places 1 Maria Jelinek / Otto Jelinek 102.2 15 2 Lyudmila Belousova / Oleg Protopopov 102.1 16.5 3 Margret Göbl / Franz Ningel 100.1 25.5 4 Debbi Wilkes / Guy Revell 93.3 45 5 Milada Kubíková / Jaroslav Votruba 95.1 52.5 6 Gertrude Desjardins / Maurice Lafrance 92.3 59.5 7 Gerda Johner / Rüdi Johner 91.0 63.5 8 Dorothyann Nelson / Pieter Kollen 90.2 70.5 9 Irene Müller / Hans-Georg Dallmer 89.0 73.5 10 Judianne Fotheringill / Jerry Fotheringill 87.4 73.5 11 Valerie Hunt / Peter Burrows 81.5 12 Diana Hinko / Bernhard Henhappel 107.5 13 Mieko Ōiwa / Yutaka Dōke 113 WD Marika Kilius / Hans-Jürgen Bäumler DNF
Judges: Ernst K. Bauch Jean Creux Pamela Davis M. Drake Hans Meixner Melville Rogers Věra Spurná Tatyana Tolmachova Adolf Walker
Ice dance Rank Name Points Places 1 Eva Romanová / Pavel Roman 318.5 15 2 Christiane Guhel / Jean Guhel 315.8 26 3 Virginia Thompson / William McLachlan 316.8 23 4 Linda Shearman / Michael Phillips 310.2 42 5 Paulette Doan / Kenneth Ormsby 311.0 45 6 Donna Mitchell / John Mitchell 306.4 55.5 7 Dorothyann Nelson / Pieter Kollen 306.6 57 8 Yvonne Littlefield / Peter Betts 303.0 64.5 9 Mary Parry / Roy Mason 297.2 77 10 Györgyi Korda / Pál Vásárhelyi 281.3 99 11 Helga Burkhardt / Hannes Burkhardt 108 12 Olga Gilardi / Germano Ceccattini 114 13 Marlyse Fornachon / Charly Pichard 116 14 Armelle Flichy / Pierre Brun 119 15 Christel Trebesiner / Georg Felsinger 131 16 Gabriele Rauch / Rudi Matysik 142 17 Keiko Kaneko / Mikio Takeuchi 143
Judges: Pamela Davis M. Drake Norman V. S. Gregory Ferenc Kertész Eugen Kirchhofer L. Lauret Hans Meixner Emil Skákala Hermann Wollersen
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