The 1972 World Figure Skating Championships were held at the Stampede Corral in Calgary, Canada from March 7 to 11. At the event, sanctioned by the International Skating Union, medals were awarded in men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dance.

A day before the start of the competition, Irina Rodnina / Aleksey Ulanov had an accident on a lift; Rodnina was hospitalized with a concussion and an intracranial hematoma but went on to compete and win the gold medal. It was Rodnina/Ulanov's final competition together. Ulanov would team up with the silver medalist, Lyudmila Smirnova.

Medal table

Results Men Rank Name CF FS Points Places 1 Ondrej Nepela 1 3 2722.8 9 2 Sergey Chetverukhin 2 2 2673.8 19 3 Vladimir Kovalyov 3 5 2607.5 34 4 John Petkevich 5 4 2585.5 39 5 Toller Cranston 9 1 2566.1 45 6 Jan Hoffmann 4 9 2559.7 59 7 Kenneth Shelley 7 6 2538.7 67 8 Gordon McKellen 10 8 2528.3 69 9 John Curry 6 7 2534.8 70 10 Sergey Volkov 8 10 2499.0 86 11 Jacques Mrozek 11 11 2448.8 100 12 Zdeněk Pazdírek 14 12 116 13 Didier Gailhauguet 12 13 116 14 Josef Schneider 13 15 128 15 Yutaka Higuchi 16 14 136 16 Jozef Žídek 17 16 141 17 Stefano Bargauan 15 17 144 18 Harald Kuhn 19 18 166 19 Pekka Leskinen 18 19 167 WD Haig Oundjian DNS

Referee: Donald Gilchrist Assistant Referee: Sonia Bianchetti Judges: Gerhardt Bubník Dorothy Burkholder Tatyana Danilenko Masao Hasegawa Franz Heinlein William Lewis Monique Petis Mollie Phillips Helga Wiecki János Zsigmondy (substitute)

Ladies Rank Name CF FS Points Places 1 Beatrix Schuba 1 9 2778.5 13 2 Karen Magnussen 2 2 2745.2 16 3 Janet Lynn 3 1 2713.0 25 4 Zsuzsa Almássy 4 6 2643.3 37 5 Sonja Morgenstern 6 3 2581.1 52 6 Jean Scott 5 10 2555.1 57 7 Dorothy Hamill 8 5 2548.3 62 8 Suna Murray 7 7 2517.5 74 9 Cathy Irwin 9 8 2499.9 79 10 Christine Errath 11 4 2519.9 81 11 Ľudmila Bezáková 10 13 2426.9 102 12 Karin Iten 12 16 2387.8 118 13 Gerti Schanderl 15 11 2385.3 119 14 Cinzia Frosio 13 12 2380.1 120 15 Darya Prichun 14 14 2370.9 127 16 Marie-Claude Bierre 17 15 2319.9 146 17 Dianne de Leeuw 16 19 2296.6 151 18 Chang Myung-su 18 18 2221.6 169 19 Sharon Burley 19 21 2195.8 175 20 Shūko Takeyama 20 20 2193.3 178 21 Marina Sanaya 21 17 2189.3 178

Referee: Josef Dědič Assistant Referee: Elemér Terták Judges: Zoltán Balázs Jeanine Donnier-Blanc Milan Duchón (substitute) Suzanne Francis Ludwig Gassner Walburga Grimm Wilhelm Kahle Ramona McIntyre Giovanni de Mori René Schlageter

Pairs Rank Name SP FS Points Places 1 Irina Rodnina / Aleksey Ulanov 1 106.2 1 315.6 421.8 9 2 Lyudmila Smirnova / Andrey Suraykin 2 104.4 3 312.3 416.7 21.5 3 Alicia Starbuck / Kenneth Shelley 5 99.6 2 312.6 412.2 28.5 4 Manuela Groß / Uwe Kagelmann 3 102.0 4 307.8 409.8 38 5 Almut Lehmann / Herbert Wiesinger 4 100.9 5 306.9 407.8 42 6 Irina Chernyayeva / Vasiliy Blagov 6 99.5 6 304.5 404.0 55 7 Annette Kansy / Axel Salzmann 8 98.2 7 300.9 399.1 68 8 Sandra Bezic / Val Bezic 7 98.3 8 301.2 399.5 70 9 Melissa Militano / Mark Militano 9 96.6 9 298.5 395.1 76 10 Corinna Halke / Eberhard Rausch 11 94.8 10 268.9 363.7 95 11 Mary Petrie / John Hubbell 13 92.7 11 285.0 377.7 102 12 Grażyna Osmańska / Adam Brodecki 10 96.5 12 284.1 380.6 106 13 Gabriele Cieplik / Reinhard Ketterer 12 94.4 13 280.8 375.2 114 14 Barbara Brown / Douglas Berndt 14 90.9 14 278.4 369.3 123 15 Linda Connolly / Colin Taylforth 15 90.5 15 272.4 362.9 132

Referee: Karl Enderlin Assistant Referee: Henry M. Beatty Judges: Elsbeth Bon Pamela Davis Suzanne Francis Walburga Grimm Valentin Piseyev Ardelle Sanderson René Schlageter (substitute) Inkeri Soininen Maria Zuchowicz János Zsigmondy

Ice dance Rank Name CD FD Points Places 1 Lyudmila Pakhomova / Aleksandr Gorshkov 1 251.9 1 262.7 514.6 14 2 Angelika Buck / Erich Buck 2 250.7 2 261.3 512.0 17 3 Judy Schwomeyer / James Sladky 3 248.7 3 260.0 508.7 24 4 Janet Sawbridge / Peter Dalby 4 242.0 4 255.0 495.0 38 5 Tetyana Voytyuk / Vyacheslav Zhyhalyn 5 234.9 5 250.8 485.7 46 6 Hilary Green / Glynn Watts 6 233.3 6 250.9 484.2 50 7 Anne Millier / Harvey Millier 7 221.9 7 244.9 466.8 67 8 Yelena Zharkova / Gennadiy Karponosov 8 219.1 8 242.3 461.4 75 9 Louise Lind / Barry Soper 9 217.9 9 241.0 458.9 80 10 Mary Campbell / Johnny Johns 10 216.1 10 237.2 453.3 91 11 Diana Skotnická / Martin Skotnický 11 212.6 11 234.8 447.4 99 12 Anne-Claude Wolfers / Roland Mars 12 209.5 13 226.7 436.2 108 13 Teresa Weyna / Piotr Bojańczyk 13 208.0 12 226.7 434.7 110 14 Sylvia Fuchs / Michael Fuchs 14 197.7 14 215.5 413.2 126 15 Astrid Kopp / Axel Kopp 15 195.3 15 208.2 403.5 135 16 Keiko Achiwa / Yasuyuki Noto 16 182.3 16 195.8 378.1 144

Referee: Lawrence Demmy Assistant Referee: George J. Blundun Judges: Zoltán Balázs Pamela Davis Milan Duchón

Claude Lambert Audrey Moore Eugen Romminger Benjamin T. Wright Maria Zuchowicz

References

Sources The Calgary Gerald (Calgary, Alberta, March 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 1972)