1963 World Figure Skating Championships

Annual figure skating competition held in 1963 1963 World Figure Skating Championships ISU Championship February 28 March 3 1963 Italy Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy Canada 1957 Donald McPherson Netherlands Sjoukje Dijkstra West Germany Marika Kilius / Hans-Jürgen Bäumler Czechoslovakia Eva Romanová / Pavel Roman 1962 World Championships 1964 World Championships 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 1963 competitions for men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dance took place from February 28 to March 3 in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. The competition was held in the open-air ice stadium, with events running as late as 1 or 2am, by which time it was very cold. This caused the ice to become hard and brittle, as well as causing discomfort to those in attendance."Arctic Cold Chills World Championships", Skating magazine, May 1963 Perhaps due to the poor ice conditions, the men's competition was marred by many falls. Both the winner Donald McPherson and second-place finisher Alain Calmat fell on triple loop attempts, but neither Manfred Schnelldorfer nor Karol Divín, who had been placed 1-2 after the compulsory figures, performed well in the free skating. Marika Kilius and Hans-Jürgen Bäumler won the pair competition, although some questioned whether some of their lifts, including a "triple Axel lift" (an Axel lasso lift with 3.5 rotations), were legal under the ISU rules of the time. The Canadian team of Debbi Wilkes and Guy Revell had to withdraw after Wilkes suffered a head injury in a fall while posing for press photos. Disaster also struck the American dance team Yvonne Littlefield and Peter Betts. They placed 9th in the compulsory dances, but in the free dance Betts's blade came unscrewed from the boot and they were unable to finish their program. Meanwhile, the defending champions Eva Romanová and Pavel Roman came from behind to retain title after being defeated in the compulsory dances by the British team, Linda Shearman and Michael Phillips, who had also defeated the Romans at the European Championships earlier that year. Defending champion Sjoukje Dijkstra also retained her title, building a big lead in the compulsory figures and following it with a good performance in the free skate, in which she now included a double Lutz for the first time. Nicole Hassler, second in the free skate and third overall, had two strong double Axels at the end of her program."Informal Comments on Worlds", Skating magazine, May 1963 The Japanese competitor Miwa Fukuhara, who finished 6th overall, included a triple salchow in her program. Medal table ITA flagcountry 1 0 1 CAN 1957 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 Results Men Rank Name Places 1 Canada 1957 Donald McPherson 18 2 France Alain Calmat 22 3 West Germany Manfred Schnelldorfer 22 4 Czechoslovakia Karol Divín 34 5 USA Scott Allen 40 6 Austria Peter Jonas 59 7 West Germany Sepp Schönmetzler 71 8 Canada 1957 Donald Knight 79 9 Austria Emmerich Danzer 80 10 Japan 1870 Nobuo Satō 83 11 USA Monty Hoyt 88 12 France Robert Dureville 117 13 West Germany Hugo Dümmler 122 14 Hungary Jenő Ébert 130 15 Canada 1957 William Neale 136 16 USSR Valeriy Meshkov 144 17 Italy Giordano Abbondati 145 18 UK Malcolm Cannon 159 19 Netherlands Wouter Toledo 161 Judges: Netherlands Charlotte Benedict-Stieber Czechoslovakia Zdeněk Fikar Austria Edwin Kucharz Canada 1957 J. A. McKechnie Italy Giovanni de Mori UK Pamela Peat USA John R. Shoemaker France Néri Valdes West Germany Adolf Walker Ladies Rank Name Places 1 Netherlands Sjoukje Dijkstra 9 2 Austria Regine Heitzer 22 3 France Nicole Hassler 30 4 Canada 1957 Wendy Griner 36 5 Canada 1957 Petra Burka 39 6 Japan 1870 Miwa Fukuhara 68 7 West Germany Inge Paul 73 8 Czechoslovakia Jana Mrázková 73 9 Austria Helli Sengstschmid 75 10 USA Lorraine Hanlon 89 11 UK Diana Clifton-Peach 97 12 Austria Ingrid Ostler 110 13 USA Karen Howland 130 14 Switzerland Franziska Schmidt 128 15 Czechoslovakia Eva Grožajová 138 16 Sweden Ann-Margreth Frei 140 17 Japan 1870 Junko Ueno 147 18 Italy Sandra Brugnera 160 19 USA Christine Haigler 161 20 Canada 1957 Shirra Kenworthy 167 21 Hungary Zsuzsa Szentmiklóssy 191 22 Norway Karin Dehle 198 23 USSR Tatyana Nemtsova 204 24 Poland 1928 Elżbieta Kościk 215 Judges: Netherlands Charlotte Benedict-Stieber Switzerland Walter Fritz West Germany Theo Klemm Austria Oskar Madl Canada 1957 E. R. S. McLauchlin France Gérard Rodrigues-Henriques USA Ardelle Sanderson Czechoslovakia Emil Skákala USSR Sergey Vasilyev Pairs Rank Name Places 1 West Germany Marika Kilius / Hans-Jürgen Bäumler 9 2 USSR Lyudmila Belousova / Oleg Protopopov 20 3 USSR Tatyana Zhuk / Aleksandr Gavrilov 31 4 Canada 1957 Gertrude Desjardins / Maurice Lefrance 31.5 5 Czechoslovakia Milada Kubíková / Jaroslav Votruba 51.5 6 Switzerland Gerda Johner / Rüdi Johner 58.5 7 USA Judianne Fotheringill / Jerry Fotheringill 64 8 USA Vivian Joseph / Ronald Joseph 66.5 9 USA Patti Gustafson / Pieter Kollen 84 10 West Germany Sonja Pfersdorf / Günther Matzdorf 84 11 Canada 1957 Linda Ward / Neil Carpenter 95 12 Sweden Gunilla Lindberg / Gunnar de Shàrengrad 107 Judges: Czechoslovakia Zdeněk Fikar Switzerland Walter Fritz Austria Walter Malek Canada 1957 E. R. S. McLauchlin USA Ardelle Sanderson Hungary Elemér Terták France Néri Valdes USSR Sergey Vasilyev West Germany János Zsigmondy Ice dance Rank Name Places 1 Czechoslovakia Eva Romanová / Pavel Roman 14 2 UK Linda Shearman / Michael Phillips 15 3 Canada 1957 Paulette Doan / Kenneth Ormsby 26 4 UK Janet Sawbridge / David Hickinbottom 36 5 Canada 1957 Donna Mitchell / John Mitchell 47 6 UK Mary Parry / Roy Mason 62 7 USA Sally Schantz / Stanley Urban 66 8 USA Lorna Dyer / John Carrell 71 9 Hungary Györgyi Korda / Pál Vásárhelyi 82 10 Canada 1957 Carole Forrest / Kevin Lethbridge 93 11 Switzerland Marlyse Fornachon / Charly Pichard 96 12 France Armelle Flichy / Pierre Brun 116 13 West Germany Helga Burkhardt / Hannes Burkhardt 117 14 Czechoslovakia Jitka Babická / Jaromír Holan 120 15 Austria Christel Trebesiner / Georg Felsinger 132 16 France Ghislaine Houdas / Francis Gamichon 141 17 USA Yvonne Littlefield / Peter Betts 152 18 Italy Maria Toncelli / Vinicio Toncelli 153 Judges: Italy Cia Benacchi-Bordogna France Claude Lambert Canada 1957 J. A. McKechnie Austria Hans Meixner UK Mollie Phillips USA John R. Shoemaker Czechoslovakia Emil Skákala Hungary Elemér Terták West Germany Hermann Wollersen References Category:World Figure Skating Championships World Figure Skating Championships Category:Sport in Cortina d'Ampezzo Category:20th century in Veneto Category:International figure skating competitions hosted by Italy Category:February 1963 sports events in Europe Category:March 1963 sports events in Europe