1951 World Figure Skating Championships

Annual figure skating competition held in 1951June 2026 1951 World Figure Skating Championships ISU Championship February 23 25 1951 Italy Milan, Italy Palazzo del Ghiaccio US 1912 Richard Button UK Jeannette Altwegg West Germany Ria Baran / Paul Falk 1950 World Championships 1952 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 1951 championships took place on February 23–25 in Milan, Italy. It was the first year after World War II that athletes from Germany and Japan were allowed to compete at Worlds.Hines James R. Historical Dictionary of Figure Skating 2011 Scarecrow Press 978-0-8108-6859-5 Lanham, Maryland 32 Medal table ITA flagcountry 1 2 1 USA 1912 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 Results Men Rank Name CF FS Total Places 1 US 1912 Dick Button 104.38 79.33 183.71 7 2 US 1912 James Grogan 93.11 77.58 170.69 17 3 Austria Helmut Seibt 94.08 74.78 168.86 22 4 US 1912 Hayes Jenkins 90.80 77.35 168.15 25 5 US 1912 Dudley Richards 85.63 70.93 156.56 38 6 Italy Carlo Fassi 84.45 72.22 156.67 41 7 US 1912 Don Laws 81.92 68.60 150.52 48 8 UK Michael Carrington 83.88 64.05 147.93 54 9 Canada 1921 William Lewis 76.63 56.35 132.98 67 10 West Germany Freimut Stein 74.00 58.10 132.10 69 11 Japan 1870 Ryusuke Arisaka 73.30 56.10 129.40 74 Judges: Canada 1921 Donald Gilchrist Switzerland Eugen Kirchhofer UK Mollie Phillips US 1912 Walter Powell Austria Adolf Rosdol West Germany W. Schilling Italy Mario Verdi Ladies Rank Name CF FS Total Places 1 UK Jeannette Altwegg 114.73 77.99 192.72 8 2 France Jacqueline du Bief 106.67 82.00 188.67 14 3 US 1912 Sonya Klopfer 104.90 80.79 185.69 23 4 Canada 1921 Suzanne Morrow 105.67 78.96 184.63 29 5 UK Barbara Wyatt 104.67 74.58 179.25 42 6 US 1912 Tenley Albright 99.25 79.81 179.06 43 7 US 1912 Andra McLaughlin 100.43 77.87 178.30 47 8 US 1912 Margaret Graham 100.10 76.89 176.99 53 9 UK Valda Osborn 98.03 76.41 174.44 56 10 West Germany Gundi Busch 88.67 76.28 164.95 83 11 US 1912 Frances Dorsey 91.70 73.12 164.82 85 12 West Germany Helga Dudzinski 87.62 75.31 162.93 89* 13 Canada 1921 Elizabeth Hiscock 91.88 70.93 162.81 89* 14 West Germany Erika Kraft 88.63 74.70 163.33 87 15 Switzerland Susi Wirz 91.47 69.59 161.06 94 16 Austria Lotte Schwenk 84.82 66.92 151.74 116 17 Switzerland Yolande Jobin 85.88 64.00 149.88 118 18 Switzerland Ghislaine Kopf 85.70 59.98 145.68 129 19 UK Yvonne Sugden 80.30 65.21 145.51 131 20 West Germany Inge Jell 74.85 62.05 136.90 141 21 Japan 1870 Etsuko Inada 81.29 54.02 135.31 144 22 Netherlands Lidy Stoppelman 77.56 53.70 131.26 150 23 Austria Grete Dunst 70.45 47.33 117.78 161 *: better placed due to the majority of the better placings Judges: UK Pamela Davis Switzerland Emile Finsterwald Canada 1921 Donald Gilchrist Austria Oskar Madl West Germany O. Maly US 1912 Harold G. Storke France Georges Torchon Pairs Rank Name Points Places 1 West Germany Ria Baran / Paul Falk 10.89 10 2 US 1912 Karol Kennedy / Peter Kennedy 10.85 11.5 3 UK Jennifer Nicks / John Nicks 10.51 20.5 4 Switzerland Eliane Steinemann / André Calame 10.07 35 5 West Germany Inge Minor / Hermann Braun 9.92 40 6 West Germany Marlies Schrör / Hans Schwarz 9.81 45 7 Switzerland Silvia Grandjean / Michel Grandjean 9.48 50 8 US 1912 Janet Gerhauser / John Nightingale 9.46 53 9 Yugoslavia Silva Palme / Marko Lajović 9.19 65 10 Austria Elly Stärck / Harry Gareis 8.96 65 11 US 1912 Anne Holt / Austin Holt 8.99 68 12 UK Elizabeth Williams / John McCann 7.94 83 Judges: Italy Bruno Bonfiglio Canada 1921 Donald Gilchrist Switzerland Eugen Kirchhofer Austria Hans Meixner UK Mollie Phillips West Germany W. Schilling US 1912 Harold G. Storke Ice Dance (unofficial) Rank Name Places 1 UK Jean Westwood / Lawrence Demmy 2 UK Joan Dewhirst / John Slater 3 US 1912 Lois Waring / Michael McGean http://www.omagdigital.com/publication/?i=496705&article_id=3087426&view=articleBrowser https://web.archive.org/web/20220924230018/https://www.omagdigital.com/publication/?i=496705&article_id=3087426&view=articleBrowser usurped September 24, 2022 On to Oslo (1949-1952) References World Championships 1951 World Championships,1951 Category:Sports competitions in Milan 1951 Figure Skating World Championships Category:February 1951 sports events in Europe