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1973 World Figure Skating Championships

Annual figure skating competition held in 1973

1973 World Figure Skating Championships
Type:	ISU Championship
Date:	February 26 – March 3
Season:	1972–73
Location:	Bratislava, Slovakia, Czechoslovakia
Venue:	Zimni Stadion Bratislava
Champions
Men's singles: Ondrej Nepela
Ladies' singles: Karen Magnussen
Pairs: Irina Rodnina / Aleksandr Zaytsev
Ice dance: Lyudmila Pakhomova / Aleksandr Gorshkov
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The 1973 World Figure Skating Championships were held from February 26 to March 3 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, sanctioned by the International Skating Union. Medals were awarded in men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dance. It was the last year in which solid gold medals were awarded in figure skating.^[1]

The opening ceremony was held at the Philharmonic of Bratislava. The Chairman of the organising committee was Miroslav Červenka. In the ladies' single skating withdrew before the opening ceremony Sonja Balun from Austria and Zsuzsa Homolya from Hungary.^[2]

Irina Rodnina won her first World title with her new partner, Aleksandr Zaytsev after her previous partner, Aleksey Ulanov, chose to skate with Lyudmila Smirnova. Rodnina/Zaitsev's music stopped during their short program, possibly due to a Czech worker acting in retaliation for the suppression of the Prague Spring.^[3]

Medal table[edit]

  *   Host nation (Czechoslovakia)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	2	2	0	4
2	Canada	1	0	0	1
	Czechoslovakia*	1	0	0	1
4	United States	0	1	0	1
	West Germany	0	1	0	1
6	East Germany	0	0	3	3
7	Great Britain	0	0	1	1
Totals (7 entries)		4	4	4	12

Results[edit]

Men[edit]

Rank	Name	CP	SP	FP	Points	Places
1	Ondrej Nepela	1	2	2	355.66	10
2	Sergey Chetverukhin	2	3	1	348.91	17
3	Jan Hoffmann	3	7	6	340.55	35
4	John Curry	4	8	7	338.43	39
5	Toller Cranston	6	1	5	336.50	54
6	Yuriy Ovchinnikov	8	5	3	334.01	54
7	Gordon McKellen	5	4	8	330.84	61
8	Ronald Shaver	12	6	4	330.58	62
9	Jacques Mrozek	9	10	11	320.01	91
10	Zdeněk Pazdírek	10	12	9	319.43	95
11	Daniel Höner	7	11	12	319.08	97
12	Robert Bradshaw	13	9	10	316.62	103
13	László Vajda	11	14	13	314.77	112
14	Minoru Sano	14	13	14	308.37	130
15	Erich Reifschneider	15	15	16	303.72	144
16	Igor Lisovskiy	18	17	17	302.24	147
17	Bernd Wunderlich	20	18	15	300.38	148
18	Miroslav Šoška	17	16	18	299.99	151
19	Robert Rubens	19	19	19	295.16	168
20	Günther Hilgarth	16	20	21	275.29	187
21	Jacek Tascher	23	23	20	273.30	191
22	Rolando Bragaglia	22	21	22	270.19	193
23	György Fazekas	21	24	24	262.23	205
24	Silvo Švejger	24	22	23	255.29	214

• Referee: Sonia Bianchetti
• Assistant Referee: Miroslav Hasenöhrl

Judges:

• Boris Lvov-Anokhin Львов-Анохин, Борис Александрович
• Luciana Brasa
• Walburga Grimm
• Dorothy Leamen
• Ramona McIntyre
• Irina Minculescu
• Kazuo Ōhashi
• Dagmar Řeháková
• Jürg Wilhelm (substitute)
• Geoffrey Yates

Ladies[edit]

Rank	Name	CP	SP	FP	Points	Places
1	Karen Magnussen	1	1	2	356.39	9
2	Janet Lynn	2	12	1	347.85	18
3	Christine Errath	5	2	5	340.90	31
4	Dorothy Hamill	8	3	4	337.93	35
5	Jean Scott	4	10	11	332.10	47
6	Karin Iten	3	14	14	329.08	60
7	Liana Drahová	9	9	6	327.53	69
8	Sonja Morgenstern	10	5	7	326.53	76
9	Juli McKinstry	12	7	9	323.26	78
10	Lynn Nightingale	15	4	3	325.61	91
11	Maria McLean	7	11	13	322.68	96
12	Cathy Irwin	11	13	10	320.95	108
13	Gerti Schanderl	14	6	8	319.69	114
14	Anett Pötzsch	13	8	12	316.21	123
15	Dianne de Leeuw	6	15	16	316.11	125
16	Marina Sanaya	23	16	15	296.67	149
17	Emi Watanabe	18	23	17	294.35	154
18	Marie-Claude Bierre	16	18	22	288.34	171
19	Cinzia Frosio	19	19	19	287.45	175
20	Lise-Lotte Öberg	21	17	18	285.55	177
21	Sharon Burley	20	20	21	286.58	178
22	Hannele Koskinen	27	22	20	275.77	201
23	Grażyna Dudek	26	21	23	276.57	204
24	Helena Gazvoda	25	26	24	268.04	220
25	Chang Myung-su	17	28	27	264.92	227
26	Bente Tverran	24	27	26	261.03	231
27	Ágnes Erős	28	24	25	262.58	235
WD	Susanne Altura	22	25			DNF
WD	Zsuzsa Homolya					DNS
WD	Sonja Balun					DNS

• Referee: Josef Dědič
• Assistant Referee: Oskar Madl

Judges:

• Jakob Biedermann
• Elsbeth Bon
• Sydney R. Croll (substitute)
• Ludwig Gassner
• Márta Mesterházi-Nagy, Mrs. Léces Hungarian names#Married names
• Vera Lynfield
• Joan Maclagan
• Inkeri Soininen
• Helga Wiecki
• Mary Wright

Pairs[edit]

Rank	Name	SP	FP	Points	Places
1	Irina Rodnina / Aleksandr Zaytsev	1	1	423.9	9
2	Lyudmila Smirnova / Aleksey Ulanov	2	2	416.2	18
3	Manuela Groß / Uwe Kagelmann	3	3	409.2	29
4	Almut Lehmann / Herbert Wiesinger	6	5	402.9	43
5	Romy Kermer / Rolf Österreich	4	4	401.3	46
6	Sandra Bezic / Val Bezic	7	6	399.8	51
7	Irina Chernyayeva / Vasiliy Blagov	5	7	398.3	56
8	Melissa Militano / Mark Militano	8	8	390.7	73
9	Marian Murray / Glenn Moore	9	9	386.0	80
10	Karin Künzle / Christian Künzle	11	10	373.9	92
11	Ilona Urbanová / Aleš Zach	10	11	369.4	106
12	Corinna Halke / Eberhard Rausch	12	12	366.6	108
13	Gale Fuhrman / Joel Fuhrman	15	13	360.9	120
14	Florence Cahn / Jean-Roland Racle	13	14	362.0	121
15	Ursula Nemec / Michael Nemec	16	15	346.0	135
16	Teresa Skrzek / Piotr Szczypa	14	16	350.4	137

• Referee: Karl Enderlin
• Assistant Referee: Donald Gilchrist

Judges:

• Monique Georgelin (substitute)
• Walburga Grimm
• Walter Hüttner
• Władysław Kołodziej
• Alice Pinos
• Valentin Piseyev
• Edith M. Shoemaker
• Erich Soukup
• Willi Wernz
• Jürg Wilhelm

Ice dance[edit]

Rank	Name	CD	FD	Points	Places
1	Lyudmila Pakhomova / Aleksandr Gorshkov	1	1	524.20	9
2	Angelika Buck / Erich Buck	2	2	514.55	18
3	Hilary Green / Glynn Watts	3	3	499.05	29
4	Janet Sawbridge / Peter Dalby	4	6	493.25	38
5	Tetyana Voytyuk / Vyacheslav Zhyhalyn	5	4	488.30	43
6	Mary Campbell / Johnny Johns	6	7	479.30	60
7	Irina Moiseyeva / Andrey Minenkov	7	5	475.80	63.5
8	Diana Skotnická / Martin Skotnický	8	8	470.85	72.5
9	Louise Soper / Barry Soper	9	9	471.00	73
10	Anne Millier / Harvey Millier	10	11	459.15	93
11	Matilde Ciccia / Lamberto Ceserani	12	10	452.10	100
12	Rosalind Druce / David Barker	11	13	448.70	107
13	Krisztina Regőczy / András Sallay	13	12	442.70	115
14	Halina Gordon / Wojciech Bańkowski	14	15	425.80	130
15	Barbara Berezowski / David Porter	15	14	426.35	131
16	Anne-Claude Wolfers / Roland Mars	16	16	408.80	146
17	Christina Henke / Udo Dönsdorf	17	17	402.00	151
18	Brigitte Scheijbal / Walter Leschetizky	18	18	393.65	160

• Referee: Hermann Schiechtl
• Assistant Referee: Lawrence Demmy

Judges:

• Irina Absalyamova
• Cia Benacchi-Bordogna (substitute)
• Frances Gunn
• Lysiane Lauret
• Helena Pachlová
• Mollie Phillips
• Elek Riedl
• Eugen Romminger
• Edith M. Shoemaker
• Maria Zuchowicz

References[edit]

Sources[edit]

• Result list provided by the ISU