1949 World Figure Skating Championships


The World Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union in which amateur figure skaters compete for the title of World Champion.
The 1949 championships took place from February 16 to 18 in Paris, France. At the men´s event, the favorite, Dick Button won. At the women´s event, however, the favorite, Eva Pawlik of Austria, who had been the Olympic runner-up behind Barbara Ann Scott one year before and who had just won the European title in 1949, dropped out because of a broken boot heel just before the free program. which provided Alena Vrzáňová of Czechoslovakia with the opportunity to win the gold medal. She became the first woman to perform a double lutz.

Results

Men

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*: better placed due to the majority of the better placings
RankNameNationPlacings
1Andrea Kékesy / Ede Király7
2Karol Kennedy / Peter Kennedy14.5
3Ann Davies / Carleton Hoffner31.5
4Marianne Nagy / László Nagy33
5Herta Ratzenhofer / Emil Ratzenhofer35.5*
6Jennifer Nicks / John Nicks35.5
7Bela Zachova / Jaroslav Zach49.5
8Elianne Steineman / André Calamé56.5
9Elly Stärck / Harry Gareis66,5*
10Denise Farvart / Jacques Farvart63
11Suzanne Gheldorf / Jacques Rénard75
12Pamela Davis / Peter Scholes78.5

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