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
Judges:- E. Kucharz
- H. Meistrup
- Ferenc Kertesz
- Mario Verdi
- Harold G. Storke
Ladies
- Adolf Rosdol
- Georges Torchon
- Kenneth Beaumont
- Ferenc Kertesz
- Josef Vosolsobe
- Harold G. Storke
- Dr. J. Koch
Pairs
Rank | Name | Nation | Placings |
1 | Andrea Kékesy / Ede Király | 7 | |
2 | Karol Kennedy / Peter Kennedy | 14.5 | |
3 | Ann Davies / Carleton Hoffner | 31.5 | |
4 | Marianne Nagy / László Nagy | 33 | |
5 | Herta Ratzenhofer / Emil Ratzenhofer | 35.5* | |
6 | Jennifer Nicks / John Nicks | 35.5 | |
7 | Bela Zachova / Jaroslav Zach | 49.5 | |
8 | Elianne Steineman / André Calamé | 56.5 | |
9 | Elly Stärck / Harry Gareis | 66,5* | |
10 | Denise Farvart / Jacques Farvart | 63 | |
11 | Suzanne Gheldorf / Jacques Rénard | 75 | |
12 | Pamela Davis / Peter Scholes | 78.5 |
Judges:
- Adolf Rosdol
- Georges Torchon
- Mollie Phillips
- Ferenc Kertesz
- E. Finsterwald
- Josef Vosolsobe
- Harold G. Storke