1983 World Figure Skating Championships
The 1983 World Figure Skating Championships were held in Helsinki, Finland from March 8 to 13. At the event, sanctioned by the International Skating Union, medals were awarded in men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.
The ISU Representative was Hermann Schiechtl and the ISU Technical Delegate Elemér Terták. The original dance was part of the competition for the first time.
Medal tables
Medalists
Medals by country
Results
Men
Referee:Assistant Referee:
Judges:
- Irina Absaliamova
- Kazuo Ohashi
- Heinz Müllenbach
- Helga von Wiecki
- Tjaša Andrée
- Monique Georgelin
- Hugh C. Graham, Jr.
- Gerhardt Bubnik
- Margaret Berezowski
- Walter Hütter
Ladies
- Benjamin T. Wright
Judges:
- Linda Petersen
- Raymond Alperth
- Margaret Berezowski
- Jacqueline Itschner
- Monique Petis
- Ludwig Gassner
- Eugen Romminger
- Hideo Sugita
- Britta Lindgren
- Walburga Grimm
- Giovanni De Mori
Pairs
- Donald H. Gilchrist
Judges:
- Suzanne Fancis
- Mikhail Drei
- Ingrid Reetz
- Hely Abbondati
- Dagmar Řeháková
- Virginia LeFevre
- Sally-Anne Stapleford
- Ingrid Linke
- Hideo Sugita
- Jürg Wilhelm
Ice dancing
| Rank | Name | Nation | CD | OSP | FD | Total |
| 1 | Jayne Torvill / Christopher Dean | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2.0 | |
| 2 | Natalia Bestemianova / Andrei Bukin | 3 | 3 | 2 | 5.0 | |
| 3 | Judy Blumberg / Michael Seibert | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5.0 | |
| 4 | Olga Volozhinskaya / Alexander Svinin | 5 | 4 | 4 | 8.6 | |
| 5 | Karen Barber / Nicholas Slater | 4 | 8 | 5 | 10.6 | |
| 6 | Tracy Wilson / Robert McCall | 7 | 5 | 6 | 12.2 | |
| 7 | Elisa Spitz / Scott Gregory | 6 | 6 | 7 | 13.0 | |
| 8 | Elena Batanova / Alexei Soloviev | 8 | 7 | 8 | 15.6 | |
| 9 | Petra Born / Rainer Schönborn | 10 | 9 | 9 | 18.6 | |
| 10 | Kelly Johnson / John Thomas | 13 | 11 | 10 | 22.2 | |
| 11 | Isabella Micheli / Roberto Pelizzola | 12 | 10 | 11 | 22.2 | |
| 12 | Wendy Sessions / Stephen Williams | 11 | 12 | 12 | 23.4 | |
| 13 | Judit Péterfy / Csaba Bálint | 14 | 14 | 13 | 27.0 | |
| 14 | Noriko Sato / Tadayuki Takahashi | 15 | 13 | 14 | 28.2 | |
| 15 | Marianne von Bommel / Wayne Deweyert | 16 | 15 | 15 | 30.6 | |
| 16 | Kathrin Beck / Christoff Beck | 17 | 16 | 16 | 32.6 | |
| 17 | Claudia Schmidlin / Daniel Schmidlin | 18 | 17 | 17 | 34.6 | |
| 18 | Hristina Boyanova / Javor Ivanov | 19 | 18 | 18 | 36.6 | |
| WD | Nathalie Herve / Pierre Bechu | 9 |
Referee:
Assistant Referee:
Judges:
- Cia Bordogna
- Jürg Wilhelm
- Kazuo Ohashi
- Margaret Freepartner
- Ann Shaw
- Heide Maritszak
- Igor Kabanov
- Katalin Alpern
- Roy Mason