1927 World Figure Skating Championships

1927 World Figure Skating Championships
Type:	ISU Championship
Season:	1927
Location:	Davos, Switzerland (men) Oslo, Norway (ladies) Vienna, Austria (pairs)
Champions
Men's singles: Willy Böckl
Ladies' singles: Sonja Henie
Pairs: Herma Szabo / Ludwig Wrede
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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.

In 1927, men's competitions took place from February 5th to 6th in Davos, Switzerland. Ladies' competitions took place from February 19th to 20th in Oslo, Norway. Pairs' competitions took place from February 22nd to 23rd in Vienna, Austria.

Results

Men

Rank	Name	Places
1	Willy Böckl	11
2	Otto Preißecker	15
3	Karl Schäfer	24
4	Georges Gautschi	26
5	John Page	30
6	Ludwig Wrede	42
7	Herbert Haertel	48
8	Jean Henrion	56

Judges:

• Kurt Dannenberg
• Eduard Engelmann
• Josef Fellner
• Fritz Kachler
• J. G. Künzli
• Thomas Richardson
• Artur Vieregg

Ladies

This result was controversial because the three Norwegian member of the judging panel placed the Sonja Henie on the first place, while the other two placed Herma Szabo, who retired after the competition. ^{[1] [2]}

Rank	Name	Judges					Places
		#1	#2	#3	#4	#5
1	Sonja Henie [3]	1	1	1	2	2	7
2	Herma Plank-Szabo	2	2	2	1	1	8
3	Karen Simensen	3	3	3	4	4	17
4	Ellen Brockhöft	4	4	4	3	3	18

Judges:

• Arne Christiansen
• O. R. Kolderup
• Knut Oeren Meinich
• Walter Müller
• Artur Vieregg

Pairs

Rank	Name	Places
1	Herma Plank-Szabo / Ludwig Wrede	6.5
2	Lilly Scholz / Otto Kaiser	9
3	Else Hoppe / Oscar Hoppe	14.5
4	Hansi Eissert / Georg Pamperl	20

Judges:

• Walter Jakobsson
• Otto Maly
• Walter Müller
• Max Rendschmidt
• K. Scheibner

References

1. Nationalism in Winter Sports Judging and its Lessons for Organizational Decision Making, by Eric Zitzewitz, accessed July 3, 2006.
2. Worlds Greatest Skaters Archived 2007-07-21 at archive.today , accessed July 3, 2006.
3. Hines, James R. (2011). Historical Dictionary of Figure Skating. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press. p. xxiii. ISBN   978-0-8108-6859-5.