1953 World Figure Skating Championships

1953 World Figure Skating Championships
Type:	ISU Championship
Date:	February 8 – 15
Season:	1953
Location:	Davos, Switzerland
Champions
Men's singles: Hayes Alan Jenkins
Ladies' singles: Tenley Albright
Pairs: Jennifer Nicks / John Nicks
Ice dance: Jean Westwood / Lawrence Demmy
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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.

The 1953 competitions for men, ladies, pair skating, and ice dancing took place from February 8 to 15 in Davos, Switzerland.

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Switzerland)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Great Britain	2	1	1	4
	United States	2	1	1	4
3	Canada	0	1	0	1
	West Germany	0	1	0	1
5	Hungary	0	0	1	1
	Italy	0	0	1	1
Totals (6 entries)		4	4	4	12

Results

Men

Rank	Name	Age	CF		FS		Points	Places
1	Hayes Jenkins	19	2	925.2	1	727.2	183.6	13
2	James Grogan	21	1	931.9	3	704.3	181.8	16
3	Carlo Fassi	24	3	907.1	6	659.8	174.1	36
4	Ronald Robertson	15	7	851.8	2	707.9	173.3	37
5	Alain Giletti	13	5	864.7	4	675.2	171.4	44
6	Dudley Richards	21	6	870.6	5	673.8	171.6	49
7	Peter Firstbrook	19	4	871.4	8	640.6	168.0	59
8	Peter Dunfield	21	8	790.7	7	656.5	160.8	73
9	Michael Booker	15	9	778.4	9	622.9	155.7	81
10	Freimut Stein	28	10	764.4	10	609.9	152.7	88
11	Kurt Oppelt	20	13	712.8	11	592.2	145.0	102
12	Hubert Köpfler	17	11	745.4	12	553.3	144.3	106
13	György Czakó	19	14	701.6	13	543.1	138.3	115
WD	Klaus Loichinger		12	729.5				DNF

Judges:

• Ercole Cattaneo
• Pamela Davis
• John D. Greig
• Henri Hoyoux
• A. Jaisli
• Alex Krupy
• Hans Meixner
• Gérard Rodrigues-Henriques
• Adolf Walker

Ladies

Rank	Name	Age	CF		FS		Total	Points	Places
1	Tenley Albright	17	1	757.3	1	560.73	1318.03	188.29	7
2	Gundi Busch	17	2	730.9	3	531.27	1262.17	180.31	16
3	Valda Osborn	18	3	719.7		513.77	1233.47	176.21	28
4	Carol Heiss	13	5	705.4	2	531.29	1236.69	176.67	27
5	Suzanne Morrow	22	4	716.7		516.63	1233.33	176.19	28
6	Vera Smith	20					1198.68	171.24	48
7	Margaret Graham						1189.79	169.97	49
8	Yvonne Sugden	13					1175.51	167.93	53
9	Erica Batchelor	19					1145.62	163.66	70
10	Ann Robinson						1141.28	163.04	74
11	Annelies Schilhan	16	12	642.1		499.11	1141.21	163.03	72
12	Mary Kenner	19							86
13	Norma Skevington								83
14	Rosi Pettinger	19							97
15	Doris Zerbe								109
16	Margaret Dean								112
17	Yolande Jobin	22							112
18	Eszter Jurek	16							129
19	Lidy Stoppelman	19							130
WD	Helga Dudzinski	23							DNF
WD	Sissy Schwarz	16							DNF

Judges:

• John D. Greig
• A. Jaisli
• Alex Krupy
• Ernst Labin
• Mollie Phillips
• Gérard Rodrigues-Henriques
• Adolf Walker

Pairs

Rank	Name	Age	Total	Points	Places
1	Jennifer Nicks / John Nicks	20/23	77.0	11.00	10.5
2	Frances Dafoe / Norris Bowden	23/26	76.37	10.91	16
3	Marianna Nagy / László Nagy	24/25	74.62	10.66	23.5
4	Silvia Grandjean / Michel Grandjean	18/21	74.27	10.61	24
5	Peri Horne / Raymond Lockwood	20/24	71.40	10.20	39
6	Sissy Schwarz / Kurt Oppelt	16/20	70.14	10.02	43.5
7	Jane Higson / Robert Hudson		70.07	10.01	44.5
8	Éva Szöllősi / Gábor Vida	18/23	67.48	9.64	57
9	Eva Neeb / Karl Probst	19/	66.78	9.54	61
10	Charlotte Michiels / Gaston van Ghelder		65.88	9.34	66

Judges:

• Pauline L. Barrajo
• Emile Finsterwald
• John D. Greig
• Henri Hoyoux
• Walter Malek
• Werner Rittberger
• Elemér Terták

Ice dance

Rank	Name	Age	CD		FD		Points	Places
1	Jean Westwood / Lawrence Demmy	22/22	1	111.4	1	73.85	37.05	6
2	Joan Dewhirst / John Slater	17/25	2	110.0	2	73.05	36.61	10
3	Carol Peters / Daniel Ryan	20/23	3	104.4	3	70.7	35.02	14
4	Nesta Davies / Paul Thomas		5	102.6	4	68.0	34.12	20
5	Virginia Hoyns / Donald Jacoby		4	101.0	6	67.45	33.69	23
6	Lydia Boon / Aadrian van Dam		6	96.9	7	66.7	32.72	30
7	Carmel Bodel / Edward Bodel	40/32	7	88.9	5	67.85	31.35	35
8	Albertina Brown / Nigel Brown		8	83.0	9	61.1	28.82	42
9	Helga Binder / Edwin Führich		10	81.8	8	61.5	28.66	45
10	Catharina Odink / Jacobus Odink		9	83.7	12	55.0	27.74	50
11	Lucia Fischer / Rudolf Zorn		11	82.0	11	55.4	27.48	54
12	Luise Lehner / Hans Kutschera		12	76.5	10	55.9	26.48	59

Judges:

• Pamela Davis
• Emile Finsterwald
• Hans Meixner
• R. Sackett
• A. Voordeckers

Sources

• Result List provided by the ISU