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1955 World Figure Skating Championships | |
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Type: | ISU Championship |
Date: | February 15 – 18 |
Season: | 1955 |
Location: | Vienna, Austria |
Champions | |
Men's singles: Hayes Alan Jenkins | |
Ladies' singles: Tenley Albright | |
Pairs: Frances Dafoe / Norris Bowden | |
Ice dance: Jean Westwood / Lawrence Demmy | |
Previous: 1954 World Championships | |
Next: 1956 World Championships |
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 1955 competitions for men, ladies, pair skating, and ice dancing took place from February 15th to 18th in Vienna, Austria.
* Host nation (Austria)
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | United States | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
2 | Great Britain | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
3 | Canada | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
4 | Austria* | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
5 | Hungary | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Totals (5 entries) | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 |
Rank | Name | Places |
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1 | Hayes Jenkins | 11 |
2 | Ronald Robertson | 16 |
3 | David Jenkins | 28 |
4 | Alain Giletti | 37 |
5 | Karol Divín | 58 |
6 | Michael Booker | 58 |
7 | Norbert Felsinger | 60 |
8 | Charles Snelling | 69 |
9 | Alain Calmat | 79 |
10 | Hugh Graham | 79 |
11 | István Szenes | 103 |
12 | Hans Müller | 114 |
13 | Tilo Gutzeit | 114 |
14 | Brian Tuck | 119 |
Judges:
Rank | Name | Points | Places |
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1 | Tenley Albright | 190.96 | 9 |
2 | Carol Heiss | 180.31 | 28 |
3 | Hanna Eigel | 179.78 | 29 |
4 | Ingrid Wendl | 178.46 | 41 |
5 | Erica Batchelor | 177.56 | 43 |
6 | Yarmila Pachl | 175.16 | 58 |
7 | Patricia Firth | 174.49 | 59 |
8 | Yvonne Sugden | 174.59 | 64 |
9 | Ann Johnston | 172.51 | 77 |
10 | Catherine Machado | 169.43 | 87 |
11 | Rosi Pettinger | 161.98 | 105 |
12 | Dawn Hunter | 158.42 | 121 |
13 | Ilse Musyl | 157.99 | 126 |
14 | Dagmar Řeháková | 157.89 | 129 |
15 | Joan Haanappel | 156.06 | 138 |
16 | Fiorella Negro | 161.98 | 141 |
17 | Alice Fischer | 153.37 | 158.5 |
18 | Miroslava Náchodská | 153.03 | 162 |
19 | Maryvonne Huet | 152.54 | 162.5 |
20 | Erika Rücker | 150.66 | 175 |
21 | Sjoukje Dijkstra | 151.57 | 176 |
WD | Hanna Walter | DNS |
Judges:
Rank | Name | Points | Places |
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1 | Frances Dafoe / Norris Bowden | 10.88 | 17.5 |
2 | Sissy Schwarz / Kurt Oppelt | 10.82 | 17.5 |
3 | Marianna Nagy / László Nagy | 10.57 | 28 |
4 | Carole Ormaca / Robin Greiner | 10.27 | 46 |
5 | Barbara Wagner / Robert Paul | 10.08 | 65 |
6 | Věra Suchánková / Zdeněk Doležal | 10.06 | 66.5 |
7 | Marika Kilius / Franz Ningel | 10.01 | 68.5 |
8 | Lucille Ash / Sully Kothmann | 10.02 | 70.5 |
9 | Alice Zettel / Klaus Loichinger | 9.96 | 70.5 |
10 | Liesl Ellend / Konrad Lienert | 9.82 | 82.5 |
11 | Éva Szöllősi / Gábor Vida | 9.78 | 83 |
12 | Vivien Higson / Robert Hudson | 9.79 | 87.5 |
Judges:
Rank | Name | Points | Places |
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1 | Jean Westwood / Lawrence Demmy | 37.09 | 7 |
2 | Pamela Weight / Paul Thomas | 36.52 | 14 |
3 | Barbara Radford / Raymond Lockwood | 35.29 | 21 |
4 | Carmel Bodel / Edward Bodel | 34.23 | 28 |
5 | Joan Zamboni / Roland Junso | 34.11 | 34 |
6 | Phyllis Forney / Martin Forney | 33.23 | 43 |
7 | Fanny Besson / Jean Guhel | 50 | |
8 | Sigrid Knake / Günther Koch | 69 | |
9 | Lucia Fischer / Rudolf Zorn | 31.20 | 69 |
10 | Bona Giammona / Giancarlo Sioli | 75 | |
11 | Lindis Johnston / Jeffrey Johnston | 77 | |
12 | Catharina Odink / Jacobus Odink | 80 | |
13 | Claude Weinstein / Claude Lambert | 83 | |
14 | Edith Peikert / Hans Kutschera | 30.33 | 84 |
15 | Luise Lehner / Georg Lenitz | 28.38 | 104 |
Judges:
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