1951 World Figure Skating Championships

1951 World Figure Skating Championships
Type:	ISU Championship
Date:	February 23 – 25
Season:	1951
Location:	Milan, Italy
Champions
Men's singles: Richard Button
Ladies' singles: Jeannette Altwegg
Pair skating: Ria Baran / Paul Falk
Previous: 1950 World Championships
Next: 1952 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 1951 championships took place on February 23–25 in Milan, Italy. It was the first year after World War II that athletes from Germany and Japan were allowed to participate in international sport competition as this World Figure Skating Championships.

Results

Men

Rank	Name	Nation	Figures	Free	Total	Placings
1	Dick Button	United States	104.38	79.33	183.71	7
2	James Grogan	United States	93.11	77.58	170.69	17
3	Helmut Seibt	Austria	94.08	74.78	168.86	22
4	Hayes Alan Jenkins	United States	90.80	77.35	168.15	25
5	Dudley Richards	United States	85.63	70.93	156.56	38
6	Carlo Fassi	Italy	84.45	72.22	156.67	41
7	Don Laws	United States	81.92	68.60	150.52	48
8	Michael Carrington	United Kingdom	83.88	64.05	147.93	54
9	William Lewis	Canada	76.63	56.35	132.98	67
10	Freimut Stein	West Germany	74.00	58.10	132.10	69
11	Ryusuke Arisaka	Japan	73.30	56.10	129.40	74

Judges:

• Donald H. Gilchrist  Canada
• Eugen Kirchhofer   Switzerland
• Mollie Phillips  United Kingdom
• Walter S. Powell  United States
• Adolf Rosdol  Austria
• W. Schilling  West Germany
• Mario Verdi  Italy

Ladies

Rank	Name	Nation	Figures	Free	Total	Placings
1	Jeannette Altwegg	United Kingdom	114.73	77.99	192.72	8
2	Jacqueline du Bief	France	106.67	82.00	188.67	14
3	Sonya Klopfer	United States	104.90	80.79	185.69	23
4	Suzanne Morrow	Canada	105.67	78.96	184.63	29
5	Barbara Wyatt	United Kingdom	104.67	74.58	179.25	42
6	Tenley Albright	United States	99.25	79.81	179.06	43
7	Andra McLauchlin	United States	100.43	77.87	178.30	47
8	Margaret Anne Graham	United States	100.10	76.89	176.99	53
9	Valda Osborn	United Kingdom	98.03	76.41	174.44	56
10	Gundi Busch	West Germany	88.67	76.28	164.95	83
11	Frances Dorsey	United States	91.70	73.12	164.82	85
12	Helga Dudzinski	West Germany	87.62	75.31	162.93	*89
13	Elizabeth Hiscock	Canada	91.88	70.93	162.81	*89
14	Erika Kraft	West Germany	88.63	74.70	163.33	87
15	Susi Wirz	Switzerland	91.47	69.59	161.06	94
16	Lotte Schwenk	Austria	84.82	66.92	151.74	116
17	Yolande Jobin	Switzerland	85.88	64.00	149.88	118
18	Ghislaine Kopf	Switzerland	85.70	59.98	145.68	129
19	Yvonne Sugden	United Kingdom	80.30	65.21	145.51	131
20	Inge Jell	West Germany	74.85	62.05	136.90	141
21	Etsuko Inada	Japan	81.29	54.02	135.31	144
22	Alida Elisabeth Stoppelman	Netherlands	77.56	53.70	131.26	150
23	Grete Dunst	Austria	70.45	47.33	117.78	161

Remark: * better placed due to the majority of the better placings

Judges:

• Pamela Davis  United Kingdom
• Emile Finsterwald   Switzerland
• Donald H. Gilchrist  Canada
• Oscar Madl  Austria
• O. Maly  West Germany
• Harold G. Storke  United States
• Georges Torchon  France

Pairs

Rank	Name	Nation	Total	Placings
1	Ria Baran / Paul Falk	West Germany	10.89	10
2	Karol Kennedy / Peter Kennedy	United States	10.85	11.5
3	Jennifer Nicks / John Nicks	United Kingdom	10.51	20.5
4	Elianne Steineman / André Calamé	Switzerland	10.07	35
5	Inge Minor / Hermann Braun	West Germany	9.92	40
6	Marlies Schrör / Hans Schwarz	West Germany	9.81	45
7	Silvia Grandjean / Michel Grandjean	Switzerland	9.48	50
8	Janet Gerhauser / John Nightingale	United States	9.46	53
9	Silva Palme / Marco Lajovic	Yugoslavia	9.19	65
10	Elly Stärck / Harry Gareis	Austria	8.96	65
11	Anne Holt / Austin Holt	United States	8.99	68
12	Elizabeth Williams / John McCann	United Kingdom	7.94	83

Judges:

• Bruno Bonfiglio  Italy
• Donald H. Gilchrist  Canada
• Eugen Kirchhofer   Switzerland
• Hans Meixner  Austria
• Mollie Phillips  United Kingdom
• W. Schilling  West Germany
• Harold G. Storke  United States

Sources

• Result list provided by the ISU