1951 World Figure Skating Championships

1951 World Figure Skating Championships
Type:	ISU Championship
Date:	February 23 – 25
Season:	1951
Location:	Milan, Italy
Venue:	Palazzo del Ghiaccio
Champions
Men's singles: Richard Button
Ladies' singles: Jeannette Altwegg
Pairs: 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 compete at Worlds.^[1]

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Italy)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	1	2	1	4
2	Great Britain	1	0	1	2
3	West Germany	1	0	0	1
4	France	0	1	0	1
5	Austria	0	0	1	1
Totals (5 entries)		3	3	3	9

Results

Men

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

Judges:

• Donald Gilchrist
• Eugen Kirchhofer
• Mollie Phillips
• Walter Powell
• Adolf Rosdol
• W. Schilling
• Mario Verdi

Ladies

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

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

Judges:

• Pamela Davis
• Emile Finsterwald
• Donald Gilchrist
• Oskar Madl
• O. Maly
• Harold G. Storke
• Georges Torchon

Pairs

Rank	Name	Points	Places
1	Ria Baran / Paul Falk	10.89	10
2	Karol Kennedy / Peter Kennedy	10.85	11.5
3	Jennifer Nicks / John Nicks	10.51	20.5
4	Eliane Steinemann / André Calame	10.07	35
5	Inge Minor / Hermann Braun	9.92	40
6	Marlies Schrör / Hans Schwarz	9.81	45
7	Silvia Grandjean / Michel Grandjean	9.48	50
8	Janet Gerhauser / John Nightingale	9.46	53
9	Silva Palme / Marko Lajović	9.19	65
10	Elly Stärck / Harry Gareis	8.96	65
11	Anne Holt / Austin Holt	8.99	68
12	Elizabeth Williams / John McCann	7.94	83

Judges:

• Bruno Bonfiglio
• Donald Gilchrist
• Eugen Kirchhofer
• Hans Meixner
• Mollie Phillips
• W. Schilling
• Harold G. Storke

Ice Dance (unofficial)

Rank	Name	Places
1	Jean Westwood / Lawrence Demmy
2	Joan Dewhirst / John Slater
3	Lois Waring / Michael McGean

^[2]

References

1. Hines, James R. (2011). Historical Dictionary of Figure Skating. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press. p. 32. ISBN 978-0-8108-6859-5.
2. "On to Oslo (1949-1952)".

Sources

• Result list provided by the ISU