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1949 World Figure Skating Championships

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1949 World Figure Skating Championships
Type:ISU Championship
Date:16 – 18 February 1949
Season:1949
Location:France Paris, France
Champions
Men's singles:
United States Dick Button
Ladies' singles:
Czechoslovakia Alena Vrzáňová
Pairs:
Hungary Andrea Kékesy / Ede Király
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The World Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union in which amateur figure skaters compete for the title of World Champion.

The 1949 championships took place from 16 to 18 February 1949 in Paris, France. At the men's event, the favorite, Dick Button won. At the women's event, however, the favorite, Eva Pawlik of Austria, who had been the Olympic runner-up behind Barbara Ann Scott one year before and who had just won the European title in 1949, dropped out because of a broken boot heel just before the free program.[1][2][3][4] which provided Alena Vrzáňová of Czechoslovakia with the opportunity to win the gold medal. She became the first woman to perform a double lutz.[5]

Medal table

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  *   Host nation (France)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 United States1214
2 Hungary1102
3 Czechoslovakia1001
4 Austria0011
 Great Britain0011
Totals (5 entries)3339

Results

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Men

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Rank Name Places
1 United States Dick Button 5
2 Hungary Ede Király 12
3 Austria Edi Rada 13
4 United States James Grogan 23
5 Austria Helmut Seibt 26
6 United States Hayes Alan Jenkins 29
7 United States Austin Holt 34
8 Italy Carlo Fassi 38
9 Denmark Per Cock-Clausen 45
10 France Jean Vives 50

Judges:

  • Hungary Ferenc Kertész
  • Austria Edwin Kucharz
  • Denmark Harry Meistrup
  • United States Harold G. Storke
  • Italy Mario Verdi

Ladies

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Rank Name Places
1 Czechoslovakia Alena Vrzáňová 7
2 United States Yvonne Sherman 17
3 United Kingdom Jeannette Altwegg 18
4 Czechoslovakia Jiřina Nekolová 44.5
5 United Kingdom Bridget Adams 46
6 United States Andra McLaughlin 48
7 United States Virginia Baxter 53
8 Czechoslovakia Dagmar Lerchová 55
9 France Jacqueline du Bief 67
10 United Kingdom Barbara Wyatt 68.5
11 United States Helen Uhl 71
12 United Kingdom Valda Osborn 73
13 United Kingdom Beryl Bailey 82
14 Austria Lilly Fuchs 85
15 France Liliane Madaule 105
WD Austria Eva Pawlik DNS
WD United Kingdom Joan Lister DNS

Judges:

Pairs

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Rank Name Places
1 Hungary Andrea Kékesy / Ede Király 7
2 United States Karol Kennedy / Peter Kennedy 14.5
3 United States Ann Davies / Carleton Hoffner 31.5
4 Hungary Marianna Nagy / László Nagy 33
5 Austria Herta Ratzenhofer / Emil Ratzenhofer 35.5*
6 United Kingdom Jennifer Nicks / John Nicks 35.5
7 Czechoslovakia Běla Zachova / Jaroslav Zach 49.5
8 Switzerland Eliane Steinemann / André Calame 56.5
9 Austria Elly Stärck / Harry Gareis 56.5*
10 France Denise Favart / Jacques Favart 63
11 Belgium Suzanne Gheldorf / Jacques Rénard 75
12 United Kingdom Pamela Davis / Peter Scholes 78.5

*Better placed due to the majority of the better places

Judges:

References

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  1. ^ Figure skating: "Favored to win, Eva Pawlik was forced to withdraw", in: Life Magazine, 14.3.1949
  2. ^ Susan D. Russell, "Eva Pawlik and Rudi Seeliger", In: International Figure Skating Magazine, Jan/Feb 2008
  3. ^ Matthias Hampe, The genesis of figure skating. Doctoral thesis at the Potsdam University 2010, page 218
  4. ^ Kelli Lawrence, Skating On Air. McFarland & Company. Jefferson (North Carolina) and London 2011. Chapter "Eva Pawlik - more than an overseas footnote", page 22. ISBN 978-0-7864-4608-7
  5. ^ Elliott, Helene (13 March 2009). "Brian Orser heads list of World Figure Skating Hall of Fame inductees". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 8 November 2011.

Sources

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  • Result list provided by the ISU