European Figure Skating Championships 1939

The 38th European Figure Skating Championships took place in 1939 - one time - at three different venues. The men's championship was held from January 27th to 29th in Davos , the women's championship from January 23rd to 24th in London and the discipline for couples on February 4th in Zakopane, Poland.

Result

Men's

space	athlete	country
1	Graham Sharp	United Kingdom
2	Freddie Tomlins	United Kingdom
3	Horst Faber	German Empire
4th	Edi Rada 1	German Empire
5	Hans Gerschwiler	Switzerland
6th	Bo Mothander	Sweden
7th	Emil Ratzenhofer 1st	German Empire
8th	Franz Loichinger	German Empire
9	Hellmut May 1	German Empire
10	Per Cock-Clausen	Denmark
11	Tony Austin	United Kingdom
12	Ian Currie	United Kingdom

Ladies

space	sportswoman	country
1	Cecilia Colledge	United Kingdom
2	Megan Taylor	United Kingdom
3	Daphne Walker	United Kingdom
4th	Hanne Niernberger 1	German Empire
5	Emmy Putzinger 1	German Empire
6th	Angela Other	Switzerland
7th	Eva Nyklová	Czechoslovakia
8th	Gladys Jagger	United Kingdom
9	Martha Musilek 1	German Empire
10	Anne Marie Saether	Norway
11	Britta Råhlén	Sweden
12	Eva Katzová	Czechoslovakia

Couples

space	athlete	country
1	Maxi Herber / Ernst Baier	German Empire
2	Ilse Pausin 1 / Erik Pausin 1	German Empire
3	Inge Koch / Günther Noack	German Empire
4th	Erika Bass / Bela Barcza	Hungary
5	Stephanie Kalusz / Erwin Kalusz	Poland
6th	Gisa Graetz / Otto Weiss	German Empire
7th	Silva Palme / Paul Schwab	Yugoslavia
8th	Trude Heuchert / Guber Heuchert	Romania
9	Ileana Moldovan / Alfred Eisenbeisser	Romania

¹ athletes from Austria who, after the Anschluss (March 1938), appeared at the European Championship in 1939 for the German Reich.

The triple German success in the couples category in 1939 is the only instance so far where athletes from a united Germany took all three places on the podium at a European figure skating championship. Also in 1961 , German figure skaters won all three medals (again in the pairs competition), but at that time gold and silver went to the Federal Republic, bronze to the GDR.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ European Skating Championships At Earls Court 1939 , video and brief information about the women's event in London, in the historical film archive of the British Pathé (www.britishpathe.com), accessed on November 21, 2019
2. ↑ Timeline of the history of British figure skating , with brief information about the Women's European Championship 1939 in London (www.iceskating.org.uk), accessed on November 21, 2019
3. ↑ The 1939 European Figure Skating Championships , article on all three disciplines of the 1939 European Championship, in the figure skating archive Skate Guard (skateguard1.blogspot.com), accessed on November 21, 2019
4. ^ Figure Skating in the Formative Years: Singles, Pairs, and the Expanding Role of Women , James R. Hines, University of Illinois Press, 2015, p. 150, ISBN 978-0-252-03906-5 , accessed November 22 2019

swell

• European figure skating championships 1930-1939 (men). (No longer available online.) Skatabase, archived from the original on October 11, 2008 ; accessed on May 18, 2018 (English). 
• European figure skating championships 1930–1939 (ladies). (No longer available online.) Skatabase, archived from the original on December 4, 2008 ; accessed on May 18, 2018 (English). 
• European figure skating championships 1930–1939 (pairs). (No longer available online.) Skatabase, archived from the original on August 28, 2008 ; accessed on May 18, 2018 (English).