World Figure Skating Championships 1926

World Figure Skating Championships 1926
24th edition
Type:	ISU championships
Date:	February 7th - 8th (women) February 13th - 14th (men & couples) 1926
Venue:	Stockholm (women) Berlin (men & couples)
Gold medalist
Men's:	Willy Böckl (2)
Women:	Herma Szabo (5)
Couples:	Andrée Joly & Pierre Brunet
World figure skating championships
1925 ◄ 1926 ► 1927

The 24th World Figure Skating Championships took place for men and couples on February 13 and 14, 1926 in Berlin ( Germany ) and for women on February 7 and 8, 1926 in Stockholm ( Sweden ).

Herma Szabó won her fifth and final world title, replacing Lily Kronberger as the record world champion.

Results

Men's

space	athlete	country
1	Willy Böckl	Austria
2	Otto Preissecker	Austria
3	John Page	United Kingdom
4th	Werner Rittberger	German Empire
5	Josef Slíva	Czechoslovakia
6th	Ludwig Wrede	Austria
7th	Robert Van Zeebroeck	Belgium
8th	Arne Lie	Norway
9	Paul Franke	German Empire

Judges were:

• HJ Clarke United Kingdom 
• P. Engelhard German Empire 
• Walter Jakobsson Finland 
• Fritz Kachler Austria 
• René Japiot France 

Ladies

space	sportswoman	country
1	Herma Szabó	Austria
2	Sonja Henie	Norway
3	Kathleen Shaw	United Kingdom
4th	Elisabeth Böckel	German Empire
5	Solveig Johansen	Norway
6th	Hildegard Thiel	Austria

Judges were:

• Ludwig Fänner Austria 
• Hugo Metzner German Empire 
• Tore Mothander Sweden 
• Walter Jakobsson Finland 
• OR Kolderup Norway 

Couples

space	athlete	country
1	Andrée Joly / Pierre Brunet	France
2	Lilly Scholz / Otto Kaiser	Austria
3	Herma Szabó / Ludwig Wrede	Austria
4th	Gisela Hochhaltinger / Georg Pamperl	Austria
5	Sonja Henie / Arne Lie	Norway
6th	Ethel Muckelt / John Page	United Kingdom
7th	Else Hoppe / Oscar Hoppe	Czechoslovakia
8th	Ilse Kishauer / Herbert Haertel	German Empire
9	Grete Weise / Georg Velisch	German Empire
10	Margit Edlund / Anders Palm	Sweden

Judges were:

• Yngvar Bryn Norway 
• René Japiot France 
• E. Query German Empire 
• Hugo Winzer German Empire 
• Fritz Kachler Austria 
• Walter Jakobsson Finland 
• HJ Clarke United Kingdom 

Medal table

space	country				total
1	Austria	2	2	1	5
2	France	1	-	-	1
3	Norway	-	1	-	1
4th	United Kingdom	-	-	2	2

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• World figure skating championships 1922–1929 (men). Skatabase, archived from the original on December 4, 2008 ; accessed on May 22, 2018 (English). 
• World figure skating championships 1922–1929 (ladies). Skatabase, archived from the original on October 11, 2008 ; accessed on May 22, 2018 (English). 
• World figure skating championships 1922–1929 (pairs). Skatabase, archived from the original on December 4, 2008 ; accessed on May 22, 2018 (English).