World Figure Skating Championships 1929

World Figure Skating Championships 1929
27th event
Type:	ISU championships
Date:	February 2 - 3 (women & couples) March 4 - 5 (men) 1929
Venue:	Budapest (women & couples) London (men)
Gold medalist
Men's:	Gillis Grafström (3)
Women:	Sonja Henie (3)
Couples:	Lilly Scholz & Otto Kaiser
World figure skating championships
1928 ◄ 1929 ► 1930

The 27th World Figure Skating Championships were held for women and couples on February 2 and 3, 1929 in Budapest ( Hungary ) and for men on March 4 and 5, 1929 in London ( United Kingdom ).

The three-time Olympic champion Gillis Grafström won his third and final world title.

Results

Men's

space	athlete	country
1	Gillis Grafström	Sweden
2	Karl Schäfer	Austria
3	Ludwig Wrede	Austria
4th	John Page	United Kingdom
5	Hugo Distler	Austria
6th	Marcus Nikkanen	Finland
7th	Ian Bowhill	United Kingdom

Judges were:

• Eduard Engelmann Austria 
• L. Liebermann Switzerland 
• André G. Poplimont Belgium 
• Ulrich Salchow Sweden 
• VC Wilson United Kingdom 

Ladies

1929 Women's World Championships (from left):
- Melitta Brunner (3)
- Grete Kubitschek (5)
- Sonja Henie (1)
- Fritzi Burger (2)
- Ilse Hornung (4).

space	sportswoman	country
1	Sonja Henie	Norway
2	Fritzi Burger	Austria
3	Melitta Brunner	Austria
4th	Use Hornung	Austria
5	Grete Kubitschek	Austria
6th	Yvonne de Ligne-Geurts	Belgium

Judges were:

• HJ Clarke United Kingdom 
• Walter Jakobsson Finland 
• B. Björjeson Norway 
• Fernand de Montigny Belgium 
• Eduard Engelmann Austria 

Couples

space	athlete	country
1	Lilly Scholz / Otto Kaiser	Austria
2	Melitta Brunner / Ludwig Wrede	Austria
3	Olga Orgonista / Sándor Szalay	Hungary
4th	Gisela Hochhaltinger / Otto Preissecker	Austria
5	Emília Rotter / László Szollás	Hungary
6th	Else Hoppe / Oscar Hoppe	Czechoslovakia
7th	Maria Schwendtbauer / Gustav Aichinger	German Empire

Judges were:

• Ludowika Jakobsson Finland 
• CJ Clarke United Kingdom 
• B. Björjeson Norway 
• Otto Bohatsch Austria 
• Theodor Meszléri Hungary 

Medal table

space	country				total
1	Austria	1	3	2	6th
2	Norway	1	-	-	1
	Sweden	1	-	-	1
4th	Hungary	-	-	1	1

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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).