World Figure Skating Championships 1948

World Figure Skating Championships 1948
39th event
Type:	ISU championships
Date:	11-15 February 1948
Venue:	Davos , Switzerland
Gold medalist
Men's:	Richard Button
Women:	Barbara Ann Scott (2)
Couples:	Micheline Lannoy & Pierre Baugniet (2)
World figure skating championships
1947 ◄ 1948 ► 1949

The 39th World Figure Skating Championships in 1948 took place from February 11th to 15th, 1948 in Davos ( Switzerland ).

Athletes from Germany and Japan were also excluded from the second tournament after World War II . With the victory of Richard Button , the first victory of an American in a world championship, a twelve-year dominance of the Americans in the men's competition began.

Results

Men's

space	athlete	country
1	Richard Button	United States
2	Hans Gerschwiler	Switzerland
3	Ede Király	Hungary
4th	John Lettengarver	United States
5	James Grogan	United States
6th	Graham Sharp	United Kingdom
7th	Helmut Seibt	Austria
8th	Hellmut May	Austria
9	Wallace Diestelmeyer	Canada
10	Vladislav Čáp	Czechoslovakia
11	Fernand Leemans	Belgium
12	Zděnek Fikar	Czechoslovakia
13	Per Cock-Clausen	Denmark
	Edi Rada (Z)	Austria

• Z = withdrawn

Judges were:

• Adolf Rosdol Austria 
• A. Voordeckers Belgium 
• Melville Rogers Canada 
• Vladimir Koudelka Czechoslovakia 
• H. Meistrup Denmark 
• HM Martineau United Kingdom 
• Marcel Vadas Hungary 
• H. Storke United States 
• E. Kirchhofer Switzerland 

Ladies

space	sportswoman	country
1	Barbara Ann Scott	Canada
2	Eva Pawlik	Austria
3	Jiřina Nekolová	Czechoslovakia
4th	Jeannette Altwegg	United Kingdom
5	Alena Vrzáňová	Czechoslovakia
6th	Yvonne Sherman	United States
7th	Martha Bachem	Austria
8th	Bridget Shirley Adams	United Kingdom
9	Andrea Kékesy	Hungary
10	Dagmar Lerchová	Czechoslovakia
11	Mária Saáry	Hungary
12	Marilyn Ruth Take	Canada
13	Suzanne Morrow	Canada
14th	Maja Hug	Switzerland
15th	Marion Davies	United Kingdom
16	Barbara Wyatt	United Kingdom
17th	Beryl Bailey	United Kingdom
18th	Jacqueline du Bief	France
19th	Jill Hood-Linzee	United Kingdom
20th	Lotti Höner	Switzerland

Judges were:

• Hans Meixner Austria 
• Melville Rogers Canada 
• K. Zemek Czechoslovakia 
• Georges Torchon France 
• Kenneth M. Beaumont United Kingdom 
• Elemér Terták Hungary 
• H. Meistrup Denmark 
• M. Bernard Fox United States 
• A. Winkler Switzerland 

Couples

space	athlete	country
1	Micheline Lannoy / Pierre Baugniet	Belgium
2	Andrea Kékesy / Ede Király	Hungary
3	Suzanne Morrow / Wallace Diestelmeyer	Canada
4th	Karol Kennedy / Peter Kennedy	United States
5	Yvonne Sherman / Robert Swenning	United States
6th	Winifred Silverthorne / Dennis Silverthorne	United Kingdom
7th	Marianna Nagy / László Nagy	Hungary
8th	Jennifer Nicks / John Nicks	United Kingdom
9	Blažena Knittlová / Karel Vosátka	Czechoslovakia
10	Luny Kuster-Unold / Hans Unold	Switzerland
11	Hertha Ratzenhofer and Emil Ratzenhofer	Austria
12	Joan Oglivie-Thompson / Robert Thompson	United Kingdom
13	Susi Giebsch / Helmut Seibt	Austria
14th	Elianne Steinemann / André Calame	Switzerland
	Denise Favart / Jacques Favart (Z)	France

• Z = withdrawn

Judges were:

• Rudolf Kaler Austria 
• A. Voordeckers Belgium 
• Melville Rogers Canada 
• Vladimir Koudelka Czechoslovakia 
• Georges Torchon France 
• Mollie Phillips United Kingdom 
• Marcel Vadas Hungary 
• Harold G. Storke United States 
• James Koch Switzerland 

Medal table

space	country				total
1	Canada	1	-	1	2
2	Belgium	1	-	-	1
	United States	1	-	-	1
4th	Hungary	-	1	1	2
5	Austria	-	1	-	1
	Switzerland	-	1	-	1
7th	Czechoslovakia	-	-	1	1

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• World figure skating championships 1947–1949 (men). Skatabase, archived from the original on October 11, 2008 ; accessed on May 23, 2018 (English). 
• World figure skating championships 1947–1949 (ladies). Skatabase, archived from the original on December 4, 2008 ; accessed on May 23, 2018 (English). 
• World figure skating championships 1947–1949 (pairs). Skatabase, archived from the original on October 11, 2008 ; accessed on May 23, 2018 (English).