World Figure Skating Championships 1963

World Figure Skating Championships 1963
53rd edition
Type:	ISU championships
Date:	February 28 - March 3, 1963
Venue:	Cortina d'Ampezzo , Italy
Gold medalist
Men's:	Donald McPherson
Women:	Sjoukje Dijkstra (2)
Couples:	Marika Kilius & Hans-Jürgen Bäumler
Ice dance:	Eva Romanová & Pavel Roman (2)
World figure skating championships
1962 ◄ 1963 ► 1964

The 53rd World Figure Skating Championships took place from February 28 to March 3, 1963 in Cortina d'Ampezzo , Italy .

Only one title went overseas. The relatively poor performance of the USA was due to the crash of Sabena Flight 548 near Brussels on February 15, 1961, in which the entire US figure skating elite who were on board the Boeing 707 on the way to the World Cup in Prague, died came.

Results

Men's

The last compulsory figures were run on March 1st. The freestyle took place on the same evening, although the already late start at 9:30 p.m. was delayed and lasted until dawn. In addition, it was extremely cold, so that the question was asked whether world champion McPherson was "best free skier" or "best cold-resistant participant". It also found that McPherson had been overrated. After the duty, Schnelldorfer was ahead of Divin, Calmat and McPherson.

space	athlete	country
1	Donald McPherson	Canada
2	Alain Calmat	France
3	Manfred Schnelldorfer	BR Germany
4th	Karol Divin	Czechoslovakia
5	Scott Allen	United States
6th	Peter Jonas	Austria
7th	Sepp Schönmetzler	BR Germany
8th	Donald Knight	Canada
9	Emmerich Danzer	Austria
10	Nobuo Sato	Japan
11	Monty Hoyt	United States
12	Robert Dureville	France
13	Hugo Dümler	BR Germany
14th	Jenõ Ebert	Hungary
15th	Bill Neale	Canada
16	Valery Meshkov	Soviet Union
17th	Giordano Abbondati	Italy
18th	Malcolm Cannon	United Kingdom
19th	Wouter Toledo	Netherlands

Judges were:

• E. Kucharz Austria 
• JA McKechnie Canada 
• Zdeněk Fikar Czechoslovakia 
• N. Valdes France 
• Adolf Walker BR Germany 
• Pamela Peat United Kingdom 
• Giovanni DeMori Italy 
• C. Benedict-Stieber Netherlands 
• John R. Shoemaker United States 

Ladies

After the duty ended on March 2nd, Dijkstra led in front of Heitzer, Griner and Hassler.

space	sportswoman	country
1	Sjoukje Dijkstra	Netherlands
2	Regine Heitzer	Austria
3	Nicole Hassler	France
4th	Wendy Griner	Canada
5	Petra Burka	Canada
6th	Miwa Fukuhara	Japan
7th	Inge Paul	BR Germany
8th	Jana Mrázková	Czechoslovakia
9	Helli Sengstschmid	Austria
10	Lorraine Hanlon	United States
11	Diana Clifton Peach	United Kingdom
12	Ingrid Ostler	Austria
13	Karen Howland	United States
14th	Fränzi Schmidt	Switzerland
15th	Eva Grozajová	Czechoslovakia
16	Ann Margreth Frei	Sweden
17th	Junko Ueno	Japan
18th	Sandra Brugnera	Italy
19th	Christine Haigler	United States
20th	Shirra Kenworthy	Canada
21st	Zsuzsanna Szentmiklósi	Hungary
22nd	Anne Karin Dehle	Norway
23	Tatiana Nemtsova	Soviet Union
24	Elżbieta Kościk	Poland

Judges were:

• Oskar Madl Austria 
• ERS McLauchlin Canada 
• Emil Skákala Czechoslovakia 
• Gérard Rodrigues-Hernandes France 
• Theo Klemm BR Germany 
• C. Benedict-Stieber Netherlands 
• W. Fritz Switzerland 
• LB Sanderson United States 
• Sergei Vasiliev Soviet Union 

Couples

The freestyle took place on the evening of February 28th. Since the majority of the audience came from Germany, the atmosphere in the ice rink was exuberant.

space	athlete	country
1	Marika Kilius / Hans-Jürgen Bäumler	BR Germany
2	Lyudmila Belousova / Oleg Protopopov	Soviet Union
3	Tatiana Schuk / Alexander Gavrilow	Soviet Union
4th	Gertrude Desjardins / Maurice Lafrance	Canada
5	Milada Kubiková / Jaroslav Votruba	Czechoslovakia
6th	Gerda Johner / Ruedi Johner	Switzerland
7th	Judianne Fotheringill / Jerry Fotheringill	United States
8th	Vivian Joseph / Ronald Joseph	United States
9	Patty Gustafson / Pieter Kollen	United States
10	Sonja Pfersdorf / Günther Matzdorf	BR Germany
11	Linda Ward / Neil Carpenter	Canada
12	Gunilla Lindberg / Gunnar de Sharengrad	Sweden

Judges were:

• W. Malek Austria 
• ERS McLauchlin Canada 
• Zdeněk Fikar Czechoslovakia 
• N. Valdes France 
• János Zsigmondy BR Germany 
• Elemér Terták Hungary 
• W. Fritz Switzerland 
• LB Sanderson United States 
• Sergei Vasiliev Soviet Union 

Ice dance

After four test dances Shearman / Phillips led ahead of Romanova / Roman and Doan / Ormsby.

space	athlete	country
1	Eva Romanová / Pavel Roman	Czechoslovakia
2	Linda Shearman / Michael Phillips	United Kingdom
3	Paulette Doan / Kenneth Ormsby	Canada
4th	Janet Sawbridge / David Hickinbottom	United Kingdom
5	Donna Mitchell / John Mitchell	Canada
6th	Mary Parry / Roy Mason	United Kingdom
7th	Sally Schantz / Stanley Urban	United States
8th	Lorna Dyer / John Carrell	United States
9	Györgyi Korda / Pál Vásárhelyi	Hungary
10	Carol Forrest / Kevin Lethbridge	Canada
11	Marlise Fornachon / Charly Pichard	Switzerland
12	Armelie Flichy / Pierre Brum	France
13	Helga Burkhardt / Hannes Burkhardt	BR Germany
14th	Jitka Babická / Jaromír Hollan	Czechoslovakia
15th	Christel Trebesiner / Gerald Felsinger	Austria
16	Ghislaine Houdas / Francis Gamichon	France
17th	Yvonne Littlefield / Peter Betts	United States
18th	Maria Grazia Toncelli / Vinicio Toncelli	Italy

Judges were:

• Hans Meixner Austria 
• JA McKechnie Canada 
• Emil Skákala Czechoslovakia 
• Claude Lambert France 
• H. Wollersen BR Germany 
• Mollie Phillips United Kingdom 
• Elemér Terták Hungary 
• C. Bernacchi Italy 
• John R. Shoemaker United States 

Medal table

space	country				total
1	BR Germany	1	-	1	2
	Canada	1	-	1	2
3	Netherlands	1	-	-	1
	Czechoslovakia	1	-	-	1
5	France	-	1	1	2
	Soviet Union	-	1	1	2
7th	Austria	-	1	-	1
	United Kingdom	-	1	-	1

swell

• World figure skating championships 1960–1969 (men). Skatabase, archived from the original on December 4, 2008 ; accessed on May 24, 2018 (English). 
• World figure skating championships 1960–1969 (ladies). Skatabase, archived from the original on October 11, 2008 ; accessed on May 24, 2018 (English). 
• World figure skating championships 1960–1969 (pairs). Skatabase, archived from the original on October 11, 2008 ; accessed on May 24, 2018 (English). 
• World figure skating championships 1960–1969 (dance). Skatabase, archived from the original on August 28, 2008 ; accessed on May 24, 2018 (English). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ «Europe at the top in figure skating» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 5, 1963, p. 12 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
2. ^ "Cortina: Drama at Dawn" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 3, 1963, p. 16 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
3. ↑ «We took our last chance» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 2, 1963, p. 12 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).