1938 World Figure Skating Championships
Type:ISU Championship
Date:February 4-5 (ladies)
February 18-19 (men and pairs)
Season:1938
Location:Sweden Stockholm, Sweden (ladies)
Nazi Germany Berlin, Germany (men and pairs)
Champions
Men's singles:
Austria Felix Kaspar
Ladies' singles:
United Kingdom Megan Taylor
Pairs:
Nazi Germany Maxi Herber / Ernst Baier
Previous:
1937 World Championships
Next:
1939 World Championships

The World Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union in which figure skaters compete for the title of World Champion.

Men's competitions took place on February 18 to 19 in Berlin, Germany and ladies' competitions took place on February 4 to 5 in Stockholm, Sweden. Pairs' competition took place on February 18 in Berlin, Germany.

Medal table

  *   Host nations (Sweden, Germany)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Great Britain1203
2 Austria1113
3 Germany*1012
4 United States0011
Totals (4 entries)3339

Results

Men

Graham Sharp won the CF by 231.4 ahead of Felix Kaspar who gained 229.7, but the FS won by Kaspar with 164.6 ahead of Sharp who gained 159.8. With this in the overall points Felix Kaspar finished before Graham Sharp with 3.1 margin.

Rank Name Age CF FS Points Places
1 Austria Felix Kaspar2321394.39
2 United Kingdom Graham Sharp2012391.212
3 Austria Herbert Alward3363.632
4 Nazi Germany Horst Faber164368.133
5 United Kingdom Freddie Tomlins167366.435
6 Belgium Robert van Zeebroeck289366.037
7 Austria Edi Rada156359.347
8 Nazi Germany Günther Lorenz228357.747
9 Kingdom of Hungary Elemer Tertak19565
10 Denmark Per Cock-Clausen231068
  • Referee: Nazi Germany Kurt Dannenberg

Judges:

Ladies

Rank Name Places
1 United Kingdom Megan Taylor7
2 United Kingdom Cecilia Colledge8
3 United States Hedy Stenuf21
4 United Kingdom Gladys Jagger22
5 Nazi Germany Lydia Veicht23
6 Austria Hanne Niernberger29
7 United Kingdom Daphne Walker30
8 Norway Gerd Helland-Bjørnstad43
9 Sweden Gunnel Ericson44
10 Sweden Britta Råhlén50
11 Norway Anne-Marie Sæther53
WD Austria Emmy PutzingerDNS

Judges:

Pairs

Rank Name Places
1 Nazi Germany Maxi Herber / Ernst Baier12
2 Austria Ilse Pausin / Erich Pausin16
3 Nazi Germany Inge Koch / Günther Noack30
4 United Kingdom Violet Cliff / Leslie Cliff37
5 Kingdom of Hungary Piroska Szekrényessy / Attila Szekrényessy44
6 Switzerland Pierette Dubois / Paul Dubois67
7 Nazi Germany Elisabeth Roth / Bruno Walter72.5
8 Nazi Germany Gisela Grätz / Otto Weiß79
9 Austria Hildegard Faulhaber / Karl Eigel79.5
10 Kingdom of Italy Anna Cattaneo / Ercole Cattaneo82.5
11 Austria Elisabeth Kianek / Adolf Rosdol88
12 Poland Stephanie Kalusz / Erwin Kalusz94.5
13 Czechoslovakia A. Wächter / Fritz Lesk117

Judges:

Sources

  • Result list provided by the ISU
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