1962 World Figure Skating Championships
Type:	ISU Championship
Date:	March 14 – 17
Season:	1962
Location:	Prague, Czechoslovakia
Champions
Men's singles: Donald Jackson
Ladies' singles: Sjoukje Dijkstra
Pairs: Maria Jelinek / Otto Jelinek
Ice dance: Eva Romanová / Pavel Roman
Previous: 1960 World Championships
Next: 1963 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.

The 1962 competitions for men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dance took place from March 14 to 17 in Prague, Czechoslovakia. The Figure Skating World Championships in Prague were originally planned for 1961, but were cancelled due to the crash of Sabena Flight 548, which killed everyone on board the plane, including the entire US figure skating team.

East Germany participated in the World Figure Skating Championships for the first time.

This competition is best remembered for Donald Jackson's come-from-behind victory in the men's event with a tour-de-force free skating that included the first triple lutz jump ever landed in competition as well as a triple salchow jump and 20 other double and single jumps, including jumps in opposite directions and jumps with variations in arm position or delayed rotation. Jackson received 7 perfect 6.0 scores for this performance.^[1]

Prague hometown favorites Eva Romanová / Pavel Roman won the dance event - breaking the British domination of this discipline - and Canadians Maria Jelinek / Otto Jelinek were the winners in the pairs. As children, the Jelineks had defected from Czechoslovakia with their parents after the post-war Communist takeover, and there were significant fears for their safety in returning to their home country. The "official" story that had been circulated at the time of the previous year's planned competition was that they were merely of Czech descent.^[2] The Jelineks' chief competitors, 1960 runners-up Marika Kilius / Hans-Jürgen Bäumler, were forced to withdraw from the competition after colliding on side-by-side jumps during their program,^[3] and the silver medal was won by Lyudmila Belousova / Oleg Protopopov.

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Czechoslovakia)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Canada	2	1	1	4
2	Czechoslovakia*	1	1	0	2
3	Netherlands	1	0	0	1
4	France	0	1	1	2
5	Soviet Union	0	1	0	1
6	Austria	0	0	1	1
	West Germany	0	0	1	1
Totals (7 entries)		4	4	4	12

Results

Men

Rank	Name	Points	Places
1	Donald Jackson	2277.1	13
2	Karol Divín	2255.9	17
3	Alain Calmat	2200.7	25
4	Donald McPherson	2172.3	37
5	Manfred Schnelldorfer	2094.0	54
6	Monty Hoyt	2059.1	59
7	Emmerich Danzer	2033.8	68
8	Scott Allen	2002.8	81
9	Peter Jonas	2005.5	82
10	Nobuo Satō	1984.7	92
11	Bodo Bockenauer		97
12	Robin Jones		101
13	Sepp Schönmetzler		109
14	Valeriy Meshkov	1895.7	117
15	Per Kjølberg		137
16	Károly Újlaky	1832.4	142
17	Robert Dureville		149
18	Alain Trouillet		159

Judges:

• Ernst K. Bauch
• Pamela Davis
• Jeanine Donnier-Blanc
• Milan Duchón
• Georgiy Felitsyn
• Norman V. S. Gregory
• A. Koutny
• Adolf Walker
• Franz Wojtanowskyj

Ladies

Rank	Name	Points	Places
1	Sjoukje Dijkstra	2350.0	9
2	Wendy Griner	2273.2	21
3	Regine Heitzer	2218.3	39
4	Petra Burka	2219.7	42
5	Barbara Roles	2200.9	52
6	Nicole Hassler	2172.0	64
7	Jana Mrázková	2151.8	71
8	Karin Frohner	2144.6	79
9	Miwa Fukuhara	2137.0	81
10	Lorraine Hanlon	2103.0	98
11	Jacqueline Harbord		101
12	Helli Sengstschmid		101
13	Eva Grožajová		105
14	Franziska Schmidt		108
15	Karin Gude		122
16	Victoria Fisher		148
17	Ann-Margreth Frei		159
18	Sandra Brugnera		161
19	Helga Zöllner	1968.7	166
20	Tatyana Nemtsova	1952.2	174
21	Gabriele Seyfert		178

Judges:

• Ernst K. Bauch
• Jeanine Donnier-Blanc
• M. Drake
• H. Dudová
• Paul Engelfriet
• Martin Felsenreich
• A. Koutny
• Melville Rogers
• Adolf Walker

Pairs

Rank	Name	Points	Places
1	Maria Jelinek / Otto Jelinek	102.2	15
2	Lyudmila Belousova / Oleg Protopopov	102.1	16.5
3	Margret Göbl / Franz Ningel	100.1	25.5
4	Debbi Wilkes / Guy Revell	93.3	45
5	Milada Kubíková / Jaroslav Votruba	95.1	52.5
6	Gertrude Desjardins / Maurice Lafrance	92.3	59.5
7	Gerda Johner / Rüdi Johner	91.0	63.5
8	Dorothyann Nelson / Pieter Kollen	90.2	70.5
9	Irene Müller / Hans-Georg Dallmer	89.0	73.5
10	Judianne Fotheringill / Jerry Fotheringill	87.4	73.5
11	Valerie Hunt / Peter Burrows		81.5
12	Diana Hinko / Bernhard Henhappel		107.5
13	Mieko Ōiwa / Yutaka Dōke		113
WD	Marika Kilius / Hans-Jürgen Bäumler		DNF

Judges:

• Ernst K. Bauch
• Jean Creux
• Pamela Davis
• M. Drake
• Hans Meixner
• Melville Rogers
• Vera Spurná
• Tatyana Tolmachova
• Adolf Walker

Ice dance

Rank	Name	Points	Places
1	Eva Romanová / Pavel Roman	318.5	15
2	Christiane Guhel / Jean Guhel	315.8	26
3	Virginia Thompson / William McLachlan	316.8	23
4	Linda Shearman / Michael Phillips	310.2	42
5	Paulette Doan / Kenneth Ormsby	311.0	45
6	Donna Mitchell / John Mitchell	306.4	55.5
7	Dorothyann Nelson / Pieter Kollen	306.6	57
8	Yvonne Littlefield / Peter Betts	303.0	64.5
9	Mary Parry / Roy Mason	297.2	77
10	Györgyi Korda / Pál Vásárhelyi	281.3	99
11	Helga Burkhardt / Hannes Burkhardt		108
12	Olga Gilardi / Germano Ceccattini		114
13	Marlyse Fornachon / Charly Pichard		116
14	Armelle Flichy / Pierre Brun		119
15	Christel Trebesiner / Georg Felsinger		131
16	Gabriele Rauch / Rudi Matysik		142
17	Keiko Kaneko / Mikio Takeuchi		143

Judges:

• Pamela Davis
• M. Drake
• Norman V. S. Gregory
• Ferenc Kertész
• Eugen Kirchhofer
• L. Lauret
• Hans Meixner
• Emil Skákala
• Hermann Wollersen

References

Sources

• Result List provided by the ISU