1972 World Figure Skating Championships
Type:	ISU Championship
Date:	March 7 – 11
Season:	1971–72
Location:	Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Venue:	Stampede Corral
Champions
Men's singles: Ondrej Nepela
Ladies' singles: Beatrix Schuba
Pairs: Irina Rodnina / Aleksey Ulanov
Ice dance: Lyudmila Pakhomova / Aleksandr Gorshkov
Previous: 1971 World Championships
Next: 1973 World Championships

The 1972 World Figure Skating Championships were held at the Stampede Corral in Calgary, Canada from March 7 to 11. At the event, sanctioned by the International Skating Union, medals were awarded in men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dance. The ISU Representative was John R. Shoemaker (United States) and the ISU Technical Delegates were Hermann Schiechtl (West Germany) and Donald Gilchrist (Canada).

A day before the start of the competition, Irina Rodnina / Aleksey Ulanov had an accident on a lift; Rodnina was hospitalized with a concussion and an intracranial hematoma but went on to compete and win the gold medal.^[1] It was Rodnina/Ulanov's final competition together. Ulanov would team up with the silver medalist, Lyudmila Smirnova.

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Canada)

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

Results

Men

Rank	Name	Age	CF	FS	Points	Places
1	Ondrej Nepela	21	1	3	2722.8	9
2	Sergey Chetverukhin	26	2	2	2673.8	19
3	Vladimir Kovalyov	19	3	5	2607.5	34
4	John Petkevich	22	5	4	2585.5	39
5	Toller Cranston	22	9	1	2566.1	45
6	Jan Hoffmann	16	4	9	2559.7	59
7	Kenneth Shelley	20	7	6	2538.7	67
8	Gordon McKellen	18	10	8	2528.3	69
9	John Curry	22	6	7	2534.8	70
10	Sergey Volkov	22	8	10	2499.0	86
11	Jacques Mrozek	21	11	11	2448.8	100
12	Zdeněk Pazdírek	18	14	12		116
13	Didier Gailhauguet	19	12	13		116
14	Josef Schneider		13	15		128
15	Yutaka Higuchi	22	16	14		136
16	Jozef Žídek		17	16		141
17	Stefano Bargauan	18	15	17		144
18	Harald Kuhn		19	18		166
19	Pekka Leskinen	18	18	19		167
WD	Haig Oundjian	22				DNS

• Referee: Donald Gilchrist
• Assistant Referee: Sonia Bianchetti

Judges:

• Gerhardt Bubník
• Dorothy Burkholder
• Tatyana Danilenko
• Masao Hasegawa
• Franz Heinlein
• William Lewis
• Monique Petis
• Mollie Phillips
• Helga Wiecki
• János Zsigmondy (substitute)

Ladies

Rank	Name	Age	CF	FS	Points	Places
1	Beatrix Schuba	20	1	9	2778.5	13
2	Karen Magnussen	19	2	2	2745.2	16
3	Janet Lynn	18	3	1	2713.0	25
4	Zsuzsa Almássy	21	4	6	2643.3	37
5	Sonja Morgenstern	17	6	3	2581.1	52
6	Jean Scott	20	5	10	2555.1	57
7	Dorothy Hamill	15	8	5	2548.3	62
8	Suna Murray	16	7	7	2517.5	74
9	Cathy Irwin	19	9	8	2499.9	79
10	Christine Errath	15	11	4	2519.9	81
11	Ľudmila Bezáková		10	13	2426.9	102
12	Karin Iten	15	12	16	2387.8	118
13	Gerti Schanderl	15	15	11	2385.3	119
14	Cinzia Frosio		13	12	2380.1	120
15	Darya Prichun	16	14	14	2370.9	127
16	Marie-Claude Bierre		17	15	2319.9	146
17	Dianne de Leeuw	16	16	19	2296.6	151
18	Chang Myung-su	15	18	18	2221.6	169
19	Sharon Burley	15	19	21	2195.8	175
20	Shūko Takeyama		20	20	2193.3	178
21	Marina Sanaya	13	21	17	2189.3	178

• Referee: Josef Dědič
• Assistant Referee: Elemér Terták

Judges:

• Zoltán Balázs
• Jeanine Donnier-Blanc
• Milan Duchón (substitute)
• Suzanne Francis
• Ludwig Gassner
• Walburga Grimm
• Wilhelm Kahle
• Ramona McIntyre
• Giovanni de Mori
• René Schlageter

Pairs

Rank	Name	Age	SP		FS		Points	Places
1	Irina Rodnina / Aleksey Ulanov	22/24	1	106.2	1	315.6	421.8	9
2	Lyudmila Smirnova / Andrey Suraykin	22/23	2	104.4	3	312.3	416.7	21.5
3	Alicia Starbuck / Kenneth Shelley	20/20	5	99.6	2	312.6	412.2	28.5
4	Manuela Groß / Uwe Kagelmann	15/21	3	102.0	4	307.8	409.8	38
5	Almut Lehmann / Herbert Wiesinger	18/23	4	100.9	5	306.9	407.8	42
6	Irina Chernyayeva / Vasiliy Blagov	16/17	6	99.5	6	304.5	404.0	55
7	Annette Kansy / Axel Salzmann	16/21	8	98.2	7	300.9	399.1	68
8	Sandra Bezic / Val Bezic	15/19	7	98.3	8	301.2	399.5	70
9	Melissa Militano / Mark Militano	16/17	9	96.6	9	298.5	395.1	76
10	Corinna Halke / Eberhard Rausch	14/24	11	94.8	10	268.9	363.7	95
11	Mary Petrie / John Hubbell	20/23	13	92.7	11	285.0	377.7	102
12	Grażyna Osmańska / Adam Brodecki	21/22	10	96.5	12	284.1	380.6	106
13	Gabriele Cieplik / Reinhard Ketterer	/24	12	94.4	13	280.8	375.2	114
14	Barbara Brown / Douglas Berndt	18/22	14	90.9	14	278.4	369.3	123
15	Linda Connolly / Colin Taylforth	19/18	15	90.5	15	272.4	362.9	132

• Referee: Karl Enderlin
• Assistant Referee: Henry M. Beatty

Judges:

• Elsbeth Bon
• Pamela Davis
• Suzanne Francis
• Walburga Grimm
• Valentin Piseyev
• Ardelle Sanderson
• René Schlageter (substitute)
• Inkeri Soininen
• Maria Zuchowicz
• János Zsigmondy

Ice dance

Rank	Name	Age	CD		FD		Points	Places
1	Lyudmila Pakhomova / Aleksandr Gorshkov	25/25	1	251.9	1	262.7	514.6	14
2	Angelika Buck / Erich Buck	21/23	2	250.7	2	261.3	512.0	17
3	Judy Schwomeyer / James Sladky	21/25	3	248.7	3	260.0	508.7	24
4	Janet Sawbridge / Peter Dalby	24/25	4	242.0	4	255.0	495.0	38
5	Tetyana Voytyuk / Vyacheslav Zhyhalyn	20/22	5	234.9	5	250.8	485.7	46
6	Hilary Green / Glynn Watts	21/23	6	233.3	6	250.9	484.2	50
7	Anne Millier / Harvey Millier		7	221.9	7	244.9	466.8	67
8	Yelena Zharkova / Gennadiy Karponosov	18/21	8	219.1	8	242.3	461.4	75
9	Louise Lind / Barry Soper		9	217.9	9	241.0	458.9	80
10	Mary Campbell / Johnny Johns	/21	10	216.1	10	237.2	453.3	91
11	Diana Skotnická / Martin Skotnický	/25	11	212.6	11	234.8	447.4	99
12	Anne-Claude Wolfers / Roland Mars		12	209.5	13	226.7	436.2	108
13	Teresa Weyna / Piotr Bojańczyk	21/25	13	208.0	12	226.7	434.7	110
14	Sylvia Fuchs / Michael Fuchs		14	197.7	14	215.5	413.2	126
15	Astrid Kopp / Axel Kopp		15	195.3	15	208.2	403.5	135
16	Keiko Achiwa / Yasuyuki Noto		16	182.3	16	195.8	378.1	144

• Referee: Lawrence Demmy
• Assistant Referee: George J. Blundun

Judges:

• Zoltán Balázs
• Pamela Davis
• Milan Duchón
• Igor Kabanov
• Claude Lambert
• Audrey Moore
• Eugen Romminger
• Benjamin T. Wright
• Maria Zuchowicz

References

Sources

• Result list provided by the ISU
• The Calgary Gerald (Calgary, Alberta, March 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 1972)