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1939 World Figure Skating Championships

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Type:
  
ISU Championship

Season:
  
1939

Location:
  
Budapest, Hungary (men and pairs)Prague, Czechoslovakia (ladies)

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.

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The 1939 men and pairs competitions took place from February 17th to 19th in Budapest, Hungary. The 1939 ladies competitions took place from February 11th to 12th in Prague, Czechoslovakia.

These World Figure Skating Championships were the last before World War II. The Austrian skaters Edi Rada, Emmy Puzinger, Anita Wägeler, Ilse Pausin / Erich Pausin, and the judge Dr. H. Deistler represented Germany. The former Austrian skater Herbert Alward represented Hungary.

Men

Judges:

  • Herbert J. Clarke  United Kingdom
  • J. Kowalski  Poland
  • Fritz Schober  Germany
  • Andor Szende  Hungary
  • A. Winkler   Switzerland

    • Ladies

    Judges:

  • Herbert J. Clarke  United Kingdom
  • H. Deistler  Germany
  • A. Huber   Switzerland
  • J. Hainz  Czechoslovakia
  • Charles Sabouret  France

    • Pairs

    Judges:

  • E. Bedetto  Yugoslavia
  • J. Kowalski  Poland
  • Ethel Muckelt  United Kingdom
  • P. Weiss  Germany
  • A. Winkler   Switzerland
  • C. Witt  Netherlands
  • O. Zöllner  Hungary

    • References

    1939 World Figure Skating Championships Wikipedia
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