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1949 World Figure Skating Championships

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Type:
  
ISU Championship

Season:
  
1949

Date:
  
February 16 – 18

Location:
  

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 1949 championships took place from February 16 to 18 in Paris, France. At the men´s event, the favorite, Dick Button won. At the women´s event, however, the favorite, Eva Pawlik of Austria, who had been the Olympic runner-up behind Barbara Ann Scott one year before and who had just won the European title in 1949, dropped out because of a broken boot heel just before the free program. So the European Vice-Champion, Alena Vrzáňová of Czechoslovakia, could seize her chance to win. She became the first woman to perform a double lutz.

Men

Judges:

  • E. Kucharz  Austria
  • H. Meistrup  Denmark
  • Ferenc Kertesz  Hungary
  • Mario Verdi  Italy
  • Harold G. Storke  United States
  • Ladies

    Remark: * better placed due to the majority of the better placings

    Judges:

  • Adolf Rosdol  Austria
  • Georges Torchon  France
  • Kenneth Beaumont  United Kingdom
  • Ferenc Kertesz  Hungary
  • Josef Vosolsobe  Czechoslovakia
  • Harold G. Storke  United States
  • Dr. J. Koch   Switzerland
  • Pairs

    Remark: * better placed due to the majority of the better placings

    Judges:

  • Adolf Rosdol  Austria
  • Georges Torchon  France
  • Mollie Phillips  United Kingdom
  • Ferenc Kertesz  Hungary
  • E. Finsterwald   Switzerland
  • Josef Vosolsobe  Czechoslovakia
  • Harold G. Storke  United States
  • References

    1949 World Figure Skating Championships Wikipedia


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