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1956 World Figure Skating Championships

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Type:
  
ISU Championship

Season:
  
1956

Date:
  
February 16 – 19

Location:
  
Garmisch-Partenkirchen, West Germany

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 1956 competitions for men, ladies, pair skating, and ice dancing took place from February 16 to 19 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, West Germany.

Men

Judges:

  • S. R. Croll  Australia
  • Ralph S. McCreath  Canada
  • K. Beyer  West Germany
  • Mollie Phillips  United Kingdom
  • Gérard Rodrigues-Henriques  France
  • H. Deistler  Austria
  • E. Finsterwald   Switzerland
  • B. Srbová  Czechoslovakia
  • H. K. Kelley  United States

    • Ladies

    Judges:

  • Ralph S. McCreath  Canada
  • P. Gross  West Germany
  • Pamela Davis  United Kingdom
  • Gérard Rodrigues-Henriques  France
  • Ercole Cattaneo  Italy
  • E. Labin  Austria
  • E. Finsterwald   Switzerland
  • B. Srbová  Czechoslovakia
  • O. Dallmayr  United States

    • Pairs

    Judges:

  • S. R. Croll  Australia
  • Ralph S. McCreath  Canada
  • K. Beyer  West Germany
  • P. L. Barrajo  United Kingdom
  • Ercole Cattaneo  Italy
  • F. Wojtanowskyj  Austria
  • E. Finsterwald   Switzerland
  • B. Srbová  Czechoslovakia
  • O. Dallmayr  United States

    • Ice dancing

    Judges:

  • Hermann Schiechtl  West Germany
  • D. Ward  United Kingdom
  • Henri Meudec  France
  • P. Farinet  Italy
  • F. Wojtanowskyj  Austria
  • A. Jobin   Switzerland
  • H. Kendall Kelley  United States

    • References

    1956 World Figure Skating Championships Wikipedia
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