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1960 World Figure Skating Championships

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Type:
  
ISU Championship

Season:
  
1960

Date:
  
March 1 – 5

Location:
  
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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 1960 competitions for men, ladies, pair skating, and ice dancing took place from March 1 to 5 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It was the first time that the participants per country in each category was limited to three. This rule is kept since.

Men

Judges:

  • F. Wojtanowskyj  Austria
  • E. Lewis  Canada
  • Gérard Rodrigues-Henriques  France
  • Adolf Walker  West Germany
  • G. S. Yates  United Kingdom
  • E. Finsterwald   Switzerland
  • H. G. Storke  United States

    • Ladies

    Judges:

  • Martin Felsenreich  Austria
  • W. E. Lewis  Canada
  • Emil Skákala  Czechoslovakia
  • Gérard Rodrigues-Henriques  France
  • Theo Klemm  West Germany
  • Pamela Davis  United Kingdom
  • G. De Mori  Italy
  • L. Benedict-Stieber  Netherlands
  • H. G. Storke  United States

    • Pairs

    Judges:

  • F. Wojtanowskyj  Austria
  • W. E. Lewis Canada
  • Emil Skákala  Czechoslovakia
  • Theo Klemm  West Germany
  • Pamela Davis  United Kingdom
  • G. De Mori  Italy
  • L. Benedict-Stieber  Netherlands
  • E. Finsterwald   Switzerland
  • H. G. Storke  United States

    • Ice dancing

    Judges:

  • A. McKechnie  Canada
  • Emil Skákala  Czechoslovakia
  • J. Meudec  France
  • Hermann Schiechtl  West Germany
  • L. C. Seagrave  United Kingdom
  • E. Finsterwald   Switzerland
  • J. R. Shoemaker  United States

    • References

    1960 World Figure Skating Championships Wikipedia
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