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1960 World Figure Skating Championships

1960 World Figure Skating Championships

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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.

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Canada)

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Results

Men

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Ladies

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Judges:

  • Netherlands Charlotte Benedict-Stieber
  • United Kingdom Pamela Davis
  • Austria Martin Felsenreich
  • West Germany Theo Klemm
  • Canada William Lewis
  • Italy Giovanni de Mori
  • France Gérard Rodrigues-Henriques
  • Czechoslovakia Emil Skákala
  • United States Harold G. Storke

Pairs

Judges:

  • Netherlands Charlotte Benedict-Stieber
  • United Kingdom Pamela Davis
  • Switzerland Emile Finsterwald
  • West Germany Theo Klemm
  • Canada William Lewis
  • Italy Giovanni de Mori
  • Czechoslovakia Emil Skákala
  • United States Harold G. Storke
  • Austria Franz Wojtanowskyj

Ice dance

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Judges:

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

References

  1. Died February 15, 1961, in the crash of Sabena Flight 548

Sources

  • Result List provided by the ISU

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