# 1969 World Figure Skating Championships

The 1969 World Figure Skating Championships were held in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA from February 25 to March 2. At the event, sanctioned by the International Skating Union, medals were awarded in men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dance.

## Medal table

* Host nation (United States)
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Soviet Union | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 2 | United States* | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 3 | East Germany | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 | Great Britain | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | Austria | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | Czechoslovakia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | France | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 7 | Hungary | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (8 entries) | Totals (8 entries) | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 |

## Results
### Men

| Rank | Name | CP | FP | Points | Places |
| 1 | Timothy Wood | 1 | 1 | 2894.5 | 9 |
| 2 | Ondrej Nepela | 2 | 6 | 2703.3 | 22 |
| 3 | Patrick Péra | 3 | 5 | 2684.6 | 27 |
| 4 | Gary Visconti | 4 | 4 | 2622.4 | 41 |
| 5 | John Petkevich | 7 | 2 | 2623.4 | 45 |
| 6 | Jay Humphry | 5 | 3 | 2652.1 | 47 |
| 7 | Günter Zöller | 6 | 10 | 2544.9 | 68 |
| 8 | Sergey Chetverukhin | 8 | 9 | 2531.6 | 72 |
| 9 | Marian Filc | 9 | 7 | 2497.9 | 83 |
| 10 | David McGillivray | 13 | 8 | 2482.7 | 87 |
| 11 | Yuriy Ovchinnikov | 12 | 11 | 2434.8 | 97 |
| 12 | Philippe Pélissier | 11 | 13 | 2405.9 | 106 |
| 13 | Tsuguhiko Kodzuka | 14 | 14 | 2355.6 | 122 |
| 14 | Jacques Mrozek | 16 | 12 | | 123 |
| 15 | Günter Anderl | 15 | 16 | 2319.1 | 134 |
| 16 | Reinhard Ketterer | 17 | 15 | 2278.4 | 142 |
| 17 | Klaus Grimmelt | 18 | 17 | 2222.0 | 152 |
| WD | Haig Oundjian | 10 | | | DNF |
* Referee: Josef Dědič
* Assistant Referee: Donald Gilchrist
Judges:
* Jeanine Donnier-Blanc
* Milan Duchón
* Wilhelm Kahle
* Dorothy Leamen
* Konstantin Likharev [ru]
* Walter Malek
* Mollie Phillips
* Rolf J. Steinmann (substitute)
* Helga Wiecki
* Benjamin T. Wright

### Ladies

| Rank | Name | CP | FP | Points | Places |
| 1 | Gabriele Seyfert | 2 | 1 | 2795.5 | 9 |
| 2 | Beatrix Schuba | 1 | 6 | 2709.4 | 24 |
| 3 | Zsuzsa Almássy | 3 | 4 | 2704.6 | 27 |
| 4 | Julie Holmes | 4 | 2 | 2696.2 | 33 |
| 5 | Janet Lynn | 5 | 5 | 2663.4 | 44 |
| 6 | Linda Carbonetto | 9 | 3 | 2616.0 | 53 |
| 7 | Elisabeth Nestler | 6 | 7 | 2572.8 | 62 |
| 8 | Patricia Dodd | 7 | 14 | 2495.1 | 87 |
| 9 | Eileen Zillmer | 8 | 12 | 2487.8 | 89 |
| 10 | Yelena Shcheglova | 12 | 8 | 2492.3 | 91 |
| 11 | Kazumi Yamashita | 13 | 10 | 2472.1 | 96 |
| 12 | Elisabeth Mikula | 10 | 11 | 2471.8 | 102 |
| 13 | Rita Trapanese | 11 | 13 | 2461.2 | 105 |
| 14 | Galina Grzhibovskaya | 16 | 9 | 2400.6 | 127 |
| 15 | Charlotte Walter | 14 | 15 | 2379.0 | 131 |
| 16 | Keiko Miyagawa | 17 | 16 | 2266.8 | 144 |
| 17 | Janet Schwarz | 18 | 17 | 2108.1 | 153 |
| WD | Sonja Morgenstern | 15 | | | DNF |
* Referee: Elemér Terták
* Assistant Referee: Sonia Bianchetti
Judges:
* Michele Beltrami
* Donald B. Cruikshank
* Hans Fuchs
* Ludwig Gassner
* Walburga Grimm
* Henrik Hajós
* Dagmar Řeháková
* Ardelle Sanderson
* Rolf J. Steinmann (substitute)
* Kinuko Ueno

### Pairs

| Rank | Name | SP | FP | Points | Places |
| 1 | Irina Rodnina / Aleksey Ulanov | 1 | 1 | 421.1 | 9 |
| 2 | Tamara Moskvina / Aleksey Mishin | 3 | 2 | 410.9 | 23 |
| 3 | Lyudmila Belousova / Oleg Protopopov | 2 | 3 | 410.5 | 26 |
| 4 | Cynthia Kauffman / Ronald Kauffman | 4 | 5 | 405.0 | 36 |
| 5 | Heidemarie Steiner / Heinz-Ulrich Walther | 5 | 6 | 400.0 | 46 |
| 6 | Alicia Starbuck / Kenneth Shelley | 7 | 4 | 398.7 | 50 |
| 7 | Gudrun Hauss / Walter Häfner | 6 | 7 | 388.6 | 63 |
| 8 | Melissa Militano / Mark Militano | 10 | 8 | 374.1 | 75 |
| 9 | Brunhilde Baßler / Eberhard Rausch | 8 | 9 | 362.8 | 82 |
| 10 | Anna Forder / Richard Stephens | 9 | 10 | 363.5 | 90 |
| 11 | Monique Szabo / Pierre Szabo | 11 | 11 | 357.5 | 94 |
| 12 | Linda Bernard / Raymond Wilson | 13 | 12 | 344.2 | 109 |
| 13 | Evelyne Schneider / Wilhelm Bietak | 14 | 13 | | 116 |
| WD | Liana Drahová / Peter Bartosiewicz | 12 | | | DNF |
* Referee: Karl Enderlin
* Assistant Referee: Henry M. Beatty
Judges:
* Hans Fuchs
* Ludwig Gassner
* Monique Georgelin
* Walburga Grimm
* Dorothy Leamen
* Nonna Nestogina [ru]
* Mollie Phillips
* Emil Skákala
* Rolf J. Steinmann (substitute)
* Benjamin T. Wright

### Ice dance

| Rank | Name | CD | FD | Points | Places |
| 1 | Diane Towler / Bernard Ford | 1 | 1 | 259.8 | 7 |
| 2 | Lyudmila Pakhomova / Aleksandr Gorshkov | 2 | 2 | 252.0 | 16 |
| 3 | Judy Schwomeyer / James Sladky | 3 | 3 | 250.7 | 24 |
| 4 | Janet Sawbridge / Jon Lane | 4 | 4 | 246.9 | 27 |
| 5 | Angelika Buck / Erich Buck | 5 | 5 | 244.6 | 32 |
| 6 | Annerose Baier / Eberhard Rüger | 6 | 6 | 234.5 | 45 |
| 7 | Susan Getty / Roy Bradshaw | 7 | 7 | 232.3 | 51 |
| 8 | Dana Holanová / Jaromír Holan | 8 | 8 | 225.8 | 63 |
| 9 | Debbie Gerken / Raymond Tiedemann | 9 | 13 | 224.0 | 67.5 |
| 10 | Joan Bitterman / Brad Hislop | 10 | 10 | 220.9 | 72.5 |
| 11 | Donna Taylor / Bruce Lennie | 11 | 9 | 223.8 | 74.5 |
| 12 | Mary Church / Tom Falls | 13 | 12 | 218.2 | 84.5 |
| 13 | Ilona Berecz / István Sugár | 12 | 14 | 214.1 | 88 |
| 14 | Tetyana Voytyuk / Vyacheslav Zhyhalyn | 14 | 11 | 217.9 | 83 |
| 15 | Edeltraud Rotty / Joachim Iglowstein | 15 | 15 | 201.7 | 105 |
* Referee: Lawrence Demmy
* Assistant Referee: H. Kendall Kelley
Judges:
* Milan Duchón
* Mabel Graham
* Henrik Hajós
* Robert S. Hudson
* Barbara Lane
* Walter Malek
* Eugen Romminger