# 1960 World Figure Skating Championships

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.
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)
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Canada* | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 2 | France | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 3 | United States | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 4 | Great Britain | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | Netherlands | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | West Germany | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (6 entries) | Totals (6 entries) | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 |

## Results
### Men

| Rank | Name | Places |
| 1 | Alain Giletti | 9 |
| 2 | Donald Jackson | 12 |
| 3 | Alain Calmat | 23 |
| 4 | Norbert Felsinger | 30 |
| 5 | Tilo Gutzeit | 39 |
| 6 | Bradley Lord | 47 |
| 7 | Manfred Schnelldorfer | 52 |
| 8 | Donald McPherson | 49 |
| 9 | Gregory Kelley | 55 |
| 10 | Peter Jonas | 78 |
| 11 | Louis Stong | 80 |
| 12 | Nobuo Satō | 87 |
| 13 | Hubert Köpfler | 90 |
| 14 | Robin Jones | 94 |
| 15 | David Clements | 101 |
| 16 | Tim Spencer | 106 |
| 17 | William Cherrell | 119 |
Judges:
* Emile Finsterwald
* William Lewis
* Gérard Rodrigues-Henriques
* Harold G. Storke
* Adolf Walker
* Franz Wojtanowskyj
* Geoffrey Yates

### Ladies

| Rank | Name | Places |
| 1 | Carol Heiss | 9 |
| 2 | Sjoukje Dijkstra | 19 |
| 3 | Barbara Roles | 26 |
| 4 | Regine Heitzer | 44 |
| 5 | Joan Haanappel | 48 |
| 6 | Jana Mrázková | 61 |
| 7 | Wendy Griner | 61 |
| 8 | Karin Frohner | 75 |
| 9 | Laurence Owen | 76 |
| 10 | Anna Galmarini | 89 |
| 11 | Dany Rigoulot | 103 |
| 12 | Nicole Hassler | 115 |
| 13 | Sonia Snelling | 112 |
| 14 | Miwa Fukuhara | 122 |
| 15 | Shirra Kenworthy | 137 |
| 16 | Junko Ueno | 145 |
| 17 | Bärbel Martin | 151 |
| 18 | Ursel Barkey | 162 |
| 19 | Fränzi Schmidt | 171 |
| 20 | Carolyn Krau | 176 |
| 21 | Liliane Crosa | 185 |
| 22 | Carla Tichatschek | 190 |
| 23 | Beverly Helmore | 209 |
| 24 | Mary Wilson | 214 |
Judges:
* Charlotte Benedict-Stieber
* Pamela Davis
* Martin Felsenreich
* Theo Klemm
* William Lewis
* Giovanni de Mori
* Gérard Rodrigues-Henriques
* Emil Skákala
* Harold G. Storke

### Pairs

| Rank | Name | Places |
| 1 | Barbara Wagner / Robert Paul | 9 |
| 2 | Maria Jelinek / Otto Jelinek | 21 |
| 3 | Marika Kilius / Hans-Jürgen Bäumler | 24 |
| 4 | Margret Göbl / Franz Ningel | 42 |
| 5 | Nina Zhuk / Stanislav Zhuk | 53 |
| 6 | Nancy Ludington / Ronald Ludington | 59 |
| 7 | Diana Hinko / Heinz Döpfl | 67.5 |
| 8 | Lyudmila Belousova / Oleg Protopopov | 68 |
| 9 | Rita Blumenberg / Werner Mensching | 77.5 |
| 10 | Maribel Owen / Dudley Richards | 90 |
| 11 | Debbi Wilkes / Guy Revell | 92 |
| 12 | Ila Hadley / Ray Hadley | 99 |
Judges:
* Charlotte Benedict-Stieber
* Pamela Davis
* Emile Finsterwald
* Theo Klemm
* William Lewis
* Giovanni de Mori
* Emil Skákala
* Harold G. Storke
* Franz Wojtanowskyj

### Ice dance

| Rank | Name | Places |
| 1 | Doreen Denny / Courtney Jones | 7 |
| 2 | Virginia Thompson / William McLachlan | 16 |
| 3 | Christiane Guhel / Jean Guhel | 22 |
| 4 | Margie Ackles / Charles Phillips | 25 |
| 5 | Marilyn Meeker / Larry Pierce | 39 |
| 6 | Ann Martin / Gilles Vanasse | 46 |
| 7 | Svata Staroba / Mirek Staroba | 52 |
| 8 | Yvonne Littlefield / Roger Campbell | 52 |
| 9 | Rita Paucka / Peter Kwiet | 56 |
Judges:
* Emile Finsterwald
* J. A. McKechnie
* Jacqueline Meudec
* Hermann Schiechtl
* L. C. Seagrave
* John R. Shoemaker
* Emil Skákala