# 1962 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 1962 competitions for men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dance took place from March 14 to 17 at the Sportovní hala ČSTV in Prague, Czechoslovakia. The Figure Skating World Championships in Prague were originally planned for 1961, but were cancelled due to the crash of Sabena Flight 548, which killed everyone on board the plane, including the entire US figure skating team.
East Germany participated in the World Figure Skating Championships for the first time.
This competition is best remembered for Donald Jackson's come-from-behind victory in the men's event with a tour-de-force free skating that included the first triple lutz jump ever landed in competition as well as a triple salchow jump and 20 other double and single jumps, including jumps in opposite directions and jumps with variations in arm position or delayed rotation. Jackson received 7 perfect 6.0 scores for this performance.
Prague hometown favorites Eva Romanová / Pavel Roman won the dance event - breaking the British domination of this discipline - and Canadians Maria Jelinek / Otto Jelinek were the winners in the pairs. As children, the Jelineks had defected from Czechoslovakia with their parents after the post-war Communist takeover, and there were significant fears for their safety in returning to their home country. The "official" story that had been circulated at the time of the previous year's planned competition was that they were merely of Czech descent. The Jelineks' chief competitors, 1960 runners-up Marika Kilius / Hans-Jürgen Bäumler, were forced to withdraw from the competition after colliding on side-by-side jumps during their program, and the silver medal was won by Lyudmila Belousova / Oleg Protopopov.

## Medal table

* Host nation (Czechoslovakia)
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Canada | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 2 | Czechoslovakia* | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 3 | Netherlands | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | France | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 5 | Soviet Union | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | Austria | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 6 | West Germany | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (7 entries) | Totals (7 entries) | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 |

## Results
### Men

| Rank | Name | Points | Places |
| 1 | Donald Jackson | 2277.1 | 13 |
| 2 | Karol Divín | 2255.9 | 17 |
| 3 | Alain Calmat | 2200.7 | 25 |
| 4 | Donald McPherson | 2172.3 | 37 |
| 5 | Manfred Schnelldorfer | 2094.0 | 54 |
| 6 | Monty Hoyt | 2059.1 | 59 |
| 7 | Emmerich Danzer | 2033.8 | 68 |
| 8 | Scott Allen | 2002.8 | 81 |
| 9 | Peter Jonas | 2005.5 | 82 |
| 10 | Nobuo Satō | 1984.7 | 92 |
| 11 | Bodo Bockenauer | | 97 |
| 12 | Robin Jones | | 101 |
| 13 | Sepp Schönmetzler | | 109 |
| 14 | Valeriy Meshkov | 1895.7 | 117 |
| 15 | Per Kjølberg | | 137 |
| 16 | Károly Újlaky | 1832.4 | 142 |
| 17 | Robert Dureville | | 149 |
| 18 | Alain Trouillet | | 159 |
Judges:
* Ernst K. Bauch
* Pamela Davis
* Jeanine Donnier-Blanc
* Milan Duchón
* Georgiy Felitsyn
* Norman V. S. Gregory
* A. Koutny
* Adolf Walker
* Franz Wojtanowskyj

### Ladies

| Rank | Name | Points | Places |
| 1 | Sjoukje Dijkstra | 2350.0 | 9 |
| 2 | Wendy Griner | 2273.2 | 21 |
| 3 | Regine Heitzer | 2218.3 | 39 |
| 4 | Petra Burka | 2219.7 | 42 |
| 5 | Barbara Roles | 2200.9 | 52 |
| 6 | Nicole Hassler | 2172.0 | 64 |
| 7 | Jana Mrázková | 2151.8 | 71 |
| 8 | Karin Frohner | 2144.6 | 79 |
| 9 | Miwa Fukuhara | 2137.0 | 81 |
| 10 | Lorraine Hanlon | 2103.0 | 98 |
| 11 | Jacqueline Harbord | | 101 |
| 12 | Helli Sengstschmid | | 101 |
| 13 | Eva Grožajová | | 105 |
| 14 | Franziska Schmidt | | 108 |
| 15 | Karin Gude | | 122 |
| 16 | Victoria Fisher | | 148 |
| 17 | Ann-Margreth Frei | | 159 |
| 18 | Sandra Brugnera | | 161 |
| 19 | Helga Zöllner | 1968.7 | 166 |
| 20 | Tatyana Nemtsova | 1952.2 | 174 |
| 21 | Gabriele Seyfert | | 178 |
Judges:
* Ernst K. Bauch
* Jeanine Donnier-Blanc
* M. Drake
* H. Dudová
* Paul Engelfriet
* Martin Felsenreich
* A. Koutny
* Melville Rogers
* Adolf Walker

### Pairs

| Rank | Name | Points | Places |
| 1 | Maria Jelinek / Otto Jelinek | 102.2 | 15 |
| 2 | Lyudmila Belousova / Oleg Protopopov | 102.1 | 16.5 |
| 3 | Margret Göbl / Franz Ningel | 100.1 | 25.5 |
| 4 | Debbi Wilkes / Guy Revell | 93.3 | 45 |
| 5 | Milada Kubíková / Jaroslav Votruba | 95.1 | 52.5 |
| 6 | Gertrude Desjardins / Maurice Lafrance | 92.3 | 59.5 |
| 7 | Gerda Johner / Rüdi Johner | 91.0 | 63.5 |
| 8 | Dorothyann Nelson / Pieter Kollen | 90.2 | 70.5 |
| 9 | Irene Müller / Hans-Georg Dallmer | 89.0 | 73.5 |
| 10 | Judianne Fotheringill / Jerry Fotheringill | 87.4 | 73.5 |
| 11 | Valerie Hunt / Peter Burrows | | 81.5 |
| 12 | Diana Hinko / Bernhard Henhappel | | 107.5 |
| 13 | Mieko Ōiwa / Yutaka Dōke | | 113 |
| WD | Marika Kilius / Hans-Jürgen Bäumler | | DNF |
Judges:
* Ernst K. Bauch
* Jean Creux
* Pamela Davis
* M. Drake
* Hans Meixner
* Melville Rogers
* Vera Spurná
* Tatyana Tolmachova
* Adolf Walker

### Ice dance

| Rank | Name | Points | Places |
| 1 | Eva Romanová / Pavel Roman | 318.5 | 15 |
| 2 | Christiane Guhel / Jean Guhel | 315.8 | 26 |
| 3 | Virginia Thompson / William McLachlan | 316.8 | 23 |
| 4 | Linda Shearman / Michael Phillips | 310.2 | 42 |
| 5 | Paulette Doan / Kenneth Ormsby | 311.0 | 45 |
| 6 | Donna Mitchell / John Mitchell | 306.4 | 55.5 |
| 7 | Dorothyann Nelson / Pieter Kollen | 306.6 | 57 |
| 8 | Yvonne Littlefield / Peter Betts | 303.0 | 64.5 |
| 9 | Mary Parry / Roy Mason | 297.2 | 77 |
| 10 | Györgyi Korda / Pál Vásárhelyi | 281.3 | 99 |
| 11 | Helga Burkhardt / Hannes Burkhardt | | 108 |
| 12 | Olga Gilardi / Germano Ceccattini | | 114 |
| 13 | Marlyse Fornachon / Charly Pichard | | 116 |
| 14 | Armelle Flichy / Pierre Brun | | 119 |
| 15 | Christel Trebesiner / Georg Felsinger | | 131 |
| 16 | Gabriele Rauch / Rudi Matysik | | 142 |
| 17 | Keiko Kaneko / Mikio Takeuchi | | 143 |
Judges:
* Pamela Davis
* M. Drake
* Norman V. S. Gregory
* Ferenc Kertész
* Eugen Kirchhofer
* L. Lauret
* Hans Meixner
* Emil Skákala
* Hermann Wollersen