# 1973 World Figure Skating Championships

The 1973 World Figure Skating Championships were held from February 26 to March 3 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, sanctioned by the International Skating Union. Medals were awarded in men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dance. It was the last year in which solid gold medals were awarded in figure skating.
The opening ceremony was held at the Philharmonic of Bratislava. The Chairman of the organising committee was Miroslav Červenka. In the ladies' single skating withdrew before the opening ceremony Sonja Balun from Austria and Zsuzsa Homolya from Hungary.
Irina Rodnina won her first World title with her new partner, Aleksandr Zaytsev after her previous partner, Aleksey Ulanov, chose to skate with Lyudmila Smirnova. Rodnina/Zaitsev's music stopped during their short program, possibly due to a Czech worker acting in retaliation for the suppression of the Prague Spring.

## Medal table

* Host nation (Czechoslovakia)
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Soviet Union | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 2 | Canada | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2 | Czechoslovakia* | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | United States | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | West Germany | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | East Germany | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 7 | Great Britain | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (7 entries) | Totals (7 entries) | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 |

## Results
### Men

| Rank | Name | CP | SP | FP | Points | Places |
| 1 | Ondrej Nepela | 1 | 2 | 2 | 355.66 | 10 |
| 2 | Sergey Chetverukhin | 2 | 3 | 1 | 348.91 | 17 |
| 3 | Jan Hoffmann | 3 | 7 | 6 | 340.55 | 35 |
| 4 | John Curry | 4 | 8 | 7 | 338.43 | 39 |
| 5 | Toller Cranston | 6 | 1 | 5 | 336.50 | 54 |
| 6 | Yuriy Ovchinnikov | 8 | 5 | 3 | 334.01 | 54 |
| 7 | Gordon McKellen | 5 | 4 | 8 | 330.84 | 61 |
| 8 | Ronald Shaver | 12 | 6 | 4 | 330.58 | 62 |
| 9 | Jacques Mrozek | 9 | 10 | 11 | 320.01 | 91 |
| 10 | Zdeněk Pazdírek | 10 | 12 | 9 | 319.43 | 95 |
| 11 | Daniel Höner | 7 | 11 | 12 | 319.08 | 97 |
| 12 | Robert Bradshaw | 13 | 9 | 10 | 316.62 | 103 |
| 13 | László Vajda | 11 | 14 | 13 | 314.77 | 112 |
| 14 | Minoru Sano | 14 | 13 | 14 | 308.37 | 130 |
| 15 | Erich Reifschneider | 15 | 15 | 16 | 303.72 | 144 |
| 16 | Igor Lisovskiy | 18 | 17 | 17 | 302.24 | 147 |
| 17 | Bernd Wunderlich | 20 | 18 | 15 | 300.38 | 148 |
| 18 | Miroslav Šoška | 17 | 16 | 18 | 299.99 | 151 |
| 19 | Robert Rubens | 19 | 19 | 19 | 295.16 | 168 |
| 20 | Günther Hilgarth | 16 | 20 | 21 | 275.29 | 187 |
| 21 | Jacek Tascher | 23 | 23 | 20 | 273.30 | 191 |
| 22 | Rolando Bragaglia | 22 | 21 | 22 | 270.19 | 193 |
| 23 | György Fazekas | 21 | 24 | 24 | 262.23 | 205 |
| 24 | Silvo Švejger | 24 | 22 | 23 | 255.29 | 214 |
* Referee: Sonia Bianchetti
* Assistant Referee: Miroslav Hasenöhrl
Judges:
* Boris Lvov-Anokhin Львов-Анохин, Борис Александрович
* Luciana Brasa
* Walburga Grimm
* Dorothy Leamen
* Ramona McIntyre
* Irina Minculescu
* Kazuo Ōhashi
* Dagmar Řeháková
* Jürg Wilhelm (substitute)
* Geoffrey Yates

### Ladies

| Rank | Name | CP | SP | FP | Points | Places |
| 1 | Karen Magnussen | 1 | 1 | 2 | 356.39 | 9 |
| 2 | Janet Lynn | 2 | 12 | 1 | 347.85 | 18 |
| 3 | Christine Errath | 5 | 2 | 5 | 340.90 | 31 |
| 4 | Dorothy Hamill | 8 | 3 | 4 | 337.93 | 35 |
| 5 | Jean Scott | 4 | 10 | 11 | 332.10 | 47 |
| 6 | Karin Iten | 3 | 14 | 14 | 329.08 | 60 |
| 7 | Liana Drahová | 9 | 9 | 6 | 327.53 | 69 |
| 8 | Sonja Morgenstern | 10 | 5 | 7 | 326.53 | 76 |
| 9 | Juli McKinstry | 12 | 7 | 9 | 323.26 | 78 |
| 10 | Lynn Nightingale | 15 | 4 | 3 | 325.61 | 91 |
| 11 | Maria McLean | 7 | 11 | 13 | 322.68 | 96 |
| 12 | Cathy Irwin | 11 | 13 | 10 | 320.95 | 108 |
| 13 | Gerti Schanderl | 14 | 6 | 8 | 319.69 | 114 |
| 14 | Anett Pötzsch | 13 | 8 | 12 | 316.21 | 123 |
| 15 | Dianne de Leeuw | 6 | 15 | 16 | 316.11 | 125 |
| 16 | Marina Sanaya | 23 | 16 | 15 | 296.67 | 149 |
| 17 | Emi Watanabe | 18 | 23 | 17 | 294.35 | 154 |
| 18 | Marie-Claude Bierre | 16 | 18 | 22 | 288.34 | 171 |
| 19 | Cinzia Frosio | 19 | 19 | 19 | 287.45 | 175 |
| 20 | Lise-Lotte Öberg | 21 | 17 | 18 | 285.55 | 177 |
| 21 | Sharon Burley | 20 | 20 | 21 | 286.58 | 178 |
| 22 | Hannele Koskinen | 27 | 22 | 20 | 275.77 | 201 |
| 23 | Grażyna Dudek | 26 | 21 | 23 | 276.57 | 204 |
| 24 | Helena Gazvoda | 25 | 26 | 24 | 268.04 | 220 |
| 25 | Chang Myung-su | 17 | 28 | 27 | 264.92 | 227 |
| 26 | Bente Tverran | 24 | 27 | 26 | 261.03 | 231 |
| 27 | Ágnes Erős | 28 | 24 | 25 | 262.58 | 235 |
| WD | Susanne Altura | 22 | 25 | | | DNF |
* Referee: Josef Dědič
* Assistant Referee: Oskar Madl
Judges:
* Jakob Biedermann
* Elsbeth Bon
* Sydney R. Croll (substitute)
* Ludwig Gassner
* Márta Mesterházi-Nagy, Mrs. Léces Hungarian names#Married names
* Vera Lynfield
* Joan Maclagan
* Inkeri Soininen
* Helga Wiecki
* Mary Wright

### Pairs

| Rank | Name | SP | FP | Points | Places |
| 1 | Irina Rodnina / Aleksandr Zaytsev | 1 | 1 | 423.9 | 9 |
| 2 | Lyudmila Smirnova / Aleksey Ulanov | 2 | 2 | 416.2 | 18 |
| 3 | Manuela Groß / Uwe Kagelmann | 3 | 3 | 409.2 | 29 |
| 4 | Almut Lehmann / Herbert Wiesinger | 6 | 5 | 402.9 | 43 |
| 5 | Romy Kermer / Rolf Österreich | 4 | 4 | 401.3 | 46 |
| 6 | Sandra Bezic / Val Bezic | 7 | 6 | 399.8 | 51 |
| 7 | Irina Chernyayeva / Vasiliy Blagov | 5 | 7 | 398.3 | 56 |
| 8 | Melissa Militano / Mark Militano | 8 | 8 | 390.7 | 73 |
| 9 | Marian Murray / Glenn Moore | 9 | 9 | 386.0 | 80 |
| 10 | Karin Künzle / Christian Künzle | 11 | 10 | 373.9 | 92 |
| 11 | Ilona Urbanová / Aleš Zach | 10 | 11 | 369.4 | 106 |
| 12 | Corinna Halke / Eberhard Rausch | 12 | 12 | 366.6 | 108 |
| 13 | Gale Fuhrman / Joel Fuhrman | 15 | 13 | 360.9 | 120 |
| 14 | Florence Cahn / Jean-Roland Racle | 13 | 14 | 362.0 | 121 |
| 15 | Ursula Nemec / Michael Nemec | 16 | 15 | 346.0 | 135 |
| 16 | Teresa Skrzek / Piotr Szczypa | 14 | 16 | 350.4 | 137 |
* Referee: Karl Enderlin
* Assistant Referee: Donald Gilchrist
Judges:
* Monique Georgelin (substitute)
* Walburga Grimm
* Walter Hüttner
* Władysław Kołodziej
* Alice Pinos
* Valentin Piseyev
* Edith M. Shoemaker
* Erich Soukup
* Willi Wernz
* Jürg Wilhelm

### Ice dance

| Rank | Name | CD | FD | Points | Places |
| 1 | Lyudmila Pakhomova / Aleksandr Gorshkov | 1 | 1 | 524.20 | 9 |
| 2 | Angelika Buck / Erich Buck | 2 | 2 | 514.55 | 18 |
| 3 | Hilary Green / Glynn Watts | 3 | 3 | 499.05 | 29 |
| 4 | Janet Sawbridge / Peter Dalby | 4 | 6 | 493.25 | 38 |
| 5 | Tetyana Voytyuk / Vyacheslav Zhyhalyn | 5 | 4 | 488.30 | 43 |
| 6 | Mary Campbell / Johnny Johns | 6 | 7 | 479.30 | 60 |
| 7 | Irina Moiseyeva / Andrey Minenkov | 7 | 5 | 475.80 | 63.5 |
| 8 | Diana Skotnická / Martin Skotnický | 8 | 8 | 470.85 | 72.5 |
| 9 | Louise Soper / Barry Soper | 9 | 9 | 471.00 | 73 |
| 10 | Anne Millier / Harvey Millier | 10 | 11 | 459.15 | 93 |
| 11 | Matilde Ciccia / Lamberto Ceserani | 12 | 10 | 452.10 | 100 |
| 12 | Rosalind Druce / David Barker | 11 | 13 | 448.70 | 107 |
| 13 | Krisztina Regőczy / András Sallay | 13 | 12 | 442.70 | 115 |
| 14 | Halina Gordon / Wojciech Bańkowski | 14 | 15 | 425.80 | 130 |
| 15 | Barbara Berezowski / David Porter | 15 | 14 | 426.35 | 131 |
| 16 | Anne-Claude Wolfers / Roland Mars | 16 | 16 | 408.80 | 146 |
| 17 | Christina Henke / Udo Dönsdorf | 17 | 17 | 402.00 | 151 |
| 18 | Brigitte Scheijbal / Walter Leschetizky | 18 | 18 | 393.65 | 160 |
* Referee: Hermann Schiechtl
* Assistant Referee: Lawrence Demmy
Judges:
* Irina Absalyamova
* Cia Benacchi-Bordogna (substitute)
* Frances Gunn
* Lysiane Lauret
* Helena Pachlová
* Mollie Phillips
* Elek Riedl
* Eugen Romminger
* Edith M. Shoemaker
* Maria Zuchowicz