# 1972 World Figure Skating Championships

The 1972 World Figure Skating Championships were held at the Stampede Corral in Calgary, Canada from March 7 to 11. At the event, sanctioned by the International Skating Union, medals were awarded in men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dance.
A day before the start of the competition, Irina Rodnina / Aleksey Ulanov had an accident on a lift; Rodnina was hospitalized with a concussion and an intracranial hematoma but went on to compete and win the gold medal. It was Rodnina/Ulanov's final competition together. Ulanov would team up with the silver medalist, Lyudmila Smirnova.

## Medal table

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

## Results
### Men

| Rank | Name | CF | FS | Points | Places |
| 1 | Ondrej Nepela | 1 | 3 | 2722.8 | 9 |
| 2 | Sergey Chetverukhin | 2 | 2 | 2673.8 | 19 |
| 3 | Vladimir Kovalyov | 3 | 5 | 2607.5 | 34 |
| 4 | John Petkevich | 5 | 4 | 2585.5 | 39 |
| 5 | Toller Cranston | 9 | 1 | 2566.1 | 45 |
| 6 | Jan Hoffmann | 4 | 9 | 2559.7 | 59 |
| 7 | Kenneth Shelley | 7 | 6 | 2538.7 | 67 |
| 8 | Gordon McKellen | 10 | 8 | 2528.3 | 69 |
| 9 | John Curry | 6 | 7 | 2534.8 | 70 |
| 10 | Sergey Volkov | 8 | 10 | 2499.0 | 86 |
| 11 | Jacques Mrozek | 11 | 11 | 2448.8 | 100 |
| 12 | Zdeněk Pazdírek | 14 | 12 | | 116 |
| 13 | Didier Gailhauguet | 12 | 13 | | 116 |
| 14 | Josef Schneider | 13 | 15 | | 128 |
| 15 | Yutaka Higuchi | 16 | 14 | | 136 |
| 16 | Jozef Žídek | 17 | 16 | | 141 |
| 17 | Stefano Bargauan | 15 | 17 | | 144 |
| 18 | Harald Kuhn | 19 | 18 | | 166 |
| 19 | Pekka Leskinen | 18 | 19 | | 167 |
| WD | Haig Oundjian | | | | DNS |
* Referee: Donald Gilchrist
* Assistant Referee: Sonia Bianchetti
Judges:
* Gerhardt Bubník
* Dorothy Burkholder
* Tatyana Danilenko
* Masao Hasegawa
* Franz Heinlein
* William Lewis
* Monique Petis
* Mollie Phillips
* Helga Wiecki
* János Zsigmondy (substitute)

### Ladies

| Rank | Name | CF | FS | Points | Places |
| 1 | Beatrix Schuba | 1 | 9 | 2778.5 | 13 |
| 2 | Karen Magnussen | 2 | 2 | 2745.2 | 16 |
| 3 | Janet Lynn | 3 | 1 | 2713.0 | 25 |
| 4 | Zsuzsa Almássy | 4 | 6 | 2643.3 | 37 |
| 5 | Sonja Morgenstern | 6 | 3 | 2581.1 | 52 |
| 6 | Jean Scott | 5 | 10 | 2555.1 | 57 |
| 7 | Dorothy Hamill | 8 | 5 | 2548.3 | 62 |
| 8 | Suna Murray | 7 | 7 | 2517.5 | 74 |
| 9 | Cathy Irwin | 9 | 8 | 2499.9 | 79 |
| 10 | Christine Errath | 11 | 4 | 2519.9 | 81 |
| 11 | Ľudmila Bezáková | 10 | 13 | 2426.9 | 102 |
| 12 | Karin Iten | 12 | 16 | 2387.8 | 118 |
| 13 | Gerti Schanderl | 15 | 11 | 2385.3 | 119 |
| 14 | Cinzia Frosio | 13 | 12 | 2380.1 | 120 |
| 15 | Darya Prichun | 14 | 14 | 2370.9 | 127 |
| 16 | Marie-Claude Bierre | 17 | 15 | 2319.9 | 146 |
| 17 | Dianne de Leeuw | 16 | 19 | 2296.6 | 151 |
| 18 | Chang Myung-su | 18 | 18 | 2221.6 | 169 |
| 19 | Sharon Burley | 19 | 21 | 2195.8 | 175 |
| 20 | Shūko Takeyama | 20 | 20 | 2193.3 | 178 |
| 21 | Marina Sanaya | 21 | 17 | 2189.3 | 178 |
* Referee: Josef Dědič
* Assistant Referee: Elemér Terták
Judges:
* Zoltán Balázs
* Jeanine Donnier-Blanc
* Milan Duchón (substitute)
* Suzanne Francis
* Ludwig Gassner
* Walburga Grimm
* Wilhelm Kahle
* Ramona McIntyre
* Giovanni de Mori
* René Schlageter

### Pairs

| Rank | Name | SP | SP | FS | FS | Points | Places |
| 1 | Irina Rodnina / Aleksey Ulanov | 1 | 106.2 | 1 | 315.6 | 421.8 | 9 |
| 2 | Lyudmila Smirnova / Andrey Suraykin | 2 | 104.4 | 3 | 312.3 | 416.7 | 21.5 |
| 3 | Alicia Starbuck / Kenneth Shelley | 5 | 99.6 | 2 | 312.6 | 412.2 | 28.5 |
| 4 | Manuela Groß / Uwe Kagelmann | 3 | 102.0 | 4 | 307.8 | 409.8 | 38 |
| 5 | Almut Lehmann / Herbert Wiesinger | 4 | 100.9 | 5 | 306.9 | 407.8 | 42 |
| 6 | Irina Chernyayeva / Vasiliy Blagov | 6 | 99.5 | 6 | 304.5 | 404.0 | 55 |
| 7 | Annette Kansy / Axel Salzmann | 8 | 98.2 | 7 | 300.9 | 399.1 | 68 |
| 8 | Sandra Bezic / Val Bezic | 7 | 98.3 | 8 | 301.2 | 399.5 | 70 |
| 9 | Melissa Militano / Mark Militano | 9 | 96.6 | 9 | 298.5 | 395.1 | 76 |
| 10 | Corinna Halke / Eberhard Rausch | 11 | 94.8 | 10 | 268.9 | 363.7 | 95 |
| 11 | Mary Petrie / John Hubbell | 13 | 92.7 | 11 | 285.0 | 377.7 | 102 |
| 12 | Grażyna Osmańska / Adam Brodecki | 10 | 96.5 | 12 | 284.1 | 380.6 | 106 |
| 13 | Gabriele Cieplik / Reinhard Ketterer | 12 | 94.4 | 13 | 280.8 | 375.2 | 114 |
| 14 | Barbara Brown / Douglas Berndt | 14 | 90.9 | 14 | 278.4 | 369.3 | 123 |
| 15 | Linda Connolly / Colin Taylforth | 15 | 90.5 | 15 | 272.4 | 362.9 | 132 |
* Referee: Karl Enderlin
* Assistant Referee: Henry M. Beatty
Judges:
* Elsbeth Bon
* Pamela Davis
* Suzanne Francis
* Walburga Grimm
* Valentin Piseyev
* Ardelle Sanderson
* René Schlageter (substitute)
* Inkeri Soininen
* Maria Zuchowicz
* János Zsigmondy

### Ice dance

| Rank | Name | CD | CD | FD | FD | Points | Places |
| 1 | Lyudmila Pakhomova / Aleksandr Gorshkov | 1 | 251.9 | 1 | 262.7 | 514.6 | 14 |
| 2 | Angelika Buck / Erich Buck | 2 | 250.7 | 2 | 261.3 | 512.0 | 17 |
| 3 | Judy Schwomeyer / James Sladky | 3 | 248.7 | 3 | 260.0 | 508.7 | 24 |
| 4 | Janet Sawbridge / Peter Dalby | 4 | 242.0 | 4 | 255.0 | 495.0 | 38 |
| 5 | Tetyana Voytyuk / Vyacheslav Zhyhalyn | 5 | 234.9 | 5 | 250.8 | 485.7 | 46 |
| 6 | Hilary Green / Glynn Watts | 6 | 233.3 | 6 | 250.9 | 484.2 | 50 |
| 7 | Anne Millier / Harvey Millier | 7 | 221.9 | 7 | 244.9 | 466.8 | 67 |
| 8 | Yelena Zharkova / Gennadiy Karponosov | 8 | 219.1 | 8 | 242.3 | 461.4 | 75 |
| 9 | Louise Lind / Barry Soper | 9 | 217.9 | 9 | 241.0 | 458.9 | 80 |
| 10 | Mary Campbell / Johnny Johns | 10 | 216.1 | 10 | 237.2 | 453.3 | 91 |
| 11 | Diana Skotnická / Martin Skotnický | 11 | 212.6 | 11 | 234.8 | 447.4 | 99 |
| 12 | Anne-Claude Wolfers / Roland Mars | 12 | 209.5 | 13 | 226.7 | 436.2 | 108 |
| 13 | Teresa Weyna / Piotr Bojańczyk | 13 | 208.0 | 12 | 226.7 | 434.7 | 110 |
| 14 | Sylvia Fuchs / Michael Fuchs | 14 | 197.7 | 14 | 215.5 | 413.2 | 126 |
| 15 | Astrid Kopp / Axel Kopp | 15 | 195.3 | 15 | 208.2 | 403.5 | 135 |
| 16 | Keiko Achiwa / Yasuyuki Noto | 16 | 182.3 | 16 | 195.8 | 378.1 | 144 |
* Referee: Lawrence Demmy
* Assistant Referee: George J. Blundun
Judges:
* Zoltán Balázs
* Pamela Davis
* Milan Duchón
* Igor Kabanov [ru]
* Claude Lambert
* Audrey Moore
* Eugen Romminger
* Benjamin T. Wright
* Maria Zuchowicz