# 1970 World Figure Skating Championships

The 1970 World Figure Skating Championships were held at the Hala Tivoli in Ljubljana, SR Slovenia, SFR Yugoslavia from 3 to 8 March. 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 (Yugoslavia)
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Soviet Union | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 2 | United States | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 3 | East Germany | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 4 | Austria | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | Czechoslovakia | 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 | CP | FP | Points | Places |
| 1 | Timothy Wood | 2 | 1 | 2779.3 | 12 |
| 2 | Ondrej Nepela | 1 | 3 | 2757.6 | 15 |
| 3 | Günter Zöller | 3 | 5 | 2702.0 | 32 |
| 4 | Patrick Péra | 4 | 6 | 2682.8 | 39 |
| 5 | John Petkevich | 5 | 2 | 2672.2 | 41 |
| 6 | Sergey Chetverukhin | 6 | 4 | 2645.1 | 50 |
| 7 | Sergey Volkov | 7 | 10 | 2556.2 | 68 |
| 8 | Kenneth Shelley | 8 | 9 | 2534.0 | 77 |
| 9 | Haig Oundjian | 10 | 7 | 2527.3 | 78 |
| 10 | Jan Hoffmann | 11 | 11 | 2469.7 | 94 |
| 11 | David McGillivray | 12 | 8 | | 101 |
| 12 | Günter Anderl | 9 | 14 | | 100 |
| 13 | Toller Cranston | 15 | 12 | | 114 |
| 14 | Zdeněk Pazdírek | 14 | 17 | | 133 |
| 15 | Jacques Mrozek | 16 | 13 | | 137.5 |
| 16 | László Vajda | 17 | 15 | | 141.5 |
| 17 | Klaus Grimmelt | 18 | 16 | | 149 |
| 18 | Jozef Žídek | 19 | 18 | | 160 |
| 19 | Didier Gailhaguet | 20 | 19 | | 170 |
| 20 | Yutaka Higuchi | 21 | 20 | | 178 |
| 21 | Zoran Matas | 22 | 21 | | 189 |
| WD | Daniel Höner | 13 | | | DNF |
* Referee: Elemér Terták
* Assistant Referee: Sonia Bianchetti
Judges:
* Tatyana Danilenko
* Jeanine Donnier-Blanc
* Milan Duchón
* Hans Fuchs (substitute)
* Mabel Graham
* Márta Mesterházi-Nagy, Mrs. Léces Hungarian names#Married names
* Mollie Phillips
* Helga Wiecki
* Audrey Williams
* Franz Wojtanowskyj

### Ladies

| Rank | Name | CP | FP | Points | Places |
| 1 | Gabriele Seyfert | 2 | 1 | 2808.7 | 9 |
| 2 | Beatrix Schuba | 1 | 7 | 2729.0 | 21 |
| 3 | Julie Holmes | 3 | 5 | 2660.7 | 38 |
| 4 | Karen Magnussen | 7 | 3 | 2672.8 | 38 |
| 5 | Zsuzsa Almássy | 5 | 4 | 2659.1 | 42 |
| 6 | Janet Lynn | 8 | 2 | 2671.4 | 43 |
| 7 | Dawn Glab | 6 | 10 | 2572.4 | 67 |
| 8 | Rita Trapanese | 9 | 6 | 2556.9 | 73 |
| 9 | Patricia Dodd | 8 | 12 | 2533.3 | 80 |
| 10 | Cathy Irwin | 13 | 8 | 2497.9 | 96 |
| 11 | Sonja Morgenstern | 14 | 9 | 2467.7 | 100 |
| 12 | Yelena Shcheglova | 11 | 12 | 2470.8 | 101 |
| 13 | Charlotte Walter | 12 | 16 | | 126 |
| 14 | Yelena Aleksandrova | 16 | 11 | 2398.5 | 127 |
| 15 | Eileen Zillmer | 10 | 17 | | 129 |
| 16 | Kazumi Yamashita | 17 | 15 | | 146 |
| 17 | Ľudmila Bezáková | 18 | 14 | | 151 |
| 18 | Frances Waghorn | 15 | 19 | | 152 |
| 19 | Simone Gräfe | 19 | 20 | 2225.1 | 173 |
| 20 | Judith Beyer | 20 | 18 | | 178 |
| 21 | Wilfriede Reiter | 21 | 21 | | 189 |
* Referee: Elemér Terták
* Assistant Referee: Sonia Bianchetti
Judges:
* Pamela Davis
* Walburga Grimm
* Franz Heinlein
* Wilhelm Kahle
* Ferenc Kertész
* Ralph McCreath
* Yvonne S. McGowan
* Nonna Nestogina Картавенко, Нонна Алексеевна
* René Schlageter
* Giorgio Siniscalco (substitute)

### Pairs

| Rank | Name | SP | FP | Points | Places |
| 1 | Irina Rodnina / Aleksey Ulanov | 1 | 1 | 418.6 | 11 |
| 2 | Lyudmila Smirnova / Andrey Suraykin | 2 | 2 | 416.5 | 16 |
| 3 | Heidemarie Walther / Heinz-Ulrich Walther | 3 | 3 | 410.2 | 27 |
| 4 | Galina Karelina / Georgiy Proskurin | 4 | 4 | 405.4 | 36.5 |
| 5 | Alicia Starbuck / Kenneth Shelley | 5 | 5 | 401.2 | 46.5 |
| 6 | Almut Lehmann / Herbert Wiesinger | 6 | 6 | 394.4 | 53 |
| 7 | Manuela Groß / Uwe Kagelmann | 7 | 7 | 388.1 | 64 |
| 8 | Melissa Militano / Mark Militano | 10 | 8 | 377.5 | 75 |
| 9 | Brunhilde Baßler / Eberhard Rausch | 8 | 9 | 378.0 | 78 |
| 10 | Janina Poremska / Piotr Szczypa | 11 | 10 | 357.1 | 102 |
| 11 | Monique Szabo / Pierre Szabo | 13 | 11 | | 101 |
| 12 | Dana Fialová / Josef Tůma | 9 | 12 | | 111 |
| 13 | Evelyne Schneider / Wilhelm Bietak | 15 | 13 | | 119 |
| 14 | Sandra Bezic / Val Bezic | 14 | 14 | | 120 |
| 15 | Mary Petrie / Robert McAvoy | 12 | 15 | | 121 |
| 16 | Kotoe Nagasawa / Hiroshi Nagakubo | 16 | 16 | | 143 |
| 17 | Helena Gazvoda / Silvo Švejger | 17 | 17 | | 153 |
* Referee: Karl Enderlin
* Assistant Referee: Walter Malek
Judges:
* Liliane Caffin-Madaule
* Milan Duchón (substitute)
* Hans Fuchs
* Ludwig Gassner
* Carla Listing
* Ralph McCreath
* Yvonne S. McGowan
* Kikuko Minami
* Nonna Nestogina
* Maria Zuchowicz

### Ice dance

| Rank | Name | CD | FD | Points | Places |
| 1 | Lyudmila Pakhomova / Aleksandr Gorshkov | 2 | 1 | 511.4 | 14 |
| 2 | Judy Schwomeyer / James Sladky | 1 | 2 | 511.3 | 15 |
| 3 | Angelika Buck / Erich Buck | 3 | 3 | 503.2 | 25 |
| 4 | Tetyana Voytyuk / Vyacheslav Zhyhalyn | 5 | 4 | 488.6 | 40 |
| 5 | Susan Getty / Roy Bradshaw | 4 | 5 | 485.0 | 43 |
| 6 | Annerose Baier / Eberhard Rüger | 7 | 6 | 473.4 | 59 |
| 7 | Janet Sawbridge / Peter Dalby | 6 | 8 | 477.2 | 60 |
| 8 | Yelena Zharkova / Gennadiy Karponosov | 8 | 7 | 468.4 | 74 |
| 9 | Debbie Ganson / Brad Hislop | 9 | 9 | 459.8 | 80.5 |
| 10 | Anne Millier / Harvey Millier | 11 | 10 | 450.3 | 94 |
| 11 | Diana Skotnická / Martin Skotnický | 12 | 11 | | 100 |
| 12 | Ilona Berecz / István Sugár | 10 | 14 | | 108.5 |
| 13 | Teresa Weyna / Piotr Bojańczyk | 13 | 13 | | 116 |
| 14 | Mary Church / David Sutton | 14 | 12 | | 120 |
| 15 | Světlana Marinovová / Miloš Buršík | 15 | 15 | | 136 |
| 16 | Anne-Claude Wolfers / Roland Mars | 16 | 16 | | 144 |
| 17 | Brigitte Scheijbal / Kurt Jaschek | 17 | 17 | | 149 |
| 18 | Angelika Wiesner / Hans-Jürgen Wiesner | 18 | 18 | | 161 |
* Referee: Lawrence Demmy
* Assistant Referee: Emil Skákala
Judges:
* George J. Blundun
* Mabel Graham
* Henrik Hajós
* Miroslav Hasenöhrl
* Igor Kabanov Кабанов, Игорь Александрович
* Carla Listing
* Jacqueline Meudec
* Mollie Phillips
* Eugen Romminger
* Maria Zuchowicz (substitute)