# 1971 World Figure Skating Championships

The 1971 World Figure Skating Championships were held in Lyon, France, from February 23 to 28. 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 (France)
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Soviet Union | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 2 | Austria | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2 | Czechoslovakia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | United States | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 5 | France* | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | West Germany | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | Canada | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (7 entries) | Totals (7 entries) | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 |

## Results
### Men

| Rank | Name | CP | FP | Points | Placings |
| 1 | Ondrej Nepela | 1 | 1 | 2737.5 | 12 |
| 2 | Patrick Péra | 2 | 3 | 2706.7 | 18 |
| 3 | Sergey Chetverukhin | 3 | 8 | 2629.3 | 34 |
| 4 | Jan Hoffmann | 4 | 2 | 2632.7 | 34 |
| 5 | John Petkevich | 5 | 4 | 2598.9 | 44 |
| 6 | Haig Oundjian | 6 | 7 | 2551.0 | 58 |
| 7 | Yuriy Ovchinnikov | 7 | 9 | 2529.6 | 66 |
| 8 | Kenneth Shelley | 9 | 5 | 2540.7 | 70 |
| 9 | Gordon McKellen | 11 | 10 | 2498.4 | 89 |
| 10 | Didier Gailhaguet | 10 | 11 | 2502.1 | 89 |
| 11 | Toller Cranston | 15 | 6 | | 90 |
| 12 | Günter Anderl | 8 | 14 | | 115 |
| 13 | Jacques Mrozek | 14 | 11 | | 116 |
| 14 | John Curry | 13 | 13 | | 117 |
| 15 | Daniel Höner | 12 | 16 | | 137 |
| 16 | Jozef Žídek | 18 | 15 | | 148 |
| 17 | Zdeněk Pazdírek | 17 | 19 | | 155 |
| 18 | Stefano Bargauan | 16 | 18 | | 157.5 |
| 19 | Klaus Grimmelt | 21 | 17 | | 167.5 |
| 20 | Yutaka Higuchi | 19 | 20 | | 180 |
| 21 | György Fazekas | 20 | 21 | | 186 |
* Referee: Elemér Terták
* Assistant Referee: Donald Gilchrist
Judges:
* Michele Beltrami
* Vera Curceac
* Tatyana Danilenko
* Milan Duchón
* Norman E. Fuller
* Monique Georgelin
* Kinuko Ueno
* Helga Wiecki
* Geoffrey Yates

### Ladies

| Rank | Name | CP | FP | Points | Placings |
| 1 | Beatrix Schuba | 1 | 7 | 2763.0 | 10 |
| 2 | Julie Holmes | 2 | 5 | 2697.3 | 24.5 |
| 3 | Karen Magnussen | 4 | 2 | 2697.7 | 27 |
| 4 | Janet Lynn | 5 | 1 | 2680.0 | 34 |
| 5 | Rita Trapanese | 3 | 8 | 2623.6 | 47.5 |
| 6 | Sonja Morgenstern | 9 | 3 | 2606.6 | 52 |
| 7 | Zsuzsa Almássy | 6 | 4 | 2599.9 | 57 |
| 8 | Charlotte Walter | 8 | 14 | 2480.7 | 83 |
| 9 | Christine Errath | 13 | 6 | 2493.5 | 86 |
| 10 | Suna Murray | 14 | 9 | 2475.0 | 91 |
| 11 | Yelena Aleksandrova | 10 | 13 | 2450.5 | 100 |
| 12 | Patricia Dodd | 7 | 16 | | 103 |
| 13 | Kazumi Yamashita | 12 | 11 | | 116 |
| 14 | Ľudmila Bezáková | 11 | 15 | | 122 |
| 15 | Jean Scott | 15 | 10 | | 132 |
| 16 | Diane Hall | 19 | 12 | | 132 |
| 17 | Anita Johansson | 16 | 18 | | 145 |
| 18 | Judith Beyer | 20 | 17 | | 159 |
| 19 | Ruth Hutchinson | 17 | 20 | | 168 |
| 20 | Sonja Balun | 22 | 19 | | 177 |
| 21 | Joëlle Cartaux | 18 | 22 | | 188 |
| 22 | Cinzia Frosio | 21 | 21 | | 197 |
* Referee: Josef Dědič
* Assistant Referee: Sonia Bianchetti
Judges:
* Eva von Gamm
* Ludwig Gassner
* Barbara Graham
* Walburga Grimm
* Éva György
* Nonna Nestogina [ru]
* Elof Niklasson
* Giorgio Siniscalco
* Mary Wright

### Pairs

| Rank | Name | SP | FP | Points | Placings |
| 1 | Irina Rodnina / Aleksey Ulanov | 2 | 1 | 419.4 | 11 |
| 2 | Lyudmila Smirnova / Andrey Suraykin | 1 | 2 | 418.9 | 17 |
| 3 | Alicia Starbuck / Kenneth Shelley | 3 | 3 | 410.3 | 29 |
| 4 | Manuela Groß / Uwe Kagelmann | 4 | 4 | 404.1 | 37 |
| 5 | Almut Lehmann / Herbert Wiesinger | 5 | 5 | 399.7 | 48 |
| 6 | Melissa Militano / Mark Militano | 6 | 6 | 394.9 | 56 |
| 7 | Annette Kansy / Axel Salzmann | 8 | 7 | 392.3 | 62 |
| 8 | Galina Karelina / Georgiy Proskurin | 6 | 8 | 387.9 | 76 |
| 9 | Sandra Bezic / Val Bezic | 9 | 9 | 384.1 | 80 |
| 10 | Grażyna Osmańska / Adam Brodecki | 11 | 10 | 381.0 | 88 |
| 11 | Barbara Brown / Doug Berndt | 12 | 11 | | 98 |
| 12 | Brunhilde Baßler / Eberhard Rausch | 10 | 12 | | 104 |
| 13 | Linda Connolly / Colin Taylforth | 13 | 13 | | 118 |
| 14 | Florence Cahn / Jean-Roland Racle | 14 | 14 | | 121 |
| 15 | Kotoe Nagasawa / Hiroshi Nagakubo | 17 | 15 | | 137 |
| 16 | Karin Künzle / Christian Künzle | 18 | 16 | | 146 |
| 17 | Teresa Skrzek / Piotr Szczypa | 16 | 17 | | 149 |
| WD | Evelyne Schneider / Wilhelm Bietak | 15 | | | DNF |
* Referee: Karl Enderlin
* Assistant Referee: Néri Valdes
Judges:
* Pamela Davis
* Norman E. Fuller
* Eva von Gamm
* Edwin Kucharz
* Carla Listing
* Nonna Nestogina
* Monique Petis
* Jürg Wilhelm
* Maria Zuchowicz

### Ice dance

| Rank | Name | CD | FD | Points | Placings |
| 1 | Lyudmila Pakhomova / Aleksandr Gorshkov | 1 | 1 | 515.8 | 16 |
| 2 | Angelika Buck / Erich Buck | 3 | 2 | 512.7 | 20 |
| 3 | Judy Schwomeyer / James Sladky | 2 | 3 | 514.5 | 21 |
| 4 | Susan Getty / Roy Bradshaw | 4 | 4 | 502.9 | 33 |
| 5 | Tetyana Voytyuk / Vyacheslav Zhyhalyn | 5 | 5 | 490.1 | 47 |
| 6 | Janet Sawbridge / Peter Dalby | 6 | 7 | 484.4 | 58 |
| 7 | Hilary Green / Glynn Watts | 10 | 8 | 473.3 | 71 |
| 8 | Yelena Zharkova / Gennadiy Karponosov | 7 | 6 | 475.3 | 71 |
| 9 | Anne Millier / Harvey Millier | 9 | 10 | 467.5 | 80 |
| 10 | Mary Campbell / Johnny Johns | 8 | 9 | 466.5 | 88 |
| 11 | Louise Lind / Barry Soper | 11 | 11 | | 103 |
| 12 | Diana Skotnická / Martin Skotnický | 13 | 12 | | 109.5 |
| 13 | Anne-Claude Wolfers / Roland Mars | 12 | 13 | | 113 |
| 14 | Teresa Weyna / Piotr Bojańczyk | 14 | 14 | | 117.5 |
| 15 | Ilona Berecz / István Sugár | 15 | 16 | | 134 |
| 16 | Matilde Ciccia / Lamberto Ceserani | 16 | 15 | | 142 |
| 17 | Tatiana Grossen / Alessandro Grossen | 17 | 17 | | 157 |
| 18 | Astrid Kopp / Axel Kopp | 18 | 18 | | 158 |
| 19 | Angelika Wiesner / Hans-Jürgen Wiesner | 19 | 20 | | 174 |
| 20 | Brigitte Scheijbal / Kurt Jaschek | 20 | 19 | | 177 |
* Referee: Emil Skákala
* Assistant Referee: Henri Meudec
Judges:
* George J. Blundun
* Igor Kabanov [ru]
* Klára Kozári
* Lysiane Lauret
* George Marsh
* Dagmar Řeháková
* Erika Schiechtl
* Mary Wright
* Maria Zuchowicz