# 1956 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 1956 competitions for men, ladies, pair skating, and ice dancing took place from February 16 to 19 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, West Germany.

## Medal table

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

## Results
### Men

| Rank | Name | Places |
| 1 | Hayes Jenkins | 10 |
| 2 | Ronald Robertson | 17 |
| 3 | David Jenkins | 28 |
| 4 | Charles Snelling | 42 |
| 5 | Michael Booker | 48 |
| 6 | Karol Divín | 48 |
| 7 | Alain Calmat | 65 |
| 8 | Norbert Felsinger | 71 |
| 9 | Tilo Gutzeit | 77 |
| 10 | François Pache | 91 |
| 11 | Allan Ganter | 109 |
| 12 | Hans-Jürgen Bäumler | 111 |
| 13 | Hans Müller | 113 |
| 14 | Hanno Ströher | 115 |
| 15 | Darío Villalba | 137 |
| 16 | Charles Keeble | 142 |
| WD | Manfred Schnelldorfer | DNS |
Judges:
* K. Beyer
* Sydney R. Croll
* H. Deistler
* Emile Finsterwald
* H. Kendall Kelley
* Ralph McCreath
* Mollie Phillips
* Gérard Rodrigues-Henriques
* B. Srbová

### Ladies

| Rank | Name | Places |
| 1 | Carol Heiss | 13 |
| 2 | Tenley Albright | 14 |
| 3 | Ingrid Wendl | 33 |
| 4 | Yvonne Sugden | 37 |
| 5 | Hanna Eigel | 48 |
| 6 | Catherine Machado | 49 |
| 7 | Hanna Walter | 71 |
| 8 | Erica Batchelor | 72 |
| 9 | Ann Johnston | 72 |
| 10 | Mary Dorsey | 97 |
| 11 | Joan Haanappel | 103 |
| 12 | Diana Peach | 107 |
| 13 | Fiorella Negro | 128 |
| 14 | Emma Giardini | 130 |
| 15 | Jindra Kramperová | 131 |
| 16 | Sjoukje Dijkstra | 144 |
| 17 | Karin Borner | 155 |
| 18 | Ilse Musyl | 161 |
| 19 | Alice Fischer | 168 |
| 20 | Ina Bauer | 171 |
| 21 | Jana Dočekalová | 175 |
Judges:
* Ercole Cattaneo
* Otto Dallmayr
* Pamela Davis
* Emile Finsterwald
* V. P. Gross
* Ernst Labin
* Ralph McCreath
* Gérard Rodrigues-Henriques
* B. Srbová

### Pairs

| Rank | Name | Places |
| 1 | Sissy Schwarz / Kurt Oppelt | 14 |
| 2 | Frances Dafoe / Norris Bowden | 15 |
| 3 | Marika Kilius / Franz Ningel | 30 |
| 4 | Carole Ormaca / Robin Greiner | 34 |
| 5 | Barbara Wagner / Robert Paul | 42.5 |
| 6 | Lucille Ash / Sully Kothmann | 68.5 |
| 7 | Joyce Coates / Anthony Holles | 70 |
| 8 | Liesl Ellend / Konrad Lienert | 74.5 |
| 9 | Carolyn Patricia Krau / Rodney Ward | 75.5 |
| 10 | Eva Neeb / Karl Probst | 80.5 |
| 11 | Jacqueline Mason / Mervyn Bower | 88.5 |
Judges:
* Pauline L. Barrajo
* K. Beyer
* Ercole Cattaneo
* Sydney R. Croll
* Otto Dallmayr
* Emile Finsterwald
* Ralph McCreath
* B. Srbová
* Franz Wojtanowskyj

### Ice dance

| Rank | Name | Places |
| 1 | Pamela Weight / Paul Thomas | 7 |
| 2 | June Markham / Courtney Jones | 15 |
| 3 | Barbara Thompson / Gerard Rigby | 29 |
| 4 | Joan Zamboni / Roland Junso | 37 |
| 5 | Fanny Besson / Jean Guhel | 38 |
| 6 | Carmel Bodel / Edward Bodel | 39 |
| 7 | Sidney Arnold / Franklin Nelson | 47 |
| 8 | Sigrid Knake / Günther Koch | 49 |
| 9 | Lindis Johnston / Jeffrey Johnston | 74.5 |
| 10 | Gerda Wohlgemuth / Hannes Burkhardt | 76.5 |
| 11 | Edith Peikert / Hans Kutschera | 77 |
| 12 | Bona Giammona / Giancarlo Sioli | 82 |
| 13 | Lucia Fischer / Rudolf Zorn | 88 |
| 14 | Catharina Odink / Jacobus Odink | 91 |
| 15 | Adriana Giuggiolini / Germano Ceccattini | 94 |
| 16 | Rita Paucka / Peter Kwiet | 109 |
| 17 | Maria Locatelli / Vinicio Toncelli | 117 |
Judges:
* P. Farinet
* A. Jobin
* H. Kendall Kelley
* Henri Meudec
* Hermann Schiechtl
* D. Ward
* Franz Wojtanowskyj

## Sources

* Result List provided by the ISU