# 1958 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 1958 competitions for men, ladies, pair skating, and ice dancing took place from February 13 to 15 in Paris, France. It was the first time that a team from the Soviet Union entered the competition.

## Medal table

* Host nation (France)
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | United States | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 2 | Canada | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 3 | Great Britain | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | Austria | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 5 | Czechoslovakia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | France* | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (6 entries) | Totals (6 entries) | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 |

## Results
### Men

| Rank | Name | Points | Places |
| 1 | David Jenkins | 1745.2 | 9 |
| 2 | Tim Brown | 1684.4 | 28 |
| 3 | Alain Giletti | 1682.7 | 26 |
| 4 | Donald Jackson | 1641.0 | 44 |
| 5 | Alain Calmat | 1621.4 | 46 |
| 6 | Karol Divín | 1607.0 | 61 |
| 7 | Tilo Gutzeit | | 63 |
| 8 | Michael Booker | | 87 |
| 9 | Edward Collins | | 90 |
| 10 | Robert Brewer | | 91 |
| 11 | Charles Snelling | | 95 |
| 12 | Thomas Moore | | 97 |
| 13 | Norbert Felsinger | | 97 |
| 14 | Hans-Jürgen Bäumler | | 124 |
| 15 | Manfred Schnelldorfer | | 130 |
| 16 | Peter Jonas | | 152 |
| 17 | Lev Mikhaylov | 1423.0 | 156 |
| 18 | François Pache | | 162 |
| 19 | Per Kjølberg | | 164 |
| 20 | Valentin Zakharov | 1376.9 | 180 |
| 21 | Igor Persiantsev | 1355.5 | 187 |
| 22 | William Cherrell | | 188 |
| 23 | Charles Keeble | | 207 |
Judges:
* Aleksey Andrianov
* P. Baron
* E. Fenner
* Martin Felsenreich
* B. Srbová
* Nigel Stephens
* Harold G. Storke
* E. Usemann
* J. Wilson

### Ladies

| Rank | Name | Points | Places |
| 1 | Carol Heiss | 1780.6 | 9 |
| 2 | Ingrid Wendl | 1679.0 | 19 |
| 3 | Hanna Walter | 1596.6 | 41.5 |
| 4 | Ina Bauer | 1577.8 | 47 |
| 5 | Diana Peach | 1562.2 | 56 |
| 6 | Nancy Heiss | 1583.2 | 68 |
| 7 | Patricia Pauley | | 79.5 |
| 8 | Joan Haanappel | | 83 |
| 9 | Carol Wanek | | 86 |
| 10 | Claralyn Lewis | | 89 |
| 11 | Karin Frohner | | 106 |
| 12 | Regine Heitzer | | 108 |
| 13 | Margaret Crosland | | 111 |
| 14 | Dany Rigoulot | | 114 |
| 15 | Sonia Snelling | | 116 |
| 16 | Sjoukje Dijkstra | | 127 |
| 17 | Jindra Kramperová | | 131 |
| 18 | Corinne Altmann | | 169 |
| 19 | Petra Damm | | 174 |
| 20 | Carla Tichatschek | | 186 |
| 21 | Anna Galmarini | | 193 |
| 22 | Nicole Erdos | | 200 |
| 23 | Nicole Hassler | | 202 |
| 24 | Liliane Crosa | | 215 |
| 25 | Lois Thomson | | 216 |
| 26 | Rita Müller | | 222 |
| 27 | Grete Borgen | | 239 |
| 28 | Karin Dehle | | 248 |
| 29 | Gunhild Frylén | | 260 |
Judges:
* Bruno Bonfiglio
* Pamela Davis
* M. Drake
* E. Fenner
* V. P. Gross
* G. D. Jeffery
* Oskar Madl
* Gérard Rodriguez-Henriques
* Emil Skákala

### Pairs

| Rank | Name | Points | Places |
| 1 | Barbara Wagner / Robert Paul | 101.6 | 10 |
| 2 | Věra Suchánková / Zdeněk Doležal | 97.6 | 26 |
| 3 | Maria Jelinek / Otto Jelinek | 95.9 | 28 |
| 4 | Joyce Coates / Anthony Holles | 94.2 | 41 |
| 5 | Nancy Ludington / Ronald Ludington | 93.6 | 48 |
| 6 | Marika Kilius / Hans-Jürgen Bäumler | 93.4 | 48.5 |
| 7 | Marianna Nagy / László Nagy | | 64.5 |
| 8 | Nina Zhuk / Stanislav Zhuk | 89.5 | 78.5 |
| 9 | Mary Watson / John Jarmon | | 78.5 |
| 10 | Liesl Ellend / Konrad Lienert | | 84 |
| 11 | Eszter Jurek / Miklós Kucharovits | | 98.5 |
| 12 | Carolyn Krau / Rodney Ward | | 102 |
| 13 | Lyudmila Belousova / Oleg Protopopov | | 119 |
| 14 | Agneta Wale / Kristian Wale | | 119 |
| 15 | Ingeborg Nilsson / Reidar Børjeson | | 133.5 |
Judges:
* Aleksey Andrianov
* Bruno Bonfiglio
* Jadwiga Dąbrowska-Mętlewicz
* Pamela Davis
* Martin Felsenreich
* Emil Skákala
* Nigel Stephens
* Harold G. Storke
* E. Usemann

### Ice dance

| Rank | Name | Points | Places |
| 1 | June Markham / Courtney Jones | 330.84 | 9 |
| 2 | Geraldine Fenton / William McLachlan | 313.96 | 25 |
| 3 | Andree Anderson / Donald Jacoby | 310.42 | 35 |
| 4 | Cathrine Morris / Michael Robinson | 308.92 | 37 |
| 5 | Barbara Thompson / Gerard Rigby | 307.69 | 39 |
| 6 | Christiane Guhel / Jean Guhel | 306.97 | 46 |
| 7 | Beverly Orr / Hugh Smith | | 61 |
| 8 | Claire O'Neil / John Bejshak | | 72 |
| 9 | Lucia Zorn / Rudolf Zorn | | 96 |
| 10 | Rita Paucka / Peter Kwiet | | 98 |
| 11 | Catharina Odink / Jacobus Odink | | 99 |
| 12 | Annick de Trentinian / Jacques Mer | | 102 |
| 13 | Adriana Giuggiolini / Germano Ceccattini | | 108 |
| 14 | Petra Steigerwald / Hannes Burkhardt | | 128 |
| 15 | Ludovica Boccacci / Giancarlo Sioli | | 131 |
| 16 | Maria Toncelli / Vinicio Toncelli | | 138 |
Judges:
* Pauline L. Barrajo
* M. Drake
* B. M. Haanappel
* G. D. Jeffery
* Hans Meixner
* Jacqueline Meudec
* Hermann Schiechtl
* Emil Skákala
* C. Somasca-Bianchi

## Sources

* Result List provided by the ISU