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1953 World Figure Skating Championships

Annual figure skating competition held in 1953

Field	Value
title	1953 World Figure Skating Championships
comptype	ISU Championship
startdate	February 8
enddate	15
skatingseason	1953
location	Switzerland Davos, Switzerland
championmen	US Hayes Alan Jenkins
championladies	US Tenley Albright
championpairs	UK Jennifer Nicks / John Nicks
championdance	UK Jean Westwood / Lawrence Demmy
previouscomp	1952 World Championships
nextcomp	1954 World 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 1953 competitions for men, ladies, pair skating, and ice dancing took place from February 8 to 15 in Davos, Switzerland.

Medal table

Results

Men

Rank	Name	Age	CF	FS	Points	Places	4	5
1	US Hayes Jenkins	19	2	925.2	1	727.2	183.6	13
2	US James Grogan	21	1	931.9	3	704.3	181.8	16
3	Italy Carlo Fassi	24	3	907.1	6	659.8	174.1	36
US Ronald Robertson	15	7	851.8	2	707.9	173.3	37
France Alain Giletti	13	5	864.7	4	675.2	171.4	44
US Dudley Richards	21	6	870.6	5	673.8	171.6	49
Canada Peter Firstbrook	19	4	871.4	8	640.6	168.0	59
Canada Peter Dunfield	21	8	790.7	7	656.5	160.8	73
UK Michael Booker	15	9	778.4	9	622.9	155.7	81
West Germany Freimut Stein	28	10	764.4	10	609.9	152.7	88
Austria Kurt Oppelt	20	13	712.8	11	592.2	145.0	102
Switzerland Hubert Köpfler	17	11	745.4	12	553.3	144.3	106
Hungary György Czakó	19	14	701.6	13	543.1	138.3	115
West Germany Klaus Loichinger		12	729.5				DNF

Judges:

Italy Ercole Cattaneo
UK Pamela Davis
Canada John D. Greig
Belgium Henri Hoyoux
Switzerland A. Jaisli
US Alex Krupy
Austria Hans Meixner
France Gérard Rodrigues-Henriques
West Germany Adolf Walker

Ladies

Rank	Name	Age	CF	FS	Total	Points	Places	4	5
1	US Tenley Albright	17	1	757.3	1	560.73	1318.03	188.29	7
2	West Germany Gundi Busch	17	2	730.9	3	531.27	1262.17	180.31	16
3	UK Valda Osborn	18	3	719.7		513.77	1233.47	176.21	28
US Carol Heiss	13	5	705.4	2	531.29	1236.69	176.67	27
Canada Suzanne Morrow	22	4	716.7		516.63	1233.33	176.19	28
Canada Vera Smith	20					1198.68	171.24	48
US Margaret Graham						1189.79	169.97	49
UK Yvonne Sugden	13					1175.51	167.93	53
UK Erica Batchelor	19					1145.62	163.66	70
UK Ann Robinson						1141.28	163.04	74
Austria Annelies Schilhan	16	12	642.1		499.11	1141.21	163.03	72
Canada Mary Kenner	19							86
UK Norma Skevington								83
West Germany Rosi Pettinger	19							97
Switzerland Doris Zerbe								109
US Margaret Dean								112
Switzerland Yolande Jobin	22							112
Hungary Eszter Jurek	16							129
Netherlands Lidy Stoppelman	19							130
West Germany Helga Dudzinski	23							DNF
Austria Sissy Schwarz	16							DNF

Judges:

Canada John D. Greig
Switzerland A. Jaisli
US Alex Krupy
Austria Ernst Labin
UK Mollie Phillips
France Gérard Rodrigues-Henriques
West Germany Adolf Walker

Pairs

Rank	Name	Age	Total	Points	Places
1	UK Jennifer Nicks / John Nicks	20/23	77.0	11.00	10.5
2	Canada Frances Dafoe / Norris Bowden	23/26	76.37	10.91	16
3	Hungary Marianna Nagy / László Nagy	24/25	74.62	10.66	23.5
Switzerland Silvia Grandjean / Michel Grandjean	18/21	74.27	10.61	24
UK Peri Horne / Raymond Lockwood	20/24	71.40	10.20	39
Austria Sissy Schwarz / Kurt Oppelt	16/20	70.14	10.02	43.5
UK Jane Higson / Robert Hudson		70.07	10.01	44.5
Hungary Éva Szöllősi / Gábor Vida	18/23	67.48	9.64	57
West Germany Eva Neeb / Karl Probst	19/	66.78	9.54	61
Belgium Charlotte Michiels / Gaston van Ghelder		65.88	9.34	66

Judges:

UK Pauline L. Barrajo
Switzerland Emile Finsterwald
Canada John D. Greig
Belgium Henri Hoyoux
Austria Walter Malek
West Germany Werner Rittberger
Hungary Elemér Terták

Ice dance

Rank	Name	Age	CD	FD	Points	Places	4	5
1	UK Jean Westwood / Lawrence Demmy	22/22	1	111.4	1	73.85	37.05	6
2	UK Joan Dewhirst / John Slater	17/25	2	110.0	2	73.05	36.61	10
3	US Carol Peters / Daniel Ryan	20/23	3	104.4	3	70.7	35.02	14
UK Nesta Davies / Paul Thomas		5	102.6	4	68.0	34.12	20
US Virginia Hoyns / Donald Jacoby		4	101.0	6	67.45	33.69	23
Netherlands Lydia Boon / Aadrian van Dam		6	96.9	7	66.7	32.72	30
US Carmel Bodel / Edward Bodel	40/32	7	88.9	5	67.85	31.35	35
Switzerland Albertina Brown / Nigel Brown		8	83.0	9	61.1	28.82	42
Austria Helga Binder / Edwin Führich		10	81.8	8	61.5	28.66	45
Netherlands Catharina Odink / Jacobus Odink		9	83.7	12	55.0	27.74	50
Austria Lucia Fischer / Rudolf Zorn		11	82.0	11	55.4	27.48	54
Austria Luise Lehner / Hans Kutschera		12	76.5	10	55.9	26.48	59

Judges:

UK Pamela Davis
Switzerland Emile Finsterwald
Austria Hans Meixner
US R. Sackett
Belgium A. Voordeckers

Sources

Result List provided by the ISU

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