1948 World Figure Skating Championships

1948 World Figure Skating Championships
Type:	ISU Championship
Date:	February 11 – 15
Season:	1948
Location:	Davos, Switzerland
Champions
Men's singles: Richard Button
Ladies' singles: Barbara Ann Scott
Pairs: Micheline Lannoy / Pierre Baugniet
Previous: 1947 World Championships
Next: 1949 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 1948 competitions for men, ladies, and pair skating took place from February 11 to 15 in Davos, Switzerland. These were the second World Figure Skating Championships after World War II. Skaters from Germany and Japan were still not allowed to compete.

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Switzerland)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Canada	1	0	1	2
2	Belgium	1	0	0	1
	United States	1	0	0	1
4	Hungary	0	1	1	2
5	Austria	0	1	0	1
	Switzerland*	0	1	0	1
7	Czechoslovakia	0	0	1	1
Totals (7 entries)		3	3	3	9

Results

Men

Rank	Name	Places
1	Dick Button	11
2	Hans Gerschwiler	19
3	Ede Király	28
4	John Lettengarver	32
5	James Grogan	52
6	Graham Sharp	53
7	Helmut Seibt	76
8	Hellmuth May	79
9	Wallace Diestelmeyer	85
10	Vladislav Čáp	84
11	Fernand Leemans	80
12	Zdeněk Fikar	105
13	Per Cock-Clausen	115
WD	Edi Rada	DNS

Judges:

• Eugen Kirchhofer
• Vladimir Koudelka
• Hubert Martineau
• Harry Meistrup
• Melville Rogers
• Adolf Rosdol
• Harold G. Stroke
• Marcell Vadas
• A. Voordeckers

Ladies

Rank	Name	Places
1	Barbara Ann Scott	11
2	Eva Pawlik	25
3	Jiřína Nekolová	32
4	Jeanette Altwegg	36
5	Alena Vrzáňová	39
6	Yvonne Sherman	71
7	Marta Bachem-Musilek	81
8	Bridget Adams	83
9	Andrea Kékesy	93
10	Dagmar Lerchová	109
11	Mária Saáry	102
12	Marilyn Take	97
13	Suzanne Morrow	107
14	Maja Hug	124
15	Marion Davies	113
16	Barbara Wyatt	135
17	Beryl Bailey	141
18	Jacqueline du Bief	149
19	Jill Hood-Linzee	163
20	Lotti Höner	179

Judges:

• Kenneth Beaumont
• Bernard Fox
• Harry Meistrup
• Hans Meixner
• Melville Rogers
• Elemér Terták
• Georges Torchon
• A. Winkler
• K. Zemek

Pairs

Rank	Name	Places
1	Micheline Lannoy / Pierre Baugniet	13.5
2	Andrea Kékesy / Ede Király	24.5
3	Suzanne Morrow / Wallace Diestelmeyer	26
4	Karol Kennedy / Peter Kennedy	38.5
5	Yvonne Sherman / Robert Swenning	45
6	Winifred Silverthorne / Dennis Silverthorne	51.5
7	Marianna Nagy / László Nagy	72
8	Jennifer Nicks / John Nicks	80.5
9	Blažena Knittlová / Karel Vosátka	86.5
10	Luny Unold / Hans Kuster	91
11	Herta Ratzenhofer / Emil Ratzenhofer	92
12	Joan Oglivie-Thompson / Robert Thompson	95
13	Susi Giebisch / Helmut Seibt	104
14	Eliane Steinemann / André Calame	125
WD	Denise Favart / Jacques Favart	DNS

Judges:

• Rudolf Kaler
• James Koch
• Vladimir Koudelka
• Mollie Phillips
• Melville Rogers
• Harold G. Storke
• Georges Torchon
• Marcell Vadas
• A. Voordeckers

Sources

• Result List provided by the ISU