The 1972

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were held at the

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from March 7 to 11. At the event, sanctioned by the

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, medals were awarded in men's singles, ladies' singles,

pair skating Pair skating is a figure skating discipline defined by the International Skating Union (ISU) as "the skating of two persons in unison who perform their movements in such harmony with each other as to give the impression of genuine Pair Skating a ...

, and

ice dance Ice dance (sometimes referred to as ice dancing) is a discipline of figure skating that historically draws from ballroom dancing. It joined the World Figure Skating Championships in 1952, and became a Winter Olympic Games medal sport in 1976. A ...

. The ISU Representative was John R. Shoemaker (United States) and the ISU Technical Delegates were Hermann Schiechtl (West Germany) and Donald H. Gilchrist (Canada). A day before the start of the competition,

Irina Rodnina Irina Konstantinovna Rodnina ( rus, Ирина Константиновна Роднина, p=ɪˈrʲinə kənstɐnˈtʲinəvnə rədʲnʲɪˈna; born 12 September 1949) is a Russian politician and retired figure skater, who is the only pair sk ...

Alexei Ulanov Alexei Nikolaevich Ulanov (russian: Алексей Николаевич Уланов; born 4 November 1947) is a retired pair skater who represented the Soviet Union. With Irina Rodnina, he is the 1972 Olympic champion and a four-time (1969–1 ...

had an accident on a lift; she was hospitalized with a

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and an intracranial

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but went on to compete and win the gold medal. It was Rodnina/Ulanov's final competition together; he would team up with the silver medalist,

Lyudmila Smirnova Lyudmila Stanislavovna Smirnova (russian: Людмила Станиславовна Смирнова; born July 21, 1949, in Leningrad) is a retired pair skater who competed for the Soviet Union. With partner Andrei Suraikin, she is the 197 ...

Medal table

Results

Men

Referee: * Donald H. Gilchrist Assistant Referee: * Sonia Bianchetti Judges: * Helga von Wiecki * Mollie Phillips * Dorothy Burkholder * William E. Lewis * Gerhardt Bubnik * Franz Heinlein *

Masao Hasegawa Masao (written: 正雄, 正夫, 正生, 正男, 正郎, 雅雄, 雅央, 雅夫, 雅勇, 雅男, 昌雄, 昌夫, 昌男, 昌朗, 昌郎, 昌大, 政雄, 政夫, 政男, 政於, 征夫, 優夫, 聖雄, 利生, 将雄, 将夫 or 眞男) is a masculine ...

* Monique Petis * Tatiana Danilenko Substitute judge: * János Zsigmondy

Ladies

Referee: *

Josef Dědič Josef Dědič (b. 1924; d. June 19, 1993 in Prague) was a Czechoslovak figure skater and sport official. He placed 9th at the 1948 European Figure Skating Championships and retired from competitive skating in that year. In 1949, he became a sk ...

Assistant Referee: *

Elemér Terták Elemér Terták (born 2 November 1918 in Budapest, Hungary; died 8 July 1999 in Budapest) was a Hungarian figure skater who competed in men's singles. He won the bronze medal at the 1934 European Figure Skating Championships, the 1937 European C ...

Judges: * Ramona McIntyre * Suzanne Francis * Jeanine Donnier-Blanc * Giovanni DeMori *

Walburga Grimm Walpurga or Walburga ( ang, Wealdburg, la, Valpurga, Walpurga, Walpurgis, sv, Valborg; c. AD 71025 February 777 or 779), also spelled Valderburg or Guibor, was an Anglo-Saxon missionary to the Frankish Empire. She was canonized on 1 May c. 870 ...

* Ludwig Gassner * Zoltán Balázs * René Schlageter * Wilhelm Kahle Substitute judge: * Milan Duchón

Pairs

Referee: * Karl Enderlin Assistant Referee: * Hanry M. Beatty Judges: * Pamela Davis *

Maria Zuchowicz Maria Zuchowicz (born in Poznań, in 1930 – 24 November 2020) was a Polish lawyer and figure skating official. She was Chairperson of Appeal Commission of the International Skating Union and Vice-President of the Polish Figure Skating Associa ...

Elsbeth Bon Elsbeth is a given name. Notable people with the name include: * Elsbeth Juda (born 1911), British photographer * Elsbeth Levy Bothe (born 1927), American attorney and judge *Elsbeth Schragmüller (1887–1940), German spy during World War I * Els ...

* Inkeri Soininen * Suzanne Francis * János Zsigmondy * Ardelle K. Sanderson *

Valentin Piseev Valentin Nikolaevich Piseev (russian: Валентин Николаевич Писеев; born 28 September 1941 in Volokolamsk) is a former general director of the Figure Skating Federation of Russia (until 2014) and the member of Russian Olym ...

Substitute judge: * René Schlageter

Ice dance

Referee: *

Lawrence Demmy Lawrence Demmy (1931 – 9 December 2016) was a British ice dancer. With partner Jean Westwood, he was the World Champion for four consecutive years, 1952 to 1955 George J. Blundun George may refer to: People * George (given name) * George (surname) * George (singer), American-Canadian singer George Nozuka, known by the mononym George * George Washington, First President of the United States * George W. Bush, 43rd President ...

Judges: * Pamela Davis * Claude Lambert * Audrey Moore * Milan Duchón *

Benjamin T. Wright Benjamin ( he, ''Bīnyāmīn''; "Son of (the) right") blue letter bible: https://www.blueletterbible.org/lexicon/h3225/kjv/wlc/0-1/ H3225 - yāmîn - Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (kjv) was the last of the two sons of Jacob and Rachel (Jacob's thir ...

Eugen Romminger Eugen is a masculine given name which may refer to: * Archduke Eugen of Austria (1863–1954), last Habsburg Grandmaster of the Teutonic Order from 1894 to 1923 * Prince Eugen, Duke of Närke (1865–1947), Swedish painter, art collector, and pat ...

* Zoltán Balázs * Igor Kabanov *

References

Sources

* Result list provided by the ISU * The Calgary Gerald (Calgary, Alberta, March 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 1972) {{ISU Championships Figure skating World Figure Skating Championships

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