The 1981 World Figure Skating Championships, was 71st edition of World Figure Skating Championship were held in Hartford, Connecticut, United States from March 3 to 8. At the event, sanctioned by the

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, medals were awarded in men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and

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. The ISU Representative was Olaf Poulsen and the ISU Technical Delegate was Josef Dědič. The judging system was modified since 1980. For the singles events, the short program was worth 20% and the free skating 50% while the value of compulsory figures was reduced to 30% of the final result. The rank in each category was multiplied with a factor and these three numbers were added to the total score. The factor for the compulsory figures was 0.6, for the short program 0.4 and for the free skating 1.0. The rank within these three categories were judged according to the 6.0-judging system. In pairs, the short program had the factor 0.4 and the free skating 1.0. The ranks within the two pair categories were also judged according to the 6.0-judging system.

Medal tables

Medalists

Medals by country

Results

Men

Referee: * Donald H. Gilchrist Assistant Referee: *

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Judges: *

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* Junko Hiramatsu * Monique Georgelin *

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* Maria Zuchowicz * Sergei Kononykhin * Linda Petersen * Hugh C. Graham jr. * Geoffrey Yates Substitute judge: * Bojan Lipovšćak

Ladies

Referee: * Sonia Bianchetti Assistant Referee: * Charles U. Foster Judges: * Tjaša Andrée *

Ludwig Gassner Ludwig Gassner is an Austrian luger who competed in the early 1960s. He won a bronze medal in the men's doubles event at the 1962 FIL European Luge Championships in Weissenbach, Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the ...

* Karl-David Runeskog * Jane Sullivan * Kuniko Ueno * Helga von Wiecki * Marie Lundmark * Eugen Romminger *

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Substitute judge: * Pamela Davis

Pairs

Referee: * Benjamin T. Wright Assistant Referee: *

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Judges: * Maya Reinhart * Jacqueline Kendall-Baker *

* Dorothy MacLeod * Pamela Davis * Liudmila Kubashevskaya * Maria Zuchowicz * E. Newbold Black IV. * Eugen Romminger Substitute judge: * Junko Hiramatsu

Ice dancing

Sources

* Result list provided by the ISU {{ISU Championships Figure skating World Figure Skating Championships

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