The 1988

World Figure Skating Championships The World Figure Skating Championships (''"Worlds"'') is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union. Medals are awarded in the categories of men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dance. ...

were held in

Budapest Budapest (, ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Hungary. It is the ninth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits and the second-largest city on the Danube river; the city has an estimated population ...

Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the ...

from March 22 to 27. Medals were awarded in men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and

ice dancing 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 ...

Medal tables

Medalists

Medals by country

Results

Men

Kurt Browning of Canada landed the first ratified quadruple jump (a

toe loop The toe loop jump is the simplest jump in the sport of figure skating. It was invented in the 1920s by American professional figure skater Bruce Mapes. The toe loop is accomplished with a forward approach on the inside edge of the blade; the ska ...

) in his free skating.

Jozef Sabovcik Jozef or Józef is a Dutch, Breton, Polish and Slovak version of masculine given name Joseph. A selection of people with that name follows. For a comprehensive list see and .. * Józef Beck (1894–1944), Polish foreign minister in the 1930s ...

of Czechoslovakia had landed a quad toe loop at the 1986 European Championships which was recognized at the event but then ruled invalid three weeks later due to a touchdown with his free foot.

Ladies

Pairs

Ice dancing

References

External links

results
* http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1067164/index.htm * https://web.archive.org/web/20110603230816/http://www.isu.org/vsite/vfile/page/fileurl/0%2C11040%2C4844-148236-165452-56215-0-file%2C00.pdf * http://articles.latimes.com/1988-03-26/sports/sp-201_1_world-figure-skating-championships {{ISU Championships Figure skating World Figure Skating Championships

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