1950 World Figure Skating Championships
Type:	ISU Championship
Date:	March 6 – March 8
Season:	1950
Location:	Wembley
Venue:	Wembley Arena
Champions
Men's singles: Richard Button
Ladies singles: Aja Vrzanova
Pair skating: Karol Kennedy & Peter Kennedy
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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 1950 championships took place on March 6th to 8th, 1950 in Wembley, United Kingdom.

[edit] Results

[edit] Men

Rank	Name	Nation	Placings	Figures	Free	Total
1	Richard Button	United States	7	824.71	594.76	1419.47
2	Ede Kiraly	Hungary	14	778.86	566.06	1344.92
3	Hayes Alan Jenkins	United States	25	728.93	549.03	1277.96
4	Helmut Seibt	Austria	29	739.90	534.45	1274.35
5	Austin Holt	United States	34	723.21	524.30	1247.51
6	Michael Carrington	United Kingdom	38	704.55	537.25	1241.80
7	Reg Park	Australia	51	672.50	497.60	1170.10
8	Roger Wickson	Canada	55	686.00	473.20	1159.20
9	Per Cock-Clausen	Denmark	62	652.98	443.45	1096.43

• Referee: Dr. James Koch  Switzerland
• Assistant Referee: Gustavus F. C. Witt  Netherlands

Judges were

• Fritz Kachler  Austria
• Mr. N. V. S. Gregory  Canada
• Mr. H. Meistrup  Denmark
• Capt. Henry Graham Sharp  United Kingdom
• Mr. Elmer Tertak  Hungary
• Dr. A. Huber  Switzerland
• Harold G. Storke  United States

[edit] Ladies

Rank	Name	Nation	Placings	Figures	Free	Total
1	Aja Vrzanova	Czechoslovakia	12	790.65	568.51	1359.16
2	Jeannette Altwegg	United Kingdom	18	789.71	556.00	1345.71
3	Yvonne Sherman	United States	23	782.48	548.10	1330.58
4	Suzanne Morrow	Canada	24	766.38	553.35	1319.73
5	Sonia Klopfer	United States	*37	734.18	560.93	1295.11
6	Jacqueline du Bief	France	36	741.53	560.93	1302.46
7	Virginia Baxter	United States	54	715.28	552.41	1267.69
8	Jirina Nekolova	ISU	62	755.18	491.98	1247.16
9	Marlene Smith	Canada	64	719.60	537.83	1257.43
10	Barbara Watt	United Kingdom	69	725.78	514.03	139.81
11	Andra McLauchlin	United States	74	707.70	525.11	1232.81
12	Dagmar Lerchova	Czechoslovakia	83	714.93	499.56	1214.49
13	Valda Osborn	United Kingdom	85	704.78	496.18	1200.96
14	Beryl Bailey	United Kingdom	94	689.15	501.31	1190.46

Remark: * better placed due to the majority of the better placings

• Referee: Major Kenneth M. Beaumont  United Kingdom
• Assistant Referee: Gustavus F. C. Witt  Netherlands

Judges were

• Mr. A. Voordeckers  Belgium
• Mr. N. V. S. Gregory  Canada
• Dr. J. Hainz  Czechoslovakia
• Mr. H. Meistrup  Denmark
• Georges Torchon  France
• Major G. S. Yates  United Kingdom
• Harold G. Storke  United States

[edit] Pairs

Rank	Name	Nation	Placings	Total
1	Karol Kennedy/Peter Kennedy	United States	15	96.07
2	Jennifer Nicks/John Nicks	United Kingdom	28.5	92.70
3	Marianne Nagy/Laszlo Nagy	Hungary	32	92.25
4	Elianne Steineman/André Calamé	Switzerland	44.5	90.00
5	Suzanne Gheldorf/Jacques Rénard	Belgium	48.5	89.43
6	Elly Stärck/Harry Gareis	Austria	61	88.08
7	Marlene Smith/Donald Gilchrist	Canada	*63	87.07
8	Joan Waterhouse/Gordon Holloway	United Kingdom	62	88.31
9	Liliane de Becker/Edmund Verbustel	Belgium	64	88.42
10	Irene Maguire/Walter Muehlbronner	United States	82	84.26
11	Sybil Cooke/Bob Hudson	United Kingdom	93.5	83.47
12	Denise Favart/Jacques Favart	France	108	77.73

Remark: * better placed due to the majority of the better placings

• Referee: Walter S. Powell  United States

Judges were

• Mr. Fritz Kachler  Austria
• Mr. A. Voordeckers  Belgium
• Mr. N. V. S. Gregory  Canada
• Mr. H. Meistrup  Denmark
• Georges Torchon  France
• Cap. E. H. C. Yates  United Kingdom
• Mr. Elmer Tertak  Hungary
• Dr. A. Huber  Switzerland
• Harold G. Storke  United States

[edit] References

• Result List provided by the ISU