1950 World Figure Skating Championships

1950 World Figure Skating Championships
Type:	ISU Championship
Date:	March 6 – 8
Season:	1950
Location:	Wembley, UK
Venue:	Wembley Arena
Champions
Men's singles: Richard Button
Ladies' singles: Alena Vrzanova
Pairs: Karol Kennedy / Peter Kennedy
Previous: 1949 World Championships
Next: 1951 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 1950 championships took place on March 6 to 8 in Wembley, United Kingdom.

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Great Britain)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	2	0	2	4
2	Czechoslovakia	1	0	0	1
3	Great Britain*	0	2	0	2
4	Hungary	0	1	1	2
Totals (4 entries)		3	3	3	9

Results

Men

Rank	Name	CF	FS	Total	Places
1	Dick Button	824.71	594.76	1419.47	7
2	Ede Király	778.86	566.06	1344.92	14
3	Hayes Alan Jenkins	728.93	549.03	1277.96	25
4	Helmut Seibt	739.90	534.45	1274.35	29
5	Austin Holt	723.21	524.30	1247.51	34
6	Michael Carrington	704.55	537.25	1241.80	38
7	Reg Park	672.50	497.60	1170.10	51
8	Roger Wickson	686.00	473.20	1159.20	55
9	Per Cock-Clausen	652.98	443.45	1096.43	62

• Referee: James Koch
• Assistant Referee: Gustavus F. C. Witt

Judges:

• Norman V. S. Gregory
• A. Huber
• Fritz Kachler
• Harry Meistrup
• Graham Sharp
• Harold G. Storke
• Elemér Terták

Ladies

Rank	Name	CF	FS	Total	Places
1	Álena Vrzáňová	790.65	568.51	1359.16	12
2	Jeannette Altwegg	789.71	556.00	1345.71	18
3	Yvonne Sherman	782.48	548.10	1330.58	23
4	Suzanne Morrow	766.38	553.35	1319.73	24
5	Sonya Klopfer	734.18	560.93	1295.11	37*
6	Jacqueline du Bief	741.53	560.93	1302.46	36
7	Virginia Baxter	715.28	552.41	1267.69	54
8	Jiřina Nekolová	755.18	491.98	1247.16	62
9	Marlene Smith	719.60	537.83	1257.43	64
10	Barbara Wyatt	725.78	514.03	139.81	69
11	Andra McLaughlin	707.70	525.11	1232.81	74
12	Dagmar Lerchová	714.93	499.56	1214.49	83
13	Valda Osborn	704.78	496.18	1200.96	85
14	Beryl Bailey	689.15	501.31	1190.46	94

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

• Referee: Kenneth Beaumont
• Assistant Referee: Gustavus F. C. Witt

Judges:

• Norman V. S. Gregory
• J. Hainz
• Harry Meistrup
• Harold G. Storke
• Georges Torchon
• A. Voordeckers
• Geoffrey Yates

Pairs

Rank	Name	Total	Places
1	Karol Kennedy / Peter Kennedy	96.07	15
2	Jennifer Nicks / John Nicks	92.70	28.5
3	Marianna Nagy / László Nagy	92.25	32
4	Eliane Steinemann / André Calame	90.00	44.5
5	Suzanne Gheldorf / Jacques Rénard	89.43	48.5
6	Elly Stärck / Harry Gareis	88.08	61
7	Marlene Smith / Donald Gilchrist	87.07	63*
8	Joan Waterhouse / Gordon Holloway	88.31	62
9	Liliane de Becker / Edmond Verbustel	88.42	64
10	Irene Maguire / Walter Mühlbronner	84.26	82
11	Sybil Cooke / Robert Hudson	83.47	93.5
12	Denise Favart / Jacques Favart	77.73	108

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

• Referee: Walter Powell

Judges:

• Norman V. S. Gregory
• A. Huber
• Fritz Kachler
• Harry Meistrup
• Harold G. Storke
• Elemér Terták
• Georges Torchon
• A. Voordeckers
• Ernest Yates

Ice Dance (unofficial)

Rank	Name	Places
1	Lois Waring / Michael McGean
2	Sybil Cooke / Robert Hudson
3	Irene Maguire / Walter Mühlbronner

Sources

• Result List provided by the ISU