1949 World Figure Skating Championships Explained

1949 World Figure Skating Championships
Comptype:ISU Championship
Startdate:16
Enddate:18 February 1949
Skatingseason:1949
Location: Paris, France
Championmen: Dick Button
Championladies: Alena Vrzáňová
Championpairs: Andrea Kékesy / Ede Király
Previouscomp:1948 World Championships
Nextcomp:1950 World Championships

The World Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union in which amateur figure skaters compete for the title of World Champion.

The 1949 championships took place from 16 to 18 February 1949 in Paris, France. At the men's event, the favorite, Dick Button won. At the women's event, however, the favorite, Eva Pawlik of Austria, who had been the Olympic runner-up behind Barbara Ann Scott one year before and who had just won the European title in 1949, dropped out because of a broken boot heel just before the free program.[1] [2] [3] [4] which provided Alena Vrzáňová of Czechoslovakia with the opportunity to win the gold medal. She became the first woman to perform a double lutz.

Results

Men

RankNamePlaces
align=center 15
align=center 212
align=center 313
423
526
629
734
838
945
1050

Judges:

Ladies

RankNamePlaces
align=center 17
align=center 217
align=center 318
444.5
546
648
753
855
967
1068.5
1171
1273
1382
1485
15105
WDDNS
WDDNS

Judges:

Pairs

RankNamePlaces
align=center 17
align=center 214.5
align=center 331.5
433
535.5*
635.5
749.5
856.5
956.5*
1063
1175
1278.5
*Better placed due to the majority of the better places

Judges:

Sources

Notes and References

  1. Figure skating: "Favored to win, Eva Pawlik was forced to withdraw", in: Life Magazine, 14.3.1949
  2. Susan D. Russell, "Eva Pawlik and Rudi Seeliger", In: International Figure Skating Magazine, Jan/Feb 2008
  3. Matthias Hampe, The genesis of figure skating. Doctoral thesis at the Potsdam University 2010, page 218
  4. Kelli Lawrence, Skating On Air. McFarland & Company. Jefferson (North Carolina) and London 2011. Chapter "Eva Pawlik - more than an overseas footnote", page 22.