1949 World Figure Skating 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.

1949 World Figure Skating Championships
Type:	ISU Championship
Date:	16 – 18 February 1949
Season:	1949
Location:	Paris, France
Champions
Men's singles: Dick Button
Ladies' singles: Alena Vrzáňová
Pairs: Andrea Kékesy / Ede Király
Navigation
Previous: 1948 World Championships
Next: 1950 World Championships

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.^[5]

Medal table

  *   Host nation (France)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	1	2	1	4
2	Hungary	1	1	0	2
3	Czechoslovakia	1	0	0	1
4	Austria	0	0	1	1
	Great Britain	0	0	1	1
Totals (5 entries)		3	3	3	9

Results

Men

Rank	Name	Places
1	Dick Button	5
2	Ede Király	12
3	Edi Rada	13
4	James Grogan	23
5	Helmut Seibt	26
6	Hayes Alan Jenkins	29
7	Austin Holt	34
8	Carlo Fassi	38
9	Per Cock-Clausen	45
10	Jean Vives	50

Judges:

• Ferenc Kertész
• Edwin Kucharz
• Harry Meistrup
• Harold G. Storke
• Mario Verdi

Ladies

Rank	Name	Places
1	Alena Vrzáňová	7
2	Yvonne Sherman	17
3	Jeannette Altwegg	18
4	Jiřina Nekolová	44.5
5	Bridget Adams	46
6	Andra McLaughlin	48
7	Virginia Baxter	53
8	Dagmar Lerchová	55
9	Jacqueline du Bief	67
10	Barbara Wyatt	68.5
11	Helen Uhl	71
12	Valda Osborn	73
13	Beryl Bailey	82
14	Lilly Fuchs	85
15	Liliane Madaule	105

Judges:

• Kenneth Beaumont
• Ferenc Kertész
• James Koch
• Adolf Rosdol
• Harold G. Storke
• Georges Torchon
• Josef Vosolsobě

Pairs

Rank	Name	Places
1	Andrea Kékesy / Ede Király	7
2	Karol Kennedy / Peter Kennedy	14.5
3	Ann Davies / Carleton Hoffner	31.5
4	Marianna Nagy / László Nagy	33
5	Herta Ratzenhofer / Emil Ratzenhofer	35.5*
6	Jennifer Nicks / John Nicks	35.5
7	Běla Zachova / Jaroslav Zach	49.5
8	Eliane Steinemann / André Calame	56.5
9	Elly Stärck / Harry Gareis	56.5*
10	Denise Favart / Jacques Favart	63
11	Suzanne Gheldorf / Jacques Rénard	75
12	Pamela Davis / Peter Scholes	78.5

*Better placed due to the majority of the better places

Judges:

• Emile Finsterwald
• Ferenc Kertész
• Mollie Phillips
• Adolf Rosdol
• Harold G. Storke
• Georges Torchon
• Josef Vosolsobě