1952 World Figure Skating 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.

1952 World Figure Skating Championships
Type:	ISU Championship
Date:	February 27 – March 1
Season:	1952
Location:	Paris, France
Champions
Men's singles: Richard Button
Ladies' singles: Jacqueline du Bief
Pairs: Ria Baran / Paul Falk
Ice dance: Jean Westwood / Lawrence Demmy
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The 1952 competitions for men, ladies, pair skating, and ice dancing took place from February 27 to March 1 in Paris, France. The World Championships in ice dancing were the first of its kind.

Medal table

  *   Host nation (France)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	1	3	3	7
2	Great Britain	1	1	1	3
3	France*	1	0	0	1
	West Germany	1	0	0	1
Totals (4 entries)		4	4	4	12

Results

Men

Rank	Name	Places
1	Dick Button	7
2	James Grogan	19
3	Hayes Jenkins	21
4	Helmut Seibt	25
5	Dudley Richards	34
6	Carlo Fassi	44
7	Peter Firstbrook	46
8	Alain Giletti	57
9	Martin Felsenreich	66
10	Adrian Swan	67
11	François Pache	76

Judges:

• Jakob Biedermann
• Ercole Cattaneo
• Donald Gilchrist
• Oskar Madl
• Gérard Rodrigues-Henriques
• Harold G. Storke
• J. Wilson

Ladies

Rank	Name	Places
1	Jacqueline du Bief	9
2	Sonya Klopfer	21
3	Virginia Baxter	24
4	Suzanne Morrow	43
5	Barbara Wyatt	55
6	Gundi Busch	59
7	Marlene Smith	64
8	Valda Osborn	65
9	Erica Batchelor	82
10	Vera Smith	90
11	Helga Dudzinski	96
12	Patricia Devries	110
13	Eva Weidler	123
14	Annelies Schilhan	132
15	Nancy Hallam-Burley	129
16	Ghislaine Kopf	124
17	Lidy Stoppelman	158
18	Yolande Jobin	161
19	Gweneth Molony	170
20	Doris Zerbe	175
21	Liliane de Becker	192
22	Nicole Vanderberghe	195
WD	Tenley Albright	DNS

Judges:

• Ercole Cattaneo
• Norman V. S. Gregory
• V. P. Gross
• Eugen Kirchhofer
• Alex Krupy
• Mollie Phillips
• Gérard Rodrigues-Henriques
• A. Voordeckers
• Franz Wojtanowskyj

Pairs

Rank	Name	Places
1	Ria Baran / Paul Falk	9
2	Karol Kennedy / Peter Kennedy	23.5
3	Jennifer Nicks / John Nicks	29
4	Frances Dafoe / Norris Bowden	31.5
5	Janet Gerhauser / John Nightingale	48.5
6	Silvia Grandjean / Michel Grandjean	49.5
7	Sissy Schwarz / Kurt Oppelt	68
8	Caryl Johns / Jack Jost	72
9	Jacqueline Mason / Mervyn Bower	81
10	Peri Horne / Raymond Lockwood	83

Judges:

• J. Biedermann
• Ercole Cattaneo
• Pamela Davis
• Donald Gilchrist
• V. P. Gross
• A. W. Knetemann
• Alex Krupy
• Hans Meixner
• Gérard Rodrigues-Henriques

Ice dance

Rank	Name	Places
1	Jean Westwood / Lawrence Demmy	7
2	Joan Dewhirst / John Slater	14
3	Carol Peters / Daniel Ryan	23
4	Carmel Bodel / Edward Bodel	26
5	Lydia Boon / Aadrian van Dam	35
6	Ilse Reitmayer / Hans Kutschera	44
7	Catharina Odink / Jacobus Odink	54
8	Albertina Brown / Nigel Brown	54
9	Paulin Haffner / Herbert Huber	58

Judges:

• Norman V. S. Gregory
• Eugen Kirchhofer
• Hans Meixner
• Henri Meudec
• Mollie Phillips
• R. Sackett
• A. Voordeckers

Sources

• Result List provided by the ISU