1955 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.

1955 World Figure Skating Championships
Type:	ISU Championship
Date:	February 15 – 18
Season:	1955
Location:	Vienna, Austria
Champions
Men's singles: Hayes Alan Jenkins
Ladies' singles: Tenley Albright
Pairs: Frances Dafoe / Norris Bowden
Ice dance: Jean Westwood / Lawrence Demmy
Previous: 1954 World Championships
Next: 1956 World Championships

The 1955 competitions for men, ladies, pair skating, and ice dancing took place from February 15th to 18th in Vienna, Austria.

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Austria)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	2	2	1	5
2	Great Britain	1	1	1	3
3	Canada	1	0	0	1
4	Austria*	0	1	1	2
5	Hungary	0	0	1	1
Totals (5 entries)		4	4	4	12

Results

Men

Rank	Name	Places
1	Hayes Jenkins	11
2	Ronald Robertson	16
3	David Jenkins	28
4	Alain Giletti	37
5	Karol Divín	58
6	Michael Booker	58
7	Norbert Felsinger	60
8	Charles Snelling	69
9	Alain Calmat	79
10	Hugh Graham	79
11	István Szenes	103
12	Hans Müller	114
13	Tilo Gutzeit	114
14	Brian Tuck	119

Judges:

• Jean Creux
• Donald Gilchrist
• Alexander Gordon
• V. Koudelka
• Oskar Madl
• Gérard Rodrigues-Henriques
• R. Sackett
• Elemér Terták
• Adolf Walker

Ladies

Rank	Name	Points	Places
1	Tenley Albright	190.96	9
2	Carol Heiss	180.31	28
3	Hanna Eigel	179.78	29
4	Ingrid Wendl	178.46	41
5	Erica Batchelor	177.56	43
6	Yarmila Pachl	175.16	58
7	Patricia Firth	174.49	59
8	Yvonne Sugden	174.59	64
9	Ann Johnston	172.51	77
10	Catherine Machado	169.43	87
11	Rosi Pettinger	161.98	105
12	Dawn Hunter	158.42	121
13	Ilse Musyl	157.99	126
14	Dagmar Řeháková	157.89	129
15	Joan Haanappel	156.06	138
16	Fiorella Negro	161.98	141
17	Alice Fischer	153.37	158.5
18	Miroslava Náchodská	153.03	162
19	Maryvonne Huet	152.54	162.5
20	Erika Rücker	150.66	175
21	Sjoukje Dijkstra	151.57	176
WD	Hanna Walter	DNS

Judges:

• Jean Creux
• Pamela Davis
• Josef Dědič
• Donald Gilchrist
• F. Händel
• A. Krunoy
• Edwin Kucharz
• Gérard Rodrigues-Henriques
• Mario Verdi

Pairs

Rank	Name	Points	Places
1	Frances Dafoe / Norris Bowden	10.88	17.5
2	Sissy Schwarz / Kurt Oppelt	10.82	17.5
3	Marianna Nagy / László Nagy	10.57	28
4	Carole Ormaca / Robin Greiner	10.27	46
5	Barbara Wagner / Robert Paul	10.08	65
6	Věra Suchánková / Zdeněk Doležal	10.06	66.5
7	Marika Kilius / Franz Ningel	10.01	68.5
8	Lucille Ash / Sully Kothmann	10.02	70.5
9	Alice Zettel / Klaus Loichinger	9.96	70.5
10	Liesl Ellend / Konrad Lienert	9.82	82.5
11	Éva Szöllősi / Gábor Vida	9.78	83
12	Vivien Higson / Robert Hudson	9.79	87.5

Judges:

• J. Creux
• Donald H. Gilchrist
• F. Händel
• V. Koudelka
• A. Krunoy
• Mollie Phillips
• Elemér Terták
• M. Verdi
• Franz Wojtanowskyj

Ice dance

Rank	Name	Points	Places
1	Jean Westwood / Lawrence Demmy	37.09	7
2	Pamela Weight / Paul Thomas	36.52	14
3	Barbara Radford / Raymond Lockwood	35.29	21
4	Carmel Bodel / Edward Bodel	34.23	28
5	Joan Zamboni / Roland Junso	34.11	34
6	Phyllis Forney / Martin Forney	33.23	43
7	Fanny Besson / Jean Guhel		50
8	Sigrid Knake / Günther Koch		69
9	Lucia Fischer / Rudolf Zorn	31.20	69
10	Bona Giammona / Giancarlo Sioli		75
11	Lindis Johnston / Jeffrey Johnston		77
12	Catharina Odink / Jacobus Odink		80
13	Claude Weinstein / Claude Lambert		83
14	Edith Peikert / Hans Kutschera	30.33	84
15	Luise Lehner / Georg Lenitz	28.38	104

Judges:

• Pauline L. Barrajo
• P. Farinet
• Hans Meixner
• Henri Meudec
• R. Sackett
• László Szollás
• A. Voordeckers

Sources

• Result List provided by the ISU