1956 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.

1956 World Figure Skating Championships
Type:	ISU Championship
Date:	February 16 – 19
Season:	1956
Location:	Garmisch-Partenkirchen, West Germany
Champions
Men's singles: Hayes Alan Jenkins
Ladies' singles: Carol Heiss
Pairs: Sissy Schwarz / Kurt Oppelt
Ice dance: Pamela Weight / Paul Thomas
Previous: 1955 World Championships
Next: 1957 World Championships

The 1956 competitions for men, ladies, pair skating, and ice dancing took place from February 16 to 19 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, West Germany.

Medal table

  *   Host nation (West Germany)

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

Results

Men

Rank	Name	Places
1	Hayes Jenkins	10
2	Ronald Robertson	17
3	David Jenkins	28
4	Charles Snelling	42
5	Michael Booker	48
6	Karol Divín	48
7	Alain Calmat	65
8	Norbert Felsinger	71
9	Tilo Gutzeit	77
10	François Pache	91
11	Allan Ganter	109
12	Hans-Jürgen Bäumler	111
13	Hans Müller	113
14	Hanno Ströher	115
15	Darío Villalba	137
16	Charles Keeble	142
WD	Manfred Schnelldorfer	DNS

Judges:

• K. Beyer
• Sydney R. Croll
• H. Deistler
• Emile Finsterwald
• H. Kendall Kelley
• Ralph McCreath
• Mollie Phillips
• Gérard Rodrigues-Henriques
• B. Srbová

Ladies

Rank	Name	Places
1	Carol Heiss	13
2	Tenley Albright	14
3	Ingrid Wendl	33
4	Yvonne Sugden	37
5	Hanna Eigel	48
6	Catherine Machado	49
7	Hanna Walter	71
8	Erica Batchelor	72
9	Ann Johnston	72
10	Mary Dorsey	97
11	Joan Haanappel	103
12	Diana Peach	107
13	Fiorella Negro	128
14	Emma Giardini	130
15	Jindra Kramperová	131
16	Sjoukje Dijkstra	144
17	Karin Borner	155
18	Ilse Musyl	161
19	Alice Fischer	168
20	Ina Bauer	171
21	Jana Dočekalová	175

Judges:

• Ercole Cattaneo
• Otto Dallmayr
• Pamela Davis
• Emile Finsterwald
• V. P. Gross
• Ernst Labin
• Ralph McCreath
• Gérard Rodrigues-Henriques
• B. Srbová

Pairs

Rank	Name	Places
1	Sissy Schwarz / Kurt Oppelt	14
2	Frances Dafoe / Norris Bowden	15
3	Marika Kilius / Franz Ningel	30
4	Carole Ormaca / Robin Greiner	34
5	Barbara Wagner / Robert Paul	42.5
6	Lucille Ash / Sully Kothmann	68.5
7	Joyce Coates / Anthony Holles	70
8	Liesl Ellend / Konrad Lienert	74.5
9	Carolyn Patricia Krau / Rodney Ward	75.5
10	Eva Neeb / Karl Probst	80.5
11	Jacqueline Mason / Mervyn Bower	88.5

Judges:

• Pauline L. Barrajo
• K. Beyer
• Ercole Cattaneo
• Sydney R. Croll
• Otto Dallmayr
• Emile Finsterwald
• Ralph McCreath
• B. Srbová
• Franz Wojtanowskyj

Ice dance

Rank	Name	Places
1	Pamela Weight / Paul Thomas	7
2	June Markham / Courtney Jones	15
3	Barbara Thompson / Gerard Rigby	29
4	Joan Zamboni / Roland Junso	37
5	Fanny Besson / Jean Guhel	38
6	Carmel Bodel / Edward Bodel	39
7	Sidney Arnold / Franklin Nelson	47
8	Sigrid Knake / Günther Koch	49
9	Lindis Johnston / Jeffrey Johnston	74.5
10	Gerda Wohlgemuth / Hannes Burkhardt	76.5
11	Edith Peikert / Hans Kutschera	77
12	Bona Giammona / Giancarlo Sioli	82
13	Lucia Fischer / Rudolf Zorn	88
14	Catharina Odink / Jacobus Odink	91
15	Adriana Giuggiolini / Germano Ceccattini	94
16	Rita Paucka / Peter Kwiet	109
17	Maria Locatelli / Vinicio Toncelli	117

Judges:

• P. Farinet
• A. Jobin
• H. Kendall Kelley
• Henri Meudec
• Hermann Schiechtl
• D. Ward
• Franz Wojtanowskyj

Sources

• Result List provided by the ISU