1968 World Figure Skating Championships

1968 World Figure Skating Championships
Type:	ISU Championship
Date:	February 27 – March 3
Season:	1967–68
Location:	Geneva, Switzerland
Venue:	Patinoire des Vernets
Champions
Men's singles: Emmerich Danzer
Ladies' singles: Peggy Fleming
Pairs: Lyudmila Belousova / Oleg Protopopov
Ice dance: Diane Towler / Bernard Ford
Previous: 1967 World Championships
Next: 1969 World Championships

The 1968 World Figure Skating Championships were held in Geneva, Switzerland from February 27 to March 3. At the event, sanctioned by the International Skating Union, medals were awarded in men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dance. The ISU representative was John R. Shoemaker from the USA and the ISU Technical Delegate was Elemér Terták from Hungary.

On the ladies' singles skating Peggy Fleming finished first in the CF and in the FS too, before Gabriele Seyfert. The South African Margaret Betts finished on the last place in both program. On the pair skating Lyudmila Belousova and Oleg Protopopov finished first also in the SP and in the FS, before Tatyana Zhuk and Aleksandr Gorelik. On the ice dance competition Diane Towler and Bernard Ford won in the CD and FD too.

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Switzerland)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Great Britain	1	1	1	3
	United States	1	1	1	3
3	Soviet Union	1	1	0	2
4	Austria	1	0	0	1
5	East Germany	0	1	0	1
6	Czechoslovakia	0	0	1	1
	France	0	0	1	1
Totals (7 entries)		4	4	4	12

Results

Men

Rank	Name	Points	Places
1	Emmerich Danzer	2195.2	12
2	Timothy Wood	2180.9	15
3	Patrick Péra	2090.1	38
4	Scott Allen	2095.1	38
5	Gary Visconti	2086.1	41
6	Ondrej Nepela	2052.5	52
7	Jay Humphry	2047.3	57
8	Peter Krick	1989.4	79
9	Sergey Chetverukhin	1978.1	83
10	David McGillivray	1963.7	93
11	Günter Zöller		94
12	Philippe Pélissier		106
13	Michael Williams		117
14	Tsuguhiko Kodzuka		128
15	Marian Filc		133
16	Giordano Abbondati		142
17	Reinhard Ketterer		154
18	Günter Anderl		162
19	Jenő Ébert		167
20	Daniel Höner		179

• Referee: Karl Enderlin
• Assistant Referee: János Zsigmondy

Judges:

• Miroslav Hasenöhrl
• Masao Hasegawa
• Franz Heinlein
• William Lewis
• Yvonne S. McGowan
• Eva Neeb
• Mollie Phillips
• Néri Valdes
• Helga Wiecki

Ladies

Rank	Name	Points	Places
1	Peggy Fleming	2269.7	9
2	Gabriele Seyfert	2179.8	19
3	Hana Mašková	2121.3	29
4	Beatrix Schuba	2094.1	35
5	Kumiko Ōkawa	2054.2	46
6	Albertina Noyes	2025.5	59
7	Karen Magnussen	2016.6	62
8	Zsuzsa Almássy	1985.7	74
9	Janet Lynn	1961.5	89
10	Yelena Shcheglova	1954.5	89
11	Monika Feldmann		94
12	Patricia Dodd		107
13	Linda Carbonetto		117
14	Marie Víchová		133
15	Elisabeth Nestler		139
16	Charlotte Walter		148
17	Martina Clausner		147
18	Kazumi Yamashita		156
19	Haruko Ishida		158
20	Sonja Morgenstern		183
21	Mary-Ellen Holland		186
22	Margaret Betts		198

• Referee: Josef Dědič
• Assistant Referee: Sonia Bianchetti

Judges:

• Gerhardt Bubník
• Sydney R. Croll
• Ferenc Kertész
• Haruo Konno
• Hans Kutschera
• Carla Listing
• Joan Maclagan
• Pamela Peat
• Edith M. Shoemaker

Pairs

Rank	Name	Points	Places
1	Lyudmila Belousova / Oleg Protopopov	315.9	9
2	Tatyana Zhuk / Aleksandr Gorelik	311.2	19
3	Cynthia Kauffman / Ronald Kauffman	304.3	31
4	Tamara Moskvina / Aleksey Mishin	303.6	35
5	Heidemarie Steiner / Heinz-Ulrich Walther	299.0	48
6	Gudrun Hauss / Walter Häfner	295.0	54
7	Bohunka Šrámková / Jan Šrámek	293.9	58
8	Sandi Sweitzer / Roy Wagelein	290.2	72
9	Irene Müller / Hans-Georg Dallmer	286.7	80
10	Liana Drahová / Peter Bartosiewicz	279.4	98
11	Alicia Starbuck / Kenneth Shelley		99
12	Marianne Streifler / Herbert Wiesinger		110
13	Betty McKilligan / John McKilligan		118
14	Brigitte Weise / Michael Brychy		128
15	Mónika Szabó / Péter Szabó		129
16	Janina Poremska / Piotr Szczypa		136
17	Glenda O'Shea / Brian O'Shea		153
WD	Margot Glockshuber / Wolfgang Danne		DNF

• Referee: Alexander Gordon
• Assistant Referee: Jakob Biedermann

Judges:

• Gerhardt Bubník
• Wilhelm Kahle
• William Lewis
• Carla Listing
• Yvonne S. McGowan
• Pamela Peat
• Oskar Schubert
• Rolf J. Steinmann
• Sergey Vasilyev

Ice dance

Rank	Name	Points	Places
1	Diane Towler / Bernard Ford	332.9	9
2	Yvonne Suddick / Malcolm Cannon	319.8	24
3	Janet Sawbridge / Jon Lane	319.7	24
4	Judy Schwomeyer / James Sladky	311.8	40
5	Irina Grishkova / Viktor Ryzhkin	310.9	43
6	Lyudmila Pakhomova / Aleksandr Gorshkov	307.9	49
7	Vicki Camper / Eugene Heffron	298.3	65
8	Angelika Buck / Erich Buck	291.4	78
9	Joni Graham / Don Phillips	289.0	82
10	Annerose Baier / Eberhard Rüger	285.0	85
11	Edit Mató / Károly Csanádi		101
12	Milena Tůmová / Josef Pešek		111
13	Donna Taylor / Bruce Lennie		112
14	Susanna Carpani / Sergio Pirelli		124
15	Claude Couste / Jean-Pierre Noullet		133

• Referee: Henri Meudec
• Assistant Referee: Emil Skákala

Judges:

• Terese Birke
• Frances Gunn
• Miroslav Hasenöhrl
• Ferenc Kertész
• Lysiane Lauret
• Mollie Phillips
• Margrit Rellstab
• Edith M. Shoemaker
• Willi Wernz

Sources

• Result list provided by the ISU