1927 World Figure Skating Championships

1927 World Figure Skating Championships
Type: ISU Championship
Season: 1927
Location: Davos, Switzerland (men)
Oslo, Norway (ladies)
Vienna, Austria (pairs)
Champions
Men's singles:
Austria Willy Böckl
Ladies' singles:
Norway Sonja Henie
Pair skating:
Austria Herma Szabo / Ludwig Wrede
Previous:
1926 World Championships
Next:
1928 World 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.

The 1927 men competitions took place from February 5th to 6th in Davos, Switzerland. The 1927 ladies competitions took place from February 19th to 20th in Oslo, Norway. The 1927 pairs competitions took place from February 22nd to 23rd in Vienna, Austria.

Results

Men

Rank Name Nation Places
1 Willy Böckl  Austria 11
2 Otto Preißecker  Austria 15
3 Karl Schäfer  Austria 24
4 Georges Gautschi   Switzerland 26
5 John F. Page  United Kingdom 30
6 Ludwig Wrede  Austria 42
7 Herbert Haertel  Germany 48
8 Jean Henrion  France 56

Judges:

Ladies

Szabo retired after she was defeated by Sonja Henie of Norway. This result was controversial because the judging panel consisted of three Norwegians, a German, and an Austrian. The three Norwegian judges placed Henie first, while the German and Austrian judges placed Szabo first.[1][2]

Rank Name Nation judge 1 judge 2 judge 3 judge 4 judge 5 Places
1 Sonja Henie  Norway 111227
2 Herma Plank-Szabo  Austria 222118
3 Karen Simensen  Norway 3334417
4 Ellen Brockhöft  Germany 4443318

Judges:

Pairs

Rank Name Nation Places
1 Herma Plank-Szabo / Ludwig Wrede  Austria 6.5
2 Lilly Scholz / Otto Kaiser  Austria 9
3 Else Hoppe / Oscar Hoppe  Czechoslovakia 14.5
4 Hansi Eissert / Georg Pamperl  Austria 20

Judges:

References

  1. ↑ Nationalism in Winter Sports Judging and its Lessons for Organizational Decision Making, by Eric Zitzewitz, accessed July 3, 2006.
  2. ↑ Worlds Greatest Skaters, accessed July 3, 2006.

Sources

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