1971 World Figure Skating Championships
Annual figure skating competition held in 1971
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The 1971 World Figure Skating Championships were held in Lyon, France, from February 23 to 28. At the event, sanctioned by the International Skating Union, medals were awarded in men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dance.
| 1971 World Figure Skating Championships | |
|---|---|
| Type: | ISU Championship |
| Date: | February 23 – 28 |
| Season: | 1970–71 |
| Location: |  Lyon, France |
| Venue: | Palais des Sports de Gerland |
| Champions | |
Men's singles:  Ondrej Nepela | |
Ladies' singles:  Beatrix Schuba | |
Pairs:  Irina Rodnina / Aleksey Ulanov | |
| Ice dance: Lyudmila Pakhomova / Aleksandr Gorshkov | |
| Previous: 1970 World Championships | |
| Next: 1972 World Championships | |
Medal table
* Host nation (France)
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Soviet Union | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 2 | Austria | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Czechoslovakia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 4 |  United States | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 5 | France* | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 West Germany | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 7 |  Canada | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (7 entries) | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 | |
Results
Men
| Rank | Name | CP | FP | Points | Placings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ondrej Nepela | 1 | 1 | 2737.5 | 12 |
| 2 | Patrick Péra | 2 | 3 | 2706.7 | 18 |
| 3 | Sergey Chetverukhin | 3 | 8 | 2629.3 | 34 |
| 4 |  Jan Hoffmann | 4 | 2 | 2632.7 | 34 |
| 5 |  John Petkevich | 5 | 4 | 2598.9 | 44 |
| 6 |  Haig Oundjian | 6 | 7 | 2551.0 | 58 |
| 7 | Yuriy Ovchinnikov | 7 | 9 | 2529.6 | 66 |
| 8 | Kenneth Shelley | 9 | 5 | 2540.7 | 70 |
| 9 | Gordon McKellen | 11 | 10 | 2498.4 | 89 |
| 10 | Didier Gailhaguet | 10 | 11 | 2502.1 | 89 |
| 11 | Toller Cranston | 15 | 6 | 90 | |
| 12 | Günter Anderl | 8 | 14 | 115 | |
| 13 | Jacques Mrozek | 14 | 11 | 116 | |
| 14 | John Curry | 13 | 13 | 117 | |
| 15 |  Daniel Höner | 12 | 16 | 137 | |
| 16 | Jozef Žídek | 18 | 15 | 148 | |
| 17 | Zdeněk Pazdírek | 17 | 19 | 155 | |
| 18 |  Stefano Bargauan | 16 | 18 | 157.5 | |
| 19 | Klaus Grimmelt | 21 | 17 | 167.5 | |
| 20 |  Yutaka Higuchi | 19 | 20 | 180 | |
| 21 |  György Fazekas | 20 | 21 | 186 |
- Referee:
Elemér Terták - Assistant Referee:
Donald Gilchrist
Judges:
Michele Beltrami
Vera Curceac
Tatyana Danilenko
Milan Duchón
Norman E. Fuller
Monique Georgelin
Kinuko Ueno
Helga Wiecki
Geoffrey Yates
Ladies
The results of the women's free skate caused an uproar in the arena and were one step towards the demise of compulsory figures. Janet Lynn skated a clean free skate that was well-loved by the crowd, and she placed first in that segment with scores ranging from 5.8 to 6.0; however, due to her scores in the compulsory figures segment of the competition, which were not aired on television, she could not advance to a medal position despite her performance. Coverage on the Wide World of Sports showed Lynn looking at the medalist stand. The crowd in the arena booed; Pierre Brunet, a well-known coach, approached Lynn and told her to take a bow to appease the spectators, a move she later regretted as distracting from the medalists: "I have not been in touch with Karen or Trixi, but I've apologized to Julie for that because it was wrong for me to do that. I was a young girl; I should have had better judgment and said no, but my superiors told me that's what I needed to do."[1]
| Rank | Name | CP | FP | Points | Placings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beatrix Schuba | 1 | 7 | 2763.0 | 10 |
| 2 | Julie Holmes | 2 | 5 | 2697.3 | 24.5 |
| 3 | Karen Magnussen | 4 | 2 | 2697.7 | 27 |
| 4 | Janet Lynn | 5 | 1 | 2680.0 | 34 |
| 5 | Rita Trapanese | 3 | 8 | 2623.6 | 47.5 |
| 6 | Sonja Morgenstern | 9 | 3 | 2606.6 | 52 |
| 7 |  Zsuzsa Almássy | 6 | 4 | 2599.9 | 57 |
| 8 | Charlotte Walter | 8 | 14 | 2480.7 | 83 |
| 9 | Christine Errath | 13 | 6 | 2493.5 | 86 |
| 10 | Suna Murray | 14 | 9 | 2475.0 | 91 |
| 11 | Yelena Aleksandrova | 10 | 13 | 2450.5 | 100 |
| 12 | Patricia Dodd | 7 | 16 | 103 | |
| 13 | Kazumi Yamashita | 12 | 11 | 116 | |
| 14 | Ľudmila Bezáková | 11 | 15 | 122 | |
| 15 | Jean Scott | 15 | 10 | 132 | |
| 16 | Diane Hall | 19 | 12 | 132 | |
| 17 |  Anita Johansson | 16 | 18 | 145 | |
| 18 | Judith Beyer | 20 | 17 | 159 | |
| 19 | Ruth Hutchinson | 17 | 20 | 168 | |
| 20 | Sonja Balun | 22 | 19 | 177 | |
| 21 | Joëlle Cartaux | 18 | 22 | 188 | |
| 22 | Cinzia Frosio | 21 | 21 | 197 |
- Referee: Josef Dědič
- Assistant Referee: Sonia Bianchetti
Judges:
Eva von Gamm
Ludwig Gassner- Barbara Graham
- Walburga Grimm
- Éva György
- Nonna Nestogina
Elof Niklasson- Giorgio Siniscalco
- Mary Wright
Pairs
| Rank | Name | SP | FP | Points | Placings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Irina Rodnina / Aleksey Ulanov | 2 | 1 | 419.4 | 11 |
| 2 | Lyudmila Smirnova / Andrey Suraykin | 1 | 2 | 418.9 | 17 |
| 3 | Alicia Starbuck / Kenneth Shelley | 3 | 3 | 410.3 | 29 |
| 4 | Manuela Groß / Uwe Kagelmann | 4 | 4 | 404.1 | 37 |
| 5 | Almut Lehmann / Herbert Wiesinger | 5 | 5 | 399.7 | 48 |
| 6 | Melissa Militano / Mark Militano | 6 | 6 | 394.9 | 56 |
| 7 | Annette Kansy / Axel Salzmann | 8 | 7 | 392.3 | 62 |
| 8 | Galina Karelina / Georgiy Proskurin | 6 | 8 | 387.9 | 76 |
| 9 | Sandra Bezic / Val Bezic | 9 | 9 | 384.1 | 80 |
| 10 |  Grażyna Osmańska / Adam Brodecki | 11 | 10 | 381.0 | 88 |
| 11 | Barbara Brown / Doug Berndt | 12 | 11 | 98 | |
| 12 | Brunhilde Baßler / Eberhard Rausch | 10 | 12 | 104 | |
| 13 | Linda Connolly / Colin Taylforth | 13 | 13 | 118 | |
| 14 | Florence Cahn / Jean-Roland Racle | 14 | 14 | 121 | |
| 15 | Kotoe Nagasawa / Hiroshi Nagakubo | 17 | 15 | 137 | |
| 16 | Karin Künzle / Christian Künzle | 18 | 16 | 146 | |
| 17 | Teresa Skrzek / Piotr Szczypa | 16 | 17 | 149 | |
| WD | Evelyne Schneider / Wilhelm Bietak | 15 | DNF |
- Referee:
Karl Enderlin - Assistant Referee: Néri Valdes
Judges:
- Pamela Davis
- Norman E. Fuller
- Eva von Gamm
- Edwin Kucharz
- Carla Listing
- Nonna Nestogina
- Monique Petis
- Jürg Wilhelm
Maria Zuchowicz
Ice dance
| Rank | Name | CD | FD | Points | Placings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lyudmila Pakhomova / Aleksandr Gorshkov | 1 | 1 | 515.8 | 16 |
| 2 | Angelika Buck / Erich Buck | 3 | 2 | 512.7 | 20 |
| 3 | Judy Schwomeyer / James Sladky | 2 | 3 | 514.5 | 21 |
| 4 | Susan Getty / Roy Bradshaw | 4 | 4 | 502.9 | 33 |
| 5 | Tetyana Voytyuk / Vyacheslav Zhyhalyn | 5 | 5 | 490.1 | 47 |
| 6 | Janet Sawbridge / Peter Dalby | 6 | 7 | 484.4 | 58 |
| 7 | Hilary Green / Glynn Watts | 10 | 8 | 473.3 | 71 |
| 8 | Yelena Zharkova / Gennadiy Karponosov | 7 | 6 | 475.3 | 71 |
| 9 | Anne Millier / Harvey Millier | 9 | 10 | 467.5 | 80 |
| 10 | Mary Campbell / Johnny Johns | 8 | 9 | 466.5 | 88 |
| 11 | Louise Lind / Barry Soper | 11 | 11 | 103 | |
| 12 | Diana Skotnická / Martin Skotnický | 13 | 12 | 109.5 | |
| 13 | Anne-Claude Wolfers / Roland Mars | 12 | 13 | 113 | |
| 14 | Teresa Weyna / Piotr Bojańczyk | 14 | 14 | 117.5 | |
| 15 | Ilona Berecz / István Sugár | 15 | 16 | 134 | |
| 16 | Matilde Ciccia / Lamberto Ceserani | 16 | 15 | 142 | |
| 17 | Tatiana Grossen / Alessandro Grossen | 17 | 17 | 157 | |
| 18 | Astrid Kopp / Axel Kopp | 18 | 18 | 158 | |
| 19 | Angelika Wiesner / Hans-Jürgen Wiesner | 19 | 20 | 174 | |
| 20 | Brigitte Scheijbal / Kurt Jaschek | 20 | 19 | 177 |
- Referee: Emil Skákala
- Assistant Referee: Henri Meudec
Judges:
- George J. Blundun
- Igor Kabanov
- Klára Kozári
- Lysiane Lauret
- George Marsh
- Dagmar Řeháková
- Erika Schiechtl
- Mary Wright
- Maria Zuchowicz