1968 World Figure Skating Championships
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1968 World Figure Skating Championships | |
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Type: | ISU Championship |
Date: | February 27 – March 3 |
Season: | 1967–68 |
Location: | Lyudmila Belousova / Oleg Protopopov |
Ice dance: ![]() | |
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
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 |
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1 | ![]() | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
![]() | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |
3 | ![]() | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
4 | ![]() | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
5 | ![]() | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
6 | ![]() | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
![]() | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Totals (7 entries) | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 |
Results
Men
Rank | Name | Points | Places |
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1 | ![]() |
2195.2 | 12 |
2 | Timothy Wood |
2180.9 | 15 |
3 | ![]() |
2090.1 | 38 |
4 | ![]() |
2095.1 | 38 |
5 | ![]() |
2086.1 | 41 |
6 | ![]() |
2052.5 | 52 |
7 | ![]() |
2047.3 | 57 |
8 | ![]() |
1989.4 | 79 |
9 | Sergey Chetverukhin |
1978.1 | 83 |
10 | ![]() |
1963.7 | 93 |
11 | ![]() |
94 | |
12 | ![]() |
106 | |
13 | ![]() |
117 | |
14 | ![]() |
128 | |
15 | Marian Filc |
133 | |
16 | ![]() |
142 | |
17 | ![]() |
154 | |
18 | ![]() |
162 | |
19 | ![]() |
167 | |
20 | ![]() |
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 | ![]() |
2269.7 | 9 |
2 | ![]() |
2179.8 | 19 |
3 | ![]() |
2121.3 | 29 |
4 | Beatrix Schuba |
2094.1 | 35 |
5 | Kumiko Ōkawa |
2054.2 | 46 |
6 | ![]() |
2025.5 | 59 |
7 | ![]() |
2016.6 | 62 |
8 | ![]() |
1985.7 | 74 |
9 | ![]() |
1961.5 | 89 |
10 | Yelena Shcheglova |
1954.5 | 89 |
11 | ![]() |
94 | |
12 | ![]() |
107 | |
13 | ![]() |
117 | |
14 | Marie Víchová |
133 | |
15 | ![]() |
139 | |
16 | ![]() |
148 | |
17 | ![]() |
147 | |
18 | ![]() |
156 | |
19 | Haruko Ishida |
158 | |
20 | ![]() |
183 | |
21 | ![]() |
186 | |
22 | ![]() |
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 | ![]() |
311.2 | 19 |
3 | ![]() |
304.3 | 31 |
4 | ![]() |
303.6 | 35 |
5 | ![]() |
299.0 | 48 |
6 | ![]() |
295.0 | 54 |
7 | ![]() |
293.9 | 58 |
8 | ![]() |
290.2 | 72 |
9 | ![]() |
286.7 | 80 |
10 | ![]() |
279.4 | 98 |
11 | Alicia Starbuck / Kenneth Shelley |
99 | |
12 | ![]() |
110 | |
13 | ![]() |
118 | |
14 | ![]() |
128 | |
15 | ![]() |
129 | |
16 | ![]() |
136 | |
17 | ![]() |
153 | |
WD | ![]() |
DNF |
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 |
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1 | ![]() |
332.9 | 9 |
2 | ![]() |
319.8 | 24 |
3 | ![]() |
319.7 | 24 |
4 | James Sladky |
311.8 | 40 |
5 | ![]() |
310.9 | 43 |
6 | ![]() |
307.9 | 49 |
7 | Eugene Heffron |
298.3 | 65 |
8 | ![]() |
291.4 | 78 |
9 | ![]() |
289.0 | 82 |
10 | ![]() |
285.0 | 85 |
11 | ![]() |
101 | |
12 | ![]() |
111 | |
13 | ![]() |
112 | |
14 | ![]() |
124 | |
15 | ![]() |
133 |
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