1930 World Figure Skating Championships

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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 competitions took place from February 3 to 5 in New York City, the first figure skating world championships in the United States. It was also the first year when all competitions were held at the same location and at the same time. All the judges for the three competitions were also the same.

Medal table

  *   Host nation (United States)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Austria	1	1	0	2
2	France	1	0	0	1
	Norway	1	0	0	1
4	United States*	0	1	2	3
5	Canada	0	1	0	1
6	Switzerland	0	0	1	1
Totals (6 entries)		3	3	3	9

Results

Men

Rank	Name	Places
1	Karl Schäfer	5
2	Roger Turner	11
3	Georges Gautschi	19
4	Montgomery Wilson	20
5	Ludwig Wrede	20
6	Gail Borden	32
7	Lester Madden	35
8	William Nagle	38

Judges:

• B. Børjeson
• Herber Clarke
• J. Edhoffer
• J. B. Liberman
• J. C. McDougall

Ladies

Rank	Name	Places
1	Sonja Henie	5
2	Cecil Smith	12
3	Maribel Vinson	16
4	Constance Wilson	19
5	Melitta Brunner	23
6	Suzanne Davis	30

Judges:

• B. Børjeson
• Herbert Clarke
• J. Edhoffer
• J. B. Liberman
• J. C. McDougall

Pairs

Rank	Name	Places
1	Andrée Brunet / Pierre Brunet	6.5
2	Melitta Brunner / Ludwig Wrede	13.5
3	Beatrix Loughran / Sherwin Badger	16
4	Constance Samuel / Montgomery Wilson	21
5	Isobel Rogers / Melville Rogers	25.5
6	Theresa Weld / Nathaniel Niles	30.5
7	Maude Smith / Jack Eastwood	32.5
8	Edith Secord / Joseph Savage	34.5

Judges:

• B. Børjeson
• Herbert Clarke
• J. Edhoffer
• J. B. Liberman
• J. C. McDougall

Sources

• Result List provided by the ISU