1960 World Figure Skating Championships

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1960 World Figure Skating Championships
Type:	ISU Championship
Date:	March 1 – 5
Season:	1960
Location:	Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Champions
Men's singles: Alain Giletti
Ladies' singles: Carol Heiss
Pairs: Barbara Wagner / Robert Paul
Ice dance: Doreen Denny / Courtney Jones
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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 1960 competitions for men, ladies, pair skating, and ice dancing took place from March 1 to 5 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It was the first time that the participants per country in each category was limited to three. This rule is kept since.

  *   Host nation (Canada)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Canada*	1	3	0	4
2	France	1	0	2	3
3	United States	1	0	1	2
4	Great Britain	1	0	0	1
5	Netherlands	0	1	0	1
6	West Germany	0	0	1	1
Totals (6 entries)		4	4	4	12

Rank	Name	Places
1	Alain Giletti	9
2	Donald Jackson	12
3	Alain Calmat	23
4	Norbert Felsinger	30
5	Tilo Gutzeit	39
6	Bradley Lord[1]	47
7	Manfred Schnelldorfer	52
8	Donald McPherson	49
9	Gregory Kelley[1]	55
10	Peter Jonas	78
11	Louis Stong	80
12	Nobuo Satō	87
13	Hubert Köpfler	90
14	Robin Jones	94
15	David Clements	101
16	Tim Spencer	106
17	William Cherrell	119

Judges:

• Emile Finsterwald
• William Lewis
• Gérard Rodrigues-Henriques
• Harold G. Storke
• Adolf Walker
• Franz Wojtanowskyj
• Geoffrey Yates

Rank	Name	Places
1	Carol Heiss	9
2	Sjoukje Dijkstra	19
3	Barbara Roles	26
4	Regine Heitzer	44
5	Joan Haanappel	48
6	Jana Mrázková	61
7	Wendy Griner	61
8	Karin Frohner	75
9	Laurence Owen[1]	76
10	Anna Galmarini	89
11	Dany Rigoulot	103
12	Nicole Hassler	115
13	Sonia Snelling	112
14	Miwa Fukuhara	122
15	Shirra Kenworthy	137
16	Junko Ueno	145
17	Bärbel Martin	151
18	Ursel Barkey	162
19	Fränzi Schmidt	171
20	Carolyn Krau	176
21	Liliane Crosa	185
22	Carla Tichatschek	190
23	Beverly Helmore	209
24	Mary Wilson	214

Judges:

• Charlotte Benedict-Stieber
• Pamela Davis
• Martin Felsenreich
• Theo Klemm
• William Lewis
• Giovanni de Mori
• Gérard Rodrigues-Henriques
• Emil Skákala
• Harold G. Storke

Rank	Name	Places
1	Barbara Wagner / Robert Paul	9
2	Maria Jelinek / Otto Jelinek	21
3	Marika Kilius / Hans-Jürgen Bäumler	24
4	Margret Göbl / Franz Ningel	42
5	Nina Zhuk / Stanislav Zhuk	53
6	Nancy Ludington / Ronald Ludington	59
7	Diana Hinko / Heinz Döpfl	67.5
8	Lyudmila Belousova / Oleg Protopopov	68
9	Rita Blumenberg / Werner Mensching	77.5
10	Maribel Owen[1] / Dudley Richards[1]	90
11	Debbi Wilkes / Guy Revell	92
12	Ila Hadley[1] / Ray Hadley[1]	99

Judges:

• Charlotte Benedict-Stieber
• Pamela Davis
• Emile Finsterwald
• Theo Klemm
• William Lewis
• Giovanni de Mori
• Emil Skákala
• Harold G. Storke
• Franz Wojtanowskyj

Rank	Name	Places
1	Doreen Denny / Courtney Jones	7
2	Virginia Thompson / William McLachlan	16
3	Christiane Guhel / Jean Guhel	22
4	Margie Ackles / Charles Phillips	25
5	Marilyn Meeker / Larry Pierce[1]	39
6	Ann Martin / Gilles Vanasse	46
7	Svata Staroba / Mirek Staroba	52
8	Yvonne Littlefield / Roger Campbell[1]	52
9	Rita Paucka / Peter Kwiet	56

Judges:

• Emile Finsterwald
• J. A. McKechnie
• Jacqueline Meudec
• Hermann Schiechtl
• L. C. Seagrave
• John R. Shoemaker
• Emil Skákala

• Result List provided by the ISU