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The 1972 World Figure Skating Championships were held at the Stampede Corral in Calgary, Canada from March 7 to 11. 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 (United States) and the ISU Technical Delegates were Hermann Schiechtl (West Germany) and Donald Gilchrist (Canada).
A day before the start of the competition, Irina Rodnina / Aleksey Ulanov had an accident on a lift; Rodnina was hospitalized with a concussion and an intracranial hematoma but went on to compete and win the gold medal. It was Rodnina/Ulanov's final competition together. Ulanov would team up with the silver medalist, Lyudmila Smirnova.
Medal table
* Host nation (Canada)
Results
= Men
=Referee: Donald Gilchrist
Assistant Referee: Sonia Bianchetti
Judges:
Gerhardt Bubník
Dorothy Burkholder
Tatyana Danilenko
Masao Hasegawa
Franz Heinlein
William Lewis
Monique Petis
Mollie Phillips
Helga Wiecki
János Zsigmondy (substitute)
= Ladies
=Referee: Josef Dědič
Assistant Referee: Elemér Terták
Judges:
Zoltán Balázs
Jeanine Donnier-Blanc
Milan Duchón (substitute)
Suzanne Francis
Ludwig Gassner
Walburga Grimm
Wilhelm Kahle
Ramona McIntyre
Giovanni de Mori
René Schlageter
= Pairs
=Referee: Karl Enderlin
Assistant Referee: Henry M. Beatty
Judges:
Elsbeth Bon
Pamela Davis
Suzanne Francis
Walburga Grimm
Valentin Piseyev
Ardelle Sanderson
René Schlageter (substitute)
Inkeri Soininen
Maria Zuchowicz
János Zsigmondy
= Ice dance
=Referee: Lawrence Demmy
Assistant Referee: George J. Blundun
Judges:
Zoltán Balázs
Pamela Davis
Milan Duchón
Igor Kabanov
Claude Lambert
Audrey Moore
Eugen Romminger
Benjamin T. Wright
Maria Zuchowicz
References
Sources
Result list provided by the ISU
The Calgary Gerald (Calgary, Alberta, March 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 1972)