1956 World Figure Skating Championships

1956 World Figure Skating Championships

Infobox Figure Skating Competition
title= 1956 World Figure Skating Championships


imagesize=
caption=
comptype= ISU Championship
startdate= February 16th
enddate= February 19th
skatingseason= 1956
location= flagIOC|FRG|1956 Winter Garmisch-Partenkirchen
host=
venue=
prizemoney=
defendmen= flagIOC|USA|1956 Winter Hayes Alan Jenkins
defendladies= flagIOC|USA|1956 Winter Tenley Albright
defendpairs= flagIOC|CAN|1956 Winter Frances Dafoe and Norris Bowden
defenddance= flagIOC|GBR|1956 Winter Jean Westwood and Lawrance Demmy
defendsynchro=
championmen= flagIOC|USA|1956 Winter Hayes Alan Jenkins
championladies= flagIOC|USA|1956 Winter Carol Heiss
championpairs= flagIOC|AUT|1956 Winter Sissy Schwarz and Kurt Oppelt
championdance= flagIOC|GBR|1956 Winter Pamela Weight and Paul Thomas
championsynchro=
previouscomp= 1955 World Figure Skating Championships
nextcomp= 1957 World Figure Skating Championships

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 1956 competitions for men, ladies, pairs and ice dancing took place February 16th to February 19th, 1956 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, West-Germany.

Results

Men

Judges were
* S. R. Croll flagIOC|AUS|1956 Winter
* R. S. McCreathflagIOC|CAN|1956 Winter
* K. Beyer flagIOC|FRG|1956 Winter
* P. L. Barrajo flagIOC|GBR|1956 Winter
* E. Cattaneo flagIOC|ITA|1956 Winter
* F. Wojtanowskyj flagIOC|AUT|1956 Winter
* E. Finsterwald flagIOC|SUI|1956 Winter
* B. Srbova flagIOC|TCH|1956 Winter
* O. Dallmayr flagIOC|USA|1956 Winter

Ice Dancing

Judges were
* Hermann Schiechtl flagIOC|FRG|1956 Winter
* D. Ward flagIOC|GBR|1956 Winter
* H. Meudec flagIOC|FRA|1956 Winter
* P. Farinet flagIOC|ITA|1956 Winter
* F. Wojtanowskyj flagIOC|AUT|1956 Winter
* A. Jobin flagIOC|SUI|1956 Winter
* H. Kendall Kelley flagIOC|USA|1956 Winter

References

* Result List provided by the ISU


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