1906 World Figure Skating Championships

Summary

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.

1906 World Figure Skating Championships
Type:ISU Championship
Season:1906
Location:German Empire Munich, German Empire (men)
Switzerland Davos, Switzerland (ladies)
Champions
Men's singles:
German Empire Gilbert Fuchs
Ladies' singles:
United Kingdom Madge Syers-Cave
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Men's competition took place on February 4 in Munich, German Empire. Ulrich Salchow did not participate because he feared that the judgement would not be fair in Gilber Fuchs' hometown Munich. Ladies' competition took place from January 28 to 29 in Davos, Switzerland. It was the first World Championships in figure skating for ladies.

Medal table edit

  *   Host nations (Switzerland, German Empire)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  Germany*1102
2  Great Britain1001
3  Austria0101
4  Hungary0011
  Sweden0011
Totals (5 entries)2226

Results edit

Men edit

Rank Name Age CF FS Total Points Places
1   Gilbert Fuchs 35 1 2917 1 770 3687 737.4 5
2   Heinrich Burger 24 4 2455 2 709 3164 632.8 14
3   Bror Meyer 20 2 2520 4 511 3031 606.2 17
4   Karl Zenger 32 5 2351 3 616 2967 593.4 20
5   Per Thorén 21 3 2462 6 490 2952 590.4 23
6   Anton Steiner 6 2167 5 497 2664 532.8 27
7   Martin Gordan 29 7 1807 7 392 2199 439.8 34

Judges:

  •   Ludwig Fänner
  •   C. Gützlaff
  •   O. Henning
  •   Robert Holletschek
  •   Otto Schöning

Ladies edit

Rank Name Places
1   Madge Syers-Cave 5
2   Jenny Herz 13
3   Lily Kronberger 13.5
4   Elsa Rendschmidt 21.5
5   Dorothy Greenhough-Smith 22

Judges:

Sources edit

  • Result List provided by the ISU