1972 World Figure Skating Championships
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.
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.
Results
Men
- Referee: Donald Gilchrist
- Assistant Referee: Sonia Bianchetti
- Gerhardt Bubník
- Dorothy Burkholder
- Tatyana Danilenko
- Masao Hasegawa
- Franz Heinlein
- William Lewis
- Monique Petis
- Mollie Phillips
- Helga Wiecki
- János Zsigmondy
Ladies
- Referee: Josef Dědič
- Assistant Referee: Elemér Terták
- Zoltán Balázs
- Jeanine Donnier-Blanc
- Milan Duchón
- Suzanne Francis
- Ludwig Gassner
- Walburga Grimm
- Wilhelm Kahle
- Ramona McIntyre
- Giovanni de Mori
- René Schlageter
Pairs
- Referee: Karl Enderlin
- Assistant Referee: Henry M. Beatty
- Elsbeth Bon
- Pamela Davis
- Suzanne Francis
- Walburga Grimm
- Valentin Piseyev
- Ardelle Sanderson
- René Schlageter
- Inkeri Soininen
- Maria Zuchowicz
- János Zsigmondy
Ice dance
- Referee: Lawrence Demmy
- Assistant Referee: George J. Blundun
- Zoltán Balázs
- Pamela Davis
- Milan Duchón
- Claude Lambert
- Audrey Moore
- Eugen Romminger
- Benjamin T. Wright
- Maria Zuchowicz