1972 World Figure Skating Championships

Host City Calgary
Country CAN
Held 7 – 11 March 1972
Competitors 18
Countries 6

Events

Event Gender Held Status Competitors Countries
Singles Men Medal 3 2
Singles Women Medal 3 3
Pairs Mixed Medal 6 2
Ice Dancing Mixed Medal 6 3

Medal table

Pos Country 🥇 Gold 🥈 Silver 🥉 Bronze Total
1 Soviet Union URS 2 2 1 5
2 Austria AUT 1 0 0 1
= Czechoslovakia TCH 1 0 0 1
4 Canada CAN 0 1 0 1
= Germany GER 0 1 0 1
6 United States USA 0 0 3 3

Medal winners

Event 🥇 Gold 🥈 Silver 🥉 Bronze
Singles, Men Ondrej Nepela TCH Sergey Chetverukhin URS Vladimir Kovalyov URS
Pairs, Mixed Irina Rodnina / Aleksey Ulanov URS Lyudmila Smirnova / Andrey Suraykin URS JoJo Starbuck / Ken Shelley USA
Ice Dancing, Mixed Lyudmila Pakhomova / Aleksandr Gorshkov URS Angelika Buck / Erich Buck GER Judy Schwomeyer / Jim Sladky USA
Singles, Women Trixi Schuba AUT Karen Magnussen CAN Janet Lynn USA