1978 World Figure Skating Championships

Host City Ottawa
Country CAN
Held 1 – 6 March 1978
Competitors 18
Countries 6

Events

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

Medal table

Pos Country 🥇 Gold 🥈 Silver 🥉 Bronze Total
1 Soviet Union URS 2 1 0 3
2 East Germany GDR 1 2 0 3
3 United States USA 1 1 1 3
4 Great Britain GBR 0 0 1 1
= Hungary HUN 0 0 1 1
= Italy ITA 0 0 1 1

Medal winners

Event 🥇 Gold 🥈 Silver 🥉 Bronze
Singles, Men Charlie Tickner USA Jan Hoffmann GDR Robin Cousins GBR
Pairs, Mixed Irina Rodnina / Aleksandr Zaytsev URS Manuela Mager / Uwe Bewersdorf GDR Tai Babilonia / Randy Gardner USA
Ice Dancing, Mixed Nataliya Linichuk / Gennady Karponosov URS Irina Moiseyeva / Andrey Minenkov URS Krisztina Regőczy / András Sallay HUN
Singles, Women Anett Pötzsch GDR Linda Fratianne USA Susanna Driano ITA