1981 World Figure Skating Championships

Host City Hartford
Country USA
Held 3 – 8 March 1981
Competitors 18
Countries 7

Events

Event Gender Held Status Competitors Countries
Singles Men Medal 3 2
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 United States USA 1 2 0 3
2 Soviet Union URS 1 1 2 4
3 Great Britain GBR 1 0 0 1
= Switzerland SUI 1 0 0 1
5 East Germany GDR 0 1 0 1
6 Austria AUT 0 0 1 1
= Germany GER 0 0 1 1

Medal winners

Event 🥇 Gold 🥈 Silver 🥉 Bronze
Singles, Men Scott Hamilton USA David Santee USA Igor Bobrin URS
Pairs, Mixed Irina Vorobyova / Igor Lisovsky URS Sabine Baeß / Tassilo Thierbach GDR Tina Riegel / Andreas Nischwitz GER
Ice Dancing, Mixed Jayne Torvill / Christopher Dean GBR Irina Moiseyeva / Andrey Minenkov URS Nataliya Bestemyanova / Andrey Bukin URS
Singles, Women Denise Biellmann SUI Elaine Zayak USA Claudia Kristofics-Binder AUT