1966 World Figure Skating Championships

1966 World Figure Skating Championships
Type:	ISU Championship
Date:	February 22 – 27
Season:	1965–66
Location:	Davos, Switzerland
Champions
Men's singles: Emmerich Danzer
Ladies' singles: Peggy Fleming
Pairs: Lyudmila Belousova / Oleg Protopopov
Ice dance: Diane Towler / Bernard Ford
Previous: 1965 World Championships
Next: 1967 World Championships

The 1966 World Figure Skating Championships were held in Davos, Switzerland from February 22 to 27. At the event, sanctioned by the International Skating Union, medals were awarded in men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dance.

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Switzerland)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	1	1	3	5
2	Austria	1	1	0	2
	Soviet Union	1	1	0	2
4	Great Britain	1	0	0	1
5	East Germany	0	1	0	1
6	Canada	0	0	1	1
Totals (6 entries)		4	4	4	12

Results

Men

Rank	Name	Places
1	Emmerich Danzer	11
2	Wolfgang Schwarz	25
3	Gary Visconti	28
4	Scott Allen	33
5	Nobuo Satō	46
6	Patrick Péra	52
7	Donald Knight	66
8	Ondrej Nepela	82
9	Giordano Abbondati	92
10	Jay Humphry	100
11	Charles Snelling	103
12	William Chapel	106
13	Robert Dureville	106
14	Ralph Borghard	111
15	Jenő Ébert	124
16	Günter Anderl	148
17	Valeriy Meshkov	157
18	Malcolm Cannon	160
19	Tsuguhiko Kodzuka	168
20	Bodo Bockenauer	175
21	Hans-Jürg Studer	185

Judges:

• Zoltán Balázs
• Suzanne Francis
• Oskar Madl
• Kikuko Minami
• Eugen Romminger
• John R. Shoemaker
• Rolf J. Steinmann
• Néri Valdes
• Sergey Vasilyev

Ladies

Rank	Name	Places
1	Peggy Fleming	9
2	Gabriele Seyfert	22
3	Petra Burka	23
4	Valerie Jones	41
5	Nicole Hassler	42
6	Hana Mašková	63
7	Zsuzsa Almássy	63
8	Miwa Fukuhara	67
9	Albertina Noyes	83
10	Kumiko Ōkawa	88
11	Uschi Keszler	101
12	Pamela Schneider	105
13	Sally-Anne Stapleford	115
14	Elisabeth Mikula	132
15	Roberta Laurent	133
16	Elisabeth Nestler	148
17	Yelena Shcheglova	151
18	Pia Zürcher	151
19	Beate Richter	170
20	Martina Clausner	176

Judges:

• Milan Duchón
• Walter Malek
• Yvonne S. McGowan
• Joan McLagan
• Gérard Rodrigues-Henriques
• V. Siegmund
• Kinuko Ueno
• Geoffrey Yates
• János Zsigmondy

Pairs

Rank	Name	Places
1	Lyudmila Belousova / Oleg Protopopov	13
2	Tatyana Zhuk / Aleksandr Gorelik	14
3	Cynthia Kauffman / Ronald Kauffman	30
4	Margot Glockshuber / Wolfgang Danne	35
5	Sonja Pfersdorf / Günther Matzdorf	46
6	Gudrun Hauss / Walter Häfner	56
7	Irene Müller / Hans-Georg Dallmer	60
8	Monique Mathys / Yves Ällig	80.5
9	Heidemarie Steiner / Heinz-Ulrich Walther	87.5
10	Agnesa Wlachovská / Peter Bartosiewicz	89
11	Susan Behrens / Roy Wagelein	92
12	Mónika Szabó / Péter Szabó	104
13	Susan Huehnergard / Paul Huehnergard	118
14	Gerlinde Schönbauer / Wilhelm Bietak	124
15	Mária Csordás / László Kondi	131

Judges:

• Zdeněk Fikar
• Suzanne Francis
• Walburga Grimm
• Wilhelm Kahle
• Klára Kozári
• Yvonne S. McGowan
• Hans Meixner
• Rolf J. Steinmann
• Tatyana Tolmachova

Ice dance

Rank	Name	Places
1	Diane Towler / Bernard Ford	9
2	Kristin Fortune / Dennis Sveum	17
3	Lorna Dyer / John Carrell	17
4	Yvonne Suddick / Roger Kennerson	27
5	Brigitte Martin / Francis Gamichon	41
6	Janet Sawbridge / Jon Lane	42
7	Gabriele Rauch / Rudi Matysik	53
8	Jitka Babická / Jaromír Holan	53
9	Carole Forrest / Kevin Lethbridge	59
10	Lyudmila Pakhomova / Viktor Ryzhkin	68
11	Susan Urban / Stanley Urban	79
12	Gail Snyder / Wayne Palmer	91
13	Annerose Baier / Eberhard Rüger	92.5
14	Susanna Carpani / Sergio Pirelli	94.5
15	Edit Mató / Károly Csanádi	98
16	Christel Trebesiner / Herbert Rothkappel	111

Judges:

• Pamela Davis
• Milan Duchón
• Klára Kozári
• Hans Kutschera
• Lysiane Lauret
• Dorothy Leamen
• John R. Shoemaker

Sources

• Figure Skating: World Champions
• Result list provided by the ISU