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1908 World Figure Skating Championships

Annual figure skating competition held in 1908

Field	Value
title	1908 World Figure Skating Championships
comptype	ISU Championship
skatingseason	1908
location	Austrian Empire Troppau, Austria-Hungary (singles)
Russian Empire Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire (pairs)
venue	Yusupovsky Garden,
Saint Petersburg
championmen	Sweden Ulrich Salchow
championladies	Kingdom of Hungary Lily Kronberger
championpairs	German Empire Anna Hübler / Heinrich Burger
previouscomp	[1907 World Championships](1907-world-figure-skating-championships)
nextcomp	[1909 World Championships](1909-world-figure-skating-championships)

Russian Empire Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire (pairs) Saint Petersburg

The World Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union in which figure skaters compete for the title of World Champion.

Men's and ladies' competitions were held on January 25–26 in Troppau, Austria-Hungary (modern-day Opava, Czech Republic). Pairs' competition took place on February 16 in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire. It was the first World Championships in which pair skating was contested.

Medal table

Results

Men

Rank	Name	Places
1	Sweden Ulrich Salchow	9
2	German Empire Gilbert Fuchs	12
3	German Empire Heinrich Burger	21

Judges:

Austrian Empire Otto Bohatsch
German Empire C. Dorasil
German Empire P. Engelhardt
United Kingdom H. D. Faith
Sweden I. Forssling
Austrian Empire Gustav Hügel
German Empire Otto Schöning

Ladies

Rank	Name	Points	Places
1	Kingdom of Hungary Lily Kronberger	204.90	5
2	German Empire Elsa Rendschmidt		10

Judges:

German Empire P. Engelhardt
United Kingdom H. D. Faith
Sweden I. Forssling
Austrian Empire Gustav Hügel
German Empire Otto Schöning

Pairs

Rank	Name	Places
1	German Empire Anna Hübler / Heinrich Burger	5
2	United Kingdom Phyllis Johnson / James Johnson	11.5
3	Russian Empire Lidia Popova / Alexander Fischer	13.5

Judges:

Russian Empire
Russian Empire J. Kettnitz
Russian Empire V. Shnobel
Russian Empire Vyacheslav Sreznevsky
Russian Empire Rudolf Sundgren

References

[http://skating.bplaced.net/Results/worlds/WC1908.htm World Championships 1908. Troppau, Austria Men]

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