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1927 World Figure Skating Championships

Annual figure skating competition held in 1927

Field	Value
title	1927 World Figure Skating Championships
comptype	ISU Championship
skatingseason	1927
location	Switzerland Davos, Switzerland (men)
Norway Oslo, Norway (ladies)
Austria Vienna, Austria (pairs)
championmen	Austria Willy Böckl
championladies	Norway Sonja Henie
championpairs	Austria Herma Szabo / Ludwig Wrede
previouscomp	[1926 World Championships](1926-world-figure-skating-championships)
nextcomp	[1928 World Championships](1928-world-figure-skating-championships)

Norway Oslo, Norway (ladies) Austria Vienna, Austria (pairs)

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.

In 1927, men's competitions took place from February 5th to 6th in Davos, Switzerland. Ladies' competitions took place from February 19th to 20th in Oslo, Norway. Pairs' competitions took place from February 22nd to 23rd in Vienna, Austria.

Results

Men

Rank	Name	Places
1	Austria Willy Böckl	11
2	Austria Otto Preißecker	15
3	Austria Karl Schäfer	24
Switzerland Georges Gautschi	26
UK John Page	30
Austria Ludwig Wrede	42
Germany Herbert Haertel	48
France Jean Henrion	56

Judges:

Germany Kurt Dannenberg
Austria Eduard Engelmann
Austria Josef Fellner
Austria Fritz Kachler
Switzerland J. G. Künzli
UK Thomas Richardson
Germany Artur Vieregg

Ladies

This result was controversial because the three Norwegian member of the judging panel placed the Sonja Henie on the first place, while the other two placed Herma Szabo, who retired after the competition.

Rank	Name	Judges	Places	#1	#2	#3	#4
1	Norway Sonja Henie	1	1	1	2	2	7
2	Austria Herma Plank-Szabo	2	2	2	1	1	8
3	Norway Karen Simensen	3	3	3	4	4	17
Germany Ellen Brockhöft	4	4	4	3	3	18

Judges:

Norway Arne Christiansen
Norway O. R. Kolderup
Norway Knut Oeren Meinich
Austria Walter Müller
Germany Artur Vieregg

Pairs

Rank	Name	Places
1	Austria Herma Plank-Szabo / Ludwig Wrede	6.5
2	Austria Lilly Scholz / Otto Kaiser	9
3	Czechoslovakia Else Hoppe / Oscar Hoppe	14.5
Austria Hansi Eissert / Georg Pamperl	20

Judges:

Finland Walter Jakobsson
Czechoslovakia Otto Maly
Austria Walter Müller
Germany Max Rendschmidt
Austria K. Scheibner

References

[https://www.doi.org/10.1111/j.1530-9134.2006.00092.x Nationalism in Winter Sports Judging and its Lessons for Organizational Decision Making, by Eric Zitzewitz], accessed July 3, 2006.
[http://www.iceskate-magazine.com/worlds3.html Worlds Greatest Skaters] {{Webarchive. link. (2007-07-21, accessed July 3, 2006.)
Hines, James R.. (2011). "Historical Dictionary of Figure Skating". Scarecrow Press.

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