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1929 World Figure Skating Championships

Annual figure skating competition held in 1929

Field	Value
title	1929 World Figure Skating Championships
comptype	ISU Championship
skatingseason	1929
location	UK London, United Kingdom (men)
Kingdom of Hungary Budapest, Hungary (ladies and pairs)
championmen	Sweden Gillis Grafström
championladies	Norway Sonja Henie
championpairs	Austria Lilly Scholz / Otto Kaiser
previouscomp	1928 World Championships
nextcomp	1930 World Championships

Kingdom of Hungary Budapest, Hungary (ladies and 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.

Men's competitions took place from March 4 to 5 in London, United Kingdom. Ladies' and pairs' competitions took place from February 2 to 3 in Budapest, Hungary.

Results

Men

Rank	Name	Points	Places
1	Sweden Gillis Grafström	353.15	6
2	Austria Karl Schäfer	346.50	10
3	Austria Ludwig Wrede	323.70	16
UK John Page	312.70	24
Austria Hugo Distler		25
Finland Markus Nikkanen		26
UK Ian Bowhill		32

Judges:

Austria Eduard Engelmann
Switzerland L. Liebermann
Belgium André Poplimont
Sweden Ulrich Salchow
UK V. C. Wilson

Ladies

Medalwinners and 4th and 5th-place pictured.

Rank	Name	Points	Places
1	Norway Sonja Henie	280.40	5
2	Austria Fritzi Burger	259.25	12
3	Austria Melitta Brunner	254.65	13
Austria Ilse Hornung	236.10	20
Austria Grete Kubitschek	216.65	26
Belgium Yvonne de Ligne-Geurts	208.50	29

Judges:

Norway B. Børjeson
UK Herbert Clarke
Austria Eduard Engelmann
Finland Walter Jakobsson
Belgium Fernand de Montigny

Pairs

Rank	Name	Points	Places
1	Austria Lilly Scholz / Otto Kaiser	11.25	6
2	Austria Melitta Brunner / Ludwig Wrede	10.75	13
3	Kingdom of Hungary Olga Orgonista / Sándor Szalay	10.30	18
Austria Gisela Hochhaltinger / Otto Preißecker	10.35	21.5
Kingdom of Hungary Emília Rotter / László Szollás	10.30	21.5
Czechoslovakia Else Hoppe / Oscar Hoppe	10.05	25
Germany Maria Schwendtbauer / Gustav Aichinger	8.30	35

Judges:

Austria Otto Bohatsch
Norway B. Børjeson
UK C. J. Clarke
Finland Ludowika Jakobsson-Eilers
Kingdom of Hungary Tivadar Meszléri

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