1963 World Figure Skating Championships

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.

The 1963 competitions for men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dance took place from February 28 to March 3 in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. The competition was held in the open-air ice stadium, with events running as late as 1 or 2am, by which time it was very cold. This caused the ice to become hard and brittle, as well as causing discomfort to those in attendance.^[1]

Perhaps due to the poor ice conditions, the men's competition was marred by many falls. Both the winner Donald McPherson and second-place finisher Alain Calmat fell on triple loop attempts, but neither Manfred Schnelldorfer nor Karol Divín, who had been placed 1-2 after the compulsory figures, performed well in the free skating.^[1]

Marika Kilius and Hans-Jürgen Bäumler won the pair competition, although some questioned whether some of their lifts, including a "triple Axel lift" (an Axel lasso lift with 3.5 rotations), were legal under the ISU rules of the time. The Canadian team of Debbi Wilkes and Guy Revell had to withdraw after Wilkes suffered a head injury in a fall while posing for press photos.^[1]

Disaster also struck the American dance team Yvonne Littlefield and Peter Betts. They placed 9th in the compulsory dances, but in the free dance Betts's blade came unscrewed from the boot and they were unable to finish their program. Meanwhile, the defending champions Eva Romanová and Pavel Roman came from behind to retain title after being defeated in the compulsory dances by the British team, Linda Shearman and Michael Phillips, who had also defeated the Romans at the European Championships earlier that year.^[1]

احتفظت البطلة المدافعة سيوكي ديجكسترا بلقبها، محققةً تقدماً كبيراً في الحركات الإلزامية، وأتبعته بأداءٍ مميز في التزلج الحر، حيث أضافت قفزة لوتز مزدوجة للمرة الأولى. ^{[ 1 ]} أما نيكول هاسلر ، التي احتلت المركز الثاني في التزلج الحر والثالث في الترتيب العام، فقد قدمت قفزتي أكسل مزدوجتين قويتين في نهاية برنامجها. ^{[ 2 ]} أما المتسابقة اليابانية ميوا فوكوهارا ، التي احتلت المركز السادس في الترتيب العام، فقد أضافت قفزة سالشو ثلاثية إلى برنامجها. ^{[ 1 ]}

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رتبة	أمة	ذهب	فضي	البرونز	المجموع
1	كندا	1	0	1	2
	ألمانيا الغربية	1	0	1	2
3	تشيكوسلوفاكيا	1	0	0	1
	هولندا	1	0	0	1
5	فرنسا	0	1	1	2
	الاتحاد السوفياتي	0	1	1	2
7	النمسا	0	1	0	1
	بريطانيا العظمى	0	1	0	1
المجموع (8 مدخلات)		4	4	4	12