The 1971 World Figure Skating Championships were held in Lyon, France, from February 23 to 28. 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
Results Men Rank Name CP FP Points Placings 1 Ondrej Nepela 1 1 2737.5 12 2 Patrick Péra 2 3 2706.7 18 3 Sergey Chetverukhin 3 8 2629.3 34 4 Jan Hoffmann 4 2 2632.7 34 5 John Petkevich 5 4 2598.9 44 6 Haig Oundjian 6 7 2551.0 58 7 Yuriy Ovchinnikov 7 9 2529.6 66 8 Kenneth Shelley 9 5 2540.7 70 9 Gordon McKellen 11 10 2498.4 89 10 Didier Gailhaguet 10 11 2502.1 89 11 Toller Cranston 15 6 90 12 Günter Anderl 8 14 115 13 Jacques Mrozek 14 11 116 14 John Curry 13 13 117 15 Daniel Höner 12 16 137 16 Jozef Žídek 18 15 148 17 Zdeněk Pazdírek 17 19 155 18 Stefano Bargauan 16 18 157.5 19 Klaus Grimmelt 21 17 167.5 20 Yutaka Higuchi 19 20 180 21 György Fazekas 20 21 186
Referee: Elemér Terták Assistant Referee: Donald Gilchrist Judges: Michele Beltrami Vera Curceac Tatyana Danilenko Milan Duchón Norman E. Fuller Monique Georgelin Kinuko Ueno Helga Wiecki Geoffrey Yates
Ladies The results of the women's free skate caused an uproar in the arena and were one step towards the demise of compulsory figures. Janet Lynn skated a clean free skate that was well-loved by the crowd, and she placed first in that segment with scores ranging from 5.8 to 6.0; however, due to her scores in the compulsory figures segment of the competition, which were not aired on television, she could not advance to a medal position despite her performance. Coverage on the Wide World of Sports showed Lynn looking at the medalist stand. The crowd in the arena booed; Pierre Brunet, a well-known coach, approached Lynn and told her to take a bow to appease the spectators, a move she later regretted as distracting from the medalists: "I have not been in touch with Karen or Trixi, but I've apologized to Julie for that because it was wrong for me to do that. I was a young girl; I should have had better judgment and said no, but my superiors told me that's what I needed to do." Rank Name CP FP Points Placings 1 Beatrix Schuba 1 7 2763.0 10 2 Julie Holmes 2 5 2697.3 24.5 3 Karen Magnussen 4 2 2697.7 27 4 Janet Lynn 5 1 2680.0 34 5 Rita Trapanese 3 8 2623.6 47.5 6 Sonja Morgenstern 9 3 2606.6 52 7 Zsuzsa Almássy 6 4 2599.9 57 8 Charlotte Walter 8 14 2480.7 83 9 Christine Errath 13 6 2493.5 86 10 Suna Murray 14 9 2475.0 91 11 Yelena Aleksandrova 10 13 2450.5 100 12 Patricia Dodd 7 16 103 13 Kazumi Yamashita 12 11 116 14 Ľudmila Bezáková 11 15 122 15 Jean Scott 15 10 132 16 Diane Hall 19 12 132 17 Anita Johansson 16 18 145 18 Judith Beyer 20 17 159 19 Ruth Hutchinson 17 20 168 20 Sonja Balun 22 19 177 21 Joëlle Cartaux 18 22 188 22 Cinzia Frosio 21 21 197
Referee: Josef Dědič Assistant Referee: Sonia Bianchetti Judges: Eva von Gamm Ludwig Gassner Barbara Graham Walburga Grimm Éva György
Elof Niklasson Giorgio Siniscalco Mary Wright
Pairs Rank Name SP FP Points Placings 1 Irina Rodnina / Aleksey Ulanov 2 1 419.4 11 2 Lyudmila Smirnova / Andrey Suraykin 1 2 418.9 17 3 Alicia Starbuck / Kenneth Shelley 3 3 410.3 29 4 Manuela Groß / Uwe Kagelmann 4 4 404.1 37 5 Almut Lehmann / Herbert Wiesinger 5 5 399.7 48 6 Melissa Militano / Mark Militano 6 6 394.9 56 7 Annette Kansy / Axel Salzmann 8 7 392.3 62 8 Galina Karelina / Georgiy Proskurin 6 8 387.9 76 9 Sandra Bezic / Val Bezic 9 9 384.1 80 10 Grażyna Osmańska / Adam Brodecki 11 10 381.0 88 11 Barbara Brown / Doug Berndt 12 11 98 12 Brunhilde Baßler / Eberhard Rausch 10 12 104 13 Linda Connolly / Colin Taylforth 13 13 118 14 Florence Cahn / Jean-Roland Racle 14 14 121 15 Kotoe Nagasawa / Hiroshi Nagakubo 17 15 137 16 Karin Künzle / Christian Künzle 18 16 146 17 Teresa Skrzek / Piotr Szczypa 16 17 149 WD Evelyne Schneider / Wilhelm Bietak 15 DNF
Referee: Karl Enderlin Assistant Referee: Néri Valdes Judges: Pamela Davis Norman E. Fuller Eva von Gamm Edwin Kucharz Carla Listing Nonna Nestogina Monique Petis Jürg Wilhelm Maria Zuchowicz
Ice dance Rank Name CD FD Points Placings 1 Lyudmila Pakhomova / Aleksandr Gorshkov 1 1 515.8 16 2 Angelika Buck / Erich Buck 3 2 512.7 20 3 Judy Schwomeyer / James Sladky 2 3 514.5 21 4 Susan Getty / Roy Bradshaw 4 4 502.9 33 5 Tetyana Voytyuk / Vyacheslav Zhyhalyn 5 5 490.1 47 6 Janet Sawbridge / Peter Dalby 6 7 484.4 58 7 Hilary Green / Glynn Watts 10 8 473.3 71 8 Yelena Zharkova / Gennadiy Karponosov 7 6 475.3 71 9 Anne Millier / Harvey Millier 9 10 467.5 80 10 Mary Campbell / Johnny Johns 8 9 466.5 88 11 Louise Lind / Barry Soper 11 11 103 12 Diana Skotnická / Martin Skotnický 13 12 109.5 13 Anne-Claude Wolfers / Roland Mars 12 13 113 14 Teresa Weyna / Piotr Bojańczyk 14 14 117.5 15 Ilona Berecz / István Sugár 15 16 134 16 Matilde Ciccia / Lamberto Ceserani 16 15 142 17 Tatiana Grossen / Alessandro Grossen 17 17 157 18 Astrid Kopp / Axel Kopp 18 18 158 19 Angelika Wiesner / Hans-Jürgen Wiesner 19 20 174 20 Brigitte Scheijbal / Kurt Jaschek 20 19 177
Referee: Emil Skákala Assistant Referee: Henri Meudec Judges: George J. Blundun
Klára Kozári Lysiane Lauret George Marsh Dagmar Řeháková Erika Schiechtl Mary Wright Maria Zuchowicz
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