1903 World Figure Skating Championships

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

is an annual figure skating competition

Figure skating competition

-International:* International competitions sanctioned by the International Skating Union. These competitions are held using ISU rules; skaters are entered by their respective national skating federations....

sanctioned by the International Skating Union

International Skating Union

The International Skating Union is the international governing body for competitive ice skating disciplines, including figure skating, synchronized skating, speed skating, and short track speed skating. It was founded in Scheveningen, Netherlands in 1892, making it one of the oldest international...

in which figure skaters

Figure skating

Figure skating is an Olympic sport in which individuals, pairs, or groups perform spins, jumps, footwork and other intricate and challenging moves on ice skates. Figure skaters compete at various levels from beginner up to the Olympic level , and at local, national, and international competitions...

compete for the title of World Champion. The 1903 competition took place on February 20th to 21st, 1903 in Yusupovsky Garden, Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea...

, Russia

Russia

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and was timed to 200-year Jubilee of St. Petersburg.

Results

Rank	Name	Nation	Places
1	Ulrich Salchow Ulrich Salchow Karl Emil Julius Ulrich Salchow was a Swedish figure skater, who dominated the sport in the first decade of the 20th century....		6
2	Nikolai Panin Nikolai Panin Nikolay Aleksandrovich Panin-Kolomenkin, was a Russian figure skater and coach. He won the gold medal in special figures in the 1908 Summer Olympics. Panin was Russia's first Olympic champion. He was inducted into the World Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 2009.-Biography:Panin was born in...		12
3	Max Bohatsch Max Bohatsch Max Bohatsch was an Austrian figure skater. He won the gold medal at the 1905 European Figure Skating Championships and captured three medals at the World Figure Skating Championships.-Results:-Navigation:...	Austria	12
4	Ernst Lassahn	Germany	20
WD	Gilbert Fuchs Gilbert Fuchs Gilbert Fuchs was a German figure skater and world champion in figure skating.In 1896, he won the first world figure skating championships, held in St. Petersburg, Russia. In 1906 he recaptured the title in Munich....	Germany

Judges were

Eduard von Löhr Austria
G. Wendt Germany
Tibor von Földváry
Tibor von Földváry
Tibor von Földváry was an Hungarian figure skater. He was the European Figure Skating Championships gold medalist in 1895. He was also a judge at the World Championships shortly after his competitive career.-Results:-Navigation:...
Georg Sanders
A. Iwaschenzow

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