1983 World Figure Skating Championships
Type:	ISU Championship
Date:	March 8 – 13
Season:	1982–83
Location:	Helsinki, Finland
Venue:	Helsinki Ice Hall
Champions
Men's singles: Scott Hamilton
Ladies' singles: Rosalynn Sumners
Pairs: Elena Valova / Oleg Vasiliev
Ice dance: Jayne Torvill / Christopher Dean
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The 1983 World Figure Skating Championships were held in Helsinki, Finland from March 8 to 13. At the event, sanctioned by the International Skating Union, medals were awarded in men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.

The ISU Representative was Hermann Schiechtl and the ISU Technical Delegate Elemér Terták. The original dance was part of the competition for the first time.

Medal tables

Medalists

Discipline	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men	Scott Hamilton	Norbert Schramm	Brian Orser
Ladies	Rosalynn Sumners	Claudia Leistner	Elena Vodorezova
Pair skating	Elena Valova / Oleg Vasiliev	Sabine Baeß / Tassilo Thierbach	Barbara Underhill / Paul Martini
Ice dancing	Jayne Torvill / Christopher Dean	Natalia Bestemianova / Andrei Bukin	Judy Blumberg / Michael Seibert

Medals by country

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	2	0	1	3
2	Soviet Union (URS)	1	1	1	3
3	Great Britain (GBR)	1	0	0	1
4	West Germany (FRG)	0	2	0	2
5	East Germany (GDR)	0	1	0	1
6	Canada (CAN)	0	0	2	2
Totals (6 entries)		4	4	4	12

Results

Men

Rank	Name	Nation	CP	SP	FS	SP+FS	Points	Total
1	Scott Hamilton	United States	2	1	1	1		2.6
2	Norbert Schramm	West Germany	4	3	3	3		6.6
3	Brian Orser	Canada	8	2	2	2		7.6
4	Alexander Fadeev	Soviet Union	6	4	4	4		9.2
5	Jean-Christophe Simond	France	1	5	7	7		9.8
6	Jozef Sabovčík	Czechoslovakia	3	9	5	5		10.4
7	Brian Boitano	United States	9	7	6	6		14.2
8	Heiko Fischer	West Germany	5	8	9	8		15.2
9	Vladimir Kotin	Soviet Union	7	6	10	10		16.6
10	Rudi Cerne	West Germany	10	11	8	9		18.4
11	Laurent Depouilly	France	12	13	11	12		23.4
12	Falko Kirsten	East Germany	14	10	12	11		24.4
13	Gary Beacom	Canada	11	17	14	14		27.4
14	Mark Cockerell	United States	19	12	13	13		29.2
15	Lars Åkesson	Sweden	13	14	17	17		30.4
16	Miljan Begović	Yugoslavia	15	15	16	16		31.0
17	Masaru Ogawa	Japan	17	16	15	15		31.6
18	Shinji Someya	Japan	16	18	19	18		35.8
19	Thomas Hlavik	Austria	18	21	18	19		37.2
20	Mark Pepperday	United Kingdom	21	19	20	20		40.2
21	Cameron Medhurst	Australia	20	20	21	21		41.0
22	Fernando Soria	Spain	22	22	22	22		44.0

Referee:

• Sonia Bianchetti   Italy

Assistant Referee:

• Oskar Madl   Austria

Judges:

• Irina Absaliamova   Soviet Union
• Kazuo Ohashi   Japan
• Heinz Müllenbach   West Germany
• Helga von Wiecki   East Germany
• Tjaša Andrée   Yugoslavia
• Monique Georgelin   France
• Hugh C. Graham, Jr.   United States
• Gerhardt Bubnik   Czechoslovakia
• Margaret Berezowski   Canada

Substitute judge:

• Walter Hütter   Austria

Ladies

Rank	Name	Nation	CP	SP	FS	SP+FS	Points	Total
1	Rosalynn Sumners	United States	1	4	1	2		3.2
2	Claudia Leistner	West Germany	5	2	3	3		6.8
3	Elena Vodorezova	Soviet Union	3	3	4	4		7.0
4	Katarina Witt	East Germany	8	1	2	1		7.2
5	Anna Kondrashova	Soviet Union	9	5	5	5		12.4
6	Kristiina Wegelius	Finland	2	9	9	9		13.8
7	Kay Thomson	Canada	6	11	6	7		14.0
8	Manuela Ruben	West Germany	7	10	8	8		16.2
9	Tiffany Chin	United States	14	6	7	6		17.8
10	Sandra Cariboni	Switzerland	4	16	12	13		20.8
11	Janina Wirth	East Germany	15	7	10	10		21.8
12	Charlene Wong	Canada	13	8	11	11		22.0
13	Sanda Dubravčić	Yugoslavia	11	13	13	12		24.8
14	Sonja Stanek	Austria	10	17	14	14		26.8
15	Katrien Pauwels	Belgium	12	20	15	15		30.2
B Section
16	Karin Telser	Italy	21	12	3	2		20.4
17	Catarina Lindgren	Sweden	18	15	5	4		21.8
18	Juri Ozawa	Japan	24	18	1	3		22.6
19	Susan Jackson	United Kingdom	25	14	2	1		22.6
20	Hanne Gamborg	Denmark	19	19	6	6		25.0
21	Elise Ahonen	Finland	22	22	4	5		26.0
22	Li Scha Wang	Netherlands	20	23	7	7		28.2
23	Alison Southwood	United Kingdom	16	27	8	9		28.4
24	Béatrice Farinacci	France	17	24	9	8		28.8
25	Susanne Gschwend	Austria	23	26	10	11		34.2
26	Vicki Holland	Australia	26	21	11	10		35.0
27	Rosario Esteban	Spain	28	25	12	12		38.8
WD	Lim Hye-kyung	South Korea	27	28
WD	Elaine Zayak	United States

Referee:

• Benjamin T. Wright   United States

Assistant Referee:

• Leena Vainio   Finland

Judges:

• Linda Petersen   Denmark
• Raymond Alperth   United States
• Margaret Berezowski   Canada
• Jacqueline Itschner   Switzerland
• Monique Petis   France
• Ludwig Gassner   Austria
• Eugen Romminger   West Germany
• Hideo Sugita   Japan
• Britta Lindgren   Sweden
• Walburga Grimm   East Germany

Substitute judge:

• Giovanni De Mori   Italy

Pairs

Rank	Name	Nation	SP	FS	Points	Total
1	Elena Valova / Oleg Vasiliev	Soviet Union	2	1		1.8
2	Sabine Baeß / Tassilo Thierbach	East Germany	1	2		2.4
3	Barbara Underhill / Paul Martini	Canada	3	3		4.2
4	Kitty Carruthers / Peter Carruthers	United States	5	4		6.0
5	Veronika Pershina / Marat Akbarov	Soviet Union	6	5		7.4
6	Marina Pestova / Stanislav Leonovich	Soviet Union	4	7		8.6
7	Lea Ann Miller / William Fauver	United States	8	6		9.2
8	Birgit Lorenz / Knut Schubert	East Germany	7	7		9.8
9	Cynthia Coull / Mark Rowsom	Canada	9	9		12.6
10	Katherina Matousek / Lloyd Eisler	Canada	10	10		14.0
11	Jill Watson / Burt Lancon	United States	11	11		15.4
12	Babette Preußler / Torsten Ohlow	East Germany	12	12		16.8
13	Susan Garland / Ian Jenkins	United Kingdom	14	13		18.6
14	Toshimi Ito / Takashi Mura	Japan	13	14		19.2
15	Jana Havlová / René Novotný	Czechoslovakia	15	15		21.0
16	Claudia Massari / Leonardo Azzola	West Germany	16	16		22.4
17	Maija Pekkala / Pekka Pekkala	Finland	17	17		23.8

Referee:

• Donald H. Gilchrist   Canada

Assistant Referee:

• Erika Schiechtl   West Germany

Judges:

• Suzanne Fancis   Canada
• Mikhail Drei   Soviet Union
• Ingrid Reetz   West Germany
• Hely Abbondati   Finland
• Dagmar Řeháková   Czechoslovakia
• Virginia LeFevre   United States
• Sally-Anne Stapleford   United Kingdom
• Ingrid Linke   East Germany
• Hideo Sugita   Japan

Substitute judge:

• Jürg Wilhelm   Switzerland

Ice dancing

Jayne Torvill / Christopher Dean got 5.9 scores from all nine judges in their third dance, the Argentine tango, of the compulsory portion of the event. ^[1]

Rank	Name	Nation	CD	OSP	FD	Total
1	Jayne Torvill / Christopher Dean	United Kingdom	1	1	1	2.0
2	Natalia Bestemianova / Andrei Bukin	Soviet Union	3	3	2	5.0
3	Judy Blumberg / Michael Seibert	United States	2	2	3	5.0
4	Olga Volozhinskaya / Alexander Svinin	Soviet Union	5	4	4	8.6
5	Karen Barber / Nicholas Slater	United Kingdom	4	8	5	10.6
6	Tracy Wilson / Robert McCall	Canada	7	5	6	12.2
7	Elisa Spitz / Scott Gregory	United States	6	6	7	13.0
8	Elena Batanova / Alexei Soloviev	Soviet Union	8	7	8	15.6
9	Petra Born / Rainer Schönborn	West Germany	10	9	9	18.6
10	Kelly Johnson / John Thomas	Canada	13	11	10	22.2
11	Isabella Micheli / Roberto Pelizzola	Italy	12	10	11	22.2
12	Wendy Sessions / Stephen Williams	United Kingdom	11	12	12	23.4
13	Judit Péterfy / Csaba Bálint	Hungary	14	14	13	27.0
14	Noriko Sato / Tadayuki Takahashi	Japan	15	13	14	28.2
15	Marianne van Bommel / Wayne Deweyert	Netherlands	16	15	15	30.6
16	Kathrin Beck / Christoff Beck	Austria	17	16	16	32.6
17	Claudia Schmidlin / Daniel Schmidlin	Switzerland	18	17	17	34.6
18	Hristina Boyanova / Javor Ivanov	Bulgaria	19	18	18	36.6
WD	Nathalie Herve / Pierre Bechu	France	9

Referee:

• Lawrence Demmy   United Kingdom

Assistant Referee:

• Roland Wehinger   Austria

Judges:

• Cia Bordogna   Italy
• Jürg Wilhelm   Switzerland
• Kazuo Ohashi   Japan
• Margaret Freepartner   United States
• Ann Shaw   Canada
• Heide Maritszak   Austria
• Igor Kabanov   Soviet Union
• Katalin Alpern   Hungary
• Roy Mason   United Kingdom

Substitute judge:

• Lysiane Lauret   France

References

Sources

• Result list provided by the ISU