1983 World Figure Skating Championships Explained

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

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

Medals by country

Results

Men

Rank	Name	Nation	CP	SP	FS	SP+FS	Points	Total
align=center	1			2	1	1	1		2.6
align=center	2			4	3	3	3		6.6
align=center	3			8	2	2	2		7.6
4			6	4	4	4		9.2
5			1	5	7	7		9.8
6			3	9	5	5		10.4
7			9	7	6	6		14.2
8			5	8	9	8		15.2
9			7	6	10	10		16.6
10			10	11	8	9		18.4
11			12	13	11	12		23.4
12			14	10	12	11		24.4
13			11	17	14	14		27.4
14			19	12	13	13		29.2
15			13	14	17	17		30.4
16			15	15	16	16		31.0
17			17	16	15	15		31.6
18			16	18	19	18		35.8
19			18	21	18	19		37.2
20			21	19	20	20		40.2
21			20	20	21	21		41.0
22			22	22	22	22		44.0

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Ladies

Rank	Name	Nation	CP	SP	FS	SP+FS	Points	Total
align=center	1			1	4	1	2		3.2
align=center	2			5	2	3	3		6.8
align=center	3			3	3	4	4		7.0
4			8	1	2	1		7.2
5			9	5	5	5		12.4
6			2	9	9	9		13.8
7			6	11	6	7		14.0
8			7	10	8	8		16.2
9			14	6	7	6		17.8
10			4	16	12	13		20.8
11			15	7	10	10		21.8
12			13	8	11	11		22.0
13			11	13	13	12		24.8
14			10	17	14	14		26.8
15			12	20	15	15		30.2
B Section
16			21	12	3	2		20.4
17			18	15	5	4		21.8
18			24	18	1	3		22.6
19			25	14	2	1		22.6
20			19	19	6	6		25.0
21			22	22	4	5		26.0
22			20	23	7	7		28.2
23			16	27	8	9		28.4
24			17	24	9	8		28.8
25			23	26	10	11		34.2
26			26	21	11	10		35.0
27			28	25	12	12		38.8
WD			27	28
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Pairs

Rank	Name	Nation	SP	FS	Points	Total
align=center	1			2	1		1.8
align=center	2			1	2		2.4
align=center	3			3	3		4.2
4			5	4		6.0
5			6	5		7.4
6			4	7		8.6
7			8	6		9.2
8			7	7		9.8
9			9	9		12.6
10			10	10		14.0
11			11	11		15.4
12			12	12		16.8
13			14	13		18.6
14			13	14		19.2
15			15	15		21.0
16			16	16		22.4
17			17	17		23.8

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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
align=center	1			1	1	1	2.0
align=center	2			3	3	2	5.0
align=center	3			2	2	3	5.0
4			5	4	4	8.6
5			4	8	5	10.6
6			7	5	6	12.2
7			6	6	7	13.0
8			8	7	8	15.6
9			10	9	9	18.6
10			13	11	10	22.2
11			12	10	11	22.2
12			11	12	12	23.4
13			14	14	13	27.0
14			15	13	14	28.2
15			16	15	15	30.6
16			17	16	16	32.6
17			18	17	17	34.6
18			19	18	18	36.6
WD			9

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Sources

• Result list provided by the ISU

Notes and References

1. Web site: AP . Russians Triumph In Pairs . NYTimes.com . 1983-03-10 . 2012-07-02.