1906 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.

1906 World Figure Skating Championships
Type:	ISU Championship
Season:	1906
Location:	Munich, German Empire (men) Davos, Switzerland (ladies)
Champions
Men's singles: Gilbert Fuchs
Ladies' singles: Madge Syers-Cave
Previous: 1905 World Championships
Next: 1907 World Championships

Men's competition took place on February 4th in Munich, German Empire. Ulrich Salchow did not participate because he feared that the judgement would not be fair in Gilber Fuchs' hometown Munich. Ladies' competition took place from January 28th to 29th in Davos, Switzerland. It was the first World Championships in figure skating for ladies.

Results

Men

Rank	Name	Nation	Age	CF		FS		Total	Points	Places
1	Gilbert Fuchs	Germany	35	1	2917	1	770	3687	737.4	5
2	Heinrich Burger	Germany	24	4	2455	2	709	3164	632.8	14
3	Bror Meyer	Sweden	20	2	2520	4	511	3031	606.2	17
4	Karl Zenger	Germany	32	5	2351	3	616	2967	593.4	20
5	Per Thorén	Sweden	21	3	2462	6	490	2952	590.4	23
6	Anton Steiner	Austria		6	2167	5	497	2664	532.8	27
7	Martin Gordan	Germany		7	1807	7	392	2199	439.8	34

Judges:

• C. Gützlaff  Germany
• Ludwig Fänner  Austria
• O. Henning  Germany
• Robert Holletschek  Germany
• Otto Schöning  Germany

Ladies

Rank	Name	Nation	Places
1	Madge Syers-Cave	United Kingdom	5
2	Jenny Herz	Austria	13
3	Lily Kronberger	Hungary	13.5
4	Elsa Rendschmidt	Germany	21.5
5	Dorothy Greenhough-Smith	United Kingdom	22

Judges:

• E. Collingwood  United Kingdom
• M. Holtz   Switzerland
• Tibor von Földváry  Hungary
• Dr. H. Winzer  Germany
• P. Birum   Switzerland

Sources

• Result List provided by the ISU