1908 World Figure Skating Championships

1908 World Figure Skating Championships
Type:	ISU Championship
Season:	1908
Location:	Troppau, Austria-Hungary (singles) Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire (pairs)
Venue:	Yusupovsky Garden (StP's)
Champions
Men's singles: Ulrich Salchow
Ladies' singles: Lily Kronberger
Pair skating: Anna Hübler / Heinrich Burger
Previous: 1907 World Championships
Next: 1909 World 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.

The 1908 men and ladies competitions were held on January 25–26 in Troppau, Austria-Hungary (modern-day Opava, Czech Republic). The 1908 pairs competition took place on February 16 in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire. It was the first World Championships in which pair skating was contested.

Results

Men

Rank	Name	Nation	Places
1	Ulrich Salchow	Sweden	9
2	Gilbert Fuchs	Germany	12
3	Heinrich Burger	Germany	21

Judges:

• Otto Bohatsch  Austria
• C. Dorasil  Germany ( Czechoslovakia)
• P. Engelhardt  Germany
• H. D. Faith  United Kingdom
• I. Forssling  Sweden
• Gustav Hügel  Austria
• Otto Schöning  Germany

Ladies

Rank	Name	Nation	Places
1	Lily Kronberger	Hungary	5
2	Elsa Rendschmidt	Germany	10

Judges:

• H. D. Faith  United Kingdom
• Otto Schöning  Germany
• I. Forssling  Sweden
• Gustav Hügel  Austria
• P. Engelhardt  Germany

Pairs

Rank	Name	Nation	Places
1	Anna Hübler / Heinrich Burger	Germany	5
2	Phyllis Johnson / James H. Johnson	United Kingdom	11.5
3	Lidia Popova / A. L. Fischer	Russia	13.5

Judges:

• Rudolf Sundgren  Finland
• V. Shnobel  Russia
• J. Kettnitz  Russia
• A. Ivashenztsov  Russia
• Viacheslav Sresnevsky  Russia

Sources

• Result List provided by the ISU