1909 World Figure Skating Championships

1909 World Figure Skating Championships
Type:	ISU Championship
Season:	1909
Location:	Stockholm, Sweden (men and pairs) Budapest, Austria-Hungary (ladies)
Champions
Men's singles: Ulrich Salchow
Ladies' singles: Lily Kronberger
Pairs: Phyllis Johnson / James H. Johnson
Previous: 1908 World Championships
Next: 1910 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.

Men's competitions took place on 7–8 February in Stockholm, Sweden. Ladies' competitions took place on 23–24 January in Budapest, Austria-Hungary. Lily Kronberger was the only competitor. Pairs' competition took place on 8 February in Stockholm, Sweden.

Results

Men

Rank	Name	Points	Places
1	Ulrich Salchow	413.0	7
2	Per Thorén	407.5	10
3	Ernst Herz	388.1	16
4	Richard Johansson		20
5	Fedor Datlin		22

Judges:

• Georg Helfrich
• Edward Hörle
• O. Sampe
• Rudolf Sundgrén
• O. C. Thorstensen

Ladies

The only competitor was the 19 years old Lily Kronberger and won the gold medal. Her results were the followings: CF=769, FS=513, Total=1282, Points: 256.4. The referee was Imre Szent-Györgyi.
Judges:

• Carl Fillunger
• Georg Helfrich
• Edward Hörle
• Ludwig Niedermeyer
• Oskar Uhlig

Pairs

Rank	Name	Points	Places
1	Phyllis Johnson / James Johnson	116	5.5
2	Valborg Lindahl / Nils Rosenius	111	9.5
3	Gertrud Ström / Richard Johansson	94	16
4	Mimi Grømer / Karl Erikson		22
5	Alexia Schøien / Yngvar Bryn	19/27	22

Judges:

• August Anderberg
• Georg Helfrich
• Otto Petterson
• Rudolf Sundgren
• O. C. Thorstensen, he voted the top two couples exactly the same (each 1.5) and the other three couples also exactly the same (each 4).

Sources

• 01.011909 Suomen Urheilulehti no 4 (page 153)