1901 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.

1901 World Figure Skating Championships
Type:	ISU Championship
Date:	February 10 – 11
Season:	1901
Location:	Stockholm, Sweden-Norway
Champions
Men's singles: Ulrich Salchow
Previous: 1900 World Championships
Next: 1902 World Championships

The competition took place from February 10 to 11 in Stockholm, Sweden. Originally allotted to London the competition was transferred to Stockholm due to the death of Queen Victoria. There were only two contestants. Four out of six judges came from Sweden. None of the judges came from the German Empire. Still the placings were the same. Adams, Pettersson, and Westergren put Salchow in first position, the other three judges Fuchs.

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Sweden)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Sweden*	1	0	0	1
2	Germany	0	1	0	1
Totals (2 entries)		1	1	0	2

Results

Singles

Rank	Name	Age	CF	FS	Total	Points	Places
1	Ulrich Salchow	23	1	2	1423	237.17	9
2	Gilbert Fuchs	29	2	1	1409	234.83	9
	G. Hoppe		3				21
	A. Panin		3				21

Judges:

• W. F. Adams
• G. Euler
• A. Hansson
• L. Lindquist
• H. Pettersson
• Ivar Westergren

Pairs (unofficial)

The 1901 championship was the first since 1896 to include doubles competitions in addition to singles, but the title of "world champion" and medals were not awarded.

Rank	Name	Age	Points	Places
1	Christina von Szabo / Carl Euler		10	7
2	Madge Syers / Edgar Syers	18/37	8.3/7	14
3	Hedwig Muller / Martin Gordan	/24	7.4/7	21
4	Emmy Sjöberg / Christian Soldan		6.5/7	28