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 The 1972 championships took place on March 7 to March 11, 1972. The 1972 Worlds were held at the Stampede Corral in Calgary, Alberta, Canada from 1972. 
 
 The ISU Representative was John R. Shoemaker (  United States) and the ISU Technical Delegates were Hermann Schiechtl (  West Germany) and Donald H. Gilchrist (  Canada). 
 
 A day before the start of the competition, Irina Rodnina and Alexei Ulanov had an accident on a lift; she was hospitalized with a concussion and an intracranial hematoma but went on to compete and win the gold medal.[1] It was Rodnina/Ulanov's final competition together; he would team up with the silver medalist Lyudmila Smirnova. 
 
 [td]| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |  | 1 |   Soviet Union | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |  | 2 |   Austria | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |  | 2 |   Czechoslovakia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |  | 4 |   Canada | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |  | 4 |   West Germany | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |  | 6 |   United States | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |  
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