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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