1973 World Figure Skating Championships

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1973 World Figure Skating Championships

The event was an ISU Championship held from February 26 to March 3, 1973, in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia). It took place at Zimní Stadion Bratislava. It was the last year that solid gold medals were awarded in figure skating. The opening ceremony was at the Bratislava Philharmonic, and Miroslav Červenka was the chairman of the organizing committee.

Medalists
- Men’s singles: Ondrej Nepela
- Ladies’ singles: Karen Magnussen
- Pairs: Irina Rodnina / Aleksandr Zaytsev
- Ice dance: Lyudmila Pakhomova / Aleksandr Gorshkov

Notes
- In ladies’ singles, Sonja Balun (Austria) and Zsuzsa Homolya (Hungary) withdrew before the opening ceremony.
- Irina Rodnina won her first World title with her new partner Aleksandr Zaytsev after her previous partner Aleksey Ulanov teamed with Lyudmila Smirnova.
- Rodnina/Zaytsev’s short program music stopped during the performance, possibly due to a Czech worker protest in retaliation for the Prague Spring events.