title: 1972 Prize of Moscow News
text: # 1972 Prize of Moscow News
  
  The 1972 Prize of Moscow News was the seventh edition of an international figure skating competition organized in Moscow, Soviet Union. It was held December 9–13, 1972. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating and ice dancing. Sergei Chetverukhin won the men's title for the third consecutive year. Canada's Cathy Lee Irwin took the ladies' title ahead of West Germany's Isabel de Navarre and the Soviet Union's Tatiana Oleneva. Irina Vorobieva / Alexander Vlasov defeated Olympic champions Ludmila Belousova / Oleg Protopopov for gold in the pairs' category. In the ice dancing category, world champions Lyudmila Pakhomova / Alexander Gorshkov won their fourth gold medal at the event.
  
  ## Men
  
  | Rank | Name | Nation |
  | - | - | - |
  | 1 | Sergei Chetverukhin | Soviet Union |
  | 2 | Sergei Volgushev | Soviet Union |
  | 3 | Bernd Wunderlich | East Germany |
  
  ## Ladies
  
  | Rank | Name | Nation |
  | - | - | - |
  | 1 | Cathy Lee Irwin | Canada |
  | 2 | Isabel de Navarre | West Germany |
  | 3 | Tatiana Oleneva | Soviet Union |
  
  ## Pairs
  
  | Rank | Name | Nation |
  | - | - | - |
  | 1 | Irina Vorobieva / Alexander Vlasov | Soviet Union |
  | 2 | Ludmila Belousova / Oleg Protopopov | Soviet Union |
  | 3 | Marina Leonidova / Vladimir Bogolyubov | Soviet Union |
  
  ## Ice dancing
  
  | Rank | Name | Nation |
  | - | - | - |
  | 1 | Lyudmila Pakhomova / Alexander Gorshkov | Soviet Union |
  | 2 | Irina Moiseeva / Andrei Minenkov | Soviet Union |
  | 3 | Natalia Linichuk / Gennadi Karponosov | Soviet Union |
  | 4 | Marian Murray / Glenn Moore | Canada |
  