1949 World Figure Skating Championships
The World Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union in which amateur figure skaters compete for the title of World Champion. The 1949 championships took place from February 16 to 18 in Paris, France. At the men's event, the favorite, Dick Button won. At the women's event, however, the favorite, Eva Pawlik of Austria, who had been the Olympic runner-up behind Barbara Ann Scott one year before and who had just won the European title in 1949, dropped out because of a broken boot heel just before the free program. which provided Alena Vrzáňová of Czechoslovakia with the opportunity to win the gold medal. She became the first woman to perform a double lutz. Medal table

Results

Men

Judges:
  Ferenc Kertész
  Edwin Kucharz 
  Harry Meistrup
  Harold G. Storke
  Mario Verdi

Ladies

Judges:
  Kenneth Beaumont
  Ferenc Kertész
  James Koch
  Adolf Rosdol
  Harold G. Storke
  Georges Torchon
  Josef Vosolsobě

Pairs

*Better placed due to the majority of the better places

Judges:
  Emile Finsterwald
  Ferenc Kertész
  Mollie Phillips
  Adolf Rosdol
  Harold G. Storke
  Georges Torchon
  Josef Vosolsobě

References

Sources
 Result list provided by the ISU

World Figure Skating Championships
World Figure Skating Championships
International figure skating competitions hosted by France
World Figure Skating Championships
World Figure Skating Championships
World Figure Skating Championships
International sports competitions hosted by Paris