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