1973 World Figure Skating Championships

The 1973 World Figure Skating Championships were held from February 26 to March 3 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, sanctioned by the International Skating Union. Medals were awarded in men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dance. It was the last year in which solid gold medals were awarded in figure skating.

The opening ceremony was held at the Philharmonic of Bratislava. The Chairman of the organising committee was Miroslav Červenka. In the ladies' single skating withdrew before the opening ceremony Sonja Balun from Austria and Zsuzsa Homolya from Hungary.

Irina Rodnina won her first World title with her new partner, Aleksandr Zaytsev after her previous partner, Aleksey Ulanov, chose to skate with Lyudmila Smirnova. Rodnina/Zaitsev's music stopped during their short program, possibly due to a Czech worker acting in retaliation for the suppression of the Prague Spring.

Men

 * Referee: 🇮🇹 Sonia Bianchetti
 * Assistant Referee: Miroslav Hasenöhrl

Judges:
 * Boris Lvov-Anokhin Львов-Анохин, Борис Александрович
 * 🇮🇹 Luciana Brasa
 * Walburga Grimm
 * 🇨🇦 Dorothy Leamen
 * 🇺🇸 Ramona McIntyre
 * Irina Minculescu
 * 🇯🇵 Kazuo Ōhashi
 * Dagmar Řeháková
 * Jürg Wilhelm (substitute)
 * 🇬🇧 Geoffrey Yates

Ladies

 * Referee: Josef Dědič
 * Assistant Referee: 🇦🇹 Oskar Madl

Judges:
 * Jakob Biedermann
 * Elsbeth Bon
 * 🇦🇺 Sydney R. Croll (substitute)
 * 🇦🇹 Ludwig Gassner
 * 🇭🇺 Márta Mesterházi-Nagy, Mrs. Léces Hungarian names
 * 🇬🇧 Vera Lynfield
 * 🇨🇦 Joan Maclagan
 * 🇫🇮 Inkeri Soininen
 * Helga Wiecki
 * 🇺🇸 Mary Wright

Pairs

 * Referee: Karl Enderlin
 * Assistant Referee: 🇨🇦 Donald Gilchrist

Judges:
 * 🇫🇷 Monique Georgelin (substitute)
 * Walburga Grimm
 * 🇦🇹 Walter Hüttner
 * 🇵🇱 Władysław Kołodziej
 * 🇨🇦 Alice Pinos
 * Valentin Piseyev
 * 🇺🇸 Edith M. Shoemaker
 * Erich Soukup
 * Willi Wernz
 * Jürg Wilhelm

Ice dance

 * Referee: Hermann Schiechtl
 * Assistant Referee: 🇬🇧 Lawrence Demmy

Judges:
 * Irina Absalyamova
 * 🇮🇹 Cia Benacchi-Bordogna (substitute)
 * 🇨🇦 Frances Gunn
 * 🇫🇷 Lysiane Lauret
 * Helena Pachlová
 * 🇬🇧 Mollie Phillips
 * 🇭🇺 Elek Riedl
 * Eugen Romminger
 * 🇺🇸 Edith M. Shoemaker
 * 🇵🇱 Maria Zuchowicz