Figure Skating
- World Figure Skating Championships –
- Men's champion: David Jenkins, United States
- Ladies' champion: Carol Heiss, United States
- Pair skating champion: Barbara Wagner & Robert Paul, Canada
- Ice dancing champion: Doreen Denny & Courtney Jones, Great Britain
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“And they lie like wedges,
Thick end to thin end and thin end to thick end,
And are a figure of the way the strong
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