The World Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union in which figure skaters compete for the title of World Champion.
The 1949 championships took place on February 16 to 18, 1949 in Paris, France. Alena Vrzáňová of Czechoslovakia became the first woman to perform a double lutz.
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