Figure skating at the 1960 Winter Olympics – Pair skating
| Pair skating at the VIII Olympic Winter Games | |||||||||||||
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Squaw Valley, California, United States | |||||||||||||
| Dates | 19 February | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 26 from 7 nations | ||||||||||||
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The Squaw Valley, California, United States. The event took place on Friday 19 February 1960. Each judge ranked the skaters by Ordinal Placement from first to last place. If a skater was ranked first by a majority of the judges, that skater was placed first overall; this process was repeated for each place. If more than one skater had a majority ranking for the same position, then a series of tiebreaks were in place, indicated in order in the Results section below.
Barbara Wagner / Robert Paul won gold for Canada, having not been beaten since the 1956 Winter Olympics.[1]
Results
| Pl. | Name | Nation | MP | TOOM | TO | TP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Barbara Wagner / Robert Paul |  Canada |
7x1+ | 7.0 | 7.0 | 80.4 |
| 2 | Marika Kilius / Hans-Jürgen Bäumler |  United Team of Germany |
4x2+ | 8.0 | 19.0 | 76.8 |
| 3 | Nancy Ludington / Ronald Ludington |  United States |
4x3+ | 11.0 | 27.5 | 76.2 |
| 4 | Maria Jelinek / Otto Jelinek | Canada |
6x4+ | 19.0 | 26.0 | 75.9 |
| 5 | Margret Göbl / Franz Ningel | United Team of Germany |
5x5+ | 20.0 | 36.0 | 72.5 |
| 6 | Nina Zhuk / Stanislav Zhuk |  Soviet Union |
5x5+ | 25.0 | 38.0 | 72.3 |
| 7 | Rita Blumenberg / Werner Mensching | United Team of Germany |
4x7+ | 26.5 | 53.0 | 70.2 |
| 8 | Diana Hinko / Heinz Döpfl |  Austria |
5x8+ | 35.5 | 54.5 | 69.8 |
| 9 | Liudmila Belousova / Oleg Protopopov |
Soviet Union |
4x9+ | 30.0 | 60.5 | 68.6 |
| 10 | Maribel Owen / Dudley Richards | United States |
5x10+ | 46.0 | 69.0 | 67.5 |
| 11 | Ray Hadley |
United States |
4x11+ | 41.0 | 78.0 | 65.7 |
| 12 | Jacqueline Mason / Mervyn Bower |  Australia |
5x12+ | 57.0 | 83.0 | 63.7 |
| 13 | Marcelle Matthews / Gwyn Jones |  South Africa |
7x13+ | 85.5 | 85.5 | 63.6 |
Referee:
Assistant Referee:
Judges:
Sydney R. Croll
Franz Wojtanowskyj
John Greig
Theo Klemm
Giovanni de Mori
Emile Finsterwald
Howell Janes
References
- ^ "Figure Skating at the 1960 Winter Olympics: Pairs, Mixed". Olympedia. Retrieved 3 July 2020.
