Figure skating at the 1968 Winter Olympics
Figure skating at the Winter Olympics | |
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Type: | Olympic Games |
Venue: | Liudmila Belousova / Oleg Protopopov |
Previous: 1964 Winter Olympics | |
Next: 1972 Winter Olympics |
Figure skating at the 1968 Winter Olympics was held at Le Stade Olympique de Glace in Grenoble, France. Ice dance, then known as "rhythmic skating," was a demonstration event and was won by the team of Diane Towler and Bernard Ford of Great Britain.[1] It became a medal event eight years later in 1976 Innsbruck.[2]
American figure skater Peggy Fleming built up a huge lead after the compulsory figures and won the first-place votes of all nine judges.[3] Her victory marked the first gold medal won by an American after the Sabena crash in 1961, and heralded an American figure skating renaissance.[4]
Medal table
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Soviet Union | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
United States | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
3 | Austria | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
4 | East Germany | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
5 | Czechoslovakia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
France | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
West Germany | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Totals (7 entries) | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 |
Results
Men
Rank | Name | Nation | CF | FS | Points | Places |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Wolfgang Schwarz | Austria | 1 | 2 | 1904.1 | 13 |
2 | Tim Wood |
United States | 2 | 3 | 1891.6 | 17 |
3 | Patrick Péra | France | 3 | 7 | 1864.5 | 31 |
4 | Emmerich Danzer | Austria | 4 | 1 | 1873.0 | 29 |
5 | Gary Visconti | United States | 6 | 5 | 1810.2 | 52 |
6 | John Misha Petkevich | United States | 8 | 4 | 1806.2 | 56 |
7 | Jay Humphry | Canada | 9 | 6 | 1795.0 | 63 |
8 | Ondrej Nepela | Czechoslovakia | 5 | 10 | 1772.8 | 73 |
9 | Sergei Chetverukhin | Soviet Union | 11 | 11 | 1737.0 | 93 |
10 | Marian Filc |
Czechoslovakia | 13 | 8 | 1734.2 | 97 |
11 | Günter Zöller | East Germany | 10 | 14 | 1727.9 | 100 |
12 | Peter Krick | West Germany | 7 | 16 | 1723.2 | 104 |
13 | Philippe Pélissier | France | 14 | 12 | 1706.0 | 114 |
14 | Giordano Abbondati | Italy | 12 | 18 | 1690.9 | 117 |
15 | Michael Williams | Great Britain | 15 | 15 | 1650.9 | 147 |
16 | David McGillivray | Canada | 21 | 9 | 1663.7 | 139 |
17 | Haig Oundjian | Great Britain | 19 | 13 | 1639.5 | 154 |
18 | Sergei Volkov |
Soviet Union | 16 | 17 | 1632.0 | 158 |
19 | Jenő Ébert | Hungary | 17 | 24 | 1595.4 | 180 |
20 | Jacques Mrozek | France | 18 | 20 | 1601.0 | 179 |
21 | Tsuguhiko Kozuka | Japan | 24 | 19 | 1584.0 | 189 |
22 | Steve Hutchinson | Canada | 22 | 21 | 1578.3 | 193 |
23 | Günter Anderl | Austria | 20 | 23 | 1574.7 | 193 |
24 | Jürgen Eberwein | West Germany | 25 | 22 | 1530.3 | 219 |
25 | Yutaka Higuchi | Japan | 23 | 26 | 1529.6 | 218 |
26 | Jan Hoffmann | East Germany | 26 | 25 | 1437.8 | 238 |
27 | Thomas Callerud | Sweden | 27 | 27 | 1399.3 | 241 |
28 | Lee Gwang-yeong | South Korea | 28 | 28 | 1360.3 | 250 |
Referee:
Assistant Referee:
Judges:
- Martin Felsenkirch
- Ralph S. McCreath
- Emil Skákala
- Jeanine Donnier-Blanc
- Erika Schiechtl
- Geoffrey Yates
- Michele Beltrami
- Haruo Kanno
- Yvonne S. McGowan
Ladies
Rank | Name | Nation | CF | FS | Points | Places |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Peggy Fleming | United States | 1 | 1 | 1970.5 | 9 |
2 | Gabriele Seyfert | East Germany | 2 | 2 | 1882.3 | 18 |
3 | Hana Mašková | Czechoslovakia | 4 | 3 | 1828.8 | 31 |
4 | Albertina Noyes | United States | 5 | 7 | 1797.3 | 40 |
5 | Beatrix Schuba |
Austria | 3 | 12 | 1773.2 | 51 |
6 | Zsuzsa Almássy | Hungary | 6 | 8 | 1757.0 | 57 |
7 | Karen Magnussen | Canada | 10 | 4 | 1759.4 | 63 |
8 | Kumiko Okawa |
Japan | 8 | 5 | 1763.6 | 61 |
9 | Janet Lynn | United States | 14 | 6 | 1698.7 | 90 |
10 | Monika Feldmann | West Germany | 11 | 13 | 1687.1 | 99 |
11 | Sally-Anne Stapleford | Great Britain | 7 | 17 | 1680.9 | 105 |
12 | Elena Shcheglova | Soviet Union | 13 | 10 | 1670.4 | 110 |
13 | Linda Carbonetto | Canada | 24 | 9 | 1662.9 | 111 |
14 | Kazumi Yamashita | Japan | 15 | 14 | 1639.0 | 139 |
15 | Patricia Dodd | Great Britain | 9 | 27 | 1634.6 | 140 |
16 | Galina Grzhibovskaya |
Soviet Union | 25 | 11 | 1628.5 | 144 |
17 | Petra Ruhrmann | West Germany | 16 | 18 | 1611.2 | 161 |
18 | Elisabeth Mikula | Austria | 17 | 19 | 1612.5 | 164 |
19 | Eileen Zillmer | West Germany | 12 | 23 | 1600.3 | 171 |
20 | Micheline Joubert | France | 28 | 15 | 1594.8 | 182 |
21 | Marie Víchová |
Czechoslovakia | 20 | 16 | 1580.4 | 187 |
22 | Charlotte Walter | Switzerland | 21 | 26 | 1571.5 | 202.5 |
23 | Elisabeth Nestler | Austria | 26 | 21 | 1562.6 | 208 |
24 | Frances Waghorn | Great Britain | 22 | 28 | 1557.2 | 211 |
25 | Rita Trapanese | Italy | 27 | 24 | 1549.2 | 216.5 |
26 | Haruko Ishida |
Japan | 18 | 25 | 1552.7 | 218 |
27 | Sylvaine Duban | France | 19 | 29 | 1551.4 | 219 |
28 | Sonja Morgenstern | East Germany | 29 | 22 | 1475.9 | 251 |
29 | Beatrice Huștiu | Romania | 31 | 20 | 1457.2 | 257 |
30 | Lee Hyeon-ju | South Korea | 30 | 30 | 1359.9 | 271 |
31 | Kim Hye-gyeong |
South Korea | 32 | 31 | 1336.2 | 277 |
WD | Lyndsai Cowan | Canada | 23 |
Referee:
Assistant Referee:
Judges:
- Martin Felsenkirch
- Dagmar Řeháková
- Carla Listing
- János Zsigmondy
- Mollie Phillips
- Éva György
- Masao Hasegawa
- Norman E. Fuller
- Konstantin Likharev
Pairs
Referee:
Assistant Referee:
Judges:
- Franz Wojtanowskyj
- Ralph S. McCreath
- Emil Skákala
- Monique Georgelin
- Carla Listing
- Wilhelm Kahle
- Maria Zuchowicz
- Yvonne S. McGowan
- Tatiana Tolmacheva
References
- ^ "Rapport Officiel Xes Jeux Olympiques D'Hiver 1968 Grenoble" (PDF). Comité d'organisation des Xemes jeux olympiques d'hiver. LA84 Foundation. 1968. Retrieved 28 January 2014.
- ^ "Figure Skating at the 1968 Winter Olympics". Olympedia. Archived from the original on 3 July 2020. Retrieved 3 July 2020.
- ^ Beijing 2008 Archived 1 November 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Ford, Bonnie D. (2011). "Still Crystal Clear". ESPN. Retrieved 19 February 2014.
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