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Figure skating at the 1968 Winter Olympics

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Figure skating at the Winter Olympics
Type:Olympic Games
Venue:Le Stade Olympique de Glace
Champions
Men's singles:
Austria Wolfgang Schwarz
Ladies' singles:
United States Peggy Fleming
Pairs:
Soviet Union Liudmila Belousova / Oleg Protopopov
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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 death of an entire US figure skating team in an air crash in 1961, and heralded an American figure skating renaissance.[4]

Medal table

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RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Soviet Union1102
 United States1102
3 Austria1001
4 East Germany0101
5 Czechoslovakia0011
 France0011
 West Germany0011
Totals (7 entries)3339

Results

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Men

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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

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Ladies

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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

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Pairs

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Rank Name Nation SP FS Points Places
1 Liudmila Belousova / Oleg Protopopov  Soviet Union 1 1 315.2 10
2 Tatiana Zhuk / Alexander Gorelik  Soviet Union 2 2 312.3 17
3 Margot Glockshuber / Wolfgang Danne  West Germany 3 3 304.4 30
4 Heidemarie Steiner / Heinz-Ulrich Walther  East Germany 4 4 303.1 37
5 Tamara Moskvina / Alexei Mishin  Soviet Union 6 5 300.3 44
6 Cynthia Kauffman / Ronald Kauffman  United States 5 7 297.0 58
7 Sandi Sweitzer / Roy Wagelein  United States 8 6 294.5 64.5
8 Gudrun Hauss / Walter Häfner  West Germany 7 9 293.6 67
9 Irene Müller / Hans-Georg Dallmer  East Germany 9 8 289.4 82
10 Bohunka Šrámková / Jan Šrámek  Czechoslovakia 10 10 285.8 91.5
11 Marianne Streifler / Herbert Wiesinger  West Germany 12 11 282.7 100
12 Liana Drahová / Peter Bartosiewicz  Czechoslovakia 11 15 276.8 116
13 JoJo Starbuck / Kenneth Shelley  United States 14 12 276.0 121
14 Janina Poremska / Piotr Sczypa  Poland 13 14 274.1 120
15 Evelyne Schneider / Wilhelm Bietak  Austria 15 13 272.2 129
16 Anna Forder / Richard Stephens  Canada 16 16 269.2 138
17 Betty McKilligan / John McKilligan  Canada 17 17 254.8 154
18 Linda Bernard / Ray Wilson  Great Britain 18 18 251.2 160

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References

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  1. ^ "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.
  2. ^ "Figure Skating at the 1968 Winter Olympics". Olympedia. Archived from the original on 3 July 2020. Retrieved 3 July 2020.
  3. ^ Beijing 2008 Archived 1 November 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ Ford, Bonnie D. (2011). "Still Crystal Clear". ESPN. Retrieved 19 February 2014. The plane crash that killed the 1961 U.S. world championship figure skating team decimated families and the sport, but alongside grief came renewal.
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