Barbara Wagner (figure skater)

Barbara Wagner
Full name	Barbara Aileen Wagner
nation	Canada
birthday	May 5, 1938
place of birth	Toronto
Career
discipline	Pair skating
Partner	Robert Paul
society	Toronto Skating Club
Trainer	Sheldon Galbraith
status	resigned
End of career	1960
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 0 × 0 × World Cup medals 4 × 0 × 0 ×
winter Olympics gold Squaw Valley 1960 Couples  World figure skating championships gold Colorado Springs 1957 Couples gold Paris 1958 Couples gold Colorado Springs 1959 Couples gold Vancouver 1960 Couples

Barbara Aileen Wagner (born May 5, 1938 in Toronto , Ontario ) is a former Canadian figure skater who started pair skating .

Career

Barbara Wagner initially concentrated on her career as a single runner , but began running in pairs in 1952 as a partner of Robert Paul . The couple's coach was Sheldon Galbraith.

Wagner and Paul celebrated their first success at national championships in 1954 when they won the Canadian Junior Championship in pair skating. Two years later they were also able to win the national title in the senior class. From then on until the end of their amateur career, they remained unbeaten at the Canadian Championships and won the pair skating title five times in a row between 1956 and 1960.

Wagner and Paul also remained undefeated at the World Figure Skating Championships between 1957 and 1960 . They also won the North American Figure Skating Championships in 1957 and 1959.

At the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley , Wagner and Paul initially stopped their freestyle because the record jumped while playing the freestyle music and irritated them. However, they were allowed to start again and became the undisputed Olympic champion with a flawless freestyle. They were the first Canadian Olympic champions in pair skating. Until the Olympic Games in 2002 , they also remained the only Canadian couple to win the Olympics.

After the successful year 1960, Wagner and Paul left the amateur sport, but continued to appear as professionals in the ice revue "Ice Capades" until 1964.

Wagner has been working as a trainer since the end of her active career. She was married to the American figure skater James Grogan and later divorced him.

Results

Pair skating

(with Robert Paul )

Competition / year	1955	1956	1957	1958	1959	1960
winter Olympics		6th				1.
World championships	5.	5.	1.	1.	1.	1.
Canadian Championships	2.	1.	1.	1.	1.	1.

Web links

• Barbara Wagner in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Biography in Canada Sports Hall of Fame (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} cshof.ca: Canada Sports Hall of Fame - Honored Members: Profile ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved March 17, 2008 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Skate Canada: Hall of Fame: Honored Members . Retrieved March 17, 2008
3. ↑ GoldenSkate: North American Figure Skating Championships . Retrieved March 17, 2008