1952 Winter Olympics / Figure Skating

Figure skating at the 1952 Winter Olympics
information
venue	Oslo
Competition venue	Jordal Amfi , Bislett Stadium
Nations	15th
Athletes	63 (26 , 37 )
date	16.-21. February 1952
decisions	3
← St. Moritz 1948 Cortina 1956 →

At the VI. At the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo , three figure skating competitions were held. The venue was the Jordal Amfi .

Balance sheet

Medal table

space	country				total
1	United States	1	2	1	4th
2	Germany	1	-	-	1
	United Kingdom	1	-	-	1
4th	Austria	-	1	-	1
5	France	-	-	1	1
	Hungary	-	-	1	1

Medalist

competitor	gold	silver	bronze
Men's	Richard Button	Helmut Seibt	James Grogan
Ladies	Jeannette Altwegg	Tenley Albright	Jacqueline du Bief
Couples	Ria Baran / Paul Falk	Karol Kennedy / Peter Kennedy	Marianna Nagy / László Nagy

Results

• K = freestyle
• P = compulsory
• Pz = place number
• Pts = points

Men's

space	country	athlete	P	K	Pz	Pt.
1	United States	Richard Button	01	01	009	192.256
2	AUT	Helmut Seibt	02	05	023	180.144
3	United States	James Grogan	03	02	024	180.822
4th	United States	Hayes Alan Jenkins	05	03	040	174.589
5	CAN	Peter Firstbrook	04th	04th	043	173.122
6th	ITA	Carlo Fassi	06th	07th	050	169.822
7th	FRA	Alain Giletti	07th	06th	063	163.233
8th	GER	Frankness stone	08th	08th	072	155,956
9	SUI	François Pache	09	11	092	139.922
10	OUT	Adrian Swan	12	09	095	138.689
11	AUT	Kurt Oppelt	11	10	098	137.033
12	HUN	György Czakó	14th	12	112	132.233
13	FIN	Kalle Tuulos	13	13	112	131.211
14th	THE	Per Cock-Clausen	10	11	112	133.722

Date: compulsory February 19; Freestyle February 21.

The competition consisted of compulsory and a five-minute freestyle. The performances were judged by nine judges.

Defending champion Richard Button already had a respectful distance on Seibt (18 / 106.411) after completing his duty (number 9 / 111.133 points), so that the Olympic victory could no longer be taken from him. Grogan (29 / 102,488) was four points behind the Austrian, but it was expected that the American would be the much better free skier and therefore only bronze would be possible for Seibt.

Button had dominated the men's competition since his Olympic victory and not lost a single competition. Despite his comfortable lead from duty, he did not rest in the freestyle. He showed a triple Rittberger , making him the first figure skater to have a triple jump in competition. His second Olympic victory was unanimous and safe.

The fight for second place was closer. European champion Helmut Seibt won the silver medal with the smallest possible margin of one place number (with four to three) in front of James Grogan . Four of the nine judges gave Seibt second place, five third place, which resulted in place number 23. Grogan only got second place three times and third six times, which led to place number 24. 18 year old Hayes Alan Jenkins finished fourth; he was to become the next Olympic champion four years later. The Canadian Peter Firstbrook followed in fifth place , for whom it was the best result of his career. The second best European was the Italian Carlo Fassi in sixth place , ahead of the French Alain Giletti .

Ladies

space	country	sportswoman	P	K	Pz	Pt.
1	GBR	Jeannette Altwegg	01	04th	014th	161.756
2	United States	Tenley Albright	02	03	022nd	159.133
3	FRA	Jacqueline du Bief	04th	02	024	158,000
4th	United States	Sonya knockers	03	05	033	154.633
5	United States	Virginia Baxter	08th	01	050	152.211
6th	CAN	Suzanne Morrow	06th	07th	056	149.333
7th	GBR	Barbara Wyatt	05	11	063	148.378
8th	GER	Gundi Busch	10	06th	075	146.289
9	CAN	Marlene Smith	11	09	092	143.289
10	GER	Erika Kraft	09	10	089	143.767
11	GBR	Valda Osborn	07th	13	089	144.767
12	GER	Helga Dudzinski	12	08th	103	142.767
13	CAN	Vera Smith	13	15th	117	138.220
14th	OUT	Nancy Burley	17th	14th	135	135.633
15th	SUI	Susi Wirz	15th	17th	136	135.578
16	AUT	Annelies Schilhan	19th	12	140	134.744
17th	GBR	Patricia Devries	14th	20th	148	132.811
18th	SUI	Yolande Jobin	16	16	151	132.478
19th	AUT	Sissy black	22nd	18th	178	126.878
20th	FIN	Leena Pietila	20th	21st	185	124.733
21st	OUT	Gweneth Molony	18th	22nd	190	124.344
22nd	NED	Lidy Stoppelman	21st	23	193	123.544
23	HUN	Eszter Jurek	24	19th	199	121.478
24	NOR	Ingeborg Nilsson	25th	24	215	113,322
	NOR	Bjørg Løhnner Øien	23	withdrawn

Date: compulsory 16./17. February; Freestyle February 21, 1952

The competition consisted of compulsory and a five-minute freestyle. The performances were judged by nine judges.

After the freestyle, Altwegg led with 97.822 points and place number 10 ahead of Albright (93.200 / 21.5), Klopfer (90.967 / 30.0) and Du Brief (90.467 / 38.0).

Couples

space	country	Pair	Pz	Pt.
1	DEU	Ria Baran / Paul Falk	11.5	11,400
2	United States	Karol Kennedy / Peter Kennedy	17.5	11.178
3	HUN	Marianna Nagy / László Nagy	31.0	10,822
4th	GBR	Jennifer Nicks / John Nicks	39.0	10,600
5	CAN	Frances Dafoe / Norris Bowden	48.0	10.489
6th	United States	Janet Gerhauser / John Nightingale	54.0	10.289
7th	SUI	Silvia Grandjean / Michel Grandjean	53.0	10,300
8th	GER	Inge Minor / Hermann Braun	73.5	09,089
9	AUT	Sissy Black / Kurt Oppelt	83.0	09.469
10	HUN	Éva Szöllösy / Gábor Vida	91.5	09.244
11	GBR	Peri Horne / Raymond Lockwood	94.0	09.133
12	SWE	Britta Lindmark / Ulf Berendt	106	08,756
13	NOR	Bjørg Skjælaaen / Reidar Børjeson	117	08.346

Date: February 22, 1952

The competition consisted of a five-minute freestyle. The performances were judged by nine judges.

Statement by the representative of the Swiss Ice Skating Association:
Dr. Arnold Huber from the Swiss Ice Skating Association stated in a retrospective in Sport Zurich on February 27, 1952 that in figure skating the judges awarded the two Swiss representatives the marks corresponding to their performance, and that François Pache had also proven himself to be a reliable fighter. With the evaluation of the Grandjean couple “he does not agree; it belongs in 5th place, not 7th. It has once again been shown that the acrobatic in pair skating is rated far too well. The Swiss couple did without it and had to experience that the Canadians, who neglected the dancing part, slipped into the top ranks with their acrobatics. "

Web links

• Figure skating at the 1952 Winter Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Be behind button" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 20, 1952, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
2. ^ "Austria in third place" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 23, 1952, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
3. ↑ Sport Zürich, No. 25, February 27, 1952, page 3.