1976 Winter Olympics / Figure Skating

Figure skating at the 1976 Winter Olympics
information
venue	innsbruck
Competition venue	Olympia Hall
Nations	18th
Athletes	105 (52 , 52 )
date	4th - 13th February 1976
decisions	4th
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At the XII. At the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck , four figure skating competitions were held. The venue was the Olympic ice stadium . Ice dancing was on the program for the first time .

Balance sheet

Medal table

space	country				total
1	Soviet Union	2	2	-	4th
2	United States	1	-	1	2
3	United Kingdom	1	-	-	1
4th	GDR	-	1	2	3
5	Netherlands	-	1	-	1
6th	Canada	-	-	1	1

Medalist

competitor	gold	silver	bronze
Men's	John Curry	Vladimir Kovalyov	Great Cranston
Ladies	Dorothy Hamill	Dianne de Leeuw	Christine Errath
Couples	Irina Rodnina / Alexander Saizew	Romy Kermer / Rolf Austria	Manuela Groß / Uwe Kagelmann
Ice dance	Lyudmila Pachomowa / Alexander Gorschkow	Irina Moissejewa / Andrei Minenkow	Colleen O'Connor / James Millns

Results

• K = freestyle
• KP = short program
• P = compulsory
• PT = compulsory dance
• Pz = place number
• Pts = points

Men's

space	country	athlete	P	KP	K	Pz	Pt.
1	GBR	John Curry	02	02	01	011	192.74
2	URS	Vladimir Kovalyov	03	06th	04th	028	187.64
3	CAN	Great Cranston	07th	01	02	030th	187.38
4th	GDR	Jan Hoffmann	04th	09	05	034	187.34
5	URS	Sergei Volkov	01	05	09	053	184.08
6th	United States	David Santee	05	04th	06th	049	184.28
7th	United States	Terry Kubicka	11	10	03	056	183.30
8th	URS	Yuri Ovchinnikov	12	08th	07th	075	180.04
9	JPN	Minoru Sano	09	07th	10	079	178.72
10	GBR	Robin cousins	14th	11	08th	083	178.14
11	JPN	Mitsuru Matsumura	16	12	11	099	172.48
12	TCH	Zdeněk Pazdírek	08th	13	12	106	172.48
13	FIN	Pekka Leskinen	13	14th	14th	119	166.98
14th	CAN	Stan Bohonek	17th	15th	13	124	165.88
15th	FRA	Jean-Christophe Simond	18th	16	15th	137	159.44
16	GBR	Glyn Jones	19th	17th	16	141	157.24
	CAN	Ronald Shaver	06th	03	withdrawn
	HUN	László Vajda	10	withdrawn
	AUT	Ronald Koppelent	15th	withdrawn
	OUT	William Schober	20th	withdrawn

Date: February 11th

Terry Kubicka first performed a backflip during a competition. He stood this somersault with both legs, unlike other figure skating jumps. In the same year, the International Ice Skating Union changed its rules and banned somersaults in figure skating.

John Curry offered an outstanding freestyle. Great Cranston was too weak in duty . Jan Hoffmann made mistakes. There were no runners from West Germany or Switzerland . Roland Koppelent from Austria had to withdraw.

Ladies

space	country	sportswoman	P	KP	K	Pz	Pt.
1	United States	Dorothy Hamill	02	01	01	009	193.80
2	NED	Dianne de Leeuw	03	04th	02	020th	190.24
3	GDR	Christine Errath	05	02	03	028	188.16
4th	GDR	Anett Pötzsch	04th	03	04th	033	187.42
5	FRG	Isabel de Navarre	01	11	12	059	182.42
6th	United States	Wendy Burge	06th	08th	09	063	182.14
7th	ITA	Susanna Driano	08th	07th	07th	063	181.62
8th	United States	Linda Fratianne	09	06th	06th	067	181.86
9	CAN	Lynn Nightingale	10	05	08th	067	181.72
10	FRG	Dagmar Lurz	07th	10	11	092	178.04
11	GDR	Marion Weber	12	09	10	099	175.82
12	URS	Elena Vodoresova	18th	13	05	104	175.58
13	JPN	Emi Watanabe	11	12	15th	118.5	171.72
14th	CAN	Kim Alletson	13	14th	13	122.5	171.64
15th	GBR	Karena Richardson	17th	15th	14th	137	166.52
16	AUT	Claudia Kristofics-Binder	15th	18th	16	149	162.88
17th	COR	Yoon Hyo-jin	14th	16	19th	158	159.64
18th	POLE	Grażyna Dudek	20th	20th	17th	159	159.48
19th	TCH	Eva Ďurišinová	19th	17th	18th	162	158.22
20th	OUT	Sharon Burley	21st	19th	20th	180	149.26
	SUI	Danielle Rieder	16	withdrawn

Date: February 13th

Dorothy Hamill is the last Olympic champion who did not show a triple jump in the freestyle. World champion Dianne de Leeuw and Christine Errath made mistakes, especially in the planned triple jumps. Isabel de Navarre won the duty. According to the report of the Arbeiter-Zeitung on February 15, Hamill had been programmed for the Olympic victory with the best possible management, offered a lackluster freestyle that lacked the great line and charisma. The 14-year-old Kristofics-Binder had behaved well. The bright spots of the evening were 15-year-old Pötzsch and 13-year-old Jelena Wodoresowa.

Dagmar Lurz (FRG) was tenth and Marion Weber (GDR) eleventh. Claudia Kristofics-Binder (AUT) came in 16th and Danielle Rieder (SUI) had to withdraw.

Couples

space	country	Pair	KP	K	Pz	Pt.
1	URS	Irina Rodnina / Alexander Saizew	01	01	009	140.54
2	GDR	Romy Kermer / Rolf Austria	02	02	021st	136.35
3	GDR	Manuela Groß / Uwe Kagelmann	04th	03	034	134.57
4th	URS	Irina Vorobyova / Alexander Vlasov	03	05	035	134.52
5	United States	Tai Babilonia / Randy Gardner	05	04th	036	134.24
6th	GDR	Kerstin Stolfig / Veit Kempe	07th	06th	059	129.57
7th	SUI	Karin Künzle / Christian Künzle	06th	07th	064	128.97
8th	FRG	Corinna Halke / Eberhard Rausch	08th	08th	072	127.37
9	URS	Marina Leonidowa / Vladimir Bogolyubov	09	09	076	127.06
10	AUT	Ursula Nemec / Michael Nemec	12	10	096	121.30
11	GBR	Erica Taylforth / Colin Taylforth	10	12	108	120.40
12	United States	Alice Cook / William Fauver	11	13	106	119.36
13	TCH	Ingrid Spieglová / Alan Spiegel	14th	11	112	118.39
14th	CAN	Candace Jones / Donald Fraser	13	14th	117	116.54

Date: February 7th

Irina Rodnina and Alexander Saizew won as expected, Romy Kermer and Rolf Oesterreich, however, were strong competitors for the Olympic victory. Manuela Groß and Uwe Kagelmann surprisingly won their second Olympic bronze medal because Irina Vorobjewa and Alexander Vlasow made an unusually large number of mistakes.

Ursula Nemec and Michael Nemec (AUT) took tenth place out of 14 participating couples.

Ice dance

space	country	Pair	PT	K	Pz	Pt.
1	URS	Lyudmila Pachomowa / Alexander Gorschkow	01	01	009	209.92
2	URS	Irina Moissejewa / Andrei Minenkow	02	02	020th	204.88
3	United States	Colleen O'Connor / James Millns	03	03	027	202.64
4th	URS	Natalja Linitschuk / Gennady Karponosov	04th	04th	035	199.35
5	HUN	Krisztina Regőczy / András Sallay	05	05	48.5	195.92
6th	ITA	Maltide Ciccia / Lamberto Ceserani	07th	06th	58.5	191.46
7th	GBR	Hilary Green / Glyn Watts	06th	07th	057	191.40
8th	GBR	Janet Thompson / Warren Maxwell	08th	08th	078	186.80
9	POLE	Teresa Weyna / Piotr Bojanczyk	09	11	090	182.20
10	CAN	Barbara Berezowski / David Porter	10	09	086	182.90
11	TCH	Eva Peštová / Jiří Pokorný	11	10	096	180.60
12	GBR	Kay Barsdell / Kenneth Foster	13	13	111	175.16
13	CAN	Susan Carscallen / Eric Gillies	14th	12	107	175.96
14th	ITA	Isabella Rizzi / Luigi Freroni	17th	14th	133	168.64
15th	United States	Judi Genovesi / Kent Weigle	15th	16	134	168.26
16	ITA	Stefania Bertele / Walter Cecconi	16	17th	140	166.22
17th	United States	Susan Kelley / Andrew Stroukoff	18th	15th	147	165.12
	AUT	Susanne Handschmann / Peter Handschmann	12	withdrawn

Date: February 9th

Lyudmilla Pachomowa and Alexander Gorshkov won unchallenged. There were neither German nor Swiss couples at the start.

Web links

• Figure skating at the 1976 Winter Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )