1960 Winter Olympics / Figure Skating
Figure skating at the 1960 Winter Olympics |
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venue | Squaw Valley |
Competition venue | Blyth Arena |
Nations | 14th |
Athletes | 71 (32 , 39 ) |
date | 19.-26. February 1960 |
decisions | 3 |
← Cortina 1956 |
At the VIII Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley in 1960 three competitions were held in figure skating . The venue was the Blyth Arena , which had space for 9,000 spectators.
Balance sheet
Medal table
space | country | total | |||
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1 | United States | 2 | - | 2 | 4th |
2 | Canada | 1 | - | 1 | 2 |
3 | Germany | - | 1 | - | 1 |
Netherlands | - | 1 | - | 1 | |
Czechoslovakia | - | 1 | - | 1 |
Medalist
competitor | gold | silver | bronze |
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Men's | David Jenkins | Karol Divin | Donald Jackson |
Ladies | Carol Hot | Sjoukje Dijkstra | Barbara Roles |
Couples | Barbara Wagner / Robert Paul | Marika Kilius / Hans-Jürgen Bäumler | Nancy Ludington / Ronald Ludington |
reporting
preview
"Sport Zürich" gave a preview of the figure skating competitions in its February 19, 1960 issue:
The respective national and European championships have already been held. Now the different sections will last uninterruptedly over the entire Olympic days, with the pair skating being decided on the first day and then the compulsory skating with the final freestyle as the highlight for three days. The European Championships would have brought a certain definition of the balance of power, but restrictions would have to be applied because last year's European Champion Karol Divín was absent due to injury and new evaluation rules would apply. It should also not be concealed that an intentional juggling with the notes was also unmistakable.
In detail, the top European couples face tough competition in pairs, especially the Canadian world champions Barbara Wagner and Robert Paul , and the second Canadian couple is also very strong. The US delegated three couples. Marika Kilius and Hans-Jürgen Bäumler would have great difficulty in successfully confirming their second place at the 1959 World Cup in Colorado Springs . In the individual competitions, the chances of success for the overseas athletes are even greater, especially for the men. The host country is competing with four aces, whereby it should be noted about world champion David Jenkins that he only won the national championships with a great freestyle (after falling behind Tim Brown ). Also the Canadian Donald Jackson should be considered, so that a medal win can hardly be expected for the Europeans. The chances are a little better with the women, where the USA with the four-time world champion Carol Heiss is the clear favorite and Barbara Roles is also one of the top class, but Wendy Griner (CAN) should bring a big surprise to the new European champion Sjoukje Dijkstra to drop from the medal ranks.
Review
In a review of the figure skating competitions in the March 2, 1960 edition, Sport Zürich took the view that the men were given the second grade for “sporting value”, but the ratio of duty to freestyle should be from 60:40 to 50 : 50 to be modified. In addition, the best free skaters are not the best compulsory skiers because of the significantly different movement sequences and vice versa. Among the women, the Swiss women were undervalued and one had to wonder whether this competition had anything to do with sport, mainly because of the "absolutely unsporting, one-sided, biased and block-based evaluation by the jury". Above all, there has been a general trend for a long time that runners who were able to do a good duty at the European and World Championships last year and who have now also led after the duty are automatically given 0.3 higher marks. The discrepancy in the rating for Carol Heiss (up to 5.9) and the Swiss women (average 4.5) was problematic. However, their compulsory evaluation at the European Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen was scandalous.
Results
- K = freestyle
- P = compulsory
- Pz = place number
- Pts = points
Men's
space | country | athlete | P | K | Pz | Pt. |
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1 | United States | David Jenkins | 2 | 1 | 10 | 1440.2 |
2 | TCH | Karol Divin | 1 | 5 | 22nd | 1414.3 |
3 | CAN | Donald Jackson | 4th | 2 | 31 | 1401.0 |
4th | FRA | Alain Giletti | 3 | 3 | 31 | 1399.2 |
5 | United States | Tim Brown | 5 | 4th | 43 | 1374.1 |
6th | FRA | Alain Calmat | 8th | 6th | 54 | 1340.3 |
7th | United States | Robert Brewer | 7th | 8th | 66 | 1320.3 |
8th | EUA | Manfred Schnelldorfer | 9 | 9 | 75 | 1303.3 |
9 | EUA | Tilo Gutzeit | 10 | 10 | 86 | 1274.0 |
10 | CAN | Donald McPherson | 13 | 7th | 83 | 1279.7 |
11 | SUI | Hubert Köpfler | 12 | 14th | 114 | 1217.0 |
12 | GBR | Robin Jones | 15th | 12 | 113 | 1220.4 |
13 | AUT | Peter Jonas | 14th | 15th | 115 | 1213.2 |
14th | JPN | Nobuo Sato | 11 | 17th | 120 | 1206.8 |
15th | GBR | David Clements | 16 | 13 | 135 | 1174.7 |
16 | EUA | Bodo Bockenauer | 17th | 16 | 137 | 1161.2 |
17th | OUT | Tim Spencer | 18th | 11 | 142 | 1171.2 |
18th | OUT | William Cherrell | 19th | 18th | 162 | 1042.2 |
AUT | Norbert Felsinger | 6th | withdrawn |
Mandatory: February 24th and 25th, 7:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Freestyle: February 26th, 12:30 p.m. to 3:15 p.m.
The performances were judged by nine judges. With only 19 registrations, the obligation could be completed on two mornings with three figures each. There was a superior lead for Karol Divín with place number 11.0 and 797.8 points in front of David Jenkins (19.0 / 775.2) and Alain Giletti (31.0 / 762.7).
Jenkins had followed in the footsteps of his brother, the reigning Olympic champion Hayes Alan Jenkins , and remained undefeated after the previous Olympic Games in which he had won the bronze medal . He lived up to his role as a favorite and replaced him as Olympic champion, a unique event in figure skating history. He showed the best freestyle ever run up to then and turned a deficit of 22.6 points from duty into a lead of 14.1 points. Divín, who won the duty but only finished sixth in the freestyle, won the silver medal. Bronze went to the Canadian Donald Jackson with the second best freestyle (grade point average 5.7). Alain Giletti narrowly missed a medal and finished fourth like four years earlier. The sixth-placed Austrian Norbert Felsinger had to give up after a fall in freestyle training on February 25 (concussion / bed rest).
The clear victory of Jenkins was also made possible by Divín's weakness. Obviously, the Czechoslovak was too nervous and also burdened by the exertion of training and compulsory running, because the pain of his injury (muscle strain on the hip), which he believed to have been overcome, had erupted again. He had had to get an analgesic injection before the freestyle. Three jumps went wrong, even if he could prevent a fall. At 5.44, it was slightly undervalued. Giletti was able to avoid a fall on the first jump, then made up for various uncleanliness with several good figures, the 5.6 were appropriate (3rd place in the freestyle with 636.3 points), but they were not enough, because the final runner Jackson ran his identical jump program higher off. Above all, he knew how to combine the jumps, pirouettes and connecting steps better (649.6 points).
Ladies
space | country | sportswoman | P | K | Pz | Pt. |
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1 | United States | Carol Hot | 1 | 1 | 9 | 1490.1 |
2 | NED | Sjoukje Dijkstra | 2 | 3 | 20th | 1424.8 |
3 | United States | Barbara Roles | 3 | 2 | 26th | 1414.9 |
4th | TCH | Jana Mrázková | 5 | 5 | 53 | 1338.7 |
5 | NED | Joan Haanappel | 4th | 7th | 52 | 1331.9 |
6th | United States | Laurence Owen | 6th | 6th | 57 | 1343.0 |
7th | AUT | Regine Heitzer | 7th | 4th | 58 | 1327.9 |
8th | ITA | Anna Galmarini | 8th | 10 | 79 | 1295.0 |
9 | AUT | Karin Frohner | 9 | 11 | 99 | 1266.0 |
10 | CAN | Sandra Tewkesbury | 10 | 9 | 78 | 1296.1 |
11 | FRA | Nicole Hassler | 12 | 12 | 97 | 1272.6 |
12 | CAN | Wendy Griner | 13 | 8th | 98 | 1275.0 |
13 | FRA | Danielle Rigoulot | 11 | 13 | 107 | 1253.8 |
14th | EUA | Barbara Martin | 18th | 14th | 132 | 1219.8 |
15th | GBR | Patricia Pauley | 14th | 16 | 134 | 1213.8 |
16 | ITA | Carla Tichatschek | 16 | 15th | 143 | 1201.1 |
17th | JPN | Junko Ueno | 15th | 20th | 158 | 1176.5 |
18th | EUA | Ursel Barkey | 20th | 18th | 166 | 1164.5 |
19th | GBR | Carolyn Krau | 17th | 21st | 168 | 1160.3 |
20th | SUI | Liliane Crosa | 22nd | 17th | 171 | 1157.4 |
21st | JPN | Miwa Fukuhara | 19th | 22nd | 188 | 1134.7 |
22nd | SUI | Franziska Schmidt | 21st | 19th | 184 | 1141.8 |
23 | RSA | Marion Sage | 24 | 23 | 210 | 1000.9 |
24 | OUT | Aileen Shaw | 25th | 24 | 221 | 965.7 |
25th | RSA | Patricia Eastwood | 23 | 25th | 219 | 970.8 |
26th | OUT | Mary Wilson | 26th | 26th | 232 | 890.2 |
Mandatory: February 20th to 22nd, 7:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Freestyle: February 23rd, 12:30 p.m. to 3:15 p.m.
The performances were judged by nine judges. Winner Carol Heiss came out of duty with a clear lead, so that the victory could not be taken from her. In the area at the top nothing changed in the compulsory ranking. Sjoukje Dijkstra was almost overtaken by Barbara Roles in the penultimate competition , then she was able to break away from her in the last test. For the medals, however, only the three leaders came into question, whereby, given the advantage of Heiss, the statement was made that she was "safe even if she fell three times in the freestyle".
While the compulsory program had been ignored by the audience, there were 5,500 spectators at the beginning of the freestyle run and after half an hour the stadium was filled with 8,000. When awarding marks, the Japanese judge drew the displeasure of the visitors; he persistently gave all the participants, including the two Japanese women, the lowest grades by far. Jana Mrázková clearly surpassed what has been seen so far and created a good chance of fourth place. Heiss did not quite reach the world championship level of 1959. Her program was difficult and was drilled through with precision, taking no risks. Dijkstra performed a very sporty program with the highest jumps, but received various deductions for two points that were not precisely successful. Roles graduated as a second contender for silver. She received 5.65 for her fast-paced program - that was the second best mark (642.0) behind Heiss (652.3), Dijkstra came in third (632.8) ahead of Heitzer (605.3).
Couples
space | country | Pair | Pz | Pt. |
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1 | CAN | Barbara Wagner / Robert Paul | 7.0 | 80.4 |
2 | EUA | Marika Kilius / Hans-Jürgen Bäumler | 19.0 | 76.8 |
3 | United States | Nancy Ludington / Ronald Ludington | 27.5 | 76.2 |
4th | CAN | Maria Jelinek / Otto Jelinek | 26.0 | 75.9 |
5 | EUA | Margret Göbl / Franz Ningel | 36.0 | 72.5 |
6th | URS | Nina Schuk / Stanislaw Schuk | 38.0 | 72.3 |
7th | EUA | Rita Blumenberg / Werner Mensching | 53.0 | 70.2 |
8th | AUT | Diana Hinko / Heinz Döpfl | 54.5 | 69.8 |
9 | URS | Lyudmila Belousova / Oleg Protopopov | 54.5 | 68.6 |
10 | United States | Maribel Owen / Dudley Richards | 69.0 | 67.5 |
11 | United States | Ila Ray Hadley / Ray Hadley | 78.0 | 65.7 |
12 | OUT | Jacqueline Mason / Marvyn Bower | 83.0 | 63.7 |
13 | RSA | Marcelle Matthews / Gwyn Jones | 85.5 | 63.6 |
Date: February 19, 10:30 a.m.
The performances were judged by seven judges. Wagner / Paul, the world champions of the last three years, were superior. Some couples, including Kilius / Bäumler and Blumenberg / Mensching, suffered from breathing difficulties, the latter had to be given oxygen. The Austrian couple Hinko / Döpfl did not have to run in perfect conditions (sunlight).
Wagner / Paul ran a freestyle that was described as great by all the experts and received the best possible place number and 80.4 out of 84 possible evaluation points. In addition to all the usual difficulties, the freestyle included unusual step combinations and daring lifting figures. The silver medal was also clear (also here in line with the place and performance figure), while the decision about bronze was tight and could only be determined through an exact calculation (ultimately, the lower number of third places decided against the fourth place figure) .
The winning couple also had to show good nerves, because after only one minute of their performance the needle on the record had skipped a few bars. The referee allowed a restart. The silver couple lagged a bit behind in terms of balance, but high jumps and seated pirouettes were impressive. There was a lot of applause for one figure when Bäumler dived under his partner's horizontally outstretched leg. In terms of the number of places, they were awarded second place four times, third place once and fourth place twice. The Schuk couple, the European championship runners-up, whose program wasn't original enough, was a bit disappointed.
Web links
- Figure skating at the 1960 Winter Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sport Zürich, No. 21 of February 19, 1960, pages 8/9.
- ^ "Critical to the Olympic Art Skating Competitions"; Sport Zürich of March 2, 1960, page 3, columns 4 and 5.
- ↑ a b “The Winter Games Program”; Sport Zurich No. 20 of February 17, 1960, page 3, column 2.
- ↑ What is happening today . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 26, 1960, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- ↑ «Felsinger gave up» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 27, 1960, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- ^ "Dave Jenkins Olympic Skating Champion"; Sport Zurich No. 26 of February 29, 1960, page 4
- ↑ Regine Heitzer ran a splendid freestyle . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 25, 1960, p. 9 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- ^ "Carol Heiss superior figure skating winner"; Sport Zurich No. 24 of February 24, 1960, page 11
- ↑ «How Carol Heiss won the first gold for her country»; Sport Zurich No. 24 of February 26, 1960, page 2, columns 4 and 5
- ↑ The program with pictures and with radio . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 18, 1960, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- ^ Olympic champion without nervousness: Wagner-Paul . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 21, 1960, p. 31 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- ^ "The three-time pair skating world champions Barbara Wagner and Robert Paul"; Sport Zurich No. 22 of February 22, 1960, page 2, column 3.
- ^ "The Canadians Barbara Wagner / Robert Paul Winner in Pair Running"; Sport Zurich No. 22 of February 22, 1960, as well as page 3, columns 1/2.