1960 Winter Olympics / Figure Skating

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Figure skating at the
1960 Winter Olympics
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information
venue United StatesUnited States Squaw Valley
Competition venue Blyth Arena
Nations 14th
Athletes 71 (32 Mars symbol (male), 39 Venus symbol (female))
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 gold silver bronze total
1 United StatesUnited States United States 2 - 2 4th
2 Canada 1957Canada Canada 1 - 1 2
3 Germany team all GermanAll-German team Germany - 1 - 1
NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands - 1 - 1
CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia Czechoslovakia - 1 - 1

Medalist

competitor gold silver bronze
Men's United States 49United States David Jenkins CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia Karol Divin Canada 1957Canada Donald Jackson
Ladies United States 49United States Carol Hot NetherlandsNetherlands Sjoukje Dijkstra United States 49United States Barbara Roles
Couples Canada 1957Canada Barbara Wagner / Robert Paul Germany team all GermanAll-German team Marika Kilius / Hans-Jürgen Bäumler United States 49United States 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.
1 United States 49United States United States David Jenkins 02 01 010 1440.2
2 CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia TCH Karol Divin 01 05 022nd 1414.3
3 Canada 1957Canada CAN Donald Jackson 04th 02 031 1401.0
4th FranceFrance FRA Alain Giletti 03 03 031 1399.2
5 United States 49United States United States Tim Brown 05 04th 043 1374.1
6th FranceFrance FRA Alain Calmat 08th 06th 054 1340.3
7th United States 49United States United States Robert Brewer 07th 08th 066 1320.3
8th Germany team all GermanAll-German team EUA Manfred Schnelldorfer 09 09 075 1303.3
9 Germany team all GermanAll-German team EUA Tilo Gutzeit 10 10 086 1274.0
10 Canada 1957Canada CAN Donald McPherson 13 07th 083 1279.7
11 SwitzerlandSwitzerland SUI Hubert Köpfler 12 14th 114 1217.0
12 United KingdomUnited Kingdom GBR Robin Jones 15th 12 113 1220.4
13 AustriaAustria AUT Peter Jonas 14th 15th 115 1213.2
14th JapanJapan JPN Nobuo Sato 11 17th 120 1206.8
15th United KingdomUnited Kingdom GBR David Clements 16 13 135 1174.7
16 Germany team all GermanAll-German team EUA Bodo Bockenauer 17th 16 137 1161.2
17th AustraliaAustralia OUT Tim Spencer 18th 11 142 1171.2
18th AustraliaAustralia OUT William Cherrell 19th 18th 162 1042.2
AustriaAustria AUT Norbert Felsinger 06th 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.
1 United States 49United States United States Carol Hot 01 01 009 1490.1
2 NetherlandsNetherlands NED Sjoukje Dijkstra 02 03 020th 1424.8
3 United States 49United States United States Barbara Roles 03 02 026th 1414.9
4th CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia TCH Jana Mrázková 05 05 053 1338.7
5 NetherlandsNetherlands NED Joan Haanappel 04th 07th 052 1331.9
6th United States 49United States United States Laurence Owen 06th 06th 057 1343.0
7th AustriaAustria AUT Regine Heitzer 07th 04th 058 1327.9
8th ItalyItaly ITA Anna Galmarini 08th 10 079 1295.0
9 AustriaAustria AUT Karin Frohner 09 11 099 1266.0
10 Canada 1957Canada CAN Sandra Tewkesbury 10 09 078 1296.1
11 FranceFrance FRA Nicole Hassler 12 12 097 1272.6
12 Canada 1957Canada CAN Wendy Griner 13 08th 098 1275.0
13 FranceFrance FRA Danielle Rigoulot 11 13 107 1253.8
14th Germany team all GermanAll-German team EUA Barbara Martin 18th 14th 132 1219.8
15th United KingdomUnited Kingdom GBR Patricia Pauley 14th 16 134 1213.8
16 ItalyItaly ITA Carla Tichatschek 16 15th 143 1201.1
17th JapanJapan JPN Junko Ueno 15th 20th 158 1176.5
18th Germany team all GermanAll-German team EUA Ursel Barkey 20th 18th 166 1164.5
19th United KingdomUnited Kingdom GBR Carolyn Krau 17th 21st 168 1160.3
20th SwitzerlandSwitzerland SUI Liliane Crosa 22nd 17th 171 1157.4
21st JapanJapan JPN Miwa Fukuhara 19th 22nd 188 1134.7
22nd SwitzerlandSwitzerland SUI Franziska Schmidt 21st 19th 184 1141.8
23 South Africa 1928South African Union RSA Marion Sage 24 23 210 1000.9
24 AustraliaAustralia OUT Aileen Shaw 25th 24 221 0965.7
25th South Africa 1928South African Union RSA Patricia Eastwood 23 25th 219 0970.8
26th AustraliaAustralia OUT Mary Wilson 26th 26th 232 0890.2

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.
1 Canada 1957Canada CAN Barbara Wagner / Robert Paul 07.0 80.4
2 Germany team all GermanAll-German team EUA Marika Kilius / Hans-Jürgen Bäumler 19.0 76.8
3 United States 49United States United States Nancy Ludington / Ronald Ludington 27.5 76.2
4th Canada 1957Canada CAN Maria Jelinek / Otto Jelinek 26.0 75.9
5 Germany team all GermanAll-German team EUA Margret Göbl / Franz Ningel 36.0 72.5
6th Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union URS Nina Schuk / Stanislaw Schuk 38.0 72.3
7th Germany team all GermanAll-German team EUA Rita Blumenberg / Werner Mensching 53.0 70.2
8th AustriaAustria AUT Diana Hinko / Heinz Döpfl 54.5 69.8
9 Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union URS Lyudmila Belousova / Oleg Protopopov 54.5 68.6
10 United States 49United States United States Maribel Owen / Dudley Richards 69.0 67.5
11 United States 49United States United States Ila Ray Hadley / Ray Hadley 78.0 65.7
12 AustraliaAustralia OUT Jacqueline Mason / Marvyn Bower 83.0 63.7
13 South Africa 1928South African Union 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

Individual evidence

  1. Sport Zürich, No. 21 of February 19, 1960, pages 8/9.
  2. ^ "Critical to the Olympic Art Skating Competitions"; Sport Zürich of March 2, 1960, page 3, columns 4 and 5.
  3. a b “The Winter Games Program”; Sport Zurich No. 20 of February 17, 1960, page 3, column 2.
  4. What is happening today . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 26, 1960, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  5. «Felsinger gave up» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 27, 1960, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  6. ^ "Dave Jenkins Olympic Skating Champion"; Sport Zurich No. 26 of February 29, 1960, page 4
  7. Regine Heitzer ran a splendid freestyle . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 25, 1960, p. 9 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  8. ^ "Carol Heiss superior figure skating winner"; Sport Zurich No. 24 of February 24, 1960, page 11
  9. «How Carol Heiss won the first gold for her country»; Sport Zurich No. 24 of February 26, 1960, page 2, columns 4 and 5
  10. The program with pictures and with radio . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 18, 1960, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  11. ^ Olympic champion without nervousness: Wagner-Paul . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 21, 1960, p. 31 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  12. ^ "The three-time pair skating world champions Barbara Wagner and Robert Paul"; Sport Zurich No. 22 of February 22, 1960, page 2, column 3.
  13. ^ "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.