1968 Winter Olympics / Figure Skating
Figure skating at the 1968 Winter Olympics |
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Competition venue | Stade de glace |
Nations | 17th |
Athletes | 96 (46 ![]() ![]() |
date | 8-16 February 1968 |
decisions | 3 |
← Innsbruck 1964 |
At the X. Olympic Winter Games in Grenoble in 1968 , three competitions in figure skating took place. The venue was the Stade de glace (today Palais des sports). The artificial ice rink had the standardized size of 60 x 30 meters and there was space for 12,000 spectators in the hall. For each participating country two women, two men and two couples were allowed to start. If a country had achieved a place in the top 12 at the previous World Cup, it received a third starting place in the respective discipline.
As part of the closing ceremony, an ice dancing competition was held as a demonstration , which has only been an Olympic discipline since 1976. There was no evaluation, the ten best couples from the last World Cup were invited.
Balance sheet
Medal table
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1 | 1 | - | 2 |
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3 |
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1 | - | - | 1 |
4th |
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- | 1 | - | 1 |
5 |
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Medalist
competitor | gold | silver | bronze |
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Men's |
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Ladies |
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Couples |
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Results
- K = freestyle
- KP = short program
- P = compulsory
- Pz = place number
- Pts = points
Men's
Olympic Champion 1964 : Manfred Schnelldorfer (FRG / EUA) / World Champion 1967 : Emmerich Danzer (AUT)
space | country | athlete | P | K | Pz | Pt. |
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Wolfgang Schwarz | 1 | 2 | 13 | 1904.1 |
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Tim Wood | 2 | 3 | 17th | 1891.6 |
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Patrick Péra | 3 | 7th | 31 | 1864.5 |
4th |
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Emmerich Danzer | 4th | 1 | 29 | 1873.0 |
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Gary Visconti | 6th | 5 | 52 | 1810.2 |
6th |
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John Misha Petkevich | 8th | 4th | 56 | 1806.2 |
7th |
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Jay Humphry | 9 | 6th | 63 | 1795.0 |
8th |
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Ondrej Nepela | 5 | 10 | 73 | 1772.8 |
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Sergei Cheetverukhin | 11 | 11 | 93 | 1737.0 |
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Marian Filc | 13 | 8th | 97 | 1734.2 |
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Günter Zöller | 10 | 14th | 100 | 1727.9 |
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Peter Krick | 7th | 16 | 104 | 1723.2 |
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Philippe Pelissier | 14th | 12 | 114 | 1706.0 |
14th |
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Giordano Abbondati | 11 | 18th | 117 | 1690.9 |
15th |
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Michael Williams | 15th | 15th | 147 | 1650.9 |
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David McGillivray | 21st | 9 | 139 | 1663.7 |
17th |
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Haig Oundjian | 19th | 13 | 154 | 1639.5 |
18th |
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Sergei Volkov | 16 | 17th | 158 | 1632.0 |
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Jenő Ébert | 17th | 24 | 180 | 1595.4 |
20th |
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Jacques Mrozek | 18th | 20th | 179 | 1601.0 |
21st |
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Tsuguhiko Kozuka | 24 | 19th | 189 | 1584.0 |
22nd |
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Steve Hutchinson | 22nd | 21st | 193 | 1578.3 |
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Günter Anderl | 20th | 23 | 193 | 1574.7 |
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Jürgen Eberwein | 25th | 22nd | 219 | 1530.3 |
25th |
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Yutaka Higuchi | 23 | 26th | 218 | 1529.6 |
26th |
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Jan Hoffmann | 26th | 25th | 238 | 1437.8 |
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Thomas Callerud | 27 | 27 | 241 | 1399.3 |
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Lee Kwang-young | 28 | 28 | 250 | 1360.3 |
Mandatory: 13./14. February, 2:30 p.m.
Freestyle: February 16, 7:00 p.m.
28 figure skaters from 14 countries took part in this competition. A duty with five figures and a five-minute freestyle had to be shown. For the overall rating, the compulsory counted 60 percent, the freestyle 40 percent. The start of the freestyle was brought forward by 30 minutes at short notice.
Emmerich Danzer , who had not lost a competition since 1966, was considered the favorite for the Olympic victory, but the fourth of five compulsory figures failed him and he fell back to fourth place. The best runner in duty was Danzer's compatriot Wolfgang Schwarz , the vice-world champion of the two previous years. This was followed by Tim Wood and Patrick Pera .
For the freestyle, Schwarz was the last of the medal contenders with No. 36; Péra had 16, Danzer 17 and Wood number 20.
Due to the high weighting of duty in the evaluation system, nothing changed in the first four positions in the freestyle, although Danzer received by far the best evaluation for his performance. The decisive factor was not the individual grades, but the number of places: five of the nine jury members put Péra in third place. Wolfgang Schwarz was the first Olympic champion in the men's competition who never became world champion. At the age of twelve,
Jan Hoffmann from the GDR was the youngest male participant in the history of the Olympic Games.
Ladies
Olympic champion 1964 : Sjoukje Dijkstra (NED) / World champion 1967 : Peggy Fleming (USA).
space | country | sportswoman | P | K | Pz | Pt. |
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Peggy Fleming | 1 | 1 | 9 | 1970.5 |
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Gabriele Seyfert | 2 | 2 | 18th | 1882.3 |
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Hana Mašková | 4th | 3 | 31 | 1828.8 |
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Albertina Noyes | 5 | 7th | 40 | 1797.3 |
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Beatrix Schuba | 3 | 12 | 51 | 1773.2 |
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Zsuzsa Almássy | 6th | 8th | 57 | 1757.0 |
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Albertina Noyes | 10 | 4th | 63 | 1759.4 |
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Kumiko Ōkawa | 8th | 5 | 61 | 1763.6 |
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Janet Lynn | 14th | 16 | 90 | 1698.7 |
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Monika Feldmann | 11 | 13 | 99 | 1687.1 |
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Sally-Anne Stapleford | 7th | 17th | 105 | 1680.9 |
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Elena Shcheglova | 13 | 10 | 110 | 1670.4 |
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Linda Carbonetto | 24 | 9 | 111 | 1662.9 |
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Kazumi Yamashita | 15th | 14th | 139 | 1639.0 |
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Patricia Dodd | 9 | 27 | 140 | 1634.6 |
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Galina Grschibovskaya | 25th | 11 | 144 | 1628.5 |
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Petra Ruhrmann | 16 | 18th | 161 | 1611.2 |
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Elisabeth Mikula | 17th | 19th | 164 | 1612.5 |
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Eileen Zillmer | 12 | 23 | 171 | 1600.3 |
20th |
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Micheline Joubert | 28 | 15th | 182 | 1594.8 |
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Marie Víchová | 20th | 16 | 187 | 1580.4 |
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Charlotte Walter | 21st | 26th | 202.5 | 1571.5 |
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Elisabeth Nestler | 26th | 21st | 208 | 1562.6 |
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Frances Waghorn | 22nd | 28 | 211 | 1557.2 |
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Rita Trapanese | 27 | 24 | 216.5 | 1549.2 |
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Haruko Ishida | 18th | 25th | 218 | 1552.7 |
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Sylvaine Duban | 19th | 29 | 219 | 1551.4 |
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Sonja Morgenstern | 29 | 22nd | 251 | 1475.9 |
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Beatrice Huştiu | 31 | 20th | 257 | 1457.2 |
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Lee Hyun-joo | 30th | 30th | 271 | 1359.9 |
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Kim Hae-kyung | 32 | 31 | 277 | 1336.2 |
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Lyndsai Cowan | 23 | withdrawn |
Mandatory: 7./8. February, 7:30 a.m.
Freestyle: February 10, 6:30 p.m.
31 figure skaters from 15 countries took part in this competition. In duty, these had to show five figures, followed by a four-minute freestyle. As with the men, the duty counted 60 percent for the overall rating, the freestyle 40 percent.
After the duty, Peggy Fleming was already unassailable at the top, she had been placed first by all judges. Her lead over Seyfert was 77.2 points, which for her part also had silver. Schuba, who was third at the time, was not expected to be able to hold onto that position, fourth-placed Mašková was 41.7 points behind Seyfert.
Fleming also showed the best performance in the final freestyle. Seyferth stayed in second place, while Mašková advanced to third place. Schuba fell back to fifth place.
Couples
Olympic champion 1964 and world champion 1967 : Lyudmila Belousova / Oleg Protopopow (URS).
Short program: February 11, 2:30 p.m.
Freestyle: February 14, 8:00 p.m.
The scoring scheme for pair skating, in which 18 pairs from nine countries took part, differed considerably from that of the individual competitions. The newly introduced short program counted 25 percent for the overall rating, with the number of elements to be shown being limited to six. The freestyle counted 75 percent and lasted five minutes. In the freestyle, nothing changed in the first four positions.
After the compulsory freestyle, Beloussowa / Protopopow led with 12th place and 103.6 points ahead of Schuk / Gorelik (15; 103.3), Glockshuber / Danne (40; 99.8), Steiner / Walther (47; 89.3). Schneider / Bietak were fifteenth (129.5; 89.6), although the seam of the trousers had burst in an improper place for the gentleman and the trainer Wächter was able to sew it in time.
It was reported that the Austrian couple Schneider / Bietak had to return home on February 17th because they had not used the days after the Olympic competitions for training, which is why they may not be sent to Geneva for the World Championships .
Web links
- Figure skating at the 1968 Winter Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Black has gold within reach" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 16, 1968, p. 13 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- ↑ «Schuba held third place firmly» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 9, 1968, p. 13 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- ↑ «Oleg and Ludmilla again in front» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 13, 1968, p. 12 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- ↑ «Couple walkers are traveling home today», POS. Columns 2 and 3 below . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 17, 1968, p. 13 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).