1972 Winter Olympics / Figure Skating

Figure skating at the 1972 Winter Olympics
information
venue	Sapporo
Competition venue	Makomanai Indoor Stadium Mikaho Sports Hall
Nations	18th
Athletes	67 (32 , 35 )
date	4th-11th February 1972
decisions	3
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At the XI. The 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo hosted three figure skating competitions. The venues were the Makomanai indoor stadium (freestyle and short program) and the Mikaho sports hall (mandatory).

Balance sheet

Medal table

space	country				total
1	Soviet Union	1	2	-	3
2	Austria	1	-	-	1
	Czechoslovakia	1	-	-	1
4th	Canada	-	1	-	1
5	GDR	-	-	1	1
	France	-	-	1	1
	United States	-	-	1	1

Medalist

competitor	gold	silver	bronze
Men's	Ondrej Nepela	Sergei Cheetverukhin	Patrick Péra
Ladies	Beatrix Schuba	Karen Magnussen	Janet Lynn
Couples	Irina Rodnina / Alexei Ulanow	Lyudmila Smirnova / Andrei Suraikin	Manuela Groß / Uwe Kagelmann

Results

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

Men's

space	country	athlete	P	K	Pz	Pt.
1	TCH	Ondrej Nepela	01	04th	009.0	2739.1
2	URS	Sergei Cheetverukhin	03	01	020.0	2672.4
3	FRA	Patrick Péra	02	08th	028.0	2653.1
4th	United States	Kenneth Shelley	05	03	043.0	2596.0
5	United States	John Misha Petkevich	06th	02	047.0	2591.5
6th	GDR	Jan Hoffmann	04th	10	055.0	2567.6
7th	GBR	Haig Oundjian	09	07th	065.0	2538.8
8th	URS	Vladimir Kovalyov	07th	11	080.0	2521.6
9	CAN	Great Cranston	12	05	080.5	2517.2
10	GBR	John Curry	08th	12	085.0	2512.2
11	United States	Gordon McKellen	10	09	089.0	2511.0
12	URS	Yuri Ovchinnikov	15th	06th	104.5	2477.7
13	FRA	Didier Gailhaguet	11	13	114.0	2440.9
14th	FRA	Jacques Mrozek	13	14th	126.0	2401.3
15th	AUT	Günter Anderl	14th	16	138.0	2313.6
16	JPN	Yutaka Higuchi	16	15th	140.0	2309.7
17th	ROME	György Fazekas	17th	17th	153.0	2094.0

Date: February 11th

Ladies

space	country	sportswoman	P	K	Pz	Pt.
1	AUT	Beatrix Schuba	01	07th	009	2751.5
2	CAN	Karen Magnussen	03	02	023	2673.2
3	United States	Janet Lynn	04th	01	027	2663.1
4th	United States	Julie Lynn Holmes	02	08th	039	2627.0
5	HUN	Zsuzsa Almássy	05	04th	047	2592.4
6th	GDR	Sonja Morgenstern	08th	03	053	2579.4
7th	ITA	Rita Trapanese	06th	06th	055	2574.8
8th	GDR	Christine Errath	11	05	078	2489.3
9	SUI	Charlotte Walter	07th	13	086	2467.3
10	JPN	Kazumi Yamashita	10	10	093	2449.9
11	GBR	Jean Scott	09	11	101	2436.8
12	United States	Suna Murray	13	09	102	2426.2
13	CAN	Catherine Irwin	12	12	116	2383.4
14th	FRG	Isabel de Navarre	16	14th	128	2340.0
15th	SWE	Anita Johansson	14th	15th	131	2349.3
16	NED	Dianne de Leeuw	15th	16	143	2298.7
17th	AUT	Sonja Balun	17th	17th	148	2260.6
18th	URS	Marina Sanaja	19th	18th	160	2198.6
19th	COR	Chang Myung-su	18th	19th	171	2117.0

Date: February 7th

Couples

space	country	Pair	KP	K	Pz	Pt.
1	URS	Irina Rodnina / Alexei Ulanow	01	01	012.0	420.4
2	URS	Lyudmila Smirnova / Andrei Suraikin	02	02	015.0	419.4
3	GDR	Manuela Groß / Uwe Kagelmann	03	03	029.0	411.8
4th	United States	JoJo Starbuck / Kenneth Shelley	04th	04th	035.0	406.8
5	FRG	Almut Lehmann / Herbert Wiesinger	05	06th	052.0	399.8
6th	SUN	Irina Tschernjajewa / Wassili Blagow	06th	05	052.0	399.1
7th	United States	Melissa Militano / Mark Militano	08th	07th	065.5	393.0
8th	GDR	Annette Kansy / Axel Salzmann	07th	08th	068.0	392.6
9	CAN	Sandra Bezic / Val Bezic	09	09	084.0	384.9
10	FRG	Corinna Halke / Eberhard Rausch	10	10	087.0	381.1
11	POLE	Grazyna Kostrzewinska / Adam Brodecki	11	11	095.5	377.8
12	United States	Barbara Brown / Doug Berndt	12	13	114.0	366.9
13	FRA	Florence Cahn / Jean-Roland Racle	13	12	116.0	364.5
14th	GBR	Linda Connolly / Colin Taylforth	14th	14th	126.0	360.6
15th	CAN	Mary Petrie / John Hubbell	15th	15th	129.0	358.5
16	JPN	Kotoe Nagasawa / Hiroshi Nagakubo	16	16	144.0	345.5

Date: February 8th

Web links

• Figure skating at the 1972 Winter Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )