Figure skating at the Winter Olympics | |
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Type: | Olympic Games |
Venue: | Le Stade Olympique de Glace |
Champions | |
Men's singles: Wolfgang Schwarz | |
Ladies' singles: Peggy Fleming | |
Pairs: Liudmila Belousova / Oleg Protopopov | |
Previous: 1964 Winter Olympics | |
Next: 1972 Winter Olympics |
Figure skating at the 1968 Winter Olympics was held at Le Stade Olympique de Glace in Grenoble, France. Ice dance, then known as "rhythmic skating," was a demonstration event and was won by the team of Diane Towler and Bernard Ford of Great Britain. [1] It became a medal event eight years later in 1976 Innsbruck. [2]
American figure skater Peggy Fleming built up a huge lead after the compulsory figures and won the first-place votes of all nine judges. [3] Her victory marked the first gold medal won by an American after the death of an entire US figure skating team in an air crash in 1961, and heralded an American figure skating renaissance. [4]
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | Soviet Union | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
United States | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
3 | Austria | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
4 | East Germany | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
5 | Czechoslovakia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
France | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
West Germany | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Totals (7 entries) | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 |
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Figure skating at the 1964 Winter Olympics took place at the Olympiahalle in Innsbruck, Austria. There were three events contested: men's singles, ladies' singles, and pair skating.
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The United States competed at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France.
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The 1970 World Figure Skating Championships were held at the Hala Tivoli in Ljubljana, SR Slovenia, SFR Yugoslavia from 3 to 8 March. At the event, sanctioned by the International Skating Union, medals were awarded in men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dance.
The Women's Downhill competition of the Grenoble 1968 Olympics was held at Chamrousse on Saturday, 10 February.
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The men's 5000 metres in speed skating at the 1968 Winter Olympics took place on 15 February, at the L'Anneau de Vitesse.
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The women's 1000 metres in speed skating at the 1968 Winter Olympics took place on 11 February, at the L'Anneau de Vitesse.
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The plane crash that killed the 1961 U.S. world championship figure skating team decimated families and the sport, but alongside grief came renewal.