Figure skating at the 1960 Winter Olympics – Pair skating explained

Event:Pair skating
Games:1960 Winter
Venue:Blyth Arena
Squaw Valley, California, United States
Dates:19 February
Competitors:26
Nations:7
Gold:Barbara Wagner
Robert Paul
Goldnoc:CAN
Silver:Marika Kilius
Hans-Jürgen Bäumler
Silvernoc:EUA
Bronze:Nancy Ludington
Ronald Ludington
Bronzenoc:USA
Prev:1956
Next:1964

The pair skating competition of the 1960 Winter Olympics was held at the Blyth Arena in Squaw Valley, California, United States. The event took place on Friday 19 February 1960. Each judge ranked the skaters by Ordinal Placement from first to last place. If a skater was ranked first by a majority of the judges, that skater was placed first overall; this process was repeated for each place. If more than one skater had a majority ranking for the same position, then a series of tiebreaks were in place, indicated in order in the Results section below.

Barbara Wagner / Robert Paul won gold for Canada, having not been beaten since the 1956 Winter Olympics.[1]

Results

Pl.NameNation
17.07.080.4
28.019.076.8
311.027.576.2
419.026.075.9
520.036.072.5
625.038.072.3
726.553.070.2
835.554.569.8
930.060.568.6
1046.069.067.5
1141.078.065.7
1257.083.063.7
1385.585.563.6

Referee:

Assistant Referee:

Judges:

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Figure Skating at the 1960 Winter Olympics: Pairs, Mixed . Olympedia . 3 July 2020.