Figure skating at the 1964 Winter Olympics explained

Figure skating at the IX Winter Olympics
Comptype:	Olympic Games
Championladies:	Sjoukje Dijkstra
Championpairs:	Liudmila Belousova / Oleg Protopopov
Previouscomp:	1960 Winter Olympics
Nextcomp:	1968 Winter Olympics

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.^[1]

On February 15, 1961, the entire United States figure skating team and several family members, coaches, and officials were killed when Sabena Flight 548 crashed in Brussels, Belgium, en route to the World Championships in Prague. The accident caused the cancellation of the 1961 World Championships and necessitated the building of a new American skating program. Although American figure skaters were still too young in 1964 (most were aged 15 or lower), they still managed to win two medals.^{[2] [3]}

Results

Men

Rank	Name	Nation	CF	FS	Points	Places
1			1	1	1916.9	13
2			3	5	1876.5	22
3			4	4	1873.6	26
4			2	9	1862.8	32
5			5	3	1824.0	42
6			13	2	1764.7	77
7			9	6	1752.0	79
8			8	10	1746.2	88
9			7	11	1746.6	85
10			6	12	1755.5	81
11			10	7	1742.2	90
12			12	8	1743.1	92
13			16	15	1705.5	117
14			11	16	1688.4	131
15			17	13	1695.9	127
16			19	14	1667.7	143
17			14	19	1660.0	148
18			15	22	1640.1	159
19			20	23	1578.0	186
20			18	24	1587.5	187
21			22	18	1586.9	188
22			23	17	1590.1	190
23			21	21	1573.8	189
24			24	20	1517.2	208
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Referee:

• Henry M. Beatty

Assistant referee:

• Oskar Madl

Judges:

• Adolf Walker
• Gérard Rodrigues Henriques
• Geoffrey S. Yates
• Sonia Bianchetti
• William Lewis
• Franz Wojtanowskyj
• Emil Skákala
• Ardelle Sanderson
• Sergei Vasiliev

Ladies

Rank	Name	Nation	CF	FS	Points	Places
1			1	1	2018.5	9
2			2	5	1945.5	22
3			3	2	1940.0	25
4			5	4	1887.7	38
5			4	9	1845.1	50
6			8	6	1819.6	59
7			6	15	1803.8	74
8			9	7	1798.9	73
9			18	3	1782.1	85
10			13	8	1775.3	91
11			7	19	1757.9	108
12			10	16	1756.3	104
13			15	11	1725.4	136
14			17	12	1720.3	139
15			19	10	1714.8	142
16			12	22	1692.9	162
17			20	14	1702.2	159
18			11	25	1711.7	152
19			21	17	1685.1	177
20			16	20	1684.8	171
21			26	13	1661.1	191
22			14	26	1685.0	170
23			22	21	1662.8	193
24			25	18	1642.3	213
25			23	24	1646.4	205
26			27	23	1612.5	221
27			28	28	1568.9	248
28			24	30	1571.9	248
29			29	27	1542.0	255
30			30	29	1524.9	265

Referee:

• Elemér Terták

Assistant referee:

• Karl Enderlin

Judges:

• Ernst Bauch
• Néri Valdes
• Pamela Davis
• Masao Hasegawa
• Suzanne Francis
• C. Paul Engelfriet
• Edwin Kucharz
• Gunvor Toreskog
• Walter Fritz (CF only)
• Emil Skákala (FS only)

Pairs

At the 1964 Olympics, Kilius/Bäumler, Wilkes/Revell, and Joseph/Joseph placed second, third, and fourth respectively. In 1966, Kilius/Bäumler's results were invalidated after it was discovered that they had signed professional contracts before the Olympics. At the time, only amateurs were allowed to compete in the Olympic Games. The silver medals were transferred to Wilkes/Revell and the bronze medals to Joseph/Joseph. The Germans were re-awarded the silvers in 1987,^[4] after appealing that other pairs had signed similar contracts but had not been exposed and disqualified. The placements of Wilkes/Revell and Joseph/Joseph remained unclear for many years. In December 2013, the IOC clarified that the Canadian pair had not been stripped of their silver after the Germans regained their medals.^[5] In November 2014, the IOC stated that both the German and Canadian pairs are the silver medalists and the Americans are the bronze medalists.^{[6] [7]}

Rank	Name	Nation	Points	Places
1			104.4	13
2			103.6	15
2			98.5	35.5
3			98.2	35.5
5			96.6	45
6			95.4	56
7			94.7	69.5
8			92.8	74
9			91.8	84
10			88.9	97
11			88.8	103.5
12			87.7	108
13			87.9	113.5
14			85.3	122.5
15			83.6	129
16			84.2	128.5
17			81.5	147.5

Referee:

• Ernst Labin

Assistant referee:

• Alexander D.C. Gordon

Judges:

• Erika Schiechtl
• Néri Valdes
• Michele Beltrami
• Suzanne Francis
• C. Paul Engelfriet
• Hans Meixner
• Walter Fritz
• Dagmar Řeháková
• Mary Louise Wright
• Sergei Vasiliev

References

1. Web site: Figure Skating at the 1964 Winter Olympics . Olympedia . 3 July 2020.
2. News: Air Crash Fatal to 73 Is Probed – Jet's Plunge Kills Skaters. February 16, 1961. 1. The Spokesman-Review. February 19, 2014.
3. News: Still Crystal Clear. The plane crash that killed the 1961 U.S. world championship figure skating team decimated families and the sport, but alongside grief came renewal.. Ford. Bonnie D.. 2011. ESPN. February 19, 2014.
4. Book: Kestnbaum, Ellyn . Culture on Ice: Figure Skating & Cultural Meaning . 21 May 2003 . 77. Wesleyan University Press . 9780819566423 .
5. News: 1964 Olympic Skating Pair Only Now Discovering Their Place . . 14 December 2013.
6. Web site: Fifty years later, Joseph siblings find redemption . IceNetwork.com . 25 November 2014 . 28 November 2014 . 29 November 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141129185254/http://web.icenetwork.com/news/2014/11/25/102439578 . dead .
7. News: Hersh . Philip . 25 November 2014 . A half-century later, Joseph siblings recognized as Olympic medal-winners . . 28 November 2014.

External links

• Web site: Official Olympic Reports: 1964 Innsbruck . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120207081931/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1964/orw1964.pdf . 7 February 2012 . (figure skating starts on page 130)
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