Figure skating at the 1968 Winter Olympics explained

Figure skating at the Winter Olympics
Comptype:	Olympic Games
Venue:	Le Stade Olympique de Glace
Championmen:	Wolfgang Schwarz
Championladies:	Peggy Fleming
Championpairs:	Liudmila Belousova / Oleg Protopopov
Previouscomp:	1964 Winter Olympics
Nextcomp:	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]

Results

Men

Rank	CF	FS	Points	Places
1	1	2	1904.1	13
2	2	3	1891.6	17
3	3	7	1864.5	31
4	4	1	1873.0	29
5	6	5	1810.2	52
6	8	4	1806.2	56
7	9	6	1795.0	63
8	5	10	1772.8	73
9	11	11	1737.0	93
10	13	8	1734.2	97
11	10	14	1727.9	100
12	7	16	1723.2	104
13	14	12	1706.0	114
14	12	18	1690.9	117
15	15	15	1650.9	147
16	21	9	1663.7	139
17	19	13	1639.5	154
18	16	17	1632.0	158
19	17	24	1595.4	180
20	18	20	1601.0	179
21	24	19	1584.0	189
22	22	21	1578.3	193
23	20	23	1574.7	193
24	25	22	1530.3	219
25	23	26	1529.6	218
26	26	25	1437.8	238
27	27	27	1399.3	241
28	28	28	1360.3	250

Referee:

Josef Dědič

Assistant Referee:

Sonia Bianchetti

Judges:

Martin Felsenkirch
Ralph S. McCreath
Emil Skákala
Jeanine Donnier-Blanc
Erika Schiechtl
Geoffrey Yates
Michele Beltrami
Haruo Kanno
Yvonne S. McGowan

Ladies

Rank	CF	FS	Points	Places
1	1	1	1970.5	9
2	2	2	1882.3	18
3	4	3	1828.8	31
4	5	7	1797.3	40
5	3	12	1773.2	51
6	6	8	1757.0	57
7	10	4	1759.4	63
8	8	5	1763.6	61
9	14	6	1698.7	90
10	11	13	1687.1	99
11	7	17	1680.9	105
12	13	10	1670.4	110
13	24	9	1662.9	111
14	15	14	1639.0	139
15	9	27	1634.6	140
16	25	11	1628.5	144
17	16	18	1611.2	161
18	17	19	1612.5	164
19	12	23	1600.3	171
20	28	15	1594.8	182
21	20	16	1580.4	187
22	21	26	1571.5	202.5
23	26	21	1562.6	208
24	22	28	1557.2	211
25	27	24	1549.2	216.5
26	18	25	1552.7	218
27	19	29	1551.4	219
28	29	22	1475.9	251
29	31	20	1457.2	257
30	30	30	1359.9	271
31	32	31	1336.2	277
WD	23

Referee:

Karl Enderlin

Assistant Referee:

Néri Valdes

Judges:

Martin Felsenkirch
Dagmar Řeháková
Carla Listing
János Zsigmondy
Mollie Phillips
Éva György
Masao Hasegawa
Norman E. Fuller
Konstantin Likharev

Pairs

Rank	SP	FS	Points	Places
1	1	1	315.2	10
2	2	2	312.3	17
3	3	3	304.4	30
4	4	4	303.1	37
5	6	5	300.3	44
6	5	7	297.0	58
7	8	6	294.5	64.5
8	7	9	293.6	67
9	9	8	289.4	82
10	10	10	285.8	91.5
11	12	11	282.7	100
12	11	15	276.8	116
13	14	12	276.0	121
14	13	14	274.1	120
15	15	13	272.2	129
16	16	16	269.2	138
17	17	17	254.8	154
18	18	18	251.2	160

Referee:

Gérard Rodrigues Henriques

Assistant Referee:

Donald H. Gilchrist

Judges:

Franz Wojtanowskyj
Ralph S. McCreath
Emil Skákala
Monique Georgelin
Carla Listing
Wilhelm Kahle
Maria Zuchowicz
Yvonne S. McGowan
Tatiana Tolmacheva

External links

Notes and References

Web site: Rapport Officiel Xes Jeux Olympiques D'Hiver 1968 Grenoble . LA84 Foundation . Comité d'organisation des Xemes jeux olympiques d'hiver . 1968 . 28 January 2014.
Web site: Figure Skating at the 1968 Winter Olympics . Olympedia . 3 July 2020 . 3 July 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200703181603/https://www.olympedia.org/games/38/sports/FSK . dead .
http://en.beijing2008.cn/spirit/pastgames/winterolympics/grenoble1968/n214049648.shtml Beijing 2008
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.