Figure skating at the 1972 Winter Olympics

Figure skating at the XI Winter Olympics
Type: Olympic Games
Venue: Makomanai Skating Rink
Mikaho Indoor Skating Rink
Champions
Men's singles:
Czechoslovakia Ondrej Nepela
Ladies' singles:
Austria Beatrix Schuba
Pair skating:
Soviet Union Irina Rodnina / Alexei Ulanov
Previous:
1968 Winter Olympics
Next:
1976 Winter Olympics

Figure skating was contested at the 1972 Winter Olympic Games. The competition took place at the Makomanai Skating Rink and Mikaho Indoor Skating Rink.

Results of both the men's and ladies' singles events were dominated by placements in the compulsory figures, which at this time were nominally worth 50% of the total score but in fact weighted more heavily than the free skating due to being judged using a wider range of marks.

In the men's event, Ondrej Nepela, the figures winner, took the gold in spite of placing only 4th in the free skating after falling on his triple loop jump. The free skating winner was Sergei Chetverukhin, who skated one of his best performances at this event to take the silver medal. Patrick Péra, second in the figures, had a poor free skating in which he fell on a triple salchow jump early in his program and then made other mistakes. Nonetheless the weight given to figures allowed him to take the bronze medal ahead of John Misha Petkevich, Kenneth Shelley, and Toller Cranston, who all skated dynamic programs with at least one cleanly landed triple jump apiece.

The effect of the figures was even more pronounced in the ladies' competition, where gold-medal winner Beatrix Schuba placed only 7th in the free skating, performing mostly single jumps. The free skating was won by Janet Lynn, who received a perfect mark of 6.0 in spite of falling on a flying sit spin. Lynn's skating captivated the Japanese audience, especially when she got up smiling from her fall. Lynn took the bronze while Karen Magnussen, second in the free skating with a strong performance, took the silver. The third-place skater in the free skating, Sonja Morgenstern, included a triple salchow in her program, which at this time was very rare for a female skater. She placed 6th overall.

The pairs competition was a tight battle between the two top Russian teams. Irina Rodnina / Alexei Ulanov did not skate their best, with Ulanov missing his required double salchow jump in the short program and Rodnina making an error in the jump combination at the beginning of their free skating. In the end they won a 6-3 decision over their teammates Liudmila Smirnova / Andrei Suraikin. The bronze-medal team of Manuela Groß / Uwe Kagelmann made no major errors and received the highest technical merit marks from some of the judges for their program. Their elements included a throw double axel which at this time was rarely attempted.

Medal table

 Rank  Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 Soviet Union 1 2 0 3
2 Austria 1 0 0 1
Czechoslovakia 1 0 0 1
4 Canada 0 1 0 1
5 France 0 0 1 1
East Germany 0 0 1 1
United States 0 0 1 1

Results

Men

Rank Name Nation CF FS Points Places
1 Ondrej Nepela Czechoslovakia 142739.19
2 Sergei Chetverukhin Soviet Union 312672.420
3 Patrick Péra France 282653.128
4 Kenneth Shelley United States 532596.043
5 John Misha Petkevich United States 622591.547
6 Jan Hoffmann East Germany 4102567.655
7 Haig Oundjian Great Britain 972538.865
8 Vladimir Kovalev Soviet Union 7112521.680
9 Toller Cranston Canada 1252517.280.5
10 John Curry Great Britain 8122512.285
11 Gordon McKellen United States 1092511.089
12 Yuri Ovchinnikov Soviet Union 1562477.5104.5
13 Didier Gailhaguet France 11132440.9114
14 Jacques Mrozek France 13142401.3126
15 Günter Anderl Austria 14162313.6138
16 Yutaka Higuchi Japan 16152309.7140
17 György Fazekas Romania 17172094.0153

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Ladies

Janet Lynn's first place in the free skating and Beatrix Schuba's seventh place created a controversy and would lead to the creation of the short program to move away from figures determining the winners.[1]

Rank Name Nation CF FS Points Places
1 Beatrix Schuba Austria 172751.59
2 Karen Magnussen Canada 322673.223
3 Janet Lynn United States 412663.127
4 Julie Lynn Holmes United States 282627.039
5 Zsuzsa Almássy Hungary 542592.447
6 Sonja Morgenstern East Germany 832579.453
7 Rita Trapanese Italy 662574.855
8 Christine Errath East Germany 1152489.378
9 Charlotte Walter Switzerland 7132467.386
10 Kazumi Yamashita Japan 10102449.993
11 Jean Scott Great Britain 9112436.8101
12 Suna Murray United States 1392426.2102
13 Catherine Irwin Canada 12122383.4116
14 Isabelle de Navarre West Germany 16142340.0128
15 Anita Johansson Sweden 14152349.3131
16 Dianne de Leeuw Netherlands 15162298.7143
17 Sonja Balun Austria 17172260.6148
18 Marina Sanaya Soviet Union 19182198.6160
19 Myung-Su Chang South Korea 18192117.0171

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Pairs

Rank Name Nation SP FS Points Places
1 Irina Rodnina / Alexei Ulanov Soviet Union 11420.412
2 Liudmila Smirnova / Andrei Suraikin Soviet Union 22419.415
3 Manuela Groß / Uwe Kagelmann East Germany 33411.829
4 JoJo Starbuck / Kenneth Shelley United States 44406.835
5 Almut Lehmann / Herbert Wiesinger West Germany 56399.852
6 Irina Cherniaeva / Vasili Blagov Soviet Union 65399.152
7 Melissa Militano / Mark Militano United States 87393.065.5
8 Annette Kansy / Axel Salzmann East Germany 78392.668
9 Sandra Bezic / Val Bezic Canada 99384.984
10 Corinna Halke / Eberhard Rausch West Germany 1010381.187
11 Grazyna Kostrzewinska / Adam Brodecki Poland 1111377.895.5
12 Barbara Brown / Douglas Berndt United States 1213366.9114
13 Florence Cahn / Jean Roland Racle France 1312364.5116
14 Linda Connolly / Colin Taylforth Great Britain 1414360.6126
15 Mary Petrie / John Hubbell Canada 1515358.5129
16 Kotoe Nagasawa / Hiroshi Nagakubo Japan 1616345.5144

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References

  1. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/26/sports/figure-skating-rewards-become-focus-of-scoring-experiment.html?scp=1&sq=beatrix%20schuba&st=cse

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