On This Day in 1968 ...

[Isk8NYC]

Results courtesy of the Skatabase (http://www.eskatefans.com/skatabase/olympicladies1960.html) website:

1968, Grenoble, France

1 - Peggy Fleming - USA
2 - Gabriele Seyfert - GDR
3 - Hana Maskova - CZE
4 - Albertina Noyes - USA
5 - Beatrix Schuba - AUT
6 - Zsuzsa Almassy - HUN
7 - Karen Magnussen - CAN
8 - Kumiko Okawa - JPN
9 - Janet Lynn - USA
10 - Monika Feldmann - FRG
11 - Sally Ann Stapleford - GBR
12 - Elena Cheglova - URS
13 - Linda Carbonetto - CAN
14 - Kasumi Yamashita - JPN
15 - Patricia Ann Dodd - GBR
16 - Galina Grjibovskaya - URS
17 - Petra Ruhrmann - FRG
18 - Elisabeth Mikula - AUT
19 - Eileen Zillmer - FRG
20 - Micheline Joubert - FRA
21 - Marie Vichova - CZE
22 - Charlotte Walter - SUI
23 - Elizabeth Nestler - AUT
24 - Frances Waghorn - GBR
25 - Rita Trapanese - ITA
26 - Haruko Ishida - JPN
27 - Sylvaine Duban - FRA
28 - Sonja Morgenstern - GDR
29 - Beatrice Hustiu - ROM
30 - Hyun-Joo Lee - KOR
WDR - Lyndsai Cowan - CAN
WDR - Hae-Kyung Kim - KOR

I bolded my favorites!

ETA:
#19 is a good friend of mine who was also my coach for years.
She choreographed the skating for the movie "Slapshot" with Paul Newman.
The crowd shown in the striptease scene of the movie is actually cheering for HER to take off her many layers of outerwear.
The actor was working to an empty arena. (Probably better that way - who wants to see that live?) LOL

[Samskate]

Thanks for the reminder! Watching Peggy win at Grenoble was when I first started to be interested in figure skating.

[icedancer2]

1968, Grenoble, France

1 - Wolfgang Schwarz - AUT
2 -Tim Wood - USA
3 - Patrick Pera - FRA
4 - Emmerich Danzer - AUT
5 - Gary Visconti - USA
6 - John Misha Petkevich - USA
7 - Jay Humphry - CAN
8 - Andrej Nepela - CZE
9 - Sergei Chetverukhin - URS
10 - Marian Filc - CZE
11 - Gunter Zoller - GDR
12 - Peter Krick - FRG
13 - Philippe Pelessier - FRA
14 - Giordano Abbondati - ITA
15 - Michael Williams - GBR
16 - David McGillivray - CAN
17 - Haig Oundjian - GBR
18 - Sergei Volkov - URS
19 - Jeno Ebert - HUN
20 - Jacques Mrozek - FRA
21 - Tsuguhiko Kozuka - JPN
22 - Steve Hutchinson - CAN
23 - Gunter Anderl - AUT
24 - Jurgen Eberwein - FRG
25 - Yutaka Higuchi - JPN
26 - Jan Hoffmann - GDR
27 - Thomas Callerud - SWE
28 - K.Y. Lee - KOR

These are the results of the men's event. Tim Wood and Gary Visconti were from my club (Detroit Skating Club) and Gary is doubletoe's current coach!!

[doubletoe]

That's right! It's Gary's Olympic anniversary! ;) If you look at this list, you'll also see Tsuguhiko Kozuka, the father of last year's Junior World Champion Takahiko Kozuka (who skated his first senior Grand Prix events this season). Thanks for posting!

1968, Grenoble, France

1 - Wolfgang Schwarz - AUT
2 -Tim Wood - USA
3 - Patrick Pera - FRA
4 - Emmerich Danzer - AUT
5 - Gary Visconti - USA
6 - John Misha Petkevich - USA
7 - Jay Humphry - CAN
8 - Andrej Nepela - CZE
9 - Sergei Chetverukhin - URS
10 - Marian Filc - CZE
11 - Gunter Zoller - GDR
12 - Peter Krick - FRG
13 - Philippe Pelessier - FRA
14 - Giordano Abbondati - ITA
15 - Michael Williams - GBR
16 - David McGillivray - CAN
17 - Haig Oundjian - GBR
18 - Sergei Volkov - URS
19 - Jeno Ebert - HUN
20 - Jacques Mrozek - FRA
21 - Tsuguhiko Kozuka - JPN
22 - Steve Hutchinson - CAN
23 - Gunter Anderl - AUT
24 - Jurgen Eberwein - FRG
25 - Yutaka Higuchi - JPN
26 - Jan Hoffmann - GDR
27 - Thomas Callerud - SWE
28 - K.Y. Lee - KOR

These are the results of the men's event. Tim Wood and Gary Visconti were from my club (Detroit Skating Club) and Gary is doubletoe's current coach!!

[Lark]

I read somewhere that Tim Wood lost the Gold medal due to a miscalculation of scores by a judge. Has he gotten over that? I *might* still be a little bitter!

As for the other men, had any of them ever gone on to win an Olympic medal the next cycle? I have never heard of any of them.

[Isk8NYC]

As far as I'm concerned, he's golden because of the later activities of the men's gold medal winner. (Trafficing humans? Eeek.)


I heard the Peggy Fleming announcement on a radio station this morning and couldn't find anything online that specified today, but the month and year were correct. The radio station said it was "23 years ago" but when I did the math, Peggy Fleming's win was more than 23 years ago.

In snooping around a few minutes ago, I found a great info page on the US Olympic Team website (http://www.usolympicteam.com/73_43989.htm) that gave specific dates.

It shows that Peggy's win was on Feb 10th and DOROTHY HAMILL'S gold medal was on February 13, 1976.

Here are the 1976 results: (again courtesy of Skatabase)

LADIES:
1976, Innsbruck, Austria

1 - Dorothy Hamill - USA
2 - Dianne de Leeuw - NED
3 - Christine Errath - GDR
4 - Anett Poetzsch - GDR
5 - Isabelle de Navarre - FRG
6 - Wendy Burge - USA
7 - Susanna Driano - ITA
8 - Linda Fratianne - USA
9 - Lynn Nightingale - CAN
10 - Dagmar Lurz - FRG
11 - Marion Weber - GDR
12 - Elena Vodorezova - URS
13 - Emi Watanabe - JPN
14 - Kim Alletson - CAN
15 - Karena Richardson - GBR
16 - Claudia Kristofics-Binder - AUT
17 - Hyo-Jean Yoon - KOR
18 - Grazyna Dudek - POL
19 - Eva Durisinova - CZE
20 - Sharon Burley - AUS
WDR - Danielle Rieder - SUI

MEN:
1976, Innsbruck, Austria

1 - John Curry - GBR
2 - Vladimir Kovalev - URS
3 - Toller Cranston - CAN
4 - Jan Hoffmann - GDR
5 - Sergei Volkov - URS
6 - David Santee - USA
7 - Terry Kubicka - USA
8 - Yuri Ovchinnikov - URS
9 - Minoru Sano - JPN
10 - Robin Cousins - GBR
11 - Mitsuru Matsumura - JPN
12 - Zdenek Pazdirek - CZE
13 - Pekka Leskinen - FIN
14 - Stan Bohonek - CAN
15 - Jean-Christophe Simond - FRA
16 - Glyn Jones - GBR
WDR - Ron Shaver - CAN
WDR - Ronald Koppelent - AUT
WDR - William Schober - AUS
WDR - Laszlo Vajda - HUN

(The men's list is like a "Who's Who" directory. LOL)

ETA - BONUS: Found another online database of olympic FS results: http://www.databaseolympics.com/sport/sporteventlist.htm?sp=FIG

[icedancer2]

I read somewhere that Tim Wood lost the Gold medal due to a miscalculation of scores by a judge. Has he gotten over that? I *might* still be a little bitter!


Well, he was World Champion the next two years I think ('69 and '70) so I doubt if he is bitter -- he was a really nice guy as I recall and has gone on to become a very successful businessman. I have seen him occassionally doing skating commentary on TV, and apparently he still skates sometimes but is not really involved with the skating world.

I do remember that he was 2nd in the figures and that people who were there said that his figures were better than Schwartz's (overheard these conversations when I was 13 back in the day) and that lost by something like 0.1 point.

As far as I'm concerned, he's golden because of the later activities of the men's gold medal winner. (Trafficing humans? Eeek.)


Oh yeah, that was sweet justice, eh?

[icedancer2]

That's right! It's Gary's Olympic anniversary! ;)

Please tell him "happy anniversary" for me!!

(icedancer2, bored out of her skull with her injury).

[icedancer2]

Hey, look what else I found on that last site:

All-time Olympic medal count (http://www.databaseolympics.com/sport/sportpage.htm?sp=FIG)

The US is 1st!! I guess that's not just figure skating? Or is it? (Heads back to site to check).

icedancer2 - still bored.

[Isk8NYC]

icedancer2 - still bored.Last time I was home and off my feet, I took my ISI Judge's tests online. Is there anything similar for you, maybe occupational?

[Moto Guzzi]

Hey, look what else I found on that last site:

All-time Olympic medal count (http://www.databaseolympics.com/sport/sportpage.htm?sp=FIG)

The US is 1st!! I guess that's not just figure skating? Or is it? (Heads back to site to check). No, it's all Olympic sports, including "art contests". :??

From wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_competitions_at_the_Olympic_Games):

"Medals were awarded for works of art inspired by sport, divided into five categories: architecture, literature, music, painting, and sculpture."

[icedancer2]

The title is "All Time Medal Count for Figure Skating" - so I guess the US is number one!

I'm surprised it is not Russia.

[Moto Guzzi]

I was looking at all sports, not just ice skating. I don't know where the U.S. ranks overall when all sports are considered. It's an interesting website.

[Lark]

The title is "All Time Medal Count for Figure Skating" - so I guess the US is number one!

I'm surprised it is not Russia.

I think it plays into the fact that no Russian woman has ever won an Olympic Gold medal for Singles Skating. America has won a bunch.

Also, Russian men have won the last 4 mens Olympic Gold, but have not won prior to that, to my knowledge. American men have won several.

[Lark]

I also just realized that Russia is *5th*. It is the Soviet Union that is second. So "Russians" would be 1st if Russia and the Soviet Union were combined.

[icedancer2]

WEll, I wonder what sort of logic was used there -- maybe "Soviet Union" was the medals earned before the breakup into separate countries -- and "Russia" is just since the breakup. In any case, yes, that does add up to more Soviet medals that U.S. all-together. Must look at it again.

[Isk8NYC]

I also just realized that Russia is *5th*. It is the Soviet Union that is second. So "Russians" would be 1st if Russia and the Soviet Union were combined.The OlympicsDatabase site that gave IceDancer2 the statistic has a disclaimer stating that medals earned by the "USSR" were recounted based on what would be the skater's current home country.

Still, it's a cool site and a cool stat. I think the medals earned in figure skating by the US increased after the "amateurs only" rule was eliminated.