Figure skating at the 1964 Winter Olympics

Olympic figure skating events in Innsbruck 1964

Figure skating at the IX Winter Olympics

Type:| Olympic Games
Champions
Men's singles:
Manfred Schnelldorfer (EUA)
Ladies' singles:
Sjoukje Dijkstra
Pairs:
Liudmila Belousova / Oleg Protopopov

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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]

## Medal table

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Rank| Nation| Gold| Silver| Bronze| Total

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1|  United Team of Germany| 1| 1| 0| 2
2|  Netherlands| 1| 0| 0| 1
Soviet Union| 1| 0| 0| 1
4|  Canada| 0| 1| 1| 2
5|  Austria| 0| 1| 0| 1
France| 0| 1| 0| 1
7|  United States| 0| 0| 2| 2
Totals (7 entries)| 3| 4| 3| 10

## Results

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### Men

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Rank  | Name  | Nation  | CF | FS | Points  | Places

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1 | Manfred Schnelldorfer |  United Team of Germany | 1 | 1 | 1916.9 | 13
2 | Alain Calmat |  France | 3 | 5 | 1876.5 | 22
3 | Scott Allen |  United States | 4 | 4 | 1873.6 | 26
4  | Karol Divín |  Czechoslovakia | 2 | 9 | 1862.8 | 32
5  | Emmerich Danzer |  Austria | 5 | 3 | 1824.0 | 42
6  | Thomas Litz |  United States | 13 | 2 | 1764.7 | 77
7  | Peter Jonas |  Austria | 9 | 6 | 1752.0 | 79
8  | Nobuo Sato |  Japan | 8 | 10 | 1746.2 | 88
9  | Donald Knight |  Canada | 7 | 11 | 1746.6 | 85
10  | Monty Hoyt |  United States | 6 | 12 | 1755.5 | 81
11  | Ralph Borghard |  United Team of Germany | 10 | 7 | 1742.2 | 90
12  | Sepp Schönmetzler |  United Team of Germany | 12 | 8 | 1743.1 | 92
13  | Charles Snelling |  Canada | 16 | 15 | 1705.5 | 117
14  | Giordano Abbondati |  Italy | 11 | 16 | 1688.4 | 131
15  | Wolfgang Schwarz |  Austria | 17 | 13 | 1695.9 | 127
16  | William Neale |  Canada | 19 | 14 | 1667.7 | 143
17  | Robert Dureville |  France | 14 | 19 | 1660.0 | 148
18  | Hywel Evans |  Great Britain | 15 | 22 | 1640.1 | 159
19  | Markus Germann |  Switzerland | 20 | 23 | 1578.0 | 186
20  | Malcolm Cannon |  Great Britain | 18 | 24 | 1587.5 | 187
21  | Jenő Ébert |  Hungary | 22 | 18 | 1586.9 | 188
22  | Ondrej Nepela |  Czechoslovakia | 23 | 17 | 1590.1 | 190
23  | Philippe Pélissier |  France | 21 | 21 | 1573.8 | 189
24  | Peter Grütter |  Switzerland | 24 | 20 | 1517.2 | 208
WD  | Valeri Meshkov |  Soviet Union |  |  |  |
WD  | Wouter Toledo |  Netherlands |  |  |  |

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

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Left-right: Regine Heitzer, Sjoukje Dijkstra, Petra Burka Rank  | Name  | Nation  | CF | FS | Points  | Places

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1 | Sjoukje Dijkstra |  Netherlands | 1 | 1 | 2018.5 | 9
2 | Regine Heitzer |  Austria | 2 | 5 | 1945.5 | 22
3 | Petra Burka |  Canada | 3 | 2 | 1940.0 | 25
4  | Nicole Hassler |  France | 5 | 4 | 1887.7 | 38
5  | Miwa Fukuhara |  Japan | 4 | 9 | 1845.1 | 50
6  | Peggy Fleming |  United States | 8 | 6 | 1819.6 | 59
7  | Christine Haigler |  United States | 6 | 15 | 1803.8 | 74
8  | Albertina Noyes |  United States | 9 | 7 | 1798.9 | 73
9  | Helli Sengstschmid |  Austria | 18 | 3 | 1782.1 | 85
10  | Wendy Griner |  Canada | 13 | 8 | 1775.3 | 91
11  | Sally-Anne Stapleford |  Great Britain | 7 | 19 | 1757.9 | 108
12  | Shirra Kenworthy |  Canada | 10 | 16 | 1756.3 | 104
13  | Kumiko Okawa |  Japan | 15 | 11 | 1725.4 | 136
14  | Inge Paul |  United Team of Germany | 17 | 12 | 1720.3 | 139
15  | Hana Mašková |  Czechoslovakia | 19 | 10 | 1714.8 | 142
16  | Carol-Ann Warner |  Great Britain | 12 | 22 | 1692.9 | 162
17  | Zsuzsa Almássy |  Hungary | 20 | 14 | 1702.2 | 159
18  | Diana Clifton-Peach |  Great Britain | 11 | 25 | 1711.7 | 152
19  | Gabriele Seyfert |  United Team of Germany | 21 | 17 | 1685.1 | 177
20  | Ingrid Ostler |  Austria | 16 | 20 | 1684.8 | 171
21  | Ann-Margreth Frei-Käck |  Sweden | 26 | 13 | 1661.1 | 191
22  | Junko Ueno |  Japan | 14 | 26 | 1685.0 | 170
23  | Franziska Schmidt |  Switzerland | 22 | 21 | 1662.8 | 193
24  | Uschi Keszler |  United Team of Germany | 25 | 18 | 1642.3 | 213
25  | Jana Mrázková |  Czechoslovakia | 23 | 24 | 1646.4 | 205
26  | Sandra Brugnera |  Italy | 27 | 23 | 1612.5 | 221
27  | Monika Zingg |  Switzerland | 28 | 28 | 1568.9 | 248
28  | Anne Karin Dehle |  Norway | 24 | 30 | 1571.9 | 248
29  | Genevieve Burdel |  France | 29 | 27 | 1542.0 | 255
30  | Berit Unn Johansen |  Norway | 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

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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

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1 | Liudmila Belousova / Oleg Protopopov |  Soviet Union | 104.4 | 13
2 | Marika Kilius / Hans-Jürgen Bäumler |  United Team of Germany | 103.6 | 15
2 | Debbi Wilkes / Guy Revell |  Canada | 98.5 | 35.5
3 | Vivian Joseph / Ronald Joseph |  United States | 98.2 | 35.5
5  | Tatiana Zhuk / Alexander Gavrilov |  Soviet Union | 96.6 | 45
6  | Gerda Johner / Rüdi Johner |  Switzerland | 95.4 | 56
7  | Judianne Fotheringill / Jerry Fotheringill |  United States | 94.7 | 69.5
8  | Cynthia Kauffman / Ronald Kauffman |  United States | 92.8 | 74
9  | Agnesa Wlachovská / Peter Bartosiewicz |  Czechoslovakia | 91.8 | 84
10  | Milada Kubíková / Jaroslav Votruba |  Czechoslovakia | 88.9 | 97
11  | Brigitte Wokoeck / Heinz-Ulrich Walther |  United Team of Germany | 88.8 | 103.5
12  | Gerlinde Schönbauer / Wilhelm Bietak |  Austria | 87.7 | 108
13  | Margit Senf / Peter Göbel |  United Team of Germany | 87.9 | 113.5
14  | Faye Strutt / Jim Watters |  Canada | 85.3 | 122.5
15  | Inge Strell / Ferry Dedovich |  Austria | 83.6 | 129
16  | Linda Ann Ward / Neil Carpenter |  Canada | 84.2 | 128.5
17  | Monique Mathys / Yves Ällig |  Switzerland | 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

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1. ^ "Figure Skating at the 1964 Winter Olympics". Olympedia. Retrieved 3 July 2020.
2. ^ "Air Crash Fatal to 73 Is Probed – Jet's Plunge Kills Skaters". The Spokesman-Review. 16 February 1961. p. 1. Retrieved 19 February 2014.
3. ^ Ford, Bonnie D. (2011). "Still Crystal Clear". ESPN. Retrieved 19 February 2014. "The plane crash that killed the 1961 U.S. world championship figure skating team decimated families and the sport, but alongside grief came renewal."
4. ^ Kestnbaum, Ellyn (21 May 2003). Culture on Ice: Figure Skating & Cultural Meaning. Wesleyan University Press. p. 77\. ISBN 9780819566423.
5. ^ "1964 Olympic Skating Pair Only Now Discovering Their Place". The New York Times. 14 December 2013.
6. ^ "Fifty years later, Joseph siblings find redemption". IceNetwork.com. 25 November 2014. Archived from the original on 29 November 2014. Retrieved 28 November 2014.
7. ^ Hersh, Philip (25 November 2014). "A half-century later, Joseph siblings recognized as Olympic medal-winners". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 28 November 2014.

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