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. It became a medal event eight years later in 1976 Innsbruck.
American figure skater Peggy Fleming built up a huge lead after the compulsory figures and won the first-place votes of all nine judges.Beijing 2008 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.
Medal table
Results Men Rank Name Nation CF FS Points Places 1 Wolfgang Schwarz 121904.113 2 Tim Wood 231891.617 3 Patrick Péra 371864.531 4 Emmerich Danzer 411873.029 5 Gary Visconti 651810.252 6 John Misha Petkevich 841806.256 7 Jay Humphry 961795.063 8 Ondrej Nepela 5101772.873 9 Sergei Chetverukhin 11111737.093 10 Marian Filc 1381734.297 11 Günter Zöller 10141727.9100 12 Peter Krick 7161723.2104 13 Philippe Pélissier 14121706.0114 14 Giordano Abbondati 12181690.9117 15 Michael Williams 15151650.9147 16 David McGillivray 2191663.7139 17 Haig Oundjian 19131639.5154 18 Sergei Volkov 16171632.0158 19 Jenő Ébert 17241595.4180 20 Jacques Mrozek 18201601.0179 21 Tsuguhiko Kozuka 24191584.0189 22 Steve Hutchinson 22211578.3193 23 Günter Anderl 20231574.7193 24 Jürgen Eberwein 25221530.3219 25 Yutaka Higuchi 23261529.6218 26 Jan Hoffmann 26251437.8238 27 Thomas Callerud 27271399.3241 28 Lee Gwang-yeong 28281360.3250
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 Name Nation CF FS Points Places 1 Peggy Fleming 111970.59 2 Gabriele Seyfert 221882.318 3 Hana Mašková 431828.831 4 Albertina Noyes 571797.340 5 Beatrix Schuba 3121773.251 6 Zsuzsa Almássy 681757.057 7 Karen Magnussen 1041759.463 8 Kumiko Okawa 851763.661 9 Janet Lynn 1461698.790 10 Monika Feldmann 11131687.199 11 Sally-Anne Stapleford 7171680.9105 12 Elena Shcheglova 13101670.4110 13 Linda Carbonetto 2491662.9111 14 Kazumi Yamashita 15141639.0139 15 Patricia Dodd 9271634.6140 16 Galina Grzhibovskaya 25111628.5144 17 Petra Ruhrmann 16181611.2161 18 Elisabeth Mikula 17191612.5164 19 Eileen Zillmer 12231600.3171 20 Micheline Joubert 28151594.8182 21 Marie Víchová 20161580.4187 22 Charlotte Walter 21261571.5202.5 23 Elisabeth Nestler 26211562.6208 24 Frances Waghorn 22281557.2211 25 Rita Trapanese 27241549.2216.5 26 Haruko Ishida 18251552.7218 27 Sylvaine Duban 19291551.4219 28 Sonja Morgenstern 29221475.9251 29 Beatrice Huștiu 31201457.2257 30 Lee Hyeon-ju 30301359.9271 31 Kim Hye-gyeong 32311336.2277 WD Lyndsai Cowan 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 Name Nation SP FS Points Places 1 Liudmila Belousova / Oleg Protopopov 11315.210 2 Tatiana Zhuk / Alexander Gorelik 22312.317 3 Margot Glockshuber / Wolfgang Danne 33304.430 4 Heidemarie Steiner / Heinz-Ulrich Walther 44303.137 5 Tamara Moskvina / Alexei Mishin 65300.344 6 Cynthia Kauffman / Ronald Kauffman 57297.058 7 Sandi Sweitzer / Roy Wagelein 86294.564.5 8 Gudrun Hauss / Walter Häfner 79293.667 9 Irene Müller / Hans-Georg Dallmer 98289.482 10 Bohunka Šrámková / Jan Šrámek 1010285.891.5 11 Marianne Streifler / Herbert Wiesinger 1211282.7100 12 Liana Drahová / Peter Bartosiewicz 1115276.8116 13 JoJo Starbuck / Kenneth Shelley 1412276.0121 14 Janina Poremska / Piotr Sczypa 1314274.1120 15 Evelyne Schneider / Wilhelm Bietak 1513272.2129 16 Anna Forder / Richard Stephens 1616269.2138 17 Betty McKilligan / John McKilligan 1717254.8154 18 Linda Bernard / Ray Wilson 1818251.2160
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
References
External links Official Olympic Report Results