Figure skating at the 1968 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. 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. 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.
Results
Men
Referee:Assistant Referee:
- Sonia Bianchetti
- Martin Felsenkirch
- Ralph S. McCreath
- Emil Skákala
- Jeanine Donnier-Blanc
- Erika Schiechtl
- Geoffrey Yates
- Michele Beltrami
- Haruo Kanno
- Yvonne S. McGowan
Ladies
Referee:Assistant Referee:
- Néri Valdes
- Martin Felsenkirch
- Dagmar Řeháková
- Carla Listing
- János Zsigmondy
- Mollie Phillips
- Éva György
- Masao Hasegawa
- Norman E. Fuller
- Konstantin Likharev
Pairs
Referee:- Gérard Rodrigues Henriques
Judges:
- Franz Wojtanowskyj
- Ralph S. McCreath
- Emil Skákala
- Monique Georgelin
- Carla Listing
- Wilhelm Kahle
- Maria Zuchowicz
- Yvonne S. McGowan
- Tatiana Tolmacheva