Figure skating at the 1972 Winter Olympics

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The figure skating events at the 1972 Winter Olympics were held at the Makomanai Skating Rink and the Mikaho Indoor Skating Rink.[1]

The results of both the men's and ladies' singles events were dominated by placements in the compulsory figures, which at the 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 winner of the compulsory figures segment, 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.[2]

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 despite 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.[3]

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. They eventually 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.[4]

Medal table

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Participating NOCs

Eighteen nations participated in figure skating at the 1972 Games.

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Results

Men

Rank Name Nation CF FS Points Places
1 Ondrej Nepela Template:FlagIOC 1 4 2739.1 9
2 Sergei Chetverukhin Template:FlagIOC 3 1 2672.4 20
3 Patrick Péra Template:FlagIOC 2 8 2653.1 28
4 Kenneth Shelley Template:FlagIOC 5 3 2596.0 43
5 John Misha Petkevich Template:FlagIOC 6 2 2591.5 47
6 Jan Hoffmann Template:FlagIOC 4 10 2567.6 55
7 Haig Oundjian Template:FlagIOC 9 7 2538.8 65
8 Vladimir Kovalev Template:FlagIOC 7 11 2521.6 80
9 Toller Cranston Template:FlagIOC 12 5 2517.2 80.5
10 John Curry Template:FlagIOC 8 12 2512.2 85
11 Gordon McKellen Template:FlagIOC 10 9 2511.0 89
12 Yuri Ovchinnikov Template:FlagIOC 15 6 2477.5 104.5
13 Didier Gailhaguet Template:FlagIOC 11 13 2440.9 114
14 Jacques Mrozek Template:FlagIOC 13 14 2401.3 126
15 Günter Anderl Template:FlagIOC 14 16 2313.6 138
16 Yutaka Higuchi Template:FlagIOC 16 15 2309.7 140
17 Gheorghe Fazekas Template:FlagIOC 17 17 2094.0 153

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Ladies

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In the ladies' event, American skater Janet Lynn won not only a bronze medal, but also tremendous popularity among Japanese audiences because of her artistic free program, as to make appearance on the cover of "Olympic Winter Games, Sapporo 1972" photo books published in Japan, and even on Japanese TV commercials later.[5]

Rank Name Nation CF FS Points Places
1 Beatrix Schuba Template:FlagIOC 1 7 2751.5 9
2 Karen Magnussen Template:FlagIOC 3 2 2673.2 23
3 Janet Lynn Template:FlagIOC 4 1 2663.1 27
4 Julie Lynn Holmes Template:FlagIOC 2 8 2627.0 39
5 Zsuzsa Almássy Template:FlagIOC 5 4 2592.4 47
6 Sonja Morgenstern Template:FlagIOC 8 3 2579.4 53
7 Rita Trapanese Template:FlagIOC 6 6 2574.8 55
8 Christine Errath Template:FlagIOC 11 5 2489.3 78
9 Charlotte Walter Template:FlagIOC 7 13 2467.3 86
10 Kazumi Yamashita Template:FlagIOC 10 10 2449.9 93
11 Jean Scott Template:FlagIOC 9 11 2436.8 101
12 Suna Murray Template:FlagIOC 13 9 2426.2 102
13 Catherine Irwin Template:FlagIOC 12 12 2383.4 116
14 Isabelle de Navarre Template:FlagIOC 16 14 2340.0 128
15 Anita Johansson Template:FlagIOC 14 15 2349.3 131
16 Dianne de Leeuw Template:FlagIOC 15 16 2298.7 143
17 Sonja Balun Template:FlagIOC 17 17 2260.6 148
18 Marina Sanaya Template:FlagIOC 19 18 2198.6 160
19 Chang Myung-su Template:FlagIOC 18 19 2117.0 171

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Pairs

Rank Name Nation SP FS Points Places
1 Irina Rodnina / Alexei Ulanov Template:FlagIOC 1 1 420.4 12
2 Liudmila Smirnova / Andrei Suraikin Template:FlagIOC 2 2 419.4 15
3 Manuela Groß / Uwe Kagelmann Template:FlagIOC 3 3 411.8 29
4 JoJo Starbuck / Kenneth Shelley Template:FlagIOC 4 4 406.8 35
5 Almut Lehmann / Herbert Wiesinger Template:FlagIOC 5 6 399.8 52
6 Irina Cherniaeva / Vasili Blagov Template:FlagIOC 6 5 399.1 52
7 Melissa Militano / Mark Militano Template:FlagIOC 8 7 393.0 65.5
8 Annette Kansy / Axel Salzmann Template:FlagIOC 7 8 392.6 68
9 Sandra Bezic / Val Bezic Template:FlagIOC 9 9 384.9 84
10 Corinna Halke / Eberhard Rausch Template:FlagIOC 10 10 381.1 87
11 Grazyna Kostrzewinska / Adam Brodecki Template:FlagIOC 11 11 377.8 95.5
12 Barbara Brown / Douglas Berndt Template:FlagIOC 12 13 366.9 114
13 Florence Cahn / Jean Roland Racle Template:FlagIOC 13 12 364.5 116
14 Linda Connolly / Colin Taylforth Template:FlagIOC 14 14 360.6 126
15 Mary Petrie / John Hubbell Template:FlagIOC 15 15 358.5 129
16 Kotoe Nagasawa / Hiroshi Nagakubo Template:FlagIOC 16 16 345.5 144

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References

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  1. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  2. ↑ Figure Skating at the 1972 Sapporo Winter Games: Men's Singles Template:Webarchive. sports-reference.com
  3. ↑ Figure Skating at the 1972 Sapporo Winter Games: Women's Singles. sports-reference.com
  4. ↑ Figure Skating at the 1972 Sapporo Winter Games: Mixed Pairs Template:Webarchive. sports-reference.com
  5. ↑ Litsky, Frank. (26 October 2003) FIGURE SKATING - Rewards Become Focus Of Scoring Experiment. NYTimes.com. Retrieved on 2016-07-18.

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