# 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.

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Soviet Union | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1 | United States | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 3 | Austria | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | East Germany | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | Czechoslovakia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 5 | France | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 5 | West Germany | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (7 entries) | Totals (7 entries) | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 |

## Results
### Men

| Rank | Name | Nation | CF | FS | Points | Places |
| 1 | Wolfgang Schwarz | Austria | 1 | 2 | 1904.1 | 13 |
| 2 | Tim Wood | United States | 2 | 3 | 1891.6 | 17 |
| 3 | Patrick Péra | France | 3 | 7 | 1864.5 | 31 |
| 4 | Emmerich Danzer | Austria | 4 | 1 | 1873.0 | 29 |
| 5 | Gary Visconti | United States | 6 | 5 | 1810.2 | 52 |
| 6 | John Misha Petkevich | United States | 8 | 4 | 1806.2 | 56 |
| 7 | Jay Humphry | Canada | 9 | 6 | 1795.0 | 63 |
| 8 | Ondrej Nepela | Czechoslovakia | 5 | 10 | 1772.8 | 73 |
| 9 | Sergei Chetverukhin | Soviet Union | 11 | 11 | 1737.0 | 93 |
| 10 | Marian Filc | Czechoslovakia | 13 | 8 | 1734.2 | 97 |
| 11 | Günter Zöller | East Germany | 10 | 14 | 1727.9 | 100 |
| 12 | Peter Krick | West Germany | 7 | 16 | 1723.2 | 104 |
| 13 | Philippe Pélissier | France | 14 | 12 | 1706.0 | 114 |
| 14 | Giordano Abbondati | Italy | 12 | 18 | 1690.9 | 117 |
| 15 | Michael Williams | Great Britain | 15 | 15 | 1650.9 | 147 |
| 16 | David McGillivray | Canada | 21 | 9 | 1663.7 | 139 |
| 17 | Haig Oundjian | Great Britain | 19 | 13 | 1639.5 | 154 |
| 18 | Sergei Volkov | Soviet Union | 16 | 17 | 1632.0 | 158 |
| 19 | Jenő Ébert | Hungary | 17 | 24 | 1595.4 | 180 |
| 20 | Jacques Mrozek | France | 18 | 20 | 1601.0 | 179 |
| 21 | Tsuguhiko Kozuka | Japan | 24 | 19 | 1584.0 | 189 |
| 22 | Steve Hutchinson | Canada | 22 | 21 | 1578.3 | 193 |
| 23 | Günter Anderl | Austria | 20 | 23 | 1574.7 | 193 |
| 24 | Jürgen Eberwein | West Germany | 25 | 22 | 1530.3 | 219 |
| 25 | Yutaka Higuchi | Japan | 23 | 26 | 1529.6 | 218 |
| 26 | Jan Hoffmann | East Germany | 26 | 25 | 1437.8 | 238 |
| 27 | Thomas Callerud | Sweden | 27 | 27 | 1399.3 | 241 |
| 28 | Lee Gwang-yeong | South Korea | 28 | 28 | 1360.3 | 250 |
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 | United States | 1 | 1 | 1970.5 | 9 |
| 2 | Gabriele Seyfert | East Germany | 2 | 2 | 1882.3 | 18 |
| 3 | Hana Mašková | Czechoslovakia | 4 | 3 | 1828.8 | 31 |
| 4 | Albertina Noyes | United States | 5 | 7 | 1797.3 | 40 |
| 5 | Beatrix Schuba | Austria | 3 | 12 | 1773.2 | 51 |
| 6 | Zsuzsa Almássy | Hungary | 6 | 8 | 1757.0 | 57 |
| 7 | Karen Magnussen | Canada | 10 | 4 | 1759.4 | 63 |
| 8 | Kumiko Okawa | Japan | 8 | 5 | 1763.6 | 61 |
| 9 | Janet Lynn | United States | 14 | 6 | 1698.7 | 90 |
| 10 | Monika Feldmann | West Germany | 11 | 13 | 1687.1 | 99 |
| 11 | Sally-Anne Stapleford | Great Britain | 7 | 17 | 1680.9 | 105 |
| 12 | Elena Shcheglova | Soviet Union | 13 | 10 | 1670.4 | 110 |
| 13 | Linda Carbonetto | Canada | 24 | 9 | 1662.9 | 111 |
| 14 | Kazumi Yamashita | Japan | 15 | 14 | 1639.0 | 139 |
| 15 | Patricia Dodd | Great Britain | 9 | 27 | 1634.6 | 140 |
| 16 | Galina Grzhibovskaya | Soviet Union | 25 | 11 | 1628.5 | 144 |
| 17 | Petra Ruhrmann | West Germany | 16 | 18 | 1611.2 | 161 |
| 18 | Elisabeth Mikula | Austria | 17 | 19 | 1612.5 | 164 |
| 19 | Eileen Zillmer | West Germany | 12 | 23 | 1600.3 | 171 |
| 20 | Micheline Joubert | France | 28 | 15 | 1594.8 | 182 |
| 21 | Marie Víchová | Czechoslovakia | 20 | 16 | 1580.4 | 187 |
| 22 | Charlotte Walter | Switzerland | 21 | 26 | 1571.5 | 202.5 |
| 23 | Elisabeth Nestler | Austria | 26 | 21 | 1562.6 | 208 |
| 24 | Frances Waghorn | Great Britain | 22 | 28 | 1557.2 | 211 |
| 25 | Rita Trapanese | Italy | 27 | 24 | 1549.2 | 216.5 |
| 26 | Haruko Ishida | Japan | 18 | 25 | 1552.7 | 218 |
| 27 | Sylvaine Duban | France | 19 | 29 | 1551.4 | 219 |
| 28 | Sonja Morgenstern | East Germany | 29 | 22 | 1475.9 | 251 |
| 29 | Beatrice Huștiu | Romania | 31 | 20 | 1457.2 | 257 |
| 30 | Lee Hyeon-ju | South Korea | 30 | 30 | 1359.9 | 271 |
| 31 | Kim Hye-gyeong | South Korea | 32 | 31 | 1336.2 | 277 |
| WD | Lyndsai Cowan | Canada | 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 | Soviet Union | 1 | 1 | 315.2 | 10 |
| 2 | Tatiana Zhuk / Alexander Gorelik | Soviet Union | 2 | 2 | 312.3 | 17 |
| 3 | Margot Glockshuber / Wolfgang Danne | West Germany | 3 | 3 | 304.4 | 30 |
| 4 | Heidemarie Steiner / Heinz-Ulrich Walther | East Germany | 4 | 4 | 303.1 | 37 |
| 5 | Tamara Moskvina / Alexei Mishin | Soviet Union | 6 | 5 | 300.3 | 44 |
| 6 | Cynthia Kauffman / Ronald Kauffman | United States | 5 | 7 | 297.0 | 58 |
| 7 | Sandi Sweitzer / Roy Wagelein | United States | 8 | 6 | 294.5 | 64.5 |
| 8 | Gudrun Hauss / Walter Häfner | West Germany | 7 | 9 | 293.6 | 67 |
| 9 | Irene Müller / Hans-Georg Dallmer | East Germany | 9 | 8 | 289.4 | 82 |
| 10 | Bohunka Šrámková / Jan Šrámek | Czechoslovakia | 10 | 10 | 285.8 | 91.5 |
| 11 | Marianne Streifler / Herbert Wiesinger | West Germany | 12 | 11 | 282.7 | 100 |
| 12 | Liana Drahová / Peter Bartosiewicz | Czechoslovakia | 11 | 15 | 276.8 | 116 |
| 13 | JoJo Starbuck / Kenneth Shelley | United States | 14 | 12 | 276.0 | 121 |
| 14 | Janina Poremska / Piotr Sczypa | Poland | 13 | 14 | 274.1 | 120 |
| 15 | Evelyne Schneider / Wilhelm Bietak | Austria | 15 | 13 | 272.2 | 129 |
| 16 | Anna Forder / Richard Stephens | Canada | 16 | 16 | 269.2 | 138 |
| 17 | Betty McKilligan / John McKilligan | Canada | 17 | 17 | 254.8 | 154 |
| 18 | Linda Bernard / Ray Wilson | Great Britain | 18 | 18 | 251.2 | 160 |
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