# Figure skating at the 1976 Winter Olympics

Figure skating at the 1976 Winter Olympics took place at the Olympiahalle in Innsbruck, Austria. Ice dance was introduced for the first time as an Olympic event at these Games.

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Soviet Union | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 2 | United States | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 3 | Great Britain | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | East Germany | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 5 | Netherlands | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | Canada | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (6 entries) | Totals (6 entries) | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 |

## Results
### Men

| Rank | Name | Nation | CF | SP | FS | Points | Places |
| 1 | John Curry | Great Britain | 2 | 2 | 1 | 192.74 | 11 |
| 2 | Vladimir Kovalev | Soviet Union | 3 | 6 | 4 | 187.64 | 28 |
| 3 | Toller Cranston | Canada | 7 | 1 | 2 | 187.38 | 30 |
| 4 | Jan Hoffmann | East Germany | 4 | 9 | 5 | 187.34 | 34 |
| 5 | Sergei Volkov | Soviet Union | 1 | 5 | 9 | 184.08 | 53 |
| 6 | David Santee | United States | 5 | 4 | 6 | 184.28 | 49 |
| 7 | Terry Kubicka | United States | 11 | 10 | 3 | 183.30 | 56 |
| 8 | Yuri Ovchinnikov | Soviet Union | 12 | 8 | 7 | 180.04 | 75 |
| 9 | Minoru Sano | Japan | 9 | 7 | 10 | 178.72 | 79 |
| 10 | Robin Cousins | Great Britain | 14 | 11 | 8 | 178.14 | 83 |
| 11 | Mitsuru Matsumura | Japan | 16 | 12 | 11 | 172.48 | 99 |
| 12 | Zdeněk Pazdírek | Czechoslovakia | 8 | 13 | 12 | 172.48 | 106 |
| 13 | Pekka Leskinen | Finland | 13 | 14 | 14 | 166.98 | 119 |
| 14 | Stan Bohonek | Canada | 17 | 15 | 13 | 165.88 | 124 |
| 15 | Jean-Christophe Simond | France | 18 | 16 | 15 | 159.44 | 137 |
| 16 | Glyn Jones | Great Britain | 19 | 17 | 16 | 157.24 | 141 |
| WD | Ron Shaver | Canada | 6 | 3 | | | |
| WD | László Vajda | Hungary | 10 | | | | |
| WD | Ronald Koppelent | Austria | 15 | | | | |
| WD | William Schober | Australia | 20 | | | | |
Referee:
* Sonia Bianchetti
Assistant Referee:
* Emil Skákala
Judges:
* Suzanne Francis
* Ferenc Kertész
* Geoffrey S. Yates
* Milon Duchon
* Ramona McIntyre
* Monique Petis
* Tsukasa Kimura
* Mikhail Drei
* Walburga Grimm
* Franz Heinlein (substitute)

### Ladies

| Rank | Name | Nation | CF | SP | FS | Points | Places |
| 1 | Dorothy Hamill | United States | 2 | 1 | 1 | 193.80 | 9 |
| 2 | Dianne de Leeuw | Netherlands | 3 | 4 | 2 | 190.24 | 20 |
| 3 | Christine Errath | East Germany | 5 | 2 | 3 | 188.16 | 28 |
| 4 | Anett Pötzsch | East Germany | 4 | 3 | 4 | 187.42 | 33 |
| 5 | Isabel de Navarre | West Germany | 1 | 11 | 12 | 182.42 | 59 |
| 6 | Wendy Burge | United States | 6 | 8 | 9 | 182.14 | 63 |
| 7 | Susanna Driano | Italy | 8 | 7 | 7 | 181.62 | 63 |
| 8 | Linda Fratianne | United States | 9 | 6 | 6 | 181.86 | 67 |
| 9 | Lynn Nightingale | Canada | 10 | 5 | 8 | 181.72 | 67 |
| 10 | Dagmar Lurz | West Germany | 7 | 10 | 11 | 178.04 | 92 |
| 11 | Marion Weber | East Germany | 12 | 9 | 10 | 175.82 | 99 |
| 12 | Elena Vodorezova | Soviet Union | 18 | 13 | 5 | 175.58 | 104 |
| 13 | Emi Watanabe | Japan | 11 | 12 | 15 | 171.72 | 118.5 |
| 14 | Kim Alletson | Canada | 13 | 14 | 13 | 171.64 | 122.5 |
| 15 | Karena Richardson | Great Britain | 17 | 15 | 14 | 166.52 | 137 |
| 16 | Claudia Kristofics-Binder | Austria | 15 | 18 | 16 | 162.88 | 149 |
| 17 | Yun Hyo Jean (Jean Yun) | South Korea | 14 | 16 | 19 | 159.64 | 158 |
| 18 | Grażyna Dudek | Poland | 20 | 20 | 17 | 159.48 | 159 |
| 19 | Eva Ďurišinová | Czechoslovakia | 19 | 17 | 18 | 158.22 | 162 |
| 20 | Sharon Burley | Australia | 21 | 19 | 20 | 149.26 | 180 |
| WD | Danielle Rieder | Switzerland | 16 | | | | |
Referee:
* Donald H. Gilchrist
Assistant Referee:
* Benjamin T. Wright
Judges:
* Irina Absaliamova
* Yvonne S. McGowan
* Helga von Wiecki
* Toshio Suzuki
* Elsbeth Bon
* Gerhardt Bubník
* Ralph S. McCreath
* Eva von Gamm
* Giorgio Siniscalco
* Walter Hüttner (substitute)

### Pairs

| Rank | Name | Nation | SP | FS | Points | Places |
| 1 | Irina Rodnina / Alexander Zaitsev | Soviet Union | 1 | 1 | 140.54 | 9 |
| 2 | Romy Kermer / Rolf Österreich | East Germany | 2 | 2 | 136.35 | 21 |
| 3 | Manuela Groß / Uwe Kagelmann | East Germany | 4 | 3 | 134.57 | 34 |
| 4 | Irina Vorobieva / Alexander Vlasov | Soviet Union | 3 | 5 | 134.52 | 35 |
| 5 | Tai Babilonia / Randy Gardner | United States | 5 | 4 | 134.24 | 36 |
| 6 | Kerstin Stolfig / Veit Kempe | East Germany | 7 | 6 | 129.57 | 59 |
| 7 | Karin Künzle / Christian Künzle | Switzerland | 6 | 7 | 128.97 | 64 |
| 8 | Corinna Halke / Eberhard Rausch | West Germany | 8 | 8 | 127.37 | 72 |
| 9 | Marina Leonidova / Vladimir Bogolyubov | Soviet Union | 9 | 9 | 127.06 | 76 |
| 10 | Ursula Nemec / Michael Nemec | Austria | 12 | 10 | 121.30 | 96 |
| 11 | Erika Taylforth / Colin Taylforth | Great Britain | 10 | 12 | 120.40 | 108 |
| 12 | Alice Cook / William Fauver | United States | 11 | 13 | 119.36 | 106 |
| 13 | Ingrid Spieglová / Alan Spiegl | Czechoslovakia | 14 | 11 | 118.39 | 112 |
| 14 | Candace Jones / Donald Fraser | Canada | 13 | 14 | 116.54 | 117 |
Referee:
* Oskar Madl
Assistant Referee:
* Elemér Terták
Judges:
* Valentin Piseev
* Walter Hüttner
* Vera Spurná
* Ralph S. McCreath
* Jürg Wilhelm
* Pamela Davis
* Eugen Romminger
* Jane Vaughn Sullivan
* Walburga Grimm
* Monique Georgelin (substitute)

### Ice dance

| Rank | Name | Nation | CD | FD | Points | Places |
| 1 | Lyudmila Pakhomova / Alexander Gorshkov | Soviet Union | 1 | 1 | 209.92 | 9 |
| 2 | Irina Moiseeva / Andrei Minenkov | Soviet Union | 2 | 2 | 204.88 | 20 |
| 3 | Colleen O'Connor / James Millns | United States | 3 | 3 | 202.64 | 27 |
| 4 | Natalia Linichuk / Gennadi Karponossov | Soviet Union | 4 | 4 | 199.10 | 35 |
| 5 | Krisztina Regőczy / András Sallay | Hungary | 5 | 5 | 195.92 | 48.5 |
| 6 | Matilde Ciccia / Lamberto Ceserani | Italy | 7 | 6 | 191.46 | 58.5 |
| 7 | Hilary Green / Glyn Watts | Great Britain | 6 | 7 | 191.40 | 57 |
| 8 | Janet Thompson / Warren Maxwell | Great Britain | 8 | 8 | 186.80 | 78 |
| 9 | Teresa Weyna / Piotr Bojanczyk | Poland | 9 | 11 | 182.20 | 90 |
| 10 | Barbara Berezowski / David Porter | Canada | 10 | 9 | 182.90 | 86 |
| 11 | Eva Peštová / Jiři Pokorný | Czechoslovakia | 11 | 10 | 180.60 | 96 |
| 12 | Kay Barsdell / Kenneth Foster | Great Britain | 13 | 13 | 175.16 | 111 |
| 13 | Susan Carscallen / Eric Gillies | Canada | 14 | 12 | 175.96 | 107 |
| 14 | Isabella Rizzi / Luigi Freroni | Italy | 17 | 14 | 168.64 | 133 |
| 15 | Judi Genovesi / Kent Weigle | United States | 15 | 16 | 168.26 | 134 |
| 16 | Stefania Bertele / Walter Cecconi | Italy | 16 | 17 | 166.22 | 140 |
| 17 | Susan Kelley / Andrew Stroukoff | United States | 18 | 15 | 165.12 | 147 |
| WD | Susanne Handschmann / Peter Handschmann | Austria | 12 | | | |
Referee:
* Hans Kutschera
Assistant Referee:
* Lawrence Demmy
Judges:
* Edith Shoemaker
* Cia Bordogna
* Irina Absaliamova
* Pamela Davis
* Maria Zuchowicz
* Pál Vásárhelyi
* Rudolf Zorn
* Vera Spurná
* Dorothy Leamen
* Jürg Wilhelm (substitute)

### Participating NOCs

Seventeen nations participated in figure skating at the 1976 Winter Olympic Games.
* Australia
* Austria
* Canada
* Czechoslovakia
* East Germany
* Finland
* France
* Great Britain
* Hungary
* Italy
* Japan
* Netherlands
* Poland
* South Korea
* Soviet Union
* Switzerland
* United States