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Figure skating at the 1964 Winter Olympics
Olympic figure skating events in Innsbruck 1964 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Figure skating at the 1964 Winter Olympics took place at the Olympiahalle in Innsbruck, Austria. There were three events contested: men's singles, ladies' singles, and pair skating.[1]
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On February 15, 1961, the entire United States figure skating team and several family members, coaches, and officials were killed when Sabena Flight 548 crashed in Brussels, Belgium, en route to the World Championships in Prague. The accident caused the cancellation of the 1961 World Championships and necessitated the building of a new American skating program. Although American figure skaters were still too young in 1964 (most were aged 15 or lower), they still managed to win two medals.[2][3]
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Medal table
Participating nations
Austria (10)
Canada (12)
Czechoslovakia (8)
France (5)
United Team of Germany (12)
Great Britain (5)
Hungary (2)
Italy (2)
Japan (4)
Netherlands (2)
Norway (2)
Soviet Union (5)
Sweden (1)
Switzerland (8)
United States (12)
Results
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Men
Referee:
Assistant referee:
Judges:
Adolf Walker
Gérard Rodrigues Henriques
Geoffrey S. Yates
Sonia Bianchetti
William Lewis
Franz Wojtanowskyj
Emil Skákala
Ardelle Sanderson
Sergei Vasiliev
Ladies

Referee:
Assistant referee:
Judges:
Ernst Bauch
Néri Valdes
Pamela Davis
Masao Hasegawa
Suzanne Francis
C. Paul Engelfriet
Edwin Kucharz
Gunvor Toreskog
Walter Fritz (CF only)
Emil Skákala (FS only)
Pairs
At the 1964 Olympics, Kilius/Bäumler, Wilkes/Revell, and Joseph/Joseph placed second, third, and fourth respectively. In 1966, Kilius/Bäumler's results were invalidated after it was discovered that they had signed professional contracts before the Olympics. At the time, only amateurs were allowed to compete in the Olympic Games. The silver medals were transferred to Wilkes/Revell and the bronze medals to Joseph/Joseph. The Germans were re-awarded the silvers in 1987,[4] after appealing that other pairs had signed similar contracts but had not been exposed and disqualified. The placements of Wilkes/Revell and Joseph/Joseph remained unclear for many years. In December 2013, the IOC clarified that the Canadian pair had not been stripped of their silver after the Germans regained their medals.[5] In November 2014, the IOC stated that both the German and Canadian pairs are the silver medalists and the Americans are the bronze medalists.[6][7]
Referee:
Assistant referee:
Judges:
Erika Schiechtl
Néri Valdes
Michele Beltrami
Suzanne Francis
C. Paul Engelfriet
Hans Meixner
Walter Fritz
Dagmar Řeháková
Mary Louise Wright
Sergei Vasiliev
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