Figure skating at the 1976 Winter Olympics

In the XII. 1976 Olympic Games in Innsbruck four competitions were held in figure skating. Venue was the Olympic ice stadium.

Medalist

Gentlemen

Date: February 11, Terry Kubicka showed for the first time a back flip during a competition. This Salto he stood with both legs, unlike other figure skating jumps. In the same year the ISU regulations were changed and Salti forbidden figure skating.

John Curry offered a superior freestyle. Toller Cranston was too weak in the duty. Jan Hoffmann made ​​mistakes.

From West Germany and Switzerland no runners were at the start. Roland Koppelent from Austria had to withdraw.

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Ladies

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Date: February 13, Dorothy Hamill is the last Olympic champion, who showed no triple jump in the freestyle. Diane de Leeuw and Christine Errath made ​​mistakes on the planned triple jumps. Isabel de Navarre won the obligation.

Dagmar Lurz ( FRG) was tenth and Marion Weber ( GDR ) eleventh. Claudia Kristofics - Binder ( AUT) was the 16th and Danielle Rieder (SUI ) had to withdraw.

Couples

Date: February 7 Irina Rodnina and Alexander Zaitsev won as expected. However Romy Kermer and Rolf Austria were strong competitors for the Olympic title. Manuela large and Uwe Kagelmann surprisingly won their second Olympic bronze medal because Worobjewa Irina and Alexander Vlasov unusually made ​​many mistakes.

Ursula Nemec and Michael Nemec (AUT ) was tenth of 14 participating couples.

Ice Dancing

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Date: February 9, Ice dancing was first held at these Olympic Winter Games. Lyudmila and Alexander Gorshkov Pakhomova won unchallenged. There were neither German nor Swiss Couple at the start.

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