Figure skating at the 1936 Winter Olympics
In the IV 1936 Olympic Games in Garmisch -Partenkirchen three competitions were held in figure skating. Outdoor vacuum venue was the Olympic ice stadium.
Medalist
Gentlemen
Competition 9 - February 14, 1936
At the start were 25 skaters from 12 nations, more than ever before.
The competition consisted of duty and a five-minute freestyle. The performances were judged by seven adjudicators.
Defending champion Charles Shepherd was the end of his career is a big favorite. Since 1929, he had won all the championships and Europe since 1930, all World Championships. Shepherd was the role as favorite, and had no trouble Walk his second Olympic gold medal.
Behind it was significantly shorter. The local hero Ernst Baier, who celebrated his greatest successes in pair skating, won the silver medal, 0.7 points ahead of the second Österereicher Felix Kaspar, which was supposed to start in the following year, the successor shepherd.
The Canadian Montgomery Wilson, who won the bronze medal four years earlier, was fourth. Behind it placed the British Graham Sharp and Jack Dunn.
Ladies
Z = Withdrawn
The competition consisted of duty and a four-minute freestyle. The performances were judged by seven adjudicators.
Sonja Henie, who had not lost a competition for nine years, won her third Olympic title in a row, one of today's unmatched performance in figure skating ladies. In the men's area managed this feat only the Swede Gillis Grafström, at the 1920 Olympic Games, in 1924 and 1928.
The 15 -year-old British woman Cecilia Colledge won the silver medal in an impressive manner. She had just been shown at the European Championships as the first woman a double jump, a double Salchow and also had the camel spin ( camel spin) and the layback ( Layback Spin ) invented. After the compulsory figures Henie and Colledge were separated by only a few points. Sandra Stevenson reported in her article in The Independent on 21 April 2008, follow it: " the scarcity infuriated Henie, who, as the result for this section was posted on the wall of the subscriber premise, the piece of paper took and tore into small pieces the draw. for the freestyle came under suspicion because Stephenie had the best position as the last to start, while Colledge already had to play as a second from 26 starters. This early start was seen as a disadvantage, since the audience was not in the rhythm of applause storm and the judges known to be generous with awarding higher ratings were, the longer the contest lasted. years later, a fairer, staggered draw was introduced to counter this fact. " Henie won the freestyle then clear.
Vivi- Anne Hultén won the bronze until today last Olympic medal in figure skating for Sweden.
Couples
The competition consisted of a five minute freestyle. The performances were judged by nine adjudicators.
Maxi Herber and Ernst Baier were before the home crowd Olympic champion. Baier had won the silver medal already in the individual race, which he is only one of two people and the only man to have won two medals in figure skating at one and the same Olympic Games, both in the individual race as well as in pair skating.
The silver medal went to the young Austrian Ilse and Erik Pausin and bronze four years ago to the Hungarians Emilie Rotter and László Szollás.