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.[1]

Figure skating at the XII Winter Olympics
Type:	Olympic Games
Champions
Men's singles: John Curry
Ladies' singles: Dorothy Hamill
Pair skating: Irina Rodnina / Alexander Zaitsev
Ice dance: Liudmila Pakhomova / Alexander Gorshkov
Previous: 1972 Winter Olympics
Next: 1980 Winter Olympics

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 nations)		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)

References

1. "Figure Skating at the 1976 Winter Olympics". Olympedia. Retrieved 3 July 2020.

External links

• Official Olympic Report
• results