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Encyclopedia > Figure skating at the 1948 Winter Olympics

At the 1948 Winter Olympics, three figure skating events were contested. The V Olympic Winter Games were held in St. ... Figure skating is an ice skating sporting event where individuals, mixed couples, or groups perform spins, jumps, and other moves on the ice, often to music. ...


Barbara Ann Scott became the first Canadian to win the figure skating gold medal while Dick Button became the first American to win a figure skating title for the United States. Hutton also became the first figure skater to perform a double axel during an Olympic figure skating event. Barbara Ann Scott doing a Stag Jump Barbara Ann Scott (born May 9, 1928 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) is a world and Olympic champion figure skater. ... Richard Dick Button (born July 18, 1929 in Englewood, New Jersey) is an American former figure skater and current television analyst. ... A double axel is a figure skating jump with 2 and 1/2 revolutions in the air. ... A runner carries the Olympic torch The Winter Olympic Games, Winter Olympics for short but more correctly The Olympic Winter Games, are the cold-weather counterpart to the Summer Olympic Games. ... Figure skating is an ice skating sporting event where individuals, mixed couples, or groups perform spins, jumps, and other moves on the ice, often to music. ...


Figure skating, Men

Pos Athlete
1 Dick Button (USA) 10
2 Hans Gerschwiler (SUI) 23
3 Edi Rada (AUT) 33

Richard Dick Button (born July 18, 1929 in Englewood, New Jersey) is an American former figure skater and current television analyst. ...

Figure skating, Women

Pos Athlete
1 Barbara Ann Scott (CAN) 11
2 Eva Pawlik (AUT) 24
3 Jeanette Altwegg (GBR) 28

Barbara Ann Scott doing a Stag Jump Barbara Ann Scott (born May 9, 1928 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) is a world and Olympic champion figure skater. ... Eva Pawlik was a highly rated Austrian female amateur skater in the 1940s. ...

Figure skating, Pairs

Pos Athlete
1 Micheline Lannoy and Pierre Baugniet (BEL) 17.5
2 Andrea Kékessy and Ede Király (HUN) 26
3 Morrow Diestelmeyer and Wallace Diestelmeyer (CAN) 31


Figure skating at the Olympics
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