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Encyclopedia > Figure skating at the 1972 Winter Olympics

1972 Winter Olympic Games Figure skating The XI Olympic Winter Games were held in 1972 in Sapporo, Japan. ... 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. ...


Women

Medal Athletes
Gold Beatrix Schuba (AUT)
Silver Karen Magnussen (CAN)
Bronze Janet Lynn (USA)

Fixed size, hues based on World Flag Database. ... Categories: Austrian figure skaters | Figure skaters at the 1972 Winter Olympics ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Canada. ... Karen Diane Magnussen (born April 4, 1952) is a Canadian figure skater. ... Download high resolution version (1520x800, 18 KB) Subject: Flag of the United States. ... Janet Lynn Nowicki, known athletically as Janet Lynn, is a skater and an Olympic bronze medalist. ...

Men

Medal Athlete
Gold Ondrej Napela (TCH)
Silver Sergey Chetverukhin (URS)
Bronze Patrick Pera (FRA)

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Pairs

Medal Athletes
Gold Irina Rodnina / Aleksei Ulanov (URS)
Silver Lyudmila Smirnova / Andrey Suraykin (URS)
Bronze Manuela Gross / Uwe Kagelmann (GDR)


Download high resolution version (1600x800, 6 KB) File links The following pages link to this file: Soviet Union Space Shuttle Challenger Space Shuttle Enterprise Space Shuttle Columbia Space Shuttle Discovery Space Shuttle Atlantis Space Shuttle Endeavour Space exploration Shuttle Buran Modern pentathlon Football World Cup 1958 Football World Cup 1962... Irina Konstantinovna Rodnina (born September 12, 1949, Moscow, Russia) was a Soviet figure skater. ... Download high resolution version (1600x800, 6 KB) File links The following pages link to this file: Soviet Union Space Shuttle Challenger Space Shuttle Enterprise Space Shuttle Columbia Space Shuttle Discovery Space Shuttle Atlantis Space Shuttle Endeavour Space exploration Shuttle Buran Modern pentathlon Football World Cup 1958 Football World Cup 1962... Download high resolution version (1701x1021, 207 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Manuela Groß (born January 29, 1957 in Berlin, East Germany/GDR) is a German figure skater, twice bronze medallist at the Olympics and figure skating coach. ... Uwe Kagelmann (born December 6, 1950 in Dresden, Saxony, East Germany/GDR) is a German figure skater, twice bronze medallist at the Olympics and figure skating coach. ...

Figure skating at the Olympics
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Since the winter Olympics began in 1924, Norway, Sweden, Soviet Union/Russia and Finland have won 63 of the 66 gold medals awarded in men’s cross-country skiing.
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