Figure skating at the 1960 Winter Olympics – Pair skating

The pair skating competition of the 1960 Winter Olympics was held at the Blyth Arena in Squaw Valley, California, United States. The event took place on Friday 19 February 1960. Each judge ranked the skaters by Ordinal Placement from first to last place. If a skater was ranked first by a majority of the judges, that skater was placed first overall; this process was repeated for each place. If more than one skater had a majority ranking for the same position, then a series of tiebreaks were in place, indicated in order in the Results section below.

Pair skating
at the VIII Olympic Winter Games
VenueBlyth Arena
Squaw Valley, California, United States
Dates19 February
Competitors26 from 7 nations
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Barbara Wagner
Robert Paul
 Canada
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Marika Kilius
Hans-Jürgen Bäumler
 United Team of Germany
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Nancy Ludington
Ronald Ludington
 United States
← 1956
1964 →

Barbara Wagner / Robert Paul won gold for Canada, having not been beaten since the 1956 Winter Olympics.[1]

Results

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Pl. Name Nation MP TOOM TO TP
1 Barbara Wagner / Robert Paul   Canada 7x1+ 7.0 7.0 80.4
2 Marika Kilius / Hans-Jürgen Bäumler   United Team of Germany 4x2+ 8.0 19.0 76.8
3 Nancy Ludington / Ronald Ludington   United States 4x3+ 11.0 27.5 76.2
4 Maria Jelinek / Otto Jelinek   Canada 6x4+ 19.0 26.0 75.9
5 Margret Göbl / Franz Ningel   United Team of Germany 5x5+ 20.0 36.0 72.5
6 Nina Zhuk / Stanislav Zhuk   Soviet Union 5x5+ 25.0 38.0 72.3
7 Rita Blumenberg / Werner Mensching   United Team of Germany 4x7+ 26.5 53.0 70.2
8 Diana Hinko / Heinz Döpfl   Austria 5x8+ 35.5 54.5 69.8
9 Liudmila Belousova / Oleg Protopopov   Soviet Union 4x9+ 30.0 60.5 68.6
10 Maribel Owen / Dudley Richards   United States 5x10+ 46.0 69.0 67.5
11 Ila Ray Hadley / Ray Hadley   United States 4x11+ 41.0 78.0 65.7
12 Jacqueline Mason / Mervyn Bower   Australia 5x12+ 57.0 83.0 63.7
13 Marcelle Matthews / Gwyn Jones   South Africa 7x13+ 85.5 85.5 63.6

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References

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  1. ^ "Figure Skating at the 1960 Winter Olympics: Pairs, Mixed". Olympedia. Retrieved 3 July 2020.
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