Figure skating at the 1984 Winter Olympics

Summary

Figure skating at the 1984 Winter Olympics took place at the Zetra Olympic Hall in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean won gold for Great Britain, receiving twelve perfect scores (6.0), (a maximum 9 of them for artistic impression, the others in the technical merit mark) in the free dance segment of the ice dance competition, a feat that was never matched. They received the most maximum 6.0 marks of any figure skaters at the Olympics. [1]

Figure skating at the XIV Winter Olympics
Type:Olympic Games
Champions
Men's singles:
United States Scott Hamilton
Ladies' singles:
East Germany Katarina Witt
Pairs:
Soviet Union Elena Valova / Oleg Vassiliev
Ice dance:
United Kingdom Jayne Torvill / Christopher Dean
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Medal table edit

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  United States1203
2  Soviet Union1135
3  East Germany1001
  Great Britain1001
5  Canada0101
6  Czechoslovakia0011
Totals (6 entries)44412

Participating NOCs edit

Twenty-one nations sent figure skaters to compete in the events at Sarajevo.

Results edit

Men edit

Rank Name Nation CF SP FS TFP
1 Scott Hamilton   United States 1 2 2 3.4
2 Brian Orser   Canada 7 1 1 5.6
3 Jozef Sabovčík   Czechoslovakia 4 5 3 7.4
4 Rudi Cerne   West Germany 3 6 4 8.2
5 Brian Boitano   United States 8 3 5 11.0
6 Jean-Christophe Simond   France 2 4 9 11.8
7 Alexander Fadeev   Soviet Union 5 8 7 13.2
8 Vladimir Kotin   Soviet Union 11 9 6 16.2
9 Norbert Schramm   West Germany 9 7 8 16.2
10 Heiko Fischer   West Germany 6 10 12 19.6
11 Gary Beacom   Canada 10 11 11 21.4
12 Grzegorz Filipowski   Poland 12 12 15 27.0
13 Mark Cockerell   United States 18 17 10 27.6
14 Masaru Ogawa   Japan 16 14 14 29.2
15 Laurent Depouilly   France 14 13 16 29.6
16 Falko Kirsten   East Germany 15 21 13 30.4
17 Lars Åkesson   Sweden 13 15 18 31.8
18 Xu Zhaoxiao   China 22 18 17 37.4
19 Cameron Medhurst   Australia 19 16 20 37.8
20 Jaimee Eggleton   Canada 20 19 19 38.6
21 Miljan Begovic   Yugoslavia 17 22 21 40.0
22 Paul Robinson   Great Britain 21 20 22 42.6
23 Cho Jae-hyung   South Korea 23 23 23 46.0

Referee:

Assistant Referee:

  •   Tjasa Andrée

Judges:

Ladies edit

Rank Name Nation CF SP FS TFP
1 Katarina Witt   East Germany 3 1 1 3.2
2 Rosalynn Sumners   United States 1 5 2 4.6
3 Kira Ivanova   Soviet Union 5 3 5 9.2
4 Tiffany Chin   United States 12 2 3 11.0
5 Anna Kondrashova   Soviet Union 7 4 6 11.8
6 Elaine Zayak   United States 13 6 4 14.2
7 Manuela Ruben   West Germany 6 11 7 15.0
8 Elena Vodorezova   Soviet Union 2 8 11 15.4
9 Claudia Leistner   West Germany 9 10 8 17.4
10 Sanda Dubravčić   Yugoslavia 8 9 9 17.4
11 Sandra Cariboni   Switzerland 4 14 12 20.0
12 Kay Thomson   Canada 10 12 10 20.8
13 Elizabeth Manley   Canada 16 7 13 25.4
14 Myriam Oberwiler   Switzerland 15 13 14 28.2
15 Karin Telser   Italy 11 15 16 28.6
16 Katrien Pauwels   Belgium 14 16 18 32.8
17 Susan Jackson   Great Britain 19 17 15 33.2
18 Agnès Gosselin   France 18 19 17 35.4
19 Masako Kato   Japan 21 18 19 38.8
20 Catarina Lindgren   Sweden 17 22 20 39.0
21 Vicki Holland   Australia 20 20 21 41.0
22 Bao Zhenghua   China 23 21 22 44.2
23 Kim Hae-sung   South Korea 22 23 23 45.4
WD Marta Cierco-Viqeira   Spain

Referee:

  •   Sonia Bianchetti

Assistant Referee:

  •   Radovan Lipovscak

Judges:

  •   Mikhail Drei
  •   Ante Skrtic
  •   Heinz Müllenbach
  •   Giorgio Siniscalco
  •   Jacqueline Itschner
  •   Walburga Grimm
  •   Raymond C. Alperth
  •   Norris Bowden
  •   Claude Carlens
  •   Toshio Suzuki (substitute)

Pairs edit

Rank Name Nation SP FS TFP
1 Elena Valova / Oleg Vasiliev   Soviet Union 1 1 1.4
2 Kitty Carruthers / Peter Carruthers   United States 2 2 2.8
3 Larisa Selezneva / Oleg Makarov   Soviet Union 2 3 3.8
4 Sabine Baeß / Tassilo Thierbach   East Germany 4 4 5.6
5 Birgit Lorenz / Knut Schubert   East Germany 5 5 7.0
6 Jill Watson / Burt Lancon   United States 8 6 9.2
7 Barbara Underhill / Paul Martini   Canada 6 7 9.4
8 Katherina Matousek / Lloyd Eisler   Canada 9 8 11.6
9 Marina Avstriskaya / Yuri Kvashnin   Soviet Union 7 9 11.8
10 Lea Ann Miller / William Fauver   United States 10 10 14.0
11 Babette Preußler / Tobias Schröter   East Germany 14 11 16.6
12 Melinda Kunhegyi / Lyndon Johnston   Canada 13 12 17.2
13 Claudia Massari / Leonardo Azzola   West Germany 11 13 17.4
14 Susan Garland / Ian Jenkins   Great Britain 12 14 18.8
15 Luan Bo / Yao Bin   China 15 15 21.0

Referee:

Assistant Referee:

  •   Benjamin T. Wright

Judges:

Ice dance edit

Rank Name Nation CD OSP FD TFP
1 Jayne Torvill / Christopher Dean   Great Britain 1 1 1 2.0
2 Natalia Bestemianova / Andrei Bukin   Soviet Union 2 2 2 4.0
3 Marina Klimova / Sergei Ponomarenko   Soviet Union 4 4 3 7.0
4 Judy Blumberg / Michael Seibert   United States 3 3 4 7.0
5 Carol Fox / Richard Dalley   United States 6 5 5 10.6
6 Karen Barber / Nicky Slater   Great Britain 5 6 6 11.4
7 Olga Volozhinskaya / Alexander Svinin   Soviet Union 8 7 7 14.6
8 Tracy Wilson / Robert McCall   Canada 7 8 8 15.4
9 Petra Born / Rainer Schönborn   West Germany 9 9 9 18.0
10 Elisa Spitz / Scott Gregory   United States 10 10 10 20.0
11 Wendy Sessions / Stephen Williams   Great Britain 12 11 11 22.6
12 Kelly Johnson / John Thomas   Canada 11 13 12 23.8
13 Jindra Holá / Karol Foltán   Czechoslovakia 14 12 13 26.2
14 Nathalie Hervé / Pierre Béchu   France 13 14 15 28.4
15 Isabella Micheli / Roberto Pelizzola   Italy 15 15 14 29.0
16 Klára Engi / Attila Tóth   Hungary 17 17 16 33.0
17 Noriko Sato / Tadayuki Takahashi   Japan 16 16 17 33.0
18 Khristina Boyanova / Yavor Ivanov   Bulgaria 18 18 18 36.0
19 Xi Hongyan / Zhao Xiaolei   China 19 19 19 38.0

Referee:

Assistant Referee:

  •   Hans Kutschera

Judges:

On the 30 year anniversary of the Sarajevo Winter Olympics, the pair of Jayne Torvill / Christopher Dean returned to Sarajevo on 13 February to perform Bolero.[2]

References edit

  1. ^ "Figure Skating at the 1984 Winter Olympics". Olympedia. Archived from the original on 4 July 2020. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
  2. ^ espn.co.uk (23 January 2014). "Torvill & Dean will return to Sarajevo to perform Bolero". espn.co.uk. Retrieved 23 January 2014.

External links edit

  • Official Olympic Report
  • results
  • http://library.la84.org/OlympicInformationCenter/OlympicReview/1984/ore197/ORE197f.pdf