Figure skating at the 1960 Winter Olympics – Pairs skating

Women's singles
at the VIII Olympic Winter Games
Venue Blyth Arena
Squaw Valley, California, United States
Dates February 19
Competitors 26 from 7 nations
Medalists
1st, gold medalist(s) Barbara Wagner
Robert Paul		  Canada
2nd, silver medalist(s) Marika Kilius
Hans-Jürgen Bäumler		  United Team of Germany
3rd, bronze medalist(s) Nancy Ludington
Ronald Ludington		  United States

The pairs 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 each skater 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 result section.

Barbara Wagner / Robert Paul won gold for Canada having not been beaten since the 1956 Olympics.

Results

Pl. Name Nation MP TOOM TO TP
1 Barbara Wagner / Robert Paul Canada7x1+7.07.080.4
2 Marika Kilius / Hans-Jürgen Bäumler United Team of Germany4x2+8.019.076.8
3 Nancy Ludington / Ronald Ludington United States4x3+11.027.576.2
4 Maria Jelinek / Otto Jelinek Canada6x4+19.026.075.9
5 Margret Göbl / Franz Ningel United Team of Germany5x5+20.036.072.5
6 Nina Zhuk / Stanislav Zhuk Soviet Union5x5+25.038.072.3
7 Rita Blumenberg / Werner Mensching United Team of Germany4x7+26.553.070.2
8 Diana Hinko / Heinz Döpfl Austria5x8+35.554.569.8
9 Liudmila Belousova / Oleg Protopopov Soviet Union4x9+30.060.568.6
10 Maribel Owen / Dudley Richards United States5x10+46.069.067.5
11 Ila Ray Hadley / Ray Hadley United States4x11+41.078.065.7
12 Jacqueline Mason / Mervyn Bower Australia5x12+57.083.063.7
13 Marcelle Matthews / Gwyn Jones South Africa7x13+85.585.563.6

Referee:

Assistant Referee:

  • Alexander D.C. Gordon

Judges:

  • Australia Sydney R. Croll
  • Austria Franz Wojtanowskyj
  • Canada John Greig
  • West Germany Theo Klemm
  • Italy Giovanni de Mori
  • Switzerland Emile Finsterwald
  • United States Howell Janes
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