World's Mini Medals
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That's a bit odd, I haven't heard of this before lol! Do they always do this?
Mini-medals
Sometimes the horse/riders who finish first in a particular phase of an Eventing competition (where they do dressage, cross country and stadium jumping at most and roads/tracks and steeplechase also at others) get a mini-medal or an award for being first after a phase (usually dressage).
Linny
Sometimes the horse/riders who finish first in a particular phase of an Eventing competition (where they do dressage, cross country and stadium jumping at most and roads/tracks and steeplechase also at others) get a mini-medal or an award for being first after a phase (usually dressage).
Linny
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I guess Joannie gets a mini gold, for winning qualifying.
I'm not sure they are either, I've never heard them mentioned.
What I want to know is, when and how do they get them? I know they don't have an actual ceremony in front of the audience. Do they give them out at the closing banquet (my guess), or do they get them in the mail a couple of weeks later?
What I want to know is, when and how do they get them? I know they don't have an actual ceremony in front of the audience. Do they give them out at the closing banquet (my guess), or do they get them in the mail a couple of weeks later?
world's mini medals
I am glad that they give out these medals. After watching the Free Dance tonight Drob/Vanagas of Lithuania will get a World's mini Silver Medal for coming 2nd in the freedance. Well deserved by them.
Another person who received a world's mini medal and never won a world championship is Toller Cranston. I think he won the long program and might have been the bronze medalist in a world championship.
Your thoughts???
Anyone else you can think of that won one of these medals and never won a world medal or world championship?
I am glad that they give out these medals. After watching the Free Dance tonight Drob/Vanagas of Lithuania will get a World's mini Silver Medal for coming 2nd in the freedance. Well deserved by them.
Another person who received a world's mini medal and never won a world championship is Toller Cranston. I think he won the long program and might have been the bronze medalist in a world championship.
Your thoughts???
Anyone else you can think of that won one of these medals and never won a world medal or world championship?
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1hunter said:
Limiting myself to gold medals, I can think of a few women right away.
Janet Lynn? I think the practice began while she was still competing.
Kira Ivanova?
Nancy Kerrigan?
Nicole Bobek?
Whoever won figures in 81 and 82? (for sure not the final winners)
1hunter said:
I'm actually going into my archives to do a little checking on this one because I think some of the names that would pop up would be fascinating.
brb
OK. 1981 Worlds. Compulsory Figures, Ladies. Gold, Claudia Kristofics-Binder of Austria, Silver, Deborah Cotrill of Great Britain, Bronze, Kristiina Wegelius of Finland. (These were the 82 figures medallists as well, only Wegelius and Cotrill switched places)
1982 Worlds - Men's Compulsories. Gold, Jean-Christophe Simond of France (he won quite a few of these; he was the figures whiz of the early 80s), Silver, Scott Hamilton, Bronze, David Santee.
More later; I'll have to do some math to figure out short program medals and stuff, plus my clippings from the early 80s are not often very complete since skating was relegated to the back page of the sports section in those days. It would be very interesting to see a list of these medallists year by year; the ISU should get on this in their Past Results section, only it would probably stir up a hornets nest from people wondering why, if certain people were so good in free skating, how come they never won anything??
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JonnyCoop said:I'm actually going into my archives to do a little checking on this one because I think some of the names that would pop up would be fascinating.
brb
OK. 1981 Worlds. Compulsory Figures, Ladies. Gold, Claudia Kristofics-Binder of Austria,
It would be very interesting to see a list of these medallists year by year; the ISU should get on this in their Past Results section, only it would probably stir up a hornets nest from people wondering why, if certain people were so good in free skating, how come they never won anything??
I remember Kristofics-Binder, didn't she win a European title in there somewhere? (maybe not, Biellman won 1981 and maybe Witt already won 1982) I think she won a world bronze or two. IIRC she was a pleasant enough free skater for the time, before triples became big deal for ladies, but what I remember most about her was a major leg wrap.
