Is that so? Funky. Not that one should read too much into these precedents...
Yes, one should not read too much into these precedents, but they still are interesting and this one also impressive:
US reigning World champions who won the gold at the Olympics
Richard Button 1952 (also got an Olympic gold medal in 1948)
Hayes A. Jenkins 1956
David Jenkins 1960
Scott Hamilton 1984
Evan Lysacek 2010
Interesting is also the jinx that no reigning World champion won the Olympic gold after Scott Hamilton did in 1984, only Lysacek did beat that jinx in 2010.
Other US World champions have been
Tim Wood
Charles Tickner
Brian Boitano (also an Olympic gold medalist)
Todd Eldredge
All in all I would say that USA is the leading dynasty in men´s skating with
6 different Olympic champions
9 different World champions
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