1968 Olympics Videos

[labgoat]

1968 Olympic Games
Grenoble, France - Le Stade Olympique de Glace

Wikipedia Page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figure_skating_at_the_1968_Winter_Olympics

Ice dance, then known as "rhythmic skating," was a demonstration event and was won by the team of Diane Towler and Bernard Ford of Great Britain.[1] It became a medal event eight years later in 1976 Innsbruck.[2]

Men Free Skate	Ladies Free Skate	Pairs Free Skate
Jan Hoffmann GDR Sergei Volkov URS Emmerich Danzer AUT Sergei Chetverukhin URS Tim Wood USA Jay Humphrey CAN (not in video) Gary Visconti USA (not in video) John Misha Petkevich USA Wolfgang Schwartz AUT	Beatrice Huştiu ROM (not in video) Galina Grzhibovskaya URS Linda Carbonetto CAN (not in video) Sonja Morgenstern GDR (not in video) Elena Cheglova URS Hana Maskova TCH Peggy Fleming USA Janet Lynn USA (not in video) Gabriele Seyfert GDR Zsuzsa Almassy HUN Kumiko Okawa JPN Beatrix Schuba AUT Albertina Noyes USA	Alicia "JoJo" Starbuck/ Kenneth Shelley USA (not in video) Margot Glockshuber/Wolfgang Danne FRG Cynthia Kauffmann/Ronald Kauffmann USA Tatiana Zhuk/Aleksandr Gorelik URS Ludmila Belousova/Oleg Protopopov URS Heide-Marie Steiner/ Heinz-Ulrich Walther GDR Tatiana Moskvina/Alexsei Mishin URS

 

[MCsAngel2]

Is there any way to get the footage of the third American pair - Sandi Sweitzer/Roy Wagelin? They finished 7th. Sandi was my first skating coach in the mid 80s and I have always wanted to see film of them competing. They finished 2nd at nationals that year.

 

[denise3lz]

Kumiko Okawa JPN

 

[el henry]

John Misha Petkevich in a suit and tie and not a jumpsuit

And baby Jan Hoffman, how adorable. I thought it was a mistake that he was listed for these Olys, what was he, 14?

 

[labgoat]

Is there any way to get the footage of the third American pair - Sandi Sweitzer/Roy Wagelin? They finished 7th. Sandi was my first skating coach in the mid 80s and I have always wanted to see film of them competing. They finished 2nd at nationals that year.

I haven't found anything for them, the original poster does not have them. I am also looking for Karen Magnussen and Nabuo Sato

 

[labgoat]

John Misha Petkevich in a suit and tie and not a jumpsuit

And baby Jan Hoffman, how adorable. I thought it was a mistake that he was listed for these Olys, what was he, 14?

Jan Hoffmann, four Time Olympian, competed in 1968 at age 12. He was so cute! I also thought the three young girls Beatrix from ROM, Sonja from GDR and Janet from USA were cute. I also loved JoJo and Ken and Tamara & Alexsei.

Misha was certainly the stylish daredevil! I read on the video comments there was a scoring error by the Canadian judge that enabled Wolfgang Schwartz to win over Tim Wood. The standings said Emmerich Danzer (who coached Liz Manley) actually won the free skate. Also, how glamorous was Beatrix Schuba here.

Also what a twist lift by the Kauffman couple.