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
Barbara Wagner Robert Paul   Canada   Marika Kilius Hans-Jürgen Bäumler   United Team of Germany   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	Canada	7x1+	7.0	7.0	80.4
2	Marika Kilius / Hans-Jürgen Bäumler	United Team of Germany	4x2+	8.0	19.0	76.8
3	Nancy Ludington / Ronald Ludington	United States	4x3+	11.0	27.5	76.2
4	Maria Jelinek / Otto Jelinek	Canada	6x4+	19.0	26.0	75.9
5	Margret Göbl / Franz Ningel	United Team of Germany	5x5+	20.0	36.0	72.5
6	Nina Zhuk / Stanislav Zhuk	Soviet Union	5x5+	25.0	38.0	72.3
7	Rita Blumenberg / Werner Mensching	United Team of Germany	4x7+	26.5	53.0	70.2
8	Diana Hinko / Heinz Döpfl	Austria	5x8+	35.5	54.5	69.8
9	Liudmila Belousova / Oleg Protopopov	Soviet Union	4x9+	30.0	60.5	68.6
10	Maribel Owen / Dudley Richards	United States	5x10+	46.0	69.0	67.5
11	Ila Ray Hadley / Ray Hadley	United States	4x11+	41.0	78.0	65.7
12	Jacqueline Mason / Mervyn Bower	Australia	5x12+	57.0	83.0	63.7
13	Marcelle Matthews / Gwyn Jones	South Africa	7x13+	85.5	85.5	63.6

Referee:

• Walter S. Powell

Assistant Referee:

• Alexander D.C. Gordon

Judges:

• Sydney R. Croll
• Franz Wojtanowskyj
• John Greig
• Theo Klemm
• Giovanni de Mori
• Emile Finsterwald
• Howell Janes

External links

• 1960 Squaw Valley Official Olympic Report
• sports-reference