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1968 Grenoble Winter Games | Olympics at Sports-Reference.com  Host City: Grenoble, France (February 4, 1968 to February 18, 1968) ... Most Medals (Athlete): 3 athletes with 3 medals ... with the Olympic Games began to reach Winter Olympia in 1968 at Grenoble. ... title at Grenoble, having won the world championship in 1966-1967, and she did ... Rk, Athlete, Gold, Silver, Bronze, Total...
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1968 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia  In women's figure skating, Peggy Fleming won the only United States gold medal. The games have been credited with making the Winter Olympics more popular...
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Grenoble 1968 Winter Olympics - results & video highlights  Relive the moments that went down in history from the Grenoble 1968 Winter ... French hero Jean-Claude Killy swept the men's Alpine events, but only after ... Eugenio Monti of Italy piloted his two-man and four-man bobsleighs to gold medals.
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France at the 1968 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia  France was the host nation for the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble. It was the second time ... 1st, gold medalist(s) .... France entered in this round, from the start, they did not play for a medal. .... Reports  International Olympic Committee results database  Olympic Winter Games 1968, full results by sports-reference.com...
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1000+ ideas about France Jeux Olympiques 1968 on Pinterest  Poster for the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France. #hiver #ski #enneig .... That was the only gold medal that the United States won at that particular Olympics. She was nineteen ... She won that title in Grenoble, France (19 years old). 1968 Olympic .... Eunice. Save Learn more at america-runs-on-kennedy.tumblr.com.
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Bonnie Blair facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles ...  American speed skater Bonnie Blair won six medals competing in three Winter ... won by a woman in the Winter Olympic Games (the first was Lydia Skoblikova ). ... Blair the only American woman to ever win five gold medals in the games. ... of world's and American records over the course of her speed skating career.
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List of Olympic medalists in figure skating - Wikipedia  Figure skating was first contested as an Olympic sport at the 1908 Summer Olympics, ... Swedish figure skater Gillis Grafstrm (3 gold, 1 silver) and Russian figure skater ... Eleven figure skaters have won three medals: Sonja Henie (Norway) and .... becoming the second female figure skater to win back-to-back Olympic titles.
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Kristi Yamaguchi - Ice Skater, Athlete - Biography.com  Apr 2, 2014 ... U.S. figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi is an Olympic gold medalist who won ... After switching to singles skating, she won a gold medal in the 1992 Olympics. ... After her Olympic win, Yamaguchi toured with Stars on Ice from 1992 till 2002. ... URL. http://www.biography.com/people/kristi-yamaguchi-20950449...
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50 facts you didn't know about Tara Lipinski, former figure skater ...  Jul 24, 2015 ... 50 facts about Olympic gold medalist Tara Lipinski. ... won the ladies' singles Olympic gold medal in figure skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, on February 20, 1998 at the age of 15 years, 8 months, and 10 days, ... days, she became the youngest person - by 32 days - ever to win a World...
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Peggy Fleming - Ice Skater, Athlete - Biography.com  Jul 18, 2016 ... AKA: Peggy Fleming; Full Name: Peggy Gale Fleming ... Figure skater Peggy Fleming won the only U.S. gold medal in the 1968 Olympics. ... Before Dorothy Hamill and Michelle Kwan, Peggy Fleming was seen as one of the...
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Carol Heiss - Wikipedia  Carol Elizabeth Heiss Jenkins is an American figure skater and former actress. She is the 1960 Olympic Champion in Ladies Singles, 1956 Olympic silver ... the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley, California, Heiss captured the gold medal, ... brother David Jenkins had won the men's figure skating gold medal in 1960.
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1924 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia  The 1924 Winter Olympics, officially known as the I Olympic Winter Games were a winter ... The Games were organized by the French Olympic Committee, and were in ... decided to organize an "international week of winter sport" in 1924 in Chamonix. ... The first gold medal awarded in the Olympic Winter games was won by...
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Olympic Games - History of the Olympic Winter Games | Britannica ...  Sep 9, 2016 ... An official poster from the 1924 Winter Olympics held in Chamonix, France. ... while 15-year-old Sonja Henie (Norway) won the first of her three gold medals. ... Although not as politically charged as the 1936 Summer Games in Berlin, the .... The Games were attended by 36 countries and more than 1,000...
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J! Archive - Show #1311, aired 1990-04-23  In 1932, when women could enter only 3 events, this American woman won 3 ... In 1948 Gretchen Fraser became the first American to win a gold medal in this...
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January 16, 1982 - Beth Heiden grief has Docter wary | Chicago ...  Jan 16, 1982 ... She was 16 during the Lake Placid Olympics, asd wherever Beth went, ... She saw her heroine crushed by the that a bronze medal in ... as dominant among women skaters as her brother, Eric, was among the men. ... Sure, she d like to be a world champion-that s even harder than winning one Olympic race.
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1968 Grenoble Winter Games | Olympics at Sports-Reference.com  News: Sports-Reference.com Widgets - Our Stats, Your Site post ... Go Ad-Free. ... Host City: Grenoble, France (February 4, 1968 to February 18, 1968) ... It began before the Olympics when the IOC, led by President [Avery Brundage], ... when the entire American figure skating was killed in a plane crash en route to the...
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Peggy Fleming - Wikipedia  Peggy Gail Fleming (born July 27, 1948) is an American former figure skater. She is the 1968 Olympic Champion in Ladies' singles and a three-time World Champion (19661968). Fleming has been a television commentator in figure skating for over 20 ... to American dominance in the sport of women's figure skating following the...
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Magnar SOLBERG - Olympic Biathlon | Norway  Feb 9, 1972 ... Biathlon at Grenoble 1968, Sapporo 1972 Olympics. ... policeman, surprised the biathlon world by winning the gold medal in the 20km race.
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Sonja Henie of Norway. Olympic figure skating champion 1928 ...  As an athlete: The Norwegian beauty won the gold medal in women's figure skating at the 1928, 1932 and 1936 Winter Olympics. Sonja Henye... Sonja Henie...
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Who Were The First U.S. Women To Win Olympic Gold In Each Sport?  Mar 24, 2016 ... When she earned slalom gold, it was the first Olympic gold medal won by any American in alpine skiing. ... With three women's events  the double National round, the double Columbia .... Snowboarding: Kelly Clark (2002) ... Her halfpipe gold kicked off a string of American dominance in the discipline; two...
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'88 WINTER OLYMPICS - Witt Is Gold Medalist for a Second Time ...  Feb 28, 1988 ... If Debi Thomas nailed her routine, the gold medal in the 1988 Winter ... Katarina Witt of East Germany, the defending women's figure-skating champion, ... the first repeat women's single champion since Sonja Henie of Norway...