Editing 1960 Winter Olympics (section)

=== Figure skating ===
{{Main|Figure skating at the 1960 Winter Olympics}}
Held at [[Blyth Arena|Blyth Memorial Arena]], the [[figure skating]] competition took place between February 19 and 26. Although this was not the first time figure skating had been held indoors, it would never be contested outdoors again.<ref name=srfs>{{cite web|title=Figure Skating at the 1960 Squaw Valley Winter Games|publisher=Sports Reference LLC|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/1960/FSK/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417063557/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/1960/FSK/|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 17, 2020|access-date=August 10, 2011}}</ref>  There were three events: men's and women's singles and the pairs competition. In the men's event, [[David Jenkins (figure skater)|David Jenkins]] of the United States, brother of 1956 Winter Olympic figure skating champion [[Hayes Jenkins]], won the gold medal.<ref name=judd>{{cite book|title=The Winter Olympics|last=Judd|first=Ron C.|publisher=The Mountaineers Books|location=Seattle, USA|year=2008|isbn=9781594850639|page=28}}
</ref>  It was his second Olympic medal, having won the bronze in 1956.<ref>{{cite web|title=Figure Skating at the 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo Winter Games|publisher=Sports Reference LLC|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/1956/FSK/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417054054/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/1956/FSK/|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 17, 2020|access-date=August 10, 2011}}</ref>  [[Czechoslovakia at the 1960 Winter Olympics|Czechoslovakian]] [[Karol Divín]] took the silver medal, and Canadian [[Donald Jackson (figure skater)|Donald Jackson]] won the bronze.<ref name=srfs/><ref>{{cite web|title=Czechoslovakia|publisher=Sports Reference LLC|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/TCH/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417092821/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/TCH/|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 17, 2020|access-date=August 10, 2011}}</ref> American Carol Heiss, winner of the silver medal in 1956, became the Olympic champion in 1960. A year later she married Hayes Jenkins and starred in ''[[Snow White and the Three Stooges]]''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Carol Heiss|publisher=Sports Reference LLC|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/he/carol-heiss-1.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417223544/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/he/carol-heiss-1.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 17, 2020|access-date=August 10, 2011}}</ref> The [[Netherlands at the 1960 Winter Olympics|Dutch]] skater [[Sjoukje Dijkstra]] took the silver medal; she would finish her amateur career with an Olympic gold medal in [[1964 Winter Olympics|1964]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Sjoukje Dijkstra|publisher=Sports Reference LLC|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/di/sjoukje-dijkstra-1.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417231825/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/di/sjoukje-dijkstra-1.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 17, 2020|access-date=August 10, 2011}}</ref> [[Barbara Ann Roles]] competed for the United States and won its third figure skating medal of the competition when she took the bronze. The Soviet Union made its Olympic figure skating debut by sending two couples to compete in the pairs competition; the result belied the fact that Soviet skaters would soon come to dominate this event.<ref name=srfs/> The competition was won by the Canadian pair of [[Barbara Wagner]] and [[Robert Paul (figure skater)|Bob Paul]] who had won the last three world championships. The German pair [[Marika Kilius]] and [[Hans-Jürgen Bäumler]] followed their recent European championship victory with the Olympic silver medal, and the American husband-and-wife team of [[Ron Ludington|Ron]] and [[Nancy Ludington]] took the bronze.<ref>{{cite web|title=Figure Skating at the 1960 Squaw Valley Winter Games: Mixed Pairs|publisher=Sports Reference LLC|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/1960/FSK/mixed-pairs.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417223829/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/1960/FSK/mixed-pairs.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 17, 2020|access-date=August 10, 2011}}</ref>