Figure Skating
- World Figure Skating Championships –
- Men's champion: Tim Wood, United States
- Ladies' champion: Gabrielle Seyfert, Germany
- Pair skating champions: Irina Rodnina & Alexei Ulanov, Soviet Union
- Ice dancing champions: Lyudmila Pakhomova & Alexandr Gorshkov, Soviet Union
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Famous quotes containing the words figure and/or skating:
“Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.”
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