1960 Ina Bauer - West Germany

No skating collection would be complete without a photo of the incomparable INA BAUER, someone who has touched the lives of every skater since her abrupt retirement, just before the 1960 Olympics.

A several times World Medalist, and inventor of her trademark bent knee glide, she was placed fourth in figures at the 1960 Europeans, and in a bit of drama, retired from amateur competition before the free skate. Apparantly, judging controversies are endemic to figure skating!!

It did allow TWO Dutch skaters, coached by Hans Gerschweiller, to appear on the European podium: Sjoukje Dijkstra and Joan Haanappel.

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• Carol
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• Dijkstra
• Joan
• Haanappel

[HattieLovesCattie]

I bet if the US skaters hadn't died in that plane crash Laurence Owen would have been on that podium.

[k9henrydog]

@HattieLovesCattie Hattie, I think you have your dates mixed up a bit. This was the 1960 year, the plane crash was in 1961. As I recall, Laurance was 6th at the Carol Heiss Olympics.......best wishes

[k9henrydog]

6.0 or NO for YO.......2010

[Luccheno]

Shizuka aplies like 170kG on the vertebrate columm while doing that movement. The fact is that she can do ir without doing that much damage because the muscles and ligaments on her spine are probably used to it.

Shizuka claims to hate bielman spins and the ones were she goes 2/3 of the ice ring with her left next to her head... Apparently while an ina bauer as perfect as hers isn't that bad, other things are more hard for her... its a matter of anatomic building and unicity really...

[k9henrydog]

Thanks for the interesting information. I too, am against the Beillman position, simply for the damage it causes young, ambitious skaters. I hope Shizuka is well, but speaking as an old man myself, she may encounter difficulites as the years pass. Let's hope not, but there are many aches and pains you don't anticipate!!......best wishes

[HattieLovesCattie]

@k9henrydog Yes,I know the plane crash was in 1961.I am talking about the 1964 games where L Owen would have surely been on the podium.She may have won and Sjoukje Dijkstra may have come in second.Read my post again,I said that L Owen would have been on the podium if the skaters hadn't died in that plane crash.

[faeryquene]

Thank you for posting this! I had never seen the innovator of that elegant move before!

[k9henrydog]

Sorry to hear of your injuries! My doctor was also a young gymnast and she knocks the sport all the time. Apparently lot of fokes out there ask things of their kids and students that are medically inadvisable. Hope you have a good chiropractor!! best wishes

[waddleduckie1]

It doesn't seem to have affected anything to her spine. I mean, she doesn't show the swayback associated with excessive back bending, and her posture remains unaffected. However, what happened to me is a different story. I did back bend as a child in gymnastic and I developed a fused spine. I was born with spinal arthritis. And my mom signed me up for gymnastic. Big mistake. My back got worse before I did pilates. Now, lets look at Sasha's version of the ina bauer...

[superjolly06]

How about Ina Bauer Arakawa....that sounds a bit catchy to me...^-^