Figure Skating at the 1972 Sapporo Winter Games:

Men's Singles

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Host City: Sapporo, Japan
Venue(s): Makomanai Indoor Skating Rink, Sapporo; Mikaho Indoor Skating Rink, Sapporo
Date Started: February 8, 1972
Date Finished: February 11, 1972
Format: Each judge ranked each skater by Ordinal Placement from first through last place. The Ordinal Placement for each judge was based on Total Points awarded by that judge to the skaters. The points were based on 50% for Compulsory Figures and 50% for Free Skating, with the tiebreaker for each judge being Compulsory Figure Points. Final placement was determined by a Majority Placement rule. Thus, if a skater was ranked first by a majority of the judges, that skater was placed first overall, and the process was repeated for each place. Ties broken by a Subsequent Majority rule, i.e., if the pairs were ranked for the same position by the same number of judges, Majority Placement for the next higher position for each pair determined who was ranked higher. The tiebreakers were, in order: 1) Number of Majority Placements, 2) Total Ordinals of Majority, 3) Total Ordinals, 4) Total Points, 5) Compulsory Figure Points.

Gold:	Ondrej Nepela
Silver:	Sergey Chetverukhin
Bronze:	Patrick Pera