Tara Lipinski won. She completed 2, 3/3 combonations in her techniaclly perfect freeskate winning the gold at only 15 years of age. Michelle Kwan, the favorite palced second after a lovely, but tentive freeskate.
Shizuka Arakawa of Japan won the women's figure skating gold in the 2006 Turin Olympic Games.
Michelle Kwan's first Olympics were the 1998 Winter Games in Nagano where she won a silver medal in ladies singles figure skating.
1, the 1998 Winter Games in Nagano where she won gold in ladies singles figure skating.
No, figure skating is in the Winter Olympics and will be competed in the upcoming 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
Athletes representing the United States in women's singles figure skating at the 1998 Games in Nagano were Tara Lipinski, Michelle Kwan, and Elaine Bobek. Lipinski won gold, Kwan won silver, and Bobek placed 17th.Other women's on the 1998 figure skating team were Kyoto Ina and Jenni Meno in pairs and Elizabeth Punsalan and Jessica Joseph in ice dancing.
The first figure skating competition at the Olympics was at the 1908 Games in London.
was there a time when figure skating not contested in the olympics
for womens= Yu Na Kim from Korea for mens= Evan Lysacek from USA
It was introduced into the Olympics in 1908.
Listing of Gold Medal winners for the ladies figure skating in the Olympics?
Dorthy Hamill for USA won in 1976.
Tara Lipinski was 15 years old when she won a gold medal for Ladies' Figure Skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan. She became the youngest Olympic gold medalist in ladies' figure skating in an individual event.