Sasha Cohen of the United States. She had been a favorite to win, and had a slim lead after the short program, but Sasha is notorious for never being able to skate a clean competition; she usually skates one program beautifully, and makes mistakes in the other, and she did so at the 2006 Olympics. She and Russia's Irina Slutskaya both made mistakes in their free skate, which allowed Shizuka Arakawa to come from third place to win Japan's first gold medal in women's figure skating.
Shizuka Arakawa of Japan won the women's figure skating gold in the 2006 Turin Olympic Games.
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Herma Szabo of Austria won the gold medal in Women's singles in the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix, France.
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1 Curling (women's), 2 freestyle skiing (men's and womens' aerials), 3 figure skating (pairs) 4 speed skating (women's 500m) 5 short track (womens) among other things, these are a few that China competed in and won a medal from.
Carol Agen won the gold medal in 1960.
Katarina Witt won the Olympic gold medal in figure skating in 1984 and 1988.
Peggy Gail Flemming was the gold medal winner of the 1968 Olympic figure skating event.
Tara Lipinski. She is still the youngest woman ever to have won the Olympic gold medal in figure skating, at age fifteen.
Viktor Petrenko of the Unified Team.