Ondrej Nepela - 1973 World Figure Skating Championship LP

Skating before an adoring home crowd in his last amateur performance, Ondrej Nepela does enough to win his third World title, beating Sergei Chetverukhin and Jan Hoffmann into the silver and bronze medal positions.

[@posuk58]

bravooooooooo Ondro,nádhera na ta léta a byli jsme všici pyšní..

[@danahendrychova4580]

Ano, to bylo ještě krasobruslení, dnešní krasobruslení mi připadá více jako skoky na ledě.

[@Pragwo1f]

'Czech skater in home town Bratislava.' Must drive Slovaks mad.

[@janinhoo]

I would be OK with czechoslovakian, but to call him czech is really not great to hear.

[@janakumlec5363]

Ondrej Nepala was Slovak skater representing Czechoslovakia... trained by his coach Hilda Mudra...Austrian born lady who fell in love with a Slovak man...and lived in Bratislava as Slovak national speaking Slovak language and German!!! Czech skater? Well , general Wikipedia..states something different..The commentator knows nothing about Ondrej Nepala.....why would it annoy Slovaks? The commentator is showing how ignorant he is towards other nations....

[@gratefuldead3750]

@@janakumlec5363 As an austrian this is interesting. Mudra was born hildegard klimpel and emerged from the vienna skating school and later studied geography and biology at vienna university before moving to then cssr. She also coached the legendary josef sabovcik. Somehow the slovakian version of jutta müller.

[@gratefuldead3750]

@@janakumlec5363 In german and austrian tv. Athletes from the soviet union were allways presented as sovietrussians, no matter if the athlete was an armenian, georgian, uzbek, latvian etc.

[@galina_morskaya]

Очень любила Ондрея Непелу...И всегда за него переживала... Во время Олимпиады в Саппоро убежала со школьных уроков, чтобы болеть за своего любимого чехословака. Я его считала самым стильным и очень красивым...🥇

[@janyshendrickson3833]

Solid technique (for the day), good speed throughout, a very solid Freeskate. Thank you so much for posting this very special performance.

[@Cat2Fly]

I loved him at Sapporo, 1972. He was charming and polite. RIP, champion.

[@barkingtree88]

The arm variations on his jumps are just stunning!

[@MADHAUSMARKALLAN]

Thank you. This was the first year of the Short Program. What a great post!

[@janakumlec5363]

Wikipedia clearly states Ondrej Nepala was Slovak skater representing Czechoslovakia. He was born in Bratislava. His coach was lovely Hilda Mudra Austrian born lady married to Slovak. She moved and lived in Bratislava. She spoke Beautifully Slovak language and German. She passed away 22.11.2021. R.I. P. She was a lovely lady. This commentator is useless!!!! Missing all real facts.

[@MistyLaneLoveConquersALL]

I love all your skating videos ⛸️ this one in particular ...this guy is so handsome 🤭

[@sakireve3157]

i am deep moved. thank you for posting.

[@skatingcritic1]

I don't know where you get this fantastic footage from, but thanks so much for sharing it! I'd only seen one of Nepela's performances before.

[@beckyjones6619]

Floskate- Wow! You are a genius! This is so much better than the old black and white, foggy versions of 72 and 73! Question: Is Ondrej's 73 short program available anywhere on youtube? Since it is the only one he ever did, naturally we have all been trying to find it (especially his fans on his facebook page.) Any word on that? Thanks!

[@beckyjones6619]

Oh, that is too bad! Well, who knows! Maybe they will show up sometime! I was excited to see that you found Ondrej's exhibition skate from '73! So anything is possible! Thanks for your answer!

[@aussieskates]

Such speed and attack.

[@lilyeeipoh5514]

now only i know a bit more about him..what a perfect score..n champion..

[@aussieskates]

Those sideburns are totally on point.

[@user-vc6fl8mf7u]

Ондрей Непела был чемпионом ОИ. В Праге стадион носит его имя. Жаль, что умер рано и виной тому спид

[@hughgraham3362]

Thanks for posting. Wonderful to see. I held my breath on those jumps but he landed them!

[@stuartmuzic]

Wish a contemporary skater would skate to the beginning and ending music. Respighi's Roman Festivals. Very exciting and evocative.

[@afrofinka]

Music by Respighi (Roman Festivals) and Tchaikovsky (The Nutcracker, Fifth Symphony)

[@user-mj8cl6hl8e]

Thank you very much, floskate! That was really great, Ondrej's performance in Bratislava! I cant' believe that I can see it again! Could you, please, have the videos of exhibition skate of Christine Errath (Pariser Tango) and the free dance of Green-Watts and Buck-Buck?

[@user-wk6uh7bc8g]

Идеал!!!

[@user-uq9kb2uf1z]

И чем это катание отличается от того, что показывают в 2021м? Только количеством оборотов в прыжках. А скорость и чистота линий и сейчас не у всех такая.

[@user-yt1ym3yk1q]

😍😍😍💞

[@russcohen3779]

Skating used to be awesome

[@mziamakhatadze2074]

❤❤

[@gimichi]

great!

[@Dossen_A]

Look at the combo here 3:23 1A+2Eu+2S, double euler, landed on left foot?

[@npe1]

It was 1A+2Eu+2Sal not 2A at the end.

[@Dossen_A]

@@npe1 yes 2S certainly:) but double euler was unique

[@npe1]

@@Dossen_A Indeed it was.

[@gogroregogoror]

what is the music please exactly?

[@Dossen_A]

He was second or third in free skating? (first was Chetverukhin)

[@beckyjones6619]

He was second.

[@Dossen_A]

Thanks

[@beckyjones6619]

info is from"wiki." freeskate results sergei-1, ondrej-2, jan-6. laslo-13.

[@Dossen_A]

Yes I have seen Euro:)

[@user-gp8xy1tr3l]

А скользит то он лучше четверухина. ((

[@phdr.janbolecek7060]

00:20 Czech skater? please?

[@floskate]

It was the ignorance and unconscious bias of the times. Sadly that ignorance and bias hasn't completely gone away. But the commentator died in 2015 I believe.

[@pygmy_twylyte]

Ondrej' s horse shoe must be 👊

[@danahendrychova4580]

Borec.

[@samuelgedevanishvili1981]

just one triple jump?

[@hahahaha1033]

Видимо я одна русская тетенька помню этого прекрасного фигуриста. И спасибо интернету за прекрасные воспоминания...!!!

[@swissskate70ies68]

Well spotted, the toeloop 1:14 is a dubble one as far as I guess. Perhaps I'm mistaken.

[@martinblair3481]

I know...he must have done well in the school figures to have won!

[@user-rf8sl7qq9h]

@@hahahaha1033 и я ещё одна. Two russian horses who remember 😂

[@chonaV]

This program would not even make it to the qualifying round in today's skating standards, lol. Double jumps? LOL.

[@npe1]

It was 44 years ago come on.

[@michaelvaughn169]

Nor would Babe Ruth, Yogi Berra, Martina Navratilova, Joe Namath, Wilt Chamberlain, or Olga Korbut -- all among the greatest champions of their sports -- be competitive today. Athletes are products of their time; as technology, training, equipment, skills, etc., develop, standards change. You cannot diminish the accomplishments of one of the greatest skaters of his day by comparing him to skaters in 2017. The sport has progressed and the criteria by which its athletes are/were measured have changed, as well. What may look antiquated to you now, was state of the art in 1973. With this in mind, it is fairly safe to assume that today's top competitors will seem similarly behind the times 20-30 years from now.

[@npe1]

Absolutely spot on Michael Vaughn. I could not have put it better myself.

[@chonaV]

Michael Vaughn...I agree with you. Although I don't think the human body could do more than a quad. The sport has pretty much peaked at quad jumps. That said, today's level of skating will stay relevant and up to standards for all time.

[@aussieskates]

I bet somewhere in deepest China, the next generation of men are training quintuple jumps.

[@user-nh5ei3ws2b]

Отстой. В хореографическом плане вообще убожество.

[@nataliaeskova533]

Вилли Клаус а зрителям похоже очень нравится)))

[@user-zk5jq2qr9j]

Непела - гений фигурного катания. Лёгкое скольжение, изумительно красивые линии. Он изящен, как фарфоровая статуэтка. Помню, мы семьёй болели за Четверухина. Катание Непелы казалось скучным, сам Непела - уже великовозрастным, "старым". А Серёжа Четверухин был такой красивый, нам и катание его нравилось. Непонятно было, почему его всё время вторым оставляют. Сегодня понятно. Да, Четверухин очень хорош собой, но - посмотрите, какие корявые, неровные у него линии по сравнению с Непелой. Колени торчат. И посмотрите, как изящен Непела. Какие у него красивые, чистые прыжки, да все движения красивы. Это не только результат труда, с этим родиться надо. Непела был гениален.

[@user-xi6pw2gb6b]

Это олимпийский чемпион 1972года катается, Вилли. Какой вы, однако, знаток фк!)

[@pherdeenand2855]

Отстоем или убожеством были Волков, Ковалев, Бобрин, Фадеев и пр. кокоры.

[@user-tb1zv5xp9z]

@@pherdeenand2855 ну, вы вообще что-то не в настроении