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Katarina Witt, competing for East Germany, became the first woman since Norway's Sonja Henie (1928, 1932, and 1936) to win consecutive Olympic gold medals, doing so in 1984 and 1988.
Synchronized team skating, originally known as precision skating, was created in 1956 by Richard Porter in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Porter established the Hockettes, which became the first precision skating team in the United States.1