Word: petkevich
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...biggest surprise was John Petkevich, an 18-year-old Montanan who was competing in his second Nationals as a senior skater. Still a little ragged in the school figures, he was in fourth place when he glided out for his free-skating routine. To the ringing trumpets of Spanish music, he went through five minutes of dazzling Salchows (jump and forward turn), Lutzes (jump and reverse turn) and flying splits. Then he went off with something he calls "the Bourkey"-an astonishing leap in which he kicks sideways, twirls, arches and floats as if suspended by wires. He decided against...
...world team, however, Allen, who finished fourth among senior men, replaced John Petkevich, the third-place finisher in that category...