[2] The Josephs began competing together by the late 1950s and became the U.S. national junior champions in 1961.

They won the senior bronze medal in 1962 and silver the following year.

The Josephs were selected to represent the United States at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck and initially finished fourth.

A few years later, the silver medalists, Marika Kilius / Hans-Jürgen Bäumler of Germany, were disqualified after they were accused of signing a pro contract before the Olympics.

When the German pair was reinstated in 1987, the IOC decided the Germans and Canadians were both silver medalists and the Americans remained bronze medalists.