Figure skating at the 1924 Winter Olympics
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Men's singles: Sweden (SWE) Gillis Grafström |
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Ladies singles: Austria (AUT) Herma Szabo |
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| Pair skating: Austria (AUT) Helene Engelmann and Alfred Berger |
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At the 1924 Winter Olympics, three figure skating events were contested. The competitions were held from Tuesday, January 29, 1924 to Thursday, January 31, 1924.
The events held at this Games were not the first figure skating events contested at the Olympic Games, as the sport had also been on the programme at the 1908 and 1920 Summer Olympics. Gillis Grafström successfully defended his 1920 title.
In Chamonix, the figure skating competitions were held on a square rink rather than a rectangular one, as a last-minute change. Consequently some competitors had difficulty adjusting their free skating programs to fit the ice surface.[1]
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[edit] Medal summary
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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| Men's singles |
Gillis Grafström Sweden (SWE) |
Willy Böckl Austria (AUT) |
 Georges GautschiSwitzerland (SUI) |
| Ladies' singles |
Herma Szabo Austria (AUT) |
 Beatrix LoughranUnited States (USA) |
 Ethel MuckeltGreat Britain (GBR) |
| Pairs |
Austria (AUT) Helene Engelmann Alfred Berger |
 Finland (FIN)Ludowika Jakobsson Walter Jakobsson |
 France (FRA)Andrée Joly Pierre Brunet |
[edit] Participating nations
Eight figure skater competed in both the singles and the pairs event.
A total of 29 figure skaters (16 men and 13 ladies) from eleven nations (men from ten nations and ladies from eight nations) competed at the Chamonix Games:
Austria (4) (men:2 women:2)
Belgium (3) (men:2 women:1)
Canada (2) (men:1 women:1)
Czechoslovakia (1) (men:1 women:0)
Finland (2) (men:1 women:1)
France (5) (men:3 women:2)
Great Britain (6) (men:3 women:3)
Norway (1) (men:0 women:1)
Sweden (1) (men:1 women:0)
Switzerland (1) (men:1 women:0)
United States (3) (men:1 women:2)
[edit] Medal table
Only Austria was able to win more than one medal.
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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| 1 | Austria |
2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 2 | Sweden |
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 | United States |
0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Finland |
0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 5 | Switzerland |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Great Britain |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| France |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Total | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 | |
[edit] References
- ^ "The Olympics: 1920, 1924, and 1928", Skating magazine, December 1959
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