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Figure skating at the 1908 Summer Olympics

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Figure Skating
at the Games of the IV Olympiad
VenuePrince's Skating Club
London, United Kingdom
Dates28–29 October
Competitors21 from 6 nations
1920 →

Four figure skating events were contested at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London, but they were held in October 1908, six months after most of the other Olympic events at the 1908 Games. The figure skating competition took place at the Prince's Skating Club, in the district of Knightsbridge. It was the first time that a winter sport had ever been included in the Olympic Games, sixteen years before the first Winter Olympics in Chamonix. The number of competitors was very low, with two events having only three entrants, guaranteeing a medal for participation.[1]

Medal summary

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Medalists

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The German gold medal winners in pair skating, Anna Hübler and Heinrich Burger

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's singles
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Ulrich Salchow
 Sweden
Richard Johansson
 Sweden
Per Thorén
 Sweden
Men's special figures
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Nikolai Panin
 Russian Empire
Arthur Cumming
 Great Britain
Geoffrey Hall-Say
 Great Britain
Ladies' singles
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Madge Syers
 Great Britain
Elsa Rendschmidt
 Germany
Dorothy Greenhough-Smith
 Great Britain
Pairs
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Anna Hübler
and Heinrich Burger
 Germany
Phyllis Johnson
and James H. Johnson
 Great Britain
Madge Syers
and Edgar Syers
 Great Britain

Medal table

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RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Great Britain1236
2 Sweden1113
3 Germany1102
4 Russian Empire1001
Totals (4 entries)44412

Participating nations

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21 figure skaters from 6 nations competed.

References

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  1. ^ "Figure Skating at the 1908 Summer Olympics". Olympedia. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
  2. ^ Hines, James R. (2011). Historical Dictionary of Figure Skating. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press. pp. xxi–xxii. ISBN 978-0-8108-6859-5.

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