Figure skating at the 1920 Summer Olympics

Figure skating at the VII Summer Olympics
Type: Olympic Games
Champions
Men's singles:
Sweden Gillis Grafström
Ladies' singles:
Sweden Magda Julin
Pair skating:
Finland Ludowika Jakobsson / Walter Jakobsson
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1908 Summer Olympics
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1924 Winter Olympics

At the 1920 Summer Olympics, three figure skating events were contested in April.

Gillis Grafström of Sweden captured the first of three consecutive Olympic gold medals in the men's single event in 1920. 1908 gold medalist Ulrich Salchow finished fourth. At age 44, bronze medalist Martin Stixrud is the oldest man to ever win an Olympic medal in an individual winter event.[1]

Despite receiving no first place votes from the judges in the women's singles, Magda Julin of Sweden captured the gold on the strength of three second-place ordinals. She was three months pregnant at the time.

Bronze medalist Phyllis Johnson from the UK had captured the silver medal at the 1908 Olympics with a different partner.

Medal summary

Medalists

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's singles
Gillis Grafström
 Sweden
Andreas Krogh
 Norway
Martin Stixrud
 Norway
Ladies' singles
Magda Mauroy-Julin
 Sweden
Svea Norén
 Sweden
Theresa Weld
 United States
Pair skating
Ludowika Jakobsson
/ Walter Jakobsson
 Finland
Alexia Bryn
/ Yngvar Bryn
 Norway
Phyllis Johnson
/ Basil Williams
 Great Britain

Medal table

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Sweden2103
2 Finland1001
3 Norway0213
4 Great Britain0011
 United States0011
Totals (5 nations)3339


Participating nations

A total of 26 figure skaters, 14 men and 12 women, from eight nations competed at the Antwerp Games:

References

  1. "International Olympic Committee Factsheet: Records and Medals: Games of the Olympiad" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-08-23.  (167 KB)
  • "Official Olympic Reports: 1920 Antwerp" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-05-05.  (951 KB)
  • Skatabase: Men's Results
  • Skatabase: Ladies Results
  • Skatabase: Pairs Results
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