Edgar Syers

Edgar Syers
Edgar Syers with his wife at the 1908 Olympic Games
Full name	Edgar Morris Wood Syers
nation	United Kingdom
birthday	March 18, 1863
place of birth	Brighton
date of death	February 16, 1946
Place of death	Maidenhead
Career
discipline	Single run, pair run
Partner	Madge Syers
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 0 × 1 × World Cup medals 0 × 0 × 1 ×
Olympic games bronze London 1908 Couples  World figure skating championships bronze Davos 1899 Men's

Edgar Morris Wood Syers (born March 18, 1863 in Brighton , † February 16, 1946 in Maidenhead ) was a British figure skater who started in individual skating and pair skating .

Career

Syers is considered the pioneer of British figure skating and brought a new, more fluid style to Britain. He was the Secretary General of the British Figure Skating Federation and a figure skating coach.

In the individual run, he won the bronze medal behind Gustav Hügel and Ulrich Salchow at the World Championships in Davos in 1899 and in the same year married Madge Syers, who was almost twenty years his junior . At the age of 45, he and her, who was also his figure skating student, competed in pair skating at the 1908 Olympic Games and won Olympic bronze with her behind Anna Hübler and Heinrich Burger and Phyllis and James H. Johnson . This made him the oldest figure skater in Olympic history to win a medal. In 1902 and 1904, he and his wife had won the unofficial pair skating world championships.

Results

Single run

Competition / year	1899
World championships	3.

Pair skating

(with Madge Syers )

Competition / year	1908
Olympic games	3.

Web links

• Edgar Syers in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )