World Figure Skating Championship 1897

World Figure Skating Championship 1897
2nd event
Type:	ISU championship
Date:	February 13-14, 1897
Venue:	Stockholm
Gold medalist
Men's:	Gustav Hill
World figure skating championships
1896 ◄ 1897 ► 1898

The 2nd World Figure Skating Championship took place on February 13 and 14, 1897 in Stockholm ( Sweden ).

The Austrian Gustav Hügel won the competition ahead of Ulrich Salchow despite a tendon strain that he sustained during training in Hamburg , and although all the judges came from Sweden. He became the first Austrian world champion and thus established a long tradition of success that lasted until the 1960s.

Results

Men's

space	athlete	country
1	Gustav Hill	Austria
2	Ulrich Salchow	Sweden
3	Johan Lefstad	Norway
4th	Thiodolf Borgh	Sweden
5	Hugo Carlson	Sweden
6th	Oscar Holthe	Norway

The judges were:

• H. Cederblom Sweden 
• O. Wollert Sweden 
• CF Mellin Sweden 
• L. Lindqvist Sweden 
• I. Hult Sweden 

source

• World figure skating championships 1896–1899 (men). Skatabase, archived from the original on October 11, 2008 ; accessed on May 21, 2018 (English).