John Page (figure skater)

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John Page figure skating
Full name John Ferguson Page
nation United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
birthday 1900
date of death February 14, 1947
Career
discipline Single run, pair run
Partner Ethel Muckelt
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × gold 1 × silver 1 × bronze
ISU World figure skating championships
silver Manchester 1924 Couples
bronze Berlin 1926 Men's
 

John "Jack" Ferguson Page (* 1900 , † February 14, 1947 in Brooklands , Manchester ) was a British figure skater who started in single and pair skating .

Page took part in the Olympic Games in 1924 and 1928 both as a single runner and as a pair runner together with Ethel Muckelt . In pair skating, he was fourth and seventh there, and fifth and ninth as a single runner. At the World Championships in 1924 he was runner-up with Muckelt behind the Austrians Helene Engelmann and Alfred Berger . In the individual, he just missed the podium in fourth at this world championship. At the World Cup in Berlin in 1926 , Page won his only individual medal with bronze behind the Austrians Willy Böckl and Otto Preissecker . In a total of five individual appearances at world championships, he never placed worse than fifth, three times he was fourth. With eleven wins at the British Championships, he still holds the national record.

Results

Single run

Competition / year 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933
winter Olympics 5. 9.
World championships 4th 3. 5. 4th 4th
European championships 5. 4th
British Championships 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1.

Pair skating

(with Ethel Muckelt )

Competition / year 1924 1926 1928
winter Olympics 4th 7th
World championships 2. 6th 4th

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