Ludowika Jakobsson

Ludowika Jakobsson
Full name	Ludowika Antje Margareta Jakobsson-Eilers
nation	German Empire Grand Duchy of Finland Finland
birthday	July 25, 1884
place of birth	Potsdam
date of death	1st November 1968
Place of death	Helsinki
Career
discipline	Single run, pair run
Partner	Walter Jakobsson
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 1 × 0 × World Cup medals 3 × 4 × 1 ×
Olympic games gold Antwerp 1920 Couples  winter Olympics silver Chamonix 1924 Couples  World figure skating championships silver Berlin 1910 Couples gold Vienna 1911 Couples bronze Vienna 1911 Ladies silver Manchester 1912 Couples silver Stockholm 1913 Couples gold St. Moritz 1914 Couples silver Davos 1922 Couples gold Kristiania 1923 Couples

Ludowika Antje Margareta Jakobsson , b. Eilers (born July 25, 1884 in Potsdam , † November 1, 1968 in Helsinki ), was a German - Finnish figure skater who started in single and pair skating .

Career

Ludowika Eilers met her Finnish skating partner Walter Jakobsson in 1907 when he was studying engineering in Berlin . They married in 1911. Half of the medals the couple won at the World Championships in 1910 and 1911 are still counted by the ISU for Germany and the other half for Finland. The couple became world champions in 1911 , 1914 and 1923 and vice-world champions in 1910 , 1912 , 1913 and 1922 . At the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp , in which Jakobsson was the only participant born in Germany because German athletes were excluded as a result of the First World War , she won the gold medal in the couples competition with her husband. At the Olympic Games in Chamonix in 1924 , they won the silver medal behind Helene Engelmann and Alfred Berger . The couple took part in the Olympic Games one last time in 1928 , but it was no longer enough for a medal - they finished fifth.

Ludowika Jakobsson-Eilers was also successful in the individual run. At the World Cup in Vienna in 1911, she started for Germany and won the bronze medal behind the Hungarians Lily Kronberger and Opika von Méray Horváth . However, only three athletes were at the start. At the following World Cup she was seventh and last. It was her last appearance in a single run at a world championship . In 1917 she became the first Finnish female figure skating champion. In 1911 she had already become the first Finnish champion in pair skating with Walter Jakobsson, which the couple repeated in 1921.

Ludowika and Walter Jakobsson moved from Berlin to Helsinki in 1916, where Walter worked as technical director at Kone OY (now Konecranes ), one of the largest manufacturers of cranes in the world. Ludowika appeared in a few Finnish silent films in her twenties .

Results

Single run

Competition / year	1911	1912	1917
World championships	3.	7th
Finnish championships			1.

Pair skating

(with Walter Jakobsson )

Competition / year	1910	1911	1912	1913	1914	1920	1921	1922	1923	1924	1928
Olympic games						1.				2.	5.
World championships	2.	1.	2.	2.	1.			2.	1.
Finnish championships		1.					1.

Web links

• Ludowika Jakobsson in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )