Magda Julin was the daughter of the French music producer Edouard Mauroy . She came to Sweden with her family at the age of seven.
Julin became the Swedish female figure skating champion in 1911, 1916 and 1918. She only took part in one world championship , namely in 1913 in her native Stockholm . There she finished sixth and was only the third best Swede. Seven years later she surprisingly won the gold medal at the Olympic Games in Antwerp in front of her compatriot Svea Norén and the American Theresa Weld . It was the only time in Olympic history that an Olympic figure skating champion was not placed first by any judge. Julin had to change her planned music shortly before the freestyle. She had to waltz The Blue Danube by Johann Strauss trained, the use of this piece, however, was her prohibited by prevailing anti-German sentiment.
Magda Julin was four months pregnant when she won the Olympics. She had two sons and spent her final years in a nursing home in Stockholm. In April 1990 she was on the ice for the last time at the inauguration of an ice rink in Östersund at the age of 95.