1920 Summer Olympics / Figure Skating

Figure skating at the VII Summer Olympic Games
information
venue	Antwerp
Competition venue	Palais de Glace
Nations	8th
Athletes	26 (12 women, 14 men)
date	25-27 April 1920
decisions	3
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At the VII Summer Olympic Games in Antwerp in 1920 , three competitions were held in figure skating . The venue was the Palais de Glace .

Balance sheet

Medal table

space	country				total
1	Sweden	2	1	-	3
2	Finland	1	-	-	1
3	Norway	-	2	1	3
4th	United Kingdom	-	-	1	1
	United States	-	-	1	1

Medalist

competitor	gold	silver	bronze
Men's	Gillis Grafström	Andreas Krogh	Martin Stixrud
Ladies	Magda Julin	Svea Norén	Theresa Weld
Couples	Ludowika Jakobsson / Walter Jakobsson	Alexia Bryn / Yngvar Bryn	Phyllis Johnson / Basil Williams

Results

• B = rating
• K = freestyle
• P = compulsory

Men's

space	country	athlete	P	K	B.
1	SWE	Gillis Grafström	1	1	07.0
2	NOR	Andreas Krogh	3	3	18.0
3	NOR	Martin Stixrud	4th	2	24.5
4th	SWE	Ulrich Salchow	2	5	25.5
5	FIN	Sakari Ilmanen	5	4th	30.0
6th	United States	Nathaniel Niles	7th	6th	49.0
7th	GBR	Basil Williams	6th	9	49.5
8th	SUI	Alfred Megroz	8th	7th	52.5
9	GBR	Kenneth Beaumont	9	8th	59.0

Date: April 25-27, 1920

Nine men from six nations took part. The Swede Gillis Grafström won his first of three consecutive gold medals at the Olympic Games . The already 42-year-old ten-time world champion Ulrich Salchow , who won gold in the first figure skating competition at the Olympic Games in London in 1908 and thus competed as the defending champion twelve years later, just missed a medal with fourth place. The Norwegians Andreas Krogh and Martin Stixrud won silver and bronze respectively. At the age of 44, Stixrud is still the oldest male winner of an Olympic medal in an individual winter sport competition.

Ladies

space	country	sportswoman	P	K	B.
1	SWE	Magda Julin	1	4th	12.0
2	SWE	Svea Norén	2	3	12.5
3	United States	Theresa Weld	5	1	15.5
4th	GBR	Phyllis Johnson	3	5	18.5
5	NOR	Margot Moe	4th	6th	22.5
6th	NOR	Ingrid Gulbrandsen	6th	2	24.0

Date: April 25, 1920

Six women from four nations took part. The Swede Magda Julin surprisingly won gold in front of her compatriot Svea Norén and the US-American Theresa Weld . Julin was four months pregnant at the time. 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, but this was to use it under the prevailing anti-German sentiment prohibited.

The bronze winner Theresa Weld was the first athlete who did not come from Europe to win an Olympic medal in figure skating. At these games she was the first woman to show a Salchow . For this, however, she was reprimanded, because this was regarded as unladylike and punished with deductions by some judges. Nevertheless, she won the freestyle.

The two-time Olympic medalist in pair skating, the British Phyllis Johnson , came fourth in her only Olympic single run .

Couples

space	country	Pair	B.
1	FIN	Ludowika Jakobsson / Walter Jakobsson	07.0
2	NOR	Alexia Bryn / Yngvar Bryn	15.5
3	GBR	Phyllis Johnson / Basil Williams	25.0
4th	United States	Theresa Weld / Nathaniel Niles	28.5
5	GBR	Ethel Muckelt / Sydney Wallwork	34.0
6th	BEL	Georgette Herbos / Georges Wagemans	41.5
7th	FRA	Simone Sabouret / Charles Sabouret	45.5
8th	GBR	Madeleine Beaumont / Kenneth Beaumont	55.0

Date: April 26, 1920

Eight couples from six nations took part. The favorites Ludowika Jakobsson and Walter Jakobsson , who represented Finland, won gold ahead of Alexia Bryn and Yngvar Bryn from Norway and Phyllis Johnson and Basil Williams from Great Britain. For Phyllis Johnson it was her second Olympic medal after winning the silver medal with her then partner James H. Johnson in 1908 .

Web links

• Figure skating at the 1920 Summer Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )