Phyllis Johnson

This article describes the British figure skater. For the US zoologist, see Phyllis T. Johnson

Phyllis Johnson
Full name	Phyllis Wyatt Johnson
nation	United Kingdom
birthday	December 8, 1886
place of birth	Royal Tunbridge Wells
date of death	2nd December 1967
Career
discipline	Single run, pair run
Partner	James H. Johnson, Basil Williams
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 1 × 1 × World Cup medals 2 × 2 × 3 ×
Olympic games silver London 1908 Couples bronze Antwerp 1920 Couples  World figure skating championships silver Saint Petersburg 1908 Couples gold Stockholm 1909 Couples bronze Berlin 1910 Couples gold Manchester 1912 Couples bronze Davos 1912 Ladies silver Stockholm 1913 Ladies bronze St. Moritz 1914 Ladies

Phyllis Wyatt Johnson (born December 8, 1886 in Royal Tunbridge Wells , † December 2, 1967 ) was a British figure skater who started in single and pair skating .

In 1904, at the age of 18, Phyllis Squire married the mine owner James H. Johnson , who was ten years her senior. Together they won the silver medal in pair skating at the Olympic Games in London in 1908 behind Anna Hübler and Heinrich Burger and ahead of their compatriots Madge Syers and Edgar Syers . In the same year they also became vice world champions behind the Germans. At the World Cup in Stockholm in 1909 they were finally world champions , which they succeeded again in Manchester in 1912 . In 1910 they won bronze in Berlin. Due to the health of her partner, she had to look for a new figure skating partner and found him in Basil Williams . With him she won the bronze medal at the Olympic Games in Antwerp in 1920 . It was the first time in figure skating history that someone with two different partners could win a medal.

Johnson was also successful in the individual run. At the World Championships in Stockholm in 1913 she was runner-up behind Opika by Méray Horváth . In 1912 and 1914 she won bronze. In her only single run at the Olympic Games, she failed to win a medal in fourth place in 1920 . In 1921 she was also British champion, but in the men's competition, as there was no women's competition of its own.

Results

Single run

Competition / year	1912	1913	1914	1920	1921
Olympic games				4th
World championships	3.	2.	3.
British Championships					1.*

(*) In the men's competition, as there was no women's competition yet

Pair skating

(with James H. Johnson )

Competition / year	1908	1909	1910	1912
Olympic games	2.
World championships	2.	1.	3.	1.

(with Basil Williams )

Competition / year	1920
Olympic games	3.

Web links

• Phyllis Johnson in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Great Olympians Biographies