Yngvar Bryn

Yngvar Bryn
nation	Norway
birthday	December 17, 1881
place of birth	Kristiansand
date of death	April 30, 1947
Place of death	Oslo
Career
discipline	Pair skating
Partner	Alexia Bryn
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 1 × 0 × World Cup medals 0 × 1 × 1 ×
Olympic games silver Antwerp 1920 Couples  World figure skating championships bronze Manchester 1912 Couples silver Kristiania 1923 Couples

Yngvar Bryn (born December 17, 1881 in Kristiansand , † April 30, 1947 in Oslo ) was a Norwegian figure skater who started in pair skating .

Career

Bryn began his athletic career as a track and field athlete. He took part in the competitions over 200 meters and 400 meters at the Olympic Games in 1900 , but was eliminated there in the preliminary run.

As a figure skater, Yngvar Bryn competed in pair skating with his wife Alexia Bryn . Together they were Norwegian champions from 1908 to 1913 and 1919 to 1922. In 1909, from 1912 to 1914 and from 1922 to 1923 they took part in world championships . They were able to win two medals. In 1912 in Manchester they won the bronze medal behind Phyllis Johnson and James H. Johnson from Great Britain and Ludowika Jakobsson-Eilers and Walter Jakobsson from Finland. Eleven years later, they were runner-up behind the Jakobssons from Finland in Kristiania . At the Olympic Games in Antwerp in 1920 , the Bryns had also won the silver medal behind the Finns.

Yngvar Bryn acted as a judge in the ice skating competitions of the 1932 Olympic Games in Lake Placid . He was also chairman of the Norwegian Skating Association from 1926 to 1927.

Results

Pair skating

(with Alexia Bryn )

Competition / year	1908	1909	1910	1911	1912	1913	1914	1915	1916	1917	1918	1919	1920	1921	1922	1923
Olympic games													2.
World championships		5.			3.	4th	5.								5.	2.
Norwegian championships	1.	1.	1.	1.	1.	1.						1.	1.	1.	1.

Web links

• Yngvar Bryn in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )