Figure skating at the 1920 Summer Olympics

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Type:	Olympic Games
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	Men's singles: ; Gillis Grafström
	Ladies' singles: ; Magda Julin
	Pairs: ; Ludowika Jakobsson / Walter Jakobsson
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Three figure skating events were contested at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, but they were held in April 1920, four months before most of the other Olympic events at the 1920 Games. The figure skating competition took place at the Ice Palace of Antwerp.^[1]

Gillis Grafström of Sweden captured the first of three consecutive Olympic gold medals in the men's single event in 1920. Theresa Weld, who came in third place in the ladies' single event, was the first North American skater to win an Olympic medal. 1908 gold medalist Ulrich Salchow finished fourth. At age 44, bronze medalist Martin Stixrud is the oldest man to ever win an Olympic medal in an individual winter event.^[2]^[3]

Despite receiving no first place votes from the judges in the women's singles, Magda Julin of Sweden captured the gold on the strength of three second-place ordinals. She was three months pregnant at the time.

Bronze medalist Phyllis Johnson from the UK had captured the silver medal at the 1908 Olympics with a different partner.

Medal summary

Medalists

Source:^[3]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's singles details	Gillis Grafström Sweden	Andreas Krogh Norway	Martin Stixrud Norway
Ladies' singles details	Magda Mauroy-Julin Sweden	Svea Norén Sweden	Theresa Weld United States
Pair skating details	Ludowika Jakobsson and Walter Jakobsson Finland	Alexia Bryn and Yngvar Bryn Norway	Phyllis Johnson and Basil Williams Great Britain

Medal table

Participating nations

A total of 26 figure skaters, 14 men and 12 women, from eight nations competed at the Antwerp Games:

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France competed at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium. 304 competitors, 296 men and 8 women, took part in 113 events in 23 sports.

Great Britain, represented by the British Olympic Association (BOA), competed at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium. 234 competitors, 218 men and 16 women, took part in 84 events in 21 sports. British athletes won fourteen gold medals and 43 medals overall, finishing third. It would be the last Olympic Games in which Irish athletes participated for Great Britain, after foundation of Irish Free State in 1922.

Sweden competed at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium. 260 competitors, 247 men and 13 women, took part in 100 events in 18 sports.

The United States competed at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium. 288 competitors, 274 men and 14 women, took part in 113 events in 18 sports.

Norway competed at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium. 194 competitors, 188 men and 6 women, took part in 72 events in 16 sports.

Switzerland competed at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium. 77 competitors, all men, took part in 45 events in 13 sports.

The Netherlands competed at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium. 130 competitors, 129 men and 1 woman, took part in 58 events in 15 sports.

Denmark competed at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium. 154 competitors, 150 men and 4 women, took part in 66 events in 14 sports.

Spain competed at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium. It was only the second appearance of the nation at the Summer Games, after competing in the 1900 Summer Olympics, but missing the Games in 1904, 1908, and 1912. 58 competitors, all men, took part in 29 events in 7 sports.

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References

↑ "Figure Skating at the 1920 Summer Olympics". Olympedia. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
↑ "International Olympic Committee Factsheet: Records and Medals: Games of the Olympiad" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 August 2009. (167 KB)
1 2 Hines, James R. (2011). Historical Dictionary of Figure Skating. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press. p. xxii. ISBN 978-0-8108-6859-5.

External links

"Official Olympic Reports: 1920 Antwerp" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 May 2011. (951 KB)
Skatabase: Men's Results
Skatabase: Ladies Results
Skatabase: Pairs Results

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[1] "Figure Skating at the 1920 Summer Olympics". Olympedia. Retrieved 1 July 2020.

[2] "International Olympic Committee Factsheet: Records and Medals: Games of the Olympiad" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 August 2009. (167 KB)

[hines-xxi-3] 1 2 Hines, James R. (2011). Historical Dictionary of Figure Skating. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press. p. xxii. ISBN 978-0-8108-6859-5.

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v t e Figure skating at the Olympic Games
Summer	1908 1920
Winter	1924 1928 1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022
List of venues

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Sweden	2	1	0	3
2	Finland	1	0	0	1
3	Norway	0	2	1	3
4	Great Britain	0	0	1	1
4	United States	0	0	1	1
Totals (5 entries)		3	3	3	9