Figure skating at the 1908 Summer Olympics

Figure Skating at the Games of the IV Olympiad
Venue	Prince's Skating Club London, United Kingdom
Dates	28–29 October 1908
Competitors	21 from 6 nations
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Figure skating at the 1908 Summer Olympics
Singles	men	ladies
Special figures	men
Pairs	mixed
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Four figure skating events were contested at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London, but they were held in October 1908, six months after most of the other Olympic events at the 1908 Games. The figure skating competition took place at the Prince's Skating Club, in the district of Knightsbridge. It was the first time that a winter sport had ever been included in the Olympic Games, sixteen years before the first Winter Olympics in Chamonix. The number of competitors was very low, with two events having only three entrants, guaranteeing a medal for participation.^[1]

Medal summary[]

Medalists[]

The German gold medal winners in pair skating, Anna Hübler and Heinrich Burger

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's singles details	Ulrich Salchow  Sweden	Richard Johansson  Sweden	Per Thorén  Sweden
Men's special figures details	Nikolai Panin  Russian Empire	Arthur Cumming  Great Britain	Geoffrey Hall-Say  Great Britain
Ladies' singles details	Madge Syers  Great Britain	Elsa Rendschmidt  Germany	Dorothy Greenhough-Smith  Great Britain
Pairs details	Anna Hübler and Heinrich Burger  Germany	Phyllis Johnson and James H. Johnson  Great Britain	Madge Syers and Edgar Syers  Great Britain

Medal table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Great Britain	1	2	3	6
2	Sweden	1	1	1	3
3	Germany	1	1	0	2
4	Russian Empire	1	0	0	1
Totals (4 nations)		4	4	4	12

Participating nations[]

21 figure skaters from 6 nations competed.

•  Argentina (1)
•  Germany (3)
•  Great Britain (11)
•  Russian Empire (1)
•  Sweden (4)
•  United States (1)

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Sources[]

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