Figure skating at the 1920 Summer Olympics

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]

Figure skating at the VII Summer Olympics
Type:Olympic Games
Champions
Men's singles:
Gillis Grafström
Ladies' singles:
Magda Julin
Pair skating:
Ludowika Jakobsson / Walter Jakobsson
Previous:
1908 Summer Olympics
Next:
1924 Winter Olympics
Figure skating at the
1920 Summer Olympics
Singlesmenladies
Pairs mixed

Gillis Grafström of Sweden captured the first of three consecutive Olympic gold medals in the men's single event in 1920. 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]

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

Medal table
RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Sweden2103
2 Finland1001
3 Norway0213
4 Great Britain0011
 United States0011
Totals (5 nations)3339

Participating nations

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

References
  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)
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