Walter Jakobsson
Walter Jakobsson | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ludowika and Walter Jakobsson | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1882-02-06)6 February 1882 Helsinki, Finland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 10 June 1957(1957-06-10) (aged 75) Zürich, Switzerland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Figure skating career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Country | Finland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Retired | 1928 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Walter Andreas Jakobsson (6 February 1882 – 10 June 1957) was a Finnish figure skater, and the oldest figure skating Olympic champion (at age 38). As a single skater, he won the Finnish national championship in 1910 and 1911. In 1910, he partnered with German figure skater Ludowika Eilers. As pairs skaters, they won the World Championship in 1911, 1914, and 1923, and the Olympic gold in 1920. They finished second at the 1924 Olympics and fifth in 1928.[1]
Jakobsson studied engineering in Berlin, where he met Eilers in 1907. They married in 1911, and in 1916 moved to Helsinki, where Jakobsson got a job of the technical director of Kone OY (now Konecranes), a leading manufacturers of cranes. He held that post until retiring in 1947. He was also an amateur photographer and member of the Fotografiamatörklubben i Helsingfors (Helsinki Amateur photography Club). His specialty was dark city scenes with special light effects like rain or mist.[2]
Results
Pairs with Ludowika Jakobsson-Eilers
Event | 1910 | 1911 | 1912 | 1913 | 1914 | 1919 | 1920 | 1921 | 1922 | 1923 | 1924 | 1928 |
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Winter Olympics | 1st | 2nd | 5th | |||||||||
World Championships | 2nd | 1st | 2nd | 2nd | 1st | 2nd | 1st | |||||
Nordic Championships | 1st | 1st | ||||||||||
Finnish Championships | 1st | 1st |
Men's singles
Event | 1910 | 1911 |
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Finnish Championships | 1st | 1st |
References
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Walter Jakobsson". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 4 December 2016.
- ^ "Walter Jakobsson". Olympedia. Retrieved 13 August 2021.
External links
- Walter Jakobsson at Olympics.com
- Walter Jakobsson at Olympiakomitea.fi (in Finnish)
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- 1908: Anna Hübler / Heinrich Burger (GER)
- 1920: Ludowika Jakobsson / Walter Jakobsson (FIN)
- 1924: Helene Engelmann / Alfred Berger (AUT)
- 1928: Andrée Joly / Pierre Brunet (FRA)
- 1932: Andrée Brunet / Pierre Brunet (FRA)
- 1936: Maxi Herber / Ernst Baier (GER)
- 1948: Micheline Lannoy / Pierre Baugniet (BEL)
- 1952: Ria Baran / Paul Falk (GER)
- 1956: Sissy Schwarz / Kurt Oppelt (AUT)
- 1960: Barbara Wagner / Robert Paul (CAN)
- 1964: Ludmila Belousova / Oleg Protopopov (URS)
- 1968: Ludmila Belousova / Oleg Protopopov (URS)
- 1972: Irina Rodnina / Alexei Ulanov (URS)
- 1976: Irina Rodnina / Alexander Zaitsev (URS)
- 1980: Irina Rodnina / Alexander Zaitsev (URS)
- 1984: Elena Valova / Oleg Vasiliev (URS)
- 1988: Ekaterina Gordeeva / Sergei Grinkov (URS)
- 1992: Natalia Mishkutionok / Artur Dmitriev (EUN)
- 1994: Ekaterina Gordeeva / Sergei Grinkov (RUS)
- 1998: Oksana Kazakova / Artur Dmitriev (RUS)
- 2002: Elena Berezhnaya / Anton Sikharulidze (RUS)
2002: Jamie Salé / David Pelletier (CAN) - 2006: Tatiana Totmianina / Maxim Marinin (RUS)
- 2010: Shen Xue / Zhao Hongbo (CHN)
- 2014: Tatiana Volosozhar / Maxim Trankov (RUS)
- 2018: Aljona Savchenko / Bruno Massot (GER)
- 2022: Sui Wenjing / Han Cong (CHN)