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	] and the ] had skaters compete, but won no medals.		] and the ] had skaters compete, but won no medals.

			==References==
			* {{cite book \| last = Cook \| first = Theodore Andrea \| year = 1908 \| title = The Fourth Olympiad, Being the Official Report \| publisher = British Olympic Association \| location = London}}
			* De Wael, Herman. ''Herman's Full Olympians'': "Figure skating 1908". Accessed ] ]. Available electronically at .
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At the 1908 Summer Olympics in London, four figure skating events were contested. This took place at the Prince's Skating Club, in the district of Knightsbridge. It was the first time that a type of winter sport was ever introduced in the Olympic Games, 16 years before the first Winter Olympics in Chamonix.

The competition took place on October 28 and 29, 1908.

No event had more than 7 competitors, with 2 having only 3 entrants.

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

Argentina and the United States had skaters compete, but won no medals.

Cook, Theodore Andrea (1908). The Fourth Olympiad, Being the Official Report. London: British Olympic Association.
De Wael, Herman. Herman's Full Olympians: "Figure skating 1908". Accessed 2 May 2006. Available electronically at .

Figure skating at the 1908 Summer Olympics

Singles	men	ladies
Special figures	men
Pairs	mixed
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v t e Events at the 1908 Summer Olympics (London)
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