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The venue was the Prince's Skating Club, in the district of ], ]. The competion took place on October 28 and 29, 1908. The venue was the Prince's Skating Club, in the district of ], ]. The competion took place on October 28 and 29, 1908.

==Medal table== ==Medal table==
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! style="background: #CC9966" | ] Bronze
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| 2 || {{SWE}} || 1 || 1 || 1 || 3
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| 3 || ] ] || 1 || 1 || 0 || 2
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| 4 || {{RUS}} || 1 || 0 || 0 || 1
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{| class=wikitable
==Figure skating, Men==
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|- bgcolor="#efefef" |bgcolor=gold align=center| '''Gold'''
|bgcolor=silver align=center| '''Silver'''
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|bgcolor=cc9966 align=center| '''Bronze'''
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|'''Score'''
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| bgcolor="gold" | ] '''Gold'''
| ] ] (])
|377.3
|-
| bgcolor="silver" | ] '''Silver'''
| ] ] (])
|365.2
|-
| bgcolor="CC9966" | ] '''Bronze'''
| ] ] (])
|357.4
|-
| bgcolor="#efefef" | 4
| ] ] (])
|310.9
|-
| bgcolor="#efefef" | 5
| ] ] (])
|232.0
|-
| bgcolor="#efefef" | 6
| ] ] (])
|232.0
|-
| bgcolor="#efefef" | 7
| ] ] (])
|228.9
|-
|}


|- align=center
Sweden's Ulrich Salchow, who had won several ]s, easily won the gold medal after his main rival, Russia's ], withdrew in protest over what he considered unfair judging.
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|align=left| ] ]
| 1 || 2 || 3 || 6


|- align=center
===Figure skating special figures, Men===
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| 1 || 1 || 1 || 3
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| '''Athlete'''
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| ] ] (])
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|-
| bgcolor="silver" | ] '''Silver'''
| ] ] (])
|32.8
|-
| bgcolor="CC9966" | ] '''Bronze'''
| ] ] (])
|20.8
|-
|}
Gold medalist Nikolai Panin's real name was Nikolai Kolomenkin, but he competed under the pseudonym "Panin".


|- align=center
==Figure skating, Ladies==
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|align=left| ] ]
|- bgcolor="#efefef"
| 1 || 1 || 0 || 2
| '''Medal'''

| '''Athlete'''
|- align=center
|'''Score'''
|- | 4
|align=left| ] ]
| bgcolor="gold" | ] '''Gold'''
| 1 || 0 || 0 || 1
| ] ] (])

|252.5
|- bgcolor=lightgray
|-
| || || || || ||
| bgcolor="silver" | ] '''Silver'''

| ] ] (])
|- align=center
|211.0
|rowspan=2| —
|-
|align=left| ] ]
| bgcolor="CC9966" | ] '''Bronze'''
| 0 || 0 || 0 || 0
| ] ] (])

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|-
|align=left| ] ]
| bgcolor="#efefef" | 4
| 0 || 0 || 0 || 0
| ] ] (])
|170.3
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| bgcolor="#efefef" | 5
| ] ] (])
|164.0
|-
|} |}
Without rivals ] and ] present at the Olympics, Great Britain's Madge Syers easily won the gold medal.



==Figure skating, Pairs==
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| bgcolor="gold" | ] '''Gold'''
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| ] ] <br> Sweden
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| ] ] <br> Sweden
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| ]
| bgcolor="silver" | ] '''Silver'''
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| ] ] <br> ]
|10.30
| ] ] <br> Great Britain
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| ]
| bgcolor="CC9966" | ] '''Bronze'''
| ] ] and ] (]) | ] ] <br> Great Britain
| ] ] <br> ]
|9.60
| ] ] <br> Great Britain
|- |-
| ]
| ] Germany <hr> ] <br> ]
| ] Great Britain <hr> ] <br> ]
| ] Great Britain <hr> Madge Syers <br> ]
|} |}

Twelve years later, silver medalist ] would capture a bronze medal with a new partner at the ].
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Revision as of 21:23, 2 May 2006

At the 1908 Summer Olympics, four figure skating events were contested, and winter sports were introduced for the very first time.

The venue was the Prince's Skating Club, in the district of Knightsbridge, London. The competion took place on October 28 and 29, 1908.

Medal table

Position Nation Gold Silver Bronze
1 Great Britain Great Britain 1 2 3 6
2 Sweden Sweden 1 1 1 3
3 Germany Germany 1 1 0 2
4 Russia Russia 1 0 0 1
— Argentina Argentina 0 0 0 0
United States of America United States of America 0 0 0 0


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