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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
1920 →

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. 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.

Medal summary

Medalists

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	Madge Syers  Great Britain	Elsa Rendschmidt  Germany	Dorothy Greenhough-Smith  Great Britain
Pair skating	Anna Hübler / Heinrich Burger  Germany	Phyllis Johnson / James H. Johnson  Great Britain	Madge Syers / 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 entries)		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)

References

• Cook, Theodore Andrea (1908). The Fourth Olympiad, Being the Official Report (PDF). London: British Olympic Association. pp. 284–295. Retrieved 4 April 2014. (courtesy LA84 Foundation Sports Library)
• "London 1908 Figure Skating". Olympic.org. International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 4 April 2014.
• "Figure Skating at the 1908 London Summer Games". SR/Olympic Sports. Sports Reference. Retrieved 4 April 2014.
• "Results of the Olympic Winter Games". Memories of the Olympic Winter Games. Retrieved 4 April 2014.

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