Walter Jakobsson
| Walter Jakobsson | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Ludowika and Walter Jakobsson | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 6 February 1882 Helsinki, Finland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 10 June 1957 (aged 75) Zürich, Switzerland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 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
[edit]Pairs with Ludowika Jakobsson-Eilers
[edit]| 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
[edit]| Event | 1910 | 1911 |
|---|---|---|
| Finnish Championships | 1st | 1st |
References
[edit]- ^ 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
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- Walter Jakobsson at Olympics.com
- Walter Jakobsson at Olympiakomitea.fi (in Finnish)
- 1882 births
- 1957 deaths
- Finnish pair skaters
- Olympic figure skaters for Finland
- Figure skaters at the 1920 Summer Olympics
- Figure skaters at the 1924 Winter Olympics
- Figure skaters at the 1928 Winter Olympics
- Figure skaters from Helsinki
- Olympic gold medalists for Finland
- Olympic silver medalists for Finland
- Olympic medalists in figure skating
- World Figure Skating Championships medalists
- Medalists at the 1924 Winter Olympics
- Medalists at the 1920 Summer Olympics