Magda Julin (née ''Mauroy'', 24 July 1894 – 21 December 1990) was a Swedish
figure skater
Figure skating is a sport in which individuals, pairs, or groups perform on figure skates on ice. It was the first winter sport to be included in the Olympic Games, when contested at the 1908 Olympics in London. The Olympic disciplines are me ...
who competed in ladies' singles.
She was the
1920 Olympic champion, a two-time
Nordic champion, and a three-time
Swedish national champion. She was four months pregnant at the 1920 Olympics.
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Life and career
Julin was a daughter of the French music producer Edouard Mauroy. The family moved to Sweden when she was 7 years old. She worked as a waitress and later ran a café and then a restaurant until 1971. She was married to the sea captain F. E. Julin, who was 15 years older. She had two sons and spent her last years in a nursing home in Stockholm. At the age of 90, she continued to skate at the public open air ice rink in Kungsträdgården
Kungsträdgården (Swedish language, Swedish for "King's Garden") is a park in central Stockholm, Sweden. It is colloquially known as ''Kungsan''.
The park's central location and its outdoor cafés makes it one of the most popular hangouts ...
in central Stockholm. She participated in the inauguration of an ice rink in Östersund
Östersund (; sma, Staare) is an urban area (city) in Jämtland in the middle of Sweden. It is the seat of Östersund Municipality and the capital of Jämtland County. Östersund is located at the shores of Sweden's fifth-largest lake, Storsjön, ...
in autumn 1990.[
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People from Vichy
1894 births
1990 deaths
Swedish female single skaters
Figure skaters at the 1920 Summer Olympics
Olympic gold medalists for Sweden
Olympic figure skaters of Sweden
Olympic medalists in figure skating
French emigrants to Sweden
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Medalists at the 1920 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Allier
20th-century Swedish women