Figure skating at the 1924 Winter Olympics took place at the
Stade Olympique in
Chamonix, France, from 29 to 31 January 1924. Three
figure skating
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 m ...
events were contested: men's singles, ladies' singles, and pair skating.
This was not the first time that figure skating had been contested at the
Olympic Games
The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques) are the leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a vari ...
, as the sport had previously been included on the programme at the
1908 and
1920 Summer Olympics.
Gillis Grafström
Gillis Emanuel Grafström (7 June 1893 – 14 April 1938) was a Swedish figure skater. He was born in Stockholm, Sweden. He won three successive Olympic gold medals in Men's Figure Skating (1920, 1924, 1928) as well as an Olympic silver medal in ...
successfully defended his 1920 title.
At the
1924 Winter Olympics
The 1924 Winter Olympics, officially known as the I Olympic Winter Games (french: Iers Jeux olympiques d'hiver) and commonly known as Chamonix 1924 ( frp, Chamôni 1924), were a winter multi-sport event which was held in 1924 in Chamonix, Franc ...
, the figure skating events were held on a square rink rather than a rectangular one, as a last-minute change. Consequently, some competitors had difficulty adjusting their free skating programs to fit the ice surface.
["The Olympics: 1920, 1924, and 1928", ''Skating'' magazine, December 1959]
Medal summary
Medalists
Medal table
Only Austria was able to win more than one medal.
Participating nations
Eight figure skater competed in both the singles and the pairs event.
A total of 29 figure skaters (16 men and 13 ladies) from eleven nations (men from ten nations and ladies from eight nations) competed at the Chamonix Games:
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(men 2, women 2)
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(men 2, women 1)
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(men 1, women 1)
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(men 1, women 0)
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(men 1, women 1)
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(men 3, women 2)
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(men 3, women 3)
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(men 0, women 1)
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(men 1, women 0)
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(men 1, women 0)
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(men 1, women 2)
References
External links
International Olympic Committee results database
{{Figure skating at the Olympic Games
1924 Winter Olympics events
1924
Events
January
* January 12 – Gopinath Saha shoots Ernest Day, whom he has mistaken for Sir Charles Tegart, the police commissioner of Calcutta, and is arrested soon after.
* January 20– 30 – Kuomintang in China holds ...
1924 in figure skating
International figure skating competitions hosted by France