Grafström followed the footsteps of countryman Ulrich Salchow, the first Olympic champion and creator of the jump bearing his name, who later became president of the International Skating Union (ISU). He is the only man to have won three consecutive singles gold medals, and one of five sportspeople to win medals at both the Summer and Winter Olympics. Swedish figure skater Gillis Grafström-who competed in four consecutive Olympics, from the 1920 Summer Games to the 1932 Winter Games-is the overall medal leader in the sport, having collected four medals. Once a demonstration event at Grenoble 1968, ice dancing has been an official medal-awarding Olympic figure skating event since it was introduced in 1976. He remains the event's sole winner, as it was subsequently dropped from the program. The special figures contest was won by Russian Nikolai Panin, who gave his country its first ever Olympic gold medal. In London, figure skating was presented in four events: men's singles, women's singles, men's special figures, and mixed pairs. It was featured a second time at the Antwerp Games, after which it was permanently transferred to the program of the Winter Olympic Games, first held in 1924 in Chamonix, France. As this traditional winter sport could be conducted indoors, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) approved its inclusion in the Summer Olympics program. As with Olympics Wiki, the text of Wikipedia is available under the GNU Free Documentation License.įigure skating was first contested as an Olympic sport at the 1908 Summer Olympics, in London, United Kingdom. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. The original article was at List of Olympic medalists in figure skating.
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