Walter Jakobsson
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Walter Andreas Jakobsson, (born February 6, 1882 in Helsingfors (Helsinki), Finland; died July 10, 1957 in Helsinki, Finland) was a Finnish figure skater, who became 1920 Olympic Champion in pairs, and is three-time World champion together with his skating partner and wife Ludowika Jakobsson-Eilers.
Walter Jakobsson skated in pairs together with Ludowika Eilers, who was born in Germany. They married each other in 1911.
He was also amateur photographer and member of the "Fotografiamatörklubben i Helsingfors" (Helsinki Amateur photography Club, FiH). His specialty were dark city photographs with special light effects like rain or mist.
Walter Jakobsson was an engineer.
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[edit] Results with Ludowika Jakobsson-Eilers
[edit] Olympic Winter Games
[edit] World Championships
- 1910 - 2nd place
- 1911 - 1st place
- 1912 - 2nd place
- 1913 - 2nd place
- 1914 - 1st place
- 1922 - 2nd place
- 1923 - 1st place
[edit] Navigation
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1908: Anna Hübler & Heinrich Burger | 1920: Ludowika Jakobsson & Walter Jakobsson | 1924: Helene Engelmann & Alfred Berger | 1928: Andrée Joly & Pierre Brunet | 1932: Andrée Brunet & Pierre Brunet | 1936: Maxi Herber & Ernst Baier | 1948: Micheline Lannoy & Pierre Baugniet | 1952: Ria Baran & Paul Falk | 1956: Elisabeth Schwartz & Kurt Oppelt | 1960: Barbara Wagner & Robert Paul | 1964: Ludmila Belousova & Oleg Protopopov | 1968: Ludmila Belousova & Oleg Protopopov | 1972: Irina Rodnina & Alexei Ulanov | 1976: Irina Rodnina & Alexander Zaitsev | 1980: Irina Rodnina & Alexander Zaitsev | 1984: Elena Valova & Oleg Vasiliev | 1988: Ekaterina Gordeeva & Sergei Grinkov | 1992: Natalia Mishkutenok & Artur Dmitriev | 1994: Ekaterina Gordeeva & Sergei Grinkov | 1998: Oksana Kazakova & Artur Dmitriev | 2002: Yelena Berezhnaya & Anton Sikharulidze and Jamie Salé & David Pelletier | 2006: Tatiana Totmianina & Maxim Marinin |
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