Walter Jakobsson


Walter Andreas Jakobsson was a Finnish figure skater, and the oldest figure skating Olympic champion. 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.
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, 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. His specialty was dark city scenes with special light effects like rain or mist.

Results

Pairs with Ludowika Jakobsson-Eilers

Men's singles