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Karl Emil Julius Ulrich Salchow (7 August 1877 – 19 April 1949) was a Danish-born Swedish figure skater, who dominated the sport in the first decade of the 20th century. [1] Salchow won the World Figure Skating Championships ten times, from 1901 to 1905, and from 1907 to 1911. [2] This is still a record, which he shares with Sonja Henie who ...
Ulrich Salchow. The Salchow jump is an edge jump in figure skating. It was named after its inventor, Ulrich Salchow, in 1909. The Salchow is accomplished with a takeoff from the back inside edge of one foot and a landing on the back outside edge of the opposite foot. It is "usually the first jump that skaters learn to double, and the first or ...
e. Ulrich Salchow is the most decorated figure skater at the World Championships with ten gold medals and three silver medals. The World Figure Skating Championships are an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union. Medals are awarded in men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dance.
The Salchow jump is an edge jump. It was named after its inventor, Ulrich Salchow, in 1909. [35] [43] The Salchow is accomplished with a takeoff from the back inside edge of one foot and a landing on the back outside edge of the opposite foot. [35] It is "usually the first jump that skaters learn to double, and the first or second to triple". [44]
The men's singles was one of four events in figure skating at the 1908 Summer Olympics. Each nation could enter up to 3 skaters. Sweden's Ulrich Salchow, who had won several World Figure Skating Championships, easily won the gold medal after his main rival, Russia's Nikolai Panin, withdrew either in protest over what he considered unfair judging or due to illness.
After the competition, the winner, Ulrich Salchow, delighted with Syers, presented her with the gold medal he had just won. [2] At the time, the International Skating Union rules did not specify that only men are allowed to participate. In the following year, rules were changed and separate championships for females and males were introduced.
Ulrich Salchow from Sweden has won the most gold medals in the men's singles (at nine). [3] The record for most back-to-back titles is held by Austrian Karl Schäfer with eight gold medals. [4] Salchow and Schäfer also share the record for the most total medals won with Brian Joubert from France and Evgeni Plushenko from Russia (with ten ...
The 1903 World Figure Skating Championship was 8th edition of World figure Skating Championship, an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union in which figure skaters compete for the title of World Champion. The competition took place from February 20 to 21 at the Yusupovsky Garden in Saint Petersburg ...