Ludowika Jakobsson

Ludowika Jakobsson

Ludowika and Walter Jakobsson
Personal information
Born	(1884-07-25)25 July 1884 Potsdam, German Empire
Died	1 November 1968(1968-11-01) (aged 84) Helsinki, Finland
Figure skating career
Country	German Empire Finland
Retired	1928
Medal record Representing German Empire Ladies' Figure skating World Championships 1911 Vienna Ladies' singles Pairs Figure skating World Championships 1911 Vienna Pairs 1910 Berlin Pairs Representing  Finland Pairs Figure skating Olympic Games 1924 Chamonix Pairs 1920 Antwerp Pairs World Championships 1923 Oslo Pairs 1922 Davos Pairs 1914 St. Moritz Pairs 1913 Stockholm Pairs 1912 Manchester Pairs

Ludovika Antje Margareta Jakobsson-Eilers (née Eilers, 25 July 1884 – 1 November 1968) was a German-Finnish figure skater.^[1] Competing in pair skating with her husband Walter Jakobsson, she won the gold medal at the 1920 Summer Olympics, where she was the only German-born athlete, and became the oldest female figure skating Olympic champion. The pair also earned three world titles, in 1911, 1914 and 1923, and finished second and fifth at the 1924 and 1928 Olympics, respectively. Eilers also had some success in single skating, winning a bronze medal at the 1911 World Championships.^[2]

Eilers met Jakobsson in 1907 while he was studying engineering in Berlin. They began competing together in 1910 and married in 1911; hence the International Skating Union counts their 1910–1911 medals as half-German, half-Finnish, and those after 1911 as Finnish. The couple lived in Berlin until 1916, when they moved to Helsinki. There Walter got a job of technical director with Konecranes, a leading manufacturer of cranes, while Ludovika starred in a few Finnish silent films.^[2]

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