Figure skating at the 1936 Winter Olympics

Figure skating at the IV Winter Olympics
Type:	Olympic Games
Champions
Men's singles: Karl Schäfer
Ladies' singles: Sonja Henie
Pair skating: Maxi Herber / Ernst Baier
Previous: 1932 Winter Olympics
Next: 1948 Winter Olympics

Figure skating at the 1936 Winter Olympics
Singles	men	ladies
Pairs	mixed

Figure skating at the 1936 Winter Olympics took place at the Olympia-Kunsteisstadion in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria, from 9 to 15 February 1936. Three figure skating events were contested: men's singles, ladies' singles, and pair skating.^[1]

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's singles	Karl Schäfer Austria	Ernst Baier Germany	Felix Kaspar Austria
Ladies' singles	Sonja Henie Norway	Cecilia Colledge Great Britain	Vivi-Anne Hultén Sweden
Pairs skating	Maxi Herber and Ernst Baier Germany	Ilse Pausin and Erik Pausin Austria	Emília Rotter and László Szollás Hungary

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Austria	1	1	1	3
2	Germany	1	1	0	2
3	Norway	1	0	0	1
4	Great Britain	0	1	0	1
5	Hungary	0	0	1	1
	Sweden	0	0	1	1
Totals (6 nations)		3	3	3	9

Participating nations

Only three figure skaters (two men and one lady) competed in both the singles and the pairs event.

A total of 84 figure skaters (41 men and 43 ladies) from 17 nations (men from 16 nations and ladies from 16 nations) competed at the Garmisch-Partenkirchen Games:

• Austria (12) (men 6, women 6)
• Belgium (4) (men 1, women 3)
• Canada (6) (men 3, women 3)
• Czechoslovakia (3) (men 1, women 2)
• Estonia (2) (men 1, women 1)
• Finland (1) (men 1, women 0)
• Germany (7) (men 3, women 4)
• Great Britain (12) (men 6, women 6)
• Hungary (7) (men 4, women 3)
• Italy (2) (men 1, women 1)
• Japan (5) (men 4, women 1)
• Latvia (4) (men 2, women 2)
• Norway (4) (men 1, women 3)
• Romania (3) (men 2, women 1)
• Sweden (1) (men 0, women 1)
• Switzerland (2) (men 1, women 1)
• United States (9) (men 4, women 5)

References

External links

• International Olympic Committee results database