1924 European Figure Skating Championships
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The 1924 European Figure Skating Championships were the European Figure Skating Championships
of the 1923-1924 season. Elite senior-level figure skaters from European ISU Member Nations competed for the title of European Champion. Skaters competed in the discipline of men's singles
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In 1924, the European Championships were held in Davos
, Switzerland
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European Figure Skating Championships
The European Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition in which figure skaters compete for the title of European Champion...
of the 1923-1924 season. Elite senior-level figure skaters from European ISU Member Nations competed for the title of European Champion. Skaters competed in the discipline of men's singles
Single skating
Single skating is a discipline of figure skating, wherein a single person skates alone. Men's singles and ladies' singles are both Olympic disciplines and are both governed by the International Skating Union. The other Olympic figure skating events are pair skating and ice dancing...
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In 1924, the European Championships were held in Davos
Davos
Davos is a municipality in the district of Prättigau/Davos in the canton of Graubünden, Switzerland. It has a permanent population of 11,248 . Davos is located on the Landwasser River, in the Swiss Alps, between the Plessur and Albula Range...
, Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
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Men
| Rank | Name | Nation |
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| 1 | Fritz Kachler Fritz Kachler Fritz Kachler was an Austrian figure skater. He was the 1912, 1913, and 1923 World champion and the 1914 & 1924 European champion.He did not believe that sport and nationalism should be mixed and therefore chose not to participate in the Olympic Games of 1920 and 1924.A mechanical engineer, he rose... |
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| 2 | Ludwig Wrede Ludwig Wrede Ludwig Wrede was an Austrian figure skater in both pairs and singles skating.He competed with Herma Szabo and won the World Championships in 1925 and 1927. They won the bronze in 1926. After Szabo retired, Wrede competed with Melitta Brunner, with whom he won the bronze medal at the 1928 Winter... |
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| 3 | Werner Rittberger Werner Rittberger Werner Rittberger was a German figure skater.Rittberger invented the Loop jump in 1910... |
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| 4 | Otto Preißecker Otto Preißecker Otto Preißecker also Preissecker was an Austrian figure skater. He was the 1926-1928 national champion. He also skated in pairs with partner Gisela Hochhaltinger.-singles:-pairs:... |
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| 5 | John Page | |
| 6 | Paul Franke Paul Franke Paul Walter Franke was an American operatic tenor who specialized in the comprimario repertoire... |
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| 7 | Georges Gautschi Georges Gautschi Georges Harold Roger Gautschi was a Swiss figure skater. He won the bronze medal in men's singles at age nineteen at the 1924 Chamonix Olympics. He went on to come in third at the 1926 European Figure Skating Championships and then came in second in 1929... |
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| 8 | Artur Vieregg Artur Vieregg Artur Vieregg was a German figure skater. After his skating career he continued to work also as a figure skating judge. He was lecturer at the “German College for Physical Exercises” in Berlin.... |
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| 9 | Fritz Schober | |