Figure skating at the 1908 Summer Olympics – Men's singles

Men's singles figure skating at the Games of the IV Olympiad
Dates	October 28–29
Competitors	9 from 5 nations
Medalists
Ulrich Salchow   Sweden   Richard Johansson   Sweden   Per Thorén   Sweden

Figure skating at the 1908 Summer Olympics
Singles	men	ladies
Special figures	men
Pairs	mixed

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 in protest over what he considered unfair judging.

Results

Rank	Name	Nation	CF	FS	Total points	Places
1	Ulrich Salchow	Sweden	1	2	377.3	7
2	Richard Johansson	Sweden	4	1	365.2	10
3	Per Thorén	Sweden	6	3	357.4	14
4	J. Keiller Greig	Great Britain	5	4	310.9	19
5	Albert March	Great Britain	6	7	232.0	29
6	Irving Brokaw	United States	8	5	232.0	30
7	Horatio Torromé	Argentina	7	6	228.9	31
WD	Nikolai Panin	Russian Empire	2
WD	Herbert Yglesias	Great Britain	9

Referee:

• Herbert G. Fowler

Judges:

• Henning Grenander
• Edvard Hörle
• Gustav Hügel
• Georg Sanders
• Hermann Wendt

Sources

• Cook, Theodore Andrea (1908). The Fourth Olympiad, Being the Official Report. London: British Olympic Association.
• De Wael, Herman. Herman's Full Olympians: "Figure skating 1908". Accessed 2 May 2006. Available electronically at .