The Olympic figure skating championship was held at St. Moritz in Feb. 1928. The figure skating for men was won by G. Graf strom (Sweden) for the third time, W. Bockl (Austria) being second and Van Zeebroeck (Belgium) third. The ladies' event fell to Froken Sonja Henie (Norway), Fraulein Fritzi Burger (Austria) being second, and Miss Beatrix Loughran (United States) third. The pair skating was won by the French pair, Mlle. Andree Joly and Monsieur Pierre Brunet, Fraulein Lilli Scholz and Herr Otto Kaiser (Austria) being second, and Fraulein Melitta Brunner and Herr Ludwig Wrede (Austria) third. In 1932 Froken Henie of Norway again won the women's meet and Karl Schaefer of Austria won the men's event; M. and Mme. Pierre Brunet, the French pair, won the double contest.
The figure skating championship of the world for ladies and the pair skating championship of the world were held in March 1928, at the Ice club in London. This club, which has a member ship of 1,500, was established on the lines of the Bath and Burl ingham clubs, and has a rink 17o by 9oft., with a tooft. circle in the centre. The ice, thick, is formed by the ammonia process, and there are no less than 8-im. of pipes. The ladies' championship of the world and the world's pair skating cham pionship for 1928 resulted as follows: Ladies, 1st, Froken Sonja Henie (Norway) ; 2nd, Miss Maribel Vinson (United States), afterwards winner of the ladies' championship of the U.S.A., and of the U.S.A. pair skating championship (with T. Coolidge) ; 3rd, Fraulein Fritzi Burger (Austria) ; 4th, Miss Constance Wil son (Canada) ; 5th, Fraulein Melitta Brunner (Austria) ; 6th, Miss Kathleen Shaw (England, Manchester Skating club). The first pair was Mlle. Andree Joly and Pierre Brunet of France, fol lowed closely by Fraulein Lilli Scholz and Otto Kaiser of Austria. Froken Sonja Henie of Norway has retained her title in all suc ceeding events although the rapidly growing popularity of the sport as an indoor spectacle has multiplied the number both of meets and contestants. (See also ROLLER SKATING.)
BIBLIOGRAPHY.— ( ) Contemporary records in the Field, Outing, Bibliography ( ) Contemporary records in the Field, Outing, Der Eissport, and other sporting journals, as well as the annual almanacs; F. W. Foster, A Bibliography of Skating (1898) ; D. Adams, Skating (189o) ; H. M. Browne, Sporting and Athletic Records (1897) Sir T. A. Cook and others, Ice Sports, the Isthmian library (edit. B. Fletcher Robinson, 1901) ; J. M. Heathcote and C. G. Tebbutt, Skating, the Badminton library (edit. the duke of Beaufort and A. E. T. Watson, 3rd ed., 1902) ; W. T. Richardson, Skating (1903) ; The Book of Winter Sports (edit. E. and M. Syers, 1908) ; "Skating," in The Encyclopaedia of Sport and Games (edit. the earl of Suffolk and Berkshire, new enlarged ed., 1911) ; C. G. and A. Tebbutt and A. Reid, Skating (1897, rewritten by C. E. Benson, 1921) ; Yngvar Bryn, SkOitelOpning (Christiania, 1924) ; N.S.A. Official Handbook 1927-28.
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