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Ludowika Jakobsson

1884 - 1968

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Ludovika Antje Margareta Jakobsson-Eilers (née Eilers, 25 July 1884 – 1 November 1968) was a German-Finnish figure skater. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ludowika Jakobsson has received more than 22,352 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Ludowika Jakobsson is the 22nd most popular skater (up from 28th in 2019), the 3,253rd most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,459th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular German Skater.

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Among SKATERS

Among skaters, Ludowika Jakobsson ranks 22 out of 315Before her are Eteri Tutberidze, Sjoukje Dijkstra, Hjalmar Andersen, Magda Julin, Tony Hawk, and Evgeni Plushenko. After her are Eric Heiden, Fred Anton Maier, Herma Szabo, Andrée Brunet, Helene Engelmann, and Ernst Baier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1884, Ludowika Jakobsson ranks 103Before her are George David Birkhoff, Harry Langdon, Enrico Dante, Constantin Constantinescu-Claps, Vasily Agapkin, and Ralph Benatzky. After her are Prince Ferdinand of Bavaria, A. Merritt, Harrison Ford, Dénes Kőnig, Santiago Casares Quiroga, and Angelos Sikelianos. Among people deceased in 1968, Ludowika Jakobsson ranks 110Before her are Mercedes de Acosta, Khuang Aphaiwong, Sergei Natanovich Bernstein, Joseph Keilberth, Ivan Pyryev, and Ramon Novarro. After her are Mae Marsh, Jón Leifs, Toivo Mikael Kivimäki, Ali Fuat Cebesoy, Marion Lorne, and Armando Castellazzi.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ludowika Jakobsson ranks 3,253 out of 6,142Before her are Carl Diem (1882), Adolf Busch (1891), Siegfried Rauch (1932), Friedrich Wetter (1928), Augustus William, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1662), and Otto Witte (1872). After her are Johann Baptist Zimmermann (1680), Paul Dessau (1894), Prince Adalbert of Prussia (1811), Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler (1811), Princess Louise Sophie of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (1866), and Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher (1817).

Among SKATERS In Germany

Among skaters born in Germany, Ludowika Jakobsson ranks 2Before her are Katarina Witt (1965). After her are Ernst Baier (1905), Maxi Herber (1920), Anna Hübler (1885), Gabriele Seyfert (1948), Claudia Pechstein (1972), Heinrich Burger (1881), Marika Kilius (1943), Christa Luding-Rothenburger (1959), Manfred Schnelldorfer (1943), and Karin Enke (1961).