The European Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition

Figure skating competition

-International:* International competitions sanctioned by the International Skating Union. These competitions are held using ISU rules; skaters are entered by their respective national skating federations....

 in which elite figure skaters

Figure skating

Figure skating is an Olympic sport in which individuals, pairs, or groups perform spins, jumps, footwork and other intricate and challenging moves on ice skates. Figure skaters compete at various levels from beginner up to the Olympic level , and at local, national, and international competitions...

 compete for the title of European Champion.

The 1904 Championships were held on January 16 and 17 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...

. These were the first European Figure Skating Championships after two years. In 1902 and 1903 the Europeans were scheduled to be held in Amsterdam. In 1902 the championships were cancelled due to no ice. In 1903 the championships were cancelled in Amsterdam also due to no ice but were transferred to Stockholm. There the Europeans were cancelled because there was only one contestant.

Skaters in the 1904 Europeans competed only in the categories 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...

. The competitors performed only compulsory figures.

Men

Rank	Name	Nation	Fact. Places
1	Ulrich Salchow Ulrich Salchow Karl Emil Julius Ulrich Salchow was a Swedish figure skater, who dominated the sport in the first decade of the 20th century....	Sweden Sweden Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....	8
2	Max Bohatsch Max Bohatsch Max Bohatsch was an Austrian figure skater. He won the gold medal at the 1905 European Figure Skating Championships and captured three medals at the World Figure Skating Championships.-Results:-Navigation:...	Austria	13
3	Nikolai Panin Nikolai Panin Nikolay Aleksandrovich Panin-Kolomenkin, was a Russian figure skater and coach. He won the gold medal in special figures in the 1908 Summer Olympics. Panin was Russia's first Olympic champion. He was inducted into the World Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 2009.-Biography:Panin was born in...	Russian Empire Russian Empire The Russian Empire was a state that existed from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917. It was the successor to the Tsardom of Russia and the predecessor of the Soviet Union...	21
4	Martin Gordan	Germany	28
WD	Madge Syers-Cave Madge Syers Florence Madeline "Madge" Syers was a British figure skater. She became the first woman to compete at the World Figure Skating Championships in 1902 by entering what was previously an all-male event and won the silver medal, which prompted the International Skating Union to create a separate...	United Kingdom
WD	Heinrich Burger Heinrich Burger Heinrich Burger was a German figure skater. He competed in both singles and pairs events. He was Olympic champion and two-time World champion together with Anna Hübler....	Germany

Judges:

• Tibor von Földváry
  Tibor von Földváry
  Tibor von Földváry was an Hungarian figure skater. He was the European Figure Skating Championships gold medalist in 1895. He was also a judge at the World Championships shortly after his competitive career.-Results:-Navigation:...
  
   
• Gustav Hügel
  Gustav Hügel
  Gustav Hügel was an Austrian figure skater. He was the 1897 & 1899-1900 World Champion and the 1901 European Champion. He won the German national championships in 1894 because, at that time, Austria and Germany held joint championships.-Results:-References:...
  
    Austria
• Dr. Kurt Dannenberg  Germany
• P. Birum
• C. Hopkins
• R. Büchtger   Russian Empire
  Russian Empire
  The Russian Empire was a state that existed from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917. It was the successor to the Tsardom of Russia and the predecessor of the Soviet Union...
  
  
• G. R. Wood