Henry Graham Sharp was a British

Great Britain

Great Britain or Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island, as well as the largest of the British Isles...

 figure skater. In 1939, he won both the European Figure Skating Championships

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...

 and the World Figure Skating Championships

World Figure Skating Championships

The World Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union in which elite figure skaters compete for the title of World Champion...

. Before that, he had won three consecutive silver medals at Worlds and Europeans. He competed at the 1936 Winter Olympics

1936 Winter Olympics

The 1936 Winter Olympics, officially known as the IV Olympic Winter Games, were a winter multi-sport event which was celebrated in 1936 in the market town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen in Bavaria, Germany. Germany also hosted the Summer Olympics the same year in Berlin...

, where he placed fifth, and at the 1948 Winter Olympics

1948 Winter Olympics

The 1948 Winter Olympics, officially known as the V Olympic Winter Games, was a winter multi-sport event celebrated in 1948 in St. Moritz, Switzerland. The Games were the first to be celebrated after World War II; it had been twelve years since the last Winter Games in 1936...

, where he placed seventh. Writing in 1938, T.D. Richardson (author of Modern Figure Skating and Ice Rink Skating) said "Graham Sharp is by far the best male School Skater of the day. He has an ease and accuracy that is a joy to those with real knowledge and appreciation of the fine points of the School Figures."

Results

Event	1934	1935	1936	1937	1938	1939	1946	1948
Winter Olympic Games Winter Olympic Games The Winter Olympic Games is a sporting event, which occurs every four years. The first celebration of the Winter Olympics was held in Chamonix, France, in 1924. The original sports were alpine and cross-country skiing, figure skating, ice hockey, Nordic combined, ski jumping and speed skating...			5th					7th
World Championships World Figure Skating Championships The World Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union in which elite figure skaters compete for the title of World Champion...	6th	4th	2nd	2nd	2nd	1st		6th
European Championships 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...			2nd	2nd	2nd	1st
British Championships British Figure Skating Championships The British Figure Skating Championships are a figure skating competition held annually to crown the national champions of the United Kingdom...	1st	1st	1st	1st	1st	1st	1st	1st

Further reading

• E.R. Hall
  E.R. Hall
  Edward "Eddie" Ramsden Hall was an English racing driver. He was born in Milnsbridge into a wealthy Yorkshire family in 1900, the heir to a successful textiles business which funded his motor racing and other sporting exploits...
  
   & T.D. Richardson
  T.D. Richardson
  Thomas Dow "Tyke" Richardson OBE was a British competitive pair skater, author and judge.With his wife, Mildred Richardson, he represented Great Britain at the 1924 Winter Olympics, where they placed 8th...
  
   - Champions all: camera studies by E.R. Hall (Frederick Muller, 1938)
• T.D. Richardson
  T.D. Richardson
  Thomas Dow "Tyke" Richardson OBE was a British competitive pair skater, author and judge.With his wife, Mildred Richardson, he represented Great Britain at the 1924 Winter Olympics, where they placed 8th...
  
  - Modern Figure Skating (Methuen, 1938)

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