Walter Andreas Jakobsson (6 February 1882 in Helsinki

Helsinki

Helsinki is the capital and largest city in Finland. It is in the region of Uusimaa, located in southern Finland, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, an arm of the Baltic Sea. The population of the city of Helsinki is , making it by far the most populous municipality in Finland. Helsinki is...

, Finland

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

 – 10 July 1957 in Helsinki, Finland) was a Finnish figure skater.

As a single skater, he won the Finnish national championship in 1910 and 1911.

In 1910, he became pairs skating partner with German

Germany

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 figure skater Ludowika Eilers

Ludowika Jakobsson

Ludowika Jakobsson was a German-Finnish figure skater. Competing in pair skating with skating partner and husband Walter Jakobsson, she became Olympic Champion in 1920 and three-time World champion. Ludowika Jakobsson-Eilers was also successful in ladies' single skating...

. They married in 1911. As pairs skaters, they won the World Championship

World Figure Skating Championships

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 in 1911, 1914, and 1923, and the Olympic

Olympic Games

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 championship in 1920.

He was an engineer by profession and also an amateur photographer

Photography

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 and member of the Fotografiamatörklubben i Helsingfors ("Helsinki Amateur photography Club"). His specialty was dark city scenes with special light effects like rain or mist.

Pairs with Ludowika Jakobsson-Eilers

Event	1910	1911	1912	1913	1914	1919	1920	1921	1922	1923	1924	1928
Winter Olympics 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...							1st				2nd	5th
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...	2nd	1st	2nd	2nd		1st			2nd	1st
Nordic Championships Nordic Figure Skating Championships The Nordic Championships are an annual invitational elite figure skating competition, open only to skaters from Nordic countries. Skaters compete in four disciplines: men's singles, ladies singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. Skaters compete in three levels: senior , junior, and novice...						1st		1st
Finnish Championships Finnish Figure Skating Championships The Finnish Figure Skating Championships are a figure skating national championship held annually to determine the national champions of Finland. Figure skaters compete in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies singles, pair skating, and ice dancing...		1st						1st

Men's singles

Event	1910	1911
Finnish Championships Finnish Figure Skating Championships The Finnish Figure Skating Championships are a figure skating national championship held annually to determine the national champions of Finland. Figure skaters compete in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies singles, pair skating, and ice dancing...	1st	1st

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