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

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with her husband

Walter Jakobsson Walter Andreas Jakobsson (6 February 1882 – 10 June 1957) was a Finnish figure skater, and the oldest figure skating Olympic champion (at age 38). As a single skater, he won the Finnish national championship in 1910 and 1911. In 1910, he partn ...

, she won the gold medal at the

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, 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. Eilers also had some success in

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, winning a bronze medal at the 1911 World Championships.

Early years

Eilers met Jakobsson in 1907 while he was studying engineering in

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. They began competing together in 1910 and married in 1911; hence the

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counts their 1910–1911 medals as half-German, half-Finnish, and those after 1911 as Finnish. The couple lived in Berlin until 1916, when they moved to

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. There Walter got a job of technical director with

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, a leading manufacturer of cranes, while Ludovika starred in a few Finnish silent films.

Results in ladies' singles

Results in pairs with Walter Jakobsson

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Jakobsson, Ludowika 1884 births 1968 deaths Finnish pair skaters German female pair skaters German female single skaters Olympic figure skaters for Finland Figure skaters at the 1920 Summer Olympics Figure skaters at the 1924 Winter Olympics Figure skaters at the 1928 Winter Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Finland Olympic silver medalists for Finland Sportspeople from Potsdam Olympic medalists in figure skating World Figure Skating Championships medalists Medalists at the 1924 Winter Olympics Medalists at the 1920 Summer Olympics Finnish people of German descent German emigrants to Finland Naturalized citizens of Finland 20th-century German sportswomen