Ludovika Antje Margareta Jakobsson-Eilers (néeEilers, 25 July 1884 – 1 November 1968) was a German-Finnish figure skater.[1] Competing inpair skating with her husbandWalter Jakobsson, she won the gold medal at the1920 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. Eilers also had some success insingle skating, winning a bronze medal at the 1911 World Championships.[2]
Eilers met Jakobsson in 1907 while he was studying engineering inBerlin. They began competing together in 1910 and married in 1911; hence theInternational Skating Union 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 toHelsinki. There Walter got a job of technical director withKonecranes, a leading manufacturer ofcranes, while Ludovika starred in a few Finnish silent films.[2]
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