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Ulrich Salchow

1877 - 1949

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Karl Emil Julius Ulrich Salchow (7 August 1877 – 19 April 1949) was a Danish-born Swedish figure skater, who dominated the sport in the first decade of the 20th century. Salchow won the World Figure Skating Championships ten times, from 1901 to 1905 and from 1907 to 1911. This is still a record, which he shares with Sonja Henie who also won 10 titles in the 1920s and 1930s, and with Irina Rodnina who won 10 titles in the 1960s and 1970s. Salchow did not compete in the 1906 World Championships that were held in Munich, as he feared that he would not be judged fairly against Gilbert Fuchs of Germany. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ulrich Salchow is the 2nd most popular skater (up from 4th in 2019), the 160th most popular biography from Denmark (down from 153rd in 2019) and the most popular Danish Skater.

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Among SKATERS

Among skaters, Ulrich Salchow ranks 2 out of 483. Before him are Sonja Henie. After him are Axel Paulsen, Andrea Kékesy, Katarina Witt, Gillis Grafström, Karl Schäfer, Hjalmar Andersen, Ivar Ballangrud, Ondrej Nepela, Clas Thunberg, and Sjoukje Dijkstra.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1877, Ulrich Salchow ranks 44. Before him are Princess Auguste of Bavaria, Rudolf Hilferding, Rosika Schwimmer, Shefqet Vërlaci, Vasil Kolarov, and George Hackenschmidt. After him are Endre Ady, Chaim Rumkowski, Ananda Coomaraswamy, Edmund Landau, Otto Gross, and Sadao Araki. Among people deceased in 1949, Ulrich Salchow ranks 47. Before him are José Clemente Orozco, John Haigh, Béla Balázs, Joaquín Turina, Aino Aalto, and Hans Pfitzner. After him are Ellery Harding Clark, Yoshijirō Umezu, Alice Bailey, Husni al-Za'im, Wilhelm Adam, and Richard Dix.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Ulrich Salchow ranks 160 out of 1,032. Before him are Bent Larsen (1935), Jesper Christensen (1948), Rasmus Bartholin (1625), Jeppe Aakjær (1866), Dorothea of Denmark, Duchess of Prussia (1504), and Prince Frederick William of Hesse-Kassel (1820). After him are Paul Elvstrøm (1928), Poul Nyrup Rasmussen (1943), Thorvald Stauning (1873), Magnus, Duke of Holstein (1540), Gabriel Axel (1918), and Verner Panton (1926).

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Among SKATERS In Denmark

Among skaters born in Denmark, Ulrich Salchow ranks 1. 

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