1892 European Figure Skating Championships

The European Figure Skating Championships is an annual event which is organized by the International Skating Union .

The second figure skating Championships for men was held on January 24 in Vienna , Austria, then still part of the dual monarchy of Austria-Hungary . Only mandatory freestyle was skating.

Content

 * 1 History
 * 2 Participation
 * 3 Medal distribution
 * 4 Results
 * 4.1 Men

History
The German and Austrian skating association, united in the "Deutscher und Österrreichischer Eislaufverband", organized both the first European Championship Skating for men as the first European Championships Figure Skating for men in 1891 in Hamburg, at that time the German Empire was for the ISU in 1892 founded. The international skating federation took in 1892 the organization of the European Championship on figure skating. In 1895 it was decided henceforth to organize the World Figure Skating Championships and came to expire. In 1898, after two years of interruption, yet again found a restart instead of the EK figure skating.

The women and couples would annually from 1930 to compete for the European title. The ice dancers competed from 1954 to the European title in figure skating.

Participation [ edit ]
It took ten men participated in this championship. Seven came from Austria and two from Germany. Hungary was the third country afvaardigde a representative to the European Championships figure skating.

Austrian Josef Nowy and the German Fritz Ahrendt were the only ones who had also participated in the first championship in 1891.

Medal distribution [ edit ]
None of the German medal winners of 1891 took part in this championship. Eduard Engelmann was the second European champion in figure skating in the men's and achieved along with Georg Zachariades place on the first three medals for Austria. The Hungarian Tibor von Földvary won the first European medal for his country.