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Figure skating at the 1908 Summer Olympics – Ladies' singles

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The maximum total possible score was therefore 276. Each judge would then arrange the skaters in order of total score by that judge; these ordinal rankings were used to provide final placement for the skaters, using a "majority rule"—if a majority of the judges ranked a pair first, the pair won. If
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Each skater had to complete a set of compulsory figures, with a possible score from those figures of 168. There were 5 figures which had to completed in both directions and 1 figure that was completed in only one direction (resulting in a total of 11 figures). Each figure was repeated three times.
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The judges were unanimous in ranking Syers first, awarding her the gold medal. Rendschmidt earned second-place marks from a majority of the judges (4 of the 5) to take silver. Greenhough-Smith had a majority of the third-place marks (3 of 5), along with a second-place result, to earn the bronze.
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Each skater also performed a free skate of four minutes, with a score of up to 108. Scores from 0 to 6 were given for each of (a) content (difficulty and variety) and (b) performance. The total was multiplied by 9.
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Montgomery took fourth place with 4 of the 5 judges giving her that rank. Lycett finished last; though one judge ranked her third, the remaining 4 placed her in fifth.
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Marks were given for each figure from 0 to 6 (in half-point increments), then multiplied by a difficulty factor for that figure.
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was one of four events in figure skating at the 1908 Summer Olympics. Each nation could enter up to 3 skaters. Without rivals
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there was no majority, the total ordinals controlled. Ties were broken by total points.
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Madge Syers
Great Britain
Elsa Rendschmidt
Germany
Dorothy Greenhough-Smith
Great Britain
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Madge Syers
Great Britain
Elsa Rendschmidt
Germany
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