Henry Graham Sharp

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Henry Graham Sharp
Personal information
Country represented  United Kingdom
Born (1917-12-19)December 19, 1917
Died January 2, 1995(1995-01-02) (aged 77)

Henry Graham Sharp (19 December 1917 – 2 January 1995) was a British figure skater. In 1939, he won both the European Figure Skating Championships and the World Figure Skating Championships. Before that, he had won three consecutive silver medals at Worlds and Europeans. He competed at the 1936 Winter Olympics, where he placed fifth, and at the 1948 Winter Olympics, where he placed seventh. Writing in 1938, T. D. Richardson (author of Modern Figure Skating and Ice Rink Skating) said "Graham Sharp is by far the best male School Skater of the day. He has an ease and accuracy that is a joy to those with real knowledge and appreciation of the fine points of the School Figures."

Results

Event 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1946 1948
Winter Olympic Games 5th 7th
World Championships 6th 4th 2nd 2nd 2nd 1st 6th
European Championships 2nd 2nd 2nd 1st
British Championships 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st

Further reading

  • E.R. Hall & T.D. Richardson – Champions all: camera studies by E.R. Hall (Frederick Muller, 1938)
  • T.D. Richardson – Modern Figure Skating (Methuen, 1938)

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