Ragnar Wikström

Ragnar Wikström
Personal information
Country represented Finland
Born (1940-01-22)22 January 1940
Kokkola, Finland
Died 23 July 2007(2007-07-23) (aged 67)
Home town Helsinki, Finland
Former partner Eeva Sjögren
Former skating club HSK
Former training locations Helsinki
Retired 1970

Ragnar Wikström (22 January 1940 – 23 July 2007)[1] was a Finnish figure skater. As a singles skater, he was a two-time Nordic champion (1963–64) and a nine-time Finnish national champion (1957–58, 1960–64, 1967, 1969), representing HSK.[2] Wikström also competed in pair skating, becoming the 1962 national pairs champion with Eeva Sjögren.[3]

Born in Kokkola, where his family had evacuated due to World War II, Wikström lived most of his life in Helsinki. He studied at the Helsinki University of Technology, graduating with an engineer's degree in 1964, and became a member of the Finnish Geotechnical Society.[1] He had two children with his wife and was related to Walter Jakobsson, the 1920 Olympic pair skating champion, on his mother's side.[1] Wikström died in July 2007 at age 67.[4]

Competitive highlights

Single skating

International
Event 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970
European Champ. 15th 21st 23rd
Nordics 3rd 3rd 2nd 2nd 2nd 1st 1st 3rd 3rd
National
Finnish Champ. 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st

Pair skating with Sjögren

National
Event 1962
Finnish Championships 1st

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Ragnar Wikström in memoriam" (in Finnish). Finnish Geotechnical Society. 16 August 2007. Archived from the original on 8 October 2007.
  2. ↑ "Yksinluistelu/Seniorit" [Finnish national champions] (in Finnish). Finnish Figure Skating Association. Retrieved 3 June 2014.
  3. ↑ "SÄÄNTÖKIRJA 21" [Rulebook 21] (PDF) (in Finnish). Finnish Figure Skating Association. 1 July 2010. pp. 108–109.
  4. ↑ "Ragnar Wikström in memoriam" (in Finnish). Finnish Figure Skating Association. 30 July 2007. Archived from the original on 4 June 2014.


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