A 1908 Olympic Games silver prize medal won by Arthur Cumming of Great Britain in the Men’s Speci

A 1908 Olympic Games silver prize medal won by Arthur Cumming of Great Britain in the Men’s Special Figure Skating. inscribed OLYMPIC GAMES, LONDON, 1908, and to the rim SECOND PRIZE, MEN’S SPECIAL FIGURE SKATING. The 1908 Summer Games in London was the only time that special figure skating was an Olympic event. Special figures involved tracing patterns on the ice with the blade of one skate. The gold went to Nikolai Panin of Russia. This, the silver medal was won by Britain’s 19-year-old figure skater Arthur Warren J. Cumming (1889-1914). He also participated in the pairs event. Ice skating became a permanent fixture of the Winter Games from 1924.