Henning Grenander

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Henning Grenander (4 August 1874 – 11 March 1958) was a Swedish figure skater. He was born in Skövde, Sweden, and started school in Stockholm at age eight, taking up skating at eleven. He won a silver medal at the 1893 European Championships in Berlin, but the result was invalidated by the ISU due to scoring rules.

In 1898 he moved to London to work at a Swedish bank and won the gold medal at the World Championships in London. He decided to stay in London after the games. Grenander later became a Swedish masseur and worked with the National Skating Association. He helped plan the 1908 Summer Olympics and served as a judge in the men’s singles and in the men’s special figures events.

He died in a nursing home in Torquay, England, on 11 March 1958.