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A series of eight international events that build to the Junior Grand Prix Final. This is the junior-level complement to the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating. Junior level The ISU competition level below Senior level. International competitions for Juniors include the ISU Junior Grand Prix and the World Junior Figure Skating Championships ...
A figure skating season starts on July 1 and ends on June 30 the following year. A specific figure skating season uses the format "20XX–YY season" with an unspaced en dash, not a hyphen. Example: "The rule change was first applied in the 2018–19 season". The format "2018–2019 season" is discouraged. Technique, athleticism, and artistry
Figure Skating, H.E. Vandervell and T. Maxwell Witham (1869), the first book to refer to the sport of "figure skating". [198] Spuren auf dem Eise (Tracings on the Ice), 1881. Written by three members of the Vienna Skating Club, it described the Viennese style of skating and was the most extensive technical book about figure skating published up ...
“Nicknames are easy to remember,” Hebei Province figure skating fan Zhou Yuyao said, according to the Times. Chinese fans create affectionate nicknames for popular Olympic athletes with hard ...
Use the following figure skating templates: {{Figure skating competitive highlights}} and {{FS placements}}. For competition names, follow these advices. For placements, use ordinals in the two-letter suffix form like 1st or 22nd. Use the |ref= parameter to add global sources for the full table, usually the skater's ISU competition results page.
The following is a list of notable figure skaters who have competed in women's singles.These are skaters who have won a gold, silver, or bronze medal at at least one of the following competitions: the Winter Olympics, the World Figure Skating Championships, the European Figure Skating Championships, the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships, the Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final, the ...
Since figure skating was held during the Summer Olympic Games in 1908 and 1920 before being moved to the Winter Olympic, three skaters won medals in figure skating at both the Summer and Winter Games. Men's singles skater Gillis Grafström's first gold medal was earned at the 1920 Summer Olympics. His other three medals were won at the 1924 ...
According to figure skating historian James R. Hines, jumping in figure skating is "relatively recent". [2] Jumps were viewed as "acrobatic tricks, not as a part of a skater's art" [ 7 ] and "had no place" [ 8 ] in the skating practices in England during the 19th century, although skaters experimented with jumps from the ice during the last 25 ...