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The team event is the newest Olympic figure skating event, first contested in the 2014 Games. It combines the four Olympic figure skating disciplines (men's singles, women's singles, pairs, and ice dance) into a single event; gold is awarded to the team that earns the most placement points.
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 ...
Nine U.S. figure skaters received gold medals at the Paris Olympics, 2½ years after their team event at the Beijing Games. Japan got silver and Russia bronze.
Between 1984 and 1988, Witt won ten gold medals from eleven major international events, making her one of the most successful figure skaters ever. Retiring from competitive skating after defending her Olympic title in 1988, Witt reappeared at the 1994 Winter Olympics where she represented a reunified Germany while skating a Robin Hood -themed ...
The 2022 United States Olympic figure skaters finally experienced the feeling of having a gold medal placed around their necks — nearly 2 1/2 years after their winning performance at the Winter ...
Today Two years after the last winter Olympics, Team USA has officially won its first gold medal in the team figure skating event. During the Beijing Olympics in 2022, Team USA — Nathan Chen ...
Her award in Grenoble was singularly important for the American athletes and the nation as a whole, for this was the only gold medal that the U.S. Olympic team won in the 1968 Winter Olympics. It signaled a return to American dominance in the sport of women's figure skating following the unprecedented tragedy of the 1961 Sabena plane crash.
The nine members of Team USA who competed at the 2022 Olympics in Beijing finally made history as the first U.S. figure skating squad to win team Olympic gold when a Russian figure skater was ...