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The history of figure skating stretches back to prehistoric times. Primitive ice skates appear in the archaeological record from about 3000 BC. Edges were added by ...
Sonja Morgenstern skates a compulsory figure.. Compulsory figures or school figures were formerly a segment of figure skating, and gave the sport its name.They are the "circular patterns which skaters trace on the ice to demonstrate skill in placing clean turns evenly on round circles". [1]
Pages in category "Figure skating records and statistics" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total. ... List of highest historical scores in ...
The movie Revue of Dreams ("Traumrevue"), produced in 1959, is a historical figure-skating document showing three European champions on the ice, with two of them performing in the frame story. Eva Pawlik played the role of a fictitious Hungarian figure-skating star. Besides, she was actress Waltraut Haas´ double on the ice.
Sonja Morgenstern from Germany skates a compulsory figure, 1971. The demise and revival of compulsory figures occurred, respectively, in 1990, when the International Skating Union (ISU) removed compulsory figures from international single skating competitions, and beginning in 2015, when the first competition focusing entirely on figures took place.
The ISU Judging System (IJS) is the scoring system that has been used since 2003 to judge the figure skating disciplines of men's and women's singles, pair skating, and ice dance. It was designed and implemented by the International Skating Union (ISU), the ruling body of the sport, and is used in all international competitions sanctioned by ...
The World Figure Skating Championships have been cancelled 16 times in the competition's history: from 1915 through 1921 due to World War I; [5] from 1940 through 1946 due to World War II; [5] in 1961 as a result of the loss of the entire U.S. Figure Skating team in the crash of Sabena Flight 548; [9] [10] and in 2020 due to the COVID-19 ...
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