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Ice dancers Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir are the most decorated Olympic figure skaters in history with a total of five medals. Ice dancers Marina Klimova and Sergei Ponomarenko won a bronze medal in 1984, improved to a silver in 1988, and capped their Olympic appearances with a gold in 1992. Russian ice dancers Oksana Grishuk and Evgeny Platov ...
Nathan Wei Chen (born May 5, 1999) is an American figure skater.He is the 2022 Olympic champion, a three-time World champion (2018, 2019, 2021), the 2017 Four Continents champion, a three-time Grand Prix Final champion (2017, 2018, 2019), a ten-time Grand Prix medalist (8 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze), the 2022 Olympic champion in the team event, the 2018 Olympic bronze medalist in the team event ...
Katarina Witt. Katarina Witt (German pronunciation: [ˈkataʁiːna vɪt], audio ⓘ; born 3 December 1965) is a German former figure skater. A two-time Olympic champion, Witt is regarded as one of the greatest ladies' singles figure skaters of all time. [1] Her Laureus profile states that "she is remembered most for her overall athleticism, her ...
Scott Scovell Hamilton (born August 28, 1958) is a retired American figure skater and Olympic gold medalist. He won four consecutive U.S. championships (1981–84), four consecutive World Championships (1981–84), and a gold medal in the 1984 Olympics. His signature move, the backflip, a feat few other figure skaters could perform at the time ...
Yuzuru Hanyu (羽生 結弦, Hanyū Yuzuru, Hiragana: はにゅう ゆづる; born December 7, 1994) is a Japanese figure skater and ice show producer. Regarded as one of the greatest figure skaters in history [note 1] for his well-rounded skills, achievements, innovations, longevity, popularity, and impact on the sport, he started skating at four years old and competed in the men's singles ...
Torvill and Dean (Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean) are British ice dancers and former British, European, Olympic, and World champions.. At the Sarajevo 1984 Winter Olympics the pair won gold and became the highest-scoring figure skaters of all time for a single programme, receiving twelve perfect 6.0s and six 5.9s which included artistic impression scores of 6.0 from every judge, after ...
John Curry. John Anthony Curry, OBE (9 September 1949 – 15 April 1994) [2] was a British figure skater. He was the 1976 European, World and Olympic Champion. He was noted for combining ballet and modern dance influences into his skating.
Men's singles. Browning performing "Singin' in the Rain" in Art on Ice 2014. Kurt Browning, CM (born June 18, 1966) is a Canadian figure skater, choreographer and commentator. He is the first skater to land a ratified quadruple jump in competition. He is a four-time World Champion and Canadian national champion.