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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 ...
U.S. Figure Skating is an association of clubs, governed by its members and its elected officers at national, regional and club levels. [22] As of June 2011, U.S. Figure Skating had 688 member, collegiate, and school-affiliated clubs [23] and a membership of 180,452. [23] Each member club may send delegates to the annual Governing Council meeting.
The book was written solely for men, as women did not normally ice skate in the late 18th century. It was with the publication of this manual that ice skating split into its two main disciplines, speed skating and figure skating. The founder of modern figure skating as it is known today was Jackson Haines, an American. He was the first skater ...
Haines was also instrumental in the founding of the Wiener Eislaufverein (Wiener EV), one of the oldest and most active skating clubs in the world, and helped develop the Viennese style of figure skating. [5] Haines died of pneumonia in Gamlakarleby (nowadays in Finnish: Kokkola, in Swedish: Karleby), Finland on June 23, 1875. [6]
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]
Over four decades before Kwan’s quest for gold came up short, Tenley Albright made figure-skating history with her own gold-medal performance. In 1956, at the Winter Olympics in Cortina d ...
Amber Glenn, left, reacts with her coach Damon Allen, right, after her performance at the women's free skate competition at the U.S. figure skating championships Friday, Jan. 24, 2025, in Wichita ...
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 ...