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Katarina Witt from East Germany won the 1988 women's singles gold medal, becoming the second female figure skater in history to win back-to-back Olympic titles. Yuna Kim of South Korea won the women's singles event in 2010 with world record scores in the short program, free skating, and combined total.
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 ...
The European Figure Skating Championships are an annual figure skating competition in which figure skaters compete for the title of European champion. Medals are awarded in men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dance. The event is sanctioned by the International Skating Union (ISU) and is the sport's oldest competition. Only ...
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.
Sonja Henie is the most decorated skater at the World Championships in women's singles. She won ten gold medals and one silver medal for Norway. Countries that no longer participate are indicated in italics. At the 1908 and 1910 World Championships, only two competitors participated in the women's singles event, so no bronze medals were awarded ...
Witt landed three triple jumps in her free skate program, and the judges left room for Sumners to win the event. Sumners scaled back two of her jumps and Witt won the long program by one-tenth of a point on one judge's scorecard. Witt won the gold medal aged 18 years and 77 days, becoming one of the youngest Olympic figure skating champions.
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 ...
The investigation meant that the athletes could not be awarded their medals at the podium for the first time in Olympic history. Nearly 30 months later, on July 25, 2024, the U.S. figure skaters ...