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Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating and ice dancing on the senior, junior, and novice levels. The competition was part of the selection process for several international events, including the 2012 World Championships. The event was held at the HP Pavilion in San Jose, California on January 22 ...
The U.S. Figure Skating Championships are held annually to crown the national champions of the United States. Skaters compete in men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dance at the senior and junior levels. The event is organized by U.S. Figure Skating, the sport's national governing body. Pewter medals have been awarded to the ...
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 19-year-old is considered the favorite in his event, perhaps unsurprisingly because he has secured a place in the record books. In 2022, Malinin became the first skater to perform a quad axel ...
Terry Kubicka from the U.S. was the first figure skater to successfully execute a legal backflip at the Olympics, during the 1976 Winter Olympics. [3] Kubicka got the idea of using the backflip in his skating from Evy Scotvold, his coach, who wanted to help advance athleticism in figure skating and to go beyond the triple jumps that were the most difficult elements in the sport at the time.
Figure Skating, H.E. Vandervell and T. Maxwell Witham (1869), the first book to refer to the sport of "figure skating". [198] Spuren auf dem Eise (Tracings on the Ice), 1881. Written by three members of the Vienna Skating Club, it described the Viennese style of skating and was the most extensive technical book about figure skating published up ...
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The 2012 Hilton HHonors Skate America was the first event of six in the 2012–13 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. [1] It was held at the ShoWare Center in Kent, Washington on October 19–21.