Notables:Figure Skating Project

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THE FIGURE SKATING NOTABLES PROJECT

This sub-project is part of the larger Sports Notables Project. Please visit the main project page for details on the goals and objectives of this project.

Contents 1 Objectives 2 Membership 3 About Figure Skating 4 Active Figure Skating Mini-Projects 5 Some Top Figure Skating Notables

Objectives

The main objectives of this project are to...

1) Create profiles for the world's most notable figure skaters and other figure skating.

2) Write a fun and accurate biography for each profile.

3) Source each profile as thoroughly as possible.

4) Connect each profile to the Big Tree.

Please see the COMPLETED PROFILE CHECKLIST for guidelines on what The Notables Project considers to be an essentially completed profile.

Membership

If you'd like to join us on this project, please post a comment here on this page or in G2G using the project tag Notables, send a private message to the Notables Project, or simply hop in and start contributing as you see fit!

About Figure Skating

People have been ice skating for centuries. However, figure skating in its current form didn't originate until the mid-19th century, although this original style of skating was stiff and formal and bore very little resemblance to modern figure skating. In the mid-1800s, improvements were brought about by American skater Jackson Haines, who is considered to have been the "father of modern figure skating". In the mid-1860s, Haines introduced a new style of skating, incorporating free and expressive techniques, which became known as the "international style". The International Skating Union was founded in 1892. The first European Figure Skating Championships were held in 1891 in Hamburg, Germany (won by Oskar Uhlig), and the first World Figure Skating Championships were held in 1896 in Saint Petersburg, Russia (won by Gilbert Fuchs). Britain's Madge Syers was the first woman to compete in the men's competition, finishing in second place behind Sweden's Ulrich Salchow. The ISU quickly banned women from competing against men and established a separate "ladies" competition in 1906. Pair skating was introduced at the 1908 World Championships, where the title was won by Anna Hübler and Heinrich Burger of Germany.

Figure skating was the first winter sport to be included in the Olympic Games, when it was contested at the 1908 Olympics in London, sixteen years before the first Olympic Winter Games. The Olympic figure skating disciplines are men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dance. The four individual disciplines are also combined into a team event, which was first included in the Winter Olympics in 2014. The non-Olympic disciplines include synchronized skating, theater on Ice, and four skating.

Active Figure Skating Mini-Projects

WikiTree Figure Skating Category

Figure Skating Legends Challege (Jan 2024)

If you'd like to initiate a mini-project, please drop us a note and we can get you started.

Some Top Figure Skating Notables

Name	Born	Died	Nation	Photo	Status
Jackson Haines	1838	1875	USA		Connected
Axel Paulsen	1855	1938	Norway		Connected
Ulrich Salchow	1877	1949	Denmark		Connected
Madge Syers	1881	1917	United Kingdom		Connected
Sonja Henie	1912	1969	Norway		Connected
Ludmilla Belousova	1935	2017	Norway		Not Connected