Figure Skating in History

Events 1 - 100 of 105

• 1905-01-22 Dutchman Coen de Koning wins the 1,500m, 5,000m & 10,000m at World Allround Speed Skating Championships in Groningen, Netherlands to become 2nd Dutchman to win a world title
• 1914-03-20 1st international figure-skating tournament held in US, New Haven
• 1920-04-25 Magda Julin of Sweden beats teammate Svea Norén for the gold medal in women's singles figure skating at the Antwerp Olympics

• 1920-04-27 Sweden takes the figure skating double at the Antwerp Olympics when Gillis Grafström wins his first of 3 consecutive men's gold medals; Magda Julin earlier wins the women's singles event

• 1924-01-30 Gillis Grafström of Sweden wins men's figure skating gold medal at the Chamonix Winter Olympics; first to successfully defend his Summer Olympic title (1920) at the Winter Games
• 1924-01-31 Herma Szabo of Austria wins the ladies figure skating gold medal at the Chamonix Winter Olympics; only women's event at the Games

• 1928-02-19 Gillis Grafström of Sweden wins his 3rd consecutive Olympic men’s figure skating gold medal at St. Moritz; one of only 2 athletes to win gold at both Winter & Summer Games (won figure skating Antwerp 1920)
• 1928-02-19 World champion French team Andrée Joly and Pierre Brunet win the Olympic pairs figure skating gold medal at the St. Moritz Winter Games; the couple marry in 1929 and take 2nd straight gold in 1932
• 1932-02-12 Karl Schäfer of Austria wins the first of 2 consecutive men’s figure skating Olympic gold medals at the Lake Placid Winter Games in the United States
• 1932-02-12 Sonja Henie of Norway wins her 2nd of 3 consecutive Olympic gold medals in women’s figure skating at the Lake Placid Winter Games; beats Austria’s Fritzi Burger into 2nd place for 2nd straight Games
• 1932-02-12 World champion French husband and wife team Pierrre and Andrée Brunet win their 2nd consecutive Olympic pairs figure skating gold medal at the Lake Placid Games
• 1936-02-14 Karl Schäfer of Austria wins his 2nd consecutive men’s figure skating Olympic gold medal at the Garmisch-Partenkirchen Winter Games in Germany
• 1936-02-15 Sonja Henie of Norway becomes the most successful Olympic figure skater ever by winning her 3rd consecutive gold medal at the Garmisch-Partenkirchen Winter Games; beats Cecilia College of Great Britain by 6.4 points
• 1936-02-22 Sonja Henie of Norway follows up her Winter Olympics victory with an incredible 10th consecutive women’s World Championship figure skating gold medal in Paris, France
• 1936-02-28 Karl Schäfer of Austria follows up his Winter Olympics victory with his 7th consecutive men’s figure skating World Championship title in Paris, France
• 1936-02-28 Olympic champions Ernst Baier and Maxi Herber of Germany win their 4th consecutive pairs figure skating gold medal at the World Championships in Paris, France
• 1948-02-05 18-year-old Dick Button becomes first American men's figure skating Olympic gold medallist at the St. Moritz Winter Games; first to complete a double axel in competition; retains title in 1952
• 1948-02-06 World & European champion Barbara Ann Scott becomes the first Canadian to win a women's figure skating Olympic gold medal at the St. Moritz Winter Games
• 1952-02-19 American defending champion Dick Button becomes 1st figure-skater to land a triple jump in competition; performs triple loop in Olympic free skate in Oslo; wins gold medal ahead of Austria’s Helmut Seibt

• 1954-02-10 World Figure Skating Championship at Oslo: Ice Dancing - won by Great Britain's team of Jean Westwood and Lawrence Demmy
• 1954-02-10 World Figure Skating Championship at Oslo: Pairs - won by Canadian team of Frances Dafoe and Norris Bowden
• 1956-01-30 Soviet 500m speed skating champion Yevgeni Grishin wins 2nd gold medal of the Cortina d'Ampezzo Winter Olympics when he dead heats teammate Yuri Mikhatlov in the 1,500m in world record 2:08.6
• 1956-02-01 Hayes Alan Jenkins leads only US sweep of Olympic men's figure skating medals at the Cortina d’Ampezzo Winter Games; Ronald Robertson wins silver with bronze to Jenkins' younger brother, David
• 1956-02-02 Despite a severe ankle injury Tenley Albright leads an American 1-2 in the women's figure skating at the Cortina d'Ampezzo Winter Olympics; Carol Heiss takes the silver medal
• 1960-02-19 Three time Canadian world champions Barbara Wagner and Robert Paul win the pairs figure skating Olympic gold medal at Squaw Valley, California
• 1960-02-23 Carol Heiss wins the women's figure skating gold medal at the Squaw Valley Winter Olympics; US takes the singles double after David Jenkins wins men's event
• 1960-02-26 David Jenkins wins the men's figure skating gold medal at the Squaw Valley Winter Olympics; US takes the singles double after Carol Heiss wins women's event
• 1960-03-05 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Vancouver won by Alain Giletti (FRA)
• 1960-03-05 Worlds Ladies' Figure Skating Champions in Vancouver won by Carol E Heiss (USA)
• 1961-02-18 Henk van der Grift becomes world champion skater
• 1961-02-19 Dutchman Henk van der Grift becomes world champ all-round skater
• 1962-03-20 Sjoukje Dijkstra becomes world champion figure skater
• 1964-02-02 Sjoukje Dijkstra (Netherlands) wins Olympic gold for figure skating
• 1966-02-15 Kees Verkerk becomes world champion all-round skater
• 1967-01-29 Kees Verkerk becomes European skating champ
• 1967-02-12 Dutch speed skater Kees Verkerk becomes All-Around World Champion
• 1967-02-19 Stien Kaiser becomes world champion lady's skater
• 1967-03-04 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Vienna won by Emmerich Danzer (AUT)

• 1968-02-05 Skater Kees Verkerk wins olympic gold in the 1500m
• 1968-02-10 American 2-time world champion Peggy Fleming comfortably wins Olympic women's figure skating gold medal at the Grenoble Winter Games
• 1968-02-14 Soviet Union goes 1-2 in pairs figure skating at the Grenoble Winter Olympics; husband & wife team Oleg Protopopov and Liudmila Belousova edge teammates Tatiana Zhuk and Alexander Gorelik

• 1972-01-16 Dutch speed skater Atje Keulen-Deelstra becomes European Allround ladies champion, for the first of three consecutive years
• 1972-01-23 Ard Schenk becomes European all-round skating champion
• 1972-02-07 Dutch Olympic 1,500m and 5,000m speed skating champion Ard Schenk wins his 3rd gold medal at the Sapporo Winter Games when he takes out the 10,000m
• 1974-02-24 Dutch speed skater Atje Keulen-Deelstra becomes Women's Allround World Champion at Heerenveen, Netherlands, her third consecutive title and fourth in 5 years
• 1976-02-11 John Curry wins Britain's first Olympic gold medal in figure skating at Innsbruck Winter Games; finishes men's singles ahead of Soviet skater Vladimir Kovalyov and Canadian Toller Cranston

• 1976-03-06 European Men's Figure Skating Championship in Gothenburg, Sweden won by John Curry (Great Britain)
• 1976-03-06 Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Gothenburg won by American Dorothy Hamill
• 1977-01-26 Soviet figure skaters Sergei Shakrai & Marine Tcherkasova are 1st to perform a quadruple twist lift in Helsinki

• 1977-03-03 World Ladies' Figure Skating Championship in Tokyo won by Linda Fratianne (USA)
• 1979-09-24 Russian Olympic and World Champion figure skaters Oleg Protopopov & Ludmila Beloussova ask for asylum in Switzerland
• 1980-02-18 Soviet figure skater Irina Rodnina wins her 3rd consecutive Olympic pairs title at Lake Placid; gold medals with husband Alexander Zaitsev (1976, 80) and Alexei Ulanov (1972)
• 1980-02-21 British figure skater Robin Cousins wins men's singles gold medal at the Lake Placid Winter Olympics; goes on to pro career, TV analysis and stage performance & production
• 1981-03-06 Worlds Ladies' Figure Skating Champ in Hartford won by Denise Biellmann

• 1982-03-13 Worlds Ladies' Figure Skating Champs in Copenhagen won by Elaine Zayak (USA) who lands 6 triple jumps
• 1983-01-30 Hilbert van Thumb becomes European skating champ
• 1983-03-11 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Helsinki won by Scott Hamilton (USA)
• 1984-02-16 3-time men's figure skating world champion Scott Hamilton of the US wins the gold medal at the Sarajevo Winter Olympics from Brian Orser of Canada and Jozef Sabovčík of Czechoslovakia
• 1984-02-18 East German figure skater Katarina Witt wins first of 2 consecutive women's singles gold medals at the Sarajevo Winter Olympics; also wins gold in Calgary (1988)
• 1984-03-23 Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Ottawa won by Katarina Witt (GDR)
• 1984-03-23 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Ottawa won by Scott Hamilton (USA)
• 1986-01-26 Hein Vergeer becomes European skating champion

• 1987-02-15 Nikolai Guljajev becomes world champion skater
• 1987-03-12 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Cincinnati won by Brian Orser (Canada)

• 1988-02-27 Katarina Witt (GDR) wins 2nd consecutive Olympic figure skating
• 1988-03-27 Ladies' Figure Skating Championship in Budapest won by Katarina Witt (GDR)

• 1992-03-29 Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Oakland, California won by Kristi Yamaguchi (USA)
• 1992-03-29 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Oakland, California won by Viktor Petrenko (CIS)

• 1994-01-13 Tonya Harding's bodyguard, Shawn Eric Eckardt & Derrick Brian Smith arrested & charged with conspiracy in attack of figure skater Nancy Kerrigan
• 1994-02-01 Jeff Gillooly pleads guilty for his part in attack on American Olympic figure skater Nancy Kerrigan; plea bargain, confesses to racketeering in exchange for testimony implicating ex-wife Tonya Harding
• 1994-03-16 American figure skater Tonya Harding pleads guilty to felony attack on former Olympic teammate Nancy Kerrigan
• 1994-04-22 American figure skater Tonya Harding sues ex-husband Jeff Gillooly for $42,500

• 1996-03-25 Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Edmonton won by Michelle Kwan (USA)

• 1997-01-12 Ladies' figure skating star Oksana Baiul injured slightly while driving intoxicated in Bloomfield, Connecticut

• 1997-03-22 Ladies' Figure Skating Championship in Lausanne won by Tara Lipinski (USA)
• 1998-02-10 Olympic figure skater Peggy Fleming undergoes breast cancer surgery
• 1998-02-20 American world champion Tara Lipinski wins Olympic figure skating gold medal ahead of teammate Michelle Kwan at the Nagano Winter Games
• 2000-04-01 Michelle Kwan pushes through all 7 triple jumps at the Palais des Exposition in Nice, France to become the first American since Peggy Flemming to win 3 world figure skating titles
• 2013-03-15 Patrick Chan of Canada wins the men’s 2013 World Figure Skating Championships
• 2013-03-16 Kim Yu-Na of South Korea wins the women’s 2013 World Figure Skating Championships
• 2014-02-09 Olympic teams figure skating event debuts in Sochi with Russia taking the gold medal; pairs champions Tatiana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov win first of 2 gold at the Games
• 2014-02-12 Tatyana Volosozhar and Maksim Trankov win the Olympic gold in pairs figure skating

• 2014-02-14 For the first time in men's figure skating, all 3 Olympic singles medalists are of Asian descent; Yuzuru Hanyu (Japan) gold, Patrick Chan (Canada) and Denis Ten (Kazakhstan)
• 2014-02-20 Adelina Sotnikova convincingly wins the women's singles figure skating gold medal at the Sochi Winter Olympics for Russia's first title in the ladies event

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Birthdays 1 - 100 of 201

• 1876-02-09 Martin Stixrud, Norwegian figure skater and coach (Olympic bronze 1920, coached Sonja Henie), born in Oslo, Norway (d. 1964)
• 1877-08-07 Ulrich Salchow, Swedish figure skater (Olympic gold men's singles 1908; 10 x World C'ship gold), born in Copenhagen, Denmark (d. 1949)

• 1890-11-12 Lily Kronberger, Hungarian figure skater (d. 1974)
• 1893-06-07 Gillis Grafström, Swedish figure skater (Olympic gold 1920, 24, 28), born in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 1938)
• 1893-08-21 Theresa Weld Blanchard, American figure skater (US Singles C'ship 1914, 20-24; Pairs C'ship 1920-27; Olympic bronze 1920), born in Brookline, Massachusetts (d. 1978)
• 1900-06-30 Beatrix Loughran, American figure skater (Olympic gold 1924, 1928, 1932), born in Mount Vernon, New York (d. 1975)

• 1901-09-16 Andrée Bunet, French figure skater (Olympic gold pairs 1928, 32; World C'ship gold pairs 1926, 28, 30, 32), born in Paris, France (d. 1993)
• 1902-06-28 Pierre Brunet, French figure skater (Olympic gold pairs 1928, 32 [Andrée Brunet]), born in Paris (d. 1991)
• 1905-09-27 Ernst Baier, German figure skater (Olympic gold 1936), born in Zittau, Saxony, Germany (d. 2001)
• 1907-07-27 Mollie Phillips, British figure skater and judge (first woman to referee a world championship), born in London, England (d. 1994)
• 1909-05-17 Karl Schäfer, Austrian figure skater (Olympic gold 1932, 36), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1976)

• 1915-11-14 Mabel Fairbanks, Seminole-African American figure skater and coach (US Figure Skating Hall of Fame), born in Florida Everglades (d. 2001) [1]
• 1917-12-19 Graham Sharp, British figure skater (World C'ship, European C'ship 1939), born in London, England (d. 1995)
• 1919-02-07 Ilse Pausin, Austrian figure skater (Olympic silver pairs 1936; World C'ship silver x 5 [with brother Erik Pausin]), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1999)
• 1919-07-12 Vera Ralston [Věra Helena Hrubá], Czech figure skater and actress (Dakota, Accused of Murder), born in Prague, Czechoslovakia (d. 2003)
• 1920-04-08 Erik Pausin, Austrian figure skater (Olympic silver pairs 1936; World C'ship silver x 5 [with sister Ilse Pausin]), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1997)
• 1920-10-08 Maxi Herber, German figure skater pairs (Olympic gold 1936), born in Munich, Germany (d. 2006)
• 1920-11-28 Cecilia Colledge, British figure skater (World C'ship gold ladies singles 1937; Olympic silver 1936; first female to land a two rotation jump), born in London, England (d. 2008)
• 1921-09-19 Joan Tozzer, American figure skater, born in Dedham, Massachusetts (d. 2012)
• 1925-01-31 Micheline Lannoy, Belgian figure skating pairs (Olympic gold 1948), born in Brussels, Belgium
• 1925-07-23 Pierre Baugniet, Belgian pairs ice skater (Olympic gold 1948), born in Antwerp, Belgium (d. 1981)
• 1928-05-09 Barbara Ann Scott, Canadian figure skater (Olympic gold 1948, World champion 1947-48), born in Ottawa, Ontario (d. 2012)
• 1928-12-13 Jutta Müller, German figure skating coach (GDR 3 x Olympic gold, 10 x World C'ship gold), born in Chemnitz, Germany (d. 2023)
• 1929-05-30 Don Laws, American figure skater and coach (Scott Hamilton, Patrick Chan, Tiffany Chin), born in Washington, D.C.. (d. 2014)
• 1929-07-18 Dick Button, American figure skater (Olympic gold 1948, 52), born in Englewood, New Jersey
• 1929-12-20 Carlo Fassi, Italian figure skating coach (Peggy Fleming, Dorothy Hamill, John Curry, Robin Cousins, Jill Trenary) and skater (World C'ship bronze men's singles 1953), born in Milan, Italy (d. 1997)
• 1930-09-08 Jeannette Altwegg, English figure skater (Olympic gold 1952), born in Bombay, India (d. 2021)
• 1932-07-16 Oleg Protopopov, Russian figure skater (Olympic gold USSR pairs 1964, 68; World C'ship gold pairs 1965, 66, 67, 68 [Ludmila Belousova]), born in Saint Petersburg, Russia (d. 2023)
• 1933-03-23 Hayes Jenkins, American figure skater (Olympic gold singles 1956; World C'ship gold 1953-56), born in Akron, Ohio

• 1935-11-22 Ludmila Belousova, Russian figure skater (Olympic gold USSR pairs 1964, 68; World C'ship gold pairs 1965, 66, 67, 68 [Oleg Protopopov]), born in Ulyanovsk, Russia (d. 2017)
• 1936-05-19 Elisabeth Schwartz, Austrian pairs figure skater (Olympic gold 1956)
• 1936-06-29 David Jenkins, American figure skater (Olympic gold singles 1960; World C'ship gold singles 1957-59), born in Akron, Ohio
• 1939-12-30 Elena Tchaikovskaia, Russian figure skating coach, choreographer (Lyudmila Pakhomova / Aleksandr Gorshkov; 6 x World C'ship gold, Olympic gold 1976), born in Moscow, Russia
• 1940-01-20 Carol Heiss Jenkins, American figure skater (Olympic gold singles 1960; silver 1956; World C'ship gold 1956–1960), born in New York City
• 1940-04-02 Don Jackson, Canadian figure skater (World C'ship gold singles 1962; first triple lutz in international competition; Olympic bronze singles 1960), born in Oshawa, Ontario
• 1940-08-31 Alain Calmat, French figure skater (Olympic silver 1964), born in Paris, France
• 1940-11-13 Joan Haanappel, Dutch figure skater (European C'ships 3 x bronze ladies singles) and sports reporter (NOS, AVRO, ZDF, Eurosport), born in The Hague, Netherlands
• 1942-06-28 Sjoukje Dijkstra, Dutch figure skater (Olympic gold 1964), born in Akkrum, Netherlands
• 1942-10-28 Kees Verkerk, Dutch skater World Champion (1967)/(Olympic gold 1968), born in Maasdam, Netherlands
• 1946-10-08 Aleksandr Gorshkov, Russian ice dancer (World C'ship gold x 6; Olympic gold USSR 1976; with Lyudmila Pakhomova), born in Moscow, Russia (d. 2022)
• 1946-12-31 Lyudmila Pakhomova, Russian ice dancer (World C'ship gold x 6; Olympic gold USSR 1976; with Alexandr Gorshkov), born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1986)
• 1947-09-14 Wolfgang Schwartz, Austrian figure skater (Olympic gold 1968), born in Vienna, Austria
• 1947-11-04 Alexei Ulanov, Russian pairs figure skater (Olympic gold [with Irina Rodnina] 1972), born in Moscow, Russia
• 1948-06-21 Tim Wood, American figure skater (World C'ship gold singles 1969, 70; Olympic silver 1968), born in Highland Park, Michigan

• 1948-10-20 Andrei Suraikin, Russian pairs figure skater (Olympic silver 1972), born in Leningrad, USSR
• 1949-04-20 Toller Cranston, Canadian figure skater (Olympic bronze men's singles 1976; World C'ship bronze 1974) and painter, born in Hamilton, Ontario (d. 2015)
• 1949-07-21 Ludmila Smirnova, Russian pairs figure skater (Olympic silver USSR 1972; World C'ship silver x 5), born in Moscow, Russia
• 1949-09-09 John Curry, British figure skater (Olympic gold, World C'ship gold, European C'ship gold 1976), born in Birmingham, England (d. 1994)
• 1949-09-12 Irina Rodnina, Russian pairs figure skater (Olympic gold 1972, 76, 80), born in Moscow, Soviet Union
• 1951-01-22 Ondrej Nepela, Slovak figure skater (Olympic gold men's singles 1972; World C'ships gold 1971, 72, 73), born in Bratislava, Slovakia (d. 1989)
• 1951-04-13 Beatrix "Trixie" Schuba, Austrian figure skater considered to be one of the best compulsory figure skaters ever (Olympic gold 1972), born in Vienna, Austria
• 1952-06-16 Alexander Zaitsev, Russian figure skater (Olympic gold USSR pairs [Irina Rodnina] 1976, 80; 6 x World C'ship gold), born in Saint Petersburg, Russia
• 1953-04-06 Janet Lynn, ice skater (Olympic bronze 1972)

• 1957-08-17 Robin Cousins, British figure skater (Olympic gold 1980), born in Bristol, England

• 1958-06-28 Sergei Shakrai, Russian figure skater (Olympic silver 1980), born in Soviet Union

• 1958-11-21 Evert van Benthem, Dutch skater (11 Cities Skating Race, 1985, 86)
• 1958-12-02 Randy Gardner, American figure skater (World C'ships gold pairs [with Tai Babilonia] 1979; US C'ships 1976–1980), born in Los Angeles, California
• 1960-02-08 Linda Fratianne, American figure skater (Olympic silver 1980), born in Los Angeles, California
• 1960-08-02 Linda Fratianne, American figure skater (Olympic silver 1980), born in Northridge, Los Angeles
• 1961-12-18 Brian Orser, Canadian figure skater (Olympic silver 1988)
• 1962-04-10 Cathy Turner, American short track skater (Olympic gold 1994), born in Rochester, New York
• 1963-01-28 Denise Biellmann, Swiss figure skater (World C'ship gold ladies singles 1981), born in Zurich, Switzerland
• 1963-05-21 Elena Vodorezova, Russian figure skater (Olympic-1976) and coach, born in Moscow, USSR

• 1964-10-28 Paul Wylie, figure skater (Olympic-silver)
• 1964-11-17 Marina Tcherkasova, American pairs figure skater (Olympic silver 1980)
• 1964-12-23 Andy Gabel, American short track skater (Olympics 1994), born in Chicago, Illinois
• 1964-12-28 Charles Sinek, American ice dancer (& Beata Handra-1997 Pac Coast Sr 3rd), born in Wilmington, North Carolina
• 1965-04-12 Elaine Zayak, American figure skater (Olympic 6th 1984), born in Paramus, New Jersey
• 1965-08-07 Elizabeth Manley, Canadian figure skater (Olympic silver, 1988), born in Quinte West, Ontario
• 1965-12-03 Katarina Witt, German figure skater (Olympic gold ladies singles 1984, 88; World C'ship gold 1984-85, 87-88), born in Staaken, Germany

• 1966-10-18 Jerod Swallow, American ice skater (1997 Nationals), born in Ann Arbor, Michigan
• 1967-02-04 Sergei Grinkov, Russian figure skater (with Ekaterina Gordeeva - Pairs World Championship, 1986-87, 1989-90; Olympic gold, 1988 & 94), born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1995)
• 1967-03-09 Eric Flaim, American short track skater (Olympics silver 1988, 94), born in Pembroke, Massachusetts
• 1967-03-24 Richard Gillam, pairs skater (with partner Erin Moorad), born in Atlanta, Georgia
• 1967-03-25 Debi Thomas, American figure skater (Olympic bronze 1988)
• 1967-09-07 Kathaleen K. Cutone, American figure skater (1994 Collegiate champ)
• 1967-09-27 Jason Dungjen, American pairs skater (with partner Kyoko Ina), born in Detroit, Michigan
• 1967-09-28 Jason Dungjen, American pairs skater (Olympics 1994), born in Detroit, Michigan
• 1967-12-09 Caryn Kadavy, American figure skater, born in Erie, Pennsylvania,
• 1968-08-18 John Coyle, American short track skater (Olympics 1994), born in West Bloomfield, Michigan
• 1969-08-13 Midori Ito, Japanese ice skater (Olympic silver 1992), born in Tokyo, Japan
• 1969-08-21 Josee Chouinard, Canadian figure skater (Olympic-9th-1994), born in Montreal, Quebec
• 1969-09-07 Rudy Galindo, American figure skater, born in San Jose, California

• 1969-10-29 Peter Breen, American dance skater, born in Brockton, Massachusetts
• 1969-12-12 Kris Wirtz, Canadian ice pairs skater (1994 Skate Canada), born in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
• 1970-05-07 Sebastien Britten, Canadian figure skater (1995 Canadian Champ), born in Brossard, Quebec

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• 1956-06-06 Three-time Olympic Champion figure skater Sonja Henie (44) weds Norwegian shipping magnate and art patron Niels Onstad (47)
• 1960-04-30 American Olympic men's figure skating gold medallist (1956) Hayes Alan Jenkins marries Olympic women's champion Carol Heiss in NYC, NY
• 1976-06-06 Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Terry Bradshaw (27) weds ice skater JoJo Starbuck (25) at Bel-Air Hotel in Los Angeles

• 1984-09-14 Figure skater Marina Klimova (18) weds her partner Sergei Ponomarenko (23)
• 1987-03-05 Ice Skater Dorothy Hamill marries second husband Kenneth Douglas Forsythe (divorced 1995)
• 1991-04-20 Soviet Russian figure skater Ekaterina Gordeeva (19) weds Soviet Russian figure skater Sergei Grinkov (24), in a state sanctioned ceremony
• 1991-04-28 Soviet Russian figure skater Ekaterina Gordeeva (19) weds Soviet Russian figure skater Sergei Grinkov (24), in a Russian Orthodox Church religious ceremony
• 1993-09-04 Five-time U.S. national champion figure pair skater Jerod Swallow (26) weds his partner Elizabeth Punsalen (22)

• 1999-06-05 1994 Figure Skater World Champion Yuka Sato (26) weds her fellor skater Jason Dungjen

• 2002-06-10 Soviet-Russian 1988 and 1994 Olympic Champion skater Ekaterina Gordeeva (31) weds 1998 Olympic Champion figure skater Ilia Kulik (25) in San Francisco
• 2005-12-31 Olympic gold medal skater Jamie Sale (28) weds her pair figure skater David Pelletier (31) at Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel in Canada
• 2006-12-30 Canadian pair figure skaters David Pelletier (31) weds partner Jamie Sale (28) at the Fairmont Banff Springs hotel in Alberta, Canada
• 2009-02-07 Actress and skating champ Kristy Swanson (39) weds 1993 World Pair Skater Champion Lloyd Eisler (45) at The Madonna Inn in San Luis Obispo, California
• 2009-11-21 Ice skater Dorothy Hamill marries third husband John Alexander MacColl
• 2013-01-19 Figure skater five-time world champion Michelle Kwan (32) weds American lawyer Clay Pell at the First Unitarian Church of Providence, Rhode Island; divorce in 2017
• 2016-08-20 Olympic figure skater Sasha Cohen (31) weds Tom May in Cape Cod, Massachusetts
• 2017-05-19 Roller derby skater Bonnie Thunders weds NFL player Larry English (31) at The Montage in Laguna Beach, California
• 2021-12-31 Ice skater Adam Rippon marries real estate broker Jussi-Pekka Kajaala

• 1938-04-14 Gillis Grafström, Swedish figure skater (Olympic gold 1920, 24, 28), dies of blood poisoning at 44
• 1949-04-19 Ulrich Salchow, Swedish figure skater (Olympic gold men's singles 1908; 10 x World C'ship gold), dies at 71
• 1961-02-15 Dudley Richards, American figure skater (U.S. Pairs champion, 1961), dies in a plane crash at 29
• 1961-02-15 Laurence Owen, American figure skater (U.S. and North American champion), dies in a plane crash at 16

• 1961-02-15 Maribel Yerxa Owen, American figure skater (U.S. Pairs champion, 1961), dies in a plane crash at 20
• 1964-01-08 Martin Stixrud, Norwegian figure skater and coach (Olympic bronze 1920, coached Sonja Henie), dies at 87

• 1975-12-07 Beatrix Loughran, American figure skater (Olympic gold 1924, 1928, 1932), dies at 75
• 1976-04-23 Karl Schäfer, Austrian figure skater (Olympic gold 1932, 36), dies at 66
• 1978-03-12 Theresa Weld Blanchard, American figure skater (US Singles C'ship 1914, 20-24; Pairs C'ship 1920-27; Olympic bronze 1920), dies at 84
• 1986-05-17 Lyudmila Pakhomova, Russian ice dancer (World C'ship gold x 6; Olympic gold USSR 1976; with Alexandr Gorshkov), dies from leukemia at 39
• 1989-02-02 Ondrej Nepela, Slovak figure skater (Olympic gold men's singles 1972; World C'ships gold 1971, 72, 73), dies from cancer of the lymph nodes at 38
• 1991-07-27 Pierre Brunet, French figure skater (Olympic gold pairs 1928, 32 [Andrée Brunet]), dies at 89
• 1993-03-30 Andrée Bunet, French figure skater (Olympic gold pairs 1928, 32; World C'ship gold pairs 1926, 28, 30, 32), dies at 91

• 1994-02-19 Renske Vellinga, Dutch speed-skater, dies in auto-accident at 19
• 1994-04-15 John Curry, British figure skater (Olympic gold, World C'ship gold, European C'ship gold 1976), dies from AIDS at 44
• 1994-07-30 Theo van Scheltinga, skater, dies at 80
• 1994-12-15 Mollie Phillips, British figure skater and judge (first woman to referee a world championship), dies at 87
• 1995-01-02 Graham Sharp, British figure skater (World C'ship, European C'ship 1939), dies at 77
• 1995-11-20 Sergei Grinkov, Russian figure skater (with Ekaterina Gordeeva - Pairs World Championship, 1986-87, 1989-90; Olympic gold, 1988 & 94), dies at 28 of a heart attack on the practice rink in Lake Placid, New York,
• 1997-05-26 Erik Pausin, Austrian figure skater (Olympic silver pairs 1936; World C'ship silver x 5 [with sister Ilse Pausin]), dies at 77
• 1997-10-08 Robin Lee, American figure skater, dies at 77
• 1999-08-06 Ilse Pausin, Austrian figure skater (Olympic silver pairs 1936; World C'ship silver x 5 [with brother Erik Pausin]), dies at 80
• 2001-07-04 Keenan Milton, Professional Skater (b. 1974)
• 2001-07-08 Ernst Baier, German figure skater (Olympic gold 1936), dies at 95
• 2001-09-29 Mabel Fairbanks, Seminole-African American figure skater and coach (US Figure Skating Hall of Fame), dies at 85 [1]
• 2003-02-09 Vera Ralston [Věra Helena Hrubá], Czech figure skater and actress (Dakota, Accused of Murder), dies of cancer at 83
• 2008-01-10 Christopher Bowman, American figure skater (b. 1967)
• 2008-04-12 Cecilia Colledge, British figure skater (World C'ship gold ladies singles 1937; Olympic silver 1936; first female to land a two rotation jump), dies at 87
• 2011-06-27 Betty Callaway, English figure skating coach (Torvill & Dean, Regőczy & Sallay), dies after a fall at 83
• 2012-04-15 Joan Tozzer, American figure skater, dies at 90
• 2012-09-30 Barbara Ann Scott, Canadian figure skater (Olympic gold 1948, World champion 1947-48), dies at 84
• 2014-12-02 Don Laws, American figure skater and coach (Scott Hamilton, Patrick Chan, Tiffany Chin), dies from heart failure at 85
• 2015-01-24 Toller Cranston, Canadian figure skater (Olympic bronze men's singles 1976; World C'ship bronze 1974) and painter, dies of a heart attack at 65
• 2017-09-29 Ludmila Belousova, Russian figure skater (Olympic gold USSR pairs 1964, 68; World C'ship gold pairs 1965, 66, 67, 68 [Oleg Protopopov]), dies at 81
• 2021-06-18 Jeannette Altwegg, English figure skater (Olympic gold 1952), dies at 90
• 2022-11-17 Aleksandr Gorshkov, Russian ice dancer (World C'ship gold x 6; Olympic gold USSR 1976; with Lyudmila Pakhomova), dies at 76
• 2023-10-31 Oleg Protopopov, Russian figure skater (Olympic gold USSR pairs 1964, 68; World C'ship gold pairs 1965, 66, 67, 68 [Ludmila Belousova]), dies at 91
• 2023-11-02 Jutta Müller, German figure skating coach (GDR 3 x Olympic gold, 10 x World C'ship gold), dies at 94

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• Todd Eldredge
• Yuzuru Hanyu