Figure skating - Figure skating Figure skating is an ice skating sporting event where individuals and mixed couples compete to try to perform the most spectacular and accurately-performed elements while skating to music. Figure skaters use skates which differ slightly from hockey skates, to perform spins, jumps, and other "moves" on the ice, often to music. There are international competitions for figure skating, such as the World Championships and figure skating is also an official event in the Winter Olympics. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Jumps 2 Spins 3 Ice Dancing 4 Pairs 5 Competition format and scoring 6 Notable figure skaters 6.1 Men 6.2 Women 6.3 Pairs 6.4 Ice Dancing 7 See also: Jumps There are six major jumps in figure skating. All six are landed on a.
Figure skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics - Figure skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics 2002 Winter Olympic Games Figure skating Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Pairs 2 Men 3 Ice Dancing 4 Women Pairs Medals awarded February 11, 2002; second award ceremony February 17. Gold medal: Yelena Berezhnaya/Anton Sikharulidze (RUS) and Jamie Salé/David Pelletier (CAN) Bronze: Shen Xue/Zhao Hongbo (CHN) A controversial decision which extended the Russian dominance of pairs skating at the Olympics. Salé/Pelletier were the crowd favorites and skated a flawless program, while Berezhnaya/Sikharulidze stumbled during their double axel. Minutes before the Canadians went on, Salé accidentally collided with Sikharulidze and was rather shaken. Judges from Russia, the People's Republic of China, Poland, Ukraine, and France placed the Russians first; judges from the United States, Canada, Germany, and Japan gave the.
Figure skating jump - Figure skating jump A figure skating jump is determined by the launch, landing, and number of revolutions completed. Any jump of at least one but fewer than two revolutions is a single jump; similarly for double, triple, and quadruple jumps. Current world-class competition for men requires quadruples jumps, while women need triple jumps; just a few women are starting to be able to do quadruple jumps. An edge jump is any jump which takes off from the skating foot without bringing the free foot in contact with the ice to assist the takeoff. Edge jumps include the Axel, loop, and Salchow. The Axel jump, named for its originator Axel Paulsen, is launched on the forward outside edge and landed on the back outside edge of the.
Figure skating spin - Figure skating spin Types of spins in figure skating include the following. The upright spin is a standing forward or backward spin on one leg with the free foot next to the skating foot, the side of the toe touching the calf of the skating leg. This is the basic skating spin. The layback spin is an upright spin, usually performed by women, in which the arms are put in a circle in front of the body and the back arched so that the skater may look to the ceiling; the spin is accelerated by drawing in the arms. A scratch spin is a basic but difficult standing spin on an inside edge (usually the left foot), with the free leg extended in front, the thigh.
World Figure Skating Championships - World Figure Skating Championships World Figure Skating Championships: Men's singles winners: 1896 - Gilbert Fuchs, (Germany) 1897 - Gustav Hugel, (Austria) 1898 - Henning Grenander, (Sweden) 1899 - Gustav Hugel, (Austria) 1900 - Gustav Hugel, (Austria) 1901 - Ulrich Salchow, (Sweden) 1902 - Ulrich Salchow, (Sweden) 1903 - Ulrich Salchow, (Sweden) 1904 - Ulrich Salchow, (Sweden) 1905 - Ulrich Salchow, (Sweden) 1906 - Gilbert Fuchs, (Germany) 1907 - Ulrich Salchow, (Sweden) 1908 - Ulrich Salchow, (Sweden) 1909 - Ulrich Salchow, (Sweden) 1910 - Ulrich Salchow, (Sweden) 1911 - Ulrich Salchow, (Sweden) 1912 - Ulrich Salchow, (Sweden) 1913 - Fritz Kachler, (Austria) 1914 - Gösta Sandahl, (Sweden) 1922 - Gillis Grafström, (Sweden) 1923 - Fritz Kachler, (Austria) 1924 - Gillis Grafström, (Sweden) 1925 - Willy Böckl, (Austria) 1926.
Ice skating - Ice skating Ice skating is travelling on ice with skates, narrow blade-like devices moulded into special boots (or, more primitively, without boots, tied to regular footwear). It is mainly done for recreation and as a sport. It is possible on canals and lakes, etc. after it has been freezing for some time, and at indoor and outdoor skating tracks and areas with artificial cooling. In some countries with a temperate climate, e.g. the Netherlands, frozen canals and lakes are fairly rare, but skating is popular where these are encountered. A number of sports are based on the principle of ice skating: figure skating ice hockey short track speed skating speed skating synchronized skating See also: Elfstedentocht.
Figure eight - Figure eight Figure eight is a figure in figure skating. Figure eight is a type of knot, also called the Flemish knot. See Figure eight knot. In ouija mythology, the figure eight represents evil. A curve drawn to represent a figure eight is the lemniscate. This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name. If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link to point to the appropriate specific page..
Kristi Tsuya Yamaguchi - (born July 12 1971) is an Americann figure skater. Born in Hayward, California. With Rudi Galindo she won the junior pairs title at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in 1986, 1989 and 1990. In 1988 Yamaguchi won the singles and, with Galindo, the pairs titles at the World Junior Championships. From 1990 Yamaguchi concentrated on singles competition. At the 1992 Winter Olympics she won the singles gold medal. She also won both the 1991 and 1992 world championships. She established the Always Dream Foundation for children in 1996..
January 6 - the United States rules the 1933 Agricultural Adjustment Act unconstitutional in the case United States v. Butler et al (297 U.S. 1); Porky Pig premieres 1942 - Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to have a flight go around the world. 1946 - William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) hanged for treason 1950 - The United Kingdom recognizes the People's Republic of China. 1967 - United States Marine Corps and ARVN troops launch "Operation Deckhouse Five" in the Mekong River delta. 1973 - Schoolhouse Rock premieres 1982 - William Bonin convicted of being the "freeway killer". 1994 - Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the right leg by an assailant under orders from figure skating rival Tonya Harding. 1995 - A chemical fire occurs in an apartment complex in Manila, Philippines. Police.
January 20 - game also was the first time television commercials ran for a million dollars a minute. 1985 - Ronald W. Reagan is inaugurated for a second term as President of the United States. 1986 - Martin Luther King, Jr, day was celebrated as a federal holiday for the first time. 1986 - The United Kingdom and France announce plans to construct the Channel Tunnel. 1989 - George H. W. Bush is inaugurated as the 41st President of the United States. 1993 - Bill Clinton is inaugurated as the 42nd President of the United States. 1994 - In South Carolina, Shannon Faulkner becomes the first female student to attend The Citadel but soon drops out. 1996 - Yasser Arafat is elected president of the Palestinian Authority. 1997 - Bill Clinton starts his second.
Jacques Gerschwiler - Gerschwiler (1898--2000) was a noted Swiss figure skater and trainer. He was later elected to the Figure Skating Hall of Fame. He was the brother of Arnold Gerschwiler..
July 27 - one and injuring 111. 2002 - Air show disaster: A Sukhoi Su-27 fighter crashes during an air show at Lviv, Ukraine killing 85 and injuring more than 100 others, the largest air show disaster in history. Births 1824 - Alexandre Dumas fils, author (+ 1895) 1833 - Thomas George Bonney, geologist (+ 1923) 1857 - Augusta Stowe-Gullen, first woman to take a medical degree in Canada, feminist 1886 - Ernst May, architect (+ 1970) 1901 - Rudy Vallee, singer (+ 1986) 1903 - Nikolai Cherkasov, actor (+ 1966) 1904 - Isaac Bashevis Singer, writer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature 1978 (+ 1991) 1905 - Leo Durocher, member of the Baseball Hall of Fame (+ 1991) 1912 - Hilde Domin, writer 1915 - Mario Del Monaco, tenor (+ 1982) 1916.
Ice dancing - dancing Ice dancing is a form of pairs figure skating which draws from the world of ballroom dancing. It became a Winter Olympic Games medal sport in 1976. It differs from "regular" pair skating by severely limiting throws and lifts. The team of Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean famously won the Olympic gold medal in Sarajevo in 1984 with a dramatic free skate to Ravel's Bolero which earned unanimous 6.0s in artistic merit..
Ice skate - self across ice surfaces. There are three main types of ice skates: Figure skates are used in the sport of figure skating. They have a pick at the toe that allows the skater to push off of the ice. Hockey skates are used for playing the game of ice hockey. The boot is generally made of molded plastic. Racing skates have long blades and are used for speed skating. A clap skate (or clapper skate) is a type of skate where the shoe is connected to the blade using a hinge. See also roller skate, roller skating, inline skate.
Hannah Storm - Texas. Her first job was for WNDU-TV in South Bend, Indiana, between 1982 and 1983. In 1992, Storm was hired by NBC. She has worked four Olympic Games, as well as NBA and WNBA basketball, NFL football, figure skating, and MLB baseball. Hannah Storm became the first woman in American television history to host a major network's sports package when NBC had her host baseball games from 1995 to 1999, and then the NBA games from 1997 to 2002. She has introduced Robert Schnakenberg's series of books primarly based on the stories of WNBA players, these books are named Women Who Win. She also wrote a book named Go Girl: Raising Healthy, Successful Girls Through Sports. In October of 2002, she was signed to host NBC's The Early Show. Hannah Storm.
Zamboni - smooth the surface of an ice rink. Use of rinks such as hockey games and figure skating creates many pits and ridges in the ice. The Zamboni drags scrapers and brushes along the ice melting the top layer and smoothing it with water. The Zamboni is named after Frank J. Zamboni who invented the device in 1949. Before the Zamboni, resurfacing a rink was done with scrapers and hoses and took many workers over an hour to complete. Zamboni's device led to a great improvement which contributed greatly to the popularity of ice sports today. The machines are still manufactured by the Zamboni Corporation today..
University of Western Ontario - Administration (now the Richard Ivey School of Business) (1949), the Faculty of Engineering Science (1957), the Faculty of Law (1959), and Althouse College for Education students (1963). Other notable buildings on campus include Thames Hall (built in 1950), the Stevenson-Lawson Building (built in 1959), Middlesex College (with its clock tower, another distinctive feature of the university, built in 1960), Talbot College {built in 1966), Alumni Hall (built in 1967), the University Campus of the London Health Sciences Centre, the John P. Robarts Research Institute, the Lawson Health Research Institute, the D.B. Weldon Library, the John Labatt Visual Arts Centre, the Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel Laboratory, the University Community Centre, the Social Science Centre, and T.D. Waterhouse Stadium (built in 2001). There is also the Hume Cronyn Memorial Observatory, built in 1940.
February 15 - D. Roosevelt, but instead shoots Chicago, Illinois Mayor Anton J. Cermak, who dies of his wounds on March 6, 1933. 1942 - World War II: Singapore surrenders to Japanese forces. 1944 - World War II: Assault on Monte Cassino, Italy begins. 1950 - The Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China sign a mutual defense treaty. 1953 - 17-year-old Tenley Albright becomes the first American to win the world figure skating championship. 1961 - A Boeing 707 crashes in Belgium killing 73, including the entire United States figure skating team and several coaches. 1965 - A new red and white maple leaf design is adopted as the flag of Canada replacing the old Red Ensign standard. 1970 - A Dominican DC-9 crashes into the sea during takeoff from Santo Domingo.
February 3 - a day after Germany announces a new policy of unrestricted submarine warfare. 1918 - The Twin Peaks Tunnel begins service as the longest streetcar tunnel in the world (11,920 feet long). 1941 - World War II: The Nazis forcibly restore Pierre Laval to office in occupied Vichy, France. 1944 - United States troops capture the Marshall Islands. 1945 - World War II: Russia agrees to enter the Pacific Theatre conflict against Japan. 1947 - Percival Prattis becomes the first African American news correspondent allowed in the United States House and Senate press gallery. 1951 - Dick Button wins the American figure skating championship for the sixth time. 1959 - News of the February 2 plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and The Big Bopper becomes widely known. This date.
Elvis Stojko - Elvis Stojko Elvis Stojko is a Canadian figure skater. Stojko was born on March 22, 1972 in Richmond Hill, Ontario. He began skating at the age of 4 and won his first trophy when he was 6; as a child he also studied karate, earning a black belt when he was 16. Stojko won silver medals at the 1994 Winter Olympics and the 1998 Winter Olympics. He won the World Figure Skating Championships in 1994, 1995, and 1997. He also won the Canadian Championships in 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, and 2002 (he did not participate in 1995 or 2001). At the 1991 World Championships, he became the first person to land a quadruple-double jump combination; at the 1997 World Championship he became the first person to land a quadruple-triple.
