History of figure skating

banks of Lake Moss, Switzerland, date back to 3000 BC

In Dutch in the 13th or 14th century ice skates were made of steel, with sharpened edges on the bottom to aid movement. The construction of modern ice skates has remained largely the same.

association was formed, the Edinburgh Skating Club

1772 - the first instructional book concerning ice skating was published in London

an American.
He won the first Championships of America held in Troy, New York in 1864

and special figures.

Nikolai Panin, Russia's first Olympic champion.

as a medal sport at the 1976 Olympics

because of the years of war, Europe fell behind North America in terms of figure skating dominance

Winning gold at the 1964 Winter Olympics, Ludmila Belousova / Oleg Protopopov began a forty-year Soviet/Russian gold medal streak in pair skating

skating competitions: individual men’s and women’s events, pairs events, ice dancing and also team events

Synchronized skating and solo ice dance have grown in popularity