World Figure Skating Hall of Fame explained

World Figure Skating Museum & Hall of Fame
Coordinates:38.7938°N -104.8489°W
Website:www.worldskatingmuseum.org

The World Figure Skating Hall of Fame serves as a repository for the sport of figure skating. The World Figure Skating Hall of Fame is where the greatest names in the history of the sport are honored. It is located in Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States.

The Hall of Fame was founded in 1976.[1]

Skaters such as Dick Button, Katarina Witt, Midori Ito, Sonja Henie, Alexei Yagudin, and Michelle Kwan have been honored in the Hall of Fame.

Inductees

SkaterYear InductedDiscipline
Tenley Albright1976
Andrée Joly /
Pierre Brunet		1976
Dick Button1976
Peggy Fleming1976
Gillis Grafström1976
Carol Heiss1976
Sonja Henie1976
David Jenkins1976
T. D. Richardson1976
Jacques Gerschwiler1976
Jackson Haines1976
Gustave Lussi1976
Hayes Alan Jenkins1976
Axel Paulsen1976
Ulrich Salchow1976
Karl Schäfer1976
Reginald Wilkie1976
Howard Nicholson1976
Edi Scholdan1976
Montgomery Wilson1976
Willy Böckl1977
Jean Westwood /
Lawrence Demmy		1977
Donald Jackson1977
Ludmila Belousova /
Oleg Protopopov		1978
Maxi Herber /
Ernst Baier		1979
Barbara Ann Scott1979
Cecilia Colledge1980
Barbara Wagner /
Robert Paul		1980
Madge Syers1981
Willie Frick1981
William Hickok1981
Herma Szabo1982
Louis Rubenstein1984
Werner Groebli1984
Frances Dafoe /
Norris Bowden		1984
Charlotte Oelschlägel1985
Arnold Gerschwiler1985
F. Ritter Shumway1986
Courtney Jones1986
Lyudmila Pakhomova /
Aleksandr Gorshkov		1988
Irina Rodnina1989
Jayne Torvill /
Christopher Dean		1989
Scott Hamilton1990
John Curry1991
Jeannette Altwegg1993
Richard Dwyer1993
Ria Falk /
Paul Falk		1993
Jacques Favart1993
Georg Hasler1993
Ronald Robertson1993
Diane Towler /
Bernard Ford		1993
James Koch1994
Ekaterina Gordeeva /
Sergei Grinkov		1995
William Tutt1995
Katarina Witt1995
Brian Boitano1996
Herbert Clarke1996
Sheldon Galbraith1996
Carlo Fassi1997
Lily Kronberger1997
Benjamin Wright1997
Tom Collins1998
Josef Dědič1998
Felix Kaspar1998
Kristi Yamaguchi1998
Ronald Ludington1999
Gladys Hogg1999
Dorothy Hamill2000Ladies' Singles
Marina Klimova /
Sergei Ponomarenko		2000Ice Dance
John Nicks2000Coach
Janet Lynn2001Ladies' Singles
Maribel Vinson2002Ladies' Singles and Pairs
Jutta Müller2004Coach
Toller Cranston2004 [2] Men's Singles
Midori Ito2004 [3] Ladies' Singles
Robin Cousins2005Men's Singles
Creative/Professional role
Tamara Moskvina2005Pairs and Ladies' Singles
Coach
Donald Gilchrist2005 [4] Non-athletic role
Kurt Browning2006Men's Singles
Frank Zamboni2006Skating Pioneer
Frank Carroll2007Coach
Tatiana Tarasova2008Coach
Wilhelm Bietak2009Creative/Professional role
Joyce Hisey2009Non-athletic role
Judge
Brian Orser2009 [5] Men's Singles
Coach
Nikolai Panin2009Special Figures
Barbara Underhill /
Paul Martini		2009 [6] Pairs
Alena Vrzáňová2009Ladies' Singles
Nobuo Satō2010 [7] Coach
Michelle Kwan2012Ladies' Singles
Viktor Balck2013Non-athletic role
ISU President
Sjoukje Dijkstra2013Ladies' Singles
Ludowika Eilers-Jakobsson /
Walter Jakobsson		2013Pairs
Denise Biellmann2014 [8] Ladies' Singles
Lori Nichol2014Choreographer
Anna Hübler /
Heinrich Burger *		2014Pairs
Friedrich Kachler *2014Men's Singles
Non-athletic role
Sonia Bianchetti Garbato2015 [9] Non-athletic role
Artur Dmitriev /
Natalia Mishkutionok/
Oksana Kazakova**		2015Pairs
Doreen Denny ***2015Ice dance
Eduard Engelmann Jr. ***2015Skating pioneer
June Markham ***2015Ice dance
Henry Eugene Vandervell ***2015Skating pioneer
Sarah Kawahara2017 [10] Choreographer
Alexei Mishin2017 [11] Coach
Trixi Schuba2017 Ladies' Singles
Shen Xue /
Zhao Hongbo		2017 [12] Pairs
Alexei Yagudin2017 Men's Singles
Vivi-Anne Hultén ***2017 Ladies' Singles
Coach
Phyllis Johnson /
James H. Johnson ***		2017 Pairs
Werner Rittberger ***2017Skating pioneer
Hans-Rudi Mauch ***2017 Creative/Professional role
Shizuka Arakawa2018
Sandra Bezic2018
Emmerich Danzer ***2018
Irina Moiseeva & Andrei Minenkov2018
Viktor Petrenko2018
Richard Porter ***2018
Elena Valova & Oleg Vasiliev2018
Bin Yao2018
Natalya Bestemyanova & Andrey Bukin2019
Ondrej Nepela2019
Eva Romanova *** and Pavel Roman ***2019
Gabriele Seyfert2019
Yelena Tchaikovskaya2019

* Indicates that they were inducted into the golden category, which considers contributions prior to WWII.
** Dmitriev was inducted with both partners he won Olympic gold with
*** Indicates that they were inducted into the legends category, which considers contributions prior to 1960.

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Hines, James R. . Historical Dictionary of Figure Skating . 2011 . Scarecrow Press . 978-0-8108-6859-5 . Lanham, Maryland . xxvi.
  2. Web site: Cranston inducted into the World Figure Skating Hall. The Globe and Mail.
  3. Book: Hasday. Judy. Kristi Yamaguchi. registration. 2007. Chelsea House Publications. 978-0791092880.
  4. Web site: Skate Canada – Skating Community Mourns the Passing of Donald Gilchrist. skatecanada.ca.
  5. Web site: Brian Orser heads list of World Figure Skating Hall of Fame inductees. 13 March 2009.
  6. Web site: The Woman Who's Teaching the NHL How to Skate. psmag.com.
  7. Web site: Sato’s commitment earns Hall of Fame nomination. Jack. Gallagher. 31 January 2010. Japan Times Online.
  8. Web site: Nichol, Biellmann make world figure skating hall. icenetwork.com.
  9. Web site: Dmitriev leads class of eight into World Hall of Fame. icenetwork.com.
  10. Web site: Yagudin, Shen and Zhao headline World HOF class. icenetwork.com.
  11. Web site: Alexei Yagudin and Alexei Mishin elected to the Figure Skating Hall of Fame. russkiymir.ru.
  12. Web site: First Chinese inducted into World Figure Skating Hall of Fame. gbtimes.com.

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