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Richard Callaghan is an American former figure skating coach. He is best known as the long-time coach of Todd Eldredge, the 1996 World champion and a six-time U.S. national champion. He also coached Nicole Bobek to her national title, and Tara Lipinski to Olympic, World, and national titles.
Former coach Richard Callaghan allegedly sexually abused Adam Schmidt while he was a teenager.
Sonja Morgenstern from Germany skates a compulsory figure, 1971. The demise and revival of compulsory figures occurred, respectively, in 1990, when the International Skating Union (ISU) removed compulsory figures from international single skating competitions, and beginning in 2015, when the first competition focusing entirely on figures took place.
Also in 2015, WFSS' Skating Hall of Fame was formed and the first World Figure Championship on black ice was held [1] [6] and renamed the World Figure and Fancy Skating Championships, or WFFSC, after the literary skating masterpiece that was written in 1895 by George A. Meagher, (The Champion Figure Skater of the World starting in 1891).
Amber Glenn, of the United States, competes in the women's free skating segment at the ISU Grand Prix Finals of Figure Skating, Saturday, Dec. 7, 2024, in Grenoble, France. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)
Sonja Morgenstern skates a compulsory figure.. Compulsory figures or school figures were formerly a segment of figure skating, and gave the sport its name.They are the "circular patterns which skaters trace on the ice to demonstrate skill in placing clean turns evenly on round circles". [1]
Kerrigan had been practicing skating on an ice rink in the arena shortly beforehand. The attack was planned by Jeff Gillooly, then-husband of fellow American figure skater Tonya Harding, and his co-conspirator Shawn Eckardt. [1] [2] [3] They hired Stant and his uncle Derrick Smith to carry out the attack. Gillooly and Eckardt both claimed that ...
Terry Kubicka from the U.S. was the first figure skater to successfully execute a legal backflip at the Olympics, during the 1976 Winter Olympics. [3] Kubicka got the idea of using the backflip in his skating from Evy Scotvold, his coach, who wanted to help advance athleticism in figure skating and to go beyond the triple jumps that were the most difficult elements in the sport at the time.