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The 2021 World Figure Skating Championships were held in Stockholm, Sweden from March 22–28, 2021. [1] Figure skaters competed for the title of world champion in men's singles, ladies' singles , pairs , and ice dance .
The 2020–21 figure skating season began on July 1, 2020, and ended on June 30, 2021. During this season, elite skaters competed at the 2021 World Championships , as well as at elite events such as the Grand Prix series and the Challenger Series .
Figure skating was first contested in the Olympic Games at the 1908 Summer Olympics. Since 1924, the sport has been a part of the Winter Olympic Games. Men's singles, ladies' singles, and pair skating have been held most often. Ice dance joined as a medal sport in 1976 and a team event debuted at the 2014 Olympics.
The U.S. Olympic figure skating pairs and ice dance nominees were announced Sunday, including U.S. ice dance champions Madison Chock and Evan Bates.
The team event is the newest Olympic figure skating event, first contested in the 2014 Games. It combines the four Olympic figure skating disciplines (men's singles, women's singles, pairs, and ice dance) into a single event; gold is awarded to the team that earns the most placement points.
Sui Wenjing and Han Cong of China shattered their own world record for a short program at the Beijing Games on Friday night, giving them the narrowest of leads over Russian rivals Evgenia Tarasova ...
German pair team Madge Syers and Edgar Syers at the 1908 Olympics Liudmila Belousova and Oleg Protopopov (the "Protopopovs"), in 1968 Irina Rodnina and Alexei Ulanov, in 1972. The International Skating Union (ISU) defines pair skating as "the skating of two persons in unison who perform their movements in such harmony with each other as to give the impression of genuine Pair Skating as ...
The ISU World Standings for single & pair skating and ice dance, are taking into account results of the preceding two seasons and the current season, and remains the basis for the draws at ISU events and part of the criteria for the selection of competitors for the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating and other ISU events designated by the ISU Council.