World Figure Skating Hall of Fame

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.

World Figure Skating Museum & Hall of Fame
Location20 First Street
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Coordinates38°47′38″N 104°50′56″W
TypeHall of fame
Websitewww.worldskatingmuseum.org
Sonja Henie and Karl Schäfer were among the initial 20 inductees to the Hall of Fame in 1976.

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
Skater Year Inducted Discipline
Tenley Albright 1976
Andrée Joly /
Pierre Brunet		 1976
Dick Button 1976
Peggy Fleming 1976
Gillis Grafström 1976
Carol Heiss 1976
Sonja Henie 1976
David Jenkins 1976
T. D. Richardson 1976
Jacques Gerschwiler 1976
Jackson Haines 1976
Gustave Lussi 1976
Hayes Alan Jenkins 1976
Axel Paulsen 1976
Ulrich Salchow 1976
Karl Schäfer 1976
Reginald Wilkie 1976
Howard Nicholson 1976
Edi Scholdan 1976
Montgomery Wilson 1976
Willy Böckl 1977
Jean Westwood /
Lawrence Demmy		 1977
Donald Jackson 1977
Ludmila Belousova /
Oleg Protopopov		 1978
Maxi Herber /
Ernst Baier		 1979
Barbara Ann Scott 1979
Cecilia Colledge 1980
Barbara Wagner /
Robert Paul		 1980
Madge Syers 1981
Willie Frick 1981
William Hickok 1981
Herma Szabo 1982
Louis Rubenstein 1984
Werner Groebli 1984
Frances Dafoe /
Norris Bowden		 1984
Charlotte Oelschlägel 1985
Arnold Gerschwiler 1985
F. Ritter Shumway 1986
Courtney Jones 1986
Lyudmila Pakhomova /
Aleksandr Gorshkov		 1988
Irina Rodnina 1989
Jayne Torvill /
Christopher Dean		 1989
Scott Hamilton 1990
John Curry 1991
Jeannette Altwegg 1993
Richard Dwyer 1993
Ria Falk /
Paul Falk		 1993
Jacques Favart 1993
Georg Hasler 1993
Ronald Robertson 1993
Diane Towler /
Bernard Ford		 1993
James Koch 1994
Ekaterina Gordeeva /
Sergei Grinkov		 1995
William Tutt 1995
Katarina Witt 1995
Brian Boitano 1996
Herbert Clarke 1996
Sheldon Galbraith 1996
Carlo Fassi 1997
Lily Kronberger 1997
Benjamin Wright 1997
Tom Collins 1998
Josef Dědič 1998
Felix Kaspar 1998
Kristi Yamaguchi 1998
Ronald Ludington 1999
Gladys Hogg 1999
Dorothy Hamill 2000 Ladies' Singles
Marina Klimova /
Sergei Ponomarenko		 2000 Ice Dance
John Nicks 2000 Coach
Janet Lynn 2001 Ladies' Singles
Maribel Vinson 2002 Ladies' Singles and Pairs
Jutta Müller 2004 Coach
Toller Cranston 2004 [1] Men's Singles
Midori Ito 2004 [2] Ladies' Singles
Robin Cousins 2005 Men's Singles
Creative/Professional role
Tamara Moskvina 2005 Pairs and Ladies' Singles
Coach
Donald Gilchrist 2005 [3] Non-athletic role
Kurt Browning 2006 Men's Singles
Frank Zamboni 2006 Skating Pioneer
Frank Carroll 2007 Coach
Tatiana Tarasova 2008 Coach
Wilhelm Bietak 2009 Creative/Professional role
Joyce Hisey 2009 Non-athletic role
Judge
Brian Orser 2009 [4] Men's Singles
Coach
Nikolai Panin 2009 Special Figures
Barbara Underhill /
Paul Martini		 2009 [5] Pairs
Alena Vrzáňová 2009 Ladies' Singles
Nobuo Satō 2010 [6] Coach
Michelle Kwan 2012 Ladies' Singles
Viktor Balck 2013 Non-athletic role
ISU President
Sjoukje Dijkstra 2013 Ladies' Singles
Ludowika Eilers-Jakobsson /
Walter Jakobsson		 2013 Pairs
Denise Biellmann 2014 [7] Ladies' Singles
Lori Nichol 2014 Choreographer
Anna Hübler /
Heinrich Burger *		 2014 Pairs
Friedrich Kachler * 2014 Men's Singles
Non-athletic role
Sonia Bianchetti Garbato 2015 [8] Non-athletic role
Artur Dmitriev /
Natalia Mishkutionok/
Oksana Kazakova**		 2015 Pairs
Doreen Denny *** 2015 Ice dance
Eduard Engelmann Jr. *** 2015 Skating pioneer
June Markham *** 2015 Ice dance
Henry Eugene Vandervell *** 2015 Skating pioneer
Sarah Kawahara 2017 [9] Choreographer
Alexei Mishin 2017 [10] Coach
Trixi Schuba 2017 Ladies' Singles
Shen Xue /
Zhao Hongbo		 2017 [11] Pairs
Alexei Yagudin 2017 Men's Singles
Vivi-Anne Hultén *** 2017 Ladies' Singles
Coach
Phyllis Johnson /
James H. Johnson ***		 2017 Pairs
Werner Rittberger *** 2017 Skating pioneer
Hans-Rudi Mauch *** 2017 Creative/Professional role
Shizuka Arakawa 2018
Sandra Bezic 2018
Emmerich Danzer *** 2018
Irina Moiseeva & Andrei Minenkov 2018
Viktor Petrenko 2018
Richard Porter *** 2018
Elena Valova & Oleg Vasiliev 2018
Bin Yao 2018
Natalya Bestemyanova & Andrey Bukin 2019
Ondrej Nepela 2019
Eva Romanova *** and Pavel Roman *** 2019
Gabriele Seyfert 2019
Yelena Tchaikovskaya 2019

^ * 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.

See also

References
  1. "Cranston inducted into the World Figure Skating Hall" – via The Globe and Mail.
  2. Hasday, Judy (2007). Kristi Yamaguchi. Chelsea House Publications. ISBN 978-0791092880.
  3. "Skate Canada – Skating Community Mourns the Passing of Donald Gilchrist". skatecanada.ca.
  4. "Brian Orser heads list of World Figure Skating Hall of Fame inductees". 13 March 2009.
  5. "The Woman Who's Teaching the NHL How to Skate". psmag.com.
  6. Gallagher, Jack (31 January 2010). "Sato's commitment earns Hall of Fame nomination" – via Japan Times Online.
  7. "Nichol, Biellmann make world figure skating hall". icenetwork.com.
  8. "Dmitriev leads class of eight into World Hall of Fame". icenetwork.com.
  9. "Yagudin, Shen and Zhao headline World HOF class". icenetwork.com.
  10. "Alexei Yagudin and Alexei Mishin elected to the Figure Skating Hall of Fame". russkiymir.ru.
  11. "First Chinese inducted into World Figure Skating Hall of Fame". gbtimes.com.
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