Figure skating

Figure skating is an ice skating sporting event where individuals, mixed couples, or groups perform spins, jumps, and other "moves" on the ice, often to music. There are international competitions for figure skating, such as the World Championships, and figure skating is also an official event in the Winter Olympics. In languages other than English, figure skating is usually referred to by a name that translates as "artistic skating".

Notable figure skaters

Men

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• Brian Boitano
• Kurt Browning
• Jeffrey Buttle
• Dick Button
• Philippe Candeloro
• Steven Cousins
• Robin Cousins
• Toller Cranston
• John Curry
• Scott Davis
• Sergei Dobrin
• Todd Eldredge
• Grzegorz Filipowski
• Timothy Goebel
• Gillis Grafstrom
• Jackson Haines
• Scott Hamilton
• Donald Jackson

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• Brian Joubert
• Ilia Kulik
• Stéphane Lambiel
• Evan Lysacek
• Brian Orser
• Guy Owen
• Axel Paulsen
• Viktor Petrenko
• Evgeni Plushenko
• Ulrich Salchow
• Emanuel Sandhu
• Michael Shmerkin
• Karl Schafer
• Elvis Stojko
• Alexei Urmanov
• Johnny Weir
• Paul Wylie
• Alexei Yagudin

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Women

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• Tenley Albright
• Miki Ando
• Shizuka Arakawa
• Oksana Baiul
• Denise Biellmann
• Surya Bonaly
• Chen Lu
• Tiffany Chin
• Josee Chouinard
• Sasha Cohen
• Peggy Fleming
• Dorothy Hamill
• Tonya Harding
• Carol Heiss
• Sonja Henie
• Sarah Hughes
• Midori Ito
• Nancy Kerrigan
• Carolina Kostner
• Michelle Kwan
• Tara Lipinski
• Janet Lynn

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• Karen Magnussen
• Elizabeth Manley
• Laurence Owen
• Maribel Vinson-Owen
• Maribel Y. Owen
• Eva Pawlik
• Anna Rechnio
• Joannie Rochette
• Irina Rodnina
• Lucinda Ruh
• Yuka Sato
• Beatrix Schuba
• Barbara Ann Scott
• Irina Slutskaya
• Elena Sokolova
• Fumie Suguri
• Rosalynn Sumners
• Madge Syers
• Debi Thomas
• Katarina Witt
• Viktoria Volchkova
• Kristi Yamaguchi

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Pairs

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• Tai Babilonia & Randy Gardner
• Ludmila Belousova & Oleg Protopopov
• Yelena Berezhnaya & Anton Sikharulidze
• Isabelle Brasseur & Lloyd Eisler
• Kitty Carruthers & Peter Carruthers
• Ekaterina Gordeeva & Sergei Grinkov
• Anita Hartshorn & Frank Sweiding
• Christine Hough & Doug Ladret
• Maria Jelinek & Otto Jelinek
• Oksana Kazakova & Arthur Dimitriev
• Jenni Meno & Todd Sand

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• Natalia Mishkutienok & Arthur Dimitriev
• Kathryn Orscher & Garrett Lucash
• Irina Rodnina & Alexei Ulyanov
• Irina Rodnina & Aleksandr Zaitsev
• Jamie Salé & David Pelletier
• Xue Shen & Hongbo Zhao
• Barbara Wagner & Bob Paul
• Barbara Underhill & Paul Martini
• Dorota Zagorska & Mariusz Siudek
• Marcy Hinzmann & Aaron Parcham

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Ice Dancing

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• Marina Anissina & Gwendal Peizerat
• Albena Denkova & Maxim Staviyski
• Natalia Bestemianova & Andrei Bukin
• Shae-Lynn Bourne & Victor Kraatz
• Galit Chait & Sergei Sakhnovski
• Oksana Grischuk & Yevgeny Platov
• Marina Klimova & Sergei Ponomarenko
• Tatiana Navka & Roman Kostomarov

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• Lyudmila Pakhomova & Alexandr Gorshkov
• Jayne Torvill & Christopher Dean
• Maya Usova & Aleksandr Zhulin
• Renee Roca & Gorsha Sur
• Tanith Belbin & Benjamin Agosto
• Margarita Drobiazko & Povilas Vanagas
• Susanna Rahkamo & Petri Kokko

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