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Grand Slam of Figure Skating

christinaskater

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Can you name people who've won the Figure skating grand slam

Tara Lipinski
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attyfan

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I don't think Tara could have won the 4CCs; IIRC, it didn't exist until 1999. Plush and Yags each won Worlds, Olys, GPF and Euros.
 
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In addition to Plush and Yags, I'm pretty sure that all the recent OGM pairs have done it: Shen and Zhao, Totmianina and Marinin, Sale and Pelletier, and Berezhnaya and Sikharulidze. Also Navka and Kostamorov and Grishuk and Platov in dance (the latter I think when it was still the Champions Series Final).
 
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4CC and Grand Prix Final are fairly recent.
You have Tatiana Totmianina and Maxim Marinin ( pairs ), and Tatiana Navka and Roman Kostomarov ( ice dancing ).
And I'm pretty sure that's it.

EDIT : Excuse me, I'm wrong. You have Marina Anissina / Gwendal Peizerat of France in Ice dancing, and Elena Berezhnaya / Anton Sikharulidze of Russia in pairs. ( Actually, they won half a gold medal in Salt Lake City. )
 
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The oddest thing is that V&M, who are World, 4CC's, & Olympic champions, have never won the GPF.
In 2008/2009 and 2010/2011, they missed the fall season, and in 2009/2010, they finished second.

Plush won all 4, for sure.
 
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Of course, if you want to count the World Team Trophy in the grand slam, nobody has won except Evan.
 
Buttercup

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PolymerBob said:
Of course, if you want to count the World Team Trophy in the grand slam, nobody has won except Evan.
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WTT isn't exactly a major event, though.

I think the more impressive achievements are Grishuk and Platov winning each of these events at least twice; and Shen and Zhao, who won all the majors and each of the GPs, including the discontinued Bofrost - IIRC, they are the only skaters in any discipline to have done this.

Dick Button got the Grand Slam of his era: Olys, Worlds, Euros and the NA Championships. Now that is pretty cool, so :clap: for Uncle Dick.
 
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Buttercup said:
Dick Button got the Grand Slam of his era: Olys, Worlds, Euros and the NA Championships. Now that is pretty cool, so :clap: for Uncle Dick.
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Barbara Ann Scott did it as well! It was Dick and Barbara Ann's victories that barred non-Euros from competing at Europeans after 1948.

(Just checking, but don't you have to win all four events in the same year for it to be a Grand Slam?)
 
dorispulaski

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Well, I suppose you could win them in a row, but not the same season, like the golf "Tiger Slam".
 
blue dog

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Anett Potzsch and Katarina Witt did. Kat won the Grand Slam twice (84 and 88).
 
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Yagudin is the only person who has won the GPF, Euros/4CCs, Worlds, and Olympics in the same season. :)
 
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