Favorite skaters of everyone here

Another NC fan
I like them all, especially...

Johnny Weir
Todd Eldredge
Clay Aiken (yes, on hockey skates)

Sarah Hughes
Maria Butyrskaya
Julia Sebestyn

Shen/Zhao
Inoue/Baldwin
Don/Hunt

Drobiazko/Vanagas
Anissina/Peizerat
Belbin/Agosto

Germanice said:

Rudi Cerne was a quite popular skater in Germany and Europe at the beginn of the Eighties, along with Norbert Schramm.

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Norbert Schramm ! I'm ashamed I forgot him on my list :\ He was one of my faves at the time.
Thank you for the right spelling of "Cerne" I've had a glimpse of him as a TV host not long ago and it was kind of funny to see him doing this

Kotik

Women:

Maria Butyrskaya
Irina Slutskaya
Katarina Witt
Shizuka Arakawa
Sasha Cohen
Michelle Kwan
Midori Ito
Nicole Bobeck
Naiomi Nari Nam
Yuka Sato

Men:

Johnny Weir
Fedor Andreev
Alexei Yagudin
Elvis Stojko
Ilia Kulik
Timmy Goebel
Scott Davis

Pairs: Kyoko Ina & John Zimmerman!!

I'll just name the skaters, if I start to explain why I like those in particular, this post will probably take several pages and I think only the list of my favourite skaters alone will be long enough

ELIGIBLE SKATERS:

Ladies:
Irina Slutskaya
Elena Sokolova
Sasha Cohen
Vika Volchkova
Fumie Suguri
Julia Lautowa
Shizuka Arakawa
Carolina Kostner

Men:
Evgenij Plushenko
Stephane Lambiel
Kevin van der Perren
Sasha Shubin
Takeshi Honda
Sergej Davydov
Ilja Klimkin
Jeff Buttle

Dance:
Navka/Kostomarov
Denkova/Stavijski
Chait/Sakhnovsky
Delobel/Schönfelder
Winkler/Lohse
Lang/Tchernishev
Domnina/Shabalin
Gruchina/Gontcharov

Pairs:
Shen/Zhao
Zagorska/Siudek
P/T
TT/MM
Borzenkova/Chuivialev
Obertas/Slavnov
Pang/Tong

... and I'm sure, I've still forgotten some of my favourites, there are just too many of them out there ...


PRO/RETIRED

Ladies:
Oksana Bajul
Maria Butyrskaja
Lu Chen
Yuka Sato
Olga Markova
Josee Chouinard
Tanja Szewczenko

Men:
Alexej Yagudin, Alexander Abt cry: for having to mention both of them in the "retired" category now ...)
Viktor Petrenko
Alexej Urmanov
Ilja Kulik
Philippe Candeloro
Paul Wylie

Dance:
Klimova/Ponomarenko
Usowa/Zhulin
Gritchuk/Platov
Drobiazko/Vanagas
Lobatcheva/Awerbuch
Krylova/Owsiannikov (and Krylova/Fedorov)
Anissina/Peizerat

Pairs:
G&G
Berezhnaja/Sicharulidze
Mishkutenok/Dmitriew, Kazakova/Dmitriew
Bechke/Petrov
Abtibol/Bernadis
Shishkova/Naumov
Kovarikova/Novotny

... another pretty long list

Hi everyone, I'm new.....I always like to say my list of "least favorite" skaters would be much easier to answer as I love/like just about all the skaters. Even those on my "least favorite" list have entertained me or thrilled me at some point.....But here goes, and these are my VERY favorites:

Kurt Browning
Scott Hamilton
Alexei Yagudin
Paul Wylie
Todd Eldredge
Nicole Bobek
Yuka Sato
Katarina Witt
Katia Gordeeva
Sasha Cohen
(some of these pairs/dance pairs are retired now
Bechke/Petrov
Underhill/Martini
Leonova/Khvalko
Ina/Zimmerman
Kazakova/Dmitriev
Roca/Sur
Bourne/Kratz
Lang/Tchernychev
Belbin/Agosto

Here are my favorite skaters
Men:
Evegeni Plushenko
Alexei Yagudin

Ladies:
Irina Slutskaya
Elena Liashenko
Galina Maniachenko
Elena Sokolova
Sasha Cohen
Viktoria Volchkova

Pairs:
Berezhnaya and Sikharulidze
Salé and Pelletier
Abitbol and Bernadis
Petrova and Tikhonov
Totmianina and Marinin

Dance (the best discipline!):
Navka and Kostomorov
Grushina and Gonchorov
Denkova and Stavitski
Delobel and Schoenfelder
Chait and Sakhnovski
Lobacheva and Averbukh
Dubreuil and Lauzon
Winkler and Lohse

Clara

I'll spare the catagorising and just list...

Men:
Alexei Yagudin
Paul Wylie
Brian Joubert
Kevin van der Perren
Rudi Gallindo
Stephen Cousins
Shepherd Clark (anyone remember him?)
Frederic Dambier
Stéphane Lambiel

Women:
Michelle Kwan
Sasha Cohen
Shizuka Arakawa
Kristi Yamaguchi
Fumie Suguri
Josée Chouinard
Carolina Kostner

Pairs:
Shen/Zhao
Totmianina/Marinin
Bechke/Petrov
Kovarikova/Novotny
Sale/Pelletier
Kazakova, Mishketunok/Dmitriev
Hartshorn/Sweiding
Leonova/Khvalko

Ice Dance:
Belbin/Agosto
Torvill/Dean
Bourne/Kraatz
Usova/Platov
Navka/Kostomarov
Krylova/Ovsiannikov

Whatever did happen to Shepherd Clark? I know he had a rough time because of his ADD, but he just kinda disappeared. Anyone know?

Evgeni Plushenko and Alexei Yagudin. That's all I need.


Ahh...delicious.

I lurve...

NAOMI NARI NAM- my first crush. I was 11 and I saw her on TV when she was 13. I am rooting avidly for her comeback!

Carolina Kostner- triple-triples! wheee! I also met her at skate america, she is a very sweet girl

Viktoria Pavuk- A lot of power, triple triples, nice speed and a very, very cool style

Miriam Manzano! Saw her at Worlds and I love the pure joy in her skating, and how she keeps competing and improving steadily even at a relatively advanced age.

Mojca Kopac- I really admire her persistence, she has a lovely unique style.

Elena Liashenko- I love her tango presentation. Love love love it. Also admire her persistence and the extremely high level she has been able to achieve at an advanced age...equaled only by Butyrskaya

Shizuka Arakawa- love her huge jumps and voidy presentation. She was off the Japanese team for a while around 99, 2000, the alternate to everything. But she managed to skate her way back onto it. While this was back when Team Japan had about as much depth as a mudpuddle (Yuka Kanazawa, Arisa Yamasaki, Utako Wakamatsu...ever heard of them? [except Utako as a pair]) I still respect her for "fighting against the current". Huge, powerful jumps, daring 3-3s and a nice unique style...plus consistency. She is the most well rounded skater on the circuit right now.

Fumie Suguri- Zzzzzzzzzzzz! So fast and light, she skates like a dragonfly skimming on water. In person, it's really breathtaking to watch.

Sasha Cohen makes my heart go 1000000000 miles an hour when she skates, but maybe that's just her inconsistency.

Dan Fang has a lovely, elegant style; stole my heart at Worlds. Still mourning the autograph I lost when I was running to OD practice in the rain :-(

Jenna McCorkell- Raw Power. Love her huge jumps as well as her smile!

For the pairs: SHEN/ZHAO ARE MY BABIES. MY FAVORITES FOR ALL TIME

I'll do my fave guys (including Todd Eldredge) sometime when I'm not in a computer lab about to close.

Pairs: Gordeeva & Grinkov (for ever they'll be my favorite pair),
Dance: Denkova & Stavisky, Klimova & Ponomarenko, Anissina & Peizerat, Lang & Tchernyshev, Gregory & Pethukov

Favorite skaters

Men - Todd Eldredge (duh!), Paul Wylie, Brian Orser, Elvis Stojko, Jeff Buttle, Takeshi Honda, Matt Savoie

Ladies - Midori Ito, Kristi Yamaguchi, Yuka Sato, Michelle Kwan, Jenny Kirk, Jen Robinson, Caryn Kadavy, Fumie Suguri

Pairs - G&G, Kazakova & Dmitriev, Brasseur & Eisler, Yuka & Jason, Langlois & Archetto, Shen & Zhao

Dance - Torvill & Dean, Roca & Sur, B&K, Naomi & Peter (boohoo), Tanith & Ben, Klimova & Ponomorenko, Angelika Krylova & Oleg Ovsiannikov, Drobiazko & Vanagas

From all the posts I've read over the years, I would say that in the past five years, Alexei Yagudin is in first place with Michelle Kwan a close second.

Also high on the list of Golden Skate favorites are: Sasha Cohen, Ilia Kulic, Kurt Browning, Fumie Suguri.

Others who have a large following are Oksana Baiul, Scott Hamilton, Brian Boitano, Elvis Stoyko, Philippe Candoloro.

None of this is the result of a scientific poll.

Joe