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- Quick-start for Russia’s Khudaiberdieva and Bazin
- Russia’s Mishina and Galliamov eager to show improvements
- Triple Axels are definitely on Emily Bausback’s ‘to do’ list
- Zagorski and Guerreiro: “We’re all in this together”
- This event has passed.
2019 U.S. Figure Skating Championships
January 18, 2019 - January 27, 2019
The U.S. Championships, held since 1914, is the nation’s most prestigious figure skating event in the United Sates. U.S. champions will be crowned in ladies, men’s, pairs and ice dance at the senior, junior, novice, intermediate and juvenile levels of the U.S. Figure Skating competitive structure. The event serves as the final qualifying event to make the U.S. World Figure Skating Team every year and the U.S. Olympic Team every four years.
Did You Know?
The “Charlotte” is named after German figure skater Charlotte Oelschlägel (August 14, 1898 – November 14, 1984) who first performed the move in the early 1900s. She retired in 1976 and was inducted into the World Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 1985. She is also credited with performing the first backward outside death spiral.
