- Chock and Bates reclaim U.S. National title in Ice Dance
- Knierim and Knierim reclaim U.S. National title in Pairs
- Chen in comfortable lead at U.S. Nationals
- Kostornaia takes gold in Russian sweep at Europeans
- Sinitsina and Katsalapov edge out French for European title
- Alysa Liu defends national title in Greensboro
- This event has passed.
2020 Winter World Masters Games (Adult)
January 13 - January 19
The World Masters Games is an international multi-sport event held every four years for non-professional athletes. For figure skating, athletes must be 28 years old until June 30, 2019. Competitors who took part in ISU Competitions after June, 30th 2019, apart from “Adult Competitions,” are not entitled to participate at the WWMG. A competitor must be an individual member of an International Skating Union (ISU) Member, or a member of a club that is itself a member of an ISU Member. There are no nation or national teams represented at the Winter World Masters Games. Participants compete for themselves – there are no country delegations. Teams and pairs with mixed nationalities are allowed.
Did You Know?
The backward outside death spiral was invented in 1928 by Germany’s Charlotte Oelschlägel (August 14, 1898 – November 14, 1984) and Curt Neumann (although it was first performed with the skaters holding both hands and the woman not fully lowered toward the ice). They performed the first one-arm death spiral in Budapest in 1928.
Canadian pair Suzanne Morrow and Wallace Diestelmeyer are credited with being the first pair to perform the element in competition at the 1948 Olympics.
Ludmila Belousova and Oleg Protopopov (USSR) are credited for creating three versions of the death spiral: Cosmic spiral (backward inside), Life spiral (forward inside), and Love spiral (forward outside).
Who does your favorite death spiral? Discuss here!
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