World Figure Skating Hall of Fame facts for kids

Sonja Henie and Karl Schäfer were among the first skaters to join the Hall of Fame in 1976.

The World Figure Skating Hall of Fame is a special place that celebrates the amazing history of figure skating. It's like a museum and a hall of fame all in one! Here, the greatest figure skaters and important people in the sport are honored for their incredible achievements.

You can find the World Figure Skating Hall of Fame in Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States. It is located at the famous Broadmoor Resort. This Hall of Fame was created in 1976 to remember and celebrate the sport's legends.

Many famous skaters have been honored here. Some of these include Dick Button, Katarina Witt, Midori Ito, Sonja Henie, Alexei Yagudin, and Michelle Kwan. They are just a few of the many talented people recognized for their contributions to figure skating.

Honoring Figure Skating Legends

The World Figure Skating Hall of Fame honors athletes, coaches, and other important people who have made a big difference in figure skating. These individuals are chosen because of their outstanding skills, dedication, and impact on the sport. Being inducted into the Hall of Fame is one of the highest honors a figure skater can receive.

Who Gets Inducted?

People are chosen for the Hall of Fame based on their amazing careers. This includes Olympic champions, world champions, and those who have helped the sport grow. They might be skaters who performed incredible routines or coaches who trained many champions. Some are also pioneers who helped create new techniques or rules in skating.

A Look at the Inductees

Since 1976, many talented individuals have been welcomed into the World Figure Skating Hall of Fame. The table below shows some of the people who have been honored. They come from all over the world and represent different areas of figure skating, like singles, pairs, and ice dance.

Skater	Year Inducted	Discipline
Tenley Albright	1976
Andrée Joly / Pierre Brunet	1976
Dick Button	1976
Peggy Fleming	1976
Gillis Grafström	1976
Carol Heiss	1976
Sonja Henie	1976
David Jenkins	1976
T. D. Richardson	1976
Jacques Gerschwiler	1976
Jackson Haines	1976
Gustave Lussi	1976
Hayes Alan Jenkins	1976
Axel Paulsen	1976
Ulrich Salchow	1976
Karl Schäfer	1976
Reginald Wilkie	1976
Howard Nicholson	1976
Edi Scholdan	1976
Montgomery Wilson	1976
Willy Böckl	1977
Jean Westwood / Lawrence Demmy	1977
Donald Jackson	1977
Ludmila Belousova / Oleg Protopopov	1978
Maxi Herber / Ernst Baier	1979
Barbara Ann Scott	1979
Cecilia Colledge	1980
Barbara Wagner / Robert Paul	1980
Madge Syers	1981
Willie Frick	1981
William Hickok	1981
Herma Szabo	1982
Louis Rubenstein	1984
Werner Groebli	1984
Frances Dafoe / Norris Bowden	1984
Charlotte Oelschlägel	1985
Arnold Gerschwiler	1985
F. Ritter Shumway	1986
Courtney Jones	1986
Lyudmila Pakhomova / Aleksandr Gorshkov	1988
Irina Rodnina	1989
Jayne Torvill / Christopher Dean	1989
Scott Hamilton	1990
John Curry	1991
Jeannette Altwegg	1993
Richard Dwyer	1993
Ria Falk / Paul Falk	1993
Jacques Favart	1993
Georg Hasler	1993
Ronald Robertson	1993
Diane Towler / Bernard Ford	1993
James Koch	1994
Ekaterina Gordeeva / Sergei Grinkov	1995
William Tutt	1995
Katarina Witt	1995
Brian Boitano	1996
Herbert Clarke	1996
Sheldon Galbraith	1996
Carlo Fassi	1997
Lily Kronberger	1997
Benjamin Wright	1997
Tom Collins	1998
Josef Dědič	1998
Felix Kaspar	1998
Kristi Yamaguchi	1998
Ronald Ludington	1999
Gladys Hogg	1999
Dorothy Hamill	2000	Ladies' Singles
Marina Klimova / Sergei Ponomarenko	2000	Ice Dance
John Nicks	2000	Coach
Janet Lynn	2001	Ladies' Singles
Maribel Vinson	2002	Ladies' Singles and Pairs
Jutta Müller	2004	Coach
Toller Cranston	2004	Men's Singles
Midori Ito	2004	Ladies' Singles
Robin Cousins	2005	Men's Singles Creative/Professional role
Tamara Moskvina	2005	Pairs and Ladies' Singles Coach
Donald Gilchrist	2005	Non-athletic role
Kurt Browning	2006	Men's Singles
Frank Zamboni	2006	Skating Pioneer
Frank Carroll	2007	Coach
Tatiana Tarasova	2008	Coach
Wilhelm Bietak	2009	Creative/Professional role
Joyce Hisey	2009	Non-athletic role Judge
Brian Orser	2009	Men's Singles Coach
Nikolai Panin	2009	Special Figures
Barbara Underhill / Paul Martini	2009	Pairs
Alena Vrzáňová	2009	Ladies' Singles
Nobuo Satō	2010	Coach
Michelle Kwan	2012	Ladies' Singles
Viktor Balck	2013	Non-athletic role ISU President
Sjoukje Dijkstra	2013	Ladies' Singles
Ludowika Eilers-Jakobsson / Walter Jakobsson	2013	Pairs
Denise Biellmann	2014	Ladies' Singles
Lori Nichol	2014	Choreographer
Anna Hübler / Heinrich Burger	2014	Pairs
Friedrich Kachler	2014	Men's Singles Non-athletic role
Sonia Bianchetti Garbato	2015	Non-athletic role
Artur Dmitriev / Natalia Mishkutionok/ Oksana Kazakova	2015	Pairs
Doreen Denny	2015	Ice dance
Eduard Engelmann Jr.	2015	Skating pioneer
June Markham	2015	Ice dance
Henry Eugene Vandervell	2015	Skating pioneer
Sarah Kawahara	2017	Choreographer
Alexei Mishin	2017	Coach
Trixi Schuba	2017	Ladies' Singles
Shen Xue / Zhao Hongbo	2017	Pairs
Alexei Yagudin	2017	Men's Singles
Vivi-Anne Hultén	2017	Ladies' Singles Coach
Phyllis Johnson / James H. Johnson	2017	Pairs
Werner Rittberger	2017	Skating pioneer
Hans-Rudi Mauch	2017	Creative/Professional role
Shizuka Arakawa	2018
Sandra Bezic	2018
Emmerich Danzer	2018
Irina Moiseeva & Andrei Minenkov	2018
Viktor Petrenko	2018
Richard Porter	2018
Elena Valova & Oleg Vasiliev	2018
Bin Yao	2018
Natalya Bestemyanova & Andrey Bukin	2019
Ondrej Nepela	2019
Eva Romanova and Pavel Roman	2019
Gabriele Seyfert	2019
Yelena Tchaikovskaya	2019

Other Skating Halls of Fame

The World Figure Skating Hall of Fame is not the only place that honors great skaters. Other countries also have their own halls of fame. These include:

• Skate Canada Hall of Fame
• United States Figure Skating Hall of Fame