World Figure Skating Hall of Fame facts for kids
| Location | 20 First Street Colorado Springs, Colorado |
|---|---|
| Type | Hall of fame |
Sonja Henie and Karl Schäfer were among the initial 20 inductees to the Hall of Fame in 1976.
The World Figure Skating Hall of Fame serves as a repository for the sport of figure skating. The World Figure Skating Hall of Fame is where the greatest names in the history of the sport are honored. It is located in Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States.
Skaters such as Dick Button, Katarina Witt, Midori Ito, Sonja Henie, Alexei Yagudin, and Michelle Kwan have been honored in the Hall of Fame.
Inductees
| 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 | align="center" | 2014 |
Pairs | |
| Friedrich Kachler | align="center" | 2014 |
Men's Singles Non-athletic role |
|
 Sonia Bianchetti Garbato |
2015 | Non-athletic role |
| Artur Dmitriev / Natalia Mishkutionok/ Oksana Kazakova*| align="center" | 2015 |
Pairs | |
| Doreen Denny **| align="center" | 2015 |
Ice dance | |
| Eduard Engelmann Jr. **| align="center" | 2015 |
Skating pioneer | |
| June Markham **| align="center" | 2015 |
Ice dance | |
| Henry Eugene Vandervell **| align="center" | 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 **| align="center" | 2017 |
Ladies' Singles Coach |
|
| Phyllis Johnson / James H. Johnson **| align="center" | 2017 |
Pairs | |
| Werner Rittberger **| align="center" | 2017 |
Skating pioneer | |
| Hans-Rudi Mauch **| align="center" | 2017 |
Creative/Professional role | |
| Shizuka Arakawa |
2018 | |
| Sandra Bezic |
2018 | |
| Emmerich Danzer **| align="center" | 2018 |
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| Irina Moiseeva & Andrei Minenkov |
2018 | |
| Viktor Petrenko |
2018 | |
| Richard Porter **| align="center" | 2018 |
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| Elena Valova & Oleg Vasiliev |
2018 | |
| Bin Yao |
2018 | |
| Natalya Bestemyanova & Andrey Bukin |
2019 | |
| Ondrej Nepela |
2019 | |
| Eva Romanova *** and Pavel Roman **| align="center" | 2019 |
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 Gabriele Seyfert |
2019 | |
| Yelena Tchaikovskaya |
2019 |
* Indicates that they were inducted into the golden category, which considers contributions prior to WWII.
** Dmitriev was inducted with both partners he won Olympic gold with
*** Indicates that they were inducted into the legends category, which considers contributions prior to 1960.
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