Figure Skating News

US Olympic Hall of Fame inducts marathoner Joan Benoit Samuelson, figure skater Brian Boitano, boxer Oscar De La Hoya, volleyball player Karch Kiraly, and others

Zhang Dan and Zhang Hao of China take lead in pairs competition in World Figure Skating Championships in Goteborg, Sweden

The rivalry between Connecticut and Tennessee in women’s basketball took a step toward renewal on the court when each team was awarded a No. 1 seed in the N.C.A.A. tournament pairings.

Carolina Kostner finishes first in women's short program at US Figure Skating Championships

Tomas Verner (Czech Republic) wins men's European Figure Skating Championships

Aliona Savchenko and Robin Szolkowy (Germany) win their second successive pairs title at European Figure Skating Championships

Ms. Colledge, an innovative British figure skater, was the youngest athlete to compete in the Winter Olympics and later won an Olympic silver medal.

Jeffrey Buttle won the men’s title at the world figure skating championships Saturday, holding off the defending champion, Brian Joubert of France.

Evan Lysacek and Johnny Weir share nothing except their status as the top two figure skaters in the United States.

Johnny Weir and his rival, Evan Lysacek, finished with identical totals of 244.77. But Lysacek edged Weir for the men’s title because he had slightly better marks in his free skate.

Despite a fall on the opening jump of her free skate, 14-year-old Mirai Nagasu won her first United States Figure Skating senior women’s title.

Johnny Weird, a three-time national champion who finished third last year, skated a cleaner program to emerge as the leader with a score of 83.40.

After a disappointing 2006, Johnny Weir, the three-time defending men’s figure skating champion, has a new coach, a shorter haircut, a more focused approach, and an improved quadruple toe loop.

With the 2010 Winter Olympics young challengers are making themselves known at the United States Figure Skating Championships.

Mr. Bowman was a former U.S. figure skating champion dubbed “Bowman the Showman” for his flair on the ice.

Figure skater Dorothy Hamill will undergo treatment for breast cancer

Mr. Griffith was a bodyguard for the figure skater Tonya Harding who admitted that he had a role in the attack on her rival Nancy Kerrigan during Olympics tryouts.

The two-time world champion Stéphane Lambiel won the Grand Prix final men’s figure skating title Saturday, adjusting his program after two faulty jumps to edge Daisuke Takahashi.

Carolina Kostner of Italy earned the Cup of Russia gold in Moscow, topping the error-strewn overnight leader, Fumie Suguri, with an elegant free skate. Suguri’s mistakes allowed the American Rachel Flatt to take the silver medal. Suguri of Japan finished third. Kostner and Suguri remain in contention for a Grand Prix Final berth heading into the sixth and final preliminary competition next week in Japan.

A two-time world figure skating champion and Olympic medalist, Irina Slutskaya has not skated competitively in almost three years. But don’t call her retired.