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Single skating is a discipline of figure skating, wherein a single person skates alone. Men's singles and ladies' singles are both Olympic disciplines.[1] The other Olympic figure skating events are pair skating and ice dancing. Figure skating is an ice skating sporting event where individuals, mixed couples, or groups perform spins, jumps, and other moves on the ice, often to music. ...
The five Olympic rings were designed in 1913, adopted in 1914 and debuted at the Games at Antwerp, 1920. ...
Pair Skating Pair skating consists of a team of a man and a woman skating to music. ...
Ice dancing is a form of figure skating which draws from the world of ballroom dancing. ...
Competitions
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Single skating competitions consist of a short program and free skating (sometimes called the "long program"), usually performed within a day or two of eachother. At some competitions there is a cut after the short program and a skater must perform well enough in the short program to advance to the free skating portion of the competition. A figure skating competition is a judged sports competition in figure skating. ...
The Free Skating of figure skating, sometimes called the free skate or long program, is usually the second of two phases in major figure skating competitions in single skating and pair skating. ...
Short program Short programs at the senior and junior levels are two minutes and fifty seconds long. Skaters are penalized if they skate over that time limit.
Skaters must perform certain required elements.
Free skating International Skating Union (ISU) regulations state: The International Skating Union (ISU) is the international governing body for competitive ice skating disciplines, including figure skating, synchronized skating, speed skating, and short track speed skating. ...
Free skating consists of a well balanced program of free skating elements, such as jumps, spins, steps and other linking movements executed with a minimum of two footed skating in harmony with music of the competitor's choice, except that music with lyrics is not permitted. The Free Skating of figure skating, sometimes called the free skate or long program, is usually the second of two phases in major figure skating competitions in single skating and pair skating. ...
The free skating programs are 4 1/2 minutes long for men, 4 minutes for ladies. Skaters are allowed a time margin of +/- 10 seconds, and are penalized for going outside that range. The Free Skating of figure skating, sometimes called the free skate or long program, is usually the second of two phases in major figure skating competitions in single skating and pair skating. ...
Judging Figure skaters competing in an ISU-sanctioned event are judged under the ISU Judging System. The ISU Judging System (also called Code of Points (CoP) or the New Judging System (NJS)), is the scoring system currently used to judge the figure skating disciplines of mens and ladies singles, pair skating, ice dancing, and synchronized skating. ...
References - ISU Special Regulations, Single & Pair Skating, 2004
Notes - ^ Note: Women are referred to as ladies in International Skating Union regulations.
The International Skating Union (ISU) is the international governing body for competitive ice skating disciplines, including figure skating, synchronized skating, speed skating, and short track speed skating. ...
External links - Washington Post: All You Need to Know About Figure Skating
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