The sport figure skating was first played in 1772. A Treatise on Skating (1772) by Englishman Robert Jones, is the first known account of figure skating.
Figure skating started around 3000 BC. Figure skating competitions were first played in Europe in 1891. World figure skating started in 1896.
People have been ice skating for centuries. The first account of figure skating is in 1772. The first European championship was in 1891 and the International Skating Union was founded in 1892. Figure Skating was also first created by the Dutch in the 13 or 14 Century.
The first figure skating competition at the Olympics was at the 1908 Games in London.
In 1920 the mens figure skating started first.
On the day of Natalia's first figure skating competition, she did great and got first place. Natalia's favorite sport of all time is figure skating, even though she wasn't good at it.
Skating itself was first brought to America in the 1740's. Figure skating was developed several years later in the U.S.
Nancy Kerrigan first started figure skating when she was 6 years old.
Figure skating has appeared in every Winter Olympics since the first Games in 1924.
Athens 1896
Lee Lai Shun
Charles Jewtraw won the first ever Olympic winter gold medal in the 500 meter speed-skating.