In men's competition, there are two programs: A short program which is 2 minutes 50 seconds long and a Long Program (or Free Skate) which is 4 minutes 30 long.
In women's, there are also two programs: Short program which is 2 minutes 50 seconds long and a Long Program (or Free Skate) which is 4 minutes long.
In pairs, there are three programs: Short program which is 2 minutes 50 seconds long and a Long Program (or Free Skate) which is 4 minutes 30 seconds long.
In ice dance, there are three programs: Compulsory dance which is 2 minutes 30 seconds long, an Original dance which is approx 2 minutes 30 seconds long and Free dance which is 4 minutes long.
(all the programs could be plus or minus 10 seconds)
In the Olympics and other senior level skating competitions, short programs are 2:40. Long programs and free dances are 4:00, except for the men's long program, which is 4:30.
The four events are: short program, long program, freestyle, expedition.
figure skating
A free skate program is a program with the elements that are required for the level that you are competing at. It will be given a time range of how long the music can be. It must be to music. It's a long and short program in the olympics.
Surya Bonaly performed an illegal back flip in her figure skating long program at the 1998 Olympics.
Speed skating (long track and short track), ice hockey, and figure skating.
Yes, there are many records in figure skating. For example there is points records in each category (mens, womens, pairs, and dance) and in each level (eg senior, junior, novice) then there is records for most triple jumps in a program(short and long), most quads etc. there is records for most revolutions in a spin. there is many more these are just a few.
Figure skating has appeared in every Winter Olympics since the first Games in 1924.
Depends what group you are in.
no, one track is short and the other is long (its common sense)
yes
The earliest ice skating happened in southern Finland about 4000 years ago.
Figure skating was an event in the first Winter Olympics in 1924. (Prior to that, it was actually part of the Summer Olympics in 1908 and 1912.)