OnFocus Halls of Fame Spotlight: World Figure Skating Hall of Fame

Figure Skating fans: check out the World Figure Skating Hall of Fame and Museum

Museum

World Figure Skating
Museum & Hall of Fame
20 First Street
Colorado Springs, Colorado 80906

10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday*

Closed major holidays:

• Independence Day
• Veterans Day
• Thanksgiving (Thursday and Friday)
• Christmas Eve and Christmas Day
• New Year’s Day

*Hours and days are subject to change. To ensure the museum is open, please call 719-635-5200.

We look forward to your visit!

Learn more about the World Figure Skating Hall of Fame HERE

World Hall of Fame Members

1976

Tenley Albright (United States)
Andree Joly* & Pierre Brunet* (France)
Richard T. Button (United States)
Peggy G. Fleming (United States)
Gillis Grafstrom* (Sweden)
Carol Heiss (United States)
Sonja Henie* (Norway)
David Jenkins (United States)
T.D. Richardson* (Great Britain)
Jacques Gerschwiler* (Switzerland)
Jackson Haines* (United States)
Gustave Lussi* (Switzerland)
Hayes Alan Jenkins (United States)
Axel Paulsen* (Norway)
Ulrich Salchow* (Sweden)
Karl Schafer* (Austria)
Reginald J. Wilkie* (Great Britain)
Howard Nicholson* (United States)
Edi Scholdan* (Austria)
Montgomery Wilson* (Canada)

1977

Willy Boeckl* (Austria)
Jean Westwood & Lawrence Demmy* (Great Britain)
Donald Jackson (Canada)

1978

Liudmila Belousova & Oleg Protopopov (Soviet Union)

1979

Maxi Herber* & Ernst Baier*(Germany)
Barbara Ann Scott* (Canada)

1980

Cecilia Colledge* (Great Britain)
Barbara Wagner & Robert Paul (Canada)

1981

Madge Syers* (Great Britain)
Willie Frick* (Germany)
William O. Hickok IV* (United States)

1982

Herma Szabo-Stark* (Austria)

1984

Louis Rubenstein* (Canada)
Werner Groebli* (Mr. Frick) (Switzerland)
Frances Dafoe* & Norris Bowden* (Canada)

1985

Charlotte Oelschlagel* (Germany)
Arnold Gerschwiler* (Switzerland)

1986

F. Ritter Shumway* (United States)
Courtney L. Jones, OBE (Great Britain)

1988

Liudmila Pakhomova* & Alexander Gorshkov (Soviet Union)

1989

Irina Rodnina (Soviet Union)
Jayne Torvill & Christopher Dean (Great Britain)

1990

Scott Hamilton (United States)

1991

John Curry* (Great Britain)

1993

Jeannette Altwegg (Great Britain)
Richard Dwyer (United States)
Ria Baran Falk* & Paul Falk (Germany)
Jacques Favart* (France)
Georg Hasler* (Switzerland)
Ronald Robertson* (United States)
Dianne Towler & Bernard Ford (Great Britain)

1994

James Koch* (Switzerland)

1995

Ekaterina Gordeeva & Sergei Grinkov* (Russia)
William Thayer Tutt* (United States)
Katarina Witt (Germany)

1996

Brian Boitano (United States)
Herbert J. Clarke* (Great Britain)
Sheldon Galbraith* (Canada)

1997

Carlo Fassi* (United States)
Lily Kronberger* (Hungary)
Benjamin T. Wright* (United States)

1998

Tom Collins* (United States)
Josef Dedic* (Czech Republic)
Felix Kaspar* (Austria)
Kristi Yamaguchi (United States)

1999

Ron Ludington* (United States)
Gladys Hogg* (Great Britain)

2000

Dorothy Hamill (United States)
Marina Klimova & Sergei Ponomarenko (Soviet Union)
John Nicks (Great Britain)

2001

Janet Lynn (United States)

2002

Maribel Vinson Owen* (United States)

2003

Jutta Muller (Germany)
Toller Cranston* (Canada)
Midori Ito (Japan)

2005

Robin Cousins (Great Britain)
Tamara Moskvina (Russia)
Donald H. Gilchrist* (Canada)

2006

Kurt Browning (Canada)
Frank Zamboni* (United States)

2007

Frank Carroll (United States)

2008

Tatiana Tarasova (Russia)

2009

Willy Bietak (Austria)
Joyce Hisey (Canada)
Brian Orser (Canada)
Nikolai Panin-Kolomenkin* (Russia)
Barbara Underhill and Paul Martini (Canada)
Alena Vrzánová (Aja Zanova*) (Czechoslovakia)

2010

Nobuo Sato (Japan)

2012

Michelle Kwan (United States)

2013

Viktor Balck*^ (Sweden)
Sjoukje Dijkstra (Netherlands)
Ludowika Eilers-Jakobsson*^ (Germany) & Walter Jakobsson*^ (Finland)

2014

Denise Biellmann (Switzerland)
Anna Hubler*^ & Heinrich Burger*^ (Germany)
Friedrich Kachler*^ (Austria)
Lori Nichol (Canada)

2015

Sonia Bianchetti Garbato (Italy)
Doreen Denny^ (Great Britain)
Artur Dmitriev & Natalia Mishkutionok/Oksana Kazakova (Russia)
Eduard Engelmann Jr.* (Austria)
June Markham^ (Great Britain)
Henry Eugene Vandervell*^ (Great Britain)

2016

No candidates elected

2017

Vivi-Ann Hulten*^ Sweden
Sarah Kawahara (Canada)
Hans-Rudi Mauch*^ (Switzerland)
Alexei Mishin (Russia)
Werner Rittberger*^ (Germany)
Trixi Schuba (Austria)
Phyllis Wyatt Johnson*^ & James Henry Johnson*^ (Great Britain)
Shen Xue & Zhao Hongbo (China)
Alexei Yagudin (Russia)

2018

Shizuka Arakawa (Japan)
Sandra Bezic (Canada)
Emmerich Danzer^ (Austria)
Irina Moiseeva & Andrei Minenkov (Soviet Union)
Viktor Petrenko (Ukraine, Unified Team, Soviet Union)
Richard Porter*^ (USA)
Elena Valova & Oleg Vasiliev (Soviet Union)
Bin Yao (China)

2019

Natalya Bestemyanova & Andrey Bukin (USSR)
Ondrej Nepela* (Czechoslovakia)
Eva Romanova^ and Pavel Roman*^ (Czechoslovakia)
Gabriele Seyfert (East Germany)
Yelena Tchaikovskaya (USSR/Russia)

* Deceased
^ Selected by the Legends Committee, which considers contributions from 1960 and prior.

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