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International Skating Union

ice skating organization
Also known as: ISU

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governance of ice skating sports

  • Kurt Browning
    In figure skating: Pioneers of the sport

    The International Skating Union (ISU), founded in the Netherlands in 1892, was created to oversee skating internationally. It sanctions speed skating as well as figure skating and sponsors the world championships held annually since 1896. With more than 50 member nations, the ISU establishes rules about…

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  • types of skates
    In ice skating

    …interim, founded in 1892 the International Skating Union (ISU), which thereafter became the world governing body for speed skating, ice dancing, and figure skating. World championships had begun in the 1890s for speed skating (men only) and figure skating. Women’s speed-skating world championships were first held in 1936. Figure skating…

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role of Salchow

  • In Ulrich Salchow

    …served as president of the International Skating Union, the body that regulates speed and figure skating. He was a member of the Swedish amateur boxing committee from 1919 to 1932.

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