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{{Infobox museum
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[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 102-13104, Sonja Henie und Karl Schäfer.jpg|thumb|200px|alt=A woman and a man in figure skating blades stand on an outdoor ice rink posing for a shot. On the left, the woman has both hands in her waist, while the man has his right arm around her left arm.|[[Sonja Henie]] and [[Karl Schäfer (figure skater)|Karl Schäfer]] were among the initial 20 inductees to the Hall of Fame in 1976.]]
The '''World Figure Skating Hall of Fame''' serves as a repository for the sport of [[figure skating]]. The World Figure Skating [[Hall of Fame]] is where the greatest names in the history of the sport are honored. It is located at the [[Broadmoor Resort]] in [[Colorado Springs, Colorado]], United States.

The Hall of Fame was founded in 1976.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Hines |first=James R. |title=Historical Dictionary of Figure Skating |date=2011 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-0-8108-6859-5 |location=Lanham, Maryland |page=xxvi}}</ref>

Skaters such as [[Dick Button]], [[Katarina Witt]], [[Midori Ito]], [[Sonja Henie]], [[Alexei Yagudin]], and [[Michelle Kwan]] have been honored in the Hall of Fame.

==Inductees==
{|class=wikitable 
|- bgcolor="ffffff"
! Skater
! Year Inducted
! Discipline 
|-
| {{flagicon|USA}} [[Tenley Albright]]
|  align="center" | 1976
|-
| {{flagicon|FRA}} [[Andrée Brunet|Andrée Joly]] / <br> {{flagicon|FRA}} [[Pierre Brunet (figure skater)|Pierre Brunet]]
|  align="center" | 1976
|-
| {{flagicon|USA}} [[Dick Button]]
| align="center" | 1976
|-
| {{flagicon|USA}} [[Peggy Fleming]]
| align="center" | 1976
|-
| {{flagicon|SWE}} [[Gillis Grafström]]
| align="center" | 1976
|-
| {{flagicon|USA}} [[Carol Heiss]]
| align="center" | 1976
|-
| {{flagicon|NOR}} [[Sonja Henie]]
| align="center" | 1976
|-
| {{flagicon|USA}} [[David Jenkins (figure skater)|David Jenkins]]
| align="center" | 1976
|-
| {{flagicon|GBR}} [[T. D. Richardson]]
| align="center" | 1976
|-
| {{flagicon|CHE}} [[Jacques Gerschwiler]]
| align="center" | 1976
|-
| {{flagicon|USA}} [[Jackson Haines]]
| align="center" | 1976
|-
| {{flagicon|CHE}} [[Gustave Lussi]]
| align="center" | 1976
|-
| {{flagicon|USA}} [[Hayes Alan Jenkins]]
| align="center" | 1976
|-
| {{flagicon|NOR}} [[Axel Paulsen]]
| align="center" | 1976
|-
| {{flagicon|SWE}} [[Ulrich Salchow]]
| align="center" | 1976
|-
| {{flagicon|AUT}} [[Karl Schäfer (figure skater)|Karl Schäfer]]
| align="center" | 1976
|-
| {{flagicon|GBR}} [[Reginald Wilkie]]
| align="center" | 1976
|-
| {{flagicon|USA}} Howard Nicholson
| align="center" | 1976
|-
| {{flagicon|AUT}} [[Edi Scholdan]]
| align="center" | 1976
|-
| {{flagicon|CAN}} [[Montgomery Wilson]]
| align="center" | 1976
|-
| {{flagicon|AUT}} [[Willy Böckl]]
| align="center" | 1977
|-
| {{flagicon|GBR}} [[Jean Westwood (figure skater)|Jean Westwood]] / <br> {{flagicon|GBR}} [[Lawrence Demmy]]
| align="center" | 1977
|-
| {{flagicon|CAN}} [[Donald Jackson (figure skater)|Donald Jackson]]
| align="center" | 1977
|-
| {{flagicon|URS}} [[Ludmila Belousova]] / <br> {{flagicon|URS}} [[Oleg Protopopov]]
| align="center" | 1978
|-
| {{flagicon|GER|empire}} [[Maxi Herber]] / <br> {{flagicon|GER|empire}} [[Ernst Baier]]
| align="center" | 1979
|-
| {{flagicon|CAN}} [[Barbara Ann Scott]]
| align="center" | 1979
|-
| {{flagicon|GBR}} [[Cecilia Colledge]]
| align="center" | 1980
|-
| {{flagicon|CAN}} [[Barbara Wagner]] / <br> {{flagicon|CAN}} [[Robert Paul (figure skater)|Robert Paul]]
| align="center" | 1980
|-
| {{flagicon|GBR}} [[Madge Syers]]
| align="center" | 1981
|-
| {{flagicon|GER|empire}} Willie Frick
| align="center" | 1981
|-
| {{flagicon|USA}} William Hickok
| align="center" | 1981
|-
| {{flagicon|AUT}} [[Herma Szabo]]
| align="center" | 1982
|-
| {{flagicon|CAN}} [[Louis Rubenstein]]
| align="center" | 1984
|-
| {{flagicon|SUI}} [[Frick and Frack|Werner Groebli]]
| align="center" | 1984
|-
| {{flagicon|CAN}} [[Frances Dafoe]] / <br> {{flagicon|CAN}} [[Norris Bowden]]
| align="center" | 1984
|-
| [[Image:Flag of the German Empire.svg|20px]] [[Charlotte Oelschlägel]]
| align="center" | 1985
|-
| {{flagicon|SUI}} [[Arnold Gerschwiler]]
| align="center" | 1985
|-
| {{flagicon|USA}} [[F. Ritter Shumway]]
| align="center" | 1986
|-
| {{flagicon|GBR}} [[Courtney Jones (figure skater)|Courtney Jones]]
| align="center" | 1986
|-
| {{flagicon|URS}} [[Lyudmila Pakhomova]] / <br> {{flagicon|URS}} [[Aleksandr Gorshkov (figure skater)|Aleksandr Gorshkov]]
| align="center" | 1988
|-
| {{flagicon|URS}} [[Irina Rodnina]]
| align="center" | 1989
|-
| {{flagicon|GBR}} [[Jayne Torvill]] / <br> {{flagicon|GBR}} [[Christopher Dean]]
| align="center" | 1989
|-
| {{flagicon|USA}} [[Scott Hamilton (figure skater)|Scott Hamilton]]
| align="center" | 1990
|-
| {{flagicon|GBR}} [[John Curry]]
| align="center" | 1991
|-
| {{flagicon|GBR}} [[Jeannette Altwegg]]
| align="center" | 1993
|-
| {{flagicon|USA}} Richard Dwyer
| align="center" | 1993
|-
| {{flagicon|GER}} [[Ria Baran|Ria Falk]] / <br> {{flagicon|GER}} [[Paul Falk]]
| align="center" | 1993
|-
| {{flagicon|FRA}} [[Jacques Favart]]
| align="center" | 1993
|-
| {{flagicon|CHE}} Georg Hasler
| align="center" | 1993
|-
| {{flagicon|USA}} [[Ronald Robertson (figure skater)|Ronald Robertson]]
| align="center" | 1993
|-
| {{flagicon|GBR}} [[Diane Towler]] / <br> {{flagicon|GBR}} [[Bernard Ford]]
| align="center" | 1993
|-
| {{flagicon|CHE}} James Koch
| align="center" | 1994
|-
| {{flagicon|RUS}} [[Ekaterina Gordeeva]] / <br> {{flagicon|RUS}} [[Sergei Grinkov]]
| align="center" | 1995
|-
| {{flagicon|USA}} [[William Tutt]]
| align="center" | 1995
|-
| {{flagicon|GER}} [[Katarina Witt]]
| align="center" | 1995
|-
| {{flagicon|USA}} [[Brian Boitano]]
| align="center" | 1996
|-
| {{flagicon|GBR}} [[Herbert Clarke (skater)|Herbert Clarke]]
| align="center" | 1996
|-
| {{flagicon|CAN}} [[Sheldon Galbraith]]
| align="center" | 1996
|-
| {{flagicon|USA}} [[Carlo Fassi]]
| align="center" | 1997
|-
| {{flagicon|HUN}} [[Lily Kronberger]]
| align="center" | 1997
|-
| {{flagicon|USA}} Benjamin Wright
| align="center" | 1997
|-
| {{flagicon|USA}} Tom Collins
| align="center" | 1998
|-
| {{flagicon|CZE}} [[Josef Dědič]]
| align="center" | 1998
|-
| {{flagicon|AUT}} [[Felix Kaspar]]
| align="center" | 1998
|-
| {{flagicon|USA}} [[Kristi Yamaguchi]]
| align="center" | 1998
|-
| {{flagicon|USA}} [[Ronald Ludington]]
| align="center" | 1999
|-
| {{flagicon|GBR}} Gladys Hogg
| align="center" | 1999
|-
| {{flagicon|USA}} [[Dorothy Hamill]]
| align="center" | 2000
| Ladies' Singles
|-
| {{flagicon|URS}} [[Marina Klimova]] / <br> {{flagicon|URS}} [[Sergei Ponomarenko]]
| align="center" | 2000
| Ice Dance
|-
| {{flagicon|GBR}} [[John Nicks]]
| align="center" | 2000
| Coach
|-
| {{flagicon|USA}} [[Janet Lynn]]
| align="center" | 2001
| Ladies' Singles
|-
| {{flagicon|USA}} [[Maribel Vinson]]
| align="center" | 2002
| Ladies' Singles and Pairs
|-
| {{flagicon|GER}} [[Jutta Müller]]
| align="center" | 2004
| Coach
|-
| {{flagicon|CAN}} [[Toller Cranston]]
| align="center" | 2004 <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/incoming/cranston-inducted-into-the-world-figure-skating-hall/article20428913/|title=Cranston inducted into the World Figure Skating Hall|via=The Globe and Mail}}</ref>
| Men's Singles
|-
| {{flagicon|JPN}} [[Midori Ito]]
| align="center" | 2004 <ref>{{cite book|last1=Hasday|first1=Judy|title=Kristi Yamaguchi|url=https://archive.org/details/kristiyamaguchi0000hasd|url-access=registration|date=2007|publisher=Chelsea House Publications|isbn=978-0791092880}}</ref>
| Ladies' Singles
|-
| {{flagicon|GBR}} [[Robin Cousins]]
| align="center" | 2005
| Men's Singles <br> Creative/Professional role
|-
| {{flagicon|RUS}} [[Tamara Moskvina]]
| align="center" | 2005
| Pairs and Ladies' Singles <br> Coach
|-
| {{flagicon|CAN}} [[Donald Gilchrist]]
| align="center" | 2005 <ref>{{cite web|url=https://skatecanada.ca/2017/03/skating-community-mourns-the-passing-of-donald-gilchrist/|title=Skate Canada – Skating Community Mourns the Passing of Donald Gilchrist|website=skatecanada.ca|access-date=2017-04-19|archive-date=2017-05-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170528222324/https://skatecanada.ca/2017/03/skating-community-mourns-the-passing-of-donald-gilchrist/|url-status=live}}</ref>
| Non-athletic role
|-
| {{flagicon|CAN}} [[Kurt Browning]]
| align="center" | 2006
| Men's Singles
|-
| {{flagicon|USA}} [[Frank Zamboni]]
| align="center" | 2006
| Skating Pioneer
|-
| {{flagicon|USA}} [[Frank Carroll (figure skater)|Frank Carroll]]
| align="center" | 2007
| Coach
|-
| {{flagicon|RUS}} [[Tatiana Tarasova]]
| align="center" | 2008
| Coach
|-
| {{flagicon|AUT}} [[Wilhelm Bietak]]
| align="center" | 2009
| Creative/Professional role
|-
| {{flagicon|CAN}} Joyce Hisey
| align="center" | 2009
| Non-athletic role <br> Judge
|-
| {{flagicon|CAN}} [[Brian Orser]]
| align="center" | 2009 <ref>{{cite web|url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/sports_blog/2009/03/brian-orser-hea.html|title=Brian Orser heads list of World Figure Skating Hall of Fame inductees|date=13 March 2009|access-date=19 April 2017|archive-date=5 February 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110205181427/http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/sports_blog/2009/03/brian-orser-hea.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
| Men's Singles <br> Coach
|-
| {{flagicon|RUS}} [[Nikolai Panin]]
| align="center" | 2009
| Special Figures
|-
| {{flagicon|CAN}} [[Barbara Underhill]] / <br> {{flagicon|CAN}} [[Paul Martini]]
| align="center" | 2009 <ref>{{cite web|url=https://psmag.com/the-woman-who-s-teaching-the-nhl-how-to-skate-e72deaadb455|title=The Woman Who's Teaching the NHL How to Skate|website=psmag.com}}</ref>
| Pairs
|-
| {{flagicon|CZE}} [[Alena Vrzáňová]]
| align="center" | 2009
| Ladies' Singles
|-
| {{flagicon|JPN}} [[Nobuo Satō]]
| align="center" | 2010 <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2010/01/31/more-sports/satos-commitment-earns-hall-of-fame-nomination/|title=Sato's commitment earns Hall of Fame nomination|first=Jack|last=Gallagher|date=31 January 2010|via=Japan Times Online|access-date=19 April 2017|archive-date=8 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210208020028/https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2010/01/31/more-sports/satos-commitment-earns-hall-of-fame-nomination/|url-status=live}}</ref>
| Coach
|-
| {{flagicon|USA}} [[Michelle Kwan]]
| align="center" | 2012
| Ladies' Singles
|-
| {{flagicon|SWE}} [[Viktor Balck]]
| align="center" | 2013
| Non-athletic role <br> ISU President
|-
| {{flagicon|NED}} [[Sjoukje Dijkstra]]
| align="center" | 2013
| Ladies' Singles
|-
| {{flagicon|GER}} [[Ludowika Jakobsson|Ludowika Eilers-Jakobsson]] / <br> {{flagicon|FIN}} [[Walter Jakobsson]]
| align="center" | 2013
| Pairs
|-
| {{flagicon|SWI}} [[Denise Biellmann]]
| align="center" | 2014 <ref>{{cite web|url=http://web.icenetwork.com/news/2014/03/14/69270722/nichol-biellmann-make-world-figure-skating-hall|title=Nichol, Biellmann make world figure skating hall|website=icenetwork.com|access-date=2017-04-19|archive-date=2018-06-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180630204048/http://web.icenetwork.com/news/2014/03/14/69270722/nichol-biellmann-make-world-figure-skating-hall|url-status=live}}</ref>
| Ladies' Singles 
|-
| {{flagicon|CAN}} [[Lori Nichol]]
| align="center" | 2014
| Choreographer
|-
| {{flagicon|GER}} [[Anna Hübler]] / <br> {{flagicon|GER}} [[Heinrich Burger]] *
| align="center" | 2014
| Pairs
|-
| {{flagicon|AUT}} [[Fritz Kachler|Friedrich Kachler]] *
| align="center" | 2014
| Men's Singles <br> Non-athletic role
|-
| {{flagicon|ITA}} Sonia Bianchetti Garbato
| align="center" | 2015 <ref>{{cite web|url=http://web.icenetwork.com/news/2015/04/03/116150328|title=Dmitriev leads class of eight into World Hall of Fame|website=icenetwork.com|access-date=2017-04-19|archive-date=2017-04-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170420143809/http://web.icenetwork.com/news/2015/04/03/116150328|url-status=live}}</ref>
| Non-athletic role 
|-
| {{flagicon|RUS}} [[Artur Dmitriev]] / <br> {{flagicon|RUS}} [[Natalia Mishkutionok]]/ <br> {{flagicon|RUS}} [[Oksana Kazakova]]**
| align="center" | 2015
| Pairs
|-
| {{flagicon|GBR}} [[Doreen Denny]] ***
| align="center" | 2015
| Ice dance
|-
| {{flagicon|AUT}} [[Eduard Engelmann Jr.]] ***
| align="center" | 2015
| Skating pioneer
|-
| {{flagicon|GBR}} [[June Markham]] ***
| align="center" | 2015
| Ice dance
|-
| {{flagicon|GBR}} Henry Eugene Vandervell ***
| align="center" | 2015
| Skating pioneer
|-
| {{flagicon|CAN}} [[Sarah Kawahara]]
| align="center" | 2017 <ref>{{cite web|url=http://web.icenetwork.com/news/2017/04/09/222684538/yagudin-shen-and-zhao-headline-world-hof-class|title=Yagudin, Shen and Zhao headline World HOF class|website=icenetwork.com|access-date=2017-04-19|archive-date=2017-04-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170420144435/http://web.icenetwork.com/news/2017/04/09/222684538/yagudin-shen-and-zhao-headline-world-hof-class|url-status=live}}</ref> 
| Choreographer
|-
| {{flagicon|RUS}} [[Alexei Mishin]]
| align="center" | 2017 <ref>{{cite web|url=http://russkiymir.ru/en/news/222978/|title=Alexei Yagudin and Alexei Mishin elected to the Figure Skating Hall of Fame|website=russkiymir.ru|access-date=2017-04-19|archive-date=2017-04-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170420145024/http://russkiymir.ru/en/news/222978/|url-status=live}}</ref>  
| Coach
|-
| {{flagicon|AUT}} [[Trixi Schuba]]
| align="center" | 2017 
| Ladies' Singles
|-
| {{flagicon|CHN}} [[Shen Xue]] / <br> {{flagicon|CHN}} [[Zhao Hongbo]]
| align="center" | 2017 <ref>{{cite web|url=https://gbtimes.com/first-chinese-inducted-world-figure-skating-hall-fame|title=First Chinese inducted into World Figure Skating Hall of Fame|website=gbtimes.com}}</ref>
| Pairs
|-
| {{flagicon|RUS}} [[Alexei Yagudin]]
| align="center" | 2017 
| Men's Singles
|-
| {{flagicon|SWE}} [[Vivi-Anne Hultén]] ***
| align="center" | 2017  
| Ladies' Singles<br> Coach
|-
| {{flagicon|GBR}} [[Phyllis Johnson]] / <br> {{flagicon|GBR}} [[James H. Johnson (figure skater)|James H. Johnson]] ***
| align="center" | 2017 
| Pairs
|-
| {{flagicon|GER}} [[Werner Rittberger]] ***
| align="center" | 2017
| Skating pioneer
|-
| {{flagicon|SWI}} Hans-Rudi Mauch ***
| align="center" | 2017 
| Creative/Professional role
|-
| {{flagicon|JPN}} [[Shizuka Arakawa]]
| align="center" | 2018 
|-
| {{flagicon|CAN}} [[Sandra Bezic]]
| align="center" | 2018 
|-
| {{flagicon|AUT}} [[Emmerich Danzer]] ***
| align="center" | 2018 
|-
| {{flagicon|URS}} [[Irina Moiseeva]] & [[Andrei Minenkov]]
| align="center" | 2018 
|-
| {{flagicon|URS}} [[Viktor Petrenko]]
| align="center" | 2018 
|-
| {{flagicon|USA}} Richard Porter ***
| align="center" | 2018 
|-
| {{flagicon|URS}} [[Elena Valova]] & [[Oleg Vasiliev (figure skater)|Oleg Vasiliev]]
| align="center" | 2018 
|-
| {{flagicon|CHN}} [[Bin Yao]]
| align="center" | 2018 
|-
| {{flagicon|URS}} [[Natalya Bestemyanova]] & [[Andrey Bukin]]
| align="center" | 2019
|-
| {{flagicon|SVK}} [[Ondrej Nepela]]
| align="center" | 2019 
|-
| {{flagicon|TCH}} [[Eva Romanova]] *** and [[Pavel Roman]] ***
| align="center" | 2019
|-
| {{flagicon|GDR}} [[Gabriele Seyfert]]
| align="center" | 2019
|-
| {{flagicon|URS}} [[Yelena Tchaikovskaya]]
| align="center" | 2019
|}

{{note|1}} * Indicates that they were inducted into the golden category, which considers contributions prior to WWII.<br>
{{note|2}} ** Dmitriev was inducted with both partners he won Olympic gold with <br>
{{note|3}} *** Indicates that they were inducted into the legends category, which considers contributions prior to 1960.

==See also==
*[[Skate Canada Hall of Fame]]
*[[United States Figure Skating Hall of Fame]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://www.worldskatingmuseum.org World Figure Skating Hall of Fame] &ndash; official website
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20111123212430/http://www.worldskatingmuseum.org/whof.htm Hall of Fame Members: World Hall of Fame] webpage. World Figure Skating Museum and Hall of Fame website. Retrieved 2010-08-09.
*[http://www.worldskatingmuseum.org/Home_Page.htm Home] webpage. World Figure Skating Museum and Hall of Fame website. Retrieved 2010-08-09.
*[http://www.worldskatingmuseum.org/Museum_Visit.htm Visit] webpage. World Figure Skating Museum and Hall of Fame website. Retrieved 2010-08-09.
*[http://www.worldskatingmuseum.org/Museum_archives.htm Archives] webpage. World Figure Skating Museum and Hall of Fame website. Retrieved 2010-08-09.
*[http://www.worldskatingmuseum.org/Museum_HOF.htm Board of Trustees members and Advisory Council members] webpage. World Figure Skating Museum and Hall of Fame website. Retrieved 2010-08-09.

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