The World Figure Skating Hall of Museum and Hall of Fame is a museum and hall of fame for the sport of figure skating. It chronicles the history of the sport and honors the greatest names in figure skating and is recognized by the International Skating Union as the official world repository for figure skating records and history. It is located at the Broadmoor Resort in Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States. It also contains the United States Figure Skating Hall of Fame.
The Hall of Fame was founded in 1976.
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
Skater Year Inducted Discipline Tenley Albright 1976 Andrée Joly / Pierre Brunet 1976 Dick Button 1976 Peggy Fleming 1976 Gillis Grafström 1976 Carol Heiss 1976 Sonja Henie 1976 David Jenkins 1976 T. D. Richardson 1976 Jacques Gerschwiler 1976 Jackson Haines 1976 Gustave Lussi 1976 Hayes Alan Jenkins 1976 Axel Paulsen 1976 Ulrich Salchow 1976 Karl Schäfer 1976 Reginald Wilkie 1976 Howard Nicholson 1976 Edi Scholdan 1976 Montgomery Wilson 1976 Willy Böckl 1977 Jean Westwood / Lawrence Demmy 1977 Donald Jackson 1977 Ludmila Belousova / Oleg Protopopov 1978 Maxi Herber / Ernst Baier 1979 Barbara Ann Scott 1979 Cecilia Colledge 1980 Barbara Wagner / Robert Paul 1980 Madge Syers 1981 Willie Frick 1981 William Hickok 1981 Herma Szabo 1982 Louis Rubenstein 1984 Werner Groebli 1984 Frances Dafoe / Norris BowdenHines, p. 69 1984Pairs Charlotte Oelschlägel 1985 Arnold Gerschwiler 1985 F. Ritter Shumway 1986 Courtney Jones 1986 Lyudmila Pakhomova / Aleksandr Gorshkov 1988 Irina Rodnina 1989 Jayne Torvill / Christopher Dean 1989 Scott Hamilton 1990 John Curry 1991 Jeannette Altwegg 1993 Richard Dwyer 1993 Ria Falk / Paul Falk 1993 Jacques Favart 1993 Georg Hasler 1993 Ronald Robertson 1993 Diane Towler / Bernard Ford 1993 James Koch 1994 Ekaterina Gordeeva / Sergei Grinkov 1995 William Tutt 1995 Katarina Witt 1995 Brian Boitano 1996 Herbert Clarke 1996 Sheldon Galbraith 1996 Carlo Fassi 1997 Lily Kronberger 1997 Benjamin Wright 1997 Tom Collins 1998 Josef Dědič 1998 Felix Kaspar 1998 Kristi Yamaguchi 1998 Ronald Ludington 1999 Gladys Hogg 1999 Dorothy Hamill 2000 Ladies' Singles Marina Klimova / Sergei Ponomarenko 2000 Ice Dance John Nicks 2000 Coach Janet Lynn 2001 Ladies' Singles Maribel Vinson 2002 Ladies' Singles and Pairs Jutta Müller 2004 Coach Toller Cranston 2004 Men's Singles Midori Ito 2004 Ladies' Singles Robin Cousins 2005 Men's Singles Creative/Professional role Tamara Moskvina 2005 Pairs and Ladies' Singles Coach Donald Gilchrist 2005 Non-athletic role Kurt Browning 2006 Men's Singles Frank Zamboni 2006 Skating Pioneer Frank Carroll 2007 Coach Tatiana Tarasova 2008 Coach Wilhelm Bietak 2009 Creative/Professional role Joyce Hisey 2009 Non-athletic role Judge Brian Orser 2009 Men's Singles Coach Nikolai Panin 2009 Special Figures Barbara Underhill / Paul Martini 2009 Pairs Alena Vrzáňová 2009 Ladies' Singles Nobuo Satō 2010 Coach Michelle Kwan 2012 Ladies' Singles Viktor Balck 2013 Non-athletic role ISU President Sjoukje Dijkstra 2013 Ladies' Singles Ludowika Eilers-Jakobsson / Walter Jakobsson 2013 Pairs Denise Biellmann 2014 Ladies' Singles Lori Nichol 2014 Choreographer Anna Hübler / Heinrich Burger * 2014 Pairs Friedrich Kachler * 2014 Men's Singles Non-athletic role Sonia Bianchetti Garbato 2015 Non-athletic role Artur Dmitriev / Natalia Mishkutionok/ Oksana Kazakova** 2015 Pairs Doreen Denny *** 2015 Ice dance Eduard Engelmann Jr. *** 2015 Skating pioneer June Markham *** 2015 Ice dance Henry Eugene Vandervell *** 2015 Skating pioneer Sarah Kawahara 2017 Choreographer Alexei Mishin 2017 Coach Trixi Schuba 2017 Ladies' Singles Shen Xue / Zhao Hongbo 2017 Pairs Alexei Yagudin 2017 Men's Singles Vivi-Anne Hultén *** 2017 Ladies' Singles Coach Phyllis Johnson / James H. Johnson *** 2017 Pairs Werner Rittberger *** 2017 Skating pioneer Hans-Rudi Mauch *** 2017 Creative/Professional role Shizuka Arakawa 2018 Sandra Bezic 2018 Emmerich Danzer *** 2018 Irina Moiseeva & Andrei Minenkov 2018 Viktor Petrenko 2018 Richard Porter *** 2018 Elena Valova & Oleg Vasiliev 2018 Bin Yao 2018 Natalya Bestemyanova & Andrey Bukin 2019 Ondrej Nepela 2019 Eva Romanova *** and Pavel Roman *** 2019 Gabriele Seyfert 2019 Yelena Tchaikovskaya 2019 There have been no further inductions since 2019. There have been consistent inductions for U.S. figure skating contributions since 2019. https://usfigureskating.org/sports/2025/9/18/hall-of-fame.aspx
* Indicates that they were inducted into the golden category, which considers contributions prior to WWII. ** Dmitriev was inducted with both partners he won Olympic gold with *** 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
External links World Figure Skating Hall of Fame – official website Hall of Fame Members: World Hall of Fame webpage. World Figure Skating Museum and Hall of Fame website. Retrieved 2010-08-09. Home webpage. World Figure Skating Museum and Hall of Fame website. Retrieved 2010-08-09. Visit webpage. World Figure Skating Museum and Hall of Fame website. Retrieved 2010-08-09. Archives webpage. World Figure Skating Museum and Hall of Fame website. Retrieved 2010-08-09. Board of Trustees members and Advisory Council members webpage. World Figure Skating Museum and Hall of Fame website. Retrieved 2010-08-09.