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Figure Skating · Interesting Facts

Chapter 2: Records & Numbers

10 parts · 10 tests · 100 facts · updated 20 October 2026 · markdown

Records and numbers from Olympedia: the youngest and oldest Olympians, titles defended, the medal table by nation, nations' first medals, the most decorated skaters, the great World title collectors and runs, the host cities of the Worlds and the Youth Olympic Games.

2.21The Youngest Olympians

The youngest skaters, medallists and champions in Olympic figure skating, by Olympedia's age records.

Test 1The youngest at the GamesTake a test

  1. The British girl was eighth in the women's event; four years later she won Olympic silver.

    Source: Olympedia, Age records (figure skating, youngest and oldest, by medal) · recall

  2. Megan Taylor was seventh at 11 years 107 days, Cecilia Colledge eighth at 11 years 73 days.

    Source: Olympedia, Age records (figure skating, youngest and oldest, by medal) · recall

  3. The German skater won with Ernst Baier at Garmisch-Partenkirchen.

    Source: Olympedia, Age records (figure skating, youngest and oldest, by medal) · recall

  4. That makes her the youngest Olympic champion in an individual figure skating event.

    Source: Olympedia, Age records (figure skating, youngest and oldest, by medal) · recall

  5. No other Olympic figure skating medallist on Olympedia's list was younger than 15.

    Source: Olympedia, Age records (figure skating, youngest and oldest, by medal) · recall

  6. Only Maxi Herber was younger when she won an Olympic figure skating title.

    Source: Olympedia, Age records (figure skating, youngest and oldest, by medal) · recall

  7. He placed 26th; Alain Giletti had been 12 years 161 days old at Oslo 1952.

    Source: Olympedia, Age records (figure skating, youngest and oldest, by medal) · recall

  8. 15 years 128 days, 15 years 246 days, 15 years 253 days and 15 years 279 days.

    Source: Olympedia, Age records (figure skating, youngest and oldest, by medal) · recall

  9. 11 years 73 days (1932), 11 years 107 days (1932), 11 years 159 days (1968) and 11 years 306 days (1960).

    Source: Olympedia, Age records (figure skating, youngest and oldest, by medal) · recall

  10. A is Cecilia Colledge at 11, B Allen just short of 15, C Maxi Herber and D Tara Lipinski, both 15.

    Source: Olympedia, Age records (figure skating, youngest and oldest, by medal) · applied

2.22The Oldest Olympians

The oldest competitors, medallists and champions in Olympic figure skating, by Olympedia's age records.

Test 1The oldest at the GamesTake a test

  1. The American finished seventh at Lake Placid.

    Source: Olympedia, Age records (figure skating, youngest and oldest, by medal) · recall

  2. The Finn won at Antwerp and took pairs silver again at Chamonix 1924, aged 41.

    Source: Olympedia, Age records (figure skating, youngest and oldest, by medal) · recall

  3. At 35 years 276 days she is still the oldest woman to win Olympic figure skating gold.

    Source: Olympedia, Age records (figure skating, youngest and oldest, by medal) · recall

  4. The Briton won bronze in London, the first Olympics to hold figure skating.

    Source: Olympedia, Age records (figure skating, youngest and oldest, by medal) · recall

  5. No older skater has won a medal in a singles event at the Olympics.

    Source: Olympedia, Age records (figure skating, youngest and oldest, by medal) · recall

  6. He won with Shen Xue, herself 31, so the pair had a combined age of over 67.

    Source: Olympedia, Age records (figure skating, youngest and oldest, by medal) · recall

  7. Only Ludowika Jakobsson-Eilers was older among women who won Olympic figure skating gold.

    Source: Olympedia, Age records (figure skating, youngest and oldest, by medal) · recall

  8. 38 years 80 days, 36 years 350 days, 36 years 146 days and 35 years 213 days.

    Source: Olympedia, Age records (figure skating, youngest and oldest, by medal) · recall

  9. 45 years 225 days, 44 years 78 days, 41 years 359 days and 38 years 244 days.

    Source: Olympedia, Age records (figure skating, youngest and oldest, by medal) · recall

  10. A is Joseph Savage at 52, B Edgar Syers at 45, C Jakobsson at 38 and D Zhao Hongbo at 36.

    Source: Olympedia, Age records (figure skating, youngest and oldest, by medal) · applied

2.23Olympic Titles Defended

Skaters who won the same Olympic event twice, at back-to-back Games or years apart.

Test 1Winning the same title twiceTake a test

  1. They also won four World titles between 1926 and 1932.

    Source: Olympedia, list 291: figure skaters who defended an Olympic title at back-to-back Games; Olympedia, list 161: Olympians who won a medal at the World Figure Skating Championships · recall

  2. Oleg Protopopov was 35 at Grenoble, one of the oldest Olympic champions in the sport.

    Source: Olympedia, list 291: figure skaters who defended an Olympic title at back-to-back Games; Olympedia, Age records (figure skating, youngest and oldest, by medal) · recall

  3. Pairs and couples count twice, and three skaters won three in a row.

    Source: Olympedia, list 291: figure skaters who defended an Olympic title at back-to-back Games · recall

  4. No ice dancers had won the Olympic title twice before them.

    Source: Olympedia, list 291: figure skaters who defended an Olympic title at back-to-back Games · recall

  5. Olympedia lists them among skaters with titles in non-consecutive Games.

    Source: Olympedia, list 292: figure skaters with Olympic titles in non-consecutive Games · recall

  6. He had won in 2022 with Gabriella Papadakis, his partner for four World titles.

    Source: Olympedia, list 291: figure skaters who defended an Olympic title at back-to-back Games; Olympedia, Age records (figure skating, youngest and oldest, by medal); Olympedia, list 161: Olympians who won a medal at the World Figure Skating Championships · recall

  7. Bates was 36 years 350 days old at the 2026 team event, an age only Walter Jakobsson topped among champions.

    Source: Olympedia, list 291: figure skaters who defended an Olympic title at back-to-back Games; Olympedia, Age records (figure skating, youngest and oldest, by medal) · recall

  8. 1928, 1932, 1964 and 1994.

    Source: Olympedia, list 291: figure skaters who defended an Olympic title at back-to-back Games · recall

  9. 1988, 1992, 1994 and 1998: both won their two titles at Games that were not back to back.

    Source: Olympedia, list 292: figure skaters with Olympic titles in non-consecutive Games · recall

  10. They won in 1988, skipped 1992 and came back to win in 1994.

    Source: Olympedia, list 292: figure skaters with Olympic titles in non-consecutive Games · applied

2.24The All-Time Medal Table

Who has won what in Olympic figure skating, by Olympedia's medal table after Milano Cortina 2026.

Test 1Medals by nationTake a test

  1. Olympedia counts 57 medals, 19 of them gold.

    Source: Olympedia, Figure Skating (all-time medal table and events, after Milano Cortina 2026) · recall

  2. Its 57 medals are 19 gold, 17 silver and 21 bronze.

    Source: Olympedia, Figure Skating (all-time medal table and events, after Milano Cortina 2026) · recall

  3. Its 11 silver and 13 bronze medals lift it to second place by total medals.

    Source: Olympedia, Figure Skating (all-time medal table and events, after Milano Cortina 2026) · recall

  4. Most came early: Herma Szabo and Karl Schäfer were Austrian champions of the 1920s and 1930s.

    Source: Olympedia, Figure Skating (all-time medal table and events, after Milano Cortina 2026) · recall

  5. Four of them are gold, along with eight silver and five bronze.

    Source: Olympedia, Figure Skating (all-time medal table and events, after Milano Cortina 2026) · recall

  6. The women's singles and the pairs also stand at 27, ice dance at 15 and the team event at 4.

    Source: Olympedia, Figure Skating (all-time medal table and events, after Milano Cortina 2026) · recall

  7. The 1,848 Olympic figure skaters are spread over those 58 committees.

    Source: Olympedia, Figure Skating (all-time medal table and events, after Milano Cortina 2026) · recall

  8. 57, 30, 27 and 20 medals.

    Source: Olympedia, Figure Skating (all-time medal table and events, after Milano Cortina 2026) · recall

  9. 19, 15, 7 and 4 golds.

    Source: Olympedia, Figure Skating (all-time medal table and events, after Milano Cortina 2026) · recall

  10. A is the United States with 19, B the Russian Federation with 15, C Austria with 7 and D Canada with 6.

    Source: Olympedia, Figure Skating (all-time medal table and events, after Milano Cortina 2026) · applied

2.25Medals of Smaller Nations

First, only and rare Olympic figure skating medals of nations beyond the big four.

Test 1Nations and their medalsTake a test

  1. Belgium's other medal is a men's bronze for Robert Van Zeebroeck at St. Moritz 1928.

    Source: Olympedia, country pages for figure skating (BEL, KAZ, KOR, SUI, NED, ESP, GEO, UKR, TCH, FIN) · recall

  2. Kazakhstan's earlier Olympic medal was Denis Ten's bronze at Sochi 2014.

    Source: Olympedia, country pages for figure skating (BEL, KAZ, KOR, SUI, NED, ESP, GEO, UKR, TCH, FIN); Olympedia, Age records (figure skating, youngest and oldest, by medal) · recall

  3. Both came in the women's singles, at Vancouver and at Sochi.

    Source: Olympedia, country pages for figure skating (BEL, KAZ, KOR, SUI, NED, ESP, GEO, UKR, TCH, FIN) · recall

  4. Georges Gautschi took bronze in 1924 and Hans Gerschwiler silver in 1948.

    Source: Olympedia, country pages for figure skating (BEL, KAZ, KOR, SUI, NED, ESP, GEO, UKR, TCH, FIN) · recall

  5. She had taken silver in 1960; Dianne de Leeuw added another silver in 1976.

    Source: Olympedia, country pages for figure skating (BEL, KAZ, KOR, SUI, NED, ESP, GEO, UKR, TCH, FIN) · recall

  6. Spain also has a bronze from the pairs at the Youth Olympic Games.

    Source: Olympedia, country pages for figure skating (BEL, KAZ, KOR, SUI, NED, ESP, GEO, UKR, TCH, FIN) · recall

  7. Luka Berulava had earlier won a Youth Olympic pairs bronze with Alina Butaeva.

    Source: Olympedia, country pages for figure skating (BEL, KAZ, KOR, SUI, NED, ESP, GEO, UKR, TCH, FIN) · recall

  8. The Jakobssons in 1920, Lannoy and Baugniet in 1948, Dijkstra in 1964 and Ondrej Nepela in 1972.

    Source: Olympedia, country pages for figure skating (BEL, KAZ, KOR, SUI, NED, ESP, GEO, UKR, TCH, FIN) · recall

  9. 1960, 1968, 1972 and 1992; Jozef Sabovčík's bronze of 1984 sits between the last two.

    Source: Olympedia, country pages for figure skating (BEL, KAZ, KOR, SUI, NED, ESP, GEO, UKR, TCH, FIN) · recall

  10. A is South Korea (1 / 1 / 0), B Spain (0 / 0 / 1), C Switzerland (0 / 2 / 1) and D the Netherlands (1 / 2 / 0).

    Source: Olympedia, country pages for figure skating (BEL, KAZ, KOR, SUI, NED, ESP, GEO, UKR, TCH, FIN) · applied

2.26The Most Decorated Olympians

Four Olympic medals and more: Plyushchenko, Dmitriyev, Bates and Cizeron.

Test 1Medals at many GamesTake a test

  1. He took silver in the men's singles in 2002 and 2010, either side of the title.

    Source: Olympedia, Yevgeny Plyushchenko (athlete 101967) · recall

  2. That made two golds and two silvers from 2002 to 2014.

    Source: Olympedia, Yevgeny Plyushchenko (athlete 101967) · recall

  3. He won in 1992 with Nataliya Mishkutyonok and in 1998 with Oksana Kazakova.

    Source: Olympedia, Artur Dmitriyev (athlete 85233) · recall

  4. A new ISU rule had let professionals regain their Olympic eligibility for that season.

    Source: Olympedia, Artur Dmitriyev (athlete 85233) · recall

  5. He skated with Emily Samuelson in 2010 and with Madison Chock at every Games after that.

    Source: Olympedia, Evan Bates (athlete 119076) · recall

  6. They won the team event in 2026 as well, and Bates carried the US flag at the Closing Ceremony.

    Source: Olympedia, Evan Bates (athlete 119076) · recall

  7. Golds followed in 2022 and 2026, so Olympedia counts him at two golds and a silver.

    Source: Olympedia, Guillaume Cizeron (athlete 137190) · recall

  8. Four Games in a row, each with a medal.

    Source: Olympedia, Yevgeny Plyushchenko (athlete 101967) · recall

  9. 2010, 2014, 2018 and 2022; the silver came in 2026.

    Source: Olympedia, Evan Bates (athlete 119076) · recall

  10. Silver, gold, silver, gold: his four Games in a row, the last gold in the team event.

    Source: Olympedia, Yevgeny Plyushchenko (athlete 101967) · applied

2.27Most World Titles

The great collectors of World titles whose careers are over: seven, six and five titles.

Test 1World title collectorsTake a test

  1. Before them he had a bronze in 1927 and silvers in 1928 and 1929.

    Source: Olympedia, list 161: Olympians who won a medal at the World Figure Skating Championships · recall

  2. Her singles titles run from 1922 to 1926; the pairs titles came in 1925 and 1927.

    Source: Olympedia, list 161: Olympians who won a medal at the World Figure Skating Championships · recall

  3. They won from 1970 to 1974 and again in 1976, after a silver in 1969.

    Source: Olympedia, list 161: Olympians who won a medal at the World Figure Skating Championships · recall

  4. The sixth came in Milano in 2018 with her later partner, the year she also won Olympic gold.

    Source: Olympedia, list 161: Olympians who won a medal at the World Figure Skating Championships · recall

  5. She won in 1996, 1998, 2000, 2001 and 2003, with three silvers and a bronze besides.

    Source: Olympedia, list 161: Olympians who won a medal at the World Figure Skating Championships · recall

  6. Her run began right after a silver at the 1955 Worlds in Vienna.

    Source: Olympedia, list 161: Olympians who won a medal at the World Figure Skating Championships · recall

  7. Their titles came in 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012 and 2014.

    Source: Olympedia, list 161: Olympians who won a medal at the World Figure Skating Championships · recall

  8. Seven, six, five and four.

    Source: Olympedia, list 161: Olympians who won a medal at the World Figure Skating Championships · recall

  9. 1996, 1997, 2000 and 2004.

    Source: Olympedia, list 161: Olympians who won a medal at the World Figure Skating Championships · recall

  10. Row C matches her titles of 1996, 1998, 2000, 2001 and 2003; the other rows follow other patterns.

    Source: Olympedia, list 161: Olympians who won a medal at the World Figure Skating Championships · applied

2.28Four in a Row

World champions who won four titles in a row, from the 1920s to the 1980s.

Test 1Four World titles in a rowTake a test

  1. His four titles came in Hartford, Copenhagen, Helsinki and Ottawa.

    Source: Olympedia, list 161: Olympians who won a medal at the World Figure Skating Championships · recall

  2. He had won bronze in 1950 and 1952 before his run began in Davos.

    Source: Olympedia, list 161: Olympians who won a medal at the World Figure Skating Championships · recall

  3. He had been runner-up or third five times before the first title.

    Source: Olympedia, list 161: Olympians who won a medal at the World Figure Skating Championships · recall

  4. Their run started in Davos in 1966 and ended in Colorado Springs in 1969.

    Source: Olympedia, list 161: Olympians who won a medal at the World Figure Skating Championships · recall

  5. Their titles came from 1957 to 1960.

    Source: Olympedia, list 161: Olympians who won a medal at the World Figure Skating Championships · recall

  6. Baier had also won medals in singles, two silvers and two bronzes.

    Source: Olympedia, list 161: Olympians who won a medal at the World Figure Skating Championships · recall

  7. A silver in 2001 broke the run; his first World medal was a bronze in 1997.

    Source: Olympedia, list 161: Olympians who won a medal at the World Figure Skating Championships · recall

  8. 1925, 1936, 1953 and 1966.

    Source: Olympedia, list 161: Olympians who won a medal at the World Figure Skating Championships · recall

  9. 1981, 1982, 1983 and 1984.

    Source: Olympedia, list 161: Olympians who won a medal at the World Figure Skating Championships · recall

  10. A is 1953-56; B is Carol Heiss 1956-60, C Wagner and Paul 1957-60 and D Towler and Ford 1966-69.

    Source: Olympedia, list 161: Olympians who won a medal at the World Figure Skating Championships · applied

2.29Where the Worlds Were Held

Host cities of the World Championships, from Davos and Vienna to Colorado Springs and Tokyo.

Test 1World Championship hostsTake a test

  1. Carol Heiss won two of her five titles there, in 1957 and 1959.

    Source: Olympedia, list 161: Olympians who won a medal at the World Figure Skating Championships · recall

  2. The 1966 edition was the first of Diane Towler and Bernie Ford's four ice dance titles.

    Source: Olympedia, list 161: Olympians who won a medal at the World Figure Skating Championships · recall

  3. Karl Schäfer won his first World title there.

    Source: ISU, History (isu.org); Olympedia, list 161: Olympians who won a medal at the World Figure Skating Championships · recall

  4. Miki Ando won the women's title there in 2007.

    Source: Olympedia, list 161: Olympians who won a medal at the World Figure Skating Championships · recall

  5. Scott Hamilton won there in 1983 and Aleksey Yagudin in 1999.

    Source: Olympedia, list 161: Olympians who won a medal at the World Figure Skating Championships · recall

  6. Michelle Kwan's last World medal, a bronze, came there in 2004.

    Source: Olympedia, list 161: Olympians who won a medal at the World Figure Skating Championships · recall

  7. Carol Heiss won her first World medal there, a silver in 1955.

    Source: Olympedia, list 161: Olympians who won a medal at the World Figure Skating Championships · recall

  8. 1957, 1959 and 1969.

    Source: Olympedia, list 161: Olympians who won a medal at the World Figure Skating Championships · recall

  9. 1953, 1957, 1999 and 2007.

    Source: Olympedia, list 161: Olympians who won a medal at the World Figure Skating Championships · recall

  10. A is Colorado Springs 1957, B Davos 1966, C Tokyo 1977 and D Helsinki 1999.

    Source: Olympedia, list 161: Olympians who won a medal at the World Figure Skating Championships · applied

2.30The Youth Olympic Games

Figure skating at the Youth Olympic Games since 2012: the medal table, the youngest champions and later stars.

Test 1Youth Olympic recordsTake a test

  1. Seven of them are gold; Japan and South Korea have three golds each.

    Source: Olympedia, Figure Skating (all-time medal table and events, after Milano Cortina 2026) · recall

  2. The Korean won the boys' singles and the team event in 2024.

    Source: Olympedia, Figure Skating (all-time medal table and events, after Milano Cortina 2026); Olympedia, country pages for figure skating (BEL, KAZ, KOR, SUI, NED, ESP, GEO, UKR, TCH, FIN) · recall

  3. Arlet Levandi of Estonia won the same team gold eleven days older.

    Source: Olympedia, Age records (figure skating, youngest and oldest, by medal) · recall

  4. Only Polina Tsurskaya and Yelizaveta Tuktamysheva were younger winning a Youth Olympic singles title.

    Source: Olympedia, Age records (figure skating, youngest and oldest, by medal) · recall

  5. He was 18 at the Beijing Games of 2022, where he also won a team medal.

    Source: Olympedia, Age records (figure skating, youngest and oldest, by medal) · recall

  6. The boys' title that year went to Yan Han of China.

    Source: Olympedia, Age records (figure skating, youngest and oldest, by medal) · recall

  7. Its five medals are four silvers and a bronze.

    Source: Olympedia, Figure Skating (all-time medal table and events, after Milano Cortina 2026) · recall

  8. 14 years 37 days, 14 years 48 days, 14 years 218 days and 15 years 29 days.

    Source: Olympedia, Age records (figure skating, youngest and oldest, by medal) · recall

  9. 22, 9, 4 and 3 medals.

    Source: Olympedia, Figure Skating (all-time medal table and events, after Milano Cortina 2026) · recall

  10. A is Russia with 22, B Japan with 5, C South Korea with 4 and D China with 3.

    Source: Olympedia, Figure Skating (all-time medal table and events, after Milano Cortina 2026) · applied

Sources

Olympedia (age records, medal tables, lists 161, 205, 291 and 292, athlete and country pages), the counts taken after the Milano Cortina 2026 Games and dated in the questions. Skaters asked in Knowledge Testing levels 9-10 are not keyed again. Every fact is recorded with its source in docs/FIGURE_SKATING_VERIFIED_FACTS.md.

  • Olympedia, list 161: Olympians who won a medal at the World Figure Skating Championships29
  • Olympedia, Age records (figure skating, youngest and oldest, by medal)25
  • Olympedia, Figure Skating (all-time medal table and events, after Milano Cortina 2026)14
  • Olympedia, country pages for figure skating (BEL, KAZ, KOR, SUI, NED, ESP, GEO, UKR, TCH, FIN)9
  • Olympedia, Yevgeny Plyushchenko (athlete 101967)4
  • Olympedia, list 291: figure skaters who defended an Olympic title at back-to-back Games3
  • Olympedia, list 292: figure skaters with Olympic titles in non-consecutive Games3
  • Olympedia, Evan Bates (athlete 119076)3
  • Olympedia, list 291: figure skaters who defended an Olympic title at back-to-back Games; Olympedia, Age records (figure skating, youngest and oldest, by medal)2
  • Olympedia, Artur Dmitriyev (athlete 85233)2
  • Olympedia, list 291: figure skaters who defended an Olympic title at back-to-back Games; Olympedia, list 161: Olympians who won a medal at the World Figure Skating Championships1
  • Olympedia, list 291: figure skaters who defended an Olympic title at back-to-back Games; Olympedia, Age records (figure skating, youngest and oldest, by medal); Olympedia, list 161: Olympians who won a medal at the World Figure Skating Championships1
  • Olympedia, country pages for figure skating (BEL, KAZ, KOR, SUI, NED, ESP, GEO, UKR, TCH, FIN); Olympedia, Age records (figure skating, youngest and oldest, by medal)1
  • Olympedia, Guillaume Cizeron (athlete 137190)1
  • ISU, History (isu.org); Olympedia, list 161: Olympians who won a medal at the World Figure Skating Championships1
  • Olympedia, Figure Skating (all-time medal table and events, after Milano Cortina 2026); Olympedia, country pages for figure skating (BEL, KAZ, KOR, SUI, NED, ESP, GEO, UKR, TCH, FIN)1