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Figure Skating · Level 10: Professional · Sub-level 10.2

Great Singles Skaters

2 tests · 20 facts · updated 20 October 2026 · markdown

Button, Hanyu, Witt, Ito and Browning.

Each test below is ten questions on Insporta. The list under a test is what the questions check: one fact per question, with the source it was written from. Read it before the test, or come back from a wrong answer.

Test 1Olympic championsTake a test

  1. Button won at St. Moritz 1948 and Oslo 1952.

    Source: Olympics.com, Richard Button · recall

  2. Eight of the nine judges awarded him first place after his double Axel.

    Source: Olympics.com, Richard Button · recall

  3. Aged 19, he became the first Asian man to win the Olympic title.

    Source: Olympics.com, Yuzuru Hanyu · recall

  4. He was the first man to repeat as Olympic champion since Dick Button in 1952.

    Source: Olympics.com, Yuzuru Hanyu · recall

  5. Hanyu became the first Asian man to win an Olympic gold in men's figure skating.

    Source: Olympics.com, Yuzuru Hanyu · recall

  6. Witt won at Sarajevo 1984 and Calgary 1988.

    Source: Olympics.com, Katarina Witt · recall

  7. Witt was the first repeat winner in women's figure skating since Sonja Henie.

    Source: Olympics.com, Katarina Witt · recall

  8. Button 1948, Witt 1984, Hanyu 2014.

    Source: Olympics.com, Richard Button; Olympics.com, Katarina Witt; Olympics.com, Yuzuru Hanyu · applied

  9. The two back-to-back runs came 66 years apart: first in Switzerland and Norway, then in Russia and Korea.

    Source: Olympics.com, Richard Button; Olympics.com, Yuzuru Hanyu · applied

  10. D shows gold at the 2014 and 2018 Games. The other rows put the golds at other Games or win only once.

    Source: Olympics.com, Yuzuru Hanyu · applied

Test 2Champions' storiesTake a test

  1. She lost the free skating but won the gold on her figures and short programme.

    Source: Olympics.com, Katarina Witt · recall

  2. She entered a sports school in Karl-Marx-Stadt, where she met her coach Jutta Müller.

    Source: Olympics.com, Katarina Witt · recall

  3. She placed seventh but enchanted the crowd, and was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1995.

    Source: Olympics.com, Katarina Witt · recall

  4. Ito was a favourite in 1992 and won silver despite a poor short programme.

    Source: Olympics.com, Midori Ito · recall

  5. As Japan's first big winter star she lit the Olympic flame at the Nagano opening ceremony.

    Source: Olympics.com, Midori Ito · recall

  6. A back injury hindered his training, and he fell on the triple Axel opening his short programme.

    Source: Olympic.ca, Kurt Browning · recall

  7. He won the Lou Marsh Trophy and the Lionel Conacher Award after his home World title in Halifax.

    Source: Olympic.ca, Kurt Browning · recall

  8. Her breakthrough in 1982, golds in 1984 and 1988, and her comeback in 1994.

    Source: Olympics.com, Katarina Witt · applied

  9. 1988 triple Axel, 1989 World title, 1992 silver, 1998 Nagano flame.

    Source: Olympics.com, Midori Ito · applied

  10. A has gold in 1984 and 1988 and no medal in 1994, when she placed seventh. The other rows do not match.

    Source: Olympics.com, Katarina Witt · applied

Sources

Olympics.com athlete pages (Button, Ito, Hanyu, Witt, Rodnina); Olympic.ca athlete pages (Browning, Virtue); ISU, Figure skating jumps explained (2026); Olympedia, Figure Skating overview. Every fact is recorded with its source in docs/FIGURE_SKATING_VERIFIED_FACTS.md. Records that can still move are not keyed. Original questions authored, nothing reproduced.

  • Olympics.com, Katarina Witt7
  • Olympics.com, Yuzuru Hanyu4
  • Olympics.com, Midori Ito3
  • Olympics.com, Richard Button2
  • Olympic.ca, Kurt Browning2
  • Olympics.com, Richard Button; Olympics.com, Katarina Witt; Olympics.com, Yuzuru Hanyu1
  • Olympics.com, Richard Button; Olympics.com, Yuzuru Hanyu1