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Figure Skating · Level 10: Professional · Sub-level 10.4

Nations and Schools

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

Where champions came from, their coaches and their honours.

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 1Where champions came fromTake a test

  1. Witt skated for the German Democratic Republic and trained in Karl-Marx-Stadt.

    Source: Olympics.com, Katarina Witt · recall

  2. Rodnina skated for the USSR, trained at Moscow's Central Sports School.

    Source: Olympics.com, Irina Rodnina · recall

  3. The Soviet Union won 24 Olympic figure skating medals, ten of them gold.

    Source: Olympedia, Figure Skating overview · recall

  4. Her title broke the hold of European and North American skaters on the World Championships.

    Source: Olympics.com, Midori Ito · recall

  5. Her parents took her to skate for her health and later enrolled her at Moscow's Central Sports School.

    Source: Olympics.com, Irina Rodnina · recall

  6. He left Edmonton for Toronto to train with Louis Stong ahead of 1992-93.

    Source: Olympic.ca, Kurt Browning · recall

  7. They moved to Montreal to be coached by Marie-France Dubreuil and Patrice Lauzon.

    Source: Olympic.ca, Tessa Virtue · recall

  8. The American came first, then the Soviet pair skater, the East German and finally the Japanese.

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

  9. Zhuk with Rodnina from 1972, Müller with Witt from 1984, Dubreuil and Lauzon with Virtue and Moir in 2018.

    Source: Olympics.com, Irina Rodnina; Olympics.com, Katarina Witt; Olympic.ca, Tessa Virtue · applied

  10. B, 24 medals with 10 gold, is the Soviet total in Olympedia's table.

    Source: Olympedia, Figure Skating overview · applied

Test 2Ambassadors of the sportTake a test

  1. His record made him a popular choice as Canada's flag bearer at Lillehammer 1994.

    Source: Olympic.ca, Kurt Browning · recall

  2. They were selected as Team Canada's Opening Ceremony flag bearers in 2018.

    Source: Olympic.ca, Tessa Virtue · recall

  3. In 2020 they were appointed Members of the Order of Canada.

    Source: Olympic.ca, Tessa Virtue · recall

  4. He entered the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame in 1990 and the World Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 2006.

    Source: Olympic.ca, Kurt Browning · recall

  5. The special won five Gemini Awards.

    Source: Olympic.ca, Kurt Browning · recall

  6. She went into politics and serves as a member of the State Duma.

    Source: Olympics.com, Irina Rodnina · recall

  7. Hanyu is a huge presence in Japan, a star of TV and film as well as a famous athlete.

    Source: Olympics.com, Yuzuru Hanyu · recall

  8. 1990, 1994, 2001 and 2006.

    Source: Olympic.ca, Kurt Browning · applied

  9. 1990, 1994, 2018 and 2020.

    Source: Olympic.ca, Kurt Browning; Olympic.ca, Tessa Virtue · applied

  10. C stands at 2006. A is 1990, B 1994 and D 2020.

    Source: Olympic.ca, Kurt Browning · 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.

  • Olympic.ca, Kurt Browning6
  • Olympics.com, Irina Rodnina3
  • Olympic.ca, Tessa Virtue3
  • Olympedia, Figure Skating overview2
  • Olympics.com, Katarina Witt1
  • Olympics.com, Midori Ito1
  • Olympics.com, Richard Button; Olympics.com, Irina Rodnina; Olympics.com, Katarina Witt; Olympics.com, Yuzuru Hanyu1
  • Olympics.com, Irina Rodnina; Olympics.com, Katarina Witt; Olympic.ca, Tessa Virtue1
  • Olympics.com, Yuzuru Hanyu1
  • Olympic.ca, Kurt Browning; Olympic.ca, Tessa Virtue1