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Figure Skating · Level 9: Master · Sub-level 9.4

Compulsory Figures

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

What figures were, how much they counted and how they ended.

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Test 1What figures wereTake a test

  1. Special Figures basically consisted of the school figures as an event of their own.

    Source: Olympedia, Figure Skating at the 1908 Olympics · recall

  2. Nikolay Panin (Russia) won ahead of the British skaters Arthur Cumming and Geoffrey Hall-Say.

    Source: Olympedia, Figure Skating at the 1908 Olympics · recall

  3. In 1924 the compulsory figures counted 60% and free skating 40%.

    Source: Olympedia, 1924 Winter Olympics · recall

  4. He specialised in the compulsory figures, which once made up much of the total marks.

    Source: Olympedia, Ulrich Salchow · recall

  5. Olympedia lists six compulsory figures in the 1972 women's event.

    Source: Olympedia, 1972 Singles, Women · recall

  6. Scoring changed in the early 1970s, when a short free skating programme was added.

    Source: Olympedia, Figure Skating overview · recall

  7. His mistake came in the compulsory figures; Karl Schäfer won with a clear margin.

    Source: Olympedia, Gillis Grafström · recall

  8. The figures came first, the free skating second, and the judges' placings decided the result.

    Source: Olympedia, 1972 Singles, Women · applied

  9. Panin won, Cumming took silver and Hall-Say bronze.

    Source: Olympedia, Figure Skating at the 1908 Olympics · applied

  10. A gives the figures 60% and free skating 40%. B is half and half, C 30 to 70, D 80 to 20.

    Source: Olympedia, 1924 Winter Olympics · applied

Test 2The end of figuresTake a test

  1. Schuba was dominant in the figures, placed seventh in the free skate and still won gold.

    Source: Olympedia, 1972 Singles, Women · recall

  2. She was ranked first by all nine judges.

    Source: Olympedia, 1972 Singles, Women · recall

  3. Compulsory figures have not been on the Olympic programme since Calgary 1988.

    Source: Olympedia, Figure Skating overview · recall

  4. They were dropped from international competition at the end of the 1980s, last at the 1990 Worlds.

    Source: Olympedia, Figure Skating overview · recall

  5. Beatrix 'Trixi' Schuba led easily after the figures over the American Julie Lynn Holmes.

    Source: Olympedia, 1972 Singles, Women · recall

  6. The competition was effectively over after the figures, so large was Schuba's lead.

    Source: Olympedia, 1972 Singles, Women · recall

  7. Olympedia counts Grafström among the best compulsory figures skaters ever.

    Source: Olympedia, Gillis Grafström · recall

  8. Special figures in 1908, the short programme in the early 1970s, Calgary 1988, then the 1990 Worlds.

    Source: Olympedia, Figure Skating overview; Olympedia, Figure Skating at the 1908 Olympics · applied

  9. First in the figures, seventh in the free skate, first overall with all nine judges.

    Source: Olympedia, 1972 Singles, Women · applied

  10. B shows first in the figures and seventh in the free skate. The other cards do not match her result.

    Source: Olympedia, 1972 Singles, Women · applied

Sources

ISU History; ISU, Figure skating jumps explained (2026); Olympedia (overview, 1908, 1924, 1972, 1976, 2002 and athlete pages); U.S. Figure Skating, World Figure Skating Hall of Fame. Every fact is recorded with its source in docs/FIGURE_SKATING_VERIFIED_FACTS.md. Original questions authored, nothing reproduced.

  • Olympedia, 1972 Singles, Women8
  • Olympedia, Figure Skating at the 1908 Olympics3
  • Olympedia, Figure Skating overview3
  • Olympedia, 1924 Winter Olympics2
  • Olympedia, Gillis Grafström2
  • Olympedia, Ulrich Salchow1
  • Olympedia, Figure Skating overview; Olympedia, Figure Skating at the 1908 Olympics1