Helsingfors Skridskoklubb

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Helsingfors Skridskoklubb ( Swedish , HSK ), Finnish Helsingin Luistinklubi , is the oldest figure skating club in Finland and the second oldest still active sports club in Finland.

Because the club is officially bilingual, it teaches figure skating in both Finnish and Swedish. Also, when speaking in Finnish, the Swedish-speaking name is more common than the Finnish-speaking one. The only abbreviation in use is HSK.

Today the association gives lessons in single skating , ice dancing and synchronized skating . The ice hockey division, which was dissolved in 1949, won the Finnish championship in 1933 and 1934.

figure skating

The association was founded in Helsinki in 1875 , which was suggested by the American Jackson Haines when he was visiting the country. At that time Finland was still a grand duchy and part of the Russian Empire .

In the first season of the HSK, 164 men and 80 women belonged to the club. Nadja Franck, John Catani and Rudolf Sundgren, as representatives of the HSK, were the first Finns to take part in international figure skating championships. The HSK also established international relationships in other ways and was a member of the then international figure skating association. Membership was later transferred to the Finnish Ice Skating Association founded in 1908.

The HSK's most successful ice skaters are pair skaters Walter Jakobsson and his native German wife Ludowika (née Eilers). At the World Championships in 1910, 1912, 1913 and 1922 they won the silver medal and in 1911, 1914 and 1923 the gold medal. They also won gold at the Olympic Games in 1920 and silver in 1924.

Perhaps the most famous ice skaters at the HSK today are Susanna Rahkamo and Petri Kokko , who came third in ice dancing at the European Championships in 1993 and first in 1995 and third at the World Championships in 1994 and second in 1995.

Another successful discipline in this club is synchronized figure skating - the junior team Team Mystique and the senior team Team Unique are among the Finnish leaders. Team Mystique took second place twice at the unofficial Junior World Championships, the World Challenge Cup. Team Unique was sixth at the 2002 World Championships, fourth in 2003, fifth in 2007 and silver in 2009.

ice Hockey

The club's ice hockey team won the Finnish championship in 1933 and 1934, and took third place in the SM-sarja in 1935. Between 1933 and 1936 and again from 1938 until the division was dissolved in 1949, the team played in Finland's top division.

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  1. ↑ http://www.hsk.fi/
  2. ↑ http://www.hsk.fi/hsk-hyva_seura_kaikille/hsk_n_historiaa/
  3. ↑ http://www.hsk.fi/muodostelmaluistelu/
  4. ↑ Team Unique voitti muodostelmaluistelun MM-hopeaa ( Finnish ) In: Helsingin Sanomat . Sanoma News. April 4, 2009. Retrieved February 28, 2012.

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