International Skating Union

International Skating Union
Founded	1892
Place of foundation	Scheveningen , the Netherlands
president	Jan Dijkema
Association headquarters	Lausanne , Switzerland
Official languages)	English ( French , German and Russian are auxiliary languages)
Homepage	www.isu.org

The International Skating Union (Engl. International Skating Union short ISU ) is the international governing body for speed skating and figure skating . The ISU was founded in 1892 in Scheveningen , the Netherlands , and is the oldest winter sports federation. It is currently based in Lausanne , Switzerland .

history

During the second half of the 19th century, speed skating and figure skating competitions were occasionally organized in different parts of the world. With the appearance of international competitions in both speed skating and figure skating, as well as the establishment of ice skating clubs and national associations, it was urgently necessary to develop international standards and rules. In July 1892, the Dutch Ice Skating Club convened a meeting for all countries interested in international ice skating competitions. The congress in Scheveningen followed , during which the ISU was founded.

Timetable

year	event	place	annotation
1889	The first world speed skating championship is held	Amsterdam	only men
1891	Hosting of the first European speed skating championships and European figure skating championships , the latter organized by the Austrian and German ice sports associations	Hamburg	only men
1893	The European championship in speed skating and figure skating	Berlin
1896	The first world figure skating championship	St. Petersburg	only men
1897	The first world speed skating championship outside of Europe	Montreal	only men
1906	The first ISU figure skating championship for women	Davos
1908	The first ISU figure skating championship in pair skating	St. Petersburg
	Figure skating (including individual races for women and men, pair skating , and special figures ) was the first winter sport to be included in the program of the Olympic Games .	London	In 1908 in the program of the Summer Olympics
1924	Speed ​​skating and figure skating are part of the program of the first Winter Olympics.	Chamonix
	First world figure skating championship for women and the first in pair skating
1930	First world figure skating championship outside of Europe (women and men singles, pair skating)	New York City
1936	First world speed skating championship for women	Stockholm
1952	Ice dancing was integrated into the ISU figure skating championships.	Paris
1970	First speed skating sprint championship for men and women	West Allis	The ISU championship was subsequently declared a world championship
1976	Ice dancing was in the official program of the Olympic Winter Games included	innsbruck
1985/86	First ISU World Cup Speed aligned	Nine stations in seven countries	Individual distance world cup
1995/96	Introduction of the Figure Skating Grand Prix
1996	First individual speed skating world championships	Nagano
1999	First four continents championships in figure skating	Halifax	Africa, America, Asia, Australia (with Oceania)
2000	First world championship in synchronized figure skating	Minneapolis
2006	The speed skating discipline team pursuit was in the program of the Olympic Winter Games included	Turin
2014	For the first time, a figure skating team competition was held at the Winter Olympics	Sochi

Competitions

The ISU organizes competitions in the disciplines of figure skating , synchronous figure skating , speed skating (long track) and short track .

figure skating

• World championships
• Junior World Championships
• European championships
• Four continents championships
• Grand Prix Series
• Junior Grand Prix Series
• World Team Trophy

Synchronous figure skating

• World championships
• Junior World Championships
• Juniors World Challenge Cup

Speed ​​skating

• Sprint World Championship
• Individual distance world championships
• All around world championship
• European Championship en
• Junior World Championships
• World cup
• Junior World Cup

Short track

• World championships
• Junior World Championships
• European championships
• World cup

President

• 1892-1895 Pim Mulier 
• 1895–1925 Viktor Balck 
• 1925–1937 Ulrich Salchow 
• 1937–1945 Gerrit WA van Laer 
• 1945–1953 Herbert J. Clarke 
• 1953–1967 James Koch 
• 1967–1967 Ernst Labin 
• 1967–1980 Jacques Favart 
• 1980–1994 Olaf Poulsen 
• 1994-2016 Ottavio Cinquanta 
• since 2016 Jan Dijkema 

Member associations

The following member associations belong to the ISU:

country	Association	Year of joining
Andorra	Federació Andorrana d'Esports de Gel	1995
Argentina	Federacion Argentina De Patinaje Sobre Hielo	2004
Argentina	Union Argentina de Patinadores	2006
Armenia	Figure Skating Federation Of Armenia	1994
Azerbaijan	The Skating Federation Of Azerbaijan Republic	1995
Australia	Ice Skating Australia Incorporated	1932
Australia	Australian Ice Racing Inc.	1957
Belgium	Koninklijke Belgische Kunstschaatsen Federatie	1979
Belgium	Koninklijke Belgische Snelschaatsfederatie	1979
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Savez Klizackih Sportova Bosne I Hercegovine	1994
Brazil	Confederacao Brasileira De Desportos No Gelo	2002
Bulgaria	Bulgarian Skating Federation (БЪЛГАРСКА ФЕДЕРАЦИЯ ПО КЪНКИ)	1967
Chile	Chilean National Figure Skating Federation	2019
People's Republic of China	Chinese Skating Association (中国 滑冰 协会)	1956
People's Republic of China	Chinese Figure Skating Association (中国 花样滑冰 协会)	1956
Chinese Taipei	Chinese Taipei Skating Union	1983
Denmark	Dansk Skøjte Union	1913
Germany	German Ice Skating Union	1950
Germany	German speed skating community	1950
Estonia	Eesti Uisuliit	1928
Finland	Suomen Taitoluisteluliitto	1960
Finland	Suomen Luisteluliitto	1908
France	Fédération Française des Sports de Glace	1908
Georgia	Georgian Figure Skating Federation	1992
Greece	Hellenic Winter Sports Federation (Ελληνική Ομοσπονδία Xειμερινών Αθλημάτων)	2015
Hong Kong	Hong Kong Skating Union Limited	1983
India	Ice Skating Association of India	2003
Indonesia	Federasi Ice Skating Indonesia	2013
Ireland	Ice Skating Association of Ireland	2008
Iceland	Skautasamband Íslands	2000
Israel	Israel Ice Skating Federation	1992
Italy	Federazione Italiana Sport Del Ghiaccio	1927
Japan	Japan Skating Federation (公益 財 団 法人 日本 ス ケ ー ト 連 盟)	1926
Cambodia	Cambodia Ice Skating Federation	2017
Canada	Skate Canada	1947
Canada	Speed ​​Skating Canada	1894
Kazakhstan	National Skating Federation of the Republic of Kazakhstan	1992
Qatar	Qatar Skating Federation	2014
Kyrgyzstan	Skating Federation of the Kyrgyz Republic (Каток Городской)	2014
Colombia	Federación Colombiana de Patinaje	2015
North Korea	Skating Association of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea	1957
South Korea	Korea Skating Union (대한 빙상 경기 연맹)	1948
Croatia	Hrvatski klizački savez	1992
Latvia	Latvijas Slidošanas Asociācija	1926
Liechtenstein	Liechtenstein Ice Skating Association	2014
Lithuania	Lithuanian Skating Federation	1980
Lithuania	Lithuanian Speed ​​Skating Association	1980
Luxembourg	Union Luxembourgeoise de Patinage	1971
Luxembourg	Union Luxembourgeoise de Patinage de Vitesse	1996
Malaysia	Ice Skating Association of Malaysia	2009
Mexico	Federacion Mexicana de Patinaje Sobre Hielo y Deportes de Invierno	1987
Moldova	Figure Skating Federation of the Republic of Moldova	2014
Monaco	Federation Monegasque De Patinage	2003
Mongolia	Skating Union of Mongolia	1960
Morocco	Association of Moroccan Ice Sports	2011
New Zealand	New Zealand Ice Figure Skating Association Inc.	1964
New Zealand	Ice Speed ​​Skating New Zealand	1983
Netherlands	Koninklijke Nederlandsche Schaatsenrijders Bond	1982
North Macedonia	Skating Federation of Macedonia (Федерација за Лизгачки Спортови на Македl)	2017
Norway	Norges Skøyteforbund	1894
Austria	Austrian Speed ​​Skating Association	1995
Austria	Austrian Figure Skating Association	1995
Peru	Peruvian Ice Skating Federation	2019
Philippines	Philippine Skating Union	2004
Poland	Polish Figure Skating Association	1987
Poland	Polski Związek Łyżwiarstwa Szybkiego	1925
Romania	Romanian Skating Federation	1933
Russia	The Figure Skating Federation of Russia (Федерация фигурного катания на коньках России)	1991
Russia	Russian Skating Union (Главная страница сайта)	1991
Sweden	Stockholm's Allmänna Skridskoklubb	1892
Sweden	Svenska Konståkningsförbundet	1946
Sweden	Svenska Skridskoförbundet	1905
Switzerland	Swiss Ice Skating Association	1911
Switzerland	International Ice Skating Club Davos	1896
Serbia	Serbian Skating Association (Клизачки савез Србијe)	2006
Singapore	Singapore Ice Skating Association	2008
Slovakia	Slovenský krasokorčuliarsky zväz	1993
Slovakia	Slovenský Rýchlokorčuliarsky Zväz	1998
Slovenia	Zveza drsalnih športov Slovenije	1992
Spain	Federación Española de Deportes de Hielo	1956
South Africa	South African Figure Skating Association	1938
South Africa	South African Speed ​​Skating Association	1938
Thailand	Figure and Speed ​​Skating Association of Thailand	1988
Czech Republic	Česky krasobruslařský svaz	1923
Czech Republic	Česky svaz rychlobrusleni	1991
Turkey	Türkiye Buz Pateni Federasyonu	1990
Ukraine	Ukrainian Figure Skating Federation (Українська федерація фігурного катання на ковзанах)	1992
Ukraine	Ukrainian Speed ​​Skating Federation (Федерація ковзанярського спорту України)	1992
Hungary	Magyar Országos Korcsolyázó Szövetség	1908
Uzbekistan	Winter Sports Association of Uzbekistan	1992
United Arab Emirates	United Arab Emirates Ice Sports Federation	2013
United States	The United States Figure Skating Association	1923
United States	US speed skating	1965
United Kingdom	National Ice Skating Association of UK	1892
Vietnam	Skating Federation of Vietnam (Liên đoàn Trượt băng Việt Nam)	2019
Belarus	Skating Union of Belarus	1992
Cyprus	Cyprus Skating Federation	1995

Web links

Commons : International Ice Skating Union  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Homepage (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ INTERNATIONAL SKATING UNION CONSTITUTION and GENERAL REGULATIONS 2012 ( Memento from November 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 1 MB), page 23
2. ↑ www.isu.org (history) ( Memento from November 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
3. ^ About the ISU - International Skating Union. Retrieved August 21, 2019 . 
4. ^ Member Federations - International Skating Union. Retrieved August 20, 2019 .