A couple of weeks ago in the “Skipping Europeans VS 4CC” thread, there was a discussion about the distribution of Four Continents, and how often they were being held in Asia compared to the Americas. And @Giselle made out a list showing the distribution of the host cities for Four Continents.
Knowing the way that the ISU championships are sometimes allocated to particular places as a practice run for a bigger event (for example, the Olympics), it started me wondering about the overall distribution of the Major Championships.
So, to start with, I have made a table listing the host cities of all the Major Championships since the 1998 – 1999 Season.
Rather than just have the host cities listed, I have turned them into links to the Entries / Results Pages for each Championship. That way, if nobody is interested in discussing the distribution of the Championships, then this thread can at least act as a handy one-stop-shop for getting to old results.
Now, before I go any further, I should point out that I actually made two different versions of all the tables in this thread. One set which included the International Children’s Games, and one set that did not.
For those that have not come across the ICG before, it is the same idea as the Youth Olympics, but for the next age level down. What I am about to say is not strictly accurate, but it is the simplest way of explaining it: if the YOG is the Olympics for Junior level skaters, then the ICG is the Olympics for Novice level skaters.
And therein lies the problem. The fact that I felt the need to explain what the ICG is says everything. Given that it is an IOC sanctioned event, it should be classed as one of the Major Championships. But, hardly anybody has even heard tell of it. Like, I only came across it by accident a couple of years ago. I was looking up the Youth Olympics on Wikipedia, and there was a link at the bottom to the page about the ICG. And I thought “Oooh, what’s that?”
Another problem with the ICG is that the websites for all the previous editions have closed down. So, it is VERY hard to find the results. The Entries / Results Page for the figure skating at 2015 edition is still available. But apart from that, I have only been able to find a copy of the 2011 edition’s results on the Wayback Machine.
That said, the same thing has happened to the websites for the Asian Games. And there is no disputing that they are worthy of inclusion.
So, weighing everything up, I have decided to use the tables that do include the ICG in this thread. However, I have made spreadsheets for each set of tables, and uploaded them. So, you can see the difference. Here are the links:
Distribution Of Major Championships 1998–2018 (With International Children’s Games)
Distribution Of Major Championships 1998–2018 (No International Children’s Games)
And here is the first table, showing all the Major Championships ordered by season:
I should add that the host cities of some of the Multi-Sport events after the 2017 – 2018 season have actually been announced already. However, because the locations of none of the ISU Championships have been announced, including them would only have skewed the results.
But, so as to have a record of them, here is how the table would continue into the next Olympic Cycle:
* = Events relocated to Tallinn, EST.
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Knowing the way that the ISU championships are sometimes allocated to particular places as a practice run for a bigger event (for example, the Olympics), it started me wondering about the overall distribution of the Major Championships.
So, to start with, I have made a table listing the host cities of all the Major Championships since the 1998 – 1999 Season.
Rather than just have the host cities listed, I have turned them into links to the Entries / Results Pages for each Championship. That way, if nobody is interested in discussing the distribution of the Championships, then this thread can at least act as a handy one-stop-shop for getting to old results.
Now, before I go any further, I should point out that I actually made two different versions of all the tables in this thread. One set which included the International Children’s Games, and one set that did not.
For those that have not come across the ICG before, it is the same idea as the Youth Olympics, but for the next age level down. What I am about to say is not strictly accurate, but it is the simplest way of explaining it: if the YOG is the Olympics for Junior level skaters, then the ICG is the Olympics for Novice level skaters.
And therein lies the problem. The fact that I felt the need to explain what the ICG is says everything. Given that it is an IOC sanctioned event, it should be classed as one of the Major Championships. But, hardly anybody has even heard tell of it. Like, I only came across it by accident a couple of years ago. I was looking up the Youth Olympics on Wikipedia, and there was a link at the bottom to the page about the ICG. And I thought “Oooh, what’s that?”
Another problem with the ICG is that the websites for all the previous editions have closed down. So, it is VERY hard to find the results. The Entries / Results Page for the figure skating at 2015 edition is still available. But apart from that, I have only been able to find a copy of the 2011 edition’s results on the Wayback Machine.
That said, the same thing has happened to the websites for the Asian Games. And there is no disputing that they are worthy of inclusion.
So, weighing everything up, I have decided to use the tables that do include the ICG in this thread. However, I have made spreadsheets for each set of tables, and uploaded them. So, you can see the difference. Here are the links:
Distribution Of Major Championships 1998–2018 (With International Children’s Games)
Distribution Of Major Championships 1998–2018 (No International Children’s Games)
And here is the first table, showing all the Major Championships ordered by season:
I should add that the host cities of some of the Multi-Sport events after the 2017 – 2018 season have actually been announced already. However, because the locations of none of the ISU Championships have been announced, including them would only have skewed the results.
But, so as to have a record of them, here is how the table would continue into the next Olympic Cycle:
Season | Winter Olympics | Senior Worlds | Europeans | Four Continents | Grand Prix Final | Youth Olympics | Junior Worlds | European Youth Olympic Festival | International Children’s Games | Winter Universiade | Asian Winter Games | World Team Trophy | Team Challenge Cup |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2018 – 2019 | Saitama, JPN | Minsk, BLR | Anaheim, USA | Vancouver, CAN | Zagreb, HRV | Sarajevo, BIH | Lake Placid, USA | Krasnoyarsk, RUS | Fukuoka, JPN | ||||
2019 – 2020 | Graz, AUT | Seoul, KOR | Turin, ITA | Lausanne, CHE | Tallinn, EST | ||||||||
2020 – 2021 | Stockholm, SWE | Osaka, JPN | |||||||||||
2021 – 2022 | Beijing, CHN | Montpellier, FRA | Tallinn, EST | Tianjin, CHN * | Sofia, BGR * | Vuokatti, FIN | |||||||
30 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
* = Events relocated to Tallinn, EST.
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