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Your favourite skaters of all-time?

Spirals for Miles

Anna Shcherbakova is my World Champion
Record Breaker
Joined
Aug 25, 2017
Shibs
Sasha Cohen
Evgenia Medvedeva
Alina Zagitova
Alexandra Trusova
Anna Shcherbakova
Alena Kostornaya
Pavliuchenko/Khodykin
Sui/Han
 

Crossover

All Hail the Queen
Record Breaker
Joined
Oct 31, 2014
Ladies: Yuna Kim, Sasha Cohen, Lu Chen, Kristi Yamaguchi, Surya Bonaly, Midori Ito
Men: Alexei Yagudin, Daisuke Takahashi, Patrick Chan
Pairs: Savchenko/Szolkowy, Pang/Tong, Shen/Zhao, Berezhnaya/Sikharulidze, Mishkutenok/Dmitriev
Dance: Delobel/Schoenfelder, Anissina/Peizerat, Torvill/Dean
 

KLKDMD

Spectator
Joined
Jan 10, 2014
Ladies:
Michelle Kwan
Midori Ito
Peggy Fleming
Liz Manley
Chen Lu

Men:
Brian Boitano
Paul Wylie
Todd Eldredge
Javier Fernandez
Kurt Browning

Pairs:
Berezhnaya and Sikharulidze

Dance:
Virtue and Moir
Torvill and Dean
 

rachno2

Record Breaker
Joined
Aug 6, 2018
Pairs: for all time, Mishkutenok/Dmitriev, Berezhnaya/Sikharulidze, Kavaguti/Smirnov (I clearly love Moskvina), Shen/Zhao. For active skaters, Sui/Han

Men: Takahashi and Yagudin. Currently Hanyu, Kolyada, and Jin (although I guess Dai is current now too!!)

Women: Kim, Asada, Cohen, Lu Chen, currently Miyahara and Kostner
 

Osmond4gold

Record Breaker
Joined
Jan 27, 2013
She will never be a top tier skater, only skates to show tunes, has uncontrollable and wild jumps, needs to smile less, her injury is career ending, only scores well in Canada and never internationally, cannot skate a LP to save her soul, her Helsinki Silver was a fluke, she will never be a GP Finalist, an Olympic or a World podium contender ever again; so some here have said.

And now as the singles most decorated woman in the sport the last 2 years, I say 'You Go Girl', and her FANS and even her naysayers will forever remember her as a World Champion and as an Olympic Gold, Silver and Bronze medalist. So with that said, my choice is...

Kaetlyn Osmond!
 

Fluture

Record Breaker
Joined
Apr 26, 2018
Evgenia Medvedeva, Carolina Kostner and Yulia Lipnitskaya were the ones who came to my mind immediately while reading this title. So, I guess here we go. Ladies is basically the only discipline I watch committedly and not just like a casual fan. But for the other disciplines, I have Savchenko & Massot and Yuzuru I really admire.
 

gonewiththewind25

Final Flight
Joined
Nov 4, 2017
Men: Yagudin, Plushenko, Kulik, Hanyu, Fernandez, Lambiel, Ten, Aliev, Vasiljevs

Women: Medvedeva, Yuna, Mao, Midori, Pogorilaya

Pairs: Volosozhar/Trankov, Gordeeva/Grinkov, Sui/Han, Stolbova/Klimov, Savchenko/Massot

Dance: Virtue/Moir, Torvill/Dean, Skoptcova/Aleshin, Ilinykh/Kastalapov
 
Joined
Jun 21, 2003
Pairs: Belousova and Protopopov.

Dance: Many couples, but I would like to put in a mention of Dubreuil and Lauzon.
 

Ladybug89

On the Ice
Joined
Feb 2, 2018
Ladies:
Irina Slutskaya (She‘s the reason why I fell in love with figure skating. In 1996 I saw her in TV, I was 6 years old, she was 16 by the time and became european champion.. So I wanted to be sooo much like her 😁 Ever since I followed everything figure skating I could back then without Internet and as a very young child)

More recent my faves are Evgenia Medvedeva and Alexandra Trusova (I love both of their personalities)


Men:
My first fave: Alexey Yagudin (that 2002 Olympics 😍 )

All time fave: Stephane Lambiel 🐞 (well I was soo in love with him as a teenager)

Our-day skaters: Deniss Vasilijevs (well no surprise), Yuzuru Hanyu, Shoma Uno

But I like really many of the competitive male skaters right now!


Pairs: Aljona Savchenko... I followed her career ever since 2004 and she‘s just had/ has an incredible career/personality
 

Danibellerika

Medalist
Joined
Jan 8, 2014
All-time favorites:
Men:
Yuzuru Hanyu
Evgeny Plushenko
Shoma Uno
Daisuke Takahashi
Stephane Lambiel

Ladies:
Sasha Cohen
Satoko Miyahara

Pairs:
Shen/Zhao
Savchenko


Honorable mentions (as in I like them but don't have quite the same emotional attachment--subject to change):
Men:
Jason Brown
Alexei Yagudin
Mikhail Kolyada
Nathan Chen
Boyang Jin
Denis Ten
Jeffrey Buttle
Deniss Vasilijevs

Ladies:
Wakaba Higuchi
Shizuka Arakawa
Carolina Kostner
Yulia Lipnitskaia
Kristi Yamaguchi
Tara Lipinski
Naomi Nari Nam

Pairs:
Sui/Han
Berezhnaya/Sikharulidze
Pang/Tong

Ice Dance:
Davis/White
Shib Sibs
Bourne/Kraatz
Tanith/Ben
 

bunnybarista

If I risk it all, could you break my fall?~
On the Ice
Joined
May 27, 2018
Dance:
Virtue/Moir
Klimova/Ponomarenko
Torvill/Dean
Anissina/Peizerat
Usova/Zhulin
 

Seren

Wakabond Forever
Record Breaker
Joined
Dec 21, 2014
Men: Yuzuru
Ladies: Yuna Kim, Akiko Suzuki, Michelle Kwan, currently Wakaba
Dance: Shibs
Pairs: Yu/Zhang

EDIT: I forgot Irina- I loved her just as much as Michelle!
 
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