Your favourite skaters of all-time?

Harriet · Sep 12, 2018

Men: Kurt Browning, Stephane Lambiel, Alexei Yagudin.
Women: Laurine Lecavelier, Katerina Witt, Midori Ito...Tonya Harding.
Pairs: I only started following pairs comparatively recently, so I don't really have an all-time favorite yet - to date it's James and Cipres, though.
Ice Dance: Torvill and Dean, Davis and White, Papadakis and Cizeron.

el henry · Sep 12, 2018

I had to check to see if I posted already, and I don’t see it, so....

Then: Avatar. If you don’t recognize him, children, there’s your research project :biggrin:

Now: Hmm, well, I don’t know, could there possibly be a men’s skater today that I prize above all others? Who could that be?
Did you say Jason Brown? Ding ding ding, we have a winner :biggrin:

Triple loop · Sep 12, 2018

Please do. At their time, they were fabulous. Very strong American team back then from 1980-1984.

ancientpeas · Sep 12, 2018

Imagine said:
My current top 10 would look like this:

01. Sasha Cohen
02. Arakawa Shizuka
03. Yulia Lipnitskaya
04. Asada Mao
05. Evgenia Medvedeva
06. Hanyu Yuzuru
07. Alena Kostornaia
08. Kim Yuna
09. Mirai Nagasu
10. Gracie Gold

When I read this I thought of the Sesame Street song about "one of these things is not like the others..." :laugh:

iluvtodd · Sep 12, 2018

All time favorites - Todd Eldredge (duh) & Midori Ito!

Brian Orser, Paul Wylie, Kurt Browning, Javi Fernandez
Michelle Kwan, Mao Asada, Yuka Sato, Satoko Miyahara, Kaetlyn Osmond
Shen & Zhao, Gordeeva & Grinkov, Aliona & Bruno
Meryl & Charlie, Torvill & Dean, Tanith & Ben, The Shibs. Klimova & Ponomorenko

anonymoose_au · Sep 12, 2018

No prizes for guessing my favourite skater of all - Plushy always and forever! :luv17:

Men - I also really like Boyang and Yuzu (whenever he fanboys Plushy I squee :laugh:

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In pairs - Tarasova and Morozov!

Ladies - I have a soft spot for Irina Slutskaya and I love Liza Tukt!

Ice Dance - I like the Shibs a lot and also this Junior Russian pair I saw just last week Ekaterina Andreeva and Ivan Desyatov - they mixed tango with the Charleston for RD! It was epic.

xeyra · Sep 12, 2018

Whenever people ask these questions I realize how new I am to Figure Skating. I'm not sure I can really have All-Time favorites when everyone I like are current skaters I've only followed for the past couple of years.

Atlantis · Sep 12, 2018

Yuzuru Hanyu
Daisuke Takahashi
Yulia Lipnitskaya
Stephane Lambiel
and.. I can already tell Alena Kostornaia is gonna be my all time favorite too.

IceCrystalChris · Sep 12, 2018

xeyra said:
Whenever people ask these questions I realize how new I am to Figure Skating. I'm not sure I can really have All-Time favorites when everyone I like are current skaters I've only followed for the past couple of years.

Same here I’ve only been a fan of figure skating for about 6 months lol. All I can say is there are 3 skaters who got me into the sport and who I look forward the most to seeing compete and have great personalities off the ice.

Evgenia Medvedeva
Shoma Uno
Yazuru Hanyu

I’m sure this list will expand as I continue to follow the sport! [emoji4]

WhiteProphet · Sep 12, 2018

Men: Stéphane Lambiel, Yuzuru Hanyu, Javier Fernandez, Deniss Vasiljevs.
Ladies: Carolina Kostner, Mao Asada, Yuna Kim.

There are a lot more skaters I like, especially Korean/Japanese juniors.

ayame · Sep 12, 2018

Men: Daisuke Takahashi
Ladies: Mao Asada, Zhenya
Pairs: Sui/Han
I don't follow dance enough to have a favourite, but I really like P/C and the Shibs.

Honourable mentions for Han Yan, Wakaba Higuchi and Shoma Uno.

Ares · Sep 12, 2018

Men: Daisuke Takahashi
Ladies: Mao Asada - from these that precede my time of following Figure Skating or being born - Midori Ito, Janet Lynn, Denise Biellmann
Pairs: Berezhnaya / Sikharulidze
Dance: Davis / White

SmallAminal · Sep 12, 2018

Men: "Bowman the Showman". He was a hot mess but he was such a performer. To use his own words, "men's figure skating was an abosultely un-marketable product" and he marketed the heck out of it. I still miss him - a true entertainer.

Jaana · Sep 12, 2018

Men
John Curry
Robin Cousins
Ilia Kulik
Evan Lysacek
Javier Fernández

Ladies
Dorothy Hamill
Katarina Witt
Oksana Baiul
Shizuka Arakawa
Sasha Cohen

Pairs
Rodnina with Ulanov and Zaitshev
Babilonia & Gardner
Gordeeva & Grinkov
Shen & Zhao

Dance
Torvill & Dean
Moniotte & Lavanchy
Anissina & Peizerat

sjchilly · Sep 12, 2018

Men
Brian Boitano
John Curry
Alexei Yagudin
Daisuke Takahashi

Ladies
Dorothy Hamill
Katarina Witt
Kristi Yamaguchi
Lu Chen
Shizuka Arakawa
Yuna Kim

Pairs
Gordeeva & Grinkov
Shen & Zhao
Underhill And Martini

Dance
Torvill & Dean
Davis & White
Anissina & Peizerat
Usova & Zhulin

mrrice · Sep 12, 2018

Men: Plushy/ Patrick

Ladies: Maria Butyrskaya

Pairs: Shen and Zhou

Dance: Tessa and Scott

DSQ · Sep 12, 2018

Ladies: Mao Asada & Carolina Kostner
Men’s: Robin Cousins (my favourite skater of all time, if I could skate I’d skate like him.)
Dance: Torvill and Dean, Coomes and Buckland & Papadakis and Cizeron.

Imagine · Sep 12, 2018

ancientpeas said:
When I read this I thought of the Sesame Street song about "one of these things is not like the others..."

Well, one of these things is just so captivating compared to the competition, that it was just too much for me to ignore...even though I am not a huge fan of that skater’s category...

ladyjane · Sep 12, 2018

Let's give this a go. Just bear in mind that I like, admire and enjoy the skating of many more! So, if your favourite is not on here, this certainly doesn't mean I don't like him/her/them skating. Especially among more recent skaters, they might turn up in such a list after a time. I'm also including some honourable mentions, mostly because of there being only one unforgettable skate or sticking to a high standard throughout a career even if they're not personal favourites. It's also obvious I tend to follow Pairs and Men the most intensely, as those lists are longer than the other two.

Pairs:
S/M
S/Z
A/B
B/S
M/D and K/D
S/S
D/R
G/G
U/M
B/E
M/S
Honourable mentions: S/H and J/C

Men:
Yagudin
Kulik
Fernandez
Hanyu
Stojko
Abt
Cousins
Candeloro
Ten
Chan
Joubert
Lambiel
Honourable mentions: Galindo (that skate at Nationals in 1996 was one for all time) and Pluschenko (for sheer longevity and maintaining a high level throughout)

Ladies
Kwan
Slutskaya
Sato
Rochette
Osmond
Kim
Asada
Honourable mentions: Medvedeva and Lu Chen

Dance:
T/D
P/C
R/K
U/Z
D/W
A/P
K/O
D/S
Honourable mention: V/M

Have edited this just a bit. I originally forgot (not sure if this was a Freudian omission) my current favourites. Ouch!

Weetos · Sep 12, 2018

I like many, but real all-time favourite?

Yuzuuuuu

Your favourite skaters of all-time?

Harriet

el henry

Go have some cake. And come back with jollity.

Triple loop

ancientpeas

The Notorious SEW

iluvtodd

anonymoose_au

Insert weird opinion here

xeyra

Constant state

Atlantis

IceCrystalChris

WhiteProphet

ayame

Ares

SmallAminal

Jaana

sjchilly

mrrice

DSQ

Imagine

ladyjane

Weetos

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