The ISU is delighted to launch our Recast Channel, joining a rapidly growing list of rights holders on the pioneering Over-The-Top (OTT) sports platform, enabling fans to watch content.
On December 4, the ISU will be celebrating Ice Skating sports all around the world by launching the first edition of the World Ice Skating Day. To date, more than 30 countries on all continents will take part in this initiative and will organize a variety of events hand in hand with local skating clubs, rinks and national skating federations. Lausanne (SUI), the Olympic Capital and home of international sports organizations, will join this Ice Skating festival by hosting a special event at the Vaudoise Aréna rink with Alexia Paganini (SUI) – the Swiss national Figure Skating champion – as guest-star.
It is with deep sorrow and regret that the International Skating Union (ISU) learned of the death of the President of the Figure Skating Federation of Russia and ISU Honorary Member Alexander Georgievitch Gorshkov who passed away on November 17, aged 76.
Application to hold ISU Seminars for Ice Dance Referees and Judges in 2023 hosted by ISU Members
Application to hold ISU Sponsored and Recognized Single & Pair Skating Judges’ Seminars 2023.
The International Skating Union (ISU) is proud to announce Elladj Baldé as the Global Ambassador of the first-ever World Ice Skating Day (WISD), an annual festival celebrating Ice Skating all over the world through multiple events taking place simultaneously on December 4, 2022. This new worldwide ISU initiative strives to make ice skating an inclusive, accessible, and fun place by bringing together professional and amateur skaters regardless of any social, economic and cultural boundaries.
The shortlist for the 2022 International Content Marketing Awards has just been released, and the International Skating Union (ISU) is honored to announce that its #UpAgain campaign has been nominated in the “Best Use of Social Media (B2C)” and the “Best Specialist Campaign” categories.
Legendary Dutch Speed Skater Sven Kramer received the most prestigious of awards at the annual ANOC Gala Awards on October 19, 2022.
The ISU Council met on October 9-12, 2022 and decided to provisionally allot the following ISU Figure Skating Championships
The 11 recognized ISU Centers of Excellence (CoEs) have entered a new cycle. For the first time, the representatives of the Figure Skating CoEs met in person at Ice Lab in Bergamo (ITA) on the occasion of the annual ISU Centers of Excellence workshop held on October 5-7, 2022.
The ISU releases detailed information on the qualification process, entry quotas and entry procedures for the ISU European, Four Continents, World Juniors and World Speed Skating Championships 2023.
We are back with the eighth edition of P.L.A.Y (Pocket Learning Anti-Doping & You) for the month of October 2022 and the topic for this month is ‘Unintentional Doping’ a topic which deals with the very common mistake among athletes that is ‘Unintentional Doping’ (also known as ‘inadvertent’ or ‘accidental’ doping).
The ISU Congress 2022 accepted a proposal to establish an Overall World Classification based on an accumulation of points from all individual distances in selected Events for the purpose to determine a Combined Season Ranking and crown a Season Champion for each category, Women and Men (see Rule 286, paragraph 11).
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has published the 2023 List of Prohibited Substances and Methods (List), which will come into force on January 1, 2023.
This Communication is announcing the Judges who have passed the Examinations to be ISU Judges in Single & Pair Skating and Ice Dance.