Did You Know? 

• Our club celebrates is 50 years old  

• The first ice skates were found in 3000 BC.

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• It was Marie Antoinette who made figure skating popular in Paris, during the reign of her husband, King Louis XVI. 

• Madame de Pompadour, Napoleon I, Napoleon III and even Casanova were all fans of the sport.

Marie Antoinette

​Sonja Henie

• The patron saint of ice skating is Saint Lidwina.

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• The first ever ice skating club was founded in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1742.

 

• Paris’ first artificial ice rink opened in 1892 and was called ‘Le Pole Nord’.

 

• Three times Olympic champion, Sonja Henie, skated in the Chamonix Olympics aged just 11 years old, and introduced the short skirt and white skates to the sport.

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• The most spins that a skater has ever performed without stopping is 115. ​

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