Profile: Lapel Pins – 1963 European Championships, Budapest, Hungary Now more than 60 years ago, the best figure skaters on the European continent came together in Budapest, Hungary, for the 1963 European Figure Skating Championships, held at the outdoor Kisstadion in early February. It was the fourth time the event had been contested in the… Continue reading 1963 European Figure Skating Championships Pins: Different But the Same.
Category: 1960s
1965 European Figure Skating Championships Pins: Strange But Not Unusual.
Profile: Lapel Pins – 1965 European Championships, Moscow, USSR Fifty-four years had elapsed since a European Figure Skating Championship had been contested on Russian soil, the first taking place in 1911 in St. Petersburg long before the USSR came into being. So when the 1965 European Figure Skating Championships came to the Soviet capital of… Continue reading 1965 European Figure Skating Championships Pins: Strange But Not Unusual.
1960 European Figure Skating Championships Pins: Palmam Qui Meruit Ferat.
Profile: Lapel Pins and a Medal from the 1960 European Championships, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany Garmisch-Partenkirchen, in the Bavarian Alps, is sometimes said to be Germany's undisputed winter sports capital. In support of that claim, one has only to look at the long history of sport associated with the city, including as host of the 1936 Olympic… Continue reading 1960 European Figure Skating Championships Pins: Palmam Qui Meruit Ferat.
1962 World Figure Skating Championships Pins: Prague Redux.
Profile: Lapel Pins and Participant Medal from the 1962 World Figure Skating Championships, Prague, Czechoslovakia Following the February 1961 crash of Sabena Airlines Flight #548, which killed the entire U.S. figure skating world team—plus coaches, parents, family members, and dozens of others—and the subsequent cancellation of the 1961 World Figure Skating Championships scheduled for Prague,… Continue reading 1962 World Figure Skating Championships Pins: Prague Redux.
1967 European Figure Skating Championships Pins: 20 Sides to Every Story.
Profile: Lapel Pins from the 1967 European Figure Skating Championships Pins, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia The first major international figure skating event held in Yugoslavia was the 1967 European Figure Skating Championships in Ljubljana. Some 114 skaters from 17 nations arrived in the city in late January–early February of that year for the event. According to reports,… Continue reading 1967 European Figure Skating Championships Pins: 20 Sides to Every Story.