Profile: Lapel Pin – 1987 European Championships, Sarajevo, Yugoslavia Before war ravaged the Olympic city of Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, in the early to mid-1990s, the 1987 European Figure Skating Championships were held inside Zetra Arena and were marked with an unusual and somewhat perplexing pin that left many a collector asking, "That's it?" The pin was… Continue reading 1987 European Figure Skating Championships Pin: That’s It?
Category: 1980s
1986 Canadian Figure Skating Championships Pins: North Bay Gateway.
Profile: Lapel Pins – 1986 Canadian Figure Skating Championships, North Bay, Canada Calling itself "Gateway of the North," the city of North Bay, Ontario, hosted Canada's figure skating elite for the national championships in early 1986. It had been nearly a quarter of a century since the event had been held in the small lakeside… Continue reading 1986 Canadian Figure Skating Championships Pins: North Bay Gateway.
1981 European Figure Skating Championships Pin: An Ordinary Day in Innsbruck.
Profile: Lapel Pin – 1981 European Championships, Innsbruck, Austria After hosting two Olympic Winter Games (1964 and 1976), along with many other major sporting events, the Tyrolean city of Innsbruck, Austria, was well qualified to welcome Europe's best figure skaters for the 1981 European Figure Skating Championships, held at Olympiastadion. The post-Olympic year brought few,… Continue reading 1981 European Figure Skating Championships Pin: An Ordinary Day in Innsbruck.
1989 Skate Canada Pin: On Snowflakes and Asterisks.
Profile: Lapel Pin – 1989 Skate Canada, Cornwall, Canada Kicking off the 1989–90 skating season was the annual Skate Canada event, taking place in Cornwall, Ontario, in late October 1989. And in line with possibly the worst decision ever made by the International Skating Union (ISU) was the absence of compulsory figures from the event.… Continue reading 1989 Skate Canada Pin: On Snowflakes and Asterisks.
1989 World Junior Figure Skating Championships Pins: A Threepeat With a Repeat.
Profile: Lapel Pins – 1989 World Junior Championships, Sarajevo, Yugoslavia In the early to late 1980s, Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, hosted the World Junior Figure Skating Championships every three years, like clockwork: 1983, 1986, and 1989. So for the third time during the decade, the best junior-level skaters from more than 20 nations gathered in the Olympic… Continue reading 1989 World Junior Figure Skating Championships Pins: A Threepeat With a Repeat.