What goes around comes around ... sometimes sooner than later From the early to late 1980s, Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, hosted the World Junior Figure Skating Championships every three years like clockwork: 1983, 1986, and 1989. When the event returned in 1989, it brought with it not just the top junior skaters from more than 20 countries,… Continue reading 1989 World Junior Figure Skating Pins: A Threepeat With a Repeat.
Category: 1980s
1980 Canadian Figure Skating Pins: Put a Bird On It.
A curious design from Kitchener-Waterloo takes flight in skating pin history In the world of figure skating pins, it’s rare to see a bird as the central design element—especially for a major championship. So it might just be then that the pins made to commemorate the 1980 Canadian Figure Skating Championships, held in Kitchener–Waterloo, Ontario,… Continue reading 1980 Canadian Figure Skating Pins: Put a Bird On It.
1984 US Figure Skating Pins: Of Olympic Proportion.
Olympic-inspired design, disappointing execution. The 1984 US Figure Skating pins stand out in the hobby of collecting—not for their beauty or craftsmanship but for their puzzling origin. The primary logo pin from the 1984 US Figure Skating Championships, held in January in Salt Lake City, Utah, used a design unmistakably derived from the "Stars in… Continue reading 1984 US Figure Skating Pins: Of Olympic Proportion.
1988 World Junior Figure Skating Pins: They Come From a Land Down Under.
Championship marked the first ISU event ever held in the Southern Hemisphere Hosting major figure skating events hasn’t always been smooth sailing for Australia, the "land down under." Despite securing the rights to prestigious competitions, the country has faced its share of hurdles. Brisbane was unceremoniously dropped as the host city for the 2000 World… Continue reading 1988 World Junior Figure Skating Pins: They Come From a Land Down Under.
1983 US Figure Skating Championships: Three Rivers, Three Pins.
Besides the famous three rivers, three other things connected to Pittsburgh are the three pins issued for the 1983 U.S. Figure Skating Championship: two logo pins, in different sizes, and a mascot pin featuring Patches the Panda. Up to that time, no other national figure skating event had issued more than two pins, so this was a first, and the pins are fine mementos of a good, if not particularly memorable, event.