Profile: Lapel Pins – 1973 World Championships, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia The costume jewelry craze, which hit its zenith in the 1960s and 1970s, made its way into the pins issued for the 1973 World Figure Skating Championships, held in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia. Not only were there standard logo pins that marked the event, but an unusual pin… Continue reading 1973 World Figure Skating Championships Pins: A Linden Leaf Emerges.
Category: World Figure Skating Championships – Pins
Pins, medals, and badges from the World Figure Skating Championships.
1982 World Figure Skating Championships Pins: A Sellout Crowd.
Profile: Lapel Pins – 1982 World Championships, Copenhagen, Denmark It's an odd thing about Denmark and figure skating. For a country that has never produced a figure skater who has placed in the top three at the World or European Figure Skating Championships (competing under the Danish flag, that is), it has collectively hosted those… Continue reading 1982 World Figure Skating Championships Pins: A Sellout Crowd.
1980 World Figure Skating Championships Pin: A Missed Opportunity.
Profile: Lapel Pins – 1980 World Championships, Dortmund, West Germany Rightly or wrongly, the city of Dortmund, Germany, is known more as an industrial hub rather than as a glamorous and cosmopolitan city like Munich or Berlin. But that fact hasn't stopped Dortmund from a racking up a long history of hosting major figure skating events,… Continue reading 1980 World Figure Skating Championships Pin: A Missed Opportunity.
1970 World Figure Skating Championships Pins: Two-Sided Redux.
Profile: Lapel Pins – 1970 World Championships, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia Just three years before the 1970 World Figure Skating Championships were contested in the Yugoslavian town of Ljubljana, the 1967 European Figure Skating Championships had taken place there, the first major international figure skating event held in Yugoslavia. So it was quite a step up for… Continue reading 1970 World Figure Skating Championships Pins: Two-Sided Redux.
1987 World Figure Skating Championships Pins: Cincinnati Welcomes the World.
Profile: Lapel Pins from the 1987 World Figure Skating Championships, Cincinnati, Ohio Riverfront Coliseum, on the banks of the Ohio River in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio, was the venue for the 1987 World Figure Skating Championships in the pre-Olympic year. Cincinnati proved to be an extremely popular host city, with capacity crowds, even for practices, at… Continue reading 1987 World Figure Skating Championships Pins: Cincinnati Welcomes the World.