First Pair of Skates: 800 B.C., made of animal bones
First Iron Skates: 200 A.D.
First Double-Edged Blades: 1500
First Skating Club: Edinburgh Skating Club, 1683
First Skating Textbook: Treatise on Skating, Robert Jones, 1772
First Skate Manufacturing Co.: Fredrick Stephens, 1839
First Toe Picks: 1870
First Skater to Skate to Music: Jackson Haines
First Skater to attach blades to boots: Jackson Haines
First Skating Film: The Frozen Warning, 1917
Competitions
First World Championships: St. Petersburg Russia, 1896
First woman to compete in Worlds: Madge Syers, 1902
First time Skating was in Olympics: 1908, London, England
First Worlds for Ladies and Pairs: 1906
First Winter Olympic Games: 1924, Chamonix, France
First Worlds for Ice Dancing: 1952
First Olympics for Ice Dancing: 1976
First double Axel landed in Competition: Richard Button, 1948 Olympics
First triple landed in competition: Richard Button, 1952 Olympics
First Olympics Broadcasted Worldwide: 1968, Grenoble, France
Jumps
First single loop landed: Werner Rittberger(Germany), 1910
First double jump(women): Cecilia College(GB), 1936
First triple jump(women): Petra Burka, 1962, Canadian Championships
First triple Axel(women): Midori Ito(Japan), 1989 Worlds
First triple Lutz(women): Denise Bielmann, 1978
First triple jump(loop): Dick Button(USA), 1952
First triple Lutz: Donald Jackson(Canada), 1962
First triple Axel: Vern Taylor(Canada), 1978
First triple Salchow: Ronnie Robertson, 1955 Worlds
First triple toe loop: Thomas Litz, 1964 Worlds
First triple/triple combination: Grzegorz Filipowski, 1980
First triple triple combination(women): Midori Ito(Japan), 1982
First quadruple jump(toe loop): Kurt Browning(Canada),1988 Worlds
First quadruple jump combination: Elvis Stojko(Canada), 1991
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