A Complete History of the World Figure Skating Championships
by Ryan Stevens
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Pub Date Nov 18 2025 | Archive Date Aug 25 2025
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Description
A comprehensive encyclopedia of the World Figure Skating Championships.
This book offers a complete statistical record of fascinating facts, figures and firsts from the World Figure Skating Championships. Beautiful black and white photographs of legendary champions are interspersed with detailed and accurate results from the World Championships, going back to the 19th Century.
Arranged in a year-by-year chronology, A Complete History of the World Figure Skating Championships is a must-have historical reference book for any figure skating fan.
A Note From the Publisher
International hardcover, paperback release (main focus)
Release of fixed layout eBook (limited focus)
Reference book marketed solely to knowledgeable figure skating fans
International hardcover, paperback release (main focus)
Release of fixed layout eBook (limited focus)
Advance Praise
"Ryan's journalistic ability to unearth historical details... is first-class!" - Debbi Wilkes, Olympic Silver Medallist, television analyst and author of Ice Time: A Portrait of Figure Skating
"Ryan Stevens is clever, acerbic, witty, compassionate, positive, and realistic. He loves and understands figure skating and he writes really, really well." - Phillippa Cranston Baran, author of Toller Cranston: Ice, Paint, Passion
"Informative, lively, and scholarly without being dry, packing in a wealth of figure skating history... Stevens provides a wealth of history designed to attract and engross those who already hold experience and special interest in the skating world." - Diane Donovan, Midwest Book Review
Marketing Plan
Release as part of a two-book set (books on the World Figure Skating Championships and European Figure Skating Championships)
Advance praise from Olympic & World Champion figure skaters
Collaboration with figure skating bloggers, podcasters and influencers
Social media promotions on Facebook, Instagram, Bluesky, Pinterest and YouTube
Strategic marketing to libraries and newspapers in Canada, UK, Australia, U.S.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9781069170569 |
| PRICE | $14.99 (USD) |
| PAGES | 422 |
Links
Available on NetGalley
Featured Reviews
Tina A, Librarian
I 1988, skater Brian Orser turned pro.
From then on, I was a figure skating freak, even getting to meet Orser various times.
I feel I am pretty knowledgeable about figure skating, but this book showed me how many things I never new.
It is obvious that this book was very well researched and surprisingly, despite the information, the book never gets dull.
Very well written.
Reviewer 263690
This has a lot of fun anecdotes and fun facts from the past! While I'm more knowledgeable in more recent years of the sport, it was great to learn about anything pre-21st century! The information was also quite easy to ingest. I especially enjoyed getting to more recent years with Worlds I remember watching, and notably Montreal (2024) and Boston (2025) because I was there working behind the scenes.
This highlighted every year of Worlds in such a sweet and short and succinct way!
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