Single skating
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Single skating is a discipline of figure skating, wherein a single person skates alone. Men's singles and ladies' singles are both Olympic disciplines.[1] The other Olympic figure skating events are pair skating and ice dancing.
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[edit] Competitions
Single skating competitions consist of a short program and free skating (sometimes called the "long program"), usually performed within a day or two of each other. At some competitions there is a cut after the short program and a skater must perform well enough in the short program to advance to the free skating portion of the competition.
[edit] Short program
Short programs at the senior and junior levels are two minutes and fifty seconds long. Skaters are penalized if they skate over that time limit.
Skaters must perform certain required elements.
[edit] Free skating
International Skating Union (ISU) regulations state:
Free skating consists of a well balanced program of free skating elements, such as jumps, spins, steps and other linking movements executed with a minimum of two footed skating in harmony with music of the competitor's choice, except that music with lyrics is not permitted.
The free skating programs are 4 1/2 minutes long for men, 4 minutes for ladies. Skaters are allowed a time margin of +/- 10 seconds, and are penalized for going outside that range.
[edit] Judging
Figure skaters competing in an ISU-sanctioned event are judged under the ISU Judging System.
[edit] References
[edit] Notes
- ^ Note: Women are referred to as ladies in International Skating Union regulations.
