Figure skating in the United States

Figure skating in the United States
American Michelle Kwan performing a spiral at the practice for the 2002 United States National Championships.
Governing body	U.S. Figure Skating
National competitions
U.S. Figure Skating Championships
International competitions
Winter Olympics World Figure Skating Championships

Figure Skating is a sport in which individuals, pairs, or groups perform on figure skates on ice. Although ice skating began in 3,000 BCE in Scandinavia, American Edward Bushnell's 1855 invention of steel blades and Jackson Haines bringing elements of ballet to figure skating were critical to the development of modern-day figure skating.^[1] Since then, figure skating in the United States has grown to have 186,038 members as of the 2020–2021 season.^[2]