In 1961, the entire U.S. national team lost their lives in a plane crash en route to the world championships in Prague, Czechoslovakia.

A pair of World Champion Russian figure skaters were aboard an American Airlines flight returning from a development camp ...

Evegnia Shiskova and Vadim Naumov, the 1994 World Figure Skating champions in pairs representing Russia, were among the 64 ...

Once again, figure skaters representing the past, present and future of the sport perished in a catastrophic plane crash.

The European figure skating championships have carried on, even as the skating world mourned athletes who died when an ...

“Our coaches Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov were on board the crashed plane,” a source is quoted as telling the news outlet. The couple, who competed for Russia and are believed to have married in ...

Russian-born ice skating coaches and former world champions Yevgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov were aboard the American ...

Wednesday's plane crash that killed a yet-unknown number of U.S. figure skating team members recalls memories of another tragedy nearly 64 years ago.

In 1961, the plane carrying the U.S. team to the World Figure Skating Championships in Prague, Czechoslovakia crashed, killing all passengers, including the team members, officials, and family members ...