International Skating Union

The International Skating Union (ISU), founded in the Netherlands in 1892, was created to oversee skating internationally. It sanctions speed skating, short-track speed skating, synchronized skating, as well as figure skating and sponsors the world championships held annually since 1896. With more than 100 member organizations…

…interim, founded in 1892 the International Skating Union (ISU), which thereafter became the world governing body for speed skating, ice dancing, and figure skating. World championships had begun in the 1890s for speed skating (men only) and figure skating. Women’s speed-skating world championships were first held in 1936. Figure skating…

…served as president of the International Skating Union, the body that regulates speed and figure skating. He was a member of the Swedish amateur boxing committee from 1919 to 1932.