Want to learn more about figure skating history? You are in the right place!

Created in 2013, Skate Guard is a blog that focuses on overlooked and underappreciated areas of the history of figure skating, whether that means a topic completely unknown to most readers or a new look at a well-known skater, time period, or event. There's plenty to explore, so pour yourself a cup of coffee and get lost in the fascinating and fabulous history of everyone's favourite winter sport!

Collector's Edition Set

 

If you love figure skating, these new must-have collector's editions are for you!

If you're a true fan of figure skating, these comprehensive and painstakingly researched encyclopedias of the oldest international figure skating competitions in the world will be the perfect additions to your figure skating library.

These historical reference books offer a complete statistical record of fascinating facts, figures and firsts from the oldest international figure skating events in the world. Beautiful black and white photos of great champions are interspersed with complete and accurate results from the World and European Championships, going back to the 19th Century. 

Available in hard cover, paperback and eBook editions.

"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

A COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE WORLD FIGURE SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS


"A Complete History of the World Figure Skating Championships" will be released in November 2025. The book is available for pre-order from select retailers worldwide.

Prefer to shop local? Ask your favourite independent bookseller to stock the book. 


A COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE EUROPEAN FIGURE SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS


"A Complete History of the European Figure Skating Championships" will be released in November 2025. The book is available for pre-order from select retailers worldwide.

Prefer to shop local? Ask your favourite independent bookseller to stock the book. 

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