Major honours
Great Britain was the first country to codify this sport's scoring system, and it produced the most famous four minutes in ice dance history. Madge Syers exploited the absence of any rule barring women from the 1902 World Championships to enter the men's event and finish second, then became the first champion of the newly created women's championship in 1906. John Curry brought artistry to men's singles as a pioneer with his balletic style, winning Olympic gold at Innsbruck in 1976. Nottingham's Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean skated to Ravel's Bolero at Sarajevo in 1984 and received nine perfect 6.0 marks for artistic impression, the only unanimous set of perfect scores in Olympic figure skating history. They went on to build a new vocabulary of narrative choreography and theatrical staging for ice dance that continues to influence the discipline today.
Record comparison
Bars are scaled to the strongest team in this list.
Club legends
Rivalry
In ice dance, long-running judging disputes with Soviet couples after the Torvill-Dean era shaped later debates over scoring reform.