French Federation of Ice Sports

French Federation of Ice Sports
Fédération française des sports de glace

Abbreviation	FFSG
Formation	1942; 82 years ago (1942)
Type	National sports governing body
Location	41-43 rue de Reuilly, 75012 Paris
Region	France
President	Gwenaëlle Noury^[1]
Affiliations	UEG, FIG
Website	www.ffsg.org

French Federation of Ice Sports (or French Ice Sports Federation; French: Fédération française des sports de glace or FFSG) is the national governing body for a number of ice sports in France.^[2]

It manages completely different sports disciplines whose only commonality is that they are practiced on ice. This explains the structural complexity of the organization.

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Sport disciplines

The French Federation of Ice Sports manages several groups of sports:

Artistic sports: figure skating, ice dance, synchronized skating, and ballet on ice
Performance sports on ice rink: speed skating, and short track
Performance sports on ice track: bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton
Team sport: curling

From 1942 to 2006, the FFSG also managed French ice hockey. Creation of the French Ice Hockey Federation on April 29, 2006 established an independent body to supervise this sport.

Mission

See the section "Missions" in the French Wikipedia.

Presidents of the FFSG

	Name	Dates of presidency	"Home" sport	Notes
1	Georges Guérard	1941–1961
2	Édouard Lafonta	1962–1963
3	Philippe Potin	1964–1967	Ice hockey	Heir of the brand "Félix Potin" and ice hockey philanthropist
4	Jacques Favart	1968-1969	Figure skating	President of the ISU from 1967 to 1980
5	Antoine Faure	1970–1971	Ice hockey^[3]	President of the Étoile Sportive Briançonnaise (ESB)
6	Jean Heckly	1972–1980	Speed skating
7	Pierre Courbe-Michollet	1980–1984
8	Jean Ferrand	1984–1990	Ice hockey
9	Bernard Goy	1990–1998	Ice hockey
10	Didier Gailhaguet	1998–2004	Figure skating	1st term of office, resigned following the 2002 Winter Olympics figure skating scandal
11	Norbert Tourne	2004–2006	Speed skating
12	Claude Ancelet	2006–2007
13	Didier Gailhaguet	2007–2020	Figure skating	2nd term of office, resigned following a scandal related to alleged coverup of sexual abuse cases among coaches and skaters. Former skate Sarah Abitbol published a book that year detailing abuse when she was a teenager.
14	Nathalie Péchalat	2020–2022	Figure skating (ice dance)
15	Gwenaëlle Noury	2022–present	Figure skating

References

^ "Nathalie Péchalat battue, Gwenaëlle Noury nouvelle présidente de la Fédération". rfi. 25 June 2022. Retrieved 5 November 2022.
^ "Atlas national des fédérations sportives 2012" (PDF) (in French). 2012. Retrieved 2015-05-03.
^ Marc Branchu. "Histoire d'un club" (in French). Retrieved 2016-01-19.

Le livre d'or du patinage d'Alain Billouin, éditions Solar, 1999

External links

Official website

v t e Sports governing bodies in France (FRA)
Summer Olympic Sports	Aquatics Diving Swimming Synchronized Swimming Water Polo Archery Athletics Badminton Basketball Boxing Canoeing Cycling Equestrian Fencing Field Hockey Football Golf Gymnastics Handball Judo Modern Pentathlon Rugby 7's Rowing Sailing Shooting Table Tennis Taekwondo Tennis Triathlon Volleyball inc. Beach Volleyball Weightlifting Wrestling
Winter Olympic Sports	Biathlon Bobsleigh Curling Skating Figure Speed Short Track Ice Hockey Luge Skeleton Skiing (Alpine, Cross Country, Nordic Combined, Freestyle & Jumping) Snowboarding
Other IOC Recognised Sports	Air sports Auto racing Bandy Baseball Billiard Sports Boules Bowling Bridge Chess Cricket Dance sport Floorball Karate Korfball Lifesaving Motorcycle racing Mountaineering and Climbing Netball Orienteering Pelota Vasca Polo Powerboating Racquetball Roller sports Rugby Softball Sport climbing Squash Sumo Surfing Tug of war Underwater sports Water Ski Wushu
Others Sports	Rugby League Sepaktakraw
French National Olympic and Sports Committee French Paralympic and Sports Committee

v t e National members of the World Curling Federation
Disciplines Curling Doubles curling
Americas	BRA CAN DOM GUY MEX USA VIR
Europe	AND AUT BLR BEL BGR HRV CZE DNK ENG EST FIN FRA GEO DEU GRC HUN ISL IRL ISR ITA KOS LVA LIE LTU LUX NLD NOR POL PRT ROU RUS SCO SRB SVK SVN ESP SWE CHE TUR UKR WEL
Pacific-Asia	AFG AUS CHN TPE HKG IND JPN KAZ KWT KGZ MGL NZL NGR QAT KSA KOR
Pinnacle Events Olympics World Championships

Member federations of the International Skating Union

Figure skating (including synchronized skating)
Speed skating (including short-track speed skating)

European
members
(59)

Nations (57)

Andorra (Figure)
Armenia (Figure)
Austria (Figure)
Austria (Speed)
Azerbaijan (Figure)
Belarus
Belgium (Figure)
Belgium (Speed)
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bulgaria
Croatia
Cyprus (Figure)
Czech Republic (Figure)
Czech Republic (Speed)
Denmark
Estonia
Finland (Figure)
Finland (Speed)
France
Georgia (Figure)
Germany (Figure)
Germany (Speed)
Great Britain
Greece (Figure)
Hungary
Iceland (Figure)
Republic of Ireland
Israel
Italy
Latvia
Liechtenstein (Figure)
Lithuania (Figure)
Lithuania (Speed)
Luxembourg (Figure)
Luxembourg (Speed)
North Macedonia (Figure)
Moldova (Figure)
Monaco (Figure)
Netherlands
Norway
Poland (Figure)
Poland (Speed)
Portugal (Figure)
Romania
Russia (Figure)
Russia (Speed)
Serbia
Slovakia (Figure)
Slovakia (Speed)
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden (Figure)
Sweden (Speed)
Switzerland
Turkey
Ukraine (Figure)
Ukraine (Speed)

Clubs (2)

Internationaler Schlittschuh-Club Davos
Stockholms Allmänna Skridskoklubb

Four
continents
members
(42)

Africa (4)	Egypt (Figure) Morocco (Figure) South Africa (Figure) South Africa (Speed)
Americas (12)	Argentina (Figure) Argentina (Speed) Brazil (Figure) Canada (Figure) Canada (Speed) Chile (Figure) Colombia (Speed) Ecuador (Figure) Mexico (Figure) Peru (Figure) United States (Figure) United States (Speed)
Asia (22)	Cambodia (Figure) China (Figure) China (Speed) Chinese Taipei Hong Kong India Indonesia Japan Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan (Figure) North Korea South Korea Malaysia Mongolia Philippines Qatar (Speed) Singapore Thailand Turkmenistan (Figure) United Arab Emirates (Figure) Uzbekistan Vietnam
Oceania (4)	Australia (Figure) Australia (Speed) New Zealand (Figure) New Zealand (Speed)

Pinnacle events
- Figure skating: Olympics, Worlds
- Synchronized skating: Worlds
- Speed skating: Olympics, Worlds
- Short track speed skating: Olympics, Worlds

This page was last edited on 15 May 2023, at 22:18

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