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

Sport disciplines

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

figure skating Figure skating is a sport in which individuals, pairs, or groups perform on figure skates on ice. It was the first winter sport to be included in the Olympic Games, when contested at the 1908 Olympics in London. The Olympic disciplines are m ...

, ice dance,

synchronized skating Synchronized skating is an ice skating sport where between 8 to 16 skaters perform together as a team. They move as a flowing unit at high speed over the ice, while performing elements and footwork. This complex sport originated in 1956 and was ...

, and ballet on ice * Performance sports on ice rink:

speed skating Speed skating is a competitive form of ice skating in which the competitors race each other in travelling a certain distance on skates. Types of speed skating are long track speed skating, short track speed skating, and marathon speed skatin ...

, and short track * Performance sports on ice track:

bobsleigh Bobsleigh or bobsled is a team winter sport that involves making timed runs down narrow, twisting, banked, iced tracks in a gravity-powered sleigh. International bobsleigh competitions are governed by the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Feder ...

, luge, and skeleton * Team sport:

curling Curling is a sport in which players slide stones on a sheet of ice toward a target area which is segmented into four concentric circles. It is related to bowls, boules, and shuffleboard. Two teams, each with four players, take turns slidi ...

From 1942 to 2006, the FFSG also managed French

ice hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. In ice hockey, two opposing teams use ice h ...

. Creation of the

French Ice Hockey Federation The French Ice Hockey Federation (french: Fédération française de hockey sur glace (FFHG)) is the governing body of ice hockey in France, as recognized by the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF). It was founded in 2006 after separation w ...

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

References

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

External links

* {{Authority control Ice Sport Figure skating in France National governing bodies for ice skating Speed skating in France Short-track speed skating Bobsleigh in France Sport in Paris Organizations based in Paris 1942 establishments in France Sports organizations established in 1942 Curling in France Curling governing bodies