Helsingfors Skridskoklubb
Helsingfors Skridskoklubb ( swedish, HSK ), finn Helsingin Luistinklubi, is the oldest figure skating club of Finland and the second oldest still active sports club in Finland.
Because the club is officially bilingual, he gives lessons in figure skating both in Finnish and in Swedish. Even when speaking in Finnish, Swedish name is more common than the Finnish-speaking. The only shortcut is in use HSK.
Today, the association lessons given in single skating, ice dancing, and synchronized skating. The Hockey Department 1949 resolved won in 1933 and 1934, the Finnish championship.
Figure skating
The club was founded in 1875 in Helsinki, including the American Jackson Haines gave the impetus, as he was visiting the country. At that time Finland was still a Grand Duchy and part of the Russian Empire.
In the first season of the HSK the club belonged to 164 men and 80 women. Nadja Franck, John Catani and Rudolf Sundgren were as representative of the HSK, the first Finns who have participated in international figure skating championships. The HSK tied and otherwise International Relations and was a member of the former international figure skating association. Later, the membership of which was founded in 1908 Finnish Skating Association was passed.
The most successful figure skaters of the HSK are the pair skater Walter Jakobsson and his native German wife Ludovica ( née splitter ). At the world championships they have 1910, 1912, 1913 and 1922, won the silver medal and 1911, 1914 and 1923, the gold medal. To this end, they have won at the 1920 Olympic Games gold and 1924 silver.
Perhaps the most well-known skaters of the HSCs are nowadays Susanna Rahkamo and Petri Kokko, who could gain in ice dancing at the European Championships in 1993 and 1995, the third the first place and have taken second place to the third and at the 1995 World Championships in 1994.
Another successful discipline in this club is the synchronized skating - the junior team Team Mystique and the senior team Team Unique belong to the Finnish top. Team Mystique has twice the second place in the unofficial junior world championships, the World Challenge Cup shows. Unique team stood at the World Championships in 2002 in the sixth position, 2003, she was fourth, in 2007 they finished fifth and in 2009 she won silver.
Hockey
The Hockey team of the club won in 1933 and 1934, the Finnish championship in 1935 and finished third in the SM- sarja. Between 1933 and 1936, and again from 1938 until the dissolution of the Department In 1949 the team played in the highest league in Finland.