Dany Rigoulot won the July 1959 French Figure Skating Championship.
 At the 2011 World Championships, Florent Amodio's long program music included words but an insufficient number of judges voted for a deduction
 Only men competed in the early events but in 1902 a woman entered the World Championships for the first time: British female skater Madge Syers competed in the men's competition, finishing in second place behind Sweden's Ulrich Salchow

