List of Olympic venues in figure skating

For the Summer and Winter Olympics, there are 27 venues that have been or will be used for figure skating.

[1][3] For the first two Winter Olympics, figure skating was held outdoors.

[4][5][6] With figure skating being held outdoors, there were weather concerns with thawing for the first two Winter Games.

[7] A suggestion by International Olympic Committee President Count Henri de Baillet-Latour to 1932 Olympic Organizing Committee President Godfrey Dewey in September 1930 led Dewey to create the first indoor arena for the Winter Olympics.

[9] Figure skating's final competition that took place outdoors was in 1956 though that venue has since had a roof added to it.

For the 1932 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, the Olympic Arena became the first indoor Winter Olympic venue when it hosted the figure skating events. Forty-eight years later as Olympic Center, the venue hosted figure skating events for the second time.
Pacific Coliseum hosted the figure skating events for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.