1996 World Figure Skating Championship Autographed Program

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Mint condition 1996 World Figure Skating Championship Autographed Program from a smoke free home.
Vintage - 25th Anniversary this month - from the event held in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada from March 17 to 24, 1996
Official Program signed by 31 former or current skaters in 1996, 23 of them Olympic and/or World Champions - representing 55 total championships! I personally sought out these autographs - being present at every single practice session and event over the entire week. I saw others who were getting only a handful of signatures, so I know that there is no other program out there with nearly as many important autographs. They include: Michelle Kwan (winning her first world championship that year), Tara Lipinski, Todd Eldridge (winning his only world championship that year), beautiful full page signed color photos of Lu Chen, Victor Kraatz & Shae-Lynn Bourne, and Elvis Stojko, signatures by Midori Ito, Yuka Sato (Japanese television commentator that year), US television commentators Dick Button and Peggy Fleming, Russia stars - Evgeny Platov, Oksana Gritschuk, Oxsana Kazakova, Artur Dmitriev, Maria Butyrskaya, Irina Slutskaya, Alexei Urmanov and Ilia Kulik, favorites Lucinda Ruh (one of the greatest spinners of all time) and the one and only Surya Bonaly - plus many more.
The Who’s Who of mid to late ‘90s and early ‘00s skating is here. A must have for the avid collector.