![]() The elements performed by pairs teams must be "linked together by connecting steps of a different nature" and by other comparable movements and with a variety of holds and positions. Pair skating required elements include lifts, twist lifts, throw jumps, jumps, spin combinations, death spirals, step sequences, and choreographic sequences. Its duration, like the other disciplines, is four minutes for senior teams, and three and one-half minutes for junior teams. ![]() It also should contain "especially typical Pair Skating moves" such as pair spins, lifts, partner assisted jumps, spirals and other linking movements. Free skating for pairs "consists of a well balanced program composed and skated to music of the pair's own choice for a specified period of time". There are seven required elements in the short program, which lasts two minutes and 40 seconds for both junior and senior pair teams. Like the other disciplines, pair skating competitions consist of two segments, the short program and the free skating program. The ISU World Figure Skating Championships introduced pair skating in 1908. Pair skating, along with men's and women's single skating, has been an Olympic discipline since figure skating, the oldest Winter Olympic sport, was introduced at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London. The ISU also states that a pairs team consists of "one Woman and one Man". Pair skating is a figure skating discipline defined by the International Skating Union (ISU) as "the skating of two persons in unison who perform their movements in such harmony with each other as to give the impression of genuine Pair Skating as compared with independent Single Skating". ![]() Part of the first Winter Olympics in 1924 to today German pair skaters Anna Hübler and Heinrich Burger, 1908 Olympics ![]()
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