 Five years later, a sports club in Amsterdam invited participants from Russia, the United States and the United Kingdom, as well as the host country to an ice skating event they called a world championship.The "Internationale Eislauf Vereinigung", now known as the International Skating Union, was founded at a meeting of 15 national representatives in Scheveningen in 1892, the first international winter sports federation.The Nederlandse Schaatsrijderbond was founded in 1882 and organised the world championships of 1890 and 1891.