Background

Following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the International Olympic Committee suspended the Russian Olympic Committee and banned all Russian and Belarusian athletes from competition. ^{[1] [2]} The skating federations of Russia and Belarus were each permitted to nominate one skater or team from each discipline to participate at the Skate to Milano as a means to qualify for the 2026 Winter Olympics as Individual Neutral Athletes (AINs). Each nominee was required to pass a special screening process to assess whether they had displayed any active support for the Russian invasion of Ukraine or any contractual links to the Russian or Belarusian military. ^{[3] [4]} Petr Gumennik and Adeliia Petrosian, both of Russia, and Viktoriia Safonova of Belarus earned spots at the Olympics as Individual Neutral Athletes. ^{[5] [6]}

Qualification

A total of 142 quota spots were available to athletes to compete in figure skating at the 2026 Winter Olympics. Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) was allowed to enter a maximum of 18 skaters, with a maximum of nine men or nine women. ^[7] The results of the 2025 World Figure Skating Championships determined 83 total spots: 24 entries each in men's and women's singles, 15 in pair skating, and 18 in ice dance. ^[8] The remaining quota spots were allocated based on the results of the Skate to Milano. ^[7]

Competition schedule

All times are in local time (UTC+1), according to the official schedule correct as of December 2025. ^[9]

Entries

Countries began announcing their selections following the 2025 World Championships. The International Skating Union published a complete list of entries on 26 January 2026. ^[7] Skaters or teams denoted with ● are eligible for the team event only.

Finland had originally qualified for two quota spots in the ice dance event at the 2025 World Championships; however, when Yuka Orihara was unable to obtain Finnish citizenship, Skating Finland ultimately relinquished their second quota spot. ^[10] As a result, the spot was reallocated to Sweden, and Milla Ruud Reitan and Nikolaj Majorov became the first Swedish ice dance team to ever qualify for the Winter Olympics. ^[11]

Additionally, Uzbekistan originally qualified one quota spot in the pairs event after Ekaterina Geynish and Dmitrii Chigirev finished in tenth place at the 2025 World Championships. ^[12] However, after Geynish and Chigirev ended their partnership, ^[13] the spot was re-allocated to France, who chose to send Camille Kovalev and Pavel Kovalev. ^[14]

Meda Variakojytė of Lithuania also made history as the first Lithuanian women's singles skater to qualify for the Winter Olympic Games. ^[15] Moreover, Daria Danilova and Michel Tsiba of the Netherlands became the first Dutch pair skating team to qualify for the Winter Olympics. ^[16]

Entries

Nation	Men	Women	Pairs	Ice dance	Ref.
Armenia	—N/a		Karina Akopova Nikita Rakhmanin	—N/a	[17]
Australia	—N/a		Anastasiia Golubeva Hektor Giotopoulos Moore	Holly Harris Jason Chan	[18]
Austria	—N/a	Olga Mikutina	—N/a		[19]
Azerbaijan	Vladimir Litvintsev	—N/a			[20]
Belgium	—N/a	Loena Hendrickx	—N/a		[21]
		Nina Pinzarrone
Bulgaria	—N/a	Alexandra Feigin	—N/a		[22]
Canada	Stephen Gogolev	Madeline Schizas	Lia Pereira Trennt Michaud	Piper Gilles Paul Poirier	[23]
	—N/a		Deanna Stellato-Dudek Maxime Deschamps	Marjorie Lajoie Zachary Lagha
	—N/a			Marie-Jade Lauriault Romain le Gac
China	Jin Boyang	Zhang Ruiyang	Sui Wenjing Han Cong	Wang Shiyue Liu Xinyu	[24]
Chinese Taipei	Li Yu-Hsiang	—N/a			[25]
Czech Republic	—N/a			Natálie Taschlerová Filip Taschler	[26]
				Kateřina Mrázková Daniel Mrázek
Estonia	Aleksandr Selevko	Niina Petrõkina	—N/a		[27]
Finland	—N/a	Iida Karhunen	—N/a	Juulia Turkkila Matthias Versluis	[28] [29]
France	Kévin Aymoz	Lorine Schild	Camille Kovalev Pavel Kovalev	Laurence Fournier Beaudry Guillaume Cizeron	[30]
	Adam Siao Him Fa	—N/a		Evgeniia Lopareva Geoffrey Brissaud
Georgia	Nika Egadze	Anastasiia Gubanova	Anastasiia Metelkina Luka Berulava	Diana Davis Gleb Smolkin	[31]
Germany	—N/a		Minerva Fabienne Hase Nikita Volodin	Jennifer Janse van Rensburg Benjamin Steffan	[32]
			Annika Hocke Robert Kunkel	—N/a
Great Britain	Edward Appleby ●	Kristen Spours	Anastasia Vaipan-Law Luke Digby	Phebe Bekker James Hernandez	[33]
	—N/a			Lilah Fear Lewis Gibson
Hungary	—N/a		Maria Pavlova Alexei Sviatchenko	—N/a	[34]
Individual Neutral Athletes	Petr Gumennik	Adeliia Petrosian	—N/a		[6]
	—N/a	Viktoriia Safonova
Israel	—N/a	Mariia Seniuk	—N/a		[35]
Italy	Daniel Grassl	Lara Naki Gutmann	Sara Conti Niccolò Macii	Charlène Guignard Marco Fabbri	[36]
	Matteo Rizzo	—N/a	Rebecca Ghilardi Filippo Ambrosini	—N/a
Japan	Yuma Kagiyama	Mone Chiba	Riku Miura Ryuichi Kihara	Utana Yoshida Masaya Morita ●	[37]
	Kao Miura	Ami Nakai	Yuna Nagaoka Sumitada Moriguchi	—N/a
	Shun Sato	Kaori Sakamoto	—N/a
Kazakhstan	Mikhail Shaidorov	Sofia Samodelkina	—N/a		[38]
Latvia	Fedirs Kuļišs	—N/a			[39]
	Deniss Vasiļjevs
Lithuania	—N/a	Meda Variakojytė	—N/a	Allison Reed Saulius Ambrulevičius	[40] [41]
Mexico	Donovan Carrillo	—N/a			[42]
Netherlands	—N/a		Daria Danilova Michel Tsiba	—N/a	[43]
Poland	Vladimir Samoilov	Ekaterina Kurakova	Ioulia Chtchetinina Michał Woźniak	Sofiia Dovhal Wiktor Kulesza ●	[44]
Romania	—N/a	Julia Sauter	—N/a		[45]
Slovakia	Adam Hagara	—N/a			[46]
South Korea	Cha Jun-hwan	Lee Hae-in	—N/a	Hannah Lim Ye Quan	[47]
	Kim Hyun-gyeom	Shin Ji-a		—N/a
Spain	Tomàs-Llorenç Guarino Sabaté	—N/a		Olivia Smart Tim Dieck	[48]
	—N/a			Sofía Val Asaf Kazimov
Sweden	Andreas Nordebäck	—N/a		Milla Ruud Reitan Nikolaj Majorov	[49] [11]
Switzerland	Lukas Britschgi	Livia Kaiser	—N/a		[50]
	—N/a	Kimmy Repond
Ukraine	Kyrylo Marsak	—N/a			[51]
United States	Ilia Malinin	Amber Glenn	Emily Chan Spencer Howe	Christina Carreira Anthony Ponomarenko	[41]
	Maxim Naumov	Isabeau Levito	Ellie Kam Daniel O'Shea	Madison Chock Evan Bates
	Andrew Torgashev	Alysa Liu	—N/a	Emilea Zingas Vadym Kolesnik

Medal summary

From left to right: The 2026 Winter Olympic figure skating champions: Mikhail Shaidorov of Kazakhstan (men's singles); Alysa Liu of the United States (women's singles); and Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara of Japan (pair skating)
Not pictured: Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Guillaume Cizeron of France (ice dance)

Medalists

2026 Winter Olympic medalists

Discipline	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
Men's singles	Mikhail Shaidorov   Kazakhstan	Yuma Kagiyama   Japan	Shun Sato   Japan	[52]
Women's singles	Alysa Liu   United States	Kaori Sakamoto   Japan	Ami Nakai   Japan	[53]
Pairs	Riku Miura Ryuichi Kihara   Japan	Anastasiia Metelkina Luka Berulava   Georgia	Minerva Fabienne Hase Nikita Volodin   Germany	[54]
Ice dance	Laurence Fournier Beaudry Guillaume Cizeron   France	Madison Chock Evan Bates   United States	Piper Gilles Paul Poirier   Canada	[55]
Team event	United States Ilia Malinin Alysa Liu Amber Glenn Ellie Kam Daniel O'Shea Madison Chock Evan Bates	Japan Yuma Kagiyama Shun Sato Kaori Sakamoto Riku Miura Ryuichi Kihara Utana Yoshida Masaya Morita	Italy Daniel Grassl Matteo Rizzo Lara Naki Gutmann Sara Conti Niccolò Macii Charlène Guignard Marco Fabbri	[56]

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	2	1	0	3
2	Japan	1	3	2	6
3	France	1	0	0	1
	Kazakhstan	1	0	0	1
5	Georgia	0	1	0	1
6	Canada	0	0	1	1
	Germany	0	0	1	1
	Italy	0	0	1	1
Totals (8 entries)		5	5	5	15

Records

The following new record high scores were set during this competition.

References

External links

• Official website