Figure skating at the 2026 Winter Olympics

Following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the International Olympic Committee suspended the Olympic Committees of Russia and Belarus. The skating federations of Russia and Belarus were each permitted to nominate one skater or team from each discipline to compete 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 support for the Russian invasion of Ukraine or had any contractual links to the Russian or Belarusian military.^[1][2] Petr Gumennik and Adeliia Petrosian, both of Russia, and Viktoriia Safonova of Belarus earned spots at the Olympics as Individual Neutral Athletes.^[3][4]

A total of five events were contested: men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, ice dance, and the team event. All events were held from 6 to 19 February at the Milano Ice Skating Arena in Milan, Italy.^[5]

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.^[6] 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.^[7] The remaining quota spots were allocated based on the results of the Skate to Milano.^[6] Additionally, one men's singles skater and two ice dance teams qualified to compete in the team event, but not the individual events, bringing the total number of competitors to 147.^[8]

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Number of qualified skaters or teams per nation^[9][8]

Nations	Men's singles	Women's singles	Pairs	Ice dance	Team event	Add.	Skater(s)
Armenia			1				2
Australia			1	1			4
Austria		1					1
Azerbaijan	1						1
Belgium		2					2
Bulgaria		1					1
Canada	1	1	2	3			12
China	1	1	1	1			6
Czech Republic				2			4
Estonia	1	1					2
Finland		1		1			3
France	2	1	1	2			9
Georgia	1	1	1	1			6
Germany			2	1			6
Great Britain		1	1	2		1[a]	8
Hungary			1				2
Individual Neutral Athletes	1	2					3
Israel		1					1
Italy	2	1	2	1			9
Japan	3	3	2			2[b]	10
Kazakhstan	1	1					2
Latvia	2						2
Lithuania		1		1			3
Mexico	1						1
Netherlands			1				2
Poland	1	1	1			2[c]	6
Romania		1					1
Slovakia	1						1
South Korea	2	2		1			6
Spain	1			2			5
Sweden	1			1			3
Switzerland	1	2					3
Chinese Taipei	1						1
Ukraine	1						1
United States	3	3	2	3			16
Total: 35 NOCs	29	29	19 teams	23 teams	10 teams	5	147

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Team event

For the team event, scores from the 2025 World Championships and the 2025–26 Grand Prix Series were tabulated to establish the top ten nations.^[6]

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Qualification for figure skating team event^[8]

Pl.	Nation	M	W	P	D	Total
1	United States					7069
2	Japan				[a]	6027
3	Italy					4606
4	Canada					4231
5	Georgia					4106
6	France					3829
7	Great Britain	[b]				2671
8	South Korea					2171
9	China					2132
10	Poland				[c]	776

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1. [a]

   Although Japan did not qualify an ice dance team for the team event, they were able to use two additional athlete quotas in order to complete their team.^[11]
2. [b]

   Although Great Britain did not qualify a men's singles skater for the team event, they were able to use an additional athlete quota in order to complete their team.^[10]
3. [c]

   Although Poland did not qualify an ice dance team for the team event, they were able to use two additional athlete quotas in order to complete their team.^[12]

Countries began announcing their selections following the 2025 World Championships. The International Skating Union published a complete list of entries on 26 January 2026.^[6] Skaters or teams denoted with ● were 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, Finland ultimately relinquished their second quota spot.^[13] As a result, the spot was reallocated to Sweden, and Milla Ruud Reitan and Nikolaj Majorov became the first Swedish ice dance team to qualify for the Winter Olympics.^[14]

Additionally, Uzbekistan had originally qualified one quota spot in the pairs event after Ekaterina Geynish and Dmitrii Chigirev finished in tenth place at the 2025 World Championships.^[15] However, after Geynish and Chigirev ended their partnership,^[16] the spot was re-allocated to France, who chose to send Camille Kovalev and Pavel Kovalev.^[17]

Meda Variakojytė of Lithuania made history as the first Lithuanian woman to qualify for the Winter Olympics in single skating.^[18] Daria Danilova and Michel Tsiba of the Netherlands became the first Dutch pair skating team to qualify for the Winter Olympics.^[19]

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Entries

Nation	Men	Women	Pairs	Ice dance	Ref.
Armenia	—N/a		Karina Akopova Nikita Rakhmanin	—N/a	[20]
Australia	—N/a		Anastasiia Golubeva Hektor Giotopoulos Moore	Holly Harris Jason Chan	[21]
Austria	—N/a	Olga Mikutina	—N/a		[22]
Azerbaijan	Vladimir Litvintsev	—N/a			[23]
Belgium	—N/a	Loena Hendrickx	—N/a		[24]
		Nina Pinzarrone
Bulgaria	—N/a	Alexandra Feigin	—N/a		[25]
Canada	Stephen Gogolev	Madeline Schizas	Lia Pereira Trennt Michaud	Piper Gilles Paul Poirier	[26]
	—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	[27]
Chinese Taipei	Li Yu-Hsiang	—N/a			[28]
Czech Republic	—N/a			Natálie Taschlerová Filip Taschler	[29]
				Kateřina Mrázková Daniel Mrázek
Estonia	Aleksandr Selevko	Niina Petrõkina	—N/a		[30]
Finland	—N/a	Iida Karhunen	—N/a	Juulia Turkkila Matthias Versluis	[31][32]
France	Kévin Aymoz	Lorine Schild	Camille Kovalev Pavel Kovalev	Laurence Fournier Beaudry Guillaume Cizeron	[33][17]
	Adam Siao Him Fa	—N/a		Evgeniia Lopareva Geoffrey Brissaud
Georgia	Nika Egadze	Anastasiia Gubanova	Anastasiia Metelkina Luka Berulava	Diana Davis Gleb Smolkin	[34]
Germany	—N/a		Minerva Fabienne Hase Nikita Volodin	Jennifer Janse van Rensburg Benjamin Steffan	[35]
			Annika Hocke Robert Kunkel	—N/a
Great Britain	Edward Appleby ●	Kristen Spours	Anastasia Vaipan-Law Luke Digby	Phebe Bekker James Hernandez	[10]
	—N/a			Lilah Fear Lewis Gibson
Hungary	—N/a		Maria Pavlova Alexei Sviatchenko	—N/a	[36]
Individual Neutral Athletes	Petr Gumennik	Adeliia Petrosian	—N/a		[4]
	—N/a	Viktoriia Safonova
Israel	—N/a	Mariia Seniuk	—N/a		[37]
Italy	Daniel Grassl	Lara Naki Gutmann	Sara Conti Niccolò Macii	Charlène Guignard Marco Fabbri	[38]
	Matteo Rizzo	—N/a	Rebecca Ghilardi Filippo Ambrosini	—N/a
Japan	Yuma Kagiyama	Mone Chiba	Riku Miura Ryuichi Kihara	Utana Yoshida Masaya Morita ●	[11]
	Kao Miura	Ami Nakai	Yuna Nagaoka Sumitada Moriguchi	—N/a
	Shun Sato	Kaori Sakamoto	—N/a
Kazakhstan	Mikhail Shaidorov	Sofia Samodelkina	—N/a		[39]
Latvia	Fedirs Kuļišs	—N/a			[40]
	Deniss Vasiļjevs
Lithuania	—N/a	Meda Variakojytė	—N/a	Allison Reed Saulius Ambrulevičius	[41]
Mexico	Donovan Carrillo	—N/a			[42]
Netherlands	—N/a		Daria Danilova Michel Tsiba	—N/a	[19]
Poland	Vladimir Samoilov	Ekaterina Kurakova	Ioulia Chtchetinina Michał Woźniak	Sofiia Dovhal Wiktor Kulesza ●	[12]
Romania	—N/a	Julia Sauter	—N/a		[43]
Slovakia	Adam Hagara	—N/a			[44]
South Korea	Cha Jun-hwan	Lee Hae-in	—N/a	Hannah Lim Ye Quan	[45]
	Kim Hyun-gyeom	Shin Ji-a		—N/a
Spain	Tomàs-Llorenç Guarino Sabaté	—N/a		Olivia Smart Tim Dieck	[46]
	—N/a			Sofía Val Asaf Kazimov
Sweden	Andreas Nordebäck	—N/a		Milla Ruud Reitan Nikolaj Majorov	[47][14]
Switzerland	Lukas Britschgi	Livia Kaiser	—N/a		[48]
	—N/a	Kimmy Repond
Ukraine	Kyrylo Marsak	—N/a			[49]
United States	Ilia Malinin	Amber Glenn	Emily Chan Spencer Howe	Christina Carreira Anthony Ponomarenko	[50]
	Maxim Naumov	Isabeau Levito	Ellie Kam Daniel O'Shea	Madison Chock Evan Bates
	Andrew Torgashev	Alysa Liu	—N/a	Emilea Zingas Vadym Kolesnik

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All times are in local time (UTC+1).^[5]

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

The results of the ice dance event sparked some backlash, with media outlets questioning how Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Guillaume Cizeron of France won despite notable errors with their twizzle sequences in both their rhythm dance and free dance. Controversy arose when an examination of the judges' results revealed that the French judge, Jézabel Dabouis, had given Madison Chock and Evan Bates of the United States a total score of 129.74 in the free dance, which was over 5.20 points lower than the average score of the remaining eight judges, while at the same time, awarding Fournier Beaudry and Cizeron a total score of 137.45, which was almost three points above the average score of the remaining judges.^[57] A spokesperson from the International Skating Union (ISU) responded to the outcry: "It is normal for there to be a range of scores given by different judges in any panel and a number of mechanisms are used to mitigate these variations. The ISU has full confidence in the scores given and remains completely committed to fairness."^[58]