Milano Cortina 2026 - Team USA - Figure Skating

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Team USA 2026

 

Men's Singles - Ilia Malinin, Maxim Naumov, Andrew Torgashev

 

Women's Singles - Alysa Liu, Amber Glenn, Isabeau Levito

 

Pairs - Emily Chan and Spencer Akira Howe, Ellie Kam and Danny O'Shea

 

Ice Dance - Christina Carreira and Anthony Ponomarenko, Madison Chock and Evan Bates, Emilea Zingas and Vadym Kolesnik

 

History

Team USA has historically done quite well in figure skating.  We have medalled every time Figure Skating has been contested, except twice (1908, 1936).  We're leading the all-time medal count (if you separate USSR and Russia...otherwise they're at the top.)  Thus far, we have 17 Gold, 16 Silver, and 21 Bronze.

 

Most recently in 2022, we won 3 medals. Nathan Chen won Gold in Men's Singles, we won Gold in the Team Event, and Hubbell/Donohue won Bronze in Ice Dance.

 

We won two bronze medals in 2018 (Ice Dance and Team).

Edited January 24 by clemsonbeav

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We have been awarded almost the full slate of positions for figure skating.  Our US Trials will be January 4-11 in St. Louis.  I know there are some who are probably shoe-ins (Malinin, Liu, Glenn, Chock/Bates, Kam/O'Shea) but we'll have to wait and see!

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Article from NBC about the figure skating season: https://www.nbcsports.com/olympics/news/figure-skating-tv-schedule-2025-26-season-grand-prix-series-how-to-watch

 

Entrants for the Grand Prix: https://www.usfigureskating.org/news/press-release/team-usas-2025-grand-prix-assignments-announced

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Results at the Grand Prix de France:

Women:

- Isabeau Levito - Finished fourth.  Was third after the SP, but the 4th place athlete from  had a better FP.

- Elyce Lin-Gracey - Finished eighth

Men:

- Ilia Malinin - Gold medal, unstoppable.  He still has room to up his points, too.

- Andrew Torgashev - Had an unfortunate SP, but had the 5th best FP.  Finished 6th overall.

- Maxim Naumov - Finished 9th

Pairs:

- Katie McBeath and Daniil Parkman - Finished 4th, but a distant one

- Audrey Shin and Balazs Nagy - Finished 5th

 

Ice Dance:

- Eva Pate and Logan Bye - Finished 7th

- Emily Bratti and Ian Somerville - Finished 8th

 

 

 

Coming up in China next week...
Women: Amber Glenn, Alysa Liu
Men: Camden Pulkinen, Jacob Sanchez*
Pairs: Katie McBeath and Daniil Parkman
Ice Dance: Madison Chock and Evan Bates, Caroline Green and Michael Parsons, Emilea Zingas and Vadym Kolesnik

Edited October 19, 2025 by clemsonbeav

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After the Cup of China...

 

Amber and Alysa went 1-2 in the Women's comp.

Chock/Bates and Zingas/Kolesnik went 1-2 in Ice Dance.  Green/Parsons withdrew due to injury.

Camden withdrew and was replaced by Tomoki Hiwatashi, who was a distant 4th.  Sanchez was 7th.

McBeath/Parkman finished 7th.

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Skate Canada...

 

Shocker! Ilia Malinin won big time.

Good to see Isabeau Levito win silver for the Women.

Kam and O'Shea won bronze.

Carreira and Ponomarenko were one point off the podium for the dancers.

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NHK Trophy...Green & Parsons were our third ice dancing pair to medal...no other medals this time.

 

Coming home to skate next week!

Edited November 10, 2025 by clemsonbeav

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https://usfigureskating.org/sports/2025/11/3/2026-prevagen-us-figure-skating-championships.aspx

 

Beginning of January...we'll see who our team is (though our top contenders are essentially known)

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Hadn't updated the rosters...but got those up.

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Team event starts Friday:

Rhythm Dance 03:55 EST

Pairs Short 05:35

Women's Short 07:35

 

Any thoughts as to who we'll send to compete in these?

Edited February 2 by clemsonbeav