Figure skating at the 2026 Winter Olympics

The figure skating competition at the 2026 Winter Olympics ran from February 6th to 19th at the Milano Ice Skating Arena in Milan. Gold medals were up for grabs in men’s singles, women’s singles, pairs, ice dance, and the team event. Kazakhstan’s Mikhail Shaidorov took the men’s title, while Alysa Liu of the United States won the women’s event. Japan’s Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara claimed the pairs gold, and the French duo of Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron won ice dance. The United States also earned silver in the team competition.

The ice dance result stirred controversy. Papadakis and Cizeron won despite noticeable errors in their twizzle sequences during both the rhythm dance and free dance. Scrutiny of the judges’ scores showed that the French judge gave American skaters Madison Chock and Evan Bates a total score well below the average of the other eight judges, while awarding the French team a score nearly three points above that average. The International Skating Union defended the process, stating that safeguards exist to handle outlier scores and expressing full confidence in the results.

In October 2023, the IOC suspended Russia’s Olympic committee. Russian and Belarusian skating federations could each nominate one skater or team per discipline to the Skate to Milano qualifier, with a chance to earn Olympic spots as Individual Neutral Athletes. Nominees had to pass a screening for any active support of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine or ties to the Russian or Belarusian military. No such participation has been confirmed in canon.

A total of 144 quota spots were available, with each National Olympic Committee limited to 18 skaters (maximum nine per gender). The 2025 World Championships awarded 83 spots: 24 each in men’s and women’s singles, 15 in pairs, and 18 in ice dance. Remaining spots came from the Skate to Milano. Additionally, one men’s singles skater and two ice dance teams qualified only for the team event, raising the total competitors to 147.

The team event field was determined by combining scores from the 2025 World Championships and the 2025–26 Grand Prix Series to rank the top ten nations.

Entries were announced after the 2025 Worlds, with a full list published by the ISU on January 26, 2026.