Figure skating at the 2026 Winter Olympics – Women's singles

Women's singles skating at the XXV Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Milano Ice Skating Arena Milan, Italy
Date	17 & 19 February 2026
Competitors	29 from 22 nations
Winning score	226.79
Medalists
Alysa Liu  United States Kaori Sakamoto  Japan Ami Nakai  Japan

Figure skating at the 2026 Winter Olympics
Qualification
Singles	men	women
Pairs	mixed
Ice dance	mixed
Team event	mixed

The women's singles figure skating competition at the 2026 Winter Olympics was held on 17 and 19 February at the Milano Ice Skating Arena in Milan, Italy.

Alysa Liu won the gold medal, which marked the first victory by an American athlete in women's singles since Sarah Hughes in Salt Lake City in 2002.

Following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the International Olympic Committee suspended the Olympic Committees of Russia and Belarus. The Figure Skating Federation of Russia and the Skating Union of 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 or other national security agencies.^[1][2] Adeliia Petrosian of Russia and Viktoriia Safonova of Belarus earned spots at the Olympics as Individual Neutral Athletes.^[3]

Twenty-four quota spots in the women's event were allocated to countries based on results at the 2025 World Figure Skating Championships.^[4] An additional five spots were awarded at the Skate to Milano.^[3]

Quota spots in women's singles^[4][3]

Event	Athletes per NOC	Qualifying NOCs	Total
2025 World Championships	3	United States  Japan	24
	2	South Korea  Switzerland
	1	Belgium  Estonia  Canada  Italy  Kazakhstan  France  Israel  Austria  Finland  Romania  Poland  Bulgaria  Great Britain  Lithuania
Skate to Milano	1	Individual Neutral Athletes  Georgia  Belgium  Individual Neutral Athletes  China	5
Total			29

Skaters performed their short programs on 17 February.^[5] Lasting no more than 2 minutes 40 seconds,^[6] the short program had to include the following elements: one double or triple Axel; one triple jump; one jump combination consisting of a double jump and a triple jump; one flying spin; one layback spin, sideways leaning spin, camel spin or sit spin without a change of foot; one spin combination with a change of foot; and a step sequence using the full ice surface.^[7]

The top twenty-four highest scoring skaters after the short program advanced to the free skate, which was held on 19 February.^[5] The free skate could last no more than 4 minutes,^[6] and had to include the following: seven jump elements, of which one has to be an Axel-type jump; three spins, of which one had to be a spin combination, one has to be a flying spin, and one has to be a spin with only one position; a step sequence; and a choreographic sequence.^[8]

All of the technical elements in any figure skating performance – such as jumps and spins – are assigned a predetermined base value and are then scored by a panel of nine judges on a scale from -5 to 5 based on their quality of execution.^[9] Every Grade of Execution (GOE) from -5 to 5 is assigned a value (a percentage of the particular element's base value) as shown on the Scale of Values (SOV).^[10] For example, a triple Axel is worth a base value of 8.00 points, and a GOE of 3 is worth 2.40 points, so a triple Axel with a GOE of 3 earns a skater 10.40 points.^[11] The judging panel's GOE for each element is determined by calculating the trimmed mean (the average after deleting the highest and lowest scores). The panel's scores for all elements are added together to generate a total elements score.^[10] At the same time, judges evaluate each performance based on three program components – skating skills, presentation, and composition – and assign a score from .25 to 10 in .25 point increments.^[12] The judging panel's final score for each program component is also determined by calculating the trimmed mean. Those scores are then multiplied by the factor shown on the following chart; the results are added together to generate a total program component score.^[13]

Deductions of one point each are applied for certain violations like time infractions, stops and restarts, or falls.^[15] The total elements score and total program component score are added together, minus any deductions, to generate a final performance score for each skater.^[16]

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Women's short program results^[17]

Pl.	Skater	Nation	TSS	TES	PCS	CO	PR	SS
1	Ami Nakai	Japan	78.71	45.02	33.69	8.25	8.54	8.54
2	Kaori Sakamoto	Japan	77.23	40.08	37.15	9.25	9.29	9.39
3	Alysa Liu	United States	76.59	41.34	35.25	8.75	9.11	8.64
4	Mone Chiba	Japan	74.00	38.72	35.28	8.89	8.89	8.75
5	Adeliia Petrosian	Individual Neutral Athletes	72.89	40.44	32.45	8.04	8.29	8.07
6	Anastasiia Gubanova	Georgia	71.77	38.28	33.49	8.32	8.61	8.25
7	Loena Hendrickx	Belgium	70.93	36.92	34.01	8.39	8.68	8.50
8	Isabeau Levito	United States	70.84	36.77	34.07	8.54	8.57	8.50
9	Lee Hae-in	South Korea	70.07	37.61	32.46	8.18	8.11	8.11
10	Niina Petrõkina	Estonia	69.63	36.80	32.83	8.32	8.29	8.07
11	Nina Pinzarrone	Belgium	68.97	36.86	32.11	8.07	8.14	7.93
12	Sofia Samodelkina	Kazakhstan	68.47	36.42	32.05	8.00	8.21	7.89
13	Amber Glenn	United States	67.39	34.19	33.20	8.39	8.07	8.50
14	Shin Ji-a	South Korea	65.66	35.79	30.87	7.82	7.46	7.93
15	Iida Karhunen	Finland	65.06	36.22	28.84	7.29	7.32	7.07
16	Julia Sauter	Romania	63.13	34.15	28.98	7.07	7.43	7.29
17	Olga Mikutina	Austria	61.72	32.64	29.08	7.43	7.32	7.11
18	Lara Naki Gutmann	Italy	61.56	29.50	32.06	8.25	7.86	8.00
19	Ekaterina Kurakova	Poland	60.14	31.56	28.58	7.07	7.46	6.96
20	Zhang Ruiyang	China	59.38	32.64	26.74	6.86	6.64	6.61
21	Kimmy Repond	Switzerland	59.20	29.84	29.36	7.39	7.36	7.32
22	Mariia Seniuk	Israel	58.61	32.15	26.46	6.61	6.68	6.61
23	Livia Kaiser	Switzerland	55.69	30.62	26.07	6.50	6.46	6.64
24	Lorine Schild	France	55.63	29.32	26.31	6.68	6.43	6.68
25	Madeline Schizas	Canada	55.38	26.39	28.99	7.36	7.11	7.32
26	Viktoriia Safonova	Individual Neutral Athletes	54.57	29.15	25.42	6.57	6.11	6.43
27	Meda Variakojytė	Lithuania	53.86	29.77	24.09	6.14	6.18	5.79
28	Alexandra Feigin	Bulgaria	53.42	28.77	24.65	6.14	6.21	6.18
29	Kristen Spours	Great Britain	45.54	21.55	23.99	6.04	5.86	6.14

Women's free skate results^[18]

Pl.	Skater	Nation	TSS	TES	PCS	CO	PR	SS
1	Alysa Liu	United States	150.20	77.74	72.46	8.96	9.32	8.86
2	Kaori Sakamoto	Japan	147.67	72.83	74.84	9.21	9.43	9.39
3	Amber Glenn	United States	147.52	78.87	68.65	8.43	8.64	8.64
4	Mone Chiba	Japan	143.88	74.46	69.42	8.54	8.64	8.82
5	Adeliia Petrosian	Individual Neutral Athletes	141.64	76.93	65.71	8.18	8.36	8.07
6	Niina Petrõkina	Estonia	141.19	74.82	66.37	8.36	8.36	8.14
7	Shin Ji-a	South Korea	141.02	75.05	65.97	8.14	8.25	8.32
8	Lee Hae-in	South Korea	140.49	74.15	66.34	8.21	8.32	8.32
9	Ami Nakai	Japan	140.45	72.53	67.92	8.29	8.54	8.61
10	Sofia Samodelkina	Kazakhstan	138.99	73.77	65.22	8.00	8.29	8.14
11	Anastasiia Gubanova	Georgia	138.22	71.39	66.83	8.21	8.50	8.32
12	Lara Naki Gutmann	Italy	134.19	69.73	64.46	8.04	8.21	7.89
13	Isabeau Levito	United States	131.96	64.50	68.46	8.75	8.50	8.39
14	Nina Pinzarrone	Belgium	131.33	67.63	63.70	7.93	8.11	7.82
15	Loena Hendrickx	Belgium	128.72	61.49	67.23	8.32	8.50	8.36
16	Julia Sauter	Romania	127.80	66.28	61.52	7.54	7.86	7.64
17	Iida Karhunen	Finland	127.73	68.43	59.30	7.50	7.39	7.32
18	Olga Mikutina	Austria	123.87	64.06	59.81	7.54	7.50	7.36
19	Zhang Ruiyang	China	118.65	61.54	57.11	7.11	7.21	7.07
20	Livia Kaiser	Switzerland	115.83	62.95	53.88	6.61	6.75	6.82
21	Ekaterina Kurakova	Poland	113.23	56.60	56.63	6.96	7.18	7.07
22	Lorine Schild	France	111.45	59.41	52.04	6.46	6.39	6.64
23	Kimmy Repond	Switzerland	100.34	51.21	53.13	6.79	6.32	6.79
24	Mariia Seniuk	Israel	94.00	44.64	50.36	6.29	6.07	6.50

Women's results

Rank	Skater	Nation	Total	SP		FS
	Alysa Liu	United States	226.79	3	76.59	1	150.20
	Kaori Sakamoto	Japan	224.90	2	77.23	2	147.67
	Ami Nakai	Japan	219.16	1	78.71	9	140.45
4	Mone Chiba	Japan	217.88	4	74.00	4	143.88
5	Amber Glenn	United States	214.91	13	67.39	3	147.52
6	Adeliia Petrosian	Individual Neutral Athletes	214.53	5	72.89	5	141.64
7	Niina Petrõkina	Estonia	210.82	10	69.63	6	141.19
8	Lee Hae-in	South Korea	210.56	9	70.07	8	140.49
9	Anastasiia Gubanova	Georgia	209.99	6	71.77	11	138.22
10	Sofia Samodelkina	Kazakhstan	207.46	12	68.47	10	138.99
11	Shin Ji-a	South Korea	206.68	14	65.66	7	141.02
12	Isabeau Levito	United States	202.80	8	70.84	13	131.96
13	Nina Pinzarrone	Belgium	200.30	11	68.97	14	131.33
14	Loena Hendrickx	Belgium	199.65	7	70.93	15	128.72
15	Lara Naki Gutmann	Italy	195.75	18	61.56	12	134.19
16	Iida Karhunen	Finland	192.79	15	65.06	17	127.73
17	Julia Sauter	Romania	190.93	16	63.13	16	127.80
18	Olga Mikutina	Austria	185.59	17	61.72	18	123.87
19	Zhang Ruiyang	China	178.03	20	59.38	19	118.65
20	Ekaterina Kurakova	Poland	173.37	19	60.14	21	113.23
21	Livia Kaiser	Switzerland	171.52	23	55.69	20	115.83
22	Lorine Schild	France	167.08	24	55.63	22	111.45
23	Kimmy Repond	Switzerland	159.54	21	59.20	23	100.34
24	Mariia Seniuk	Israel	152.61	22	58.61	24	94.00
25	Madeline Schizas	Canada	55.38	25	55.38	Did not advance to free skate
26	Viktoriia Safonova	Individual Neutral Athletes	54.57	26	54.57
27	Meda Variakojytė	Lithuania	53.86	27	53.86
28	Alexandra Feigin	Bulgaria	53.42	28	53.42
29	Kristen Spours	Great Britain	45.54	29	45.54

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