At the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympics, figure skating gold went to the United States in the team event, Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Guillaume Cizeron of France in ice dance, Mikhail Shaidorov of Kazakhstan in men's singles, Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara of Japan in pairs, and Alysa Liu of the United States in women's singles. Japan won the most figure skating medals, with six.
Key takeaways
- The United States won the team event by one point over Japan, its second team title in a row.
- Shaidorov won Kazakhstan's first Olympic figure skating gold after favorite Ilia Malinin fell twice and finished eighth.
- Miura and Kihara came back from fifth after the short program with a world-record free skate.
- Liu won the first Olympic women's gold for the United States since 2002, and Fournier Beaudry and Cizeron took ice dance by 1.43 points amid questions about the judging.
Figure skating at the 2026 Winter Olympics ran through February at the Milano Ice Skating Arena in Milan, Italy. It had a bit of everything: an upset nobody saw coming, a world record, a judging dispute, and a comeback story that ended with an American woman on the top step of the podium for the first time in 24 years.
Here are the results of all five events, with the scores and the stories behind them. If you'd like to know how each event works and how the scoring fits together, our guide to every figure skating event at the Olympics explains it.
All the medal winners
Japan won six of the fifteen figure skating medals, more than any other country: team silver, men's silver and bronze, pairs gold, and women's silver and bronze. The United States won three, with gold in the team event and women's singles and silver in ice dance.
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Team event | United States (69 points) | Japan (68) | Italy (60) |
| Ice dance | Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Guillaume Cizeron, France (225.82) | Madison Chock and Evan Bates, United States (224.39) | Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier, Canada (217.74) |
| Men's singles | Mikhail Shaidorov, Kazakhstan (291.58) | Yuma Kagiyama, Japan (280.06) | Shun Sato, Japan (274.90) |
| Pairs | Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara, Japan (231.24) | Anastasiia Metelkina and Luka Berulava, Georgia (221.75) | Minerva Fabienne Hase and Nikita Volodin, Germany (219.09) |
| Women's singles | Alysa Liu, United States (226.79) | Kaori Sakamoto, Japan (224.90) | Ami Nakai, Japan (219.16) |
Team event
The team event came first and went right down to the last skater. The United States led Japan by five points after two days, but on the final night Japan's Miura and Kihara won the pairs free skate and Kaori Sakamoto won the women's free skate, and the lead was gone. It all came down to the men's free skate.
Ilia Malinin scored 200.03 and Japan's Shun Sato 194.86, which gave the United States gold by a single point, 69 to 68. Madison Chock and Evan Bates had won both ice dance segments, and the American team also included Alysa Liu, Amber Glenn, and pairs skaters Ellie Kam and Danny O'Shea. It was the second team title in a row for the United States, which was awarded the 2022 gold after the Beijing result was revised.
Host Italy took bronze with 60 points, its first medal in the team event, after Matteo Rizzo's strong closing free skate. It was also Italy's first Olympic figure skating medal since Carolina Kostner's bronze in 2014. Japan won team silver for the second Games in a row.
Ice dance
France's Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Guillaume Cizeron led by less than half a point after the rhythm dance and won with 225.82, just 1.43 ahead of Madison Chock and Evan Bates, the three-time reigning world champions. Cizeron, who won in 2022 with Gabriella Papadakis, became the first skater to win back-to-back Olympic ice dance titles with different partners.
The result was questioned almost right away. In the free dance, the French judge marked the French couple about eight points above the Americans, the widest gap on the panel, and the Associated Press reported that without her marks Chock and Bates would have won. The ISU said it had full confidence in the scores, and U.S. Figure Skating didn't file an appeal. Chock spoke afterward about wanting judging that fans can follow and trust.
Canada's Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier won bronze with 217.74, their first Olympic medal, at their third Games together. They were third after the rhythm dance and skated a superb free dance. Our story on how Piper Gilles beat cancer and won an Olympic medal tells the story behind it.
Men's singles
Ilia Malinin arrived as the two-time reigning world champion and the clear favorite, and he led after the short program with 108.16, about five points ahead of Yuma Kagiyama. In the free skate he fell twice, placed fifteenth in that segment and finished eighth overall. Our profile of Ilia Malinin covers his skating and how he talked about it afterward.
Kazakhstan's Mikhail Shaidorov was fifth after the short program. He skated a personal-best free skate to win with 291.58, Kazakhstan's first Olympic gold in figure skating. Japan's Yuma Kagiyama took silver with 280.06, his second Olympic silver after 2022, and Shun Sato climbed from ninth after the short program to bronze with 274.90.
Malinin also made history in Milan with his backflips, the first legal ones at an Olympics since 1976. Our article on the figure skating backflip explains the rule change and Surya Bonaly's famous flip in 1998.
Pairs
Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara, the reigning world champions, missed their big lift in the short program and were fifth, 6.90 points behind the leaders. In the free skate they scored 158.13, a world record, and won with 231.24, 9.49 points clear. It was Japan's first Olympic gold in pairs.
Anastasiia Metelkina and Luka Berulava won silver with 221.75, Georgia's first medal at any Winter Olympics. Germany's Minerva Fabienne Hase and Nikita Volodin led after the short program with 80.01, made mistakes in the free skate and took bronze with 219.09.
Canada's Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps finished eleventh. Stellato-Dudek hit her head in training on January 30, missed the team event and was cleared to compete only shortly before the pairs event. At 42, she was the oldest woman to compete in Olympic figure skating since 1928.
Women's singles
Japan's Ami Nakai, 17, led after the short program, ahead of teammate Kaori Sakamoto, with Alysa Liu third. In the free skate, Liu scored 150.20 and won with 226.79, a personal best. It was the first Olympic women's gold for the United States since Sarah Hughes in 2002, and the first U.S. women's medal of any color since 2006.
Liu stepped away from skating at 16 after the 2022 season, came back in 2024 and won the world title in 2025. Our story on Alysa Liu's comeback tells how she got there. Sakamoto took silver with 224.90 at her final Olympics, adding to her bronze from 2022, and Nakai won bronze with 219.16.
Amber Glenn was thirteenth after a difficult short program and climbed to fifth with a much better free skate, and Isabeau Levito finished twelfth. Our stories on Amber Glenn and Kaori Sakamoto's farewell Olympics go deeper.
Stories adult skaters loved
A few stories from Milan hit home for adult skaters. Danny O'Shea, who skated pairs with Ellie Kam in the team event, had retired from competing and was working in real estate before their partnership, and he turned 35 during the Games. Our story on Danny O'Shea tells it.
Then there's Deanna Stellato-Dudek, who left the sport as a teenager, came back in her thirties, switched to pairs and reached the Olympics at 42. Our story on Deanna Stellato-Dudek follows her comeback. Liu's return, Gilles's medal after cancer and Sakamoto's farewell made these Games a good reminder that skating careers don't follow a single timeline.
If watching Milan made you want to skate yourself, our guide to starting figure skating as an adult is the place to begin. And for the next big competition, our guide to how figure skating scoring works helps you follow the marks.
Sources
Results and scores below come from news reports of each event, checked against one another through web search in October 2026. We read them as they appeared in search results and syndicated copies, and the ISU's official results pages couldn't be opened from our tools.
- NBC and Associated Press coverage of the team event (February 2026): final points, the U.S. lead and the men's free skate scores.
- U.S. Figure Skating, Team USA awarded 2022 Olympic team event gold medal (January 2024).
- Italian Olympic Committee (CONI), Team event: Italy hold firm in the free skates to secure Olympic bronze (February 2026).
- Associated Press, ice dance reports, and ISU defends Olympic ice dance scoring after French judge's margin (February 2026): scores, the judge's marks, Cizeron's record and U.S. Figure Skating's decision not to appeal.
- Skate Canada and Team Canada (olympic.ca), Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier win first Olympic medal (February 2026).
- Golden Skate, Stunned Mikhail Shaidorov of Kazakhstan takes Olympic gold in shocking upset, and Associated Press coverage of the men's short program (February 2026).
- TSN (The Associated Press), Miura and Kihara win Japan's first Olympic pairs gold with a world-record free skate (February 2026).
- Skate Canada, Pereira and Michaud finish eighth, Stellato-Dudek and Deschamps 11th at Milano Cortina 2026, and NBC Olympics on Stellato-Dudek's age record (Olympedia figures).
- Associated Press and NBC coverage of the women's event (February 2026): segment placings, Liu's scores and Glenn's and Levito's results.
- NPR, For U.S. pairs skater Danny O'Shea, these Olympics are 30 years in the making (February 15, 2026).
