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A total of 147 figure skaters representing 34 countries will participate in the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026. Thirty Men, 29 Women, 19 Pairs and 25 Ice Dance couples have been entered. 

Of those competing, one man (GBR) and two Ice Dance couples (JPN and POL) participate only in the Team Event. Three skaters (one man, two women) compete as Individual Neutral Athletes (AIN). 

Here, we take a look at who will feature in Milan...

Olympic Champions and medalists to return

Six Olympic Champions and medalists are back competing.

Guillaume Cizeron (FRA), pictured above (right), is the 2022 Olympic Ice Dance Champion and 2018 Olympic silver medalist with former partner Gabriella Papadakis. He now competes with his new partner, Laurence Fournier Beaudry, pictured above (left).

Pair Skaters Wenjing Sui & Cong Han won Olympic gold in 2022 and silver in 2018. Yuma Kagiyama (JPN) took two silver medals at the Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022 in the individual and team events. Kaori Sakamoto (JPN) earned bronze in the individual and silver in the Team Event in 2022. Ice Dancers Madison Chock & Evan Bates (USA) won gold from the Team Event in 2022, while Pair Skaters Riku Miura & Ryuichi Kihara (JPN) took silver in the same event in Beijing.

Wenjing Sui and Cong Han will be looking to defend their Olympic title © Getty Images

Making history in Milan

Daria Danilova & Michel Tsiba are the first Pair Skaters to represent the Netherlands on Olympic ice, while Milla Ruud Reitan & Nikolaj Majorov will become the first couple to compete for Sweden in the Ice Dance at the Games. Majorov competed in singles in Beijing in 2022 and is now the first skater to compete in Singles and Ice Dance at the Olympic Winter Games. 

Meda Variakojyte is the first Lithuanian Single Skater in the Olympic Figure Skating event, with Lithuania previously only having representation in the Ice Dance. Maria Pavlova & Alexei Sviatchenko are the first Hungarian Pair Skaters to compete at the Olympic Winter Games in 70 years, while Yu-Hsiang Li is the first skater from Chinese Taipei to qualify for the Olympic Winter Games since 1998.

Michael Tsiba and Daria Danilova will represent the Netherlands in the Pairs © Getty Images

Biggest teams

The USA arrive in Milan with the largest team, consisting of 16 athletes: three men, three women, two Pairs and three Ice Dance couples, keeping them inside the maximum quota places of three per discipline. Canada and Japan have the joint second largest teams, with 12 competitors each. 

Countries at Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026

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