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The Olympic Winter Games are back in Italy! Exactly 20 years after the Olympic Winter Games Torino 2006, Italy hosts the World’s biggest winter sports event once more. 

The Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026 mark the third time that the Winter Games have been held in Italy. Before Turin 2006, the country’s previous Games were held in Cortina d’Ampezzo in 1956.

A total of 147 Skaters/Couples representing 34 ISU Members have been entered for the Milano Cortina Games: 30 Men, 29 Women, 19 Pairs and 25 Ice Dance couples. One Man (GBR) and two Ice Dance Couples (JPN and POL) compete only in the Team Event, and three skaters compete as Individual Neutral Athletes (AIN).

Marco Fabbri, pictured with Ice Dance partner Charlene Guignard, is the oldest male Figure Skater at his home games © ISU

• 42-year-old Pairs skater Deanna Stellato-Dudek (CAN) is the oldest figure skater competing in the Games, born on June 6, 1983.
• The oldest male skater is 38-year-old Ice Dancer Marco Fabbri, from host country Italy, born on February 2, 1988.
• The youngest competitor is 17-year-old Ami Nakai (JPN, pictured above), born on April 27, 2008.
• The youngest male skater competing is 19-year-old Yu-Hsiang Li (TPE), born November 22, 2006.

Six skaters celebrate their birthdays during the Games:

• Shun Sato (JPN) turns 22 on February 6
• Pair Skater Danny O’Shea (USA) will be 35 on February 13
• Madeline Schizas (CAN) celebrates her 23rd birthday on February 14
• Lukas Britschgi (SUI) turns 28 on February 17
• Sofia Samodelkina (KAZ) will be 19 years old on February 18
• Vladimir Litvintsev (AZE) has his 25th birthday on the same day, February 18

2025 European Champion Lukas Britschgi (SUI) celebrates his 28th birthday during the Milano Cortina Games © ISU

There are two pairs of siblings competing at the Games, both of them from Czechia:

• Natalie Taschlerova & Filip Taschler (CZE) in the Ice Dance
• Katerina Mrazkova & Daniel Mrazek (CZE) in the Ice Dance

There are four husband-and-wife teams competing:

• Marie-Jade Lauriault & Romain Le Gac (CAN) in the Ice Dance
• Camille Kovalev & Pavel Kovalev (FRA) in the Pairs 
• Diana Davis & Gleb Smolkin (GEO) in the Ice Dance
• Madison Chock & Evan Bates (USA) in the Ice Dance

Pairs Skaters Camille and Pavel Kovalev (FRA) are one of four married couples competing, the other three in the Ice Dance © ISU

Six Olympic medalists are returning to competition:

• Guillaume Cizeron (FRA) – 2022 Olympic Champion (with Gabriella Papadakis)
• Wenjing Sui & Cong Han (CHN) – 2022 Olympic Champions 
• Yuma Kagiyama (JPN) – 2022 Olympic silver medalist (Individual and Team)
• Kaori Sakamoto (JPN) – 2022 Olympic bronze medalist (Individual) and silver medalist (Team)
• Madison Chock & Evan Bates (USA) - 2022 Olympic Champions (Team)
• Riku Miura & Ryuichi Kihara (JPN) – 2022 Olympic silver medalists (Team)

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