FIGURE SKATING
USA and Japan face off as first Figure Skating medals to be decided in team event
08 Feb 2026
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It will get hot on the ice when the five strongest teams fight it out for the first Figure Skating medals on Day Three at the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026 on Sunday, February 8.
The competition at the Milano Ice Skating Arena concludes, starting at 19:30 local time with the Pairs, Women’s and Men’s Free Skating, and a lot can still happen.
Kaori Sakamoto (JPN) took maximum points from the Women's Short Program. Can she repeat it in the Free Skate? © Getty Images
The battle for the podium continues
- Team USA strengthened their lead and now have 44 points after the second day of the competition.
- Reigning ISU World Champion and “Quad God” Ilia Malinin is going to compete in the Men’s Free Skating, while Amber Glenn will skate in the Women’s Free Skating and Ellie Kam & Danny O’Shea compete in the Pairs event for the USA.
- Japan (39 points) will send three-time ISU World Champion Kaori Sakamoto, two-time ISU World Champions Riku Miura & Ryuichi Kihara, pictured top, and ISU Grand Prix Final bronze medalist Shun Sato into the competition.
- Italy (37 points) are determined to fight for the podium with ISU Grand Prix Final silver medalists Sara Conti & Niccolo Macii and 2026 ISU European Championships medalists Matteo Rizzo and Lara Naki Gutmann.
- Canada (35 points) have a shot at a medal as well with Stephen Gogolev, Lia Pereira & Trennt Michaud and Madeline Schizas taking to the ice on Sunday.
- Georgia sit in fifth place (32 points) but aim to come back strongly on the final day with 2026 ISU European Champions Nika Egadze and Anastasiia Metelkina & Luka Berulava skating for them as well as 2023 European Champion Anastasiia Gubanova.
Olympic debutante Amber Glenn will carry Team USA's hopes into the Women's Free Skate © ISU
Quick Facts
- Ten teams representing ten NOCs qualified based on the results of the ISU World Championships 2025 and of the ISU Grand Prix series 2025/26.
- The top five teams after the Short Programs/Rhythm Dance advanced to the final round.
- The skaters in the team event have to be chosen from the athletes that compete in the individual events.
- Teams that have more than one entry in the individual events can switch up to two skaters/couples between the two segments of the competition.
