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

Women's singles skating at the XXV Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Forum di Milano Milan, Italy
Date	17 & 19 February 2026
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The women's singles figure skating competition at the 2026 Winter Olympics will be held on 17 and 19 February at the Forum di Milano in Milan, Italy.

Background

Following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the International Olympic Committee suspended the Olympic Committees of Russia and Belarus for violating the Olympic Truce. 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]

Qualification

Main article: Figure skating at the 2026 Winter Olympics – Qualification

Twenty-four quota spots in the women's event were awarded 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

Entries

Entries

Nation	Women	Ref.
Austria	Olga Mikutina	[5]
Belgium	Loena Hendrickx	[6]
	Nina Pinzarrone
Bulgaria	Alexandra Feigin	[7]
Canada	Madeline Schizas	[8]
China	Zhang Ruiyang	[9]
Estonia	Niina Petrõkina	[10]
Finland	Iida Karhunen	[11]
France	Lorine Schild	[12]
Georgia	Anastasiia Gubanova	[13]
Great Britain	Kristen Spours	[14]
Individual Neutral Athletes	Adeliia Petrosian	[3]
	Viktoriia Safonova
Israel	Mariia Seniuk	[15]
Italy	Lara Naki Gutmann	[16]
Japan	Mone Chiba	[17]
	Ami Nakai
	Kaori Sakamoto
Kazakhstan	Sofia Samodelkina	[18]
Lithuania	Meda Variakojytė	[19]
Poland	Ekaterina Kurakova	[20]
Romania	Julia Sauter	[21]
South Korea	Lee Hae-in	[22]
	Shin Ji-a
Switzerland	Livia Kaiser	[23]
	Kimmy Repond
United States	Amber Glenn	[24]
	Isabeau Levito
	Alysa Liu

Required performance elements

Women will perform their short programs on 17 February. ^[25] Lasting no more than 2 minutes 40 seconds, ^[26] the short program has 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. ^[27]

The top twenty-four highest scoring skaters after the short program will advance to the free skate, which the women will perform on 19 February. ^[25] The free skate can last no more than 4 minutes, ^[26] and has to include the following: seven jump elements, of which one has to be an Axel-type jump; three spins, of which one has 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. ^[28]

Judging

See also: ISU Judging System

For the 2025–26 season, all of the technical elements in any figure skating performance –such as jumps and spins  –are assigned a predetermined base point value and are then scored by a panel of seven or nine judges on a scale from -5 to 5 based on their quality of execution. ^[29] The judging panel's Grade of Execution (GOE) is determined by calculating the trimmed mean (that is, the average after deleting the highest and lowest scores), and this GOE is added to the base value to come up with the final score for each element. The panel's scores for all elements are added together to generate a total elements score. ^[30] 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. ^[31] 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. ^[32]

Program component factoring ^[33]

Discipline	Short program	Free skate
Women	1.33	2.67

Deductions are applied for certain violations like time infractions, stops and restarts, or falls. ^[34] The total elements score and total program component score are added together, minus any deductions, to generate a final performance score for each skater. ^[35]

References

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Works cited

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