2026 World Figure Skating Championships
Type:	ISU Championship
Date:	25 – 29 March
Season:	2025–26
Location:	Prague, Czech Republic
Host:	Czech Figure Skating Association
Venue:	O2 Arena
Champions
Men's singles: Ilia Malinin
Women's singles: Kaori Sakamoto
Pairs: Minerva Fabienne Hase and Nikita Volodin
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The 2026 World Figure Skating Championships will be held from 25 to 29 March at the O2 Arena in Prague, Czech Republic. Medals will be awarded in men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dance.

The World Figure Skating Championships are considered the most prestigious event in figure skating.^[1] The 2026 World Championships will be held from 25 to 29 March at the O2 Arena in Prague, Czech Republic.^[2]

The number of entries from each nation for the 2026 World Championships is based on the results of the 2025 World Championships. Skaters from Russia and Belarus were banned from participating "until further notice" due to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.^[3]

The following nations were eligible to enter more than one skater or team in the indicated disciplines.^[4]

Number of entries per discipline^[4]

Spots	Men	Women	Pairs	Ice dance
3	France  Japan  Kazakhstan  United States	Japan  United States	United States	Canada  United States
2	Georgia  Italy  Latvia  South Korea	Belgium  Estonia  South Korea  Switzerland	Australia  Canada  Georgia  Germany  Hungary  Italy  Japan  Uzbekistan	Czech Republic  Finland  France  Georgia  Great Britain  Italy  Spain

All times are listed in local time (UTC+01:00 through March 28 and UTC+02:00 for the exhibition gala).^[2]

Schedule

Date	Disc.	Time	Segment
Wednesday, 25 March	Women	11:30	Short program
	Pairs	18:45
Thursday, 26 March	Men	11:30
	Pairs	18:15	Free skating
Friday, 27 March	Ice dance	11:30	Rhythm dance
	Women	18:00	Free skating
Saturday, 28 March	Men	12:30
	Ice dance	18:30	Free dance
Sunday, 29 March	— N/a	14:30	Exhibition gala

Member nations began announcing their selections in December 2025.^[5] The full list of entries was posted on February 25, 2026.^[6]

Entries

Country	Men[7]	Women[8]	Pairs[9]	Ice dance[10]
Armenia	Semen Daniliants	— N/a	Karina Akopova Nikita Rakhmanin	— N/a
Australia[11]	— N/a			Holly Harris Jason Chan
Austria	Maurizio Zandron	Olga Mikutina	Gabriella Izzo Luc Maierhofer	— N/a
Azerbaijan	Vladimir Litvintsev	Nargiz Süleymanova	— N/a	Samantha Ritter Daniel Brykalov
Belgium	— N/a	Jade Hovine	— N/a
		Nina Pinzarrone
Bulgaria	— N/a	Alexandra Feigin	— N/a
Canada[12]	Stephen Gogolev	Madeline Schizas	Kelly Ann Laurin Loucas Éthier	Piper Gilles Paul Poirier
	— N/a		Lia Pereira Trennt Michaud	Marjorie Lajoie Zachary Lagha
			— N/a	Marie-Jade Lauriault Romain Le Gac
China	Chen Yudong	Zhang Ruiyang	Zhang Jiaxuan Huang Yihang	Ren Junfei Xing Jianing
Chinese Taipei	Li Yu-Hsiang	— N/a
Cyprus	— N/a	Stefania Yakovleva	— N/a	Angelina Kudryavtseva Ilia Karankevich
Czech Republic	Georgii Reshtenko	Barbora Vránková	Anna Valesi Martin Bidař	Kateřina Mrázková Daniel Mrázek
	— N/a			Natálie Taschlerová Filip Taschler
Estonia	Aleksandr Selevko	Nataly Langerbaur	— N/a
	— N/a	Niina Petrõkina
Finland	— N/a	Iida Karhunen	— N/a	Yuka Orihara Juho Pirinen
	— N/a	Juulia Turkkila Matthias Versluis
France	Kévin Aymoz	Lorine Schild	Camille Kovalev Pavel Kovalev	Laurence Fournier Beaudry Guillaume Cizeron
	François Pitot	— N/a		Evgeniia Lopareva Geoffrey Brissaud
	Adam Siao Him Fa			— N/a
Georgia	Nika Egadze	Anastasiia Gubanova	Anastasiia Metelkina Luka Berulava	Diana Davis Gleb Smolkin
Germany[13]	Genrikh Gartung	— N/a	Minerva Fabienne Hase Nikita Volodin	Jennifer Janse van Rensburg Benjamin Steffan
	— N/a		Annika Hocke Robert Kunkel	— N/a
Great Britain	Edward Appleby	Kristen Spours	Anastasia Vaipan-Law Luke Digby	Phebe Bekker James Hernandez
	— N/a			Lilah Fear Lewis Gibson
Hungary	— N/a		Maria Pavlova Alexei Sviatchenko	Mariia Ignateva Danijil Szemko
Israel	Tamir Kuperman	— N/a		Shira Ichilov Mikhail Nosovitsky
Italy	Gabriele Frangipani	Lara Naki Gutmann	Irma Caldara Riccardo Maglio	Victoria Manni Carlo Röthlisberger
	Daniel Grassl	— N/a		Giulia Isabella Paolino Andrea Tuba
Japan[14]	Yuma Kagiyama	Mone Chiba	Yuna Nagaoka Sumitada Moriguchi	Utana Yoshida Masaya Morita
	Kao Miura	Ami Nakai	— N/a
	Shun Sato	Kaori Sakamoto
Kazakhstan	Dias Jirenbayev	Sofia Samodelkina	— N/a
Latvia	Fedirs Kuļišs	— N/a
	Deniss Vasiļjevs
Lithuania	— N/a	Meda Variakojytė	— N/a	Allison Reed Saulius Ambrulevičius
Mexico	Donovan Carrillo	— N/a
Moldova	— N/a	Anastasia Gracheva	— N/a
Netherlands	— N/a	Niki Wories	Daria Danilova Michel Tsiba	— N/a
Norway	— N/a	Mia Risa Gomez	— N/a
Poland	Vladimir Samoilov	Ekaterina Kurakova	Ioulia Chtchetinina Michał Woźniak	— N/a
Romania	— N/a	Julia Sauter	— N/a
Slovakia	Adam Hagara	— N/a
Slovenia	— N/a	Julija Lovrenčič	— N/a
South Korea[15]	Cha Young-hyun	Lee Hae-in	— N/a	Hannah Lim Ye Quan
	Kim Hyun-gyeom	Shin Ji-a		— N/a
Spain	Tomàs-Llorenç Guarino Sabaté	— N/a		Olivia Smart Tim Dieck
Sweden	Andreas Nordebäck	— N/a		Milla Ruud Reitan Nikolaj Majorov
Switzerland[16]	Lukas Britschgi	Livia Kaiser	Oxana Vouillamoz Tom Bouvart	Gina Zehnder Beda Leon Sieber
Turkey	Alp Eren Özkan	— N/a
Ukraine[17]	Kyrylo Marsak	— N/a	Sofiia Holichenko Artem Darenskyi	Mariia Pinchuk Mykyta Pogorielov
United States[18]	Ilia Malinin	Sarah Everhardt	Alisa Efimova Misha Mitrofanov	Christina Carreira Anthony Ponomarenko
	Jacob Sanchez	Amber Glenn	Emily Chan Spencer Akira Howe	Caroline Green Michael Parsons
	Andrew Torgashev	Isabeau Levito	Katie McBeath Daniil Parkman	Emilea Zingas Vadym Kolesnik

Date	Discipline	Withdrew	Added	Notes	Ref.
26 February	Women	Loena Hendrickx	Jade Hovine	Injury	[19]
27 February	Pairs	Riku Miura Ryuichi Kihara	— N/a	Short turnaround time from the Olympics.	[20]
	Ice dance	— N/a	Giulia Isabella Paolino Andrea Tuba	The Italian Ice Sports Federation had entered only one ice dance couple despite qualifying two spots.	[21]
6 March	Pairs	Sara Conti Niccolò Macii	— N/a		[22]
7 March	Women	Alysa Liu	Sarah Everhardt	Insufficient time post-Olympics to prepare.	[23] [24]
9 March	Ice dance	Madison Chock Evan Bates	Caroline Green Michael Parsons	Decided to end season with their Olympic performance	[25]
10 March	Men	Matteo Rizzo	Gabriele Frangipani	— N/a	[26]
13 March	Women	Kimmy Repond	— N/a	Injury	[27]
	Ice dance	Sofía Val Asaf Kazimov	— N/a	Surgery (Kazimov)	[28]
16 March	Pairs	Ellie Kam Daniel O'Shea	Emily Chan Spencer Akira Howe	Injury	[29]
18 March	Men	Cha Jun-hwan	Cha Young-hyun	— N/a
	Women	Mariia Seniuk	— N/a		[30]
20 March	Pairs	Anastasiia Golubeva Hektor Giotopoulos Moore	— N/a		[31]
21 March	Men	Jason Brown	Jacob Sanchez	— N/a	[32]

Women competing in single skating will first perform their short programs on Wednesday, 25 March, while men will perform theirs on Thursday, 26 March.^[2] Lasting no more than 2 minutes 50 seconds^[33], the short program has to include the following elements:

For men: one double or triple Axel; one triple or quadruple jump; one jump combination consisting of a double jump and a triple jump, two triple jumps, or a quadruple jump and a double jump or triple jump; one flying spin; one camel spin or sit spin with a change of foot; one spin combination with a change of foot; and a step sequence using the full ice surface.^[34]

For women: one double or triple Axel; one triple jump; one jump combination consisting of a double jump and a triple jump, or two triple jumps; 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 one step sequence using the full ice surface.^[34]

Women will perform their free skates on Friday, 27 March, while men will perform theirs on Saturday, 28 March.^[2] The free skate performance for both men and women can last no more than 4 minutes,^[33] and has to include the following: seven jump elements, of which one had to be an Axel-type jump; three spins, of which one had to be a spin combination, one had to be a flying spin, and one had to be a spin with only one position; a step sequence; and a choreographic sequence.^[35]

Couples competing in pair skating first perform their short programs on Wednesday, 25 March.^[2] Lasting no more than 2 minutes 40 seconds,^[33] the short program has to include the following elements: one pair lift, one double or triple twist lift, one double or triple throw jump, one double or triple solo jump, one solo spin combination with a change of foot, one death spiral, and a step sequence using the full ice surface.^[36]

Couples will perform their free skates on Thursday, 25 March.^[2] The free skate performance can last no more than 4 minutes,^[33] and has to include the following: three pair lifts, of which one has to be a twist lift; two different throw jumps; one solo jump; one jump combination or sequence; one pair spin combination; one death spiral; and a choreographic sequence.^[37]

Couples competing in ice dance will perform their rhythm dances on Friday, 27 March.^[2] Lasting no more than 2 minutes 50 seconds,^[33] the theme of the rhythm dance this season is "music, dance styles, and feeling of the 1990s".^[38] Examples of applicable dance styles and music include, but are not limited to: pop, Latin, house, techno, hip-hop, and grunge. The rhythm dance has to include the following elements: one pattern dance step sequence, one choreographic rhythm sequence, one dance lift, one set of sequential twizzles, and one step sequence.^[38]

Couples will then perform their free dances on Saturday, 28 March.^[2] The free dance performance can last no longer than 4 minutes,^[33] and has to include the following: three dance lifts, one dance spin, one set of synchronized twizzles, one step sequence in hold, one step sequence while on one skate and not touching, and three choreographic elements.^[38]

All of the technical elements in any figure skating performance – such as jumps and spins – are assigned a predetermined base point value and then scored by a panel of nine judges on a scale from −5 to 5 based on their quality of execution.^[39] The judging panel's Grade of Execution (GOE) is determined by calculating the trimmed mean (the average after discarding 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.^[40] At the same time, judges evaluate each performance based on three program components – skating skills, presentation, and composition – and assign a score from 0.25 to 10 in 0.25 point increments.^[41] 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.^[42]

Program component factoring^[43]

Discipline	Short program or rhythm dance	Free skate or free dance
Men	1.67	3.33
Women	1.33	2.67
Pairs	1.33	2.67
Ice dance	1.33	2.00

Deductions are applied for certain violations like time infractions, stops and restarts, or falls.^[44] The total elements score and total program component score are added together, minus any deductions, to generate a final performance score for each skater or team.^[45]

Medals are awarded to the skaters or teams who achieved the highest overall placements in each discipline.

Medal recipients

Discipline	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men	Ilia Malinin	Yuma Kagiyama	Shun Sato
Women	Kaori Sakamoto	Mone Chiba	Nina Pinzarrone
Pairs	Minerva Fabienne Hase Nikita Volodin	Anastasiia Metelkina Luka Berulava	Lia Pereira Trennt Michaud
Ice dance

Small medals are awarded to the skaters or teams who achieved the highest short program or rhythm dance placements in each discipline.

Small medal recipients for highest short program or rhythm dance

Discipline	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men	Ilia Malinin	Adam Siao Him Fa	Aleksandr Selevko
Women	Kaori Sakamoto	Mone Chiba	Amber Glenn
Pairs	Minerva Fabienne Hase Nikita Volodin	Anastasiia Metelkina Luka Berulava	Lia Pereira Trennt Michaud
Ice dance	Laurence Fournier Beaudry Guillaume Cizeron	Piper Gilles Paul Poirier	Lilah Fear Lewis Gibson

Small medals are awarded to the skaters or teams who achieved the highest free skate or free dance placements in each discipline.

Small medal recipients for highest free skate or free dance

Discipline	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men	Ilia Malinin	Yuma Kagiyama	Shun Sato
Women	Kaori Sakamoto	Mone Chiba	Nina Pinzarrone
Pairs	Minerva Fabienne Hase Nikita Volodin	Lia Pereira Trennt Michaud	Yuna Nagaoka Sumitada Moriguchi
Ice dance

Men's results

Rank	Skater	Nation	Total	SP		FS
	Ilia Malinin	United States	329.40	1	111.29	1	218.11
	Yuma Kagiyama	Japan	306.67	6	93.80	2	212.87
	Shun Sato	Japan	288.54	4	95.84	3	192.70
4	Stephen Gogolev	Canada	281.04	5	94.38	4	186.66
5	Adam Siao Him Fa	France	271.56	2	101.85	8	169.71
6	Aleksandr Selevko	Estonia	270.42	3	96.49	6	173.93
7	Kevin Aymoz	France	269.13	11	84.74	5	184.39
8	Daniel Grassl	Italy	254.94	8	88.53	9	166.41
9	Lukas Britschgi	Switzerland	251.90	9	88.30	10	163.60
10	Andrew Torgashev	United States	249.41	7	89.07	11	160.34
11	Nika Egadze	Georgia	248.62	15	78.84	7	169.78
12	Jacob Sanchez	United States	241.74	10	85.15	12	156.59
13	Kyrylo Marsak	Ukraine	234.67	12	83.36	16	151.31
14	Vladimir Samoilov	Poland	233.41	16	77.98	13	155.43
15	Adam Hagara	Slovakia	230.29	18	76.75	14	153.54
16	Chen Yudong	China	225.02	22	74.36	17	150.66
17	Andreas Nordeback	Sweden	224.66	24	72.59	15	152.07
18	Tamir Kuperman	Israel	224.40	19	76.63	18	147.77
19	Donovan Carrillo	Mexico	219.74	14	79.65	20	140.09
20	François Pitot	France	218.75	21	74.61	19	144.14
21	Deniss Vasiljevs	Latvia	211.54	13	82.27	23	129.27
22	Georgii Reshtenko	Czech Republic	207.16	20	75.14	21	132.02
23	Gabriele Frangipani	Italy	207.07	17	76.89	22	130.18
24	Genrikh Gartung	Germany	192.31	23	73.20	24	119.11
25	Kao Miura	Japan	71.05	25	71.05	Did not advance to free skate
26	Semen Daniliants	Armenia	70.94	26	70.94
27	Cha Young-hyun	South Korea	70.92	27	70.92
28	Kim Hyun-gyeom	South Korea	70.71	28	70.71
29	Tomàs-Llorenç Guarino Sabaté	Spain	69.12	29	69.12
30	Maurizio Zandron	Austria	67.82	30	67.82
31	Vladimir Litvintsev	Azerbaijan	65.10	31	65.10
32	Li Yu-Hsiang	Chinese Taipei	64.74	32	64.74
33	Edward Appleby	United Kingdom	64.30	33	64.30
34	Alp Eren Özkan	Turkey	60.10	34	60.10
35	Dias Jirenbayev	Kazakhstan	59.34	35	59.34
36	Fedirs Kuļišs	Latvia	56.85	36	56.85

Women's results

Rank	Skater	Nation	Total	SP		FS
	Kaori Sakamoto	Japan	238.28	1	79.31	1	158.97
	Mone Chiba	Japan	228.47	2	78.45	2	150.02
	Nina Pinzarrone	Belgium	215.20	5	71.82	3	143.38
4	Isabeau Levito	United States	206.99	4	72.16	7	134.83
5	Lara Naki Gutmann	Italy	205.12	7	69.33	5	135.79
6	Amber Glenn	United States	203.12	3	72.65	9	130.47
7	Niina Petrõkina	Estonia	202.27	11	67.29	6	134.98
8	Shin Ji-a	South Korea	201.89	13	65.24	4	136.65
9	Ami Nakai	Japan	200.00	8	69.10	8	130.90
10	Anastasiia Gubanova	Georgia	198.81	6	69.92	10	128.89
11	Sarah Everhardt	United States	197.43	9	68.74	11	128.69
12	Sofia Samodelkina	Kazakhstan	187.53	12	66.95	12	120.58
13	Lee Hae-in	South Korea	185.18	10	68.50	16	116.68
14	Iida Karhunen	Finland	181.44	14	61.40	13	120.04
15	Madeline Schizas	Canada	178.29	15	61.35	15	116.94
16	Zhang Ruiyang	China	178.13	18	58.96	14	119.17
17	Olga Mikutina	Austria	169.84	16	60.11	17	109.73
18	Lorine Schild	France	165.23	17	59.14	20	106.09
19	Ekaterina Kurakova	Poland	164.54	19	58.10	19	106.44
20	Nataly Langerbaur	Estonia	162.18	21	56.56	21	105.62
21	Livia Kaiser	Switzerland	159.58	22	54.91	22	104.67
22	Julia Sauter	Romania	159.51	23	52.67	18	106.84
23	Alexandra Feigin	Bulgaria	155.36	20	58.05	23	97.31
24	Barbora Vránková	Czech Republic	142.66	24	50.59	24	92.07
25	Anastasia Gracheva	Moldova	49.91	25	49.91	Did not advance to free skate
26	Kristen Spours	Great Britain	49.20	26	49.20
27	Nargiz Süleymanova	Azerbaijan	49.00	27	49.00
28	Niki Wories	Netherlands	48.41	28	48.41
29	Julija Lovrenčič	Slovenia	47.81	29	47.81
30	Jade Hovine	Belgium	47.05	30	47.05
31	Meda Variakojytė	Lithuania	45.47	31	45.47
32	Mia Risa Gomez	Norway	42.51	32	42.51
33	Stefania Yakovleva	Cyprus	38.53	33	38.53

Pairs' results

Rank	Skaters	Nation	Total	SP		FS
	Minerva Fabienne Hase Nikita Volodin	Germany	228.33	1	79.78	1	148.55
	Anastasiia Metelkina Luka Berulava	Georgia	218.41	2	79.45	4	138.96
	Lia Pereira Trennt Michaud	Canada	216.09	3	75.52	2	140.57
4	Yuna Nagaoka Sumitada Moriguchi	Japan	209.13	5	69.55	3	139.58
5	Maria Pavlova Alexei Sviatchenko	Hungary	205.08	4	69.92	6	135.16
6	Alisa Efimova Misha Mitrofanov	United States	202.51	7	67.29	5	135.22
7	Annika Hocke Robert Kunkel	Germany	194.11	10	65.35	7	128.76
8	Karina Akopova Nikita Rakhmanin	Armenia	190.46	8	67.12	9	123.34
9	Zhang Jiaxuan Huang Yihang	China	184.90	14	62.69	10	122.21
10	Oxana Vouillamoz Tom Bouvart	Switzerland	184.56	16	60.12	8	124.44
11	Ioulia Chtchetinina Michał Woźniak	Poland	182.27	13	63.59	11	118.68
12	Katie McBeath Daniil Parkman	United States	179.60	11	64.42	12	115.18
13	Anastasia Vaipan-Law Luke Digby	Great Britain	176.33	9	66.34	15	109.99
14	Gabriella Izzo Luc Maierhofer	Austria	170.61	19	58.22	14	112.39
15	Anna Valesi Martin Bidař	Czech Republic	170.46	20	56.58	13	113.88
16	Emily Chan Spencer Akira Howe	United States	169.91	6	69.02	20	100.89
17	Camille Kovalev Pavel Kovalev	France	169.20	15	61.17	17	108.03
18	Sofiia Holichenko Artem Darenskyi	Ukraine	168.28	17	58.85	16	109.43
19	Kelly Ann Laurin Loucas Éthier	Canada	167.75	12	63.99	18	103.76
20	Irma Caldara Riccardo Maglio	Italy	160.95	18	58.79	19	102.16
21	Daria Danilova Michel Tsiba	Netherlands	48.77	21	48.77	Did not advance to free skate

Ice dance results

Rank	Skaters	Nation	Total	RD		FD
	Laurence Fournier Beaudry Guillaume Cizeron	France		1	92.74
	Piper Gilles Paul Poirier	Canada		2	86.45
	Lilah Fear Lewis Gibson	Great Britain		3	85.90
4	Emilea Zingas Vadym Kolesnik	United States		4	84.21
5	Evgeniia Lopareva Geoffrey Brissaud	France		5	83.07
6	Olivia Smart Tim Dieck	Spain		6	81.06
7	Christina Carreira Anthony Ponomarenko	United States		7	80.89
8	Marjorie Lajoie Zachary Lagha	Canada		8	80.81
9	Allison Reed Saulius Ambrulevičius	Lithuania		9	79.66
10	Diana Davis Gleb Smolkin	Georgia		10	79.34
11	Juulia Turkkila Matthias Versluis	Finland		11	78.03
12	Kateřina Mrázková Daniel Mrázek	Czech Republic		12	76.74
13	Caroline Green Michael Parsons	United States		13	76.42
14	Natálie Taschlerová Filip Taschler	Czech Republic		14	76.35
15	Utana Yoshida Masaya Morita	Japan		15	72.33
16	Holly Harris Jason Chan	Australia		16	71.12
17	Jennifer Janse van Rensburg Benjamin Steffan	Germany		17	71.02
18	Phebe Bekker James Hernandez	Great Britain		18	70.82
19	Hannah Lim Ye Quan	South Korea		19	69.83
20	Marie-Jade Lauriault Romain Le Gac	Canada		20	69.70
21	Mariia Ignateva Danijil Szemko	Hungary	68.71	21	68.71	Did not advance to free dance
22	Yuka Orihara Juho Pirinen	Finland	67.45	22	67.45
23	Victoria Manni Carlo Röthlisberger	Italy	63.84	24	63.84
24	Ren Junfei Xing Jianing	China	63.75	24	63.75
25	Angelina Kudryavtseva Ilia Karankevich	Cyprus	61.94	25	61.94
26	Giulia Isabella Paolino Andrea Tuba	Italy	60.63	26	60.63
27	Mariia Pinchuk Mykyta Pogorielov	Ukraine	59.45	27	59.45
28	Gina Zehnder Beda Leon Sieber	Switzerland	59.34	28	59.34
29	Milla Ruud Reitan Nikolaj Majorov	Sweden	58.20	29	58.20
30	Shira Ichilov Mikhail Nosovitsky	Israel	58.04	30	58.04
31	Samantha Ritter Daniel Brykalov	Azerbaijan	50.65	31	50.65

In the United States, the event will be aired on USA Network and NBC Sports.^[46]

• "Special Regulations & Technical Rules – Single & Pair Skating and Ice Dance 2024" (PDF). International Skating Union. Archived (PDF) from the original on 3 June 2025. Retrieved 15 August 2025.

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