Team USA sends an accomplished delegation of 16 figure skaters to the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026 in Milan, Italy.

Taking place Feb. 6-21 at Milano Ice Skating Arena, the United States will have the full roster of three skaters or teams in the women's, men's and ice dance disciplines and two teams competing in pairs.

Although 13 of 16 athletes will make their Olympic debut – only Madison Chock and Evan Bates and Alysa Liu have previous Games experience – 2026 has the potential to be one of the most successful Games in U.S. Figure Skating history after the U.S. won three of the four gold medals at the last World Championships in 2025.

Kicking off with the team event Feb. 6-8, the United States will have its first opportunity to stand on the podium and is the favorite for gold, entering as the defending gold medalists. Team USA won the team event at the 2022 Olympic Winter Games with 65 points and has medaled in the team event at every Olympic Winter Games since the competition's debut in 2014, earning bronze at its first two iterations.

Each team will consist of one woman, one man, one pairs team and one ice dance team to be selected from athletes who have qualified in their individual disciplines. Each nation will be allowed to make up to two exchanges after the short program/rhythm dance. The team event will consist of the 10 best national teams from National Olympic Committee/International Skating Union members; the five teams with the highest number of points after the short program/rhythm dance will qualify for the free skate/free dance. Athletes receive points based on their finishes in each segment of competition. The team with the most aggregate points through eight segments of competition will stand on the top level of the podium.

U.S. entries to the team events will be announced at the following times (Eastern Time):

U.S. entries to the team events will be announced at the following times (Eastern Time):

• Feb. 5 at ~ 5 a.m.: women's short program, rhythm dance and pairs short program entries

• Feb. 6 at ~ 4 a.m.: men's short program entry

• Feb. 7 at ~ 4 p.m.: free dance entry

• Feb. 7 at ~ 6 p.m.: women's, men's and pairs free skate entries

Moving into the individual disciplines, ice dance starts first with Team USA looking to stand on the podium for the sixth consecutive Olympic Games.

Looking to become the second U.S. ice dance team to win Olympic gold are Chock and Bates, who have broken just about every U.S. ice dance record in the last four years. The only U.S. ice dance team to win three World titles, the 2022 Olympic team event champions are undefeated this season, winning their 22nd Grand Prix medal, third straight Grand Prix Final title and seventh U.S. championship. With their 2026 U.S. title, Chock and Bates now top the record books with the most U.S. ice dance titles in the country's history.
 

Their first Olympic Games as a married couple, this marks Chock and Bates' fourth Games together as a team and the fifth for Bates. He becomes the only U.S. skater to ever compete at five Olympic Games and ties for the most Olympic appearances by a figure skater.

Also competing for the United States are Emilea Zingas and Vadym Kolesnik and Christina Carreira and Anthony Ponomarenko.
 

Zingas and Kolesnik made a splash in the international rankings this season, winning their first two Grand Prix medals and securing their best-ever result at the U.S. Championships with silver.
 

Just weeks ago, Zingas and Kolesnik clinched gold at the ISU Four Continents Figure Skating Championships 2026.
 

Partners since 2014, Carreira and Ponomarenko are two-time Four Continents bronze medalists and four-time Grand Prix medalists. In St. Louis last month, they earned their fifth U.S. Championships medal with bronze.
 

The U.S. will also enter with the gold medal favorite in Milan for the men's event with Ilia Malinin looking to make it two in a row for Team USA following Nathan Chen's victory in 2022. If Malinin wins gold, he would become just the second U.S. skater to win men's singles gold in his Olympic debut (Dick Button won at his first Games in 1948).
 

Undefeated for more than two years, Malinin has clinched the last two World Championships, three Grand Prix Final titles and four U.S. championships. Known for his jumping prowess, the skater from Virginia is the only athlete to have successfully landed the quadruple Axel in competition, and in Japan last December at Grand Prix Final, broke his own world record free skate score record, becoming the first skater to cleanly land seven quad jumps in a single program in the process.
 

Andrew Torgashev and Maxim Naumov also punched their tickets to Italy with the silver and bronze medals, respectively, at the 2026 U.S. Championships.
 

His second consecutive silver, Torgashev is a Grand Prix medalist and two-time World Championships Team member. He claimed silver at 2025 Nebelhorn Trophy to start his season.
 

After three straight years with the pewter medal, Naumov broke through for bronze at the U.S. Championships less than a year after the death of his parents, who were also his coaches, in the crash of flight 5342. This past fall, he took home gold from 2025 IceChallenge.
 

In the pairs discipline, Team USA will be led by Ellie Kam and Danny O'Shea, who teamed up at the beginning of the quadrennium in September of 2022 and have been on the rise ever since. The 2024 U.S. champions, Kam and O'Shea brought home bronze from both their Grand Prix events in the fall.
 

O'Shea, who was the first alternate with past partner Tarah Kayne at the 2018 Olympic Games and turns 35 during the Milan Games, will become the oldest U.S. Olympic pairs skater since 1932 and the oldest figure skater from any country to make an Olympic debut since 1948.
 

Partners since 2019, Emily Chan and Spencer Akira Howe have twice earned silver at Four Continents and were fourth at 2025 Saatva Skate America.
 

Finishing out the Olympic program is the women. Coined the "Blade Angels," Amber Glenn, Liu and Isabeau Levito will represent the stars and stripes, and all three are U.S. champions who have strong resumes internationally and are contenders for the Olympic podium.
 

A U.S. woman hasn't stood on the podium since 2006 (Sasha Cohen) or won gold since 2002 (Sarah Hughes).
 

An advocate for mental health and the LGBTQ+ community, Glenn is fresh off her third consecutive U.S. title, becoming the first to win three straight since Michelle Kwan. The 2024 Grand Prix Final champion, Glenn medaled at both her Grand Prix events this season.
 

Her first-ever individual senior gold internationally came in nearby Bergamo, Italy, in 2024 at Lombardia Trophy. At 26 years old, Glenn will become the oldest U.S. women's singles skater to compete in an Olympics in 98 years.
 

After competing at the Beijing Games in 2022, Liu retired at the end of the 2021-22 season, but came back two seasons ago. The reigning World champion and a two-time U.S. champion, Liu also stood on the podium at both her Grand Prix events in the fall.
 

With family roots in Milan, the 2026 Games felt like destiny for Levito. The World Junior champion four years ago, Levito found immediate success on the senior stage, winning the 2023 U.S. championship and 2024 World silver medal. This season, she claimed silver at 2025 Skate Canada International.

Overall, Team USA has medaled at 21 consecutive Olympic Winter Games and has the most Olympic figure skating medals of any country with 54.
 

NBC Sports will broadcast live coverage of all 11 days of figure skating competition as well as showcase every skate on Peacock. Livestreams can be accessed on Peacock for 72 hours following their conclusion.
 

For the full competition schedule, television schedule, bios, news and more, visit the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026 Competition Central.
 

U.S. ENTRIES AT THE 2026 OLYMPIC WINTER GAMES
Athlete | Training Town


Women

Amber Glenn | Plano, Texas | Colorado Springs, Colo.

Alysa Liu | Oakland, Calif. | Oakland, Calif.

Isabeau Levito | Mount Laurel, N.J. | Mount Laurel, N.J.

Men

Ilia Malinin | Vienna, Va. | Reston, Va.

Maxim Naumov | Norwood, Mass. | Norwood, Mass.

Andrew Torgashev | Coral Springs, Fla. | Irvine, Calif.

Pairs

Emily Chan and Spencer Akira Howe | Dallas, Texas; Los Angeles, Calif. | Norwood, Mass.

Ellie Kam and Danny O'Shea | Colorado Springs, Colo.; Colorado Springs, Colo. | Colorado Springs, Colo.

Ice Dance

Christina Carreira and Anthony Ponomarenko | Saint Clair, Mich.; San Jose, Calif. | London and Montreal, Canada

Madison Chock and Evan Bates | Redondo Beach, Calif.; Ann Arbor, Mich. | Montreal, Canada

Emilea Zingas and Vadym Kolesnik | Detroit, Mich.; Novi, Mich. | Novi, Mich.