With their fourth- and sixth-place finishes at the ISU Figure Skating World Championships 2026 in Prague, Czech Republic, on Friday, Olympians Isabeau Levito and Amber Glenn have qualified three U.S. entries into next season's World Championships, to be held in Tampere, Finland.

Levito, the 2024 World silver medalist, led the way with a radiant free skate to Ennio Morricone's "Cinema Paradiso."

Despite a shaky opening triple Lutz-triple loop combination that was judged underrotated, the remainder of the musical program, which included five triple jumps and elegant spins and steps, was clean and strong. Her triple Lutz-double toe loop-double loop in the second half of the program particularly shined, generating a program-high 10.13 points.

Levito earned 134.83 points for 206.99 points in total. The Mount Holly, New Jersey, skater has now placed in the top four in four consecutive trips to the World Championships.

"I had a lot of fun training hard for this competition, because it was a fun [triple Lutz-triple toe loop] combo for me," Levito said. "I enjoyed training it a lot, and I feel like I was confident going into today's free skate. I was surprised, and then disappointed, that it didn't go the way that would logically make sense, the way it would go given my consistency. But it's OK. I'm fourth at Worlds, which is still a good accomplishment."

Glenn, the three-time and reigning U.S. champion, sat third after Wednesday's short program, but fell to ninth in the free skate for sixth place overall.

Performing to Audiomachine's "I Will Find You" and "The Return" by Clann, the Colorado Spring-based skater opened with a pristine triple Axel — the only clean one of the evening — followed by two solid combinations, including a triple flip-triple toe loop that tallied 11.01 points.

Then, halfway through the program, Glenn faltered on a triple loop, popping it into a single. The same jump bedeviled her at the Olympics, where she placed fifth.

Although her step sequence and spins all gained Level 4s, Glenn made minor mistakes in her two final jumping passes, earning 130.47 points in the segment and producing a two-day total of 203.12.

[I'm feeling] disappointment," Glenn said. "I just lost focus," the 2026 Olympic team event champion said. "I did the hard stuff and let the easy things kind of get away from me."

Several weeks before leaving her home in Haymarket, Virginia, for Prague, Sarah Everhardt changed up her free skate, returning to "The Firebird" program she competed last season. And from the opening strains of Stravinsky's masterpiece to its closing notes, she looked at ease, opening with a big triple Lutz and landing two solid triple combinations and a triple flip. 

The technical panel saddled several of the jumps in the program's second half with deductions, but Everhardt went on to earn 128.69 for the free skate and 197.43 total to place 11th in her Worlds debut.

"I'm happy about my skate," the 2025 Four Continents bronze medalist said. "A little mistake at the end — I could have done a little bit better. But I'm excited. I'm happy I was able to keep my nerves under control and just go and skate well."

Returning to "The Firebird" program, Everhardt said, didn't take a lot of convincing from her coaching team.

"I was told to try it out to see how it feels, and I started skating it, and it felt comfortable," she said. "I realized how much I missed the program, and I just kept skating it and training it."

In ice dance, reigning U.S. silver medalists and 2026 Olympians Emilea Zingas and Vadym Kolesnik are less than a point out of medal position after notching an international personal best 84.21 points for their dynamic performance to "Poison" and "Something in Your Eyes" by Bell Biv DeVoe.

The skaters, who train in Novi, Michigan, electrified the Prague audience with their rousing fusion of 1990s style pop and hip hop, gaining more than 10 points for their perfectly synchronized Level 4 sequential twizzles. They also secured Level 4 marks for their exciting rotational lift. They sit fourth in the segment.

"This is kind of the cherry on top of the cake for us," Zingas said of their Worlds experience. "It's been difficult to get here, but we want to capitalize on this opportunity and do the best we possibly can."

It is a remarkable Worlds debut for the duo, who formed their partnership in 2022. Zingas formerly competed in singles, while Kolesnik won the 2020 World Junior title with former partner Avonley Nguyen. The fast-rising team placed an impressive fifth at the Milano-Cortina Olympic Games in February.

"It's been a long journey," Zingas said. "I think from the beginning of the season, I remember we competed in the Japanese Challenger, and I was a little bit discouraged after that competition because we didn't quite get the result that we wanted to. We were excited for these programs, and I feel like both of these programs are great vehicles for us. After that Challenger when we got home, we had a frank conversation saying this is what we need to do, this is what we want. And after we made that plan to do the work, and we did it, I feel so happy that we had that moment of maybe a down run in the beginning of the season to light a fire under us and set us on the path to success this season."

Skating to a Eurodance medley featuring LaBouche's megahit "Sweet Dreams," five-time U.S. medalists Christina Carreira and Anthony Ponomarenko earned an international season's best 80.89 points, highlighted by their Level 4 rotational lift, sequential twizzles and pattern step sequence, which earned 12.32 points. They sit seventh entering the free dance.

"We put in so much hard work and Scott [Moir] really pushed us to the limit in this program, so we're happy to have skated it that way," Ponomarenko said. "We're looking for that momentum to carry us in the free dance."

"[Moir] brought a lot of passion to the rink these last few weeks," Carreira added. "The amount of parts that we drilled and run-throughs and we had to skate 100% consistently, I think it helped us because we got out there, and I definitely think that is a step up from what we've been doing."

Reflecting on their 11th-place finish at the Games, Ponomarenko added, "The Olympics are such a high, that there has to be a low [afterward], and we expected that and trusted our team to carry us through it. We used the Olympics as momentum."

Caroline Green and Michael Parsons, six-time U.S. medalists who placed fourth in the U.S. this season and won silver behind Zingas and Kolesnik at the ISU Four Continents Figure Skating Championships 2026 in late January, incorporated touches of humor in their fresh and lively program to a pop selection featuring Right Said Fred's "I'm Too Sexy." With their Level 4 rotational lift as a highlight, they earned 76.42 points for 13th place.

"It was a good skate," Parsons said. "We enjoyed it. It wasn't as clean as we wanted it to be, but we didn't come here looking for a specific score or a specific placement. We came here to just leave ourselves on the ice and I think we did that today."

The Canton, Michigan-based duo were first alternates for this event. They were subbed in to compete when Olympic silver medalists and three-time World champions Madison Chock and Evan Bates withdrew.

"We've been preparing for this event since Four Continents, so it wasn't a big surprise for us to get the call," Green said. "When we came back from Four Continents, we [had] the mindset that the best-case scenario is we go [to Prague], the worst-case scenario is we don't, but we're in good shape."

Competition wraps up Saturday with the men's free skate and free dance.

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