Photo credit Melanie Heaney/U.S. Figure Skating
By Kristen Henneman
Coming off its most successful World Championships in history, Team USA travels to its final figure skating event of the season, ISU World Team Trophy 2025, set for April 17-20 in Tokyo, Japan.
The eighth edition of the team event that is held every two years, Team USA is seeking its second straight and sixth total World Team Trophy gold. The United States has medaled at every World Team Trophy since its inception in 2009 and has earned gold five of the eight World Team Trophy titles, standing atop the podium in 2009, 2013, 2015, 2019 and 2023.
Each country is represented by two women, two men, one pairs team and one ice dance team. Each skater/team will receive points based on placements in the short program/rhythm dance and free skate/dance. The points will be combined across the four disciplines with the highest team total winning the competition.
This year, Team USA will compete against Canada, France, Georgia, Italy and Japan.
Headlining Team USA are its three World champions, who will compete for the first time since taking gold in Boston: Madison Chock and Evan Bates, Alysa Liu and Ilia Malinin.
At this year’s World Championships, the 2022 Olympic team event gold medalists became the first-ever U.S. ice dance team to win three World titles and the first team worldwide to win three straight titles since Oksana Grishuk and Evgeni Platov in the 1990s.
In Tokyo, Chock and Bates will kick off the competition for Team USA and have their sights set on their fifth World Team Trophy medal. In 2023, en route to their fourth gold – Chock and Bates set world records for their scores in the rhythm dance, free dance and total score.
Last month in Boston, Liu became the first U.S. woman to win gold at the World Championships since 2006, and she did so in her first year since coming out of retirement. This marks Liu’s first time competing at World Team Trophy.
Also competing for the United States is Amber Glenn. Glenn, who helped Team USA to gold in 2023, won her first five events of the season before earning a top-five finish at Worlds.
Both U.S. men skating in Japan were also part of 2023 World Team Trophy team that secured gold.
Ilia Malinin, who continues to break records with his jumping prowess, is undefeated since the 2023 Grand Prix Final and he claimed his second straight World title in Boston.
Jason Brown, the team captain for Team USA in Tokyo, will skate as his fifth World Team Trophy this week and is going for his third gold. The two-time Olympian and 2014 team event bronze medalist was eighth at the World Championships last month.
Alisa Efimova and Misha Mitrofanov will represent the red, white and blue in pairs. The duo are the 2025 U.S. champions and placed sixth at the World Championships in their training town of Boston.
Competition begins Thursday with the rhythm dance as well as the men’s and women’s short programs. Pairs kicks off Friday before the free dance and men’s free skate with competition concluding Saturday with the pairs and women’s free skates.
All events can be streamed live on Peacock and will be available for 72 hours following their conclusion.
For live results, bios and more, visit the U.S. Figure Skating Fan Zone.
U.S. Entries at the ISU World Team Trophy 2025
Name | Hometown | Training Town
Women
Amber Glenn | Plano, Texas | Colorado Springs, Colo.
Alysa Liu | Richmond, Calif. | Oakland, Calif. and San Francisco, Calif.
Men
Jason Brown | Highland Park, Ill. | Toronto, Ontario
Ilia Malinin | Vienna, Va. | Reston, Va.
Pairs
Alisa Efimova and Misha Mitrofanov | Norwood, Mass.; Houston, Texas | Norwood, Mass.
Ice Dance
Madison Chock and Evan Bates | Redondo Beach, Calif.; Ann Arbor, Mich. | Montreal, Quebec
