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2025–26 figure skating season

Competitive figure skating year, July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2026 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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The 2025–26 figure skating season began on July 1, 2025, and will end on June 30, 2026. During this season, elite skaters will compete at the ISU Championship level at the 2026 European Championships, Four Continents Championships, World Junior Championships, and the World Championships, as well as at the 2026 Winter Olympics. They will also compete at elite events such as the ISU Challenger Series, the Grand Prix and Junior Grand Prix series, culminating at the Grand Prix Final.

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On December 20, 2024, the International Skating Union (ISU) announced that the Figure Skating Federation of Russia and the Skating Union of Belarus would be permitted to nominate a figure skater or team from each discipline to participate at the 2025 Olympic Winter Games Figure Skating Qualifying Competition in Beijing, China as a means to qualify for the 2026 Winter Olympics as Individual Neutral Figure Skating Athletes (AINs). These skaters were 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 Russian or Belarusian military and other national security agencies. It was also announced that all figure skaters and officials from Russia and Belarus would otherwise remain banned from attending all other international competitions. On May 13, 2025, the ISU released the list of skaters that had been granted AIN status. No Russian pair skating and ice dance team nominations were approved by the ISU.[1][2][3][4]

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Season notes

Age eligibility

Skaters are eligible to compete in ISU events at the junior or senior levels according to their age. These rules may not apply to non-ISU events such as national championships.

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At the ISU Congress held in Phuket, Thailand, in June 2022, members of the ISU Council accepted a proposal to gradually increase the minimum age limit for senior competition to 17 years old beginning from the 2024–25 season. To avoid forcing skaters who had already competed in the senior category to return to juniors, the age limit remained unchanged during the 2022–23 season, before increasing to 16 years old during the 2023–24 season, and increasing to 17 years old for the 2024–25 season.[5]

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Changes

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If skaters of different nationalities form a team, the ISU requires that they choose one country to represent. The date provided is the date when the change occurred or, if not available, the date when the change was announced.

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International competitions

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Scheduled competitions:[31][32][33]

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International medalists

Men's singles

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Records and achievements

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Records

Prior to the 2025–26 season, the ISU record scores were as follows:

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Season's best scores

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Men's singles

As of August 10, 2025.

Women's singles

As of August 10, 2025.

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World standings

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Ilia Malinin of the United States was the highest ranked men's singles skater at the beginning of the 2025–26 season.
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Kaori Sakamoto of Japan was the highest ranked women's singles skater at the beginning of the 2025-26 season.
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Minerva Fabienne Hase and Nikita Volodin of Germany were the highest ranked pair skaters at the beginning of the 2025-26 season.
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Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson of Great Britain were the highest ranked ice dancers at the beginning of the 2025-26 season.

Men's singles

As of June 21, 2025.[139]

Women's singles

As of June 21, 2025.[140]

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Ice dance

As of June 21, 2025.[142]

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