The 20-year-old put the US women back on top of the podium in the women's singles event for the first time since Sarah Hughes took gold at the 2002 Salt Lake City Games.

Winter Olympics 2026 | Alysa Liu wins USA's first women's figure skating gold in over two decades

Their routine earned the Japanese personal best scores in both the free skate (158.13 points) and overall, with 231.24 points.

Winter Olympics 2026 | Japanese pair Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara win figure skating gold from fifth place

Russian-born Volodin teamed up with Hase in 2022 and received German citizenship last year. The pair are world silver medallists behind the Japanese. Two days after an evening of drama in the men's competition, the Milan ice rink witnessed further surprises.

Winter Olympics 2026 | Germany's Minerva Fabienne Hase and Nikita Volodin take lead in figure skating

Two-and-a-half years after competing at the Beijing Winter Olympics, American and Japanese figure skaters stepped on to the podium in Paris on Wednesday to receive reallocated gold and silver medals, drawing a line under a Russian doping saga that rocked those Games.

American, Japanese figure skaters receive long-awaited Beijing Games medals at Paris Olympics 2024

Japan's two-times figure skating world champion and three-times Olympic medallist Shoma Uno said on Thursday he is retiring from competition. Uno, 26, won a second consecutive world title last year despite suffering an ankle injury.

Figure skating: Japan's two-time world champion Shoma Uno announces retirement

American teenager Ilia Malinin came first in the men's short programme at the Grand Prix Final in Beijing on Thursday, beating reigning Japanese world champion Shoma Uno by a whisker.

Figure Skating: Teenager Ilia Malinin tops men's short program at ISU Grand Prix final

China's Sui Wenjing and Han Cong made sure the Beijing Games' controversial figure skating competition ended in celebration on Saturday by winning the pairs title for the sport's final gold medal to the rapture of local fans.

Beijing Winter Olympics: Chinese pair of Sui Wenjing and Han Cong win gold medal in figure skating

An Associate Professor of chemistry at the Australian National University says Trimetazidine, a drug Olympics skater Kamila Valieva has tested positive for, could be used for 'performance enhancing purposes'.

Explainer: What is trimetazidine (TMZ), the drug at the centre of doping drama

Russian figure skating sensation Kamila Valieva showed up for her scheduled practice at the Beijing Olympics on Thursday after Russian media reported the 15-year-old had tested positive for a banned substance.

Beijing Olympics 2022: Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva at practice after reports of failed drug test

The medal ceremony for the national figure skaters competition would have been postponed on Tuesday due to a positive doping test with the winning Russian team.

Beijing Winter Olympics 2022: IOC postpones figure skating medal ceremony due to doping case

The Beijing Olympics medal ceremony for the figure skating team event that was won by Russian skaters has been delayed due to an unspecified "legal consultation", the International Olympic Committee said on Wednesday.

Beijing Olympics: Medals ceremony of figure skating team event won by Russia delayed over legal issue

Amid political tension and doping scandal, teenage figure skater Alina Zagitova won Russia's first gold medal at the Pyeongchang Olympics on Friday

Winter Olympics: Russia wins first gold, Zagitova shines in figure skating

Nagasu made skating history by becoming the first American woman — and only the third overall — to land the fiendishly difficult triple Axel jump at an Olympics

Pyeongchang 2018: Triumph after tears as America's Mirai Nagasu makes skating history

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