2026 Milano-Cortina Olympics - Figure Skating Qualification

[Andrea82]

Qualifications standards set by German Olympic Committee

https://cdn.dosb.de/Relaunch_2024/Athletenservice/Games/Mailand_Cortina_2026/Nationale_Nominierungskriterien/Nominierungskriterien_MiCo_2026_final_DEU_gesamt_verabschiedet.pdf

Pair Skating:
In the competitions listed in the attached list, achieving a score of 184 points or achieving 171 points twice.
Ice Dance:
In the competitions listed in the attached list, achieving a score of 189 points or achieving 178 points twice.

Competitions are:
Grand Prix
Challenger Series
Beijing qualifier
German Championships 2026 with the participation of at least three foreign judges and one foreign Technical Controller or Technical Specialist.

So...
Hase/Volodin have already got the score at Nebelhorn Trophy.
Hocke/Kunkel got 180 at Nebelhorn. So they only need another 171 score.
Janse van Rensburg/Steffan also got the B score at Nebelhorn (180.05). So they need to repeat it again one more.

 

[farahfan]

Qualifications standards set by German Olympic Committee

https://cdn.dosb.de/Relaunch_2024/Athletenservice/Games/Mailand_Cortina_2026/Nationale_Nominierungskriterien/Nominierungskriterien_MiCo_2026_final_DEU_gesamt_verabschiedet.pdf

Pair Skating:
In the competitions listed in the attached list, achieving a score of 184 points or achieving 171 points twice.
Ice Dance:
In the competitions listed in the attached list, achieving a score of 189 points or achieving 178 points twice.

Competitions are:
Grand Prix
Challenger Series
Beijing qualifier
German Championships 2026 with the participation of at least three foreign judges and one foreign Technical Controller or Technical Specialist.

So...
Hase/Volodin have already got the score at Nebelhorn Trophy.
Hocke/Kunkel got 180 at Nebelhorn. So they only need another 171 score.
Janse van Rensburg/Steffan also got the B score at Nebelhorn (180.05). So they need to repeat it again one more.

Does the US have standards like this for their pairs teams?

 

[Karen-W]

Does the US have standards like this for their pairs teams?

No, the USFS does not have any score minimum ls for any discipline. If we have the spots, they will be filled.

There is very little worry that the US teams would be able to achieve whatever minimum the USOPC wanted to establish seeing as we have 3 teams who were all in last season's SB Top 24 that are Olympic eligible already (KamO, ChanHowe & ShiNagy).

 

[Karen-W]

Julia Sauter has received her Romanian citizenship and will be able to represent Romania in the Olympics!

Olympic Romania on Instagram: "Julia Sauter are de azi cetățenie română! Patinatoarea Julia Sauter, născută în Germania, dar care concurează pentru România, e de azi și cetățean român! Guvernul României, prin semnătura premierului Ilie Bolojan, a a

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[Karen-W]

Update on DanTsi - Michel sustained a shoulder injury and have withdrawn from the FS at Trialeti Trophy. The Dutch OC and their fed have agreed that Trialeti won't count as one of their two attempts to earn the required score and they'll still have two opportunities - NHK and, now, Golden Spin.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1976944463525396686

 

[Andrea82]

Qualifications standards set by German Olympic Committee

https://cdn.dosb.de/Relaunch_2024/Athletenservice/Games/Mailand_Cortina_2026/Nationale_Nominierungskriterien/Nominierungskriterien_MiCo_2026_final_DEU_gesamt_verabschiedet.pdf

Pair Skating:
In the competitions listed in the attached list, achieving a score of 184 points or achieving 171 points twice.
Ice Dance:
In the competitions listed in the attached list, achieving a score of 189 points or achieving 178 points twice.

Competitions are:
Grand Prix
Challenger Series
Beijing qualifier
German Championships 2026 with the participation of at least three foreign judges and one foreign Technical Controller or Technical Specialist.

So...
Hase/Volodin have already got the score at Nebelhorn Trophy.
Hocke/Kunkel got 180 at Nebelhorn. So they only need another 171 score.
Janse van Rensburg/Steffan also got the B score at Nebelhorn (180.05). So they need to repeat it again one more.

Hocke/Kunkel and Janse van Rensburg/Steffan achieved the B score again in their first GP outings. So they have now satisfied the German Olympic Committee requirements.

 

[Kelvster]

Hocke/Kunkel and Janse van Rensburg/Steffan achieved the B score again in their first GP outings. So they have now satisfied the German Olympic Committee requirements.

What a relief for Hocke / Kunkel. Their journey to Milano has been a tough one. Glad they only just made it to the free last year in Boston, to ensure a spot. It's nice to see they have met the GOC's requirements (I recall they used to set really harsh requirements ... )

 

[Karen-W]

Update on Fedir Kulish's quest for Latvian citizenship -

https://x.com/itsmepooony/status/1985648869363892400

It doesn't sound hopeful, to me, that the Latvian fed's own secretary is admitting Kulish isn't doing well in learning the Latvian language. We'll have to see what happens.

Kirills Korkacs is the only other Latvian man competing senior this season and he is 1.59 points short of the Olympics CTES min of 86.00 - he is competing this weekend along with Kulish at the Volvo Open Cup in Riga, so maybe he'll manage to earn the CTES min with a favorable home panel.

 

[Vagabond]

Update on Fedir Kulish's quest for Latvian citizenship -

....

Kirills Korkacs is the only other Latvian man competing senior this season

https://x.com/itsmepooony/status/1985648869363892400

(ETA: Deniss Vasiljevs and at least one other skater are in a dispute with the Latvian Federation over funding.)

Oberstdorf 2025

Deniss Vasiljevs published a post on Ko-fi

ko-fi.com

Has the Deniss Vasiljevs telenovela aired its finale?

Why didn't anyone let me know?

Tune in next week, I suppose.

 

[Kelvster]

Sigh. Pls send Fedir to Milano. This guy deserves to go.

 

[Karen-W]

Update on Fedir Kulish's quest for Latvian citizenship -

https://x.com/itsmepooony/status/1985648869363892400

It doesn't sound hopeful, to me, that the Latvian fed's own secretary is admitting Kulish isn't doing well in learning the Latvian language. We'll have to see what happens.

Kirills Korkacs is the only other Latvian man competing senior this season and he is 1.59 points short of the Olympics CTES min of 86.00 - he is competing this weekend along with Kulish at the Volvo Open Cup in Riga, so maybe he'll manage to earn the CTES min with a favorable home panel.

Sigh. Pls send Fedir to Milano. This guy deserves to go.

Just an update that Korkacs did achieve the Euros/Olympics CTES mins today - blew past his previous FS TES by 4.96 points, so Latvia now has 3 men with the CTES mins for the Olympics and one has to think they'll send Korkacs if Kulish is not granted Latvian citizenship in time.

ETA - meanwhile, Livia Kaiser is still struggling to get back to her old form and may not earn the Swiss OC's min score of 185.00 for the Olympic spot; same for DanTsi who had a very rough SP at NHK today.

 

[Andrea82]

Just an update that Korkacs did achieve the Euros/Olympics CTES mins today - blew past his previous FS TES by 4.96 points, so Latvia now has 3 men with the CTES mins for the Olympics and one has to think they'll send Korkacs if Kulish is not granted Latvian citizenship in time.

ETA - meanwhile, Livia Kaiser is still struggling to get back to her old form and may not earn the Swiss OC's min score of 185.00 for the Olympic spot; same for DanTsi who had a very rough SP at NHK today.

I don't know how strict Swiss OC usually is. The problem with Kaiser is that she is not even coming relatively close.

 

[Kateri]

Sorry Livia, but I'd rather see Yakovleva or literally anyone else on the alternates list at the Olympics.

 

[skateblessing]

Just an update that Korkacs did achieve the Euros/Olympics CTES mins today - blew past his previous FS TES by 4.96 points, so Latvia now has 3 men with the CTES mins for the Olympics and one has to think they'll send Korkacs if Kulish is not granted Latvian citizenship in time.

ETA - meanwhile, Livia Kaiser is still struggling to get back to her old form and may not earn the Swiss OC's min score of 185.00 for the Olympic spot; same for DanTsi who had a very rough SP at NHK today.

Kimmy just WD from both Warsaw Cup and Tallinn Trophy :/ Which looks bad.... Does anybody know if the scores has to be from only international competitions? In that case we might end up with a scenario where Switzerland might not be able to fill their two spots Which would be incredible tragic.. any ideas if the Fed could change/give exceptions in their requirement for special circumstances like injury? Like look at previous season results? I mean are they seriously not going to send their European medalist because of some stupid requirements if she is fit by February?

There is Sara Franzi though, she is scheduled for Cup of Innsbruck this week but her best score the last two seasons i 153 so 185+ score seems like an impossible task.

Anyways, I think Stefania should really prepare herself for Milano now... I can´t imagine they will be able to fill both spots now with Kimmy out of the next two comps and Livia skating when she should resting :/

 

[skateblessing]

Okay so the results can be from one year back? So Kimmy should be safe i´m not wrong... But she still needs to be healthy...

 

[Karen-W]

Okay so the results can be from one year back? So Kimmy should be safe i´m not wrong... But she still needs to be healthy...

Kimmy (and Lukas on the men's side) is fine and qualified for Milano-Cortina. Livia and any other lower-ranked Swiss women are chasing the elusive 185.00 minimum score set by the Swiss fed/OC.

 

[Andrea82]

Okay so the results can be from one year back? So Kimmy should be safe i´m not wrong... But she still needs to be healthy...

2025 European and World Championships also count for the quest of Swiss Olympic Committee standards.
So Repond already satisfied it with the 186.64 achieved in Tallinn 2025.

 

[Andrea82]

Kimmy (and Lukas on the men's side) is fine and qualified for Milano-Cortina. Livia and any other lower-ranked Swiss women are chasing the elusive 185.00 minimum score set by the Swiss fed/OC.

Sarina Joos may regret switching to Italy.
When she did it, it made sense.

 

[Karen-W]

The 185.00 score seems so ridiculously, impossibly high. Kimmy didn't even achieve that when she placed 12th at Worlds in Boston. Top 15 was 177.90 by Lorine Schild and Top 20 was 162.49 by Ekaterina Kurakova. It seems to me that the Swiss fed or OC should have been a lot more reasonable and set the score minimum at 175.00 or even 170.00; or maybe looked at the SP scores that moved a skater onto the FS and set a score minimum for that instead.

 

[Andrea82]

The 185.00 score seems so ridiculously, impossibly high. Kimmy didn't even achieve that when she placed 12th at Worlds in Boston.

Especially compared to the 210 they ask for Men.
Euros 2025
14 men over 210
5 women over 185
Worlds 2025
23 men over 210
11 women over 185

 

[Karen-W]

Especially compared to the 210 they ask for Men.
Euros 2025
14 men over 210
5 women over 185
Worlds 2025
23 men over 210
3 women over 185

Maybe someone should call them out on the blatant sexism of those score minimums.

 

[skateblessing]

The 185.00 score seems so ridiculously, impossibly high. Kimmy didn't even achieve that when she placed 12th at Worlds in Boston. Top 15 was 177.90 by Lorine Schild and Top 20 was 162.49 by Ekaterina Kurakova. It seems to me that the Swiss fed or OC should have been a lot more reasonable and set the score minimum at 175.00 or even 170.00; or maybe looked at the SP scores that moved a skater onto the FS and set a score minimum for that instead.

It is, but not as stupid and crazy as Swedens (SOC) requirements - I mean if they still stick to the top 8 at Worlds score. That would mean 196.67 for women

And Andreas would need 265.40 (Jason Browns score). But hopefully he is going to get promising athlete exception...

 

[Vagabond]

The 185.00 score seems so ridiculously, impossibly high.

Kaiser scored higher than that at Europeans, Worlds, and Nebelhorn in 2024. Repond has scored higher than that many times. No other Swiss woman is in their league, and 185 was about what was needed at Skate to Milano to qualify for a spot at the Olympics.

 

[skatingguy]

Kaiser scored higher than that at Europeans, Worlds, and Nebelhorn in 2024. Repond has scored higher than that many times. No other Swiss woman is in their league, and 185 was about what was needed at 2025 Worlds to qualify for a spot at the Olympics.

Making the free skate was necessary to qualify a spot to the Olympics, and the total score for the skater in 24th was 139.81. I'm not sure what you're referring to when you say 185 was about what was needed to qualify a spot to the Olympics.

 

[Karen-W]

Making the free skate was necessary to qualify a spot to the Olympics, and the total score for the skater in 24th was 139.81. I'm not sure what you're referring to when you say 185 was about what was needed to qualify a spot to the Olympics.

Well, to qualify 2 spots then Livia would have needed no more than 16 points combined with the 12 Kimmy earned for her 12th place finish. Mariia Seniuk scored 167.10 to place 16th in Boston, so I'd make the argument that the two spots would have been earned with a 170+ score, rather than 139.81, and that's where the bar for any Swiss woman to use the 2nd spot should have been set - maybe 175 if they wanted to raise it up a little closer to Schild's 177.90 earned to place 15th (yes, there was a 10 point gap between 15th & 16th).

 

[Vagabond]

Making the free skate was necessary to qualify a spot to the Olympics, and the total score for the skater in 24th was 139.81. I'm not sure what you're referring to when you say 185 was about what was needed to qualify a spot to the Olympics.

I meant Skate to Milano, not Worlds. A Federation would actually have needed its skater to score 179.77 to bump China out of that last spot.

185 may be impossibly high for any Swiss woman at the moment, but it is not ridiculous. Kaiser shouldn't be skating right now. I don't see why Switzerland should insist on that second spot for a markedly inferior while denying an opportunity to Cyprus, which won't have any skaters competing in Milan otherwise. And if neither Repond nor Kaiser can go, I would rather see Mia Risa Gomez go than a skater who has never scored 154 in international competition.