2026 Milano-Cortina Olympics - Figure Skating Qualification

[Karen-W]

From Camille Kovalev's Instagram - confirmation of what we've known would happen since early September.

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Awesome! And that opens up 2 more additional athlete quota spots for the team event which will be filled by Poland's ice dancers.

 

[Karen-W]

Poland has confirmed they received the 2 additional athlete quota spots freed up by France and will be sending Sofiia Dovhal & Wiktor Kulesza for the team event!

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[barbk]

Awesome! And that opens up 2 more additional athlete quota spots for the team event which will be filled by Poland's ice dancers.

I'm confused (nothing new). Why does France sending them to pairs open up 2 slots for Poland?

 

[Sylvia]

Poland has confirmed they received the 2 additional athlete quota spots freed up by France and will be sending Sofiia Dovhal & Wiktor Kulesza for the team event!

Link to their post within the past hour: https://www.instagram.com/p/DT-q6pFFwKJ/

Historic moment - Poland will display its full team during the XXXV Winter Olympics
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Katię Kurakową [Katia Kurakova]
Wowę Samojłowa [Vladimir Samoilov]
Julia Szczecinina and Michał Woźniaka [Ioulia Chtchetinina & Michal Wozniak]
Sofiję Dowhal i Wiktora Kuleszę [Sofiia Dovhal (born in UKR) & Wiktor Kulesza]

 

[Karen-W]

I'm confused (nothing new). Why does France sending them to pairs open up 2 slots for Poland?

Because France was using 2 of the additional athlete quota spots for the team event until Uzbekistan officially relinquished the spot that Geynish/Chigirev earned in pairs at Worlds last year. Once Uzbekistan released their spot, it went to France who was 1st alternate for the pairs spot. And once France had the pairs spot, they no longer needed the 2 additional athlete quota spots for the team event. Korea doesn't have a pairs team, so they are unable to use the newly released additional athlete quota spots, but Poland does have a dance team, so they are now using those spots in order to field a complete team for the team event.

 

[her grace]

I'm confused (nothing new). Why does France sending them to pairs open up 2 slots for Poland?

France was using 2 additional athlete quota spots solely for the team event. Since the Kovalevs have bumped up to real competitors in the pairs event (and they will also still do the team event), there are now 2 additional quota spots available solely for the team event. Poland was next in line to receive those.

 

[Andrea82]

Official entries (and substitutes for those who named them)

Olympic Winter Games Figure Skating

Find all the information about Figure Skating in the upcoming Olympic Winter Games to be held in Milano Cortina, Italy.

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[Sylvia]

Figure Skating: Who's qualified? (30 Jan 2026): https://isu-skating.com/figure-skating/news/figure-skating-whos-qualified/

Making history in Milan
Daria Danilova & Michel Tsiba are the first Pair Skaters to represent the Netherlands on Olympic ice, while Milla Ruud Reitan & Nikolaj Majorov will become the first couple to compete for Sweden in the Ice Dance at the Games. Majorov competed in singles in Beijing in 2022 and is now the first skater to compete in Singles and Ice Dance at the Olympic Winter Games.
Meda Variakojyte is the first Lithuanian Single Skater in the Olympic Figure Skating event, with Lithuania previously only having representation in the Ice Dance. Maria Pavlova & Alexei Sviatchenko are the first Hungarian Pair Skaters to compete at the Olympic Winter Games in 70 years, while Yu-Hsiang Li is the first skater from Chinese Taipei to qualify for the Olympic Winter Games since 1998.

Countries at Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026

Country / Number of Participants
USA 16
Canada 12
Japan 12
France 9
Italy 9
Great Britain 8
P.R. China 6
Georgia 6
Germany 6
Republic of Korea 6
Poland 6
Spain 5
Australia 4
Czechia 4
AIN 3
Finland 3
Lithuania 3
Switzerland 3
Sweden 3
Armenia 2
Belgium 2
Estonia 2
Hungary 2
Kazakhstan 2
Latvia 2
Netherlands 2
Austria 1
Azerbaijan 1
Bulgaria 1
Israel 1
Mexico 1
Romania 1
Slovakia 1
Chinese Taipei 1
Ukraine 1

Total participants 147

 

[MsZem]

Majorov competed in singles in Beijing in 2022 and is now the first skater to compete in Singles and Ice Dance at the Olympic Winter Games.

It should have been Takahashi!!!

But good luck to Majorov and to all the skaters who'll be "firsts" in Milano-Cortina