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These can of course change with 4CC and/or other small internationals between now and the Olympics, but most of the major groupings are otherwise set.

Dance
Last Group:
19-20: Lopareva & Brissaud, Gilles & Poirier
21-23: Fear & Gibson, Chock & Bates, Guignard & Fabbri

Penultimate Group:
14-15: Zingas & Kolesnik, Lajoie & Lagha
16-18: Reed & Ambrulevicius, Carreira & Ponomarenko, Smart & Dieck

Group 3:
9-10: Lim & Quan, Mrazkova & Mrazek
11-13: Davis & Smolkin, Turkkila & Versluis, Taschlerova & Taschler

Group 2:
5-6: Fournier Beaudry & Cizeron, Bekker & Hernandez
7-8: Lauriault & Le Gac, Janse van Rensburg & Steffan

Group 1:
1-2: Val & Kazimov, Wang & Liu
3-4: Harris & Chan, Reitan & Majorov
 
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Men
Last Group:
24-26: Mikhail Shaidorov, Shun Sato, Nika Egadze
27-29: Ilia Malinin, Yuma Kagiyama, Adam Siao Him Fa

Penultimate Group:
18-20: Daniel Grassl, Aleksandr Selevko, Kao Miura
21-23: Lukas Britschgi, Kevin Aymoz, Matteo Rizzo

Group 3:
12-14: Vladimir Litvintsev, Andrew Torgashev, Vladimir Samoilov
15-17: Junhwan Cha, Adam Hagara, Deniss Vasiljevs

Group 2:
6-8: Fedir Kulish, Kyryko Marsak, Donovan Carrillo
9-11: Hyungyeom Kim, Boyang Jin, Stephen Gogolev

Group 1:
1: Peter Gumennik
2: Maxim Naumov
3-5: Tomas Llorenc Guarino Sabate, Yu-Hsiang Li, Andres Nordeback
 
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Pairs
Last Group:
16-17: Metelkina & Berulava, Conti & Macii
18-19: Hase & Volodin, Miura & Kihara

Penultimate Group:
12-13: Pavlova & Sviatchenko, Ghilardi & Ambrosini
14-15: Stellato-Dudek & Deschamps, Kam & O'Shea

Group 3:
8-9: Pereira & Michaud, Chtchetinina & Wozniak
10-11: Hocke & Kunkel, Vaipan-Law & Digby

Group 2:
4-5: Chan & Howe, Nagaoka & Moriguchi
6-7: Danilova & Tsiba, Kovalev & Kovalev*

Group 1:
1: Sui & Han
2-3: Golubeva & Giotopoulos Moore, Akopova & Rakhmanin

*- Kovalevs spot based on UZB giving back their spot.
 
Women
Last Group:
24-26: Isabeau Levito, Alysa Liu, Anatasiia Gubanova
27-29: Kaori Sakamoto, Mone Chiba, Amber Glenn

Penultimate Group:
18-20: Madeline Schizas, Loena Hendrickx, Lorine Schild
21-23: Lara Naki Gutmann, Nina Pinzarrone, Niina Petrokina

Group 3:
12-14: Jia Shin, Sofia Samodelkina, Ekaterina Kurakova
15-17: Haein Lee, Kimmy Repond, Ami Nakai

Group 2:
6-8: Maria Seniuk*, Livia Kaiser, Alexandra Feigin
9-11: Iida Karhunen, Julia Sauter, Olga Mikutina

Group 1:
1-2: Adeliia Petrosian, Viktoriia Safonova
3-5: Kristen Spours, Meda Variakojyte or Jogaile Aglinskyte (LTU), Ruiyang Zhang
 
tony said:
These can of course change with 4CC and/or other small internationals between now and the Olympics, but most of the major groupings are otherwise set.

Dance
Last Group:
19-20: Lopareva & Brissaud, Gilles & Poirier
21-23: Fear & Gibson, Chock & Bates, Guignard & Fabbri

Penultimate Group:
14-15: Zingas & Kolesnik, Lajoie & Lagha
16-18: Reed & Ambrulevicius, Carreira & Ponomarenko, Smart & Dieck

Group 3:
9-10: Lim & Quan, Mrazkova & Mrazek
11-13: Davis & Smolkin, Turkkila & Versluis, Taschlerova & Taschler

Group 2:
5-6: Fournier Beaudry & Cizeron, Bekker & Hernandez
7-8: Lauriault & Le Gac, Janse van Rensburg & Steffan

Group 1:
1-2: Val & Kazimov, Wang & Liu
3-4: Harris & Chan, Reitan & Majorov
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I think it´s likely H/C will switch place with B/H after 4CC.
 
tony said:
Women
Last Group:
24-26: Isabeau Levito, Alysa Liu, Anatasiia Gubanova
27-29: Kaori Sakamoto, Mone Chiba, Amber Glenn

Penultimate Group:
18-20: Madeline Schizas, Loena Hendrickx, Lorine Schild
21-23: Lara Naki Gutmann, Nina Pinzarrone, Niina Petrokina

Group 3:
12-14: Jia Shin, Sofia Samodelkina, Ekaterina Kurakova
15-17: Haein Lee, Kimmy Repond, Ami Nakai

Group 2:
6-8: Maria Seniuk*, Livia Kaiser, Alexandra Feigin
9-11: Iida Karhunen, Julia Sauter, Olga Mikutina

Group 1:
1-2: Adeliia Petrosian, Viktoriia Safonova
3-5: Kristen Spours, Meda Variakojyte or Jogaile Aglinskyte (LTU), Ruiyang Zhang
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Kaiser isn't yet confirmed. She had to post a score of at least 185.00 by January 18, 2026 in order to automatically qualify for the spot. Swiss fed and/or Swiss OC are supposed to meet next week to decide whether or not to use their 2nd women's spot.

Nakai will bump Schild out of the penultimate group after 4CCs next week - she needs 15th place or better to do so. Shin or Lee can bump Hendrickx out of the penultimate group with a 4CCs bronze for either. Samodelkina can knock Hendrickx out with a 6th place or better at 4CCs. Schizas also goes behind Nakai, Shin, Lee and Samodelkina if they achieve those results. Theoretically, all three of the 18-20 skaters right now could be knocked into Group 3.
 
tony said:
Pairs
Last Group:
16-17: Metelkina & Berulava, Conti & Macii
18-19: Hase & Volodin, Miura & Kihara

Penultimate Group:
12-13: Pavlova & Sviatchenko, Ghilardi & Ambrosini
14-15: Stellato-Dudek & Deschamps, Kam & O'Shea

Group 3:
8-9: Pereira & Michaud, Chtchetinina & Wozniak
10-11: Hocke & Kunkel, Vaipan-Law & Digby

Group 2:
4-5: Chan & Howe, Nagaoka & Moriguchi
6-7: Danilova & Tsiba, Kovalev & Kovalev*

Group 1:
1: Sui & Han
2-3: Golubeva & Giotopoulos Moore, Akopova & Rakhmanin

*- Kovalevs spot based on UZB giving back their spot.
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Chan/Howe and Les Kovs will be passed by Nagaoka/Moriguchi next week - NagaMori don't have any points in the 2nd ISU Championship box & there are only 11 teams at 4CCs, so they'll earn at least 293 points which will push them ahead of Chan/Howe by 94 points and 44 points ahead of Les Kovs. With a 4CCs gold, NagaMori would move ahead of VLDigs & bump PerMich into Group 2, though all they need is a 4CCs silver to move ahead of ChtWoz and into Group 3. Not sure how realistic I think that is given there is some depth in 4CCs field and Sui/Han are skating at home, but I'm not ruling anything out.

Golubeva/Giotopoulos Moore probably won't be able to pass Chan/Howe, though theoretically if they win 4CCs that would give them the points, but I'm guessing that's not likely based on how they looked in the SP at Golden Spin.

Sui/Han will move ahead of Akopova/Rakhmanin, who are only ahead of them by 5 points, after 4CCs.
 
tony said:
These can of course change with 4CC and/or other small internationals between now and the Olympics, but most of the major groupings are otherwise set.

Dance
Last Group:
19-20: Lopareva & Brissaud, Gilles & Poirier
21-23: Fear & Gibson, Chock & Bates, Guignard & Fabbri

Penultimate Group:
14-15: Zingas & Kolesnik, Lajoie & Lagha
16-18: Reed & Ambrulevicius, Carreira & Ponomarenko, Smart & Dieck

Group 3:
9-10: Lim & Quan, Mrazkova & Mrazek
11-13: Davis & Smolkin, Turkkila & Versluis, Taschlerova & Taschler

Group 2:
5-6: Fournier Beaudry & Cizeron, Bekker & Hernandez
7-8: Lauriault & Le Gac, Janse van Rensburg & Steffan

Group 1:
1-2: Val & Kazimov, Wang & Liu
3-4: Harris & Chan, Reitan & Majorov
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ZingKol will knock SmaDie back into the 14-15 subgroup after 4CCs next week provided they finish on the podium. ;)

LimQuan can move ahead of the Taschlers with a 6th place or better next week.

As noted by @skateblessing, HarChan will move back ahead of BekHern after 4CCs next week provided they finish no worse than 11th, which should be easy enough with the 3 Chinese teams, the Britzilians, the Kazakhs and YoMori guaranteed to finish behind them.
 
Karen-W said:
Kaiser isn't yet confirmed. She had to post a score of at least 185.00 by January 18, 2026 in order to automatically qualify for the spot. Swiss fed and/or Swiss OC are supposed to meet next week to decide whether or not to use their 2nd women's spot.

Nakai will bump Schild out of the penultimate group after 4CCs next week - she needs 15th place or better to do so. Shin or Lee can bump Hendrickx out of the penultimate group with a 4CCs bronze for either. Samodelkina can knock Hendrickx out with a 6th place or better at 4CCs. Schizas also goes behind Nakai, Shin, Lee and Samodelkina if they achieve those results. Theoretically, all three of the 18-20 skaters right now could be knocked into Group 3.
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As expected, Nakai finished easily in 2nd at 4CCs and has bumped Schild out of the penultimate group. Samodelkina bumped Repond down into the first half of Group 3. Lithuania has confirmed Variakojyte while the Swiss fed confirmed Kaiser and Seniuk's passport issue was resolved, so she is also set for the Olympics.

Last Group:
24-26: Isabeau Levito, Alysa Liu, Anatasiia Gubanova
27-29: Kaori Sakamoto, Mone Chiba, Amber Glenn

Penultimate Group:
18-20: Ami Nakai, Madeline Schizas, Loena Hendrickx
21-23: Lara Naki Gutmann, Nina Pinzarrone, Niina Petrokina

Group 3:
12-14: Jia Shin, Kimmy Repond, Ekaterina Kurakova
15-17: Lorine Schild, Sofia Samodelkina, Haein Lee

Group 2:
6-8: Maria Seniuk, Livia Kaiser, Alexandra Feigin
9-11: Iida Karhunen, Julia Sauter, Olga Mikutina

Group 1:
1-2: Adeliia Petrosian, Viktoriia Safonova
3-5: Kristen Spours, Meda Variakojyte, Ruiyang Zhang
 
For anyone who doesn't have IG, here's the updated Dance RD starting order groups:
Karen-W said:
ZingKol will knock SmaDie back into the 14-15 subgroup after 4CCs next week provided they finish on the podium. ;)

LimQuan can move ahead of the Taschlers with a 6th place or better next week.

As noted by @skateblessing, HarChan will move back ahead of BekHern after 4CCs next week provided they finish no worse than 11th, which should be easy enough with the 3 Chinese teams, the Britzilians, the Kazakhs and YoMori guaranteed to finish behind them.
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Last Group:
19-20: Lopareva & Brissaud, Gilles & Poirier
21-23: Fear & Gibson, Chock & Bates, Guignard & Fabbri

Penultimate Group:
14-15: Smart & Dieck, Lajoie & Lagha
16-18: Zingas & Kolesnik, Reed & Ambrulevicius, Carreira & Ponomarenko

Group 3:
9-10: Taschlerova & Taschler, Mrazkova & Mrazek
11-13: Davis & Smolkin, Turkkila & Versluis, Lim & Quan

Group 2:
5-6: Fournier Beaudry & Cizeron, Harris & Chan
7-8: Lauriault & Le Gac, Janse van Rensburg & Steffan

Group 1:
1-2: Val & Kazimov, Wang & Liu
3-4: Bekker & Hernandez, Reitan & Majorov
 
Karen-W said:
Chan/Howe and Les Kovs will be passed by Nagaoka/Moriguchi next week - NagaMori don't have any points in the 2nd ISU Championship box & there are only 11 teams at 4CCs, so they'll earn at least 293 points which will push them ahead of Chan/Howe by 94 points and 44 points ahead of Les Kovs. With a 4CCs gold, NagaMori would move ahead of VLDigs & bump PerMich into Group 2, though all they need is a 4CCs silver to move ahead of ChtWoz and into Group 3. Not sure how realistic I think that is given there is some depth in 4CCs field and Sui/Han are skating at home, but I'm not ruling anything out.

Golubeva/Giotopoulos Moore probably won't be able to pass Chan/Howe, though theoretically if they win 4CCs that would give them the points, but I'm guessing that's not likely based on how they looked in the SP at Golden Spin.

Sui/Han will move ahead of Akopova/Rakhmanin, who are only ahead of them by 5 points, after 4CCs.
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Still waiting on official word about Les Kovs picking up the UZB spot, but, for those who don't have or want to go to IG -

Last Group:
16-17: Metelkina & Berulava, Conti & Macii
18-19: Hase & Volodin, Miura & Kihara

Penultimate Group:
12-13: Pavlova & Sviatchenko, Ghilardi & Ambrosini
14-15: Stellato-Dudek & Deschamps, Kam & O'Shea

Group 3:
8-9: Pereira & Michaud, Chtchetinina & Wozniak
10-11: Hocke & Kunkel, Vaipan-Law & Digby

Group 2:
4-5: Kovalev & Kovalev*, Chan & Howe
6-7: Nagaoka & Moriguchi, Danilova & Tsiba

Group 1:
1: Akopova & Rakhmanin
2-3: Golubeva & Giotopoulos Moore, Sui & Han

Also, if Sui/Han do wind up being replaced by Zhang/Huang, that would bump Chan/Howe into Group 1 for the SP.
 
For those who don't have IG -

Last Group:
24-26: Adam Siao Him Fa, Shun Sato, Nika Egadze
27-29: Ilia Malinin, Yuma Kagiyama, Mikhail Shaidorov

Penultimate Group:
18-20: Matteo Rizzo, Daniel Grassl, Aleksandr Selevko
21-23: Lukas Britschgi, Kao Miura, Kevin Aymoz

Group 3:
12-14: Vladimir Litvintsev, Boyang Jin, Andrew Torgashev
15-17: Junhwan Cha, Adam Hagara, Deniss Vasiljevs

Group 2:
6-8: Fedir Kulish, Kyryko Marsak, Yu-Hsiang Li
9-11: Vladimir Samoilov, Hyungyeom Kim, Stephen Gogolev

Group 1:
1: Peter Gumennik
2: Maxim Naumov
3-5: Donovan Carrillo, Tomas Llorenc Guarino Sabate, Andres Nordeback
 
FYI for the handful of skaters competing next weekend -

Kulish is entered at Silver Skate Winter Cup in Kaunas LTU and could earn enough incremental points to overtake Gogolev.

Variakojyte is also entered at Silver Skate Winter Cup but cannot earn enough incremental points to overtake Spours let alone anyone in a later group or sub-group.

Karhunen is listed on The Nordics entry list but like Variakojyte cannot earn enough incremental points to overtake anyone ahead of her in the WS.

Reitan/Majorov are entered for Bavarian Open but also cannot earn enough incremental points to overtake the next team ahead of them in the WS (Fournier-Beaudry/Cizeron).

Also, Marsak is leading after the SP at Merano Ice Trophy however he can't earn enough incremental points to move ahead of Kulish.

I sort of can't believe any of those skaters except Variakojyte are competing next weekend, especially Reitan/Majorov and Kulish.
 
Karen-W said:
FYI for the handful of skaters competing next weekend -

Kulish is entered at Silver Skate Winter Cup in Kaunas LTU and could earn enough incremental points to overtake Gogolev.

Variakojyte is also entered at Silver Skate Winter Cup but cannot earn enough incremental points to overtake Spours let alone anyone in a later group or sub-group.

Karhunen is listed on The Nordics entry list but like Variakojyte cannot earn enough incremental points to overtake anyone ahead of her in the WS.

Reitan/Majorov are entered for Bavarian Open but also cannot earn enough incremental points to overtake the next team ahead of them in the WS (Fournier-Beaudry/Cizeron).

Also, Marsak is leading after the SP at Merano Ice Trophy however he can't earn enough incremental points to move ahead of Kulish.

I sort of can't believe any of those skaters except Variakojyte are competing next weekend, especially Reitan/Majorov and Kulish.
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Yeah I´m a bit surprised by this too, but at least Bavarian Open will be in Oberstdorf where they train, so they don´t need to travel for this competition. I´m assuming now that Milla has gotten her citizenship they can now train more in Oberstdorf again. I´m not sure when they arrive in Milano since they aren´t doing the team event. They might just have the option open and WD last minute if they feel they don´t have the energy for this.

All though the points won´t matter for Milano, they can still earn a decent amount that could benefit them at Worlds if they will be slotted in a later group there, or just in general getting as much points as possible before next season. Between them and V/K there are only few points separating and they have been swapping places just before Euros and then after Euros again. That could change after Milano if one of them makes the free. If they win Bavarian Open, according to my calculations they could earn around 100 points more, and I think that will tie them or just put them ahead of M/R on the WR. I don´t know who Italy will send to Worlds, maybe it will not be them, but if M/R go, that is good for the Swedes. So I don´t think it´s a bad strategy, particular since they didn´t expect to be at Olympics already and I´m not even sure they have that high goals. I think it´s a smart decision for them to maximum up on the international points where they can, particular because this is a good competition for them to be on the podium.

IF they also make it to the free in Milano, and combined with whatever points they get at Bavarian Open, just placing 20th in Milano can put them ahead of the Hungarians and the 2nd Ukranian team on the WR, which would be even better before Worlds. One could argument though that they are less likely to make the free if they do this competition, but point wise - they don´t loose much. There are so many factors out of their control at Olympics, so if they make the free or not - they are not guaranteed if they don´t do this competition, they can still miss out on the final. So why not take points where they can. They would love to be as high on the world ranking in the next quad as they can, building up to EC 2028 in Sweden ;)
 
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Wow, so Korea doesn't have a pair? I missed that. Didn't realize you could compete with entrants in only 3 disciplines.
 
Three is the minimum. Japan (no Dance qualifier), South Korea (no Pairs qualifier), and Poland (no Dance qualifier) qualified with three. France did originally as well, but when Uzbekistan gave up their second Pair in the individual event, France got the last spot as first alternate from the Beijing qualifier and now has a at least one participant in each individual discipline.

If you don't qualify in three individual disciplines, you have a chance to get a skater or two (for a team) for the missing discipline from the additional athlete allotment of five in total; those athletes can only participate in the TE. As highest overall qualifier based on the points qualification, Japan got two of them for their Dance team. Had South Korea had a Pairs team with citizenship and the TES minimum, they would have got two as well, leaving one left, not enough for a team. Since they don't, Poland got two spots for their Dance team. Had France not gotten the individual Pairs spot, they would have gotten two of the allotment for their Pairs team for the TE instead of Poland, and South Korea and Poland would have been in the TE in three disciplines only.
 
kwanfan1818 said:
Three is the minimum. Japan (no Dance qualifier), South Korea (no Pairs qualifier), and Poland (no Dance qualifier) qualified with three. France did originally as well, but when Uzbekistan gave up their second Pair in the individual event, France got the last spot as first alternate from the Beijing qualifier and now has a at least one participant in each individual discipline.

If you don't qualify in three individual disciplines, you have a chance to get a skater or two (for a team) for the missing discipline from the additional athlete allotment of five in total; those athletes can only participate in the TE. As highest overall qualifier based on the points qualification, Japan got two of them for their Dance team. Had South Korea had a Pairs team with citizenship and the TES minimum, they would have got two as well, leaving one left, not enough for a team. Since they don't, Poland got two spots for their Dance team. Had France not gotten the individual Pairs spot, they would have gotten two of the allotment for their Pairs team for the TE instead of Poland, and South Korea and Poland would have been in the TE in three disciplines only.
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Minor correction - Great Britain also only qualified in three disciplines (no man), so all five of the additional athlete quota spots were used. It doesn't change the composition of the teams for the TE though.
 
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