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Competing at the Junior level at the 2023 Russian Figure Skating Championships Gorbacheva skated a clean short program and ranked in first place 3.05 points ahead of Daria Sadkova who ranked second. In the free skate Gorbacheva successfully landed her opening quadruple Salchow and skated the rest of the program cleanly.
Rika Kihira (Japanese: 紀平 梨花; born 21 July 2002) is a Japanese figure skater.She is a two-time Four Continents champion (2019, 2020), the 2018 Grand Prix Final champion, a four-time Grand Prix series medalist (2018 NHK Trophy gold, 2018 Internationaux de France gold, 2019 Skate Canada silver, 2019 NHK Trophy silver), a two-time International Challenge Cup champion, and a two-time ...
She is one of only two skaters to defend a ladies' singles Olympic title, the other being Norwegian Sonja Henie. Witt is a four-time World Champion (1984, 1985, 1987, 1988) and two-time World silver medalist (1982, 1986). She won six consecutive European Championships (1983–1988), a feat equalled only by Henie among female skaters. Between ...
Grace Elizabeth Gold was born on August 17, 1995, in Newton, Massachusetts. [3] She is the daughter of Denise, an ER nurse, and Carl Gold, an anesthesiologist. [4] [5] Gracie's fraternal twin sister, Carly Gold (named after their father), is younger by 40 minutes and also competed in figure skating.
Ekaterina "Katia" Alexandrovna Gordeeva (Russian: Екатерина Александровна Гордеева; born 28 May 1971) [1] is a Russian figure skater.With her late husband Sergei Grinkov, she is the 1988 and 1994 Olympic Champion, a four-time World Champion (1986, 1987, 1989, 1990), a three-time European Champion (1988, 1990, 1994), the 1990 Goodwill Games champion, 1987 Soviet ...
The following is a list of notable figure skaters who have competed in women's singles.These are skaters who have won a gold, silver, or bronze medal at at least one of the following competitions: the Winter Olympics, the World Figure Skating Championships, the European Figure Skating Championships, the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships, the Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final, the ...
Michelle Wingshan Kwan (born July 7, 1980) is a retired American competitive figure skater and diplomat who served as United States Ambassador to Belize from 2022 to 2025. In figure skating Kwan is a two-time Olympic medalist (silver in 1998, bronze in 2002), a five-time world champion (1996, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2003) and a nine-time U.S. champion (1996, 1998–2005).
As a professional figure skater, she has appeared in all three previous editions of the cross-genre ice show Hyoen (2017, 2019, 2024) [26] [27] [28] starring Olympic bronze medalist Daisuke Takahashi, as well as in Hyoen's spin-off Luxe (2021). [29] On April 18, 2018, Arakawa was elected to the World Figure Skating Hall of Fame. [30]