Figure Skating
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Yuma Kagiyama Takes Silver, Kaori Sakamoto Has to Settle for Third Place; Malinin and Glenn Win as US Figure Skaters Take 3 Gold Medals at Grand Prix Final
GRENOBLE, France (AP) — Ilia Malinin landed six quadruple jumps and Amber Glenn ended a 14-year w...
December 9, 2024
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Japan’s Yuma Kagiyama, Hana Yoshida Sweep Gold in Finland GP
Japanese figure skaters Yuma Kagiyama and Hana Yoshida swept to men’s and women’s gold in the Fin...
November 17, 2024
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Yuma Kagiyama Defends Title at NHK Trophy and Kaori Sakamoto Leads Japanese Sweep in Women’s Event
TOKYO (AP) — Yuma Kagiyama of Japan recovered from an early fall in his free skate on Saturday to...
November 10, 2024
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Kagiyama and Sakamoto Lead Japanese Sweep of Men’s and Women’s Short Programs at NHK Trophy
TOKYO (AP) — Defending champion Yuma Kagiyama performed a near-flawless routine on Friday to lead...
November 9, 2024
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French Grand Prix Figure Skating: Japan’s Koshiro Shimada Is Second
Adam Siao Him Fa leapt from eighth place overnight to claim a third French Grand Prix figure skat...
November 3, 2024
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Kaori Sakamoto Leads Japanese Medal Sweep at Skate Canada
MONTREAL (AFP-Jiji) — Threetime reigning world champion Kaori Sakamoto led a Japanese podium swee...
October 27, 2024
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Higuchi Wins Women’s Gold, Miura And Kihara Capture Pairs in Big Night for Japan at Skate America
Wakaba Higuchi won her first Grand Prix event after more than eight years of trying Saturday nigh...
October 20, 2024
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Shoma Uno Announces His Retirement from Skating, Expresses Gratitude For ‘Wonderful’ Competitive Career
Men's figure skater Shoma Uno, 26, announced on his SNS Thursday that he will retire from active ...
May 9, 2024
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Yuma Kagiyama of Japan Win Silver, Defending World Champion Shoma Uno of Japan Fall to Fourth; Ilia Malinin Takes Men’s World Figure Skating Crown in Record
MONTREAL (AP) — American figure skating star Ilia Malinin is a world champion — and a world-recor...
March 24, 2024
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Japan’s Sakamoto Three-Peats as Women’s Figure Skating World Champion
MONTREAL (AP) — Kaori Sakamoto of Japan is the first women’s figure skater to three-peat as world...
March 23, 2024
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Japan’s Riku Miura, Ryuichi Kihara in Second Place after Short Program at Worlds
MONTREAL (AP) — Canadian pair Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps put forth an electrifyin...
March 21, 2024
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Figure Skater Valieva Disqualified in Olympic Doping Case. Russians Set to Lose Team Gold to US
GENEVA (AP) — Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva was disqualified from the 2022 Olympics on Monday...
January 30, 2024
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Uno, Sakamoto Get Shots at 3rd Straight World Skating Titles
NAGANO — Figure skating stars Shoma Uno and Kaori Sakamoto will both get a chance for a third straig...
December 25, 2023
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Figure Skating-Japan’s Shoma Uno is second; Ilia Malinin Becomes First Skater to Land All Six Quads
BEIJING, Dec 9 (Reuters) - American teen Ilia Malinin made more history at the Grand Prix Final in B...
December 10, 2023
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World Champion Sakamoto Wins Again at Beijing Grand Prix Final
Reigning world champion Kaori Sakamoto added another title to her winning streak as she crushed the ...
December 10, 2023
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