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2025 Skate America
Logo of the 2025 Skate America
Type:Grand Prix
Date:November 14 – 16
Season:2025–26
Location:Lake Placid, New York,
United States
Host:U.S. Figure Skating
Venue:Herb Brooks Arena
Defending champions
Men's singles:
United States Ilia Malinin
Women's singles:
Japan Wakaba Higuchi
Pairs:
Japan Riku Miura
and Ryuichi Kihara
Ice dance:
United Kingdom Lilah Fear
and Lewis Gibson
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The 2025 Skate America is a figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union (ISU). Organized and hosted by U.S. Figure Skating, it is the fifth event of the 2025–26 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating: a senior-level international invitational competition series. It will be held November 14–16 at the Herb Brooks Arena in Lake Placid, New York, in the United States.[1][2] Medals will be awarded in men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dance. Skaters will earn points toward qualifying for the 2025–26 Grand Prix Final.

Background

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The ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating is a series of seven events sanctioned by the International Skating Union (ISU) and held during the autumn: six qualifying events and the Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final. This allows skaters to perfect their programs earlier in the season, as well as compete against the skaters with whom they will later compete at the World Championships. Skaters earn points based on their results in their respective competitions and the top skaters or teams in each discipline are invited to compete at the Grand Prix Final.[3]

Entries

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The International Skating Union announced the preliminary assignments on June 6, 2025.[4][5]

Country Men Women Pairs Ice dance
 Azerbaijan Vladimir Litvintsev —
 China Dai Daiwei —
 Canada —
 Czech Republic —
 France Kévin Aymoz Léa Serna —
Luc Economides —
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 Georgia — Anastasiia Gubanova —
 Germany — —
 Great Britain —
 Italy Corey Circelli Lara Naki Gutmann
Daniel Grassl — — —
Nikolaj Memola
 Japan Kazuki Tomono Wakaba Higuchi —
Tatsuya Tsuboi Rinka Watanabe —
— Hana Yoshida
 Kazakhstan Mikhail Shaidorov —
 Poland — Ekaterina Kurakova —
 South Korea — Kim Chae-yeon —
Lee Hae-in
 United States Jason Brown Starr Andrews
Liam Kapeikis Josephine Lee
— Alysa Liu

Changes to preliminary assignments

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Discipline Withdrew Added Notes Ref.
Date Skater(s) Date Skater(s)
Women — July 14 Host picks [6]
Pairs September 2 September 15 [7][8]
Men — Host picks [9]
Pairs
Ice dance

References

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  1. ^ "2025 Skate America". U.S. Figure Skating. U.S. Figure Skating. Retrieved June 7, 2025.
  2. ^ "ISU GP Skate America 2025". International Skating Union. International Skating Union. Retrieved June 7, 2025.
  3. ^ Hines, James R. (2006). Figure Skating: A History. University of Illinois Press. pp. 246–247, 332–335. ISBN 978-0-252-07286-4.
  4. ^ "Grand Prix Assignments 2025/26". X. Anything GOEs. Retrieved June 6, 2025.
  5. ^ "ISU announces 2025-2026 Grand Prix assignments". Figure Skaters Online. Retrieved June 6, 2025.
  6. ^ a b "🇺🇸 Starr Andrews and Josephine Lee have been assigned to Skate America". X. Anything GOEs. Retrieved July 14, 2025.
  7. ^ "🇺🇿 Ekaterina Geynish / Dmitrii Chigirev have withdrawn from Skate America". Threads. Anything GOEs. Retrieved September 2, 2025.
  8. ^ "🇮🇹 Lucrezia Beccari / Matteo Guarise have been assigned to Skate America". X. Anything GOEs. Retrieved September 15, 2025.
  9. ^ "🇺🇸 Liam Kapeikis, Audrey Shin / Balazs Nagy, and Oona Brown / Gage Brown ➡️ Skate America 🇯🇵 Haru Kakiuchi, Yuna Aoki, and Yuna Nagaoka / Sumitada Moriguchi ➡️ NHK Trophy 🇨🇦 Uliana Shiryaeva and Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain le Gac ➡️ Skate Canada". X. Anything GOEs. Retrieved September 15, 2025.
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