Four of the five figure skating podiums at the 2026 Milan Cortina Games have been solidified, with only the women's singles champion left to be crowned. Olympic figure skating takes its final bow until 2030 on Thursday as Alysa Liu, Isabeau Levito and Amber Glenn return to the ice and attempt to snap the 20-year individual Olympic medal drought that has persisted for American women.

Until then, catch up on the skaters who won gold and etched their names in Olympic history books in Milan this week, including the team event, ice dance, men's singles and pairs.

Team USA arrived in Milan equipped with one of their most promising Olympic figure skating teams in decades. Madison Chock and Evan Bates established an early lead in the rhythm dance, placing 1st and earning the maximum 10 points. They returned to the ice the very next day for the free dance, winning their segment again on minimal rest. Reigning world champion, Liu, and three-time U.S. national champion, Glenn, both competed in the women's singles segments, with Liu placing 2nd in the short program and Glenn finishing 3rd in the free skate.

The Americans were expected to lose some ground in the pairs event, but Ellie Kam and Danny O'Shea skated two superb segments to keep their team within striking distance of the gold. Ilia Malinin clinched the top spot in a nail-biting faceoff with Japan's Shun Sato, solidifying the U.S. as the first country to win back-to-back team gold medals since the inception of the team event in 2014.

Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Guillaume Cizeron of Team France claimed ice dance gold with a personal best score of 225.82. While they debuted as a pair in Milan, both skaters have previously appeared on the Olympic stage with other partners. Cizeron is a repeat champion in the event, having won gold at the 2022 Beijing Games with Gabriella Papadakis. Cizeron and Fournier Beaudry only announced their partnership in March 2025 — a break from tradition in a sport which typically sees teams skate together for more than 10 years on average before winning gold. "We love what we do, and we loved every step of the way," Cizeron said of their meteoric rise. 

Fournier Beaudry and Cizeron defeated three-time world champions, Chock and Bates, by 1.43 points. Their margin of victory over the Americans was the second-smallest in Olympic ice dance history. At the 2018 PyeongChang Games, Canada's Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir retained a 0.79-point buffer over Cizeron and Papadakis to win their second ice dance gold.

In one of the most stunning results of the Games, Mikhail Shaidorov became Kazakhstan's first figure skater to win Olympic gold. He surged to a personal best 291.58 total score, while podium favorites stumbled in his wake. Before the Olympics, Malinin had won 14 consecutive competitions, but a series of popped jumps and falls left him off the podium in 8th. 

Shaidorov's win evoked a deeper layer of national symbolism for his home country as he joined the late Denis Ten as the only Kazakhstani skater to win an Olympic medal. "Ten influenced not only me, but the entire figure skating [community] in Kazakhstan," Shaidorov said after his historic victory. "He opened the doors for many figure skaters, including myself. And it's incredibly important. And I hope that this medal, this gold medal, will open new doors to the new generation of Kazakhstani children who will know that sky is the limit."

Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara's win was perhaps the most predictable of the figure skating podiums thus far in Milan, but their trajectory to gold was circuitous. The two-time world champions were in 5th place after fumbling a lift in their usually air-tight short program. They rallied to skate a transcendent free program to "Gladiator," earning a season's best and soaring to 1st. 

Their win marked the first Olympic gold in pairs for Japan, which has long been a juggernaut in single's skating. "It's a little bit of a disbelief that we were able to get a medal for Japan in pair skating for the first time ever," Kihara said after the victory via translator. "We hope that our performance tonight is going to lead the Japan skating community into the future to perform better and better moving forward."

The Olympic figure skating women's event continues with the free skate on Thursday, Feb. 19, at 1 p.m. ET. The event will stream on Peacock and NBCOlympics.com, and will air on NBC.