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11 March 2026 Britain’s young skaters delivered encouraging performances at the ISU Junior World Figure Skating Championships last week, gaining valuable international experience while demonstrating the progress, commitment and resilience that underpin their ongoing development in the sport. The Junior World Championships provide one of the most important stages for emerging athletes. Competing against the world’s best junior skaters not only tests technical and performance

British Ice Skating has selected six athletes to represent Team GBR at the ISU CNSG Short Track World Championships 2026, taking place in Montreal, Canada from 13–15 March 2026.

The ISU Junior Figure Skating World Championships 2026 are taking place from 4th-7th March in Tallinn, Estonia, and a full team of GBR skaters are set to take to the ice! Find out everything you need to know about the young athletes representing Great Britain, and where and when to watch: Meet the GBR Team Alice Smith - Women's Singles Reigning British Junior Women's Champion Alice returns to the Junior World Championships after debuting at the 2025 event, where as one of t

Day 3 of the Olympic Winter Games is a big one for British Ice Skating - with Ellia Smeding making her Milano Cortina debut in the Women’s 1000m, and the individual Figure Skating events getting underway as Ice Dance opens with the Rhythm Dance for Lilah Fear & Lewis Gibson and Phebe Bekker & James Hernandez.

Edward Appleby closed out Team GB’s Figure Skating Team Event campaign at the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games with a season’s best 69.68 in the Men’s Short Program, as Great Britain secured a ninth-place finish overall in the qualification standings.

The Figure Skating Team Event at Milano Cortina continues on Day 1, Saturday 7 February 2026, with the men’s segment taking centre stage — and Edward Appleby set to represent Team GB in the Men’s Short Program as the Team Event qualification stage is completed.

Team GB’s figure skating campaign at the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games is up and running, with British Ice Skating athletes competing across ice dance, pairs and women’s singles in the opening day of the Figure Skating Team Event, including an incredible season's best from Fear and Gibson.

British Ice Skating is proud to celebrate a landmark moment for the sport, as Olympic ice dancer Lilah Fear has been selected as one of Team GB’s flagbearers for the Opening Ceremony of the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games, taking place Friday 6 February.

British Ice Skating can confirm that Team Icicles Junior will represent Great Britain at the ISU World Junior Synchronized Skating Championships 2026, taking place in Gdańsk, Poland from 13–14 March 2026.

Team GBR’s next generation delivered a weekend to remember at the ISU Short Track Junior World Championships 2026 in Salt Lake City - smashing three British Junior Records and showing exactly why the future of British short track is so exciting.

Running alongside the ISU Figure Skating European Championships 2026 in Sheffield, British Ice Skating’s Futures Programme gave young GB athletes an invaluable opportunity to step inside a major international event and experience elite sport from an entirely new perspective. Designed to inspire, educate and prepare the next generation of British figure skaters, the programme used the Championships as a live learning environment. By hosting such a prestigious event on home ice

With one month to go until the Opening Ceremony of the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games, the British Olympic Association (BOA) has today confirmed Ellia Smeding will represent Team GB in long track speed skating, competing in the 1,000m and 1,500m distances.

With 50 days to go until the Opening Ceremony of the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games, the British Olympic Association (BOA) has today confirmed Niall Treacy will represent Team GB in short track speed skating, competing across all three individual distances.

With less than two months to go until the Opening Ceremony of the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games, the British Olympic Association (BOA) has today confirmed the eight figure skaters who will represent Team GB in Italy.

British Ice Skating is proud to confirm the athletes selected to represent Great Britain at the ISU Figure Skating European Championships Sheffield 2026, taking place at Utilita Arena Sheffield from 13-18 January 2026.

Great Britains very own Olympic ice dancers Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson will once again fly the flag at the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final 2025 in Nagoya, Japan, from 4–7 December.

Phebe Bekker and James Hernandez have rounded off their back-to-back senior Grand Prix assignments by closing out their debut senior Grand Prix season with a 10th-place finish at the ISU Grand Prix Finlandia Trophy in Helsinki, scoring 165.60 in a world-class ice dance field.

After a landmark senior Grand Prix debut at Skate America last week, where they finished eighth overall with a season-best Free Dance in Lake Placid, Phebe Bekker and James Hernandez will close out their Grand Prix campaign this weekend at the ISU Grand Prix Finlandia Trophy in Helsinki, Finland.

The ISU Short Track World Tour moves into its European leg this week, with the British Royals travelling to Gdańsk, Poland for World Tour #3 (20–23 November) – the third of four Olympic qualifying events on the road to Milano Cortina 2026.

Great Britain’s long track speed skaters delivered an encouraging start to the Olympic season as World Cup 1 got underway in Salt Lake City over the weekend, producing standout performances across the opening stage of the 2025–26 ISU Speed Skating World Cup.