Who's your favorite skater right now?

[RobinA]

The competition is already over...

My favorites skater are Smart Dieck !

Women: Michelle Kwan
Men: Kagiyama
Pairs: Gordeeva/Grinkov
Dance: Fournier Beaudry/Cizeron

 

[moonvine]

I left out some folks. Gracie. Ellie and Danny. Jimmy. Z/K. Tomas.

 

[Ic3Rabbit]

Women: Yuka Sato, Kaori Sakamoto, Alysa Liu
Men: Abbott, Chen, Chan, Bradley, Aymoz, Siao Him Fa, Messing, Uno, Kagiyama, Naumov, Brown
Dance: Torvill/Dean, Virtue/Moir, Hubbell/Donohue, Zingas/Kolesnik, P2, LaLa

 

[16Olympics]

Favorite male: I'd have to say Yuma. He's been my favorite most of the year but the Olympics and WC showed me my confidence in him is justified.
Favorite female: Queen Kaori.
Pairs: Riku/Ryuichi
Dance: Lala.

 

[elektra blue]

all my children (i'll make a list one day ), Kazuki Tomono, Sota Yamamoto, Rion Sumioyoshi, Rino Matsuike, Piper and Paul, Olivia and Tim (with an E ) Mironova/Ustenko, Marie Jade and Romain, Amber Glenn, Brady Tenell, the Selevko brothers and many others, my heart is as big as my kitchen

 

[4everchan]

Women: Yuka Sato, Kaori Sakamoto, Alysa Liu
Men: Abbott, Chen, Chan, Bradley, Aymoz, Siao Him Fa, Messing, Uno, Kagiyama
Dance: Torvill/Dean, Virtue/Moir, Hubbell/Donohue, Zingas/Kolesnik, P2

gosh.. your list and mine are so close

I'd sub in Buttle for Bradley
I was too young for Torville and Dean so I'd sub in Bourne and Kraatz and my LaLa

I'd add Lu Chen for women.

For pairs, Shen and Zhao, Salé and Pelletier and Deanna and Max

 

[TallyT]

Hey, people are naming retired as well as current skaters so I want to too!!! And mine are predictably eclectic, just because they Make Me Happy.

Men - besides Yuzuru, there's Alexei Yagudin (on ice only, I know), Brian Joubert, Mikhail Kolyada, Jason Brown, and I have a soft spot for Kevin van der Perren
Women - Sasha Cohen, Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, Rika Kihira, Satoko Miyahara, Mai Mihara and I have another soft spot for Starr Andrews and (despite how much it huuuuurts) Anna Pogorilaya
Pairs - Xue/Hongbo, Volosozhar/Trankov (sometimes), Sui/Han
ID - Torvill/Dean, Anissina/Peizerat, Zhiganshina/Gazsi (so sue me, I love them more than the whole damn 2026 cohort)

 

[noskates]

These threads always make me laugh. The title is who is your favorite skater. Skater. Singular. Not everybody you're ever liked over the years.

For me? Yuma.

 

[TallyT]

These threads always make me laugh. The title is who is your favorite skater. Skater. Singular. Not everybody you're ever liked over the years.

Well, I have one (of course) but I suspect for a lot of folk that is asking "what is your favourite Quality Street?"

 

[noskates]

Tally - what is Quality Street? Haven't heard of that before.

 

[4everchan]

Tally - what is Quality Street? Haven't heard of that before.

it's just chocolate and toffees... you've never had these ? they are everywhere... I guess it means that you cannot just pick one favourite.

I am very at ease naming one skater who is my favourite at the same time, like many others, I like so many skaters. Why not celebrate everyone ?

 

[TallyT]

Tally - what is Quality Street? Haven't heard of that before.

Sorry. Assorted chocolates in a tin, made by the Brits, sold since the 1930s. And people been probably unable to choose just one since then....

 

[Weathergal]

I took the OP to mean a current skater (but don't think listing retired ones is bad at all!) so I'll list mine that way and I also thought it mean just one skater. That being said, I'll "hedge" a bit and name one per category because that's hard enough. LOL

Women's Lara Naki Gutmann
Men's Andrew Torgashev
Pairs Minerva Fabienne Hase / Nikita Volodin
Dance Olivia Smart / Tim Dieck

If I have to pick just one, I'd say Smart / Dieck. I liked them in their former partnerships and was intrigued when they first paired up. They're even better than I'd wished, and I hope they continue skating for a while if they want to.

 

[elektra blue]

(despite how much it huuuuurts) Anna Pogorilaya

Anna the great, catus Tsarina of all Russias

These threads always make me laugh. The title is who is your favorite skater. Skater. Singular. Not everybody you're ever liked over the years.

For me? Yuma.

then laugh it's good for your heart.

 

[maofan]

To answer the OP question: "Who is your favourite skater right now?" - Jason Brown

The other categories (right now):
Women: Kaori
Dance: Piper and Paul
Pairs: Riku/Ryuichi

All time favourites:
Women: Mao Asada (not hard to guess, haha)
Men: Yuzuru Hanyu
Dance: Jayne Torvill/Christopher Dean
Pairs: Ekaterina Gordeeva/Sergei Grinkov

I can list a thousand more skaters I adore, but not enough space!

 

[Jhar55]

Isabeau Levito, just love her eloquent skating style

 

[synesthesia]

Current:

Women: Yuna Aoki, Wakaba Higuchi, Kaori Sakamoto, Rino Matsuike (for her lovely skating skills), Niina Petrõkina, Loena Hendrickx
Men: Kazuki Tomono, Yuma Kagiyama, Junhwan Cha, Deniss Vasiljevs
Pairs: Riku Miura/Ryūichi Kihara, Yuna Nagaoka/Sumitada Moriguchi, Minerva Hase/Nikita Volodin
Ice Dance: Emilea Zingas/Vadym Kolesnik, Marjorie Lajoie/Zachary Lagha


All time:

Women: Carolina Kostner, Mao Asada, Akiko Suzuki
Men: Daisuke Takahashi, Stephane Lambiel, Denis Ten
Pairs: Wenjing Sui/Cong Han
Ice Dance: Shae-Lynn Bourne/Victor Kraatz, Marina Anissina/Gwendal Peizerat

 

[CoyoteChris]

I have two darlings, one who is retired is my darling squirtle Lim Eunsoo and the other one who is not retired is my darling Cha Junhwan. Those two, and of course Her Majesty Kim Yuna, reign supreme in my heart. And as many will know I'm the official Korean FS ambassador in the GS forums so Team Korea as a whole have a space there too. Aside from them, here's my list:

Men: Tomono Kazuki, Sasha Selevko, Roman Sadovsky, Camden Pulkinen, Matteo Rizzo
Women: Kim Chaeyeon, Lara Naki Gutmann
Pairs: Boikova/Kozlovskii, Hase/Volodin
Ice Dance: Lim/Quan, Turkkila/Versluis, Orihara/Pirinen, the Browns

Yuna is the best female skater that has ever lived.
But as far as skaters this season, are we talking about skating ability or ? Asking for a friend.

 

[CoyoteChris]

Women: Yuka Sato, Kaori Sakamoto, Alysa Liu
Men: Abbott, Chen, Chan, Bradley, Aymoz, Siao Him Fa, Messing, Uno, Kagiyama, Naumov, Brown
Dance: Torvill/Dean, Virtue/Moir, Hubbell/Donohue, Zingas/Kolesnik, P2, LaLa

You are not trying to make my knees weak, are you?

 

[decafjava]

Snoopy but just for today.