2025 Skate to Milano Pairs Short Program

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Skate to Milano | 2026 Olympic Qualifier
Sep 19-21, 2025

National Indoor Stadium
No. 9 Tianchen East Road, Chaoyang District
Beijing, China

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Pairs Short Program
(3 Olympic spots available)
Friday, September 19, 2025
15:30 CST (UTC +8)

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LIVESTREAM

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• ISU Event Page
• Announcement
• Schedule
• ISU Channel
• The event will also be available to stream on the Olympic Channel.
• Start Time for Each Team
• Entries
• Planned Program Content
• Detailed Results and Protocols

Start Order & Live Results
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StN.​	Name​	Nation​
.​	Warm-Up Group 1​
1	Tae Ok RYOM / Kum Chol HAN​	PRK
2	Karina AKOPOVA / Nikita RAKHMANIN​	ARM
3	Julia Sylvia GUNNARSDOTTIR / Manuel PIAZZA​	ISL
.	Warm-Up Group 2​
4	Anna VALESI / Martin BIDAR​	CZE
5	Audrey SHIN / Balazs NAGY​	USA
6	Sophia SCHALLER / Livio MAYR​	AUT
7	Isabella GAMEZ / Aleksandr KOROVIN​	PHI
.	Warm-Up Group 3​
8	Sofiia HOLICHENKO / Artem DARENSKYI​	UKR
9	Jiaxuan ZHANG / Yihang HUANG​	CHN
10	Camille KOVALEV / Pavel KOVALEV​	FRA
11	Yuna NAGAOKA / Sumitada MORIGUCHI​	JPN

Pairs Entries

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No.​

Names​

Nation​

1 Karina AKOPOVA / Nikita RAKHMANIN ARM

SP: "Artsakh" by Ara Gevorgyan
FS: "Latika's Theme" by A.R. Rahman, Suzanne; "Ringa Ringa' by A.R. Rahman, Alka Yagnik, Ila Arun; "Jai Ho" by A.R. Rahman, The Pussycat Dolls featuring Nicole Scherzinger (Slumdog Millionaire OST); choreo by Sofia Evdokimova

2 Sophia SCHALLER / Livio MAYR AUT

SP: "You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman" by Aretha Franklin, Carole King, Gerry Goffin, Jerry Wexler; "Respect" by Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding
FS: "Cosmic Love" by Florence + The Machine, Jules Buckley; choreo by Mark Pillay, Paul Boll

S Gabriella IZZO / Luc MAIERHOFER AUT

SP: "Padam Padam" by Edith Piaf, Legendis Orchestra; "Milord "by Edith Piaf, Legendis Orchestra
FS: "Hector's Death" (Troy soundtrack) by James Horner, Simon Rhodes, David Foster; "Achilles Leads the Myrmadons" (Troy soundtrack) by James Horner, Simon Rhodes, David Foster; "Remember" (Troy soundtrack) by Josh Groban, Tanja Tzarovska, James Horner, Simon Rhodes, David Foster; choreo by Renee Rocca, Mark Pillay

3 Jiaxuan ZHANG / Yihang HUANG CHN
SP: "Nemesis" by Benjamin Clementine; choreo by Aljona Savchenko
FS: "Remember;" "Only The Winds" by Ólafur Arnalds; "O" by Coldplay; choreo by Benoit Richaud

S Wenjing SUI /Cong HAN CHN

4 Anna VALESI / Martin BIDAR CZE
SP: "Suite Bergamasque, L. 75: III. Clair de Lune" by Claude Debussy, Philippe Entremont
FS: "Le temps des Cathédrales' (Notre Dame de Paris soundtrack) by Luc Plamondon, Richard Cocciante, Jannick Top, Serge Perathoner; "Danse Mon Esmeralda" (Notre Dame de Paris soundtrack) by Luc Plamondon, Richard Cocciante, Jannick Top, Serge Perathoner

5 Camille KOVALEV / Pavel KOVALEV FRA
SP: "Une vie d'amour" by Mireille Mathieu and Charles Aznavour
FS: "Come Together" performed by Gary Clark Jr. Junkie XL, John Lennon; "After Dark" by Tito et Tarantula, Steve Huffstester; "Seven Nation Army" by The White Stripes, Jack White; choreo by Pavel Kovalev, Dominique Deniaud

S Aurelie FAULA / Theo BELLE FRA
SP: "Within" by Daft Punk
FS: "Yearning" (feauring Fathi Aljarah) by Raul Ferrando; "Hob Fi Dimashq" by Radwan Nasri, Quincy Simms; "Oasis" by JO Blankenburg chores by Pierre Loup Bouquet (SP) , Mahil Chautelauze (SP, FS)

6 Julia Sylvia GUNNARSDOTTIR / Manuel PIAZZA ISL
SP: "Imagine" by Audiomachine
FS: West Side Story soundtrack by Leonard Bernstein; choreo by Benjamin Naggiar

7 Yuna NAGAOKA / Sumitada MORIGUCHI JPN
SP: "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" by Elton John, Bernie Taupin "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" (from “Ant-man and the Wasp: Quantumania Trailer”) by Epic Geek, Elton John, Bernie Taupin; "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" (from "Ant-man and the Wasp: Quantumania" (Epic Version) by Alala, Elton John, Bernie Taupin
FS: "Tree of Life Suite: V. Figlia del Cielo" by Roberto Cacciapaglia; "Tree of Life Suite: I1" by Roberto Cacciapaglia; "Fiamme" by Roberto Cacciapaglia; "Tree of Life Suite: VI. Wild Side" by Roberto Cacciapaglia; choreo by Cathy Reed

8 Isabella GAMEZ / Aleksandr KOROVIN PHI
SP: "November" by Max Richter; choreo by Sofia Evdokimova
FS: "Malagueña" by Ernesto Lecuona; choreo by Marina Zueva & Ilya Tkachenko

9 Tae Ok RYOM / Kum Chol HAN PRK
SP: "Oh My Hometown" by Jon In Gol
FS: "White Birch of Paektu" by Yang Pyong; choreo by Kim Hyon Son

10 Sofiia HOLICHENKO / Artem DARENSKYI UKR
SP: "Sweet Dream" by Eurythmics, Annie Lennox
FS: "Mad World" by 2WEI, Tommee Profitt & Fleurie, Roland Orzabal; choreo by Nadezhda Yavir

11 Audrey SHIN / Balazs NAGY USA

SP: "Speak Softly Love" (from The Godfather ll soundtrack) by Nino Rota; "Speak Softly Love" by Yao Si Ting; "The Godfather Suite" by Drew Tretick
FS: "Two Men in Love" by The Irrepressibles; choreo by John Kerr, Sylvia Fontana, John Zimmerman

S Emily CHAN / Spencer Akira HOWE USA

SP: "Caruso" by Josh Groban
FS: "Unchained Melody;" "The Ghost Inside" from Ghost the Musical soundtrack; choreo by Olga Ganicheva

S Olivia FLORES / Luke WANG USA

SP: "Run To You" by Whitney Houston
FS: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon soundtrack; choreo by Drew Meekins


S. Katie MCBEATH /Daniil PARKMAN USA

SP: "Vale" by Christian Reindl, Lucie Paradis and Power-Haus
FS: "Caruso" by Lara Fabian; choreo by Pasquale Camerlengo, Nikolai Morozov

S Valentina PLAZAS / Maximiliano FERNANDEZ USA

SP: "Never Enough" by Kelly Clarkson
FS: The Lion King and Mufasa soundtracks

 

[aroundtheworld778]

My weekend is gonna be ruined watching Chinese Nebehorn at ungodly hours throughout the night. Coffee anyone?

 

[BlissfulSynergy]

Will the ISU stream of 'Skate to Milano' be made available in all countries like JGP streams?

 

[Tutto]

Will the ISU stream of 'Skate to Milano' be made available in all countries like JGP streams?

I am wondering about it too. Fingers crossed it will be!

 

[Skater Boy]

I too am interested who will qualify spots for the Olympics. With all the ineligible American skaters/teams I am not so sure the third spot is such a big deal ? other than they get to send another team. I am a little confused about Sui and Han not being here. CAn they still go to the olympics as long as teh Chinese representative qualifies for a spot. This seems "unfair" if they earn the spot but Sui and Han go tot he olympics but that's life I guess. Maybe I haven't heard the update about Sui and Han and his constant injuries. Are they not coming back?

 

[Kittosuni]

I too am interested who will qualify spots for the Olympics. With all the ineligible American skaters/teams I am not so sure the third spot is such a big deal ? other than they get to send another team. I am a little confused about Sui and Han not being here. CAn they still go to the olympics as long as teh Chinese representative qualifies for a spot. This seems "unfair" if they earn the spot but Sui and Han go tot he olympics but that's life I guess. Maybe I haven't heard the update about Sui and Han and his constant injuries. Are they not coming back?

Aside from the AIN athletes who are competing for themselves, the rest are competing for a spot for their country. So if Z/H manages to grab a spot, it is still up to the Chinese federation who will they send to the olympics.

 

[Skater Boy]

Aside from the AIN athletes who are competing for themselves, the rest are competing for a spot for their country. So if Z/H manages to grab a spot, it is still up to the Chinese federation who will they send to the olympics.

Okay thanks. I kind of feel sorry then for the Chinese pairs team as they will probably get passsed over for Sui and Han. SH return seems to be strongly motivated / created by the Federation. I feel for the team that earns the spot but really it is fro Sui and Han to try to get China a medal. But life isn't fair. Now has anyone seen Sui and Han and what programs they are doing. The Italians look really good so far. Canada didn't look too good in their first event. Sui and Han would probably do very well at the olympics.

 

[Kittosuni]

Okay thanks. I kind of feel sorry then for the Chinese pairs team as they will probably get passsed over for Sui and Han. SH return seems to be strongly motivated / created by the Federation. I feel for the team that earns the spot but really it is fro Sui and Han to try to get China a medal. But life isn't fair. Now has anyone seen Sui and Han and what programs they are doing. The Italians look really good so far. Canada didn't look too good in their first event. Sui and Han would probably do very well at the olympics.

It sucks for Z/H but they are not entirely unique in this situation. The skaters for USA and Austria are in the same boat as they are not guaranteed of going to the olympics even if they are able to win a spot here for their country.

Prior to this, the idea of S/H going to the qualifiers started because frankly none of the other Chinese pairs have a high chance of medaling. It is understandable that a federation will want to send their best skaters/teams who has the best shot of medaling and grabbing a spot for the olymypics. On paper S/H is a no brainer choice but ofcourse they have to actually show a competitive program and no one has seen that yet.

Lets be honest Z/H is more of a long project but they have since shown tremendous progress and respectable scores that is why you can even sense that the Chinese Fed is now going all out on them.

Sure S/H is the preferred choice on paper but they have to actually beat Z/H first which they haven't done that is why Z/H is the one going to compete for China.

 

[Jumping_Bean]

It sucks for Z/H but they are not entirely unique in this situation. The skaters for USA and Austria are in the same boat as they are not guaranteed of going to the olympics even if they are able to win a spot here for their country.

The US team, yes - Though I wonder if that wasn't one of the reasons why Shin/Nagy are being sent here, as the US only has four realistic options for the Olympics and only two were really options for this event (Kam/O'Shea already earned one of the Olympic spots and Liu/Bedard had not competed yet), so to say "making them earn their own ticket".

The Austrians, on the other hand, actually have nothing to worry about on that front, as the other team has citizenship issues. With the Austrian fed, we actually know that the Olympic eligibility was the main deciding factor for who to send here, as Izzo/Maierhofer outscored Schaller/Mayr by quite a bit at John Nicks.

 

[Jumping_Bean]

Okay thanks. I kind of feel sorry then for the Chinese pairs team as they will probably get passsed over for Sui and Han. SH return seems to be strongly motivated / created by the Federation. I feel for the team that earns the spot but really it is fro Sui and Han to try to get China a medal. But life isn't fair. Now has anyone seen Sui and Han and what programs they are doing. The Italians look really good so far. Canada didn't look too good in their first event. Sui and Han would probably do very well at the olympics.

Let's wait for S/H to actually return first. Cong retired because of pretty serious injuries, they've been out of competition for a long time and we don't know when Cong even started training again.

Zhang/Huang might not be medal contenders quite yet, but they are a very good team with two great programs for this season.
I particularly love their Free program (some of the music has been removed due to copyright), so many ingenious choreographic touches (transitions!):


Here's a version without silenced music: Bilibili

 

[Andrea82]

Officials

Function	Name	Nation
Referee​	Ms. Katarina HENRIKSSON​	SWE
Technical Controller​	Ms. Deborah NOYES​	AUS
Technical Specialist​	Mr. Alexander KOENIG​	GER
Technical Specialist​	Mr. Lorenzo MAGRI​	ITA
Judge No.1​	Mr. Igor FEDCHENKO​	UKR
Judge No.2​	Ms. Elke TREITZ​	GER
Judge No.3​	Ms. Ko-Man TING​	TPE
Judge No.4​	Mr. Steven HSU​	USA
Judge No.5​	Ms. Dan CHEN​	HKG
Judge No.6​	Ms. Ayumi ONO​	JPN
Judge No.7​	Ms. Mary CHAPMAN​	GBR
Judge No.8​	Ms. Adrienn SCHADENBAUER​	AUT
Judge No.9​	Ms. Hailan JIANG​	CHN

 

[labgoat]

Judge Alexander Koenig GER in his heyday with Peggy Schwartz
1988 European Bronze Medalists - listen to Toller Cranston rave about them

 

[EdgeCall]

Uncle Ted is with us!

 

[DemTuppesSeine]

Helloooo am here but still have a bit of work to do. Last day of work for me before I have my Nebelhorn vacation next week

 

[CaroLiza_fan]

We're back! And again, it's a competition where I have two sets of kids.

And there is even more drama because, even with the possibility of an extra slot opening up, there are fewer slots up for grabs than I thought when I was making out my predictions.

Livestream for the Pairs FS is now on air.

ALL THE BEST EVERYBODY!!!

CaroLiza_fan

 

[FlossieH]

I am worried for Shin/Nagy. I am concerned about the hate they are likely to get in the US if they don't qualify a spot.

 

[EdgeCall]

No Russians independent Athletes here in pairs. What a loss.

At least the North Koreans are back.

 

[norwegianfairytale]

Hello! I´m hoping the Icelandic pair will do well. I have a soft spot for them

 

[CaroLiza_fan]

Didn't get back until the start of the Warm-Up. So misssed the introductions.

I am worried for Shin/Nagy. I am concerned about the hate they are likely to get in the US if they don't qualify a spot.

That's one of the reasons I wish the Olympics were done like Worlds. It's not just so that more athletes get to compete in it. It's so that we don't have the situation where the media and ultra-nationalistic fans are laying into athletes because they don't make it to the Olympics.

They are doing the best they can on the day. They don't deserve to be treated like they are failures.

CaroLiza_fan

 

[yuumagical]

I have a friend who lives in Iceland, and I'm pretty sure she said figure skating is (ironically) not popular there...