World Team Trophy Figure Skating 2025: How to look, preview, calendar

World team trophy, a biennial competition similar to the Olympic event of the figure skating team, is broadcast this week of Tokyo this week Peacock.

Each of the six -nations of the world skating – the United States, Japan, Italy, France, Canada and Georgia – organizes a team of two male skaters, two female skaters, a team of pairs and a couple of ice dance.

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All skaters perform two programs. The classification of the team is determined by occasional values ​​corresponding to the investments of skaters in each of the eight programs in total.

The United States won the event in 2023 by 25 points – The biggest margin since the start of the world team trophy in 2009.

Japan may have reduced the gap.

Since 2023, the team of the best American pairs – 2022 world champions Alexa Knierim and Brandon Frazier – has moved away from the competition.

Japan now has a significant advantage in two with reigning world champions Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara. The best American pair at the world championships last month was Alisa Efimova and Misha Mitrofanov in sixth in the general classification.

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The United States and Japan are closer in simple – Ilia Malinin, Jason Brown, Alysa Liu and Amber Glenn for Americans, and Yuma Kagiyama, Shun Sato, Kaori Sakamoto and Mone Chiba for Japan.

The United States has a significant advantage in ice dance with the triple world champion Madison Chock and Evan Bates.

A key difference between the world team trophy and the Olympic team event: the world team trophy includes two male skaters and two female skaters per nation in the two programs. At the Olympic Games, it is one per country in both programs.

World team trophy schedule 2025

Ilia Malinin won a second consecutive world title, but he wanted more

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Ilia Malinin won a second consecutive world title on Saturday evening, but felt upset to have left something defeated.