Kazakh figure skater Mikhail Shaidorov won gold at the 2026 Olympics

Mikhail Shaidorov from Kazakhstan became the winner of the free skate in men's single skating at the Olympic Games in Italy. His speech took place on Friday, February 13.

After the short program, Shaidorov took fifth place. The second place was taken by Japanese Yuma Kagiyama, the third place was awarded to Japanese Shun Sato. Russian figure skater Pyotr Gumennik took the sixth place. He entered the third warm-up group and took to the ice at 23:13 Moscow time.

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On February 13, at the Olympic Games in Italy, Humennik performed a clean free skate and scored 184.49 points. He performed at number 13. Humennik managed to perform flip, lutz, Rittberger and double Salchow — in a cascade with a triple toe loop and in combination with two double axels. In addition, the athlete was able to perform an axel in 3.5 turns.

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