BOSTON — Alysa Liu is the first U.S. women’s singles figure skater to win a world title in 19 years, capping a comeback season after a two-year retirement. Liu, 19, had the top short program and free skate scores for 222.97 total points. She prevailed over three-time world champion Kaori Sakamoto of Japan by 4.99. Mone Chiba of Japan earned bronze.

Alysa Liu became the first American women's figure skating world champion in nearly two decades Friday night, dethroning three-time defending champion Kaori Sakamoto with a brilliant free skate.

The 2025 World Figure Skating Championships continue on Friday with two events. Earlier in the day, they started with ice dance and rhythm dancing, now we get the Women's Free Skate on Friday night. Tune in on Friday to NBC to catch the ice dancing action.

American Alysa Liu produced a sensational and joyous performance and struck gold at the World Figure Skating Championships in Boston on Friday in the sport's biggest event ahead of the 2026 Olympics.

Alysa Liu won the women's figure skating world title on Friday, delivering a dazzling free skate to edge three-time defending champion Kaori Sakamoto of Japan.Liu, who walked away from the sport in 2022 at the age of 16 and returned just a year ago,

Liu scored a 222.97 to complete her improbable return from retirement with a world championship Friday at TD Garden.

After one of the most remarkable comeback stories in figure skating history, Alysa Liu says she "didn't expect this."

American figure skater Alysa Liu returns three years after quitting the sport, aged 16, to win the women's world title in Boston.

The best showed up at TD Garden, a building where champions shine the brightest, on Friday for the women’s free skate at the 2025 figure skating world championships. Amber Glenn, the American favorite,

Maxim Naumov, a figure skater whose parents Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov died in the American Airlines plane crash in January, shared they had switched their flight shortly before the tragedy.

Just days after placing fourth at the U.S. Figure Skating Championship, Maxim Naumov suffered an unimaginable loss. The skater’s parents, former Olympians Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov, died on Jan.

Maxim Naumov, the son of 1994 figure skating World Champions Evgenia “Zhenya” Shishkova and Vadim Naumov, is speaking out on the tragic passing of both his parents in the American Airlines D.C. plane crash.