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NBC Sports
19-04-2025
- Sport
- NBC Sports
Efimova, Mitrofanov contribute to U.S. title
Alisa Efimova and Misha Mitrofanov's performance in the pairs free skate at World Team Trophy Figure Skating helped the United States secure its sixth overall title in the event.
Washington Post
31-03-2025
- Sport
- Washington Post
Strong finish at skating worlds gives US hope for 3rd Olympic pair. That hasn't happened since 1994.
BOSTON — Alisa Efimova and Misha Mitrofanov of the U.S. celebrated once in the center of the ice after their free skate at the world figure skating championships on Thursday night and again about a half hour later. Moments after the pair said they hoped for a strong finish that would help their nation qualify a third team for the 2026 Olympics, the scores for their teammates, Ellie Kam and Danny O'Shea, were announced and word filtered over: 'You did it.'
NBC Sports
28-03-2025
- Entertainment
- NBC Sports
Efimova/Mitrofanov get standing ovation after free
Paying tribute to the victims of AA Flight 5342 during the competition, Alisa Efimova and Misha Mitrofanov delivered an emotional performance in the pairs free skate, leading to a standing ovation and sixth-place finish.
Boston Globe
27-03-2025
- Sport
- Boston Globe
Riku Miura, Ryuichi Kihara of Japan lead pairs after short program at World Figure Skating Championships
Defending champions Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps of Canada, skating to 'Crazy In Love' by Beyonce, were seventh with a score of 67.32. Advertisement Americans Alisa Efimova and Misha Mitrofanov of the Skating Club of Boston had the home crowd on their side. They were greeted with the loudest cheers of the evening when introduced, and again when they finished skating their short program to 'Ameksa' and 'Uccen' by Taalbi Brothers. Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up Then they were asked what it meant to have that kind of support in the aftermath of the Jan. 29 'It felt fantastic from the moment we stepped on the ice today,' Efimova said. 'This is a very special program for us. All the members of our club. I could hear their voices. . . . I was thinking about everyone [from the Skating Club of Boston]. It was very emotional. I am very thankful to be in front of the Boston crowd.' Alisa Efimova and Misha Mitrofanov, who train at the Skating Club of Boston, were in ninth place after the short program. Barry Chin/Globe Staff Efimova and Mitrofanov, who won the US championship in January, held photos of the six Skating Club of Boston victims as they awaited their scores in the kiss-and-cry area. When their scores flashed, the crowd erupted yet again because their 63.70 score put them in first after two groups. They are in ninth place heading into the free skate. Ellie Kam and Danny O'Shea, the other American pair in the field, were fifth with a score of 68.61. Advertisement Gabriella Izzo, the Boston native who was the 2019 US junior champion in women's singles, switched to pairs skating in 2023 and now represents Austria. Izzo and partner Luc Maierhofer skated first in the pairs short program, scored 48.20, and their last-place finish meant they missed the cut for Thursday's free skate. Matt Pepin can be reached at
New York Times
26-03-2025
- General
- New York Times
D.C. Plane Crash Echoes Boston Skating Club's 1961 Tragedy
One floor above the ice rinks at the Skating Club of Boston, there's a lounge that would have hosted a party after January's U.S. Figure Skating national championships. Its glass doors would have been thrown open, and its fireplace set aglow, as several hundred people gathered to toast the club's latest champions, the pairs skaters Alisa Efimova and Misha Mitrofanov, who had won their first national title. But that celebration never happened. It couldn't, and it wouldn't, after six of the club's members died in a plane crash on Jan. 29 in Washington. Twenty-eight passengers involved in skating, including 11 young athletes and four coaches, were among the 67 people killed that day. Jinna Han, 13, and Spencer Lane, 16, two of the organization's up-and-coming skaters, were traveling home with their mothers from a development camp held after the nationals in Wichita., Kan., when an Army helicopter collided with their passenger jet above the Potomac River. No one survived. Two of the club's coaches — Vadim Naumov and Evgenia Shishkova, a married couple who were the 1994 world champions in pairs — were also on the plane. Yet the lounge at the Boston club did not remain empty. In the hours and days after the crash, one by one, or arm in arm, people arrived and filled the space, drawn to the beloved club that has existed for more than a century, and to a community that many consider a second family. Paul George, a longtime club member, hugs former Olympic figure skaters Dr. Tenley Albright and Nancy Kerrigan. Credit... Sophie Park for The New York Times Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times. Thank you for your patience while we verify access. Already a subscriber? Log in. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
