Alysa Liu

Alysa Liu
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Born (2005-08-08) August 8, 2005 (age 19)
EducationUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Height158 cm (5 ft 2 in)
Figure skating career
Country United States
DisciplineWomen's singles
CoachPhillip DiGuglielmo, Massimo Scali
Skating clubSt. Moritz ISC
Began skating2010
Highest WS2nd (2021-2022)
Medal record
Event Gold medal – first place Silver medal – second place Bronze medal – third place
World Championships 0 0 1
World Junior Championships 0 0 1
Junior Grand Prix Final 0 1 0
Medal list
World Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Montpellier Singles
World Junior Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2020 Tallinn Singles
Junior Grand Prix Final
Silver medal – second place 2019-20 Turin Singles
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese劉美賢
Simplified Chinese刘美贤
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinLiú Měixián

Alysa Liu (born August 8, 2005) is an American competitive figure skater. She is the 2022 World bronze medalist, the 2021 CS Nebelhorn Trophy champion, the 2021 CS Lombardia Trophy champion, and a two-time U.S. national champion (2019, 2020). At age 16, she competed in the 2022 Winter Olympics, placing sixth. At the junior level, Liu is the 2020 World Junior bronze medalist, the 2019–20 Junior Grand Prix Final silver medalist, a two-time Junior Grand Prix champion, and the 2018 U.S. junior national champion.

Liu became the youngest-ever U.S. women's national champion when she won her first title at age 13. A year later, at 14 years old, she became the youngest skater to win two senior national titles. Liu is the first woman to win two consecutive U.S. titles since Ashley Wagner in 2012 and 2013. She is also the first woman to win the junior and senior titles back-to-back since Mirai Nagasu in 2008.

An accomplished jumper, Liu was the first American junior women's singles skater to successfully complete a triple Axel in international competition, the first American woman to land a quadruple jump, the first woman to complete both a quadruple jump and triple Axel in the same program, and the first woman to land a triple Axel triple in combination with a triple toe loop in the short program. In 2019, Liu was named to the inaugural Time 100 Next list.