Who is eligible to skate for the US at 2025 Worlds / 2026 Olympics

[olympic]

HI all.

I couldn't find a thread about this topic, but which skaters are eligible / ineligible to skate for the US at Worlds in March or at the Olympics in 2026?

I was thinking about Efimova / Mitrofanov, Parkman and Nagy in Pairs. Carreira and Kolesnik in Ice Dance. Are there any other hi-profile skaters I am missing?

These seem to be the top competitors. There are quite a few and I was trying to track as to which ones are going to obtain citizenship in time, especially for Milan in 2026.

Thanks for any info!

 

[Aceon6]

As long as the skater has been released by their former federation, they can compete at Worlds.
As for the non citizens, Christina is farthest along in the process.

 

[zigzig]

Nagy is a US citizen.

Also, not knowing much about him...why does Daniil have that last name? Does he have non-Russian ancestry? Is it an Anglicization of a Russian name?

 

[Rukia]

Christina was asked about her citizenship in the press conference after the free dance, and she seemed very positive about it. Said it was going very well and she should have it this fall.

Of course we all know things are kind of precarious in the US right now, so naturally I have concerns. If she needs me to start a letter writing campaign to congress now I will lol.

 

[olympic]

^Thanks all.
@Rukia - I did hear that about Carreira during the FD broadcast yesterday
@zigzig - Thanks for that. I didn't know.
@Aceon6 - Do you know who are not US citizens?

ETA - OK. It seems Mitrofanov was born in Madison, WI, and Efimova was born in Finland per the USFS bio page, so that answers the question about Misha.

 

[Vagabond]

Also, not knowing much about him...why does Daniil have that last name? Does he have non-Russian ancestry? Is it an Anglicization of a Russian name?

The ending "-man" suggests to me that Parkman is a russified version of a German or Jewish surname, possibly Päckmann or Pakman, meaning a packer, i.e., a rider, driver, or attendant of pack animals. That isn't necessarily to say that his male-line ancestor was German or Jewish. If it is an occupational surname, it could have been a loan word or bestowed by some German-speaking official.

 

[Karen-W]

I was surprised none of the reporters (Hersh) asked Parkman about his status. He did live in the US for about a decade when he was a child, so it's entirely possible that his father is an American citizen who met & married his mom in St Petersburg and, after coming to the US in the early 2000s returned to Russia for any number of reasons - divorce, elderly parent needing care & not wanting to leave Russia, etc.

I'd really like for one of the intrepid skating reporters who frequents FSU to do an in-depth article about Daniil's journey & get to the bottom of the citizenship question.