Alysa Liu
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Alysa Liu (born August 8, 2005) is an American figure skater. She is the 2025 World champion, 2022 World bronze medalist, 2025–26 Grand Prix Final champion, a three-time Grand Prix medalist, a four-time Challenger Series 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. At age 14, 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. When Liu won the 2025 World Championships in Boston, she became the first U.S. woman to win the world title in 19 years since Kimmie Meissner in 2006. An accomplished jumper, Liu was the first woman from any country to complete both a quadruple jump and triple Axel in the same program, and the first to land a triple axel-triple toe loop combination in the short program. She was also the first American woman to land a quadruple jump and the first American junior woman to successfully complete a triple Axel in international competition. In 2019, Liu was named to the inaugural Time 100 Next list.