Figure skating prize money
147 entrants have been paid £8,320,000 across 40 events from 2022 to 2026. Madison Chock / Evan Bates have won the most, £405,185. A Grand Prix event pays the first five in each of the four disciplines and the Final pays six, on one ladder for singles, pairs and ice dance alike. The championships pay six places, and there a pair or an ice dance couple is paid more than a singles skater at every place, in one cheque for the two of them. Only those who skate the free programme are paid, so a skater who misses the cut after the short programme leaves with nothing.
The figure skating money list
The top 100 of 147 entrants by career prize money
The top fifteen
Every competition
12 competitions, by the prize money each has paid
What each competition has paid
Season by season
What figure skating paid each year, and who earned the most
| YEAR | TOP EARNER | EVENTS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Guillaume Cizeron | 3 | £1,078,519£1.1m |
| 2025 | Riku Miura / Ryuichi Kihara | 10 | £2,080,000£2.1m |
| 2024 | Deanna Stellato-Dudek / Maxime Deschamps | 10 | £2,080,000£2.1m |
| 2023 | Madison Chock / Evan Bates | 10 | £2,080,000£2.1m |
| 2022 | Shoma Uno | 7 | £1,001,481£1.0m |
Prize money paid per year
Figure skating prize money by country
25 nations, by what their entrants have won
| # | NATION | ENTRANTS | PRIZE MONEY |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Japan | 22 | £1,975,555£2.0m |
| 2 | United States | 37 | £1,774,815£1.8m |
| 3 | Canada | 13 | £1,014,815£1.0m |
| 4 | Italy | 13 | £835,555£836k |
| 5 | France | 9 | £538,519£539k |
| 6 | Germany | 4 | £388,889£389k |
| 7 | South Korea | 10 | £316,296£316k |
| 8 | Georgia | 6 | £280,741£281k |
| 9 | Great Britain | 2 | £262,222£262k |
| 10 | Belgium | 2 | £222,222£222k |
| 11 | Hungary | 1 | £111,111£111k |
| 12 | Kazakhstan | 2 | £111,111£111k |
| 13 | Switzerland | 4 | £91,852£92k |
| 14 | Lithuania | 1 | £76,296£76k |
| 15 | Estonia | 3 | £75,556£76k |
| 16 | China | 5 | £61,481£61k |
| 17 | Finland | 1 | £43,704£44k |
| 18 | Spain | 1 | £37,778£38k |
| 19 | Australia | 2 | £28,889£29k |
| 20 | Czechia | 3 | £25,926£26k |
| 21 | Latvia | 1 | £19,259£19k |
| 22 | Poland | 2 | £10,370£10k |
| 23 | Uzbekistan | 1 | £9,630£10k |
| 24 | Netherlands | 1 | £4,444£4k |
| 25 | Azerbaijan | 1 | £2,963£3k |
The leading nations
Frequently asked questions
Who has won the most prize money in figure skating?
Madison Chock / Evan Bates, with £405,185 and 13 titles. Riku Miura / Ryuichi Kihara are second on £367,407.
What is the biggest winner's cheque in figure skating?
Minerva Fabienne Hase / Nikita Volodin took £66,667 for winning the pairs at the 2026 World Figure Skating Championships, the largest single first prize we hold.
How much prize money was paid in figure skating in 2025?
£2,080,000 across 10 events. Riku Miura / Ryuichi Kihara earned the most that year, £134,074.
Which competition pays the most?
World Figure Skating Championships has paid £2,571,852 across 4 editions. The richest single edition was the 2026 World Figure Skating Championships, at £642,963.
Which country has won the most figure skating prize money?
Japan, with £1,975,555 across 22 entrants.
Where to next
For every country's prize money across figure skating and every other sport we hold, see prize money by nation. The richest competition here is World Figure Skating Championships, and the latest year is 2026. The men's and women's fields are set side by side on men's vs women's figure skating prize money, and every sport's cases on where women earn more prize money than men. Every sport's richest competitions are ranked on prize money in sport, and what each winner keeps of the pot on the winner's share of prize money, and how many places each one pays on how deep prize money pays.