Adam Richard Rippon (born November 11, 1989) is a retired American competitive figure skater and media personality.

Later that year, Rippon won season 26 of Dancing with the Stars with professional dancer Jenna Johnson.

Following the event, he left Sergeeva and began working with Nikolai Morozov in February 2007 at the Ice House in Hackensack, New Jersey.

At that event, Rippon won the gold medal, and became the first man to break 200 points at a Junior level competition.

He won the competition, scoring 222.00 points and becoming the first single skater to win two World Junior titles.

He was included in the U.S. team to Worlds after other skaters withdrew; he placed 7th in the short program, 5th in the free skate, and 6th overall.

[citation needed] Rippon began his season at the Japan Open, where he finished ahead of Daisuke Takahashi and Evgeni Plushenko.

[citation needed] On June 16, 2011, Rippon announced he was leaving Canada and returning to train in the US at the Detroit Skating Club in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, home of his DSC-based choreographer Pasquale Camerlengo and began training under the charge of Jason Dungjen.

[17][20][21] In the 2011–12 season, Rippon was assigned to 2011 Skate Canada and 2011 Trophée Eric Bompard as his Grand Prix events.

[citation needed] In September 2012, Rippon announced a coaching change, moving to train with Rafael Arutyunyan in Lake Arrowhead, California.

He set personal bests in both segments, capturing the silver medal and finishing as the top American over Max Aaron and Jason Brown.

[28] In November he competed for the NHK Trophy and posted a new ISU personal best in the short program 82.25.

[citation needed] In October 2014, Rippon competed at the 2014 CS Finlandia Trophy finishing first in the free program and second overall.

Rippon adjusted his blade brand and mount, took on a new trainer to work with his team and met with renewed consistency at U.S. Championships, landing effortless triple Axels and once again including a quadruple Lutz in his short and long programs.

On January 7, 2018, he was one of three men selected to represent Team USA at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

[36] At the 2018 Winter Olympics, Rippon won a bronze medal in the figure skating team event as part of the U.S. team, which made him the United States' first openly gay male athlete to win a medal at the Winter Olympics.

[48][49][50] In March 2018, Rippon appeared at the 90th Academy Awards red carpet wearing a harness designed by Moschino.

[51][52][53] At the Time 100 Gala in April 2019, Rippon honored his mother, a single parent, for her inspiration and dedication to his success.

[61][62] In his memoir Beautiful on the Outside, Rippon revealed that, before coming out as gay, he briefly dated South Korean Olympic champion Yuna Kim while both were training in Toronto.

[64] Rippon officiated the wedding of Tyler Barnhardt and Adriana Schaps in Draper, Utah, on June 20, 2023.

[67] In February 2018, Rippon raised concerns about then-Vice President Mike Pence being chosen to lead the US delegation to the 2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony because of Pence's support of legislation and policies deemed hostile to gay people.

[68][69] Rippon endorsed and campaigned for Elizabeth Warren in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries.

[70] In 2020, Rippon made a donation to The Okra Project, a charity aimed at helping underprivileged black transgender people.

[71][72] Russian skater Alexei Yagudin reacted to the donation with an Instagram post calling Rippon and people like him "mistakes of nature" and wishing them to die.