The following is about the qualification rules and allocation of spots for the figure skating events at the 2026 Winter Olympics.
If unused, these five quotas can be used to qualify nations for the team event if they only need an entry in one more discipline.
According to ISU rules, countries must select their entries from among skaters who have achieved a minimum combined total technical elements score (TES) at an ISU-recognized international competition on or before 26 January 2026.
The remainder of the spots will be filled at an ISU Qualifying Competition in Beijing, China in late September 2025.
However, if a country earned two or three spots at the World Championships, but did not have two or three skaters, respectively, qualify for the free skate, then they were allowed to send a skater who did not reach the free segment at World Championships to the competition to qualify the remaining spot(s).
For the team trophy, scores from the 2025 World Figure Skating Championships and the 2025–26 Grand Prix season, will be tabulated to establish the ten top nations.