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Alysa Liu won the gold medal in both the short and free programs at the 2025 World Figure Skating Championships in Boston on March 28.
Alysa Liu never thought she would take home the world titles. After all, the 19-year-old figure skater only resumed training a year ago and competed internationally six months ago after retiring from the sport three years prior.
However, Liu became the first American woman to win a figure skating world title in 19 years on Friday, nearly three years after she had retired from the sport.
Who is figure skater Alysa Liu, bio, age, height, parents, father, mother, siblings, nationality, college, high school and Instagram
Alysa Liu who is biracial was born in Clovis, California, on August 8, 2005 and is 5ft 2in tall tall. Before enrolling in the Oakland School for the Arts, a visual and performing arts charter school in Oakland, California, which at the time placed a particular emphasis on figure skating, Alysa had spent three years attending a Chinese school close to her home.
Level/Discipline Senior/Ladies
Training Town Oakland, Calif. and San Francisco, Calif.
Pronouns She/Her
Club St. Moritz ISC
Birth Date Aug. 8, 2005
Coach(es) Phillip Diguglielmo, Massimo Scali
Birthplace Clovis, Calif.
Choreographer(s) Massimo Scali
Hometown Richmond, Calif.
Arthur Liu, a lawyer who came to the United States from a small mountain town in Sichuan, China, in the 1990s at the age of 25, is the father of Alysa Liu. Liu’s legal guardian and the person she refers to as her mother is Yan “Mary” Qingxin, who was married to her father, Arthur Liu, and acts as their legal guardian even after their divorce.
Arthur Liu, fifty-five is a Sichuan native working as an immigration attorney in Oakland, California. Alysa Liu only has a father and does not have a mother in a legal sense as she was born to an anonymous egg donor and surrogate mother. Arthur is a single father of five children, all of whom were born to different surrogates.
Her father, Junguo (Arthur) Liu, was forced to flee his country after participating in pro-democracy demonstrations in his 20s and after learning he was one of the government’s “most-wanted students,” friends helped to smuggle him by boat out of the country. At the age of 25, he found his way to Oakland, California.
She has a younger sister named Selina, and triplet siblings named Julia, Joshua and Justin. She currently attends UCLA, enjoys going to the beach, playing cards, listening to music, fashion, being physically active and being around loved ones. She has also trekked to the Mount Everest Base Camp with her best friend.
Liu, the eldest of five children, was conceived using a surrogate mother and an anonymous egg donor, just like her siblings. Even after her divorce from Arthur, Liu’s father was still married to Yan “Mary” Qingxin at the time of Liu’s birth. Liu and her siblings call her their mother, and she serves as their legal guardian.
Alysa began skating at age 5 and loved the adrenaline rush. She became the youngest skater in history (and third U.S. woman) to land a triple Axel in international competition at age 12 at the 2018 Asian Open and became the youngest woman to win a U.S. Championship title at age 13.
Alysa Liu career
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Olympian (2022)
World bronze medalist (2022)
World Junior bronze medalist (2020)
Junior Grand Prix Final silver medalist (2019)
U.S. champion (2020, ’19)
U.S. silver medalist (2025)
U.S. pewter medalist (2021)
U.S. junior champion (2018)
U.S. novice pewter medalist (2017)
U.S. intermediate champion (2016)
At the 2017 Asian Open Trophy, Alysa Liu finished second to Mana Kawabe of Japan, earning her a silver medal to start the season. At the 2018 U.S. Championships in San Jose, California, she was the youngest skater to compete in the junior level. Despite having a sore throat and a cold, she won the tournament. She led by nearly seven points into the free skate, setting a season-high score in the short program.
Liu participated in the 2018 Asian Open Trophy in Bangkok, Thailand, in August of that year as a beginner. By more than ten points, she defeated Japan’s Sara Honda, the silver medallist, to win the gold. She became the fourth American female skater to accomplish a clean triple Axel in competition, after Tonya Harding, Kimmie Meissner, and Mirai Nagasu, and the youngest skater in history to do so when she landed a validated triple Axel in the free skate.
ALYSA LIU WORLD CHAMPION ERA 🥇#WorldFigure | #MTUSA pic.twitter.com/lm64nPtAKZ
— Team USA (@TeamUSA) March 29, 2025
Jeremy Abbott, a former four-time US men’s champion, was added to Liu’s coaching staff on December 11, 2020.
Liu was favoured to win the championship again going into the 2020 U.S. Championships. She performed level-4 spins and footwork, completed a triple flip and a triple Lutz-triple toe combo, and finished second in the short program despite failing at her triple Axel attempt.
Despite failing on her triple Axel attempt, Liu scored 71.42 points to earn third in the short program at the 2022 U.S. Championships in Nashville. Liu participated in her first competition since March 2022 at the 2024 CS Budapest Trophy in October 2024.
Liu participated in Legacy on Ice, an ice show hosted by U.S. Figure Skating on March 2, 2025, which honoured the people who died on American Eagle Flight 5342.
Liu became the first American woman to win the world title since Kimmie Meissner in 2006, defeating Japan’s three-time defending champion Kaori Sakamoto. After quitting the sport in 2022, Liu’s success signalled a dramatic return.
The Star-Spangled Banner plays for American WORLD CHAMPION Alysa Liu in Boston. 🇺🇸🥇 pic.twitter.com/HHheYK1x1M
— NBC Olympics & Paralympics (@NBCOlympics) March 29, 2025