2022–23 figure skating season

Skaters are eligible to compete in ISU events on the junior or senior levels according to their age:

Background

At the ISU Congress held in Phuket, Thailand in June 2022, members of the ISU Council accepted a proposal to gradually increase the minimum age limit for senior competition to 17 years old beginning from the 2024–25 season; to avoid forcing skaters who had already competed in the senior category to return to juniors, the age limit remained unchanged during the 2022–23 season, before increasing to 16 years old during the 2023–24 season, and then 17 years old during the 2024–25 season.[3] Delegates also considered removing the word "senior" from the title of any official ISU events. Although there had been previous proposals to increase the age limit, the 2022 vote gained traction following the doping scandal of then 15-year-old Kamila Valieva of Russia at the 2022 Winter Olympics.[4]

On 23 January 2023, Ukrainian media reported that 25-year-old former pair skater Dmytro Sharpar (Ukrainian: Дмитро Шарпар) had been killed near Bakhmut,[5][6] where the Ukrainian army was defending against invading Russian forces (see Battle of Bakhmut). Born 21 December 1997 in Kharkiv,[7] Sharpar skated for Ukraine in partnership with Anastasia Pobizhenko at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics in Norway.[8]

Several competitions were cancelled by either the ISU, the host federation, or the local government due to the Armenia–Azerbaijan clashes, COVID-19 pandemic, Russian invasion of Ukraine, Turkey–Syria earthquakes and other reasons.