Figure skater Maxim Naumov makes US Olympic team one year after losing both parents in tragic DC plane crash

Just 1 twelvemonth aft losing his parents successful a tragic level crash, fig skater Maxim Naumov is heading to the Winter Olympics to correspond the United States.

Naumov, 24, was officially named to the U.S. Olympic team, which volition vie successful the Milano Cortina games starting Feb. 6. He was among 3 men named to the fig skating squad, including Ilia Malinin and Andrew Torgashev.

Naumov unluckily mislaid his parents, 1994 World Figure Skating pairs champions Evgenia "Zhenya" Shishkova and Vadim Naumov, aft an American Airlines level collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk chopper successful Washington, D.C. connected Jan. 29, 2025.

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Maxim Naumov holds a photograph of his parents successful the buss & outcry cry aft competing successful the Championship Men Free Skating during the 2026 United States Figure Skating Championships astatine Enterprise Center connected Jan. 10, 2026 successful St Louis, Missouri. (Jamie Squire/Getty Images)

There were 67 lives mislaid successful the tragic crash, with 28 of those being among the figuring skating community. Naumov’s parents were among galore traveling backmost from Wichita, Kansas — the tract of the U.S. Figure Skating National Development Camp. 

Naumov was successful Wichita for the camp, but helium wasn’t connected the flight.

Three days earlier being named to the U.S. Olympic team, Naumov was affectional aft skating successful their grant astatine the U.S. Championships, wherever helium held up a representation of himself arsenic a three-year-old lad with his parents connected either broadside of him.

"Sharing the vulnerability with the assemblage and maine feeling their vigor backmost has been thing I retrieve for the remainder of my life," Naumov said to reporters aft his skate.

Maxim Naumov competes successful the Championship Men Free Skating during the 2026 United States Figure Skating Championships astatine Enterprise Center connected Jan. 10, 2026 successful St Louis, Missouri.  (Matthew Stockman/Getty Images)

His parents were his coaches arsenic helium grew into a imaginable Olympian. But pursuing their death, Naumov didn’t cognize if helium would adjacent effort making the team.

But helium stayed existent to the extremity they ever had together, and it’s travel to fruition.

"It’s what my parents and I — 1 of our past conversations was astir precisely that, and you know, it would mean the satellite to maine to bash that. That’s what we’re warring for," Naumov said past Thursday.

Maxim Naumov of the United States performs during the Exhibition Gala astatine the ISU World Figure Skating Championships 2025 connected March 30, 2025, astatine TD Garden successful Boston, MA. (Erica Denhoff/Icon Sportswire)

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The extremity has been checked. Now, Naumov volition anticipation to medal successful Italy adjacent month.

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The Associated Press contributed to this report.