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Alysa Liu (born August 8, 2005) is a retired American competitive figure skater. She is the 2022 World bronze medalist, the 2021 CS Nebelhorn Trophy champion, the 2021 CS Lombardia Trophy champion, and a two-time U.S. national champion (2019, 2020). She competed in the 2022 Winter Olympics placing seventh.
On the junior level, she is the 2020 World Junior bronze medalist, the 2019–20 Junior Grand Prix Final silver medalist, a two-time Junior Grand Prix champion, and the 2018 U.S. junior national champion.
Liu is the youngest-ever U.S. women's national champion, having won her first title at age 13, and is also the youngest to win two senior national titles (age 14). She is the first to win two consecutive titles since Ashley Wagner did so in 2012 and 2013. She is also the first woman to win the junior and senior titles back-to-back since Mirai Nagasu in 2008.
An accomplished jumper, she was the first junior American women's singles skater to successfully complete a triple Axel in international competition, the first American woman to land a quadruple jump, and the first woman to compete both a quad and triple Axel in the same program.