Jason Brown (figure skater)

Brown was born on December 15, 1994, in Los Angeles, California. His mother, Marla (Kell), is a television producer, and his father, Steven Brown, works for a lighting company. He has an older sister, Jordan, and a younger brother, Dylan. He is Jewish and celebrated his bar mitzvah in 2007. Brown graduated from Highland Park High School and received the Ralph Potter Memorial Award for Exceptional Ability and Achievement and the President's Education Award for Outstanding Academic Excellence. In 2013, he enrolled at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs. He plays piano. Brown can speak, read and write Japanese. He came out as gay via an Instagram post on June 11, 2021. ==Career==

Early years Brown began skating at age three and a half when his mother enrolled him and his sister in Learn to Skate classes. In Sochi, while Jeremy Abbott skated the short program in the team event, Brown was assigned to the free program and placed fourth. He and team USA were awarded the bronze medal. He started the season by competing at the 2024 Shanghai Trophy where he took the bronze medal. Going on to compete on the Grand Prix circuit for the first time in three years, Brown finished eighth at 2024 Skate Canada International after struggling through both of his programs. He delivered stronger performances at the 2024 NHK Trophy, where he finished in seventh place. He was named to the 2025 World Championships team, pending Return to Play protocol, which he completed in early March. At the 2025 World Championships in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, Brown placed twelfth in the short program after his triple Axel was deemed as landed on the quarter and popping the second part of his planned triple Lutz-triple toe combination into a double. He rallied back with a strong free skate, however, placing fourth in that segment and finishing eighth overall. His placement, in addition to Ilia Malinin's first place finish, secured three berths for U.S. men's singles skating at the 2026 Winter Olympics. After the free skate, he said: “With the judging system, I’m doing my best to work the system to play to my strengths, maximize the point system. The crowd is so special and so loud. The leader’s chair was very cool and nerve racking…but also a strange sense of calm. Honestly, for me, it was cool because I never get to watch the events. I get way too nervous to watch anyone before the competition, my teammates and other disciplines. It was cool to sit in the arena and watch.” Brown began the season in October at the 2025 CS Denis Ten Memorial Challenge, where he won bronze. The following week, he took silver at 2025 CS Trialeti Trophy, for a total of 13 ISU Challenger Series medals to date. The following month, he competed at 2025 Skate America, where he finished fourth. "I’m proud of my grit, I’m proud of the tenacity of the program,” said Brown after the free skate. “I’m really looking forward to giving it another go next week." In January, Brown competed at the 2026 U.S. Championships. Despite stepping out of two jumps during the short program, Brown placed third in that segment. During the free skate, Brown performed an error-ridden free skate that included two falls and three popped jumps. As a result, Brown only placed twelfth in that competition segment and dropped to eighth place overall. He opted to withdraw from the Four Continents Championships. A few days before the World Championships were to begin, Brown withdrew from the competition. Jacob Sanchez was called up to compete. == Skating technique and style ==

While Brown has struggled with the quadruple jumps expected from male figure skaters, and it took him more than three years to learn the triple Axel as a junior skater, he is known for his expressive performance ability, musical interpretation, fluid skating and footwork, and high-quality spins. He benefited from the change to the scoring system from grading execution on a -3 to +3 system to a -5 to +5 scale beginning in the 2018–19 season, which allowed him to receive more points for well-executed triple jumps as well as for his step sequences and spins, and his program component scores are typically among the highest of the men's competition. Brown has skated to a wide range of musical genres during his career, and many of his programs were created by long-time collaborator Rohene Ward. They often make use of Brown's flexibility, which gives him a larger range of movement than many other men's skaters. His programs have been praised for their fluid transitions between elements. ==Programs==

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