Mia Caroline Risa Gomez (born 21 December 2005) is a Norwegian figure skater. She is the 2026 Nebelhorn Trophy champion, the 2025 CS Warsaw Cup bronze medalist and a four-time Norwegian national champion (2023–2026). She is the first Norwegian to both medal in the ISU Challenger Series and to win a Challenger event. She has represented Norway at four World Championships and four European Figure Skating Championships.
On the junior level, she is a three-time Norwegian national silver medalist (2020-2022).
Personal life Mia Caroline Risa Gomez was born in Mexico City, to a Mexican mother and a Norwegian father. The family moved to Norway when she was two years old. She started skating for Stavanger Figure Skating Club and transferred to Asker Figure Skating Club during the summer of 2024.
Career Early years Risa Gomez began learning to skate in 2012. She competed in the advanced novice category in the 2018–19 season and won the gold medal at the 2019 Norwegian Novice Championships.
2019–20 season: Junior international debut She made her junior international debut on the Junior Grand Prix series, finishing twenty-seventh at 2019 JGP Latvia before also going on to compete at the 2019 Golden Bear of Zagreb and the 2019 Tallinn Trophy, finishing fourteenth and nineteenth, respectively.
At the 2020 Norwegian Junior Championships, Risa Gomez won the silver medal.
Competing at the 2019 Reykjavik International Games, Risa Gomez placed eleventh. She then went on to place fifth at the 2020 Nordic Championships and tenth at the 2020 International Challenge Cup.
2020–21 season She had no international appearances in the 2020–21 season, which was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. However, Risa Gomez did win her second consecutive silver medal at the 2021 Norwegian Junior Championships.
2021–22 season Risa Gomez returned to the Junior Grand Prix series, finishing seventeenth at 2021 JGP Slovakia.
Competing at the 2022 Nordic Championships, Risa Gomez finished sixth, before going to finish thirteenth at the 2022 International Challenge Cup. She also went on to compete at the 2022 European Youth Olympic Festival, where she finished fourteenth. At the 2022 Norwegian Junior Championships, Risa Gomez won the silver medal for a third time.
Selected to compete at the 2022 World Junior Championships in Tallinn, Estonia, Risa Gomez placed thirty-seventh in the short program and did not advance to the free skate segment of the competition.
2022–23 season: Senior international debut Risa Gomez began her season on the Junior Grand Prix series, finishing nineteenth at 2022 JGP Poland I. Switching to the senior ranks, Risa Gomez won silver at the Denkova-Staviski Cup in Bulgaria, gold at the Open d'Andorra, and gold at the Santa Claus Cup in Hungary. By December, she attained the minimum technical score required to compete at senior Worlds and was officially nominated to represent Norway at the European Championships.
In January, Risa Gomez won the Norwegian senior national title and then competed at the 2023 European Championships in Helsinki. She qualified to the free skate and finished 22nd overall.
Risa Gomez went on to compete at the 2023 World Championships in Saitama, Japan, where she placed thirty-fifth in the short program and did not advance to the free skate segment of the competition.
2023–24 season
Risa Gomez started the season with two Challenger circuit appearances, with a thirteenth-place finish at the 2023 CS Lombardia Trophy and a sixteenth-place at the 2023 CS Finlandia Trophy. Between the two events, Risa Gomez also competed on the 2023–24 ISU Junior Grand Prix, finishing fourteenth at 2023 JGP Hungary. She then subsequently finished sixth at the 2023 Denkova-Staviski Cup.
Selected to compete at the 2024 European Championships in Kaunas, Lithuania, Risa Gomez placed twenty-sixth in the short program and failed to advance to the free skate segment of the competition. She would then go on to win her second consecutive national title at the 2024 Norwegian Championships before taking silver at the 2024 Nordic Open.
Risa would then finish the season by competing at both the 2024 World Junior Championships and the 2024 World Championships, finishing forty-third and twenty-third, respectively.
2024–25 season
Risa Gomez began the season by finishing twentieth at the 2024 CS Nebelhorn Trophy and tenth at the 2024 Tayside Trophy. She subsequently won the bronze medal at the 2024 Northern Lights Trophy before going on to finish eighteenth at the 2024 CS Tallinn Trophy.
At the 2025 Norwegian Championships, Risa Gomez won her third consecutive national title.
In January, following a bronze medal win at the 2025 Volvo Open Cup, Risa Gomez competed at the 2025 European Championships in Tallinn, Estonia. She fell on a triple flip jump in her short program and finished in sixteenth place in that part of the competition, but she rose to twelfth overall after the free skate. Hers was the best result at the European Championships for a Norwegian woman in almost 90 years after the retirement of Sonja Henie. She followed up this result with fifth-place finishes at the 2025 Nordic Open Championships and at the 2025 Sonja Henie Trophy.
Going on to compete at the 2025 World Championships in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, Risa Gomez placed twenty-ninth in the short program and did not advance to the free skate segment.
2025–26 season: Challenger Series bronze Risa Gomez opened her season by finishing seventh at the ISU Skate to Milano and winning bronze at the 2025 Budapest Trophy. In November, Risa Gomez won the Cup of Innsbruck. During her free skate, she landed seven triple jumps, which was a first for a Norwegian skater. The week after, she competed at the 2025 CS Warsaw Cup and won the bronze medal. This achievement marked the first time a Norwegian figure skater earned a medal in the ISU Challenger Series. The following month, Risa Gomez won her fourth consecutive national title at the 2026 Norwegian Championships.
In January, Risa Gomez competed at the European Championships in Sheffield, England, finishing in fourteenth place overall. The following week, she won the silver medal behind Iida Karhunen at the 2026 Nordic Championships. Two months later, she won the silver medal at the 2026 Sonja Henie Trophy.
At the 2026 World Championships, she finished 32nd in the short program segment, unable to qualify for the free skate.
2026–27 season: Challenger Series gold Risa Gomez began the new season by competing at the 2026 Nebelhorn Trophy. She placed first in both program segments, winning the gold medal. Her gold medal marked the first ever Challenger Series gold for Norwegian skaters.
Programs
Season Short program Free skating2026–2027 Chasing Cars Moulin Rouge (soundtrack) 2025–2026 Earth Melodies Forgotten Odes 2024–2025 Metamorphosis Two 2023–2024 Samurai Swords Happiness Does Not Wait 2022–2023 Wonder Woman Wonder Woman 1984 2021–2022 It 2019–2020 Unlocking the Mind Mary Poppins Returns
Competitive highlights
Detailed results
Senior results
Junior results 2023–24 season Date Event SP FS Total February 26– March 3, 2024 2024 World Junior Championships 43 37.97 DNQ 43 37.97 September 20–23, 2023 2023 JGP Hungary 20 45.17 9 101.28 14 146.45 2022–23 season Date Event SP FS Total September 28–October 1, 2022 2022 JGP Poland I 17 50.72 19 87.71 17 138.43 2021–22 season Date Event SP FS Total April 13–17, 2022 2022 World Junior Championships 37 40.33 – 37 40.33 April 1–3, 2022 2022 Norwegian Junior Championships 2 46.44 2 82.18 2 128.62 March 20–25, 2022 2022 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival 9 48.60 18 76.11 14 124.71 February 24–27, 2022 2022 International Challenge Cup 12 40.94 14 66.44 13 107.38 January 27–30, 2022 2022 Nordic Championships 7 41.62 6 79.93 6 121.55 September 1–4, 2021 2021 JGP Slovakia 18 39.48 16 76.72 17 116.20 2020–21 season Date Event SP FS Total March 20–24, 2021 2021 Norwegian Junior Championships 2 46.07 – 2 46.07 2019–20 season Date Event SP FS Total February 20–23, 2020 2020 International Challenge Cup 10 42.00 9 82.74 10 124.74 February 5–9, 2020 2020 Nordic Championships 11 39.26 6 77.92 5 117.18 January 24–26, 2020 2020 Reykjavik International Games 15 31.79 9 67.86 11 99.65 January 10–12, 2020 2020 Norwegian Junior Championships 2 39.02 3 68.48 2 107.50 November 11–17, 2019 2019 Tallinn Trophy 20 31.92 19 60.78 20 92.70 October 24–27, 2019 2019 Golden Bear of Zagreb 21 38.56 11 73.98 14 112.54 September 4–7, 2020 2019 JGP Latvia 30 32.13 28 64.24 27 96.37
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