Jimmy Ma

Early career

Ma began learning to skate in 2004. He grew up in Great Neck where he skated at Parkwood Sports Complex and Chelsea Piers. He made his ISU Junior Grand Prix debut in August 2013, placing 13th in Riga, Latvia. Elaine Zayak, Steven Rice and Hongyun Liu coached him in Hackensack, New Jersey.

2017-2018 season

Ma placed eleventh at the 2018 U.S. Championships.

2018-2019 season: Senior international debut

As of the 2018-2019 season, Ma is coached by Darlene Cain and Peter Cain in Euless, Texas and by Nikolai Morozov in Hackensack, New Jersey. He began his season with silver at the Philadelphia Summer International and then took bronze at the 2018 CS U.S. International Figure Skating Classic. He made his Grand Prix debut at the 2018 Skate America.

2019-2020 season

Ma won the gold medal at the 2020 Eastern Sectionals, earning him a spot at the 2020 U.S. Championships, where he placed thirteenth. He competed internationally at two Challenger events, placing sixth at the U.S. Classic and fourth at Finlandia Trophy.

2020-2021 season

Due to the coronavirus pandemic limiting travel, Ma was assigned to compete on the Grand Prix at the 2020 Skate America. He placed tenth at the event.

Ma placed sixth at the 2021 U.S. Championships, the best result of his senior career.

2021-2022 season: Four Continents debut

Ma started his season with a silver medal at the Cranberry Cup. A couple of weeks later, he won another silver medal at the U.S. Classic. He was named to the team for the 2021 Asian Open Trophy, but the entire American team was later withdrawn. He was later named to the team for the 2021 Skate America as a replacement for Yaroslav Paniot. He placed fifth overall at the event, including an unexpected third place in the short program. Ma was subsequently assigned to two additional Challenger events, coming sixteenth at the 2021 CS Warsaw Cup before winning a bronze medal at the 2021 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb.

Hoping to qualify for the American Olympic team, Ma competed at the 2022 U.S. Championships but finished in sixth place. He was instead sent to the 2022 Four Continents Championships in Tallinn, where he finished tenth.

2022-2023 season

At the 2022 CS U.S. Classic, Ma initially placed eighth in the short program. He rebounded in the free skate, finishing third in that segment and rising to fifth place overall. On the Grand Prix at the 2022 Skate Canada International, Ma finished ninth. He came seventh at the 2022 MK John Wilson Trophy.

Ma finished fifth at the 2023 U.S. Championships. This in turn earned him an assignment to the 2023 Four Continents Championships. Despite a slight underrotation on his triple Axel in the short program at Four Continents, Ma placed third in the segment, winning a bronze small medal. He said that he was "really glad that I was able to retire this program on a good note." The free skate proved more difficult, and he dropped to ninth.

2023-2024 season

Ma won the bronze medal at the Skating Club of Boston's Cranberry Cup event, before coming ninth at the 2023 CS Autumn Classic International and fifth at the Shanghai Trophy. Ma subsequently competed on the 2023-24 Grand Prix circuit, finishing ninth at the 2023 Cup of China and eleventh at the 2023 Grand Prix of Espoo. He then closed off the season with a sixth-place finish at the 2024 U.S. Championships. “I’ve been trying to hold down a lot of emotion,” he said after the free skate. “I’ve been trying to really keep a level head and a level heart throughout this whole season.

2024-2025 season: Four Continents bronze

Ma began the season by competing on the 2024-25 ISU Challenger Series, winning bronze at the 2024 CS Cranberry Cup International, finishing sixth at the 2024 CS Lombardia Trophy, and sixth at the 2024 CS Tallinn Trophy.

In January, at the 2025 U.S. Championships, Ma placed third in the short program and seventh in the free skate, finishing in fifth place overall. Following the withdrawal of Andrew Torgashev, Ma was assigned to compete at the 2025 Four Continents Championships in Seoul, South Korea the following month. Ma placed second in the short program and third in the free skate, winning the bronze medal overall. With the event taking place a few weeks following the 2025 Potomac River mid-air collision, which killed four members of the Skating Club of Boston, Ma dedicated his medal to the victims, including Evgenia Shishkova, Vadim Naumov, Jinna Han, Spencer Lane, as well as Han and Lane's mothers, Jin Han and Christine Lane.

On March 2, 2025, Ma took part in Legacy on Ice, an ice show organized by U.S. Figure Skating that paid tribute to lives lost aboard American Eagle Flight 5342. He performed to "One Day I'll Fly Away," which was set to be Jinna Han's competitive routine for the upcoming season.

2025-2026 season

Ma started the season by competing on the 2025-26 Challenger Series, finishing seventh at the 2025 CS Cranberry Cup International and tenth at the 2025 CS Kinoshita Group Cup. Going on to compete on the 2025-26 Grand Prix series, Ma placed tenth at the 2025 NHK Trophy and eleventh at the 2025 Finlandia Trophy.

In January, Ma competed at the 2026 U.S. Championships, where he finished in eleventh place.

• GP, Event of the ISU Grand Prix Series
• JGP, Event of the ISU Junior Grand Prix Series
• CS, Event of the ISU Challenger Series
• TBD, Assigned
• WD, Withdrew from competition

Senior level

Junior level