--- description: Hughes is the most recent American to win the Olympic Gold Medal in Women’s Figure Skating. She is a graduate of Yale University, the University of Pennsylvania Law School, Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, and Stanford’s Graduate School of Education. title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Sarah Hughes ## Sarah Hughes Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Hughes is the most recent American to win the Olympic Gold Medal in Women’s Figure Skating. She is a graduate of Yale University, the University of Pennsylvania Law School, Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, and Stanford’s Graduate School of Education. ## Sarah Hughes Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close *  Feb 4, 2025 ### [Plane Crash Devastates Skating Community](https://time.com/7212555/plane-crash-devastates-figure-skating-community/) Olympic gold medalist Sarah Hughes explains how the plane crash near Washington DC has impacted the ... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/sarah-hughes/","name":"Sarah Hughes"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/sarah-hughes/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/sarah-hughes/"},"name":"Sarah Hughes","jobTitle":null,"description":"Hughes is the most recent American to win the Olympic Gold Medal in Women’s Figure Skating. She is a graduate of Yale University, the University of Pennsylvania Law School, Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, and Stanford’s Graduate School of Education.","url":"https://time.com/author/sarah-hughes/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```