Figure skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics

Figure Skating
at the XXIII Olympic Winter Games
Figure skating pictogram at the 2018 Winter Olympics
VenueGangneung Ice Arena
Dates9–23 February
No. of events5 (1 men, 1 women, 3 mixed)
Competitors153 (76 men, 77 women) from 32 nations
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Figure skating at the
2018 Winter Olympics
Qualification
Singlesmenladies
Pairsmixed
Ice dancemixed
Team eventmixed

Figure skating at the 2018 Olympic Winter Games was held at the Gangneung Ice Arena in Gangneung, South Korea. The five events took place between 9 and 23 February 2018.[1]

Qualification

Main article: Figure skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Qualification

A total of 148 quota spots were available to athletes to compete at the games. Each NOC could enter a maximum of 18 athletes, with a maximum of nine men and nine women. An additional six quota spots were made available for the team event. A further ten team trophy quotas (two in each discipline) were distributed to countries who qualified for the team event but not the discipline itself. This meant up to a maximum of 158 athletes could participate.[2]

Competition schedule

The following was the competition schedule for all five events.[3] Sessions that included the event finals are shown in bold.

All times are (UTC+9).

Date Time Event
9 February 10:00 Team event (men's short)
Team event (pair short)
11 February 10:00 Team event (ice dance short)
Team event (ladies' short)
Team event (pair free)
12 February 10:00 Team event (men's free)
Team event (ladies' free)
Team event (ice dance free)
14 February 10:00 Pair skating (short)
15 February 10:30 Pair skating (free)
16 February 10:00 Men's singles (short)
17 February 10:00 Men's singles (free)
19 February 10:00 Ice dance (short)
20 February 10:00 Ice dance (free)
21 February 10:00 Ladies' singles (short)
23 February 10:00 Ladies' singles (free)
25 February 9:30 Gala exhibition

Medal summary

Medal table

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Canada2024
2 Olympic Athletes from Russia1203
3 Japan1102
4 Germany1001
5 China0101
 France0101
7 United States0022
8 Spain0011
Totals (8 entries)55515

Events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's singles[4]
details 		Yuzuru Hanyu
 Japan		 317.85 Shoma Uno
 Japan		 306.90 Javier Fernández
 Spain		 305.24
Ladies' singles[5]
details 		Alina Zagitova
 Olympic Athletes from Russia		 239.57 Evgenia Medvedeva
 Olympic Athletes from Russia		 238.26 Kaetlyn Osmond
 Canada		 231.02
Pair skating[6]
details 		Aljona Savchenko
Bruno Massot
 Germany		 235.90 Sui Wenjing
Han Cong
 China		 235.47 Meagan Duhamel
Eric Radford
 Canada		 230.15
Ice dance[7]
details 		Tessa Virtue
Scott Moir
 Canada		 206.07 WR Gabriella Papadakis
Guillaume Cizeron
 France		 205.28 Maia Shibutani
Alex Shibutani
 United States		 192.59
Team[8]
details 		 Canada (CAN)
Patrick Chan
Kaetlyn Osmond*
Gabrielle Daleman**
Meagan Duhamel
Eric Radford
Tessa Virtue
Scott Moir

 73  Olympic Athletes from Russia (OAR)
Mikhail Kolyada
Evgenia Medvedeva*
Alina Zagitova**
Evgenia Tarasova
Vladimir Morozov*
Natalia Zabiiako
Alexander Enbert**
Ekaterina Bobrova
Dmitri Soloviev		 66  United States (USA)
Nathan Chen*
Adam Rippon**
Bradie Tennell*
Mirai Nagasu**
Alexa Scimeca Knierim
Chris Knierim
Maia Shibutani
Alex Shibutani		 62

* Skaters who only competed in the short program/dance.
** Skaters who only competed in the free program/dance.

Entries

Countries began announcing their entries in 2017. The International Skating Union published the complete list on 30 January 2018.

Country Men[9] Ladies[10] Pairs[11] Ice dance[12]
 Australia[13] Brendan Kerry Kailani Craine Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya / Harley Windsor
 Austria[14] Miriam Ziegler / Severin Kiefer
 Belgium[15] Jorik Hendrickx Loena Hendrickx
 Brazil[16] Isadora Williams
 Canada[17] Patrick Chan
Keegan Messing 		Larkyn Austman
Gabrielle Daleman
Kaetlyn Osmond 		Megan Duhamel / Eric Radford
Kirsten Moore-Towers / Michael Marinaro
Julianne Séguin / Charlie Bilodeau 		Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier
Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir
Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje
 China Jin Boyang[18]
Yan Han[19] 		Li Xiangning[20] Peng Cheng / Jin Yang
Sui Wenjing / Han Cong[18]
Yu Xiaoyu / Zhang Hao 		Wang Shiyue / Liu Xinyu[21]
 Czech Republic[22] Michal Březina Anna Dušková / Martin Bidař Cortney Mansour / Michal Češka
 Finland[23] Emmi Peltonen
 France[24][25] Chafik Besseghier Maé-Bérénice Méité Vanessa James / Morgan Ciprès Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron
Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac
 Georgia[26] Moris Kvitelashvili
 Germany[27] Paul Fentz Nicole Schott Annika Hocke / Ruben Blommaert
Aljona Savchenko / Bruno Massot 		Kavita Lorenz / Joti Polizoakis
 Great Britain[28] Penny Coomes / Nicholas Buckland
 Hungary[29] Ivett Tóth
 Israel[30] Oleksii Bychenko
Daniel Samohin 		Aimee Buchanan (team event only)[31] Paige Conners / Evgeni Krasnopolski Adel Tankova / Ronald Zilberberg
 Italy[32] Matteo Rizzo Carolina Kostner
Giada Russo 		Nicole Della Monica / Matteo Guarise
Valentina Marchei / Ondrej Hotarek 		Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte
Charlene Guignard / Marco Fabbri
 Japan[33] Yuzuru Hanyu
Keiji Tanaka
Shoma Uno 		Satoko Miyahara
Kaori Sakamoto 		Miu Suzaki / Ryuichi Kihara Kana Muramoto / Chris Reed
 Kazakhstan[34] Denis Ten Aiza Mambekova
Elizabet Tursynbayeva
 Latvia[35] Deniss Vasiļjevs Diāna Ņikitina
 Malaysia[36] Julian Yee
 North Korea[37] Ryom Tae-ok / Kim Ju-sik
 Olympic Athletes from Russia[38][39] Mikhail Kolyada
Dmitri Aliev 		Alina Zagitova
Evgenia Medvedeva
Maria Sotskova 		Kristina Astakhova / Alexei Rogonov
Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov
Natalia Zabiiako / Alexander Enbert 		Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev
Tiffany Zahorski / Jonathan Guerreiro
 Philippines[40] Michael Christian Martinez
 Poland[41] Natalia Kaliszek / Maksym Spodyriev
 Slovakia[42] Nicole Rajičová Lucie Myslivečková / Lukáš Csölley
 South Korea[43] Cha Jun-hwan Choi Da-bin
Kim Ha-nul 		Kim Kyu-eun / Alex Kangchan Kam Yura Min / Alexander Gamelin
 Spain[44] Javier Fernández
Felipe Montoya 		Sara Hurtado / Kirill Khaliavin
 Sweden[45] Anita Östlund
 Switzerland[46] Alexia Paganini
 Turkey[47] Alisa Agafonova / Alper Uçar
 Ukraine[48] Yaroslav Paniot Anna Khnychenkova Oleksandra Nazarova / Maxim Nikitin
 United States[49] Nathan Chen
Adam Rippon
Vincent Zhou 		Karen Chen
Mirai Nagasu
Bradie Tennell 		Alexa Scimeca Knierim / Chris Knierim Madison Chock / Evan Bates
Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue
Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani
 Uzbekistan Misha Ge[50]

Records and firsts

See also: World and Olympic records set at the 2018 Winter Olympics
For the all-time highest scores, see list of highest scores in figure skating.

The following new ISU best scores were set during this competition.

Event Date Component Skater(s) Country Score Ref
Team event 11 February Short program Evgenia Medvedeva  Olympic Athletes from Russia 81.06 [55]
Pair skating 15 February Free skating Aljona Savchenko / Bruno Massot  Germany 159.31 [56]
Ice dance 19 February Short dance Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir  Canada 83.67 [57]
20 February Free dance Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron  France 123.35 [58]
20 February Combined total Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron  France 205.28 [59]
20 February Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir  Canada 206.07 [58]
Ladies' singles 21 February Short program Evgenia Medvedeva  Olympic Athletes from Russia 81.61
21 February Alina Zagitova  Olympic Athletes from Russia 82.92

Participating nations

The following National Olympic Committees earned spots to compete. 153 athletes from 32 nations were expected to participate, with number of athletes in parentheses. Malaysia made their Olympic debuts in the sport.[60][61][62][63]

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