Figure skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Pair skating
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Pair skating at the XXIII Olympic Winter Games | |||||||||||||
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Venue | Gangneung Ice Arena Gangneung, South Korea | ||||||||||||
Dates | 14–15 February | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 44 from 14 nations | ||||||||||||
Winning score | 235.90 | ||||||||||||
Medalists | |||||||||||||
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The pair skating competition of the 2018 Winter Olympics was held at the Gangneung Ice Arena in Gangneung, South Korea.[1] The short program was held on 14 February and the free skating on 15 February 2018.[2][3] Aljona Savchenko and Bruno Massot became Olympic champions after finishing fourth in the short program and setting a record with their score in the free program to take the gold by 0.43 points. Sui Wenjing and Han Cong, leading after the short program, made a couple of mistakes in the free program and won silver. Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford were third.[4][5][6] This was the second Olympics since 1964 that a Soviet or Russian pair did not win a medal.
Chinese judges Chen Weiguang and Huang Feng were investigated by the ISU and banned for mark manipulation.[7][8]