Figure skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics

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]

Figure Skating at the XXIII Olympic Winter Games
Figure skating pictogram at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Venue	Gangneung Ice Arena
Dates	9–23 February
No. of events	5 (1 men, 1 women, 3 mixed)
Competitors	153 (76 men, 77 women) from 32 nations
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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

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Canada	2	0	2	4
2	Olympic Athletes from Russia	1	2	0	3
3	Japan	1	1	0	2
4	Germany	1	0	0	1
5	China	0	1	0	1
	France	0	1	0	1
7	United States	0	0	2	2
8	Spain	0	0	1	1
Totals (8 entries)		5	5	5	15

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	Meagan 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]

• Isabella Tobias and Ilia Tkachenko, who qualified in an ice dance spot for Israel, were replaced by Tankova and Zilberberg because Tkachenko's application for Israeli citizenship was denied. ^[30]
• Alexander Majorov was unable to achieve the performance level required by the Swedish Olympic Committee. Thus, the Committee gave up the corresponding quota for men's singles. ^[51]
• Ksenia Stolbova and Ivan Bukin were not invited to the 2018 Winter Olympics by the International Olympic Committee. ^[52][53]
• The Olympic Committee of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea failed to submit paperwork on time and thus lost their pairs spot qualified by Ryom Tae-ok and Kim Ju-sik. The International Olympic Committee later awarded the country a wild-card spot following negotiations between North and South Korea.^[54]

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]}

•  Australia (4)
•  Austria (2)
•  Belgium (2)
•  Brazil (1)
•  Canada (17)
•  China (11)
•  Czech Republic (5)
•  Finland (1)
•  France (8)
•  Georgia (1)
•  Germany (8)
•  Great Britain (2)
•  Hungary (1)
•  Israel (7)
•  Italy (11)
•  Japan (9)
•  Kazakhstan (3)
•  Latvia (2)
•  Malaysia (1)
•  North Korea (2)
•  Olympic Athletes from Russia (15)
•  Philippines (1)
•  Poland (2)
•  Slovakia (3)
•  South Korea (7)
•  Spain (4)
•  Sweden (1)
•  Switzerland (1)
•  Turkey (2)
•  Ukraine (4)
•  United States (14)
•  Uzbekistan (1)