Figure skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics


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

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 or nine women. An additional six quota spots were made available for the team event. A further ten team trophy quotas 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.

Competition schedule

The following was the competition schedule for all five events. Sessions that included the event finals are shown in bold.
All times are.
DateTimeEvent
9 February10:00Team event
9 February10:00Team event
11 February10:00Team event
11 February10:00Team event
11 February10:00Team event
12 February10:00Team event
12 February10:00Team event
12 February10:00Team event
14 February10:00Pair skating
15 February10:30Pair skating
16 February10:00Men's singles
17 February10:00Men's singles
19 February10:00Ice dance
20 February10:00Ice dance
21 February10:00Ladies' singles
23 February10:00Ladies' singles
25 February9:30Gala exhibition

Medal summary

Medal table

Events

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.
CountryMenLadiesPairsIce dance
Brendan KerryKailani CraineEkaterina Alexandrovskaya / Harley Windsor
Miriam Ziegler / Severin Kiefer
Jorik HendrickxLoena Hendrickx
Isadora Williams
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
Jin Boyang
Yan Han
Li XiangningPeng Cheng / Jin Yang
Sui Wenjing / Han Cong
Yu Xiaoyu / Zhang Hao
Wang Shiyue / Liu Xinyu
Michal BřezinaAnna Dušková / Martin BidařCortney Mansour / Michal Češka
Emmi Peltonen
Chafik BesseghierMaé-Bérénice MéitéVanessa James / Morgan CiprèsGabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron
Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac
Moris Kvitelashvili
Paul FentzNicole SchottAnnika Hocke / Ruben Blommaert
Aliona Savchenko / Bruno Massot
Kavita Lorenz / Joti Polizoakis
Penny Coomes / Nicholas Buckland
Ivett Tóth
Oleksii Bychenko
Daniel Samohin
Aimee Buchanan Paige Conners / Evgeni KrasnopolskiAdel Tankova / Ronald Zilberberg
Matteo RizzoCarolina Kostner
Giada Russo
Nicole Della Monica / Matteo Guarise
Valentina Marchei / Ondrej Hotarek
Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte
Charlene Guignard / Marco Fabbri
Yuzuru Hanyu
Keiji Tanaka
Shoma Uno
Satoko Miyahara
Kaori Sakamoto
Miu Suzaki / Ryuichi KiharaKana Muramoto / Chris Reed
Denis TenAiza Mambekova
Elizabet Tursynbayeva
Deniss VasiļjevsDiāna Ņikitina
Julian Yee
Ryom Tae-ok / Kim Ju-sik
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
Michael Christian Martinez
Natalia Kaliszek / Maksym Spodyriev
Nicole RajičováLucie Myslivečková / Lukáš Csölley
Cha Jun-hwanChoi Da-bin
Kim Ha-nul
Kim Kyu-eun / Alex Kangchan KamYura Min / Alexander Gamelin
Javier Fernández
Felipe Montoya
Sara Hurtado / Kirill Khaliavin
Anita Östlund
Alexia Paganini
Alisa Agafonova / Alper Uçar
Yaroslav PaniotAnna KhnychenkovaOleksandra Nazarova / Maxim Nikitin
Nathan Chen
Adam Rippon
Vincent Zhou
Karen Chen
Mirai Nagasu
Bradie Tennell
Alexa Scimeca Knierim / Chris KnierimMadison Chock / Evan Bates
Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue
Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani
Misha Ge

The following new ISU best scores were set during this competition.
EventDateComponentSkaterCountryScoreRef
Team event11 FebruaryShort programEvgenia Medvedeva81.06
Pair skating15 FebruaryFree skatingAliona Savchenko / Bruno Massot159.31
Ice dance19 FebruaryShort danceTessa Virtue / Scott Moir83.67
Ice dance20 FebruaryFree danceGabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron123.35
Ice dance20 FebruaryCombined totalGabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron205.28
Ice dance20 FebruaryCombined totalTessa Virtue / Scott Moir206.07
Ladies' singles21 FebruaryShort programEvgenia Medvedeva81.61
Ladies' singles21 FebruaryShort programAlina Zagitova82.92

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.
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