Figure skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Ice dance
The ice dance competition of the 2018 Winter Olympics was held on 19 and 20 February 2018 at the Gangneung Ice Arena in Gangneung, South Korea. The short ice dance was held on 19 February and the free ice dance was held on 20 February.
Summary
and Scott Moir scored 83.67 in the short dance, breaking their own world record. Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron finished in second place, 1.74 points behind Virtue/Moir. Maia Shibutani and Alex Shibutani finished in third place, and Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue were fourth, with just 0.02 points separating the two couples.Shibutani/Shibutani were the 17th couple to take to the ice in the free dance, starting off in 4th place after the short dance; they took the lead with a combined total score of 192.59. Papadakis/Cizeron were next to skate, and they broke their world records for both the free dance and the total score, finishing with 205.28 points. Hubbell/Donohue received a deduction for a fall and were briefly in third place with 187.69 points. The last to skate were Virtue/Moir, who scored less than Papadakis/Cizeron in the free dance but still scored enough points overall to win the gold medal, setting another world record with a total score of 206.07.
This was the third Olympic medal that Virtue/Moir had won in ice dance; they won their first gold in 2010 and they took silver in 2014. It was also their fifth Olympic medal overall, making them the most decorated figure skaters in Olympic history.
For the first time since ice dance became an Olympic event in 1976, no Soviet or Russian team won a medal.
Records
For complete list of figure skating records, see list of highest scores in figure skating.The following new best scores were set during this competition:
| Component | Skaters | Score | Date | Ref |
| Short dance | 83.67 | 19 February 2018 | ||
| Free dance | 123.35 | 20 February 2018 | ||
| Combined total | 205.28 | 20 February 2018 | ||
| Combined total | 206.07 | 20 February 2018 |
Qualification
A total of 24 teams qualified to compete for the event, with each country allowed to enter a maximum of three teams. 19 quotas were handed out during the 2017 World Figure Skating Championships, however Denmark was forced to return the quota when it was found that one of their athletes did not have Danish citizenship. The remaining six quotas were given out at the 2017 CS Nebelhorn Trophy. Each country decided the entry of its teams, and athletes winning the quota were not necessarily granted the right to compete. All pairs competing needed to have met the minimum total elements score, which did not include component scores. For the short program this was 19.00 and for the free skate it was 29.00.Schedule
All times are.| Date | Time | Round |
| 19 February | 10:00 | Short ice dance |
| 20 February | 10:00 | Free ice dance |
Results
Short dance
The short ice dance was held on 19 February.Free dance
The free ice dance was held on 20 February.| Pl. | Name | Nation | ||||||||||
| 1 | Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron | 123.35 WR | 63.98 | 59.37 | 9.79 | 9.75 | 10.00 | 9.93 | 10.00 | 0.00 | 18 | |
| 2 | Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir | 122.40 | 63.35 | 59.05 | 9.71 | 9.61 | 9.96 | 9.93 | 10.00 | 0.00 | 20 | |
| 3 | Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani | 114.86 | 59.37 | 55.49 | 9.32 | 9.07 | 9.36 | 9.21 | 9.29 | 0.00 | 17 | |
| 4 | Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev | 111.45 | 56.25 | 55.20 | 9.14 | 8.89 | 9.29 | 9.32 | 9.36 | 0.00 | 15 | |
| 5 | Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue | 109.04 | 54.94 | 56.00 | 9.29 | 9.21 | 9.25 | 9.46 | 9.46 | -1.00 | 19 | |
| 6 | Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte | 108.34 | 55.27 | 54.07 | 8.93 | 8.71 | 9.14 | 9.07 | 9.21 | -1.00 | 16 | |
| 7 | Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje | 107.65 | 53.48 | 54.17 | 8.96 | 8.75 | 9.18 | 9.04 | 9.21 | 0.00 | 13 | |
| 8 | Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier | 107.31 | 55.14 | 52.17 | 8.68 | 8.29 | 8.86 | 8.68 | 8.96 | 0.00 | 11 | |
| 9 | Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri | 105.31 | 53.82 | 51.49 | 8.57 | 8.50 | 8.57 | 8.57 | 8.71 | 0.00 | 6 | |
| 10 | Penny Coomes / Nicholas Buckland | 101.96 | 51.66 | 50.30 | 8.32 | 8.21 | 8.39 | 8.57 | 8.43 | 0.00 | 12 | |
| 11 | Sara Hurtado / Kirill Khaliavin | 101.40 | 51.68 | 49.72 | 8.14 | 8.04 | 8.43 | 8.36 | 8.46 | 0.00 | 10 | |
| 12 | Madison Chock / Evan Bates | 100.13 | 49.04 | 53.09 | 8.64 | 8.71 | 8.71 | 9.14 | 9.04 | -2.00 | 14 | |
| 13 | Kana Muramoto / Chris Reed | 97.22 | 50.75 | 46.47 | 7.64 | 7.54 | 7.86 | 7.75 | 7.93 | 0.00 | 8 | |
| 14 | Tiffany Zahorski / Jonathan Guerreiro | 95.77 | 46.73 | 49.04 | 8.14 | 8.00 | 8.29 | 8.14 | 8.29 | 0.00 | 9 | |
| 15 | Natalia Kaliszek / Maksym Spodyriev | 95.29 | 48.45 | 46.84 | 7.64 | 7.68 | 7.89 | 7.82 | 8.00 | 0.00 | 7 | |
| 16 | Kavita Lorenz / Joti Polizoakis | 90.50 | 46.78 | 43.72 | 7.29 | 6.96 | 7.43 | 7.32 | 7.43 | 0.00 | 3 | |
| 17 | Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac | 89.62 | 47.04 | 42.58 | 7.25 | 6.82 | 7.14 | 7.21 | 7.07 | 0.00 | 1 | |
| 18 | Alisa Agafonova / Alper Uçar | 87.76 | 44.01 | 43.75 | 7.25 | 7.11 | 7.21 | 7.50 | 7.39 | 0.00 | 5 | |
| 19 | Yura Min / Alexander Gamelin | 86.52 | 44.61 | 41.91 | 6.89 | 6.68 | 7.14 | 6.96 | 7.25 | 0.00 | 4 | |
| 20 | Lucie Myslivečková / Lukáš Csölley | 82.82 | 41.65 | 41.17 | 6.82 | 6.61 | 6.82 | 7.00 | 7.07 | 0.00 | 2 |
Overall
The skaters were ranked according to their total combined score.SD - Short dance; FD - Free dance