Figure skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Men's singles


The men's single figure skating competition of the 2018 Winter Olympics was held on 16 and 17 February 2018 at the Gangneung Ice Arena in Gangneung, South Korea. The short program was held on 16 February and the free skating was held on 17 February.
This medal event was the 1000th medal event in the history of the Winter Olympic Games.

Summary

With his victory at the 2018 Winter Olympics, Yuzuru Hanyu became the first male figure skater to win two consecutive gold medals after Dick Button, who did so in 1952. Fellow countryman Shoma Uno won the silver medal, and Spain's Javier Fernández won the bronze medal. Fernández won Spain's first figure skating medal and fourth medal at the Winter Olympics.
After the short program, Hanyu, Fernández, Uno, and Jin Boyang were first, second, third, and fourth respectively. Nathan Chen, originally one of the favorites for the podium, skated an uncharacteristically poor short program that placed him at 17th, but fought back to win the free skating with a score of 215.08--8.91 points above the second place free skating by Hanyu. He ended up fifth overall. In the free program, Jin Boyang overtook Chen by less than a point overall, and placed fourth.
In the victory ceremony, the medals were presented by Tsunekazu Takeda, member of the International Olympic Committee, accompanied by Alexander Lakernik, ISU Figure Skating Vice President.
Vincent Zhou landed the first quadruple lutz at the Olympics. Nathan Chen became the first to ever land six quads, five clean. He also landed the first quadruple flip at the Olympics. With these jumps he holds the new record for highest free skating technical score. For complete list of figure skating records, see list of highest scores in figure skating.

Qualification

A total of 30 skaters qualified to compete for the event, with each country allowed to only enter a maximum of three. 24 quotas were handed out during the 2017 World Figure Skating Championships and the remaining six 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 athletes competing must have met the minimum total elements score, which does not include component scores. For the short program this was 25.00 and the free skating 45.00.

Schedule

All times are.
DateTimeRound
16 February10:00Short program
17 February10:00Free skating

Results

Short program

The short program was held on 16 February 2018.

Free skating

The free skating was held on 17 February 2018.
Pl.NameNation
1Nathan Chen215.08127.6487.448.828.329.048.798.750.009
2Yuzuru Hanyu206.17109.5596.629.719.509.649.719.750.0022
3Shoma Uno202.73111.0192.729.369.079.259.329.36–1.0024
4Javier Fernández197.66101.5296.149.469.439.649.799.750.0023
5Jin Boyang194.45109.6985.768.718.218.648.688.64–1.0020
6Vincent Zhou192.16112.2479.928.047.718.257.968.000.0015
7Mikhail Kolyada177.5691.6287.949.008.648.688.868.72–2.0016
8Patrick Chan173.4281.5691.869.329.148.669.299.320.0021
9Oleksii Bychenko172.8889.0883.808.398.048.618.438.430.007
10Adam Rippon171.4184.4786.948.758.548.688.718.790.0018
11Daniel Samohin170.7589.0381.728.327.758.328.188.290.008
12Keegan Messing170.3284.8885.448.508.298.618.618.710.0014
13Dmitri Aliev168.5385.3985.138.648.398.328.618.61–2.0019
14Cha Jun-hwan165.1684.9481.228.217.868.258.118.18–1.0011
15Keiji Tanaka164.7885.6481.148.367.898.008.188.14–2.005
16Jorik Hendrickx164.2181.7982.428.257.968.368.258.390.0013
17Misha Ge161.0474.9686.088.468.368.548.758.930.0010
18Michal Březina160.9276.5884.348.578.218.398.578.430.0017
19Matteo Rizzo156.7880.8675.927.647.327.797.647.570.002
20Deniss Vasiļjevs155.0676.4280.648.147.867.968.188.18–2.001
21Brendan Kerry150.7573.3377.427.967.547.687.827.710.0012
22Paul Fentz139.8266.9872.847.507.147.147.397.250.003
23Yan Han132.3853.8079.588.567.827.578.048.00–1.004
24Moris Kvitelashvili128.0163.3570.667.346.866.687.327.04–6.006

Overall

The skaters were ranked according to their overall score.
TP - Total points; SP - Short program; FS - Free skating