Figure skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Team event
# Figure skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Team event

The team event was a figure skating competition of the 2018 Winter Olympics that was held from 9 to 12 February 2018 at the Gangneung Ice Arena in Gangneung, South Korea. It took place over three days between 9–12 February with the short programs and the short dance taking place on 9 and 11 February, and the free skates and the free dance taking place on 11 and 12 February.

## Timeline

All times are (UTC+9).

| Date | Time | Event |
| - | - | - |
| 9 February | 10:00 | Team event men's short |
| 9 February | 10:00 | Team event pairs short |
| 11 February | 10:00 | Team event ice dance short |
| 11 February | 10:00 | Team event ladies' short |
| 11 February | 10:00 | Team event pairs free |
| 12 February | 10:00 | Team event men's free |
| 12 February | 10:00 | Team event ladies' free |
| 12 February | 10:00 | Team event ice dance free |

## Records

For a complete list of figure skating records, see list of highest scores in figure skating.

The following new best score was set during this competition:

| Event | Skater | Score | Date | Ref |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Ladies' short | Evgenia Medvedeva (OAR) | 81.06 | 11 February 2018 | |

This record was shortly broken in the 2018 Winter Olympics Ladies's Short Program by Alina Zagitova with a score of 82.92. Medvedeva broke her own record with a score of 81.61, before Zagitova scored higher after skating next.

## Qualification

A total of 10 teams qualified to compete. Each nation must have qualified in three of the four events to be considered for the team event. All athletes must have qualified for one of the other four events. However, if a nation did not qualify in one of the other four events, it was awarded an additional quota only for the team event. This was only used for Israel in the women's event.

## Entries

Member nations submitted the following entries:

| Country | Men | Ladies | Pairs | Ice Dancing |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Canada | Patrick Chan (SP/FS) | Kaetlyn Osmond (SP) Gabrielle Daleman (FS) | Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford (SP/FS) | Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir (SD/FD) |
| China | Yan Han (SP) | Li Xiangning (SP) | Yu Xiaoyu / Zhang Hao (SP) | Wang Shiyue / Liu Xinyu (SD) |
| France | Chafik Besseghier (SP) | Maé-Bérénice Méité (SP) | Vanessa James / Morgan Ciprès (SP) | Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac (SD) |
| Israel | Alexei Bychenko (SP) | Aimee Buchanan (SP) | Paige Conners / Evgeni Krasnopolski (SP) | Adel Tankova / Ronald Zilberberg (SD) |
| Italy | Matteo Rizzo (SP/FS) | Carolina Kostner (SP/FS) | Nicole Della Monica / Matteo Guarise (SP) Valentina Marchei / Ondrej Hotarek (FS) | Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte (SD/FD) |
| Japan | Shoma Uno (SP) Keiji Tanaka (FS) | Satoko Miyahara (SP) Kaori Sakamoto (FS) | Miu Suzaki / Ryuichi Kihara (SP/FS) | Kana Muramoto / Chris Reed (SD/FD) |
| Germany | Paul Fentz (SP) | Nicole Schott (SP) | Aliona Savchenko / Bruno Massot (SP) | Kavita Lorenz / Joti Polizoakis (SD) |
| Olympic Athletes from Russia | Mikhail Kolyada (SP/FS) | Evgenia Medvedeva (SP) Alina Zagitova (FS) | Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov (SP) Natalia Zabiiako / Alexander Enbert (FS) | Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev (SD/FD) |
| South Korea | Cha Jun-hwan (SP) | Choi Dabin (SP) | Kim Kyu-eun / Alex Kangchan Kam (SP) | Yura Min / Alexander Gamelin (SD) |
| United States | Nathan Chen (SP) Adam Rippon (FS) | Bradie Tennell (SP) Mirai Nagasu (FS) | Alexa Scimeca Knierim / Chris Knierim (SP/FS) | Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani (SD/FD) |

## Results

### Short programs/dance

**Men**

The men's short program was held on 9 February 2018.

| Pl. | Name | Nation | TSS | TES | PCS | SS | TR | PE | CH | IN | Ded | StN | Pts. |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Shoma Uno | Japan | 103.25 | 56.64 | 46.61 | 9.36 | 9.25 | 9.25 | 9.39 | 9.36 | 0.00 | 10 | 10 |
| 2 | Oleksii Bychenko | Israel | 88.49 | 47.59 | 40.90 | 8.07 | 7.82 | 8.43 | 8.29 | 8.29 | 0.00 | 7 | 9 |
| 3 | Patrick Chan | Canada | 81.66 | 38.56 | 45.10 | 9.21 | 9.07 | 8.50 | 9.14 | 9.18 | 2.00 | 6 | 8 |
| 4 | Nathan Chen | United States | 80.61 | 37.73 | 43.88 | 8.89 | 8.75 | 8.46 | 8.96 | 8.82 | 1.00 | 8 | 7 |
| 5 | Matteo Rizzo | Italy | 77.77 | 40.60 | 37.17 | 7.39 | 7.18 | 7.64 | 7.50 | 7.46 | 0.00 | 5 | 6 |
| 6 | Cha Jun-hwan | South Korea | 77.70 | 40.71 | 36.99 | 7.46 | 7.25 | 7.46 | 7.46 | 7.36 | 0.00 | 1 | 5 |
| 7 | Yan Han | China | 77.10 | 38.28 | 40.82 | 8.46 | 8.07 | 7.71 | 8.29 | 8.29 | 2.00 | 4 | 4 |
| 8 | Mikhail Kolyada | Olympic Athletes from Russia | 74.36 | 33.75 | 42.61 | 8.75 | 8.31 | 8.11 | 8.75 | 8.61 | 2.00 | 9 | 3 |
| 9 | Paul Fentz | Germany | 66.32 | 34.54 | 33.78 | 6.96 | 6.61 | 6.39 | 7.00 | 6.82 | 2.00 | 2 | 2 |
| 10 | Chafik Besseghier | France | 61.06 | 26.93 | 34.13 | 6.96 | 6.50 | 6.71 | 6.96 | 7.00 | 0.00 | 3 | 1 |

**Pairs**

The pairs short program was held on 9 February 2018.

| Pl. | Name | Nation | TSS | TES | PCS | SS | TR | PE | CH | IN | Ded | StN | Pts. |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov | Olympic Athletes from Russia | 80.92 | 43.78 | 37.14 | 9.43 | 9.07 | 9.39 | 9.32 | 9.21 | 0.00 | 10 | 10 |
| 2 | Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford | Canada | 76.57 | 41.08 | 35.49 | 8.82 | 8.71 | 9.00 | 8.96 | 8.86 | 0.00 | 8 | 9 |
| 3 | Aliona Savchenko / Bruno Massot | Germany | 75.36 | 39.33 | 37.03 | 9.21 | 9.18 | 9.21 | 9.36 | 9.32 | 1.00 | 9 | 8 |
| 4 | Alexa Scimeca Knierim / Chris Knierim | United States | 69.75 | 38.41 | 31.34 | 7.86 | 7.57 | 7.96 | 7.89 | 7.89 | 0.00 | 4 | 7 |
| 5 | Yu Xiaoyu / Zhang Hao | China | 69.17 | 37.20 | 32.97 | 8.29 | 8.14 | 8.07 | 8.43 | 8.29 | 1.00 | 5 | 6 |
| 6 | Vanessa James / Morgan Ciprès | France | 68.49 | 34.66 | 33.83 | 8.46 | 8.39 | 8.29 | 8.57 | 8.57 | 0.00 | 7 | 5 |
| 7 | Nicole Della Monica / Matteo Guarise | Italy | 67.62 | 35.73 | 31.89 | 7.93 | 7.71 | 8.04 | 8.07 | 8.11 | 0.00 | 6 | 4 |
| 8 | Miu Suzaki / Ryuichi Kihara | Japan | 57.42 | 32.13 | 25.29 | 6.54 | 6.07 | 6.39 | 6.25 | 6.36 | 0.00 | 3 | 3 |
| 9 | Paige Conners / Evgeni Krasnopolski | Israel | 54.47 | 30.70 | 24.77 | 6.25 | 5.96 | 6.25 | 6.39 | 6.11 | 1.00 | 2 | 2 |
| 10 | Kim Kyu-eun / Alex Kam | South Korea | 52.10 | 27.70 | 24.40 | 6.18 | 5.82 | 6.21 | 6.18 | 6.11 | 0.00 | 1 | 1 |

**Ice dance**

The ice dance short dance was held on 11 February 2018.

| Pl. | Name | Nation | TSS | TES | PCS | SS | TR | PE | CH | IN | Ded | StN | Pts. |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir | Canada | 80.51 | 41.61 | 38.90 | 9.61 | 9.54 | 9.86 | 9.79 | 9.82 | 0.00 | 9 | 10 |
| 2 | Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani | United States | 75.46 | 38.42 | 37.04 | 9.32 | 9.11 | 9.29 | 9.36 | 9.21 | 0.00 | 7 | 9 |
| 3 | Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev | Olympic Athletes from Russia | 74.76 | 38.11 | 36.65 | 9.14 | 9.00 | 9.18 | 9.29 | 9.21 | 0.00 | 10 | 8 |
| 4 | Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte | Italy | 72.51 | 37.31 | 36.20 | 8.89 | 8.71 | 9.29 | 9.07 | 9.29 | 1.00 | 8 | 7 |
| 5 | Kana Muramoto / Chris Reed | Japan | 62.15 | 32.17 | 29.98 | 7.54 | 7.32 | 7.46 | 7.57 | 7.57 | 0.00 | 6 | 6 |
| 6 | Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac | France | 57.94 | 29.08 | 28.86 | 7.25 | 7.11 | 7.21 | 7.25 | 7.25 | 0.00 | 5 | 5 |
| 7 | Wang Shiyue / Liu Xinyu | China | 56.98 | 27.75 | 29.23 | 7.29 | 7.11 | 7.39 | 7.39 | 7.36 | 0.00 | 4 | 4 |
| 8 | Kavita Lorenz / Joti Polizoakis | Germany | 56.88 | 28.97 | 27.91 | 6.96 | 6.75 | 7.04 | 7.14 | 7.00 | 0.00 | 2 | 3 |
| 9 | Yura Min / Alexander Gamelin | South Korea | 51.97 | 24.88 | 27.09 | 6.79 | 6.54 | 6.82 | 6.89 | 6.82 | 0.00 | 3 | 2 |
| 10 | Adel Tankova / Ronald Zilberberg | Israel | 44.61 | 22.32 | 22.29 | 5.57 | 5.50 | 5.57 | 5.75 | 5.46 | 0.00 | 1 | 1 |

**Ladies**

The women's short program was held on 11 February 2018.

| Pl. | Name | Nation | TSS | TES | PCS | SS | TR | PE | CH | IN | Ded | StN | Pts. |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Evgenia Medvedeva | Olympic Athletes from Russia | 81.06 | 42.83 | 38.23 | 9.54 | 9.43 | 9.57 | 9.56 | 9.68 | 0.00 | 10 | 10 |
| 2 | Carolina Kostner | Italy | 75.10 | 36.96 | 38.14 | 9.54 | 9.32 | 9.50 | 9.68 | 9.64 | 0.00 | 7 | 9 |
| 3 | Kaetlyn Osmond | Canada | 71.33 | 35.10 | 36.28 | 9.11 | 8.89 | 8.96 | 9.18 | 9.21 | 0.00 | 9 | 8 |
| 4 | Satoko Miyahara | Japan | 68.95 | 34.33 | 34.62 | 8.71 | 8.39 | 8.71 | 8.68 | 8.79 | 0.00 | 8 | 7 |
| 5 | Bradie Tennell | United States | 68.94 | 38.94 | 30.00 | 7.54 | 7.29 | 7.68 | 7.54 | 7.46 | 0.00 | 3 | 6 |
| 6 | Choi Da-bin | South Korea | 65.73 | 37.16 | 28.57 | 7.29 | 6.79 | 7.29 | 7.18 | 7.18 | 0.00 | 6 | 5 |
| 7 | Li Xiangning | China | 58.62 | 32.65 | 25.97 | 6.61 | 6.14 | 6.64 | 6.46 | 6.61 | 0.00 | 2 | 4 |
| 8 | Nicole Schott | Germany | 55.32 | 29.35 | 26.97 | 6.89 | 6.50 | 6.64 | 6.86 | 6.82 | 1.00 | 5 | 3 |
| 9 | Maé-Bérénice Méité | France | 46.62 | 22.79 | 24.83 | 6.29 | 6.00 | 6.04 | 6.32 | 6.39 | 1.00 | 4 | 2 |
| 10 | Aimee Buchanan | Israel | 46.30 | 25.07 | 21.23 | 5.32 | 4.96 | 5.36 | 5.39 | 5.50 | 0.00 | 1 | 1 |

### Free skates/dance

**Pairs**

The pairs free skate was held on 11 February 2018.

| Pl. | Name | Nation | TSS | TES | PCS | SS | TR | PE | CH | IN | Ded | StN | Pts. |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford | Canada | 148.51 | 77.26 | 71.25 | 8.96 | 8.79 | 8.96 | 8.93 | 8.89 | 0.00 | 4 | 10 |
| 2 | Valentina Marchei / Ondřej Hotárek | Italy | 138.44 | 72.02 | 67.42 | 8.18 | 8.21 | 8.54 | 8.64 | 8.57 | 1.00 | 2 | 9 |
| 3 | Natalia Zabiiako / Alexander Enbert | Olympic Athletes from Russia | 133.28 | 68.06 | 66.22 | 8.39 | 8.07 | 8.18 | 8.39 | 8.36 | 1.00 | 5 | 8 |
| 4 | Alexa Scimeca Knierim / Chris Knierim | United States | 126.56 | 64.82 | 62.74 | 7.82 | 7.68 | 7.82 | 7.96 | 7.93 | 1.00 | 3 | 7 |
| 5 | Miu Suzaki / Ryuichi Kihara | Japan | 97.67 | 49.24 | 49.43 | 6.39 | 5.93 | 6.04 | 6.29 | 6.25 | 1.00 | 1 | 6 |

**Men**

The men's free skate was held on 12 February 2018.

| Pl. | Name | Nation | TSS | TES | PCS | SS | TR | PE | CH | IN | Ded | StN | Pts. |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Patrick Chan | Canada | 179.75 | 87.67 | 93.08 | 9.50 | 9.29 | 8.93 | 9.39 | 9.43 | 1.00 | 4 | 10 |
| 2 | Mikhail Kolyada | Olympic Athletes from Russia | 173.57 | 88.35 | 86.22 | 8.82 | 8.43 | 8.61 | 8.57 | 8.68 | 1.00 | 1 | 9 |
| 3 | Adam Rippon | United States | 172.98 | 86.20 | 86.78 | 8.61 | 8.39 | 8.82 | 8.75 | 8.85 | 0.00 | 3 | 8 |
| 4 | Matteo Rizzo | Italy | 156.11 | 78.77 | 77.34 | 7.64 | 7.39 | 8.18 | 7.71 | 7.75 | 0.00 | 2 | 7 |
| 5 | Keiji Tanaka | Japan | 148.36 | 72.02 | 77.34 | 8.00 | 7.57 | 7.50 | 7.96 | 7.64 | 1.00 | 5 | 6 |

**Ladies**

The women's free skate was held on 12 February 2018.

| Pl. | Name | Nation | TSS | TES | PCS | SS | TR | PE | CH | IN | Ded | StN | Pts. |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Alina Zagitova | Olympic Athletes from Russia | 158.08 | 83.06 | 75.02 | 9.21 | 9.29 | 9.57 | 9.39 | 9.43 | 0.00 | 5 | 10 |
| 2 | Mirai Nagasu | United States | 137.53 | 73.38 | 64.15 | 8.25 | 7.64 | 8.32 | 7.89 | 8.00 | 0.00 | 1 | 9 |
| 3 | Gabrielle Daleman | Canada | 137.14 | 68.86 | 68.28 | 8.71 | 8.18 | 8.71 | 8.50 | 8.57 | 0.00 | 3 | 8 |
| 4 | Carolina Kostner | Italy | 134.00 | 59.73 | 74.27 | 9.39 | 9.07 | 9.00 | 9.46 | 9.50 | 0.00 | 4 | 7 |
| 5 | Kaori Sakamoto | Japan | 131.91 | 65.51 | 66.40 | 8.32 | 8.11 | 8.32 | 8.39 | 8.36 | 0.00 | 2 | 6 |

**Ice dance**

The ice dance free dance was held on 12 February 2018.

| Pl. | Name | Nation | TSS | TES | PCS | SS | TR | PE | CH | IN | Ded | StN | Pts. |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir | Canada | 118.10 | 59.25 | 58.85 | 9.61 | 9.61 | 9.93 | 9.93 | 9.96 | 0.00 | 5 | 10 |
| 2 | Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani | United States | 112.01 | 56.41 | 55.60 | 9.32 | 9.18 | 9.36 | 9.18 | 9.29 | 0.00 | 4 | 9 |
| 3 | Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev | Olympic Athletes from Russia | 110.43 | 54.72 | 55.71 | 9.21 | 9.11 | 9.36 | 9.36 | 9.39 | 0.00 | 3 | 8 |
| 4 | Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte | Italy | 107.00 | 52.70 | 54.30 | 8.96 | 8.79 | 9.07 | 9.14 | 9.29 | 0.00 | 2 | 7 |
| 5 | Kana Muramoto / Chris Reed | Japan | 87.88 | 44.69 | 44.19 | 7.32 | 7.29 | 7.14 | 7.68 | 7.39 | 1.00 | 1 | 6 |

### Overall

**Team overall**

After all events.

| Pl. | Nation | M-SP | P-SP | D-SD | L-SP | P-FS | M-FS | L-FS | D-FD | Pts. |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | Canada | 8 | 9 | 10 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 10 | 73 |
| | Olympic Athletes from Russia | 3 | 10 | 8 | 10 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 8 | 66 |
| | United States | 7 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 62 |
| 4 | Italy | 6 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 56 |
| 5 | Japan | 10 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 50 |
| 6 | China | 4 | 6 | 4 | 4 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | 18 |
| 7 | Germany | 2 | 8 | 3 | 3 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | 16 |
| 8 | Israel | 9 | 2 | 1 | 1 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | 13 |
| 9 | South Korea | 5 | 1 | 2 | 5 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | 13 |
| 10 | France | 1 | 5 | 5 | 2 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | 13 |

* Ties are broken by taking the best team scores from two different disciplines. If still tied then the total scores from those two disciplines are added together.
