# Figure skating at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Team event

The figure skating team event was a combined competition of Olympic figure skating disciplines at the 2014 Winter Olympics, held at the Iceberg Skating Palace in Sochi, Russia.
The competition took place over three days between 6 and 9 February, with the short programs taking place on 6 and 8 February, and the free skating and free dances taking place on 8 and 9 February.
This was the first time the team event for figure skating was held during the Olympic Games.
The medals for the competition were presented by Alexander Zhukov, president of the Olympic Committee of the Russian Federation; Dick Pound, Canada; and Ottavio Cinquanta, Italy; IOC Members, and the medalists' bouquets were presented by David Dore, Canada; Marie Lundmark, Finland; Junko Hiramatsu, Japan; International Skating Union.

## Timeline

The team event competition took place on 6, 8, and 9 February. The official schedule was as follows:
All times are (UTC+4).
| Date | Time | Event |
| 6 February | 19:30 | Team event – men's short program |
| 6 February | 19:30 | Team event – pairs short program |
| 8 February | 18:30 | Team event – ice dance short program |
| 8 February | 18:30 | Team event – ladies' short program |
| 8 February | 18:30 | Team event – pairs free program |
| 9 February | 19:30 | Team event – men's free program |
| 9 February | 19:30 | Team event – ice dance free program |
| 9 February | 19:30 | Team event – ladies' free program |

## Records

For 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 |
| Ice dance – Free dance | Meryl Davis / Charlie White (USA) | 114.34 | 9 February 2014 | |
Evgeni Plushenko (RUS) tied the record of four Olympic figure skating medals (in the early years of the sport, Gillis Grafström won four medals between 1920 and 1932).
Yulia Lipnitskaya (RUS) became the second-youngest Olympic gold medalist in figure skating, behind Maxi Herber who won pair skating at the 1936 Winter Olympics. Under modern age eligibility rules, Herber would have been 99 days too young to skate at the Olympics.

## Entries

Member nations submitted the following entries:
| Country | Men | Ladies | Pairs | Ice dance |
| Canada | Patrick Chan (SP) Kevin Reynolds (FS) | Kaetlyn Osmond (SP/FS) | Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford (SP) Kirsten Moore-Towers / Dylan Moscovitch (FS) | Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir (SD/FD) |
| China | Yan Han (SP) | Zhang Kexin (SP) | Peng Cheng / Zhang Hao (SP) | Huang Xintong / Zheng Xun (SD) |
| France | Florent Amodio (SP) | Maé-Bérénice Méité (SP) | Vanessa James / Morgan Ciprès (SP) | Nathalie Péchalat / Fabian Bourzat (SD) |
| Germany | Peter Liebers (SP) | Nathalie Weinzierl (SP) | Maylin Wende / Daniel Wende (SP) | Nelli Zhiganshina / Alexander Gazsi (SD) |
| Great Britain | Matthew Parr (SP) | Jenna McCorkell (SP) | Stacey Kemp / David King (SP) | Penny Coomes / Nicholas Buckland (SD) |
| Italy | Paul Bonifacio Parkinson (SP/FS) | Carolina Kostner (SP) Valentina Marchei (FS) | Stefania Berton / Ondřej Hotárek (SP/FS) | Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte (SD) Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri (FD) |
| Japan | Yuzuru Hanyu (SP) Tatsuki Machida (FS) | Mao Asada (SP) Akiko Suzuki (FS) | Narumi Takahashi / Ryuichi Kihara (SP/FS) | Cathy Reed / Chris Reed (SD/FD) |
| Russia | Evgeni Plushenko (SP/FS) | Yulia Lipnitskaya (SP/FS) | Tatiana Volosozhar / Maxim Trankov (SP) Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov (FS) | Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev (SD) Elena Ilinykh / Nikita Katsalapov (FD) |
| Ukraine | Yakov Godorozha (SP) | Natalia Popova (SP) | Julia Lavrentieva / Yuri Rudyk (SP) | Siobhan Heekin-Canedy / Dmitri Dun (SD) |
| United States | Jeremy Abbott (SP) Jason Brown (FS) | Ashley Wagner (SP) Gracie Gold (FS) | Marissa Castelli / Simon Shnapir (SP/FS) | Meryl Davis / Charlie White (SD/FD) |

## Results
### Short programs
#### Men

| Pl. | Name | Nation | TSS | TES | PCS | SS | TR | PE | CH | IN | Ded | StN | Pts. |
| 1 | Yuzuru Hanyu | Japan | 97.98 | 52.55 | 45.43 | 9.18 | 8.96 | 9.11 | 9.04 | 9.14 | 0.00 | 10 | 10 |
| 2 | Evgeni Plushenko | Russia | 91.39 | 48.18 | 43.21 | 8.75 | 7.93 | 8.96 | 8.64 | 8.93 | 0.00 | 4 | 9 |
| 3 | Patrick Chan | Canada | 89.71 | 44.03 | 45.68 | 9.21 | 9.11 | 9.00 | 9.11 | 9.25 | 0.00 | 9 | 8 |
| 4 | Yan Han | China | 85.52 | 46.59 | 38.93 | 8.14 | 7.50 | 7.68 | 7.79 | 7.82 | 0.00 | 7 | 7 |
| 5 | Florent Amodio | France | 79.93 | 40.86 | 39.07 | 7.93 | 7.18 | 8.11 | 7.71 | 8.14 | 0.00 | 8 | 6 |
| 6 | Peter Liebers | Germany | 79.61 | 43.50 | 36.11 | 7.29 | 7.07 | 7.18 | 7.32 | 7.25 | 0.00 | 6 | 5 |
| 7 | Jeremy Abbott | United States | 65.65 | 27.22 | 39.43 | 8.00 | 7.75 | 7.64 | 8.11 | 7.93 | −1.00 | 5 | 4 |
| 8 | Yakov Godorozha | Ukraine | 60.51 | 32.26 | 28.25 | 5.82 | 5.46 | 5.68 | 5.61 | 5.68 | 0.00 | 3 | 3 |
| 9 | Matthew Parr | Great Britain | 57.40 | 29.71 | 27.69 | 5.68 | 5.36 | 5.61 | 5.54 | 5.50 | 0.00 | 1 | 2 |
| 10 | Paul Bonifacio Parkinson | Italy | 53.94 | 28.08 | 27.86 | 5.71 | 5.11 | 5.68 | 5.57 | 5.79 | −2.00 | 2 | 1 |

#### Pairs

| Pl. | Name | Nation | TSS | TES | PCS | SS | TR | PE | CH | IN | Ded | StN | Pts. |
| 1 | Tatiana Volosozhar / Maxim Trankov | Russia | 83.79 | 45.10 | 38.69 | 9.57 | 9.39 | 9.68 | 9.86 | 9.86 | 0.00 | 10 | 10 |
| 2 | Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford | Canada | 73.10 | 41.30 | 31.80 | 7.86 | 7.96 | 8.00 | 7.96 | 7.96 | 0.00 | 8 | 9 |
| 3 | Peng Cheng / Zhang Hao | China | 71.01 | 40.97 | 30.04 | 7.61 | 7.29 | 7.54 | 7.50 | 7.61 | 0.00 | 5 | 8 |
| 4 | Stefania Berton / Ondřej Hotárek | Italy | 70.31 | 38.43 | 31.88 | 7.89 | 7.75 | 8.04 | 8.00 | 8.18 | 0.00 | 9 | 7 |
| 5 | Marissa Castelli / Simon Shnapir | United States | 64.25 | 34.99 | 29.26 | 7.32 | 7.11 | 7.39 | 7.32 | 7.43 | 0.00 | 6 | 6 |
| 6 | Maylin Wende / Daniel Wende | Germany | 60.82 | 33.80 | 27.02 | 6.79 | 6.50 | 6.89 | 6.71 | 6.89 | 0.00 | 4 | 5 |
| 7 | Vanessa James / Morgan Ciprès | France | 57.45 | 30.36 | 28.09 | 7.11 | 6.89 | 6.93 | 7.11 | 7.07 | −1.00 | 7 | 4 |
| 8 | Narumi Takahashi / Ryuichi Kihara | Japan | 46.56 | 25.13 | 21.43 | 5.50 | 5.04 | 5.39 | 5.50 | 5.36 | 0.00 | 1 | 3 |
| 9 | Julia Lavrentieva / Yuri Rudyk | Ukraine | 46.34 | 25.27 | 21.07 | 5.32 | 5.04 | 5.32 | 5.36 | 5.29 | 0.00 | 3 | 2 |
| 10 | Stacey Kemp / David King | Great Britain | 44.70 | 24.44 | 21.26 | 5.32 | 5.14 | 5.36 | 5.36 | 5.39 | −1.00 | 2 | 1 |

#### Ice dance

| Pl. | Name | Nation | TSS | TES | PCS | SS | TR | PE | CH | IN | Ded | StN | Pts. |
| 1 | Meryl Davis / Charlie White | United States | 75.98 | 37.07 | 38.91 | 9.64 | 9.54 | 9.86 | 9.75 | 9.82 | 0.00 | 10 | 10 |
| 2 | Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir | Canada | 72.98 | 35.22 | 37.76 | 9.36 | 9.36 | 9.50 | 9.46 | 9.50 | 0.00 | 9 | 9 |
| 3 | Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev | Russia | 70.27 | 34.22 | 36.05 | 9.00 | 8.75 | 9.18 | 8.89 | 9.18 | 0.00 | 8 | 8 |
| 4 | Nathalie Péchalat / Fabian Bourzat | France | 69.15 | 34.50 | 34.65 | 8.64 | 8.54 | 8.82 | 8.64 | 8.68 | 0.00 | 6 | 7 |
| 5 | Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte | Italy | 64.92 | 31.00 | 33.92 | 8.39 | 8.29 | 8.54 | 8.61 | 8.54 | 0.00 | 7 | 6 |
| 6 | Nelli Zhiganshina / Alexander Gazsi | Germany | 58.04 | 29.78 | 28.26 | 7.11 | 6.71 | 7.39 | 7.21 | 6.93 | 0.00 | 4 | 5 |
| 7 | Penny Coomes / Nicholas Buckland | Great Britain | 52.93 | 24.01 | 29.92 | 7.36 | 7.29 | 7.57 | 7.57 | 7.57 | −1.00 | 5 | 4 |
| 8 | Cathy Reed / Chris Reed | Japan | 52.00 | 25.86 | 26.14 | 6.57 | 6.29 | 6.75 | 6.43 | 6.61 | 0.00 | 3 | 3 |
| 9 | Siobhan Heekin-Canedy / Dmitri Dun | Ukraine | 49.19 | 25.79 | 23.40 | 5.93 | 5.75 | 5.75 | 6.11 | 5.71 | 0.00 | 2 | 2 |
| 10 | Huang Xintong / Zheng Xun | China | 47.88 | 23.64 | 24.24 | 6.21 | 5.86 | 6.14 | 6.14 | 5.96 | 0.00 | 1 | 1 |

#### Ladies

| Pl. | Name | Nation | TSS | TES | PCS | SS | TR | PE | CH | IN | Ded | StN | Pts. |
| 1 | Yulia Lipnitskaya | Russia | 72.90 | 39.39 | 33.51 | 8.43 | 8.07 | 8.43 | 8.54 | 8.43 | 0.00 | 8 | 10 |
| 2 | Carolina Kostner | Italy | 70.84 | 35.92 | 34.92 | 8.64 | 8.36 | 8.86 | 8.75 | 9.04 | 0.00 | 10 | 9 |
| 3 | Mao Asada | Japan | 64.07 | 31.25 | 33.82 | 8.54 | 8.14 | 8.39 | 8.50 | 8.71 | −1.00 | 9 | 8 |
| 4 | Ashley Wagner | United States | 63.10 | 32.16 | 30.94 | 7.86 | 7.46 | 7.68 | 7.75 | 7.93 | 0.00 | 7 | 7 |
| 5 | Kaetlyn Osmond | Canada | 62.54 | 33.86 | 28.68 | 7.04 | 6.96 | 7.21 | 7.18 | 7.46 | 0.00 | 1 | 6 |
| 6 | Maé-Bérénice Méité | France | 55.45 | 29.75 | 25.70 | 6.46 | 6.18 | 6.43 | 6.43 | 6.64 | 0.00 | 6 | 5 |
| 7 | Zhang Kexin | China | 54.58 | 31.75 | 22.83 | 6.04 | 5.39 | 5.71 | 5.79 | 5.61 | 0.00 | 2 | 4 |
| 8 | Natalia Popova | Ukraine | 53.44 | 27.95 | 25.49 | 6.54 | 6.11 | 6.30 | 6.32 | 6.39 | 0.00 | 4 | 3 |
| 9 | Nathalie Weinzierl | Germany | 52.16 | 28.21 | 24.95 | 6.36 | 5.93 | 6.25 | 6.29 | 6.36 | −1.00 | 5 | 2 |
| 10 | Jenna McCorkell | Great Britain | 50.09 | 26.48 | 23.61 | 5.93 | 5.57 | 6.11 | 5.86 | 6.04 | 0.00 | 3 | 1 |

### Free programs
#### Pairs

| Pl. | Name | Nation | TSS | TES | PCS | SS | TR | PE | CH | IN | Ded | StN | Pts. |
| 1 | Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov | Russia | 135.09 | 67.03 | 68.06 | 8.39 | 8.29 | 8.57 | 8.61 | 8.68 | 0.00 | 5 | 10 |
| 2 | Kirsten Moore-Towers / Dylan Moscovitch | Canada | 129.74 | 64.89 | 64.85 | 8.14 | 7.82 | 8.25 | 8.11 | 8.21 | 0.00 | 4 | 9 |
| 3 | Stefania Berton / Ondřej Hotárek | Italy | 120.82 | 60.45 | 61.37 | 7.71 | 7.46 | 7.61 | 7.75 | 7.82 | −1.00 | 3 | 8 |
| 4 | Marissa Castelli / Simon Shnapir | United States | 117.94 | 60.27 | 58.67 | 7.32 | 7.21 | 7.39 | 7.32 | 7.43 | −1.00 | 2 | 7 |
| 5 | Narumi Takahashi / Ryuichi Kihara | Japan | 86.33 | 43.86 | 42.47 | 5.54 | 5.04 | 5.36 | 5.29 | 5.32 | 0.00 | 1 | 6 |

#### Men

| Pl. | Name | Nation | TSS | TES | PCS | SS | TR | PE | CH | IN | Ded | StN | Pts. |
| 1 | Evgeni Plushenko | Russia | 168.20 | 81.48 | 86.72 | 8.75 | 7.54 | 9.14 | 8.79 | 9.14 | 0.00 | 4 | 10 |
| 2 | Kevin Reynolds | Canada | 167.92 | 89.00 | 78.92 | 7.93 | 7.64 | 8.00 | 7.96 | 7.93 | 0.00 | 3 | 9 |
| 3 | Tatsuki Machida | Japan | 165.85 | 83.13 | 82.72 | 8.32 | 7.82 | 8.32 | 8.36 | 8.54 | 0.00 | 5 | 8 |
| 4 | Jason Brown | United States | 153.67 | 75.45 | 79.22 | 7.79 | 7.82 | 7.93 | 7.96 | 8.11 | −1.00 | 2 | 7 |
| 5 | Paul Bonifacio Parkinson | Italy | 121.23 | 66.97 | 56.26 | 5.89 | 5.21 | 5.75 | 5.57 | 5.71 | −2.00 | 1 | 6 |

#### Ladies

| Pl. | Name | Nation | TSS | TES | PCS | SS | TR | PE | CH | IN | Ded | StN | Pts. |
| 1 | Yulia Lipnitskaya | Russia | 141.51 | 71.69 | 69.82 | 8.64 | 8.43 | 8.86 | 8.82 | 8.89 | 0.00 | 5 | 10 |
| 2 | Gracie Gold | United States | 129.38 | 68.49 | 61.89 | 7.82 | 7.43 | 7.86 | 7.75 | 7.82 | 0.00 | 2 | 9 |
| 3 | Valentina Marchei | Italy | 112.51 | 54.00 | 58.51 | 7.21 | 7.04 | 7.50 | 7.32 | 7.50 | 0.00 | 4 | 8 |
| 4 | Akiko Suzuki | Japan | 112.33 | 49.32 | 63.01 | 8.07 | 7.75 | 7.71 | 7.89 | 7.96 | 0.00 | 3 | 7 |
| 5 | Kaetlyn Osmond | Canada | 110.73 | 54.53 | 57.20 | 7.11 | 6.89 | 7.25 | 7.21 | 7.29 | −1.00 | 1 | 6 |

#### Ice dance

| Pl. | Name | Nation | TSS | TES | PCS | SS | TR | PE | CH | IN | Ded | StN | Pts. |
| 1 | Meryl Davis / Charlie White | United States | 114.34 | 55.80 | 58.54 | 9.64 | 9.61 | 9.96 | 9.89 | 9.82 | 0.00 | 5 | 10 |
| 2 | Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir | Canada | 107.56 | 50.37 | 57.19 | 9.50 | 9.32 | 9.64 | 9.68 | 9.68 | 0.00 | 4 | 9 |
| 3 | Elena Ilinykh / Nikita Katsalapov | Russia | 103.48 | 50.36 | 54.12 | 9.00 | 8.68 | 9.25 | 9.25 | 9.18 | −1.00 | 3 | 8 |
| 4 | Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri | Italy | 81.25 | 41.33 | 39.92 | 6.71 | 6.43 | 6.75 | 6.82 | 6.71 | 0.00 | 2 | 7 |
| 5 | Cathy Reed / Chris Reed | Japan | 76.34 | 38.13 | 39.21 | 6.54 | 6.32 | 6.68 | 6.75 | 6.54 | −1.00 | 1 | 6 |

### Team overall

The final results were as follows:
| Pl. | Nation | M-SP | P-SP | D-SD | L-SP | P-FS | M-FS | L-FS | D-FD | Pts. |
| | Russia | 9 | 10 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 75 |
| | Canada | 8 | 9 | 9 | 6 | 9 | 9 | 6 | 9 | 65 |
| | United States | 4 | 6 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 10 | 60 |
| 4 | Italy | 1 | 7 | 6 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 52 |
| 5 | Japan | 10 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 51 |
| 6 | France | 6 | 4 | 7 | 5 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | 22 |
| 7 | China | 7 | 8 | 1 | 4 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | 20 |
| 8 | Germany | 5 | 5 | 5 | 2 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | 17 |
| 9 | Ukraine | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | 10 |
| 10 | Great Britain | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | 8 |

## Judges and officials

* Referee: Mona Jonsson, Fabio Bianchetti
* Technical Controller: Paolo Pizzocari, Karen Archer
* Technical Specialist: Anett Pötzsch, Troy Goldstein
* Assistant Technical Specialist: Olga Markova, Peter Cain
* Judges (SP): Yukiko Okabe, Sissy Krick, Elizabeth Littler, Karen Butcher, Evgeni Rokhin, Samuel Auxier, Igor Obraztsov, Peter Levin, Tatiana Yordanova
* Judges (FS): Tatiana Yordanova, Nikolai Salnikov, Sissy Krick, Karen Butcher, Elizabeth Littler, Yumin Wang, Vladslav Perukhov, Elena Fomina, Albert Zaydman