# Figure skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics

Figure skating at the 2018 Olympic Winter Games 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 and nine women. An additional six quota spots were made available for the team event. A further ten team trophy quotas (two in each discipline) 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 (UTC+9).
| Date | Time | Event |
| 9 February | 10:00 | Team event (men's short) |
| 9 February | 10:00 | Team event (pair short) |
| 11 February | 10:00 | Team event (ice dance short) |
| 11 February | 10:00 | Team event (ladies' short) |
| 11 February | 10:00 | Team event (pair 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) |
| 14 February | 10:00 | Pair skating (short) |
| 15 February | 10:30 | Pair skating (free) |
| 16 February | 10:00 | Men's singles (short) |
| 17 February | 10:00 | Men's singles (free) |
| 19 February | 10:00 | Ice dance (short) |
| 20 February | 10:00 | Ice dance (free) |
| 21 February | 10:00 | Ladies' singles (short) |
| 23 February | 10:00 | Ladies' singles (free) |
| 25 February | 9:30 | Gala exhibition |

## Medal summary
### Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Canada | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 2 | Olympic Athletes from Russia | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 3 | Japan | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 4 | Germany | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | China | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | France | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | United States | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 8 | Spain | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (8 entries) | Totals (8 entries) | 5 | 5 | 5 | 15 |

### Events

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| Men's singles details | Yuzuru Hanyu Japan | 317.85 | Shoma Uno Japan | 306.90 | Javier Fernández Spain | 305.24 |
| Ladies' singles details | Alina Zagitova Olympic Athletes from Russia | 239.57 | Evgenia Medvedeva Olympic Athletes from Russia | 238.26 | Kaetlyn Osmond Canada | 231.02 |
| Pair skating details | Aljona Savchenko Bruno Massot Germany | 235.90 | Sui Wenjing Han Cong China | 235.47 | Meagan Duhamel Eric Radford Canada | 230.15 |
| Ice dance details | Tessa Virtue Scott Moir Canada | 206.07 WR | Gabriella Papadakis Guillaume Cizeron France | 205.28 | Maia Shibutani Alex Shibutani United States | 192.59 |
| Team details | Canada (CAN) Patrick Chan Kaetlyn Osmond* Gabrielle Daleman** Meagan Duhamel Eric Radford Tessa Virtue Scott Moir | 73 | Olympic Athletes from Russia (OAR) Mikhail Kolyada Evgenia Medvedeva* Alina Zagitova** Evgenia Tarasova Vladimir Morozov* Natalia Zabiiako Alexander Enbert** Ekaterina Bobrova Dmitri Soloviev | 66 | United States (USA) Nathan Chen* Adam Rippon** Bradie Tennell* Mirai Nagasu** Alexa Scimeca Knierim Chris Knierim Maia Shibutani Alex Shibutani | 62 |
$^*$ 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.
| Country | Men | Ladies | Pairs | Ice dance |
| Australia | Brendan Kerry | Kailani Craine | Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya / Harley Windsor | |
| Austria | | | Miriam Ziegler / Severin Kiefer | |
| Belgium | Jorik Hendrickx | Loena Hendrickx | | |
| Brazil | | Isadora Williams | | |
| Canada | 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 |
| China | Jin Boyang Yan Han | Li Xiangning | Peng Cheng / Jin Yang Sui Wenjing / Han Cong Yu Xiaoyu / Zhang Hao | Wang Shiyue / Liu Xinyu |
| Czech Republic | Michal Březina | | Anna Dušková / Martin Bidař | Cortney Mansour / Michal Češka |
| Finland | | Emmi Peltonen | | |
| France | Chafik Besseghier | Maé-Bérénice Méité | Vanessa James / Morgan Ciprès | Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac |
| Georgia | Moris Kvitelashvili | | | |
| Germany | Paul Fentz | Nicole Schott | Annika Hocke / Ruben Blommaert Aljona Savchenko / Bruno Massot | Kavita Lorenz / Joti Polizoakis |
| Great Britain | | | | Penny Coomes / Nicholas Buckland |
| Hungary | | Ivett Tóth | | |
| Israel | Oleksii Bychenko Daniel Samohin | Aimee Buchanan (team event only) | Paige Conners / Evgeni Krasnopolski | Adel Tankova / Ronald Zilberberg |
| Italy | Matteo Rizzo | Carolina Kostner Giada Russo | Nicole Della Monica / Matteo Guarise Valentina Marchei / Ondrej Hotarek | Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte Charlene Guignard / Marco Fabbri |
| Japan | Yuzuru Hanyu Keiji Tanaka Shoma Uno | Satoko Miyahara Kaori Sakamoto | Miu Suzaki / Ryuichi Kihara | Kana Muramoto / Chris Reed |
| Kazakhstan | Denis Ten | Aiza Mambekova Elizabet Tursynbayeva | | |
| Latvia | Deniss Vasiļjevs | Diāna Ņikitina | | |
| Malaysia | Julian Yee | | | |
| North Korea | | | Ryom Tae-ok / Kim Ju-sik | |
| Olympic Athletes from Russia | 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 |
| Philippines | Michael Christian Martinez | | | |
| Poland | | | | Natalia Kaliszek / Maksym Spodyriev |
| Slovakia | | Nicole Rajičová | | Lucie Myslivečková / Lukáš Csölley |
| South Korea | Cha Jun-hwan | Choi Da-bin Kim Ha-nul | Kim Kyu-eun / Alex Kangchan Kam | Yura Min / Alexander Gamelin |
| Spain | Javier Fernández Felipe Montoya | | | Sara Hurtado / Kirill Khaliavin |
| Sweden | | Anita Östlund | | |
| Switzerland | | Alexia Paganini | | |
| Turkey | | | | Alisa Agafonova / Alper Uçar |
| Ukraine | Yaroslav Paniot | Anna Khnychenkova | | Oleksandra Nazarova / Maxim Nikitin |
| United States | Nathan Chen Adam Rippon Vincent Zhou | Karen Chen Mirai Nagasu Bradie Tennell | Alexa Scimeca Knierim / Chris Knierim | Madison Chock / Evan Bates Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani |
| Uzbekistan | Misha Ge | | | |
* Isabella Tobias and Ilia Tkachenko, who qualified in an ice dance spot for Israel, were replaced by Tankova and Zilberberg because Tkachenko's application for Israeli citizenship was denied.
* Alexander Majorov was unable to achieve the performance level required by the Swedish Olympic Committee. Thus, the Committee gave up the corresponding quota for men's singles.
* Ksenia Stolbova and Ivan Bukin were not invited to the 2018 Winter Olympics by the International Olympic Committee.
* The Olympic Committee of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea failed to submit paperwork on time and thus lost their pairs spot qualified by Ryom Tae-ok and Kim Ju-sik. The International Olympic Committee later awarded the country a wild-card spot following negotiations between North and South Korea.

## Records and firsts

The following new ISU best scores were set during this competition.
| Event | Date | Component | Skater(s) | Country | Score |
| Team event | 11 February | Short program | Evgenia Medvedeva | Olympic Athletes from Russia | 81.06 |
| Pair skating | 15 February | Free skating | Aljona Savchenko / Bruno Massot | Germany | 159.31 |
| Ice dance | 19 February | Short dance | Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir | Canada | 83.67 |
| Ice dance | 20 February | Free dance | Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron | France | 123.35 |
| Ice dance | 20 February | Combined total | Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron | France | 205.28 |
| Ice dance | 20 February | Combined total | Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir | Canada | 206.07 |
| Ladies' singles | 21 February | Short program | Evgenia Medvedeva | Olympic Athletes from Russia | 81.61 |
| Ladies' singles | 21 February | Short program | Alina Zagitova | Olympic Athletes from Russia | 82.92 |

## 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.
* Australia (4)
* Austria (2)
* Belgium (2)
* Brazil (1)
* Canada (17)
* China (11)
* Czech Republic (5)
* Finland (1)
* France (8)
* Georgia (1)
* Germany (8)
* Great Britain (2)
* Hungary (1)
* Israel (7)
* Italy (11)
* Japan (9)
* Kazakhstan (3)
* Latvia (2)
* Malaysia (1)
* North Korea (2)
* Olympic Athletes from Russia (15)
* Philippines (1)
* Poland (2)
* Slovakia (3)
* South Korea (7)
* Spain (4)
* Sweden (1)
* Switzerland (1)
* Turkey (2)
* Ukraine (4)
* United States (14)
* Uzbekistan (1)