# Figure skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Ice dance

The ice dance competition in figure skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics was held on 12 February (rhythm dance) and 14 February (free dance), at the Capital Indoor Stadium in Haidian District of Beijing. Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron of France won the event. Victoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov, representing the Russian Olympic Committee, won the silver medal, and Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue from the United States bronze.

## Summary

The 2018 champions Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir and bronze medalists Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani retired from competition. The silver medalists, Papadakis / Cizeron, had the highest score of the 2021–22 season before the Olympics. Victoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov had the second-highest score of the season and are the 2021 World champions, where Papadakis/Cizeron did not compete. In ice dance, the possibility of major error is small, and the scores at the Olympics are typically consistent with the scores throughout the Olympic season; as a result, Papadakis/Cizeron and Sinitsina/Katsalapov were considered the main gold contenders, with Papadakis/Cizeron the favorites.
Papadakis/Cizeron broke their own world record in the rhythm dance to take a two-point lead over Sinitsina/Katsalapov into the free dance, which Papadakis/Cizeron then won by 5 points and narrowly missed breaking their own world record. Their combined total score was a new world record and they won the gold medal by 6.5 points ahead of Sinitsina/Katsalapov. Hubbell/Donohue were third in both segments to win the bronze medal by 4 points ahead of their American teammates Madison Chock / Evan Bates.

## Records

Prior to the competition, the existing ISU best scores were:
| Component | Skater | Score | Date | Event |
| Rhythm dance | Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron (FRA) | 90.03 | 22 November 2019 | 2019 NHK Trophy |
| Free dance | Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron (FRA) | 136.58 | 23 November 2019 | 2019 NHK Trophy |
| Total score | Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron (FRA) | 226.61 | 23 November 2019 | 2019 NHK Trophy |
The following new best scores were set during this competition:
| Component | Skaters | Score | Date | Ref |
| Rhythm dance | Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron (FRA) | 90.83 | 12 February 2022 | |
| Total score | Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron (FRA) | 226.98 | 14 February 2022 | |

## Results
### Rhythm dance

The rhythm dance competition was held on 12 February.
| Pl. | Name | Nation | TSS | TES | PCS | SS | TR | PE | CH | IN | Ded | StN |
| 1 | Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron | France | 90.83 | 51.65 | 39.18 | 9.71 | 9.61 | 9.86 | 9.82 | 9.96 | 0.00 | 18 |
| 2 | Victoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov | ROC | 88.85 | 50.26 | 38.59 | 9.64 | 9.46 | 9.71 | 9.68 | 9.75 | 0.00 | 19 |
| 3 | Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue | United States | 87.13 | 48.82 | 38.31 | 9.61 | 9.36 | 9.64 | 9.64 | 9.64 | 0.00 | 23 |
| 4 | Madison Chock / Evan Bates | United States | 84.14 | 46.39 | 37.75 | 9.36 | 9.25 | 9.50 | 9.57 | 9.50 | 0.00 | 20 |
| 5 | Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin | ROC | 84.09 | 47.09 | 37.00 | 9.18 | 9.00 | 9.32 | 9.32 | 9.43 | 0.00 | 16 |
| 6 | Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier | Canada | 83.52 | 46.17 | 37.35 | 9.32 | 9.18 | 9.46 | 9.36 | 9.36 | 0.00 | 21 |
| 7 | Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri | Italy | 82.68 | 45.85 | 36.83 | 9.14 | 9.04 | 9.32 | 9.29 | 9.25 | 0.00 | 22 |
| 8 | Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen | Canada | 78.54 | 43.89 | 34.65 | 8.68 | 8.46 | 8.71 | 8.71 | 8.75 | 0.00 | 15 |
| 9 | Olivia Smart / Adrián Díaz | Spain | 77.70 | 42.78 | 34.92 | 8.61 | 8.50 | 8.82 | 8.79 | 8.93 | 0.00 | 14 |
| 10 | Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson | Great Britain | 76.45 | 41.70 | 34.75 | 8.54 | 8.43 | 8.82 | 8.79 | 8.86 | 0.00 | 17 |
| 11 | Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker | United States | 74.58 | 40.80 | 33.78 | 8.36 | 8.21 | 8.54 | 8.50 | 8.61 | 0.00 | 13 |
| 12 | Wang Shiyue / Liu Xinyu | China | 73.41 | 40.16 | 33.25 | 8.29 | 8.14 | 8.43 | 8.39 | 8.32 | 0.00 | 11 |
| 13 | Marjorie Lajoie / Zachary Lagha | Canada | 72.59 | 39.67 | 32.92 | 8.18 | 8.00 | 8.36 | 8.32 | 8.29 | 0.00 | 12 |
| 14 | Diana Davis / Gleb Smolkin | ROC | 71.66 | 39.31 | 32.25 | 7.96 | 7.86 | 8.21 | 8.11 | 8.29 | 0.00 | 9 |
| 15 | Natalia Kaliszek / Maksym Spodyriev | Poland | 70.32 | 39.51 | 30.81 | 7.57 | 7.57 | 7.71 | 7.86 | 7.79 | 0.00 | 7 |
| 16 | Juulia Turkkila / Matthias Versluis | Finland | 68.23 | 38.14 | 31.09 | 7.79 | 7.54 | 7.93 | 7.79 | 7.82 | 1.00 | 2 |
| 17 | Natálie Taschlerová / Filip Taschler | Czech Republic | 67.22 | 37.07 | 30.15 | 7.57 | 7.29 | 7.57 | 7.61 | 7.64 | 0.00 | 4 |
| 18 | Maria Kazakova / Georgy Reviya | Georgia | 67.08 | 37.17 | 29.91 | 7.43 | 7.21 | 7.54 | 7.57 | 7.64 | 0.00 | 8 |
| 19 | Tina Garabedian / Simon Proulx-Sénécal | Armenia | 65.87 | 35.57 | 30.30 | 7.57 | 7.36 | 7.71 | 7.61 | 7.61 | 0.00 | 10 |
| 20 | Oleksandra Nazarova / Maksym Nikitin | Ukraine | 65.53 | 35.44 | 30.09 | 7.54 | 7.50 | 7.50 | 7.50 | 7.57 | 0.00 | 3 |
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| 21 | Katharina Müller / Tim Dieck | Germany | 65.47 | 35.56 | 29.91 | 7.43 | 7.29 | 7.64 | 7.54 | 7.50 | 0.00 | 1 |
| 22 | Misato Komatsubara / Tim Koleto | Japan | 65.41 | 35.58 | 29.83 | 7.46 | 7.25 | 7.54 | 7.54 | 7.50 | 0.00 | 6 |
| 23 | Paulina Ramanauskaitė / Deividas Kizala | Lithuania | 58.35 | 32.49 | 25.86 | 6.54 | 6.18 | 6.61 | 6.54 | 6.43 | 0.00 | 5 |
* Notes:
* TSS – Total Segment Score; TES – Technical Element Score; PCS – Program Component Score
* SS – Skating Skills; TR – Transitions; PE – Performance/Execution
* CH – Choreography; IN – Interpretation; Ded – Deduction; StN – Starting Number

### Free dance

The free dance competition was held on 14 February.
| Pl. | Name | Nation | TSS | TES | PCS | SS | TR | PE | CH | IN | Ded | StN |
| 1 | Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron | France | 136.15 | 76.75 | 59.40 | 9.82 | 9.79 | 9.96 | 10.00 | 9.93 | 0.00 | 20 |
| 2 | Victoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov | ROC | 131.66 | 73.43 | 58.23 | 9.71 | 9.61 | 9.75 | 9.71 | 9.75 | 0.00 | 19 |
| 3 | Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue | United States | 130.89 | 73.56 | 58.33 | 9.75 | 9.57 | 9.82 | 9.68 | 9.79 | 1.00 | 18 |
| 4 | Madison Chock / Evan Bates | United States | 130.63 | 72.59 | 58.04 | 9.50 | 9.54 | 9.68 | 9.89 | 9.75 | 0.00 | 17 |
| 5 | Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri | Italy | 124.37 | 69.22 | 55.15 | 9.14 | 9.07 | 9.29 | 9.21 | 9.25 | 0.00 | 14 |
| 6 | Olivia Smart / Adrián Díaz | Spain | 121.41 | 67.71 | 53.70 | 8.75 | 8.68 | 9.14 | 9.11 | 9.07 | 0.00 | 12 |
| 7 | Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier | Canada | 121.26 | 66.19 | 55.07 | 9.14 | 9.04 | 9.21 | 9.21 | 9.29 | 0.00 | 15 |
| 8 | Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin | ROC | 120.98 | 65.34 | 55.64 | 9.25 | 9.18 | 9.18 | 9.46 | 9.29 | 0.00 | 16 |
| 9 | Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson | Great Britain | 115.19 | 63.21 | 51.98 | 8.50 | 8.39 | 8.82 | 8.79 | 8.82 | 0.00 | 11 |
| 10 | Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker | United States | 115.16 | 62.99 | 52.17 | 8.61 | 8.54 | 8.75 | 8.68 | 8.89 | 0.00 | 10 |
| 11 | Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen | Canada | 113.81 | 61.05 | 52.76 | 8.75 | 8.61 | 8.86 | 8.86 | 8.89 | 0.00 | 13 |
| 12 | Wang Shiyue / Liu Xinyu | China | 111.01 | 61.34 | 50.67 | 8.39 | 8.25 | 8.54 | 8.50 | 8.54 | 1.00 | 9 |
| 13 | Marjorie Lajoie / Zachary Lagha | Canada | 108.43 | 58.93 | 49.50 | 8.18 | 7.96 | 8.39 | 8.36 | 8.36 | 0.00 | 8 |
| 14 | Diana Davis / Gleb Smolkin | ROC | 108.16 | 59.77 | 48.39 | 7.89 | 7.75 | 8.25 | 8.25 | 8.18 | 0.00 | 7 |
| 15 | Juulia Turkkila / Matthias Versluis | Finland | 105.65 | 58.07 | 47.58 | 7.82 | 7.54 | 8.14 | 8.11 | 8.04 | 0.00 | 5 |
| 16 | Tina Garabedian / Simon Proulx-Sénécal | Armenia | 101.16 | 55.74 | 45.42 | 7.54 | 7.32 | 7.71 | 7.64 | 7.64 | 0.00 | 2 |
| 17 | Natálie Taschlerová / Filip Taschler | Czech Republic | 101.10 | 55.42 | 45.68 | 7.68 | 7.39 | 7.64 | 7.71 | 7.64 | 0.00 | 4 |
| 18 | Oleksandra Nazarova / Maksym Nikitin | Ukraine | 97.34 | 52.30 | 45.04 | 7.43 | 7.39 | 7.46 | 7.61 | 7.64 | 0.00 | 1 |
| 19 | Maria Kazakova / Georgy Reviya | Georgia | 97.25 | 52.21 | 45.04 | 7.43 | 7.39 | 7.43 | 7.71 | 7.57 | 0.00 | 3 |
| 20 | Natalia Kaliszek / Maksym Spodyriev | Poland | 96.99 | 54.26 | 44.73 | 7.32 | 7.46 | 7.32 | 7.64 | 7.54 | 2.00 | 6 |
* Notes:
* TSS – Total Segment Score; TES – Technical Element Score; PCS – Program Component Score
* SS – Skating Skills; TR – Transitions; PE – Performance/Execution
* CH – Choreography; IN – Interpretation; Ded – Deduction; StN – Starting Number

### Overall

The skaters were ranked according to their total combined (overall) score.
| Rank | Name | Nation | Total | RD | RD | FD | FD |
| | Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron | France | 226.98 | 1 | 90.83 | 1 | 136.15 |
| | Victoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov | ROC | 220.51 | 2 | 88.85 | 2 | 131.66 |
| | Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue | United States | 218.02 | 3 | 87.13 | 3 | 130.89 |
| 4 | Madison Chock / Evan Bates | United States | 214.77 | 4 | 84.14 | 4 | 130.63 |
| 5 | Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri | Italy | 207.05 | 7 | 82.68 | 5 | 124.37 |
| 6 | Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin | ROC | 205.07 | 5 | 84.09 | 8 | 120.98 |
| 7 | Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier | Canada | 204.78 | 6 | 83.52 | 7 | 121.26 |
| 8 | Olivia Smart / Adrián Díaz | Spain | 199.11 | 9 | 77.70 | 6 | 121.41 |
| 9 | Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen | Canada | 192.35 | 8 | 78.54 | 11 | 113.81 |
| 10 | Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson | Great Britain | 191.64 | 10 | 76.45 | 9 | 115.19 |
| 11 | Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker | United States | 189.74 | 11 | 74.58 | 10 | 115.16 |
| 12 | Wang Shiyue / Liu Xinyu | China | 184.42 | 12 | 73.41 | 12 | 111.01 |
| 13 | Marjorie Lajoie / Zachary Lagha | Canada | 181.02 | 13 | 72.59 | 13 | 108.43 |
| 14 | Diana Davis / Gleb Smolkin | ROC | 179.82 | 14 | 71.66 | 14 | 108.16 |
| 15 | Juulia Turkkila / Matthias Versluis | Finland | 173.88 | 16 | 68.23 | 15 | 105.65 |
| 16 | Natálie Taschlerová / Filip Taschler | Czech Republic | 168.32 | 17 | 67.22 | 17 | 101.10 |
| 17 | Natalia Kaliszek / Maksym Spodyriev | Poland | 167.31 | 15 | 70.32 | 20 | 96.99 |
| 18 | Tina Garabedian / Simon Proulx-Sénécal | Armenia | 167.03 | 19 | 65.87 | 16 | 101.16 |
| 19 | Maria Kazakova / Georgy Reviya | Georgia | 164.33 | 18 | 67.08 | 19 | 97.25 |
| 20 | Oleksandra Nazarova / Maksym Nikitin | Ukraine | 162.87 | 20 | 65.53 | 18 | 97.34 |
| 21 | Katharina Müller / Tim Dieck | Germany | — | 21 | 65.47 | — | — |
| 22 | Misato Komatsubara / Tim Koleto | Japan | — | 22 | 65.41 | — | — |
| 23 | Paulina Ramanauskaitė / Deividas Kizala | Lithuania | — | 23 | 58.35 | — | — |