Figure skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Ice dance

The ice dance competition of the 2018 Winter Olympics was held on 19 and 20 February 2018 at the Gangneung Ice Arena in Gangneung, South Korea.^[1] The short dance was held on 19 February and the free dance was held on 20 February.^[2][3]

Ice dance at the XXIII Olympic Winter Games
The ice dance podium at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Venue	Gangneung Ice Arena Gangneung, South Korea
Dates	19–20 February
Competitors	48 from 17 nations
Winning score	206.07
Medalists
Tessa Virtue Scott Moir  Canada Gabriella Papadakis Guillaume Cizeron  France Maia Shibutani Alex Shibutani  United States
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Summary

In the short dance, Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir scored 83.67, breaking their own world record. Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron finished in second place, 1.74 points behind Virtue/Moir. Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue were third, and Maia Shibutani and Alex Shibutani finished in fourth place, with just 0.02 points separating the two couples.

In the free dance, Shibutani/Shibutani were the 17th couple to take to the ice, starting off in 4th place after the short dance; they took the lead with a combined total score of 192.59. Papadakis/Cizeron were next to skate, and they broke their world records for both the free dance and the total score, finishing with 205.28 points. Hubbell/Donohue received a deduction for a fall and were briefly in third place with 187.69 points. The last to skate were Virtue/Moir, who scored less than Papadakis/Cizeron in the free dance but still scored enough points overall to win the gold medal, setting another world record with a total score of 206.07.

This was the third Olympic medal that Virtue/Moir had won in ice dance; they won their first gold in 2010 and they took silver in 2014. It was also their fifth Olympic medal overall (including two team medals in 2014 and 2018), making them the most decorated figure skaters in Olympic history.^[4]

For the first time since ice dance became an Olympic event in 1976, no Soviet or Russian team won a medal.

Records

See also: World and Olympic records set at the 2018 Winter Olympics

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

The following new best scores were set during this competition:

Component	Skaters	Score	Date	Ref
Short dance	Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir (CAN)	83.67	19 February 2018	[5]
Free dance	Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron (FRA)	123.35	20 February 2018	[4]
Combined total	Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir (CAN)	206.07		[4]

Qualification

Main article: Figure skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Qualification

A total of 24 teams qualified to compete for the event, with each country allowed to enter a maximum of three teams. 19 quotas were handed out during the 2017 World Figure Skating Championships, however Denmark was forced to return the quota when it was found that one of their athletes did not have Danish citizenship (and there was no other eligible team from the country). The remaining six quotas 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.^[6] All pairs competing needed to have met the minimum total elements score, which did not include component scores. For the short program this was 19.00 and for the free skate it was 29.00.^[7]

Schedule

All times are (UTC+9).

Date	Time	Round
19 February	10:00[2]	Short dance
20 February	10:00[2]	Free dance

Results

Short dance

The short dance was held on 19 February.^[2][8]

Pl.	Name	Nation	TSS	TES	PCS	SS	TR	PE	CH	IN	Ded	StN
1	Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir	Canada	83.67 WR	44.53	39.14	9.68	9.61	9.93	9.79	9.93	0.00	20
2	Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron	France	81.93	42.71	39.22	9.71	9.71	9.82	9.89	9.89	0.00	21
3	Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue	United States	77.75	40.98	36.77	9.29	9.04	9.25	9.14	9.25	0.00	22
4	Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani	United States	77.73	40.33	37.40	9.36	9.18	9.46	9.36	9.39	0.00	18
5	Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte	Italy	76.57	40.00	36.57	8.93	8.96	9.32	9.14	9.36	0.00	24
6	Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev	Olympic Athletes from Russia	75.47	38.36	37.11	9.18	9.14	9.46	9.29	9.32	0.00	23
7	Madison Chock / Evan Bates	United States	75.45	39.39	36.06	8.93	8.86	9.04	9.11	9.14	0.00	19
8	Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje	Canada	74.33	37.65	36.68	9.18	8.96	9.29	9.14	9.29	0.00	17
9	Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier	Canada	69.60	34.95	34.65	8.64	8.46	8.71	8.79	8.71	0.00	16
10	Penny Coomes / Nicholas Buckland	Great Britain	68.36	34.70	33.66	8.36	8.14	8.50	8.54	8.54	0.00	9
11	Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri	Italy	68.16	34.19	33.97	8.46	8.43	8.50	8.46	8.61	0.00	15
12	Sara Hurtado / Kirill Khaliavin	Spain	66.93	35.07	31.86	8.00	7.57	8.18	7.86	8.21	0.00	7
13	Tiffany Zahorski / Jonathan Guerreiro	Olympic Athletes from Russia	66.47	34.15	32.32	8.04	7.79	8.21	8.07	8.29	0.00	5
14	Natalia Kaliszek / Maksym Spodyriev	Poland	66.06	34.65	31.41	7.79	7.61	8.04	7.86	7.96	0.00	13
15	Kana Muramoto / Chris Reed	Japan	63.41	32.87	30.54	7.61	7.46	7.71	7.68	7.71	0.00	14
16	Yura Min / Alexander Gamelin	South Korea	61.22	32.94	28.28	6.96	6.82	7.21	7.18	7.18	0.00	12
17	Kavita Lorenz / Joti Polizoakis	Germany	59.99	31.39	28.60	7.21	6.86	7.25	7.21	7.21	0.00	3
18	Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac	France	59.97	31.18	28.79	7.39	7.00	7.29	7.14	7.18	0.00	6
19	Lucie Myslivečková / Lukáš Csölley	Slovakia	59.75	31.40	28.35	7.11	6.79	7.25	7.11	7.18	0.00	11
20	Alisa Agafonova / Alper Uçar	Turkey	59.42	29.64	29.78	7.46	7.32	7.54	7.61	7.29	0.00	8
did not advance to free dance
21	Oleksandra Nazarova / Maxim Nikitin	Ukraine	57.97	27.26	30.71	7.64	7.46	7.75	7.79	7.75	0.00	2
22	Wang Shiyue / Liu Xinyu	China	57.81	29.28	29.53	7.39	7.25	7.43	7.43	7.43	-1.00	10
23	Cortney Mansourová / Michal Češka	Czech Republic	53.53	29.11	24.42	6.29	5.93	6.14	6.25	5.93	0.00	1
24	Adel Tankova / Ronald Zilberberg	Israel	46.66	23.85	22.81	5.75	5.61	5.75	5.86	5.54	0.00	4

• Notes:
• WR - World record
• 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 was held on 20 February.^[2][9]

Pl.	Name	Nation	TSS	TES	PCS	SS	TR	PE	CH	IN	Ded	StN
1	Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron	France	123.35 WR	63.98	59.37	9.79	9.75	10.00	9.93	10.00	0.00	18
2	Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir	Canada	122.40	63.35	59.05	9.71	9.61	9.96	9.93	10.00	0.00	20
3	Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani	United States	114.86	59.37	55.49	9.32	9.07	9.36	9.21	9.29	0.00	17
4	Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev	Olympic Athletes from Russia	111.45	56.25	55.20	9.14	8.89	9.29	9.32	9.36	0.00	15
5	Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue	United States	109.04	54.94	56.00	9.29	9.21	9.25	9.46	9.46	-1.00	19
6	Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte	Italy	108.34	55.27	54.07	8.93	8.71	9.14	9.07	9.21	-1.00	16
7	Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje	Canada	107.65	53.48	54.17	8.96	8.75	9.18	9.04	9.21	0.00	13
8	Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier	Canada	107.31	55.14	52.17	8.68	8.29	8.86	8.68	8.96	0.00	11
9	Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri	Italy	105.31	53.82	51.49	8.57	8.50	8.57	8.57	8.71	0.00	6
10	Penny Coomes / Nicholas Buckland	Great Britain	101.96	51.66	50.30	8.32	8.21	8.39	8.57	8.43	0.00	12
11	Sara Hurtado / Kirill Khaliavin	Spain	101.40	51.68	49.72	8.14	8.04	8.43	8.36	8.46	0.00	10
12	Madison Chock / Evan Bates	United States	100.13	49.04	53.09	8.64	8.71	8.71	9.14	9.04	-2.00	14
13	Kana Muramoto / Chris Reed	Japan	97.22	50.75	46.47	7.64	7.54	7.86	7.75	7.93	0.00	8
14	Tiffany Zahorski / Jonathan Guerreiro	Olympic Athletes from Russia	95.77	46.73	49.04	8.14	8.00	8.29	8.14	8.29	0.00	9
15	Natalia Kaliszek / Maksym Spodyriev	Poland	95.29	48.45	46.84	7.64	7.68	7.89	7.82	8.00	0.00	7
16	Kavita Lorenz / Joti Polizoakis	Germany	90.50	46.78	43.72	7.29	6.96	7.43	7.32	7.43	0.00	3
17	Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac	France	89.62	47.04	42.58	7.25	6.82	7.14	7.21	7.07	0.00	1
18	Alisa Agafonova / Alper Uçar	Turkey	87.76	44.01	43.75	7.25	7.11	7.21	7.50	7.39	0.00	5
19	Yura Min / Alexander Gamelin	South Korea	86.52	44.61	41.91	6.89	6.68	7.14	6.96	7.25	0.00	4
20	Lucie Myslivečková / Lukáš Csölley	Slovakia	82.82	41.65	41.17	6.82	6.61	6.82	7.00	7.07	0.00	2

• Notes:
• WR - World record
• 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.^[10]

Rank	Name	Nation	Total Points	SD		FD
	Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir	Canada	206.07 WR	83.67	1	122.40	2
	Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron	France	205.28	81.93	2	123.35	1
	Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani	United States	192.59	77.73	4	114.86	3
4	Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue	United States	187.69	77.75	3	109.94	5
5	Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev	Olympic Athletes from Russia	186.92	75.47	6	111.45	4
6	Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte	Italy	184.91	76.57	5	108.34	6
7	Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje	Canada	181.98	74.33	8	107.65	7
8	Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier	Canada	176.91	69.60	9	107.31	8
9	Madison Chock / Evan Bates	United States	175.58	75.45	7	100.13	12
10	Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri	Italy	173.47	68.16	11	105.31	9
11	Penny Coomes / Nicholas Buckland	Great Britain	170.32	68.36	10	101.96	10
12	Sara Hurtado / Kirill Khaliavin	Spain	168.33	66.93	12	101.40	11
13	Tiffany Zahorski / Jonathan Guerreiro	Olympic Athletes from Russia	162.24	66.47	13	95.77	14
14	Natalia Kaliszek / Maksym Spodyriev	Poland	161.35	66.06	14	95.29	15
15	Kana Muramoto / Chris Reed	Japan	160.63	63.41	15	97.22	13
16	Kavita Lorenz / Joti Polizoakis	Germany	150.49	59.99	17	90.50	16
17	Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac	France	149.59	59.97	18	89.62	17
18	Yura Min / Alexander Gamelin	South Korea	147.74	61.22	16	86.52	19
19	Alisa Agafonova / Alper Uçar	Turkey	147.18	59.42	20	87.76	18
20	Lucie Myslivečková / Lukáš Csölley	Slovakia	142.57	59.75	19	82.82	20
did not advance to free dance
21	Oleksandra Nazarova / Maxim Nikitin	Ukraine	—	57.97	21	—	—
22	Wang Shiyue / Liu Xinyu	China	—	57.81	22	—	—
23	Cortney Mansourová / Michal Češka	Czech Republic	—	53.53	23	—	—
24	Adel Tankova / Ronald Zilberberg	Israel	—	46.66	24	—	—

SD - Short dance; FD - Free dance

References

Citations

1. "Venues". www.pyeongchang2018.com/. Pyeongchang 2018 Olympic Organizing Committee for the 2018 Winter Olympics. Archived from the original on 17 February 2018. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
2. "Schedule". Archived from the original on 5 November 2017. Retrieved 6 January 2018.
3. Start list
4. "Canada's Tessa Virtue, Scott Moir become most decorated figure skaters in Olympic history". ESPN.com. 20 February 2018. Retrieved 20 February 2018.
5. Barnes, Dan (18 February 2018). "Tessa Virtue, Scott Moir set world record to lead Olympic ice dance short". National Post. Retrieved 19 February 2018.
6. "Qualification Systems for XXIII Olympic Winter Games, PyeongChang 2018, Figure skating". International Skating Union (ISU). 17 May 2016. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
7. "Extract from ISU Communication 2097". www.iceskating.org.uk/. National Ice Skating Association (UK). Archived from the original on 20 July 2017. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
8. Short dance results
9. Free dance results
10. Final results