Figure skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics

The figure skating events at the 2022 Winter Olympics took place from 4 to 20 February at the Capital Indoor Stadium in Beijing, China. Medals were awarded in men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, ice dance, and the team event. Nathan Chen of the United States won the men's event; Anna Shcherbakova, representing the Russian Olympic Committee, won the women's event; Sui Wenjing and Han Cong of China won the pairs event, and Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron of France won the ice dance event. The figure skating events were overshadowed by scandal when it came to light that a positive test confirming the presence of a banned substance was received from a sample submitted by Kamila Valieva of Russia. The Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled that Valieva had to be allowed to compete in the individual women's event while the investigation was on-going. The team representing the Russian Olympic Committee originally finished in first place in the team event; however, the medal ceremony was postponed after Valieva's test results were announced. After nearly two years of litigation, Valieva's scores were stricken, and the newly-tabulated results awarded the gold medals to the team from the United States.

Figure Skating at the XXIV Olympic Winter Games
Figure skating pictogram
Venue	Capital Indoor Stadium
Dates	4–20 February 2022
No. of events	5
Competitors	148 (74 men, 74 women) from 32 nations
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Background

In 2016, an independent report commissioned by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) confirmed allegations that the Russian Olympic team had been involved in a state-sponsored doping program, active from at least late 2011 through August 2015. On 9 December 2019, the WADA banned Russia from all international competitions after it found that data provided by the Russian Anti-Doping Agency had been manipulated by Russian authorities in order to protect athletes involved in its doping scheme. Under a ban imposed by the Court of Arbitration for Sport, Russian athletes could not use the Russian flag or anthem in international competition and had to present themselves as "Neutral Athletes" or a "Neutral Team" at any world championships until 16 December 2022. On 19 February 2021, it was announced that Russian athletes would compete under the name of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) at the 2022 Winter Olympics.

A total of five events were contested: men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, ice dance, and the team event. Beginning with this season, the International Skating Union (ISU) changed the name of the women's event from "ladies' singles" to "women's singles".

Qualification

A total of 144 quota spots were available to athletes to compete in figure skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics. Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) was allowed to enter a maximum of 18 skaters, with a maximum of nine men or nine women. The results of the 2021 World Figure Skating Championships determined 83 total spots: 24 entries each in men's and women's singles, 16 in pair skating, and 19 in ice dance. The remaining quota spots were allocated based on the results of the 2021 Nebelhorn Trophy.

Number of qualified skaters or teams per nation

Nations	Men's singles	Women's singles	Pairs	Ice dance	Team event	Add.	Skater(s)
Armenia				1			2
Australia	1	1					2
Austria		1	1				3
Azerbaijan	1	1					2
Belarus	1	1					2
Belgium		1					1
Bulgaria		1					1
Canada	2	1	2	3			13
China	1	1	2	1			8
Czech Republic	1	1	1	1			6
Estonia	1	1					2
Finland		1		1			3
France	2			1			4
Georgia	1	1	1	1			6
Germany		1	1	1		1	6
Great Britain		1		1			3
Hungary			1				2
Israel	1		1				3
Italy	2		2	1		1	9
Japan	3	3	1	1			10
Latvia	1						1
Lithuania				1			2
Mexico	1						1
Netherlands		1					1
Poland		1		1			3
ROC	3	3	3	3			18
South Korea	2	2					4
Spain			1	1			4
Sweden	1	1					2
Switzerland	1	1					2
Ukraine	1	1		1		2	6
United States	3	3	2	3			16
Total: 32 NOCs	30	30	19	23	10 teams	4	148

Notes

1. Paul Fentz of Germany competed in the team event, but not the men's individual event.
2. Lara Naki Gutmann of Italy competed in the team event, but not the women's individual event.
3. Sofiia Holichenko and Artem Darenskyi of Ukraine competed in the team event, but not the pairs event.

Team event

For the team event, scores from the 2021 World Championships and the 2021–22 Grand Prix Series were tabulated to establish the ten top nations. Each nation compiled a score from their top performers in each of the four disciplines.

Qualification for figure skating team event

Pl.	Nation	M	W	P	D	Total
1	ROC					5947
2	United States					5209
3	Canada					3949
4	Japan					3830
5	China					2809
6	Italy					2774
7	Germany					1480
8	Georgia					1472
9	Czech Republic					1137
10	Ukraine					893

Notes

1. Although Italy did not qualify a women's singles skater for the team event, they were able to use an additional athlete quota in order to complete their team.
2. Although Germany did not qualify a men's singles skater for the team event, they were able to use an additional athlete quota in order to complete their team.
3. Although Ukraine did not qualify a pair skating team for the team event, they were able to use an additional athlete quota in order to complete their team.

Entries

Countries began announcing their selections following the 2021 World Championships. The International Skating Union published a complete list of entries on 26 January 2022. Skaters or teams denoted with ● were eligible for the team event only.

Entries

Nation	Men	Women	Pairs	Ice dance	Ref.
Armenia	—N/a			Tina Garabedian Simon Proulx-Sénécal
Australia	Brendan Kerry	Kailani Craine	—N/a
Austria	—N/a	Olga Mikutina	Miriam Ziegler Severin Kiefer	—N/a
Azerbaijan	Vladimir Litvintsev	Ekaterina Ryabova	—N/a
Belarus	Konstantin Milyukov	Viktoriia Safonova	—N/a
Belgium	—N/a	Loena Hendrickx	—N/a
Bulgaria	—N/a	Alexandra Feigin	—N/a
Canada	Keegan Messing	Madeline Schizas	Vanessa James Eric Radford	Laurence Fournier Beaudry Nikolaj Sørensen
	Roman Sadovsky	—N/a	Kirsten Moore-Towers Michael Marinaro	Piper Gilles Paul Poirier
	—N/a		—N/a	Marjorie Lajoie Zachary Lagha
China	Jin Boyang	Zhu Yi	Peng Cheng Jin Yang	Wang Shiyue Liu Xinyu
	—N/a		Sui Wenjing Han Cong	—N/a
Czech Republic	Michal Březina	Eliška Březinová	Jelizaveta Žuková Martin Bidař	Natálie Taschlerová Filip Taschler
Estonia	Aleksandr Selevko	Eva-Lotta Kiibus	—N/a
Finland	—N/a	Jenni Saarinen	—N/a	Juulia Turkkila Matthias Versluis
France	Kévin Aymoz	—N/a		Gabriella Papadakis Guillaume Cizeron
	Adam Siao Him Fa			—N/a
Georgia	Morisi Kvitelashvili	Anastasiia Gubanova	Karina Safina Luka Berulava	Maria Kazakova Georgy Reviya
Germany	Paul Fentz ●	Nicole Schott	Minerva Fabienne Hase Nolan Seegert	Katharina Müller Tim Dieck
Great Britain	—N/a	Natasha McKay	—N/a	Lilah Fear Lewis Gibson
Hungary	—N/a		Ioulia Chtchetinina Márk Magyar	—N/a
Israel	Alexei Bychenko	—N/a	Hailey Kops Evgeni Krasnopolski	—N/a
Italy	Daniel Grassl	Lara Naki Gutmann ●	Nicole Della Monica Matteo Guarise	Charlène Guignard Marco Fabbri
	Matteo Rizzo	—N/a	Rebecca Ghilardi Filippo Ambrosini	—N/a
Japan	Yuzuru Hanyu	Wakaba Higuchi	Riku Miura Ryuichi Kihara	Misato Komatsubara Tim Koleto
	Yuma Kagiyama	Mana Kawabe	—N/a
	Shoma Uno	Kaori Sakamoto
Latvia	Deniss Vasiļjevs	—N/a
Lithuania	—N/a			Paulina Ramanauskaitė Deividas Kizala
Mexico	Donovan Carrillo	—N/a
Netherlands	—N/a	Lindsay van Zundert	—N/a
Poland	—N/a	Ekaterina Kurakova	—N/a	Natalia Kaliszek Maksym Spodyriev
ROC	Mark Kondratiuk	Anna Shcherbakova	Aleksandra Boikova Dmitrii Kozlovskii	Diana Davis Gleb Smolkin
	Andrei Mozalev	Alexandra Trusova	Anastasia Mishina Aleksandr Galliamov	Victoria Sinitsina Nikita Katsalapov
	Evgeni Semenenko	Kamila Valieva	Evgenia Tarasova Vladimir Morozov	Alexandra Stepanova Ivan Bukin
South Korea	Cha Jun-hwan	Kim Ye-lim	—N/a
	Lee Si-hyeong	You Young
Spain	—N/a		Laura Barquero Marco Zandron	Olivia Smart Adrián Díaz
Sweden	Nikolaj Majorov	Josefin Taljegård	—N/a
Switzerland	Lukas Britschgi	Alexia Paganini	—N/a
Ukraine	Ivan Shmuratko	Anastasiia Shabotova	Sofiia Holichenko Artem Darenskyi ●	Oleksandra Nazarova Maksym Nikitin
United States	Jason Brown	Mariah Bell	Ashley Cain-Gribble Timothy LeDuc	Madison Chock Evan Bates
	Nathan Chen	Karen Chen	Alexa Knierim Brandon Frazier	Kaitlin Hawayek Jean-Luc Baker
	Vincent Zhou	Alysa Liu	—N/a	Madison Hubbell Zachary Donohue

Note

1. On 29 January 2024, the Court of Arbitration for Sport disqualified Kamila Valieva for four years retroactive to 25 December 2021 for an anti-doping rule violation. Valieva's results from the 2022 Winter Olympics were ultimately vacated.

Changes to preliminary assignments

Changes to preliminary entries

Date	Discipline	Withdrew	Added	Reason	Ref.
25 January	Men	Mikhail Kolyada	Evgeni Semenenko	Positive COVID-19 test

Competition schedule

All times are in local time (UTC+8), according to the official schedule.

Date	Time	Event
4 February	9:55	Team event (men's short program)
	11:35	Team event (ice dance rhythm dance)
	13:15	Team event (pairs' short program)
6 February	9:30	Team event (women's short program)
	11:50	Team event (men's free skating)
7 February	9:15	Team event (pairs' free skating)
	10:30	Team event (ice dance free dance)
	11:35	Team event (women's free skating)
8 February	9:15	Men's short program
10 February	9:30	Men's free skating
12 February	19:00	Ice dance rhythm dance
14 February	9:15	Ice dance free dance
15 February	18:00	Women's short program
17 February	18:00	Women's free skating
18 February	18:30	Pairs' short program
19 February	19:00	Pairs' free skating
20 February	12:00	Exhibition gala

Medal summary