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 was announced 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 be allowed to compete in the individual women's event while the investigation was ongoing. The team representing the Russian Olympic Committee originally finished first 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 annulled, and the team from the United States was awarded the gold medals.

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 from at least late 2011 through February 2014, when Russia hosted the Winter Olympics in Sochi. 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 ruling by the Court of Arbitration for Sport in December 2020, Russian athletes could not use the Russian flag or anthem in international competition and had to compete as "Neutral Athletes" or a "Neutral Team" at any world championships for the next two years. On 19 February 2021, it was announced that Russian athletes would compete under the name of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) at the 2020 Summer Olympics and 2022 Winter Olympics.

A total of five figure skating events were contested: men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, ice dance, and the team event. All events were held from 4 to 20 February at the Capital Indoor Stadium in Beijing, China. Beginning with the 2021–22 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. Ten nations were cleared to compete in the team event, although three nations had to use "Additional Athlete Quotas" to complete their teams. These additional athletes were eligible to compete in the team event but not in the individual Olympic figure skating events.

Team event For the team event, scores from the 2021 World Championships and the 2021–22 Grand Prix Series were tabulated to establish the top ten nations.

+Qualification for figure skating team event Nation Total 1 5947 2 5209 3 3949 4 3830 5 2809 6 2774 7 1480 8 1472 9 1137 10 893

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 colspan="3" Brendan Kerry Kailani Craine colspan="2" Olga Mikutina Vladimir Litvintsev Ekaterina Ryabova colspan="2" Konstantin Milyukov Viktoriia Safonova colspan="2" Loena Hendrickx colspan="2" Alexandra Feigin colspan="2" Keegan Messing Madeline Schizas Roman Sadovsky rowspan="2" Jin Boyang Zhu Yi colspan="2" Michal Březina Eliška Březinová Aleksandr Selevko Eva-Lotta Kiibus colspan="2" Jenni Saarinen Kévin Aymoz colspan="2" rowspan="2" Adam Siao Him Fa Morisi Kvitelashvili Anastasiia Gubanova Paul Fentz ● Nicole Schott Natasha McKay colspan="2" Alexei Bychenko Daniel Grassl Lara Naki Gutmann ● Matteo Rizzo Yuzuru Hanyu Wakaba Higuchi Yuma Kagiyama Mana Kawabe colspan="2" rowspan="2" Shoma Uno Kaori Sakamoto Deniss Vasiļjevs colspan="3" colspan="3" Donovan Carrillo colspan="3" Lindsay van Zundert colspan="2" Ekaterina Kurakova Mark Kondratiuk Anna Shcherbakova Andrei Mozalev Alexandra Trusova Evgeni Semenenko Kamila Valieva Cha Jun-hwan Kim Ye-lim colspan="2" rowspan="2" Lee Si-hyeong You Young colspan="2" Nikolaj Majorov Josefin Taljegård colspan="2" Lukas Britschgi Alexia Paganini colspan="2" Ivan Shmuratko Anastasiia Shabotova ● Jason Brown Mariah Bell Nathan Chen Karen Chen Vincent Zhou Alysa Liu

Competition schedule All times are in local time (UTC+8).

+Figure skating events 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

Medalists +Olympic medalists Discipline Gold Silver Bronze Men's singles Nathan Chen Yuma Kagiyama Shoma Uno Women's singles Anna Shcherbakova Alexandra Trusova Kaori Sakamoto Pairs Ice dance Team eventNathan ChenVincent ZhouKaren ChenAlexa KnierimBrandon FrazierMadison HubbellZachary DonohueMadison ChockEvan Bates Shoma UnoYuma KagiyamaWakaba HiguchiKaori SakamotoRiku MiuraRyuichi KiharaMisato KomatsubaraTim Koleto Mark KondratiukKamila Valieva Anastasia MishinaAleksandr GalliamovVictoria SinitsinaNikita Katsalapov

Medal table

Records

The following new record high scores were set during this competition.

+ Date Skater(s) Event Segment Score 4 February Team event (Pairs) Short program82.83 8 February Men's singles Short program113.97 12 February Ice dance Rhythm dance90.83 14 February Total score226.98 18 February Pair skating Short program84.41 19 February Total score239.88

Kamila Valieva controversy

The medal ceremony for the team event, originally scheduled for 8 February, was delayed over what International Olympic Committee (IOC) spokesperson Mark Adams described as a situation that required "legal consultation" with the International Skating Union (ISU). Media outlets reported on 9 February that the issue was a positive drug test, administered in December 2021, for trimetazidine by Kamila Valieva, which was officially confirmed on 11 February. The Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA), under suspension from the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) for hiding the positive doping results of Russian athletes for years, cleared Valieva to compete on 9 February, a day after the December test results were released. The IOC and the ISU appealed that decision.

On 14 February, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) ruled that Valieva be allowed to compete in the individual women's event, on the grounds that preventing her from competing "would cause her irreparable harm in the circumstances", though her gold medal in the team event was still under consideration. This decision from the Court was made in part due to her age, as minor athletes were subject to different rules than adult athletes. The IOC announced that the medal ceremony would not take place until the investigation was over and there was a concrete decision of whether to strip Russia of their medals.

In November 2022, the WADA requested that CAS take up the review of the case, seeking a four-year suspension of Valieva, which would exclude her from competition at the 2026 Winter Olympics, and to disqualify all of her results dating back to the date of her positive drug test (25 December 2021). WADA President Witold Bańka wrote that RUSADA did not meet a WADA-imposed deadline to deliver a verdict on Valieva's case. On 29 January 2024, the CAS disqualified Valieva for four years retroactive to 25 December 2021 for the positive test for trimetazidine, which they ruled constituted an anti-doping rule violation. On 30 January 2024, the ISU, among other actions, subtracted Valieva's points from Russia's score in the team event without changing any other scores, and reallocated the medals, upgrading the United States and Japan to gold and silver, respectively, while downgrading Russia to bronze. The American and Japanese teams received their medals at a ceremony which took place on 7 August 2024 during the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. Notes

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External links

Results Official Results Book (Figure Skating)