Figure Skating 2018/Ice dancing

Ice dancing
General information
Sport	Figure Skating 2018
Date	19-20 February 2018
Competitors	24 pairs
Venue	Gangneung Ice Arena
Previous medalists
Gold	Meryl Davis Charlie White
Silver	Scott Moir Tessa Virtue
Bronze	Elena Ilinykh Nikita Katsalapov
Medalists
	Scott Moir Tessa Virtue
	Guillaume Cizeron Gabriella Papadakis
	Alex Shibutani Maia Shibutani

The ice dancing of Figure Skating 2018 during the 2018 Winter Olympics was held on 19-20 February 2018 in the Gangneung Ice Arena. With 24 pairs competing, the event was won by Scott Moir and Tessa Virtue from Canada, with Guillaume Cizeron and Gabriella Papadakis from France taking the silver medal and Alex Shibutani and Maia Shibutani from United States taking bronze.

Format

The competition exists out of two separate rounds. The first round allows the competitors to perform a routine of around 2:50 minutes, after which the athletes with the twenty best scores perform another routine of around 4:00 minutes. The pair with the best score after two rounds is the winner.

Preview

Twenty-four pairs qualified for the event, with the most chances of Olympic gold with former champions Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, after they finished second four years prior. They were definitely challenged by the reigning world champions Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron and the pair of Alex and Maia Shibutani. However, mistakes were easily made, and there were plenty of other pairs who would take their chances for an Olympic medal, such as Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue, Madison Chock and Evan Bates, and Anna Cappellini and Luca Lanotte, as the top pairs in the finals of the Grand Prix, Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje as the fifth place at the world championships, and Ekaterina Bobrova and Dmitri Soloviev as the silver medalist at the European championships.

Summary

Short Dance

Short Dance Results
Rank	Nat.	Athletes		Score
1		Tessa Virtue	Scott Moir	83.67
2		Gabriella Papadakis	Guillaume Cizeron	81.93
3		Madison Hubbell	Zachary Donohue	77.75
4		Maia Shibutani	Alex Shibutani	77.73
5		Anna Cappellini	Luca Lanotte	76.57
6		Ekaterina Bobrova	Dmitri Soloviev	75.47
7		Madison Chock	Evan Bates	75.45
8		Kaitlyn Weaver	Andrew Poje	74.33
9		Piper Gilles	Paul Poirier	69.60
10		Penny Coomes	Nicholas Buckland	68.36
11		Charlene Guignard	Marco Fabbri	68.18
12		Sara Hurtado	Kirill Khaliavin	66.93
13		Tiffani Zagorski	Jonathan Guerreiro	66.47
14		Natalia Kaliszek	Maksym Spodyriev	66.06
15		Kana Muramoto	Chris Reed	63.41
16		Min Yura	Alexander Gamelin	61.22
17		Kavita Lorenz	Joti Polizoakis	59.99
18		Marie-Jade Lauriault	Romain le Gac	59.97
19		Lucie Mysliveckova	Lukas Csolley	59.75
20		Alisa Agafonova	Alper Ucar	59.42
21		Alexandra Nazarova	Maxim Nikitin	57.97
22		Wang Shiyue	Liu Xinyu	57.81
23		Cortney Mansourova	Michal Ceska	53.53
24		Adel Tankova	Ronald Zilberberg	46.66

Free Dance

Free Dance Results
Rank	Nat.	Athletes		Score
1		Gabriella Papadakis	Guillaume Cizeron	123.35
2		Tessa Virtue	Scott Moir	122.40
3		Maia Shibutani	Alex Shibutani	114.86
4		Ekaterina Bobrova	Dmitri Soloviev	111.45
5		Madison Hubbell	Zachary Donohue	109.94
6		Anna Cappellini	Luca Lanotte	108.34
7		Kaitlyn Weaver	Andrew Poje	107.65
8		Piper Gilles	Paul Poirier	107.31
9		Charlese Guignard	Marco Fabbri	105.31
10		Penny Coomes	Nicholas Buckland	101.96
11		Sara Hurtado	Kirill Khaliavin	101.40
12		Madison Chock	Evan Bates	100.13
13		Kana Muramoto	Chris Reed	97.22
14		Tiffani Zagorski	Jonathan Guerreiro	95.77
15		Natalia Kaliszek	Maksym Spodyriev	95.29
16		Kavita Lorenz	Joti Polizoakis	90.50
17		Marie-Jade Lauriault	Romain le Gac	89.62
18		Alisa Agafonova	Alper Ucar	87.76
19		Min Yura	Alexander Gamelin	86.52
20		Lucie Mysliveckova	Lukas Csolley	82.82

Results

Result	Athletes		Nationality	Score
	Tessa Virtue	Scott Moir	Canada	206.07
	Gabriella Papadakis	Guillaume Cizeron	France	205.28
	Maia Shibutani	Alex Shibutani	United States	192.59
4	Madison Hubbell	Zachary Donohue	United States	187.69
5	Ekaterina Bobrova	Dmitri Soloviev	Olympic Athletes from Russia	186.92
6	Anna Cappellini	Luca Lanotte	Italy	184.91
7	Kaitlyn Weaver	Andrew Poje	Canada	181.98
8	Piper Gilles	Paul Poirier	Canada	176.91
9	Madison Chock	Evan Bates	United States	175.58
10	Charlene Guignard	Marco Fabbri	Italy	173.47
11	Penny Coomes	Nicholas Buckland	Great Britain	170.32
12	Sara Hurtado	Kirill Khaliavin	Spain	168.33
13	Tiffani Zagorski	Jonathan Guerreiro	Olympic Athletes from Russia	162.24
14	Natalia Kaliszek	Maksym Spodyriev	Poland	161.35
15	Kana Muramoto	Chris Reed	Japan	160.63
16	Kavita Lorenz	Joti Polizoakis	Germany	150.47
17	Marie-Jade Lauriault	Romain le Gac	France	149.59
18	Min Yura	Alexander Gamelin	South Korea	147.74
19	Alisa Agafonova	Alper Ucar	Turkey	147.18
20	Lucie Mysliveckova	Lukas Csolley	Slovakia	142.57
21	Alexandra Nazarova	Maxim Nikitin	Ukraine	57.97
22	Wang Shiyue	Liu Xinyu	China	57.81
23	Cortney Mansourova	Michal Ceska	Czech Republic	53.53
24	Adel Tankova	Ronald Zilberberg	Israel	46.66