Figure Skating 2018/Men's singles

Men's singles
General information
Sport	Figure Skating 2018
Date	16-17 February 2018
Competitors	30 athletes
Venue	Gangneung Ice Arena
Previous medalists
Gold	Yuzuru Hanyu
Silver	Patrick Chan
Bronze	Denis Ten
Medalists
	Yuzuru Hanyu
	Shoma Uno
	Javier Fernandez

The men's singles of Figure Skating 2018 during the 2018 Winter Olympics was held on 16-17 February 2018 in the Gangneung Ice Arena. With 30 athletes competing, the event was won by Yuzuru Hanyu from Japan, with Shoma Uno from Japan taking the silver medal and Javier Fernandez from Spain taking bronze.

Format

The competition exists out of two separate rounds. The first round allows the competitors to perform a routine of around 2:40 minutes, after which the athletes with the twenty-four best scores perform another routine of around 4:00 minutes. The competitor with the best score after two rounds is the winner.

Preview

Thirty athletes qualified for the event, with two-time defending Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu as the man to beat. However, there were quite a few big potential medal contenders, including the reigning world champion Nathan Chen, European champion and fourth-placed finisher of 2014 Javier Fernandez, bronze medalist at the world championships Vincent Zhou, and Shoma Uno. Patrick Chan and Denis Ten, who won the other medals at the individual figure skating four years prior, were also still among the big outsiders, just like Jin Boyang, European number two Dmitri Aliev, Adam Rippon, and Mikhail Kolyada.

Cha Jun-hwan was the youngest competitor in the field at the age of 16, and was only a year younger than Vincent Zhou, who was the only other competitor born after 1 January 2000, and just over two years younger than Deniss Vasiljevs. Alexei Bychenko was the oldest competitor in the field at the age of 30, though he did not have the most Olympic experience: Patrick Chan, Denis Ten, Michal Brezina, and Javier Fernandez all made their Olympic debuts in 2010 and would be competing at the figure skating competition for the third time. Bychenko was over a year older than Chafik Besseghier and almost two years older than Adam Rippon, as the only three athletes born before 1 January 1990.

Summary

Short Program

Short Program Results
Rank	Nat.	Athletes	Score
1		Yuzuru Hanyu	111.68
2		Javier Fernandez	107.58
3		Shoma Uno	104.17
4		Jin Boyang	103.32
5		Dmitri Aliev	98.98
6		Patrick Chan	90.01
7		Adam Rippon	87.95
8		Mikhail Kolyada	86.69
9		Michal Brezina	85.15
10		Keegan Messing	85.11
11		Jorik Hendrickx	84.74
12		Vincent Zhou	84.53
13		Alexei Bychenko	84.13
14		Misha Ge	83.90
15		Cha Jun-hwan	83.43
16		Brendan Kerry	83.06
17		Nathan Chen	82.27
18		Daniel Samohin	80.69
19		Yan Han	80.63
20		Keiji Tanaka	80.05
21		Deniss Vasiljevs	79.52
22		Morisi Kvitelashvili	76.56
23		Matteo Rizzo	75.63
24		Paul Fentz	74.73
25		Julian Zhi Jie Yee	73.58
26		Chafik Besseghier	72.10
27		Denis Ten	70.12
28		Michael Christian Martinez	55.56
29		Felipe Montoya	52.41
30		Yaroslav Paniot	46.58

Free Program

Free Program Results
Rank	Nat.	Athletes	Score
1		Nathan Chen	215.08
2		Yuzuru Hanyu	206.17
3		Shoma Uno	202.73
4		Javier Fernandez	197.66
5		Jin Boyang	194.45
6		Vincent Zhou	192.16
7		Mikhail Kolyada	177.56
8		Patrick Chan	173.42
9		Alexei Bychenko	172.88
10		Adam Rippon	171.41
11		Daniel Samohin	170.75
12		Keegan Messing	170.32
13		Dmitri Aliev	168.53
14		Cha Jun-hwan	165.16
15		Keiji Tanaka	164.78
16		Jorik Hendrickx	164.21
17		Misha Ge	161.04
18		Michal Brezina	160.92
19		Matteo Rizzo	156.78
20		Deniss Vasiljevs	155.06
21		Brendan Kerry	150.75
22		Paul Fentz	139.82
23		Yan Han	132.38
24		Morisi Kvitelashvili	128.01

Results

Yuzuru Hanyu won the event for the second time in a row, becoming the first male individual figure skater to successfully defend an Olympic title since Dick Button did the same in 1952. His compatriot Shoma Uno won a silver medal at his Olympic debut, while fourth-placed finisher in 2014 Javier Fernandez became the first Spanish figure skater to win an Olympic medal with his bronze medal in Pyeongchang. Jin Boyang finished just behind the medals this time to record the best-ever finish for a Chinese figure skater in the men's singles, ahead of young talents Nathan Chen and Vincent Zhou. Dimitri Aliev and Mikhail Kolyada representing the Olympic Athletes from Russia completed the top 8.

Result	Athlete	Nationality	Score
	Yuzuru Hanyu	Japan	317.85
	Shoma Uno	Japan	306.90
	Javier Fernandez	Spain	305.24
4	Jin Boyang	China	297.77
5	Nathan Chen	United States	297.35
6	Vincent Zhou	United States	276.69
7	Dmitri Aliev	Olympic Athletes from Russia	267.51
8	Mikhail Kolyada	Olympic Athletes from Russia	264.25
9	Patrick Chan	Canada	263.43
10	Adam Rippon	United States	259.36
11	Alexei Bychenko	Israel	257.01
12	Keegan Messing	Canada	255.43
13	Daniel Samohin	Israel	251.44
14	Jorik Hendrickx	Belgium	248.95
15	Cha Jun-hwan	South Korea	248.59
16	Michal Brezina	Czech Republic	246.07
17	Misha Ge	Uzbekistan	244.94
18	Keiji Tanaka	Japan	244.83
19	Deniss Vasiljevs	Latvia	234.58
20	Brendan Kerry	Australia	233.81
21	Matteo Rizzo	Italy	232.41
22	Paul Fentz	Germany	214.55
23	Yan Han	China	213.01
24	Morisi Kvitelashvili	Georgia	204.57
25	Julian Zhi Jie Yee	Malaysia	73.58
26	Chafik Besseghier	France	72.10
27	Denis Ten	Kazakhstan	70.12
28	Michael Christian Martinez	Philippines	55.56
29	Felipe Montoya	Spain	52.41
30	Yaroslav Paniot	Ukraine	46.58