The ladies'
single figure skating competition of the
2018 Winter Olympics
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was held at the
Gangneung Ice Arena in
Gangneung
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,
South Korea
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.
The
short program was held on 21 February, and the
free skating
The free skating segment of figure skating, also called the free skate and the long program, is the second of two segments of competitions, skated after the short program. Its duration, across all disciplines, is four minutes for senior skaters ...
was held on 23 February.
Records
For a complete list of figure skating records, see
list of highest scores in figure skating
The ISU Judging System (IJS) is the scoring system that has been used since 2003 to judge the figure skating disciplines of Single skating, men's and women's singles, pair skating, and Ice dancing, ice dance. It was designed and implemented by th ...
.
The following new
best scores were set during this competition:
The
Olympic Athletes from Russia set two subsequent world records in the short program on February 21, with
Evgenia Medvedeva scoring 81.61 and then
Alina Zagitova
Alina Ilnazovna Zagitova ( rus, Алина Ильназовна Загитова, , ɐˈlʲinə zɐˈɡʲitəvə; born 18 May 2002) is a Russian former competitive Figure skating, figure skater. She is the Figure skating at the 2018 Winter Oly ...
scoring 82.92 ten minutes later.
Qualification
A total of 30 skaters qualified to compete in the event, with each country allowed to only enter a maximum of three. 24 quotas were handed out during the
2017 World Figure Skating Championships and the remaining six 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. All athletes competing must have met the minimum total elements score, which does not include component scores. For the short program this was 20.00 and the free skate 36.00.
Schedule
All times are ( UTC+9).
Results
Short program
The short program was held on 21 February.
Free skating
The free skating was held on 23 February.
Evgenia Medvedeva finished at higher place due to better program component score
Overall
The skaters were ranked according to their overall score.
Final results
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TP - Total points; SP - Short program; FS - Free skating
References
Citations
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Ladies'
Women's events at the 2018 Winter Olympics
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