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Figure skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics

Figure skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics

The figure skating events at the 2018 Winter Olympics took place from 9 to 23 February at the Gangneung Ice Arena in Gangneung, South Korea. Medals were awarded in men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, ice dance, and the team event. Yuzuru Hanyu of Japan won the men's event; Alina Zagitova, representing the Olympic Athletes from Russia, won the women's event; Aljona Savchenko and Bruno Massot of Germany won the pairs event; Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir of Canada won the ice dance event; and the team from Canada won the team event. Several world record scores in figure skating were set at the Olympics, including by Savchenko and Massot in the pairs event; Evgenia Medvedeva and Zagitova in the women's event; and both Virtue and Moir, and Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron, in the ice dance event. Virtue and Moir, who had previously won medals in both the ice dance and team events in 2010 and 2014, became the most decorated figure skaters in Olympic history.