Figure skating at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Team event

The team event is the newest Olympic figure skating event and was first contested at the 2014 Winter Olympics. The event combines the four Olympic figure skating disciplines (men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dance) into a single event; skaters earn points based on their placement in each discipline, and the gold medals are awarded to the team that earns the most placement points.^[2]

The figure skating team event at the 2014 Winter Olympics was held on 13 and 14 February at the Iceberg Skating Palace in Sochi, Russia.^[1][3] The team from Canada was seen as likely medalists.^[4][5] With seventeen skaters, Canada sported the largest contingent of figure skaters at the 2014 Winter Olympics. The Canadian contingent included Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, who had won the gold medals in ice dance at the 2010 Winter Olympics; Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford in pairs, and Patrick Chan, a three-time world champion (2011–2013).^[4] Chan was also a two-time Four Continents champion (2009, 2012) and seven-time Canadian national champion (2008–2014).^[6] Duhamel and Radford had won the bronze at the 2013 World Championships, gold at the 2013 Four Continents Championships, and were three-time Canadian national champions.^[7] In addition to their 2010 Olympic victory, Virtue and Moir were two-time world champions (2010, 2012), two-time Four Continents champions (2008, 2012), and six-time Canadian national champions.^[8]

The team from Russia was seen as the Canadians' strongest competition. Evgeni Plushenko won the gold medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics and two Olympic silver medals (2002, 2010), and was a three-time world champion (2001, 2003–2004), seven-time European champion (2000–2001, 2003, 2005–2006, 2010, 2012), and a ten-time Russian national champion (1999–2002, 2004–2006, 2010, 2012–2013).^[9] However, the decision of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) to select Plushenko for the Olympic team was seen as controversial by many in Russia, especially as he had lost the 2014 Russian Figure Skating Championships to Maxim Kovtun. Russia only qualified one man to the 2014 Winter Olympics, and could not submit one skater to compete in the team event and another in the men's individual event. During the 2014 European Championships, Ottavio Cinquanta, then-president of the International Skating Union, stated, "If one of your skaters has sustained the same injury for years, you should not enter him or her."^[10] Questions about swapping in a replacement skater during the Olympics yielded more complicated answers. If Plushenko were submitted as Russia's entrant to the Olympics, and withdrew after the short program during the team event, Russia would not have been able to substitute another skater, as Plushenko would have been the only qualified men's skater on the Russian team. However, if Plushenko were to withdraw for medical reasons after the team event, but before the men's individual event, the ROC could have theoretically petitioned the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to name a replacement, per the IOC's Late Athlete Replacement Policy.^[10] After his second-place finish at the 2014 Russian Championships, Plushenko said that he would skip the European Championships and only compete in the Olympic team event, leaving another skater to compete in the individual event.^[11] Valentin Piseev, then-chief executive of the Figure Skating Federation of Russia (FSFR), walked back Plushenko's remarks, since advanced planning like that was plainly against the Olympic rules.^[12] Plushenko was ultimately chosen for the Olympic team after skating for members of the selection committee behind closed doors.^[13]

For the team event, scores from the 2013 World Championships and the 2013–14 Grand Prix of Figure Skating season were tabulated to establish the top ten nations.^[14]

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Qualification for figure skating team event^[14]

Pl.	Nation	M	W	P	D	Total
1	Canada					6053
2	Russia					5459
3	United States					5274
4	Japan			[a]		4062
5	Italy					3707
6	France					3626
7	China					3609
8	Germany					3596
9	Ukraine					1528
10	Great Britain	[b]				1261

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The following new record high score was set during this competition.

The Russian gold medal in the team event allowed Evgeni Plushenko to tie the record held by Gillis Grafström of Sweden for the most Olympic medals won in figure skating (with four each).^[20]

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Member nations submitted the following entrants for the indicated segments in each discipline.

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Team event entrants

Country	Men	Women	Pairs	Ice dance	Ref.
Canada	Patrick Chan (SP)	Kaetlyn Osmond (SP/FS)	Meagan Duhamel Eric Radford (SP)	Tessa Virtue Scott Moir (SD/FD)	[21]
	Kevin Reynolds (FS)	—N/a	Kirsten Moore-Towers Dylan Moscovitch (FS)	—N/a
China	Yan Han (SP)	Zhang Kexin (SP)	Peng Cheng Zhang Hao (SP)	Huang Xintong Zheng Xun (SD)	[22]
France	Florent Amodio (SP)	Maé-Bérénice Méité (SP)	Vanessa James Morgan Ciprès (SP)	Nathalie Péchalat Fabian Bourzat (SD)	[23]
Germany	Peter Liebers (SP)	Nathalie Weinzierl (SP)	Maylin Wende Daniel Wende (SP)	Nelli Zhiganshina Alexander Gazsi (SD)	[24]
Great Britain	Matthew Parr (SP)	Jenna McCorkell (SP)	Stacey Kemp David King (SP)	Penny Coomes Nicholas Buckland (SD)	[17]
Italy	Paul Bonifacio Parkinson (SP/FS)	Carolina Kostner (SP)	Stefania Berton Ondřej Hotárek (SP/FS)	Anna Cappellini Luca Lanotte (SD)	[25]
	—N/a	Valentina Marchei (FS)	—N/a	Charlène Guignard Marco Fabbri (FD)
Japan	Yuzuru Hanyu (SP)	Mao Asada (SP)	Narumi Takahashi Ryuichi Kihara (SP/FS)	Cathy Reed Chris Reed (SD/FD)	[16]
	Tatsuki Machida (FS)	Akiko Suzuki (FS)	—N/a
Russia	Evgeni Plushenko (SP/FS)	Yulia Lipnitskaya (SP/FS)	Tatiana Volosozhar Maxim Trankov (SP)	Ekaterina Bobrova Dmitri Soloviev (SD)	[26]
	—N/a		Ksenia Stolbova Fedor Klimov (FS)	Elena Ilinykh Nikita Katsalapov (FD)
Ukraine	Yakov Godorozha (SP)	Natalia Popova (SP)	Julia Lavrentieva Yuri Rudyk (SP)	Siobhan Heekin-Canedy Dmitri Dun (SD)	[27]
United States	Jeremy Abbott (SP)	Ashley Wagner (SP)	Marissa Castelli Simon Shnapir (SP/FS)	Meryl Davis Charlie White (SD/FD)	[28]
	Jason Brown (FS)	Gracie Gold (FS)	—N/a

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Men's singles

Evgeni Plushenko of Russia finished second behind Yuzuru Hanyu of Japan, but ahead of Patrick Chan of Canada.^[29]

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Men's short program results

Pl.	Skater	Nation	TSS	TES	PCS	SS	TR	PE	CH	IN	Pts.
1	Yuzuru Hanyu	Japan	97.98	52.55	45.43	9.18	8.96	9.11	9.04	9.14	10
2	Evgeni Plushenko	Russia	91.39	48.18	43.21	8.75	7.93	8.96	8.64	8.93	9
3	Patrick Chan	Canada	89.71	44.03	45.68	9.21	9.11	9.00	9.11	9.25	8
4	Yan Han	China	85.52	46.59	38.93	8.14	7.50	7.68	7.79	7.82	7
5	Florent Amodio	France	79.93	40.86	39.07	7.93	7.18	8.11	7.71	8.14	6
6	Peter Liebers	Germany	79.61	43.50	36.11	7.29	7.07	7.18	7.32	7.25	5
7	Jeremy Abbott	United States	65.65	27.22	39.43	8.00	7.75	7.64	8.11	7.93	4
8	Yakov Godorozha	Ukraine	60.51	32.26	28.25	5.82	5.46	5.68	5.61	5.68	3
9	Matthew Parr	Great Britain	57.40	29.71	27.69	5.68	5.36	5.61	5.54	5.50	2
10	Paul Bonifacio Parkinson	Italy	53.94	28.08	27.86	5.71	5.11	5.68	5.57	5.79	1

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Pairs

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Pairs' short program results

Pl.	Team	Nation	TSS	TES	PCS	SS	TR	PE	CH	IN	Pts.
1	Tatiana Volosozhar Maxim Trankov	Russia	83.79	45.10	38.69	9.57	9.39	9.68	9.86	9.86	10
2	Meagan Duhamel Eric Radford	Canada	73.10	41.30	31.80	7.86	7.96	8.00	7.96	7.96	9
3	Peng Cheng Zhang Hao	China	71.01	40.97	30.04	7.61	7.29	7.54	7.50	7.61	8
4	Stefania Berton Ondřej Hotárek	Italy	70.31	38.43	31.88	7.89	7.75	8.04	8.00	8.18	7
5	Marissa Castelli Simon Shnapir	United States	64.25	34.99	29.26	7.32	7.11	7.39	7.32	7.43	6
6	Maylin Wende Daniel Wende	Germany	60.82	33.80	27.02	6.79	6.50	6.89	6.71	6.89	5
7	Vanessa James Morgan Ciprès	France	57.45	30.36	28.09	7.11	6.89	6.93	7.11	7.07	4
8	Narumi Takahashi Ryuichi Kihara	Japan	46.56	25.13	21.43	5.50	5.04	5.39	5.50	5.36	3
9	Julia Lavrentieva Yuri Rudyk	Ukraine	46.34	25.27	21.07	5.32	5.04	5.32	5.36	5.29	2
10	Stacey Kemp David King	Great Britain	44.70	24.44	21.26	5.32	5.14	5.36	5.36	5.39	1

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Ice dance

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Short dance results

Pl.	Team	Nation	TSS	TES	PCS	SS	TR	PE	CH	IN	Pts.
1	Meryl Davis Charlie White	United States	75.98	37.07	38.91	9.64	9.54	9.86	9.75	9.82	10
2	Tessa Virtue Scott Moir	Canada	72.98	35.22	37.76	9.36	9.36	9.50	9.46	9.50	9
3	Ekaterina Bobrova Dmitri Soloviev	Russia	70.27	34.22	36.05	9.00	8.75	9.18	8.89	9.18	8
4	Nathalie Péchalat Fabian Bourzat	France	69.15	34.50	34.65	8.64	8.54	8.82	8.64	8.68	7
5	Anna Cappellini Luca Lanotte	Italy	64.92	31.00	33.92	8.39	8.29	8.54	8.61	8.54	6
6	Nelli Zhiganshina Alexander Gazsi	Germany	58.04	29.78	28.26	7.11	6.71	7.39	7.21	6.93	5
7	Penny Coomes Nicholas Buckland	Great Britain	52.93	24.01	29.92	7.36	7.29	7.57	7.57	7.57	4
8	Cathy Reed Chris Reed	Japan	52.00	25.86	26.14	6.57	6.29	6.75	6.43	6.61	3
9	Siobhan Heekin-Canedy Dmitri Dun	Ukraine	49.19	25.79	23.40	5.93	5.75	5.75	6.11	5.71	2
10	Huang Xintong Zheng Xun	China	47.88	23.64	24.24	6.21	5.86	6.14	6.14	5.96	1

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Women's singles

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Women's short program results

Pl.	Skater	Nation	TSS	TES	PCS	SS	TR	PE	CH	IN	Pts.
1	Yulia Lipnitskaya	Russia	72.90	39.39	33.51	8.43	8.07	8.43	8.54	8.43	10
2	Carolina Kostner	Italy	70.84	35.92	34.92	8.64	8.36	8.86	8.75	9.04	9
3	Mao Asada	Japan	64.07	31.25	33.82	8.54	8.14	8.39	8.50	8.71	8
4	Ashley Wagner	United States	63.10	32.16	30.94	7.86	7.46	7.68	7.75	7.93	7
5	Kaetlyn Osmond	Canada	62.54	33.86	28.68	7.04	6.96	7.21	7.18	7.46	6
6	Maé-Bérénice Méité	France	55.45	29.75	25.70	6.46	6.18	6.43	6.43	6.64	5
7	Zhang Kexin	China	54.58	31.75	22.83	6.04	5.39	5.71	5.79	5.61	4
8	Natalia Popova	Ukraine	53.44	27.95	25.49	6.54	6.11	6.30	6.32	6.39	3
9	Nathalie Weinzierl	Germany	52.16	28.21	24.95	6.36	5.93	6.25	6.29	6.36	2
10	Jenna McCorkell	Great Britain	50.09	26.48	23.61	5.93	5.57	6.11	5.86	6.04	1

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Overall

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• M-SP – Men's short program
• P-SP – Pairs' short program
• D-SD – Short dance
• W-SP – Women's short program

Upon completion of the women's short program, the top five teams were cleared to move on to the second round of competition. The Russian team was in the lead with 37 points, followed by Canada, the United States, Italy, and Japan. The bottom five teams – France, China, Germany, Ukraine, and Great Britain – were eliminated from the competition.

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Team event results after first round

Pl.	Nation	M-SP	P-SP	D-SD	W-SP	Pts.	Status
1	Russia	9	10	8	10	37	Advanced to final round
2	Canada	8	9	9	6	32
3	United States	4	6	10	7	27
4	Italy	1	7	6	9	23
5	Japan	10	3	3	8	24
6	France	6	4	7	5	22	Did not advance to final round
7	China	7	8	1	4	20
8	Germany	5	5	5	2	17
9	Ukraine	3	2	2	3	10
10	Great Britain	2	1	4	1	8

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