Figure skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics

In 2016, an independent report commissioned by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) confirmed allegations that the Russian Olympic team had been involved in a state-sponsored doping program from at least late 2011 through February 2014, when Russia hosted the Winter Olympics in Sochi.^[2][3] On 9 December 2019, the WADA banned Russia from all international competitions after it found that data provided by the Russian Anti-Doping Agency had been manipulated by Russian authorities in order to protect athletes involved in its doping scheme.^[4] Under a ban imposed by the Court of Arbitration for Sport in December 2019, Russian athletes could not use the Russian flag or anthem in international competition and had to compete as "Neutral Athletes" or a "Neutral Team" at any world championships for the next two years.^[5] On 19 February 2021, it was announced that Russian athletes would compete under the name of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) at the 2022 Winter Olympics.^[6]

A total of five figure skating events were contested: men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, ice dance, and the team event. All events were held from 4 to 20 February at the Capital Indoor Stadium in Beijing, China.^[7] Beginning with this season, the International Skating Union (ISU) changed the name of the women's event from "ladies' singles" to "women's singles".^[8]

A total of 144 quota spots were available to athletes to compete in figure skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics. Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) was allowed to enter a maximum of 18 skaters, with a maximum of nine men or nine women.^[9] The results of the 2021 World Figure Skating Championships determined 83 total spots: 24 entries each in men's and women's singles, 16 in pair skating, and 19 in ice dance.^[10] The remaining quota spots were allocated based on the results of the 2021 Nebelhorn Trophy.^[11]

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Number of qualified skaters or teams per nation^[10][11][12]

Nations	Men's singles	Women's singles	Pairs	Ice dance	Team event	Add.	Skater(s)
Armenia				1			2
Australia	1	1					2
Austria		1	1				3
Azerbaijan	1	1					2
Belarus	1	1					2
Belgium		1					1
Bulgaria		1					1
Canada	2	1	2	3			13
China	1	1	2	1			8
Czech Republic	1	1	1	1			6
Estonia	1	1					2
Finland		1		1			3
France	2			1			4
Georgia	1	1	1	1			6
Germany		1	1	1		1[a]	6
Great Britain		1		1			3
Hungary			1				2
Israel	1		1				3
Italy	2		2	1		1[b]	9
Japan	3	3	1	1			10
Latvia	1						1
Lithuania				1			2
Mexico	1						1
Netherlands		1					1
Poland		1		1			3
ROC	3	3	3	3			18
South Korea	2	2					4
Spain			1	1			4
Sweden	1	1					2
Switzerland	1	1					2
Ukraine	1	1		1		2[c]	6
United States	3	3	2	3			16
Total: 32 NOCs	30	30	19 teams	23 teams	10 teams	4	148

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Team event

For the team event, scores from the 2021 World Championships and the 2021–22 Grand Prix Series were tabulated to establish the top ten nations.^[16]

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Qualification for figure skating team event^[12]

Pl.	Nation	M	W	P	D	Total
1	ROC					5947
2	United States					5209
3	Canada					3949
4	Japan					3830
5	China					2809
6	Italy		[d]			2774
7	Germany	[e]				1480
8	Georgia					1472
9	Czech Republic					1137
10	Ukraine			[f]		893

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Countries began announcing their selections following the 2021 World Championships. The International Skating Union published a complete list of entries on 26 January 2022.^[17] Skaters or teams denoted with ● were eligible for the team event only.

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Entries

Nation	Men	Women	Pairs	Ice dance	Ref.
Armenia	—N/a			Tina Garabedian Simon Proulx-Sénécal	[18]
Australia	Brendan Kerry	Kailani Craine	—N/a		[19]
Austria	—N/a	Olga Mikutina	Miriam Ziegler Severin Kiefer	—N/a	[20]
Azerbaijan	Vladimir Litvintsev	Ekaterina Ryabova	—N/a		[21]
Belarus	Konstantin Milyukov	Viktoriia Safonova	—N/a		[22]
Belgium	—N/a	Loena Hendrickx	—N/a		[23]
Bulgaria	—N/a	Alexandra Feigin	—N/a		[24]
Canada	Keegan Messing	Madeline Schizas	Vanessa James Eric Radford	Laurence Fournier Beaudry Nikolaj Sørensen	[25]
	Roman Sadovsky	—N/a	Kirsten Moore-Towers Michael Marinaro	Piper Gilles Paul Poirier
	—N/a		—N/a	Marjorie Lajoie Zachary Lagha
China	Jin Boyang	Zhu Yi	Peng Cheng Jin Yang	Wang Shiyue Liu Xinyu	[26]
	—N/a		Sui Wenjing Han Cong	—N/a
Czech Republic	Michal Březina	Eliška Březinová	Jelizaveta Žuková Martin Bidař	Natálie Taschlerová Filip Taschler	[27] [28]
Estonia	Aleksandr Selevko	Eva-Lotta Kiibus	—N/a		[29]
Finland	—N/a	Jenni Saarinen	—N/a	Juulia Turkkila Matthias Versluis	[30] [31]
France	Kévin Aymoz	—N/a		Gabriella Papadakis Guillaume Cizeron	[32]
	Adam Siao Him Fa			—N/a
Georgia	Morisi Kvitelashvili	Anastasiia Gubanova	Karina Safina Luka Berulava	Maria Kazakova Georgy Reviya	[33]
Germany	Paul Fentz ●	Nicole Schott	Minerva Fabienne Hase Nolan Seegert	Katharina Müller Tim Dieck	[13]
Great Britain	—N/a	Natasha McKay	—N/a	Lilah Fear Lewis Gibson	[34]
Hungary	—N/a		Ioulia Chtchetinina Márk Magyar	—N/a	[35]
Israel	Alexei Bychenko	—N/a	Hailey Kops Evgeni Krasnopolski	—N/a	[36]
Italy	Daniel Grassl	Lara Naki Gutmann ●	Nicole Della Monica Matteo Guarise	Charlène Guignard Marco Fabbri	[14]
	Matteo Rizzo	—N/a	Rebecca Ghilardi Filippo Ambrosini	—N/a
Japan	Yuzuru Hanyu	Wakaba Higuchi	Riku Miura Ryuichi Kihara	Misato Komatsubara Tim Koleto	[37]
	Yuma Kagiyama	Mana Kawabe	—N/a
	Shoma Uno	Kaori Sakamoto
Latvia	Deniss Vasiļjevs	—N/a			[38]
Lithuania	—N/a			Paulina Ramanauskaitė Deividas Kizala	[39]
Mexico	Donovan Carrillo	—N/a			[40]
Netherlands	—N/a	Lindsay van Zundert	—N/a		[41]
Poland	—N/a	Ekaterina Kurakova	—N/a	Natalia Kaliszek Maksym Spodyriev	[42] [43]
ROC	Mark Kondratiuk	Anna Shcherbakova	Aleksandra Boikova Dmitrii Kozlovskii	Diana Davis Gleb Smolkin	[44]
	Andrei Mozalev	Alexandra Trusova	Anastasia Mishina Aleksandr Galliamov	Victoria Sinitsina Nikita Katsalapov
	Evgeni Semenenko	Kamila Valieva[g]	Evgenia Tarasova Vladimir Morozov	Alexandra Stepanova Ivan Bukin
South Korea	Cha Jun-hwan	Kim Ye-lim	—N/a		[46]
	Lee Si-hyeong	You Young
Spain	—N/a		Laura Barquero Marco Zandron	Olivia Smart Adrián Díaz	[47] [48]
Sweden	Nikolaj Majorov	Josefin Taljegård	—N/a		[49]
Switzerland	Lukas Britschgi	Alexia Paganini	—N/a		[50]
Ukraine	Ivan Shmuratko	Anastasiia Shabotova	Sofiia Holichenko Artem Darenskyi ●	Oleksandra Nazarova Maksym Nikitin	[15]
United States	Jason Brown	Mariah Bell	Ashley Cain-Gribble Timothy LeDuc	Madison Chock Evan Bates	[51] [52] [53] [54]
	Nathan Chen	Karen Chen	Alexa Knierim Brandon Frazier	Kaitlin Hawayek Jean-Luc Baker
	Vincent Zhou	Alysa Liu	—N/a	Madison Hubbell Zachary Donohue

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Changes to preliminary assignments

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Changes to preliminary entries

Date	Discipline	Withdrew	Added	Reason	Ref.
25 January	Men	Mikhail Kolyada	Evgeni Semenenko	Positive COVID-19 test	[55]

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All times are in local time (UTC+8).^[1]

The following new record high scores were set during this competition.

The medal ceremony for the team event, originally scheduled for 8 February, was delayed over what International Olympic Committee (IOC) spokesperson Mark Adams described as a situation that required "legal consultation" with the International Skating Union (ISU).^[64] Media outlets reported on Wednesday that the issue was a positive test, administered in December 2021, for trimetazidine by Kamila Valieva,^[65][66] which was officially confirmed on 11 February.^[67] The Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA), under suspension from the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) since 2015 for its years of serving solely to hide the positive doping results of Russian athletes,^[68][69][70] cleared Valieva to compete on 9 February, a day after the December test results were released. The IOC and the International Skating Union (ISU) appealed that decision.^[71]

On 14 February, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) ruled that Valieva be allowed to compete in the individual women's event, on grounds that preventing her from competing "would cause her irreparable harm in the circumstances",^[72] though her gold medal in the team event was still under consideration. The favorable decision from the Court was made in part due to her age, as minor athletes were subject to different rules than adult athletes.^[72][73] The IOC announced that the medal ceremony would not take place until the investigation was over and there was a concrete decision of whether to strip Russia of their medals.^[74]

In mid-November, the WADA requested that CAS take up the review of the case, seeking a four-year suspension of Valieva, which would exclude her from competition at the 2026 Winter Olympics, and to disqualify all of her results dating back to the date of her positive drug test (25 December 2021). WADA President Witold Bańka wrote that "the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) did not meet a WADA-imposed Nov. 4 deadline to deliver a verdict" on Valieva's case.^[75] In January 2023, RUSADA cleared Valieva of any wrongdoing.^[76]

WADA and the ISU have to appeal this decision, for the sake of the credibility of the anti-doping system and the rights of all athletes. The world can't possibly accept this self-serving decision by RUSADA, which in the recent past has been a key instrument of Russia’s state sponsored doping fraud and is non-compliant. Justice demands a full, fair, public hearing outside of Russia.

On 29 January 2024, the CAS disqualified Valieva for four years retroactive to 25 December 2021 for the positive test for trimetazidine, which they ruled constituted an anti-doping rule violation.^[45] On 30 January 2024, the ISU, among other actions, subtracted Valieva's points from Russia's score in the team event without changing any other scores, and re-allocated the medals, upgrading the United States and Japan to gold and silver, respectively, while downgrading Russia to bronze.^[77] The American and Japanese teams finally received their medals at a ceremony which took place on 7 August 2024 during the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.^[78]