Figure skating at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Team event explained

Event:	Team event
Games:	2014 Winter
Venue:	Iceberg Skating Palace Sochi, Russia
Dates:	6–9 February 2014
Competitors:	75
Nations:	10
Win Value:	75
Win Label:	Winning score
Gold:	Evgeni Plushenko Yulia Lipnitskaya Tatiana Volosozhar Maxim Trankov Ksenia Stolbova Fedor Klimov Ekaterina Bobrova Dmitri Soloviev Elena Ilinykh Nikita Katsalapov
Goldnoc:	RUS
Silver:	Patrick Chan Kevin Reynolds Kaetlyn Osmond Meagan Duhamel Eric Radford Kirsten Moore-Towers Dylan Moscovitch Tessa Virtue Scott Moir
Silvernoc:	CAN
Bronze:	Jeremy Abbott Jason Brown Ashley Wagner Gracie Gold Marissa Castelli Simon Shnapir Meryl Davis Charlie White
Bronzenoc:	USA
Next:	2018

The figure skating team event was a combined competition of Olympic figure skating disciplines at the 2014 Winter Olympics, held at the Iceberg Skating Palace in Sochi, Russia.

The competition took place over three days between 6 and 9 February, with the short programs taking place on 6 and 8 February, and the free skating and free dances taking place on 8 and 9 February.^[1]

This was the first time the team event for figure skating was held during the Olympic Games.^[2]

The medals for the competition were presented by Alexander Zhukov, president of the Olympic Committee of the Russian Federation; Dick Pound, Canada; and Ottavio Cinquanta, Italy; IOC Members, and the medalists' bouquets were presented by David Dore, Canada; Marie Lundmark, Finland; Junko Hiramatsu, Japan; International Skating Union.

Timeline

The team event competition took place on 6, 8, and 9 February. The official schedule was as follows:^[3]

All times are (UTC+4).

Date	Time	Event
6 February	19:30	Team event – men's short program
6 February	19:30	Team event – pairs short program
8 February	18:30	Team event – ice dance short program
		Team event – ladies' short program
		Team event – pairs free program
9 February	19:30	Team event – men's free program
		Team event – ice dance free program
		Team event – ladies' free program

Records

For complete list of figure skating records, see list of highest scores in figure skating.

The following new best score was set during this competition:

Evgeni Plushenko (RUS) tied the record of four Olympic figure skating medals (in the early years of the sport, Gillis Grafström won four medals between 1920 and 1932).^[5]

Yulia Lipnitskaya (RUS) became the second-youngest Olympic gold medalist in figure skating, behind Maxi Herber who won pair skating at the 1936 Winter Olympics. Under modern age eligibility rules, Herber would have been 99 days too young to skate at the Olympics.

Entries

Member nations submitted the following entries:

Country	Men	Ladies	Pairs	Ice dance
	Patrick Chan (SP) Kevin Reynolds (FS)	Kaetlyn Osmond (SP/FS)	Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford (SP) Kirsten Moore-Towers / Dylan Moscovitch (FS)	Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir (SD/FD)
	Yan Han (SP)	Zhang Kexin (SP)	Peng Cheng / Zhang Hao (SP)	Huang Xintong / Zheng Xun (SD)
	Florent Amodio (SP)	Maé-Bérénice Méité (SP)	Vanessa James / Morgan Ciprès (SP)	Nathalie Péchalat / Fabian Bourzat (SD)
^[6]	Peter Liebers (SP)	Nathalie Weinzierl (SP)	Maylin Wende / Daniel Wende (SP)	Nelli Zhiganshina / Alexander Gazsi (SD)
^[7]	Matthew Parr (SP)	Jenna McCorkell (SP)	Stacey Kemp / David King (SP)	Penny Coomes / Nicholas Buckland (SD)
	Paul Bonifacio Parkinson (SP/FS)	Carolina Kostner (SP) Valentina Marchei (FS)	Stefania Berton / Ondřej Hotárek (SP/FS)	Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte (SD) Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri (FD)
	Yuzuru Hanyu (SP) Tatsuki Machida (FS)	Mao Asada (SP) Akiko Suzuki (FS)	Narumi Takahashi / Ryuichi Kihara (SP/FS)	Cathy Reed / Chris Reed (SD/FD)
^[8]	Evgeni Plushenko (SP/FS)	Yulia Lipnitskaya (SP/FS)	Tatiana Volosozhar / Maxim Trankov (SP) Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov (FS)	Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev (SD) Elena Ilinykh / Nikita Katsalapov (FD)
	Yakov Godorozha (SP)	Natalia Popova (SP)	Julia Lavrentieva / Yuri Rudyk (SP)	Siobhan Heekin-Canedy / Dmitri Dun (SD)
	Jeremy Abbott (SP) Jason Brown (FS)	Ashley Wagner (SP) Gracie Gold (FS)	Marissa Castelli / Simon Shnapir (SP/FS)	Meryl Davis / Charlie White (SD/FD)

Results

Short programs

Men

Pl.	Name										Pts.
1	align=left	align=left	97.98	52.55	45.43	9.18	8.96	9.11	9.04	9.14	0.00	10	10
2	align=left	align=left	91.39	48.18	43.21	8.75	7.93	8.96	8.64	8.93	0.00	4	9
3	align=left	align=left	89.71	44.03	45.68	9.21	9.11	9.00	9.11	9.25	0.00	9	8
4	align=left	align=left	85.52	46.59	38.93	8.14	7.50	7.68	7.79	7.82	0.00	7	7
5	align=left	align=left	79.93	40.86	39.07	7.93	7.18	8.11	7.71	8.14	0.00	8	6
6	align=left	align=left	79.61	43.50	36.11	7.29	7.07	7.18	7.32	7.25	0.00	6	5
7	align=left	align=left	65.65	27.22	39.43	8.00	7.75	7.64	8.11	7.93	−1.00	5	4
8	align=left	align=left	60.51	32.26	28.25	5.82	5.46	5.68	5.61	5.68	0.00	3	3
9	align=left	align=left	57.40	29.71	27.69	5.68	5.36	5.61	5.54	5.50	0.00	1	2
10	align=left	align=left	53.94	28.08	27.86	5.71	5.11	5.68	5.57	5.79	−2.00	2	1

Pairs

Pl.	Name	Nation										Pts.
1	align=left	/	align=left	83.79	45.10	38.69	9.57	9.39	9.68	9.86	9.86	0.00	10	10
2	align=left	/	align=left	73.10	41.30	31.80	7.86	7.96	8.00	7.96	7.96	0.00	8	9
3	align=left	/	align=left	71.01	40.97	30.04	7.61	7.29	7.54	7.50	7.61	0.00	5	8
4	align=left	/	align=left	70.31	38.43	31.88	7.89	7.75	8.04	8.00	8.18	0.00	9	7
5	align=left	/	align=left	64.25	34.99	29.26	7.32	7.11	7.39	7.32	7.43	0.00	6	6
6	align=left	/	align=left	60.82	33.80	27.02	6.79	6.50	6.89	6.71	6.89	0.00	4	5
7	align=left	/	align=left	57.45	30.36	28.09	7.11	6.89	6.93	7.11	7.07	−1.00	7	4
8	align=left	/	align=left	46.56	25.13	21.43	5.50	5.04	5.39	5.50	5.36	0.00	1	3
9	align=left	/	align=left	46.34	25.27	21.07	5.32	5.04	5.32	5.36	5.29	0.00	3	2
10	align=left	/	align=left	44.70	24.44	21.26	5.32	5.14	5.36	5.36	5.39	−1.00	2	1

Ice dance

Pl.	Name	Nation										Pts.
1	align=left	/	align=left	75.98	37.07	38.91	9.64	9.54	9.86	9.75	9.82	0.00	10	10
2	align=left	/	align=left	72.98	35.22	37.76	9.36	9.36	9.50	9.46	9.50	0.00	9	9
3	align=left	/	align=left	70.27	34.22	36.05	9.00	8.75	9.18	8.89	9.18	0.00	8	8
4	align=left	/	align=left	69.15	34.50	34.65	8.64	8.54	8.82	8.64	8.68	0.00	6	7
5	align=left	/	align=left	64.92	31.00	33.92	8.39	8.29	8.54	8.61	8.54	0.00	7	6
6	align=left	/	align=left	58.04	29.78	28.26	7.11	6.71	7.39	7.21	6.93	0.00	4	5
7	align=left	/	align=left	52.93	24.01	29.92	7.36	7.29	7.57	7.57	7.57	−1.00	5	4
8	align=left	/	align=left	52.00	25.86	26.14	6.57	6.29	6.75	6.43	6.61	0.00	3	3
9	align=left	/	align=left	49.19	25.79	23.40	5.93	5.75	5.75	6.11	5.71	0.00	2	2
10	align=left	/	align=left	47.88	23.64	24.24	6.21	5.86	6.14	6.14	5.96	0.00	1	1

Ladies

Pl.	Name										Pts.
1	align=left	align=left	72.90	39.39	33.51	8.43	8.07	8.43	8.54	8.43	0.00	8	10
2	align=left	align=left	70.84	35.92	34.92	8.64	8.36	8.86	8.75	9.04	0.00	10	9
3	align=left	align=left	64.07	31.25	33.82	8.54	8.14	8.39	8.50	8.71	−1.00	9	8
4	align=left	align=left	63.10	32.16	30.94	7.86	7.46	7.68	7.75	7.93	0.00	7	7
5	align=left	align=left	62.54	33.86	28.68	7.04	6.96	7.21	7.18	7.46	0.00	1	6
6	align=left	align=left	55.45	29.75	25.70	6.46	6.18	6.43	6.43	6.64	0.00	6	5
7	align=left	align=left	54.58	31.75	22.83	6.04	5.39	5.71	5.79	5.61	0.00	2	4
8	align=left	align=left	53.44	27.95	25.49	6.54	6.11	6.30	6.32	6.39	0.00	4	3
9	align=left	align=left	52.16	28.21	24.95	6.36	5.93	6.25	6.29	6.36	−1.00	5	2
10	align=left	align=left	50.09	26.48	23.61	5.93	5.57	6.11	5.86	6.04	0.00	3	1

Free programs

Pairs

Pl.	Name	Nation										Pts.
1	align=left	/	align=left	135.09	67.03	68.06	8.39	8.29	8.57	8.61	8.68	0.00	5	10
2	align=left	/	align=left	129.74	64.89	64.85	8.14	7.82	8.25	8.11	8.21	0.00	4	9
3	align=left	/	align=left	120.82	60.45	61.37	7.71	7.46	7.61	7.75	7.82	−1.00	3	8
4	align=left	/	align=left	117.94	60.27	58.67	7.32	7.21	7.39	7.32	7.43	−1.00	2	7
5	align=left	/	align=left	86.33	43.86	42.47	5.54	5.04	5.36	5.29	5.32	0.00	1	6

Men

Pl.	Name										Pts.
1	align=left	align=left	168.20	81.48	86.72	8.75	7.54	9.14	8.79	9.14	0.00	4	10
2	align=left	align=left	167.92	89.00	78.92	7.93	7.64	8.00	7.96	7.93	0.00	3	9
3	align=left	align=left	165.85	83.13	82.72	8.32	7.82	8.32	8.36	8.54	0.00	5	8
4	align=left	align=left	153.67	75.45	79.22	7.79	7.82	7.93	7.96	8.11	−1.00	2	7
5	align=left	align=left	121.23	66.97	56.26	5.89	5.21	5.75	5.57	5.71	−2.00	1	6

Ladies

Pl.	Name										Pts.^[9]
1	align=left	align=left	141.51	71.69	69.82	8.64	8.43	8.86	8.82	8.89	0.00	5	10
2	align=left	align=left	129.38	68.49	61.89	7.82	7.43	7.86	7.75	7.82	0.00	2	9
3	align=left	align=left	112.51	54.00	58.51	7.21	7.04	7.50	7.32	7.50	0.00	4	8
4	align=left	align=left	112.33	49.32	63.01	8.07	7.75	7.71	7.89	7.96	0.00	3	7
5	align=left	align=left	110.73	54.53	57.20	7.11	6.89	7.25	7.21	7.29	−1.00	1	6

Ice dance

Pl.	Name	Nation										Pts.
1	align=left	/	align=left	114.34	55.80	58.54	9.64	9.61	9.96	9.89	9.82	0.00	5	10
2	align=left	/	align=left	107.56	50.37	57.19	9.50	9.32	9.64	9.68	9.68	0.00	4	9
3	align=left	/	align=left	103.48	50.36	54.12	9.00	8.68	9.25	9.25	9.18	−1.00	3	8
4	align=left	/	align=left	81.25	41.33	39.92	6.71	6.43	6.75	6.82	6.71	0.00	2	7
5	align=left	/	align=left	76.34	38.13	39.21	6.54	6.32	6.68	6.75	6.54	−1.00	1	6

Team overall

The final results were as follows:^[10]

Pl.	Nation								Pts.
	align=left	9	10	8	10	10	10	10	8	75
	align=left	8	9	9	6	9	9	6	9	65
	align=left	4	6	10	7	7	7	9	10	60
	align=left	1	7	6	9	8	6	8	7	52
	align=left	10	3	3	8	6	8	7	6	51
	align=left	6	4	7	5	Did not advance				22
	align=left	7	8	1	4	Did not advance				20
	align=left	5	5	5	2	Did not advance				17
	align=left	3	2	2	3	Did not advance				10
10	align=left	2	1	4	1	Did not advance				8

Judges and officials

Referee: Mona Jonsson, Fabio Bianchetti
Technical Controller: Paolo Pizzocari, Karen Archer
Technical Specialist: Anett Pötzsch, Troy Goldstein
Assistant Technical Specialist: Olga Markova, Peter Cain
Judges (SP): Yukiko Okabe, Sissy Krick, Elizabeth Littler, Karen Butcher, Evgeni Rokhin, Samuel Auxier, Igor Obraztsov, Peter Levin, Tatiana Yordanova
Judges (FS): Tatiana Yordanova, Nikolai Salnikov, Sissy Krick, Karen Butcher, Elizabeth Littler, Yumin Wang, Vladslav Perukhov, Elena Fomina, Albert Zaydman

External links

Notes and References

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Park . Alice . Team Figure Skating at the Winter Olympics: What You Need to Know. . 5 February 2014.
Web site: Olympic Games . . 2 March 2013 . 6 January 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140106221035/https://www.sochi2014.com/en/games/sport/olympic-games/ . dead .
Web site: ISU Judging System Statistics, Progression of Highest Score, Ice Dance, Free Dance Score . International Skating Union . 29 January 2015 . 28 December 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150202054808/http://www.isuresults.com/isujsstat/phsdfd.htm . 2 February 2015 . usurped.
Web site: Olympics Winter Games Figure Skating Results: Men . PDF . International Skating Union . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130513155843/http://www.isu.org/vsite/vfile/page/fileurl/0,11040,4844-130381-131689-25997-0-file,00.pdf . 13 May 2013 .
Web site: Deutscher Olympischer Sportbund (DOSB) nominiert 10 Eiskunstläuferinnen und Eiskunstläufer für die Olympischen Winterspiele 2014 in Sotschi . German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB) nominates 10 figure skaters for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi . . 18 December 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131226105847/http://www.eislauf-union.de/DEU-Olympia-Team-2014_Newsdetail_258_kkdetail_view_news.html . 26 December 2013 . de.
Web site: Jenna McCorkell named in Team GB squad for 2014 Winter Olympics . Sky Sports . 14 January 2014.
Web site: Plushenko picked for Sochi Olympics after Test Skate . Rianovosti . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140121204135/http://en.ria.ru/sochi2014/20140121/186768293/Plushenko-Picked-for-Sochi-Olympics-after-Test-Skate.html . 21 January 2014 . 21 January 2014 .
Web site: Figure Skating Team Event Official Results . Sochi 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140211095206/http://www.sochi2014.com/en/figure-skating-team-ladies-free-skating . 11 February 2014 . dead.
Web site: Olympic Winter Games Sochi 2014 – Team Result . 9 February 2014 . ISUresults.com.