Figure skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics

Figure skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics is scheduled to be held at the Capital Indoor Stadium in Beijing, China. The five events will take place between 4 and 20 February 2022.[1]

Figure Skating
at the XXIV Olympic Winter Games
VenueCapital Indoor Stadium
Dates4–20 February
No. of events5 (1 men, 1 women, 3 mixed)
Competitors148 (74 men, 74 women) from 32 nations
Figure skating at the
2022 Winter Olympics
Qualification
Singlesmenwomen
Pairs mixed
Ice dance mixed
Team event mixed

A total of 144 quota spots were distributed to the sport of figure skating, a decline of four from the 2018 Winter Olympics.[2] From the 2021–22 season, the International Skating Union renamed "ladies' singles" as "women's singles".[3]

Qualification
Main article: Figure skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Qualification

A total of 144 quota spots are available to athletes to compete at the games. Each NOC can enter a maximum of 18 athletes, with a maximum of nine men or nine women. An additional five quota spots have been made available for, first host qualification, then if any are remaining, the team event.

Competition schedule

The following will be the competition schedule for all five events. Sessions that include the event finals are shown in bold.

All times are in local time (UTC+8), according to the official schedule correct as of March 2021. This schedule may be subject to change in due time.

DateTimeEvent
4 February9:30Team event – Men's Short Programme
Team event – Women's Short Programme
Team event – Ice Dance Rhythm Dance
6 February9:30Team event – Pairs' Short Programme
Team event – Men's Free Skating
7 February10:30Team event – Pairs' Free Skating
Team event – Ice Dance Free Dance
Team event – Women's Free Skating
8 February9:15Men's Short Programme
10 February9:30Men's Free Skating
12 February19:00Ice Dance Rhythm Dance
14 February9:15Ice Dance Free Dance
15 February18:00Women's Short Programme
17 February18:00Women's Free Skating
18 February18:30Pairs' Short Programme
19 February19:00Pairs' Free Skating
20 February12:00Exhibition Gala

Medal summary
Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's singles
Women's singles
Pair skating
Ice dance
Team

* Skaters who only competed in the short program/rhythm dance.
** Skaters who only competed in the free skating/dance.

Entries

Countries began announcing their entries in 2021.

Country Men Women Pairs Ice dance
 Austria[4] Olga Mikutina Miriam Ziegler / Severin Kiefer
 China[5] TBD TBD Peng Cheng / Jin Yang
Sui Wenjing / Han Cong		 Wang Shiyue / Liu Xinyu
 Czech Republic[6] Michal Březina Eliška Březinová Elizaveta Zhuk / Martin Bidař Natálie Taschlerová / Filip Taschler
 Estonia[7] Aleksandr Selevko TBD
 Japan[8] TBD
TBD
TBD		 TBD
TBD
TBD		 Riku Miura / Ryuichi Kihara TBD
 Lithuania[9] Allison Reed / Saulius Ambrulevičius[lower-alpha 1]
 Netherlands[10] Lindsay van Zundert
 Spain[11] Laura Barquero / Marco Zandron[lower-alpha 2] TBD

Records and firsts
For the all-time highest scores, see list of highest scores in figure skating.

The following new ISU best scores were set during this competition.

Participating nations

The following National Olympic Committees earned spots to compete, with the number of athletes in parentheses. 148 athletes from 32 NOCs are expected to participate. ROC was the only delegation to qualify the maximum number of entries (3 spots per discipline for 18 athletes total).

Notes
  1. Will be replaced by Paulina Ramanauskaitė / Deividas Kizala if Reed cannot obtain Lithuanian citizenship.
  2. Pending Zandron obtaining Spanish citizenship.

References
  1. "Beijing 2022 Schedule Figure skating". BOCOG. Retrieved 12 August 2021.
  2. "Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022 Event programme and athlete quota" (PDF). www.olympic.org/. International Olympic Committee (IOC). Retrieved 5 September 2021.
  3. "Results of Proposals in Replacement of the 58th Ordinary ISU Congress 2021". International Skating Union. 30 June 2021.
  4. "Entsendungskriterien: Saison 2021/2022 – Olympische Winterspiele (OWS) – Peking, CHN" [Deployment Criteria: Season 2021/2022 – Olympic Winter Games (OWG) – Beijing, CHN] (PDF) (in German). Skate Austria. 2 July 2021.
  5. "花样滑冰单人滑项目北京冬奥会运动员选拔办法" [The selection method of figure skating singles athletes for the Beijing Winter Olympics] (in Chinese). General Administration of Sport of China. 11 December 2021.
  7. Pahv, Peep (12 December 2021). "Võimsalt rekordit parandanud Selevko läheb olümpiale, aga ei pääse EM-ile" [Selevko, who has greatly improved the record, will go to the Olympics, but will not be able to reach the European Championships]. Delfi Sport (in Estonian).
  8. Sponichi on Ice [@SponichiF] (15 December 2021). "日本スケート連盟は15日、ペアの #三浦璃来 #木原龍一 組が22年北京五輪と世界選手権の代表に内定したと発表した。" [The Japan Skating Federation announced on the 15th that the pair #RikuMiura #RyuichiKihara has been nominated to compete at the 2022 Beijing Olympics and World Championships.] (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  9. Suslavičius, Rokas (1 October 2021). "Lithuanian ice dancers may forgo Olympics after president rejects citizenship application". Lithuanian National Radio and Television.
  10. McAdams, Tom (24 November 2021). "With Van Zundert, a Dutch figure skater participates in the Games for the first time since 1976". Netherlands News Live.
  11. "Histórica plaza olímpica para Laura Barquero y Marco Zandrón" [Historic Olympic quota for Laura Barquero and Marco Zandrón] (in Spanish). Real Federación Española de Deportes de Hielo. 24 September 2021. The RFEDH has decided, taking into account all the circumstances and their recent performance in Oberstdorf, that Barquero & Zandrón will be the couple that represents Spain in Beijing next February.
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