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Olympic Figure Skating 2022: Full Results and All Medal Winners from Beijing

Scott Polacek@@ScottPolacekX.com LogoFeatured Columnist IVFebruary 20, 2022

Figure Skating: 2022 Winter Olympics: USA Nathan Chen in action
during Mens Free program at Capital Indoor Stadium. Chen wins gold. Beijing, China 2/10/2022 CREDIT: Simon Bruty (Photo by Simon Bruty/Sports Illustrated via Getty Images) (Set Number: X163929 TK1)
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Figure skating takes center stage at almost every Winter Olympics, but that was especially the case for the 2022 Beijing Games.

While the controversy surrounding Kamila Valieva was the biggest story, these Olympics also meant medals as the culmination of a lifetime of work for a number of athletes. Here is a look at the list of all the figure-skating medal winners in the 2022 Games.


Team Event

Gold: Russian Olympic Committee

Silver: United States

Bronze: Japan


Men's Singles

Gold: Nathan Chen, United States

Silver: Yuma Kagiyama, Japan

Bronze: Shoma Uno, Japan


Ice Dance

Gold: Gabriella Papadakis/Guillaume Cizeron, France

Silver: Victoria Sinitsina/Nikita Katsalapov, Russian Olympic Committee 

Bronze: Madison Hubbell/Zachary Donohue, United States


Women's Singles

Gold: Anna Shcherbakova, Russian Olympic Committee 

Silver: Alexandra Trusova, Russian Olympic Committee 

Bronze: Kaori Sakamoto, Japan


Pairs

Gold: Sui Wenjing/Han Cong, China

Silver: Evgenia Tarasova/Vladimir Morozov, Russian Olympic Committee

Bronze: Anastasia Mishina/Aleksandr Galliamov, Russian Olympic Committee


There were plenty of moments that stood out during the Olympics, including Nathan Chen's brilliance on the men's side and the combination of Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron taking home gold for France in the ice dancing competition.

Still, the drama surrounding Valieva in the women's singles event made worldwide headlines.

The 15-year-old skater for the Russian Olympic Committee helped lead her side to gold in the team competition and seemed like a lock to do the same in the women's individual competition as the most graceful and skilled figure skater in the world.

And then the controversy struck.

As D'Arcy Maine of ESPN noted Valieva tested positive for the banned heart medication trimetazidine in December during the Russian championship. The Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled she could still compete, and the situation is still under investigation.

She said the drug entered her system accidentally, but the positive test overshadowed the rest of the competition. Had she won a medal, there would not have been a ceremony.

"I don't even know what to feel or what to think," Tara Lipinski said on the NBC broadcast (h/t Maine). "You're watching [Valieva] go through this pain—she's 15. I blame the adults around her to even be put in this position—and all of the other athletes, what they've gone through this week. The possibility of there being no medal ceremony, or podium—that's what every little girl dreams of when they think of the Olympics."

Alas, she did not win a medal and stumbled during the free skate.

That cleared the way for fellow Russian Olympic Committee competitors Anna Shcherbakova and Alexandra Trusova to win gold and silver medals in an event that will be remembered more for what happened around the ice than what happened on it.