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Olympic figure skating: Ice dance standings after short dance

By Sarabeth Pollock

GANGNEUNG, SOUTH KOREA - FEBRUARY 19: Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir of Canada compete during the Figure Skating Ice Dance Short Dance on day 10 of the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games at Gangneung Ice Arena on February 19, 2018 in Pyeongchang-gun, South Korea. (Photo by Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images)
GANGNEUNG, SOUTH KOREA - FEBRUARY 19: Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir of Canada compete during the Figure Skating Ice Dance Short Dance on day 10 of the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games at Gangneung Ice Arena on February 19, 2018 in Pyeongchang-gun, South Korea. (Photo by Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images) /
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With the ice dance short dance in the books, here are the ice dance standings at the 2018 Winter Olympics ahead of the free skate.

The first half of the ice dance competition at the 2018 Winter Olympics has concluded. After the short dance program, Canada’s Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir have the lead, followed by France and the United States.

The eventual leaders of the program came to the fore in the final two groups. Team USA’s Maia Shibutani and Alex Shibutani landed at the top of the scoreboard after their skate, earning a 77.73. Madison Chock and Evan Bates followed them in the short dance and earned a 75.45. The third United States team, Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue, skated a clean routine that earned them a 77.75 to edge the Shib Sibs from the top three. Hubbell and Donohue landed at No. 3 while the Shibutanis finished in fourth.

The reigning gold medalists, Canada’s Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, scored the highest score in ice dance short dance under the current scoring system with their 83.67, which breaks the previous record that they themselves had set. They went into first place and didn’t look back through the rest of the program.

France’s Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron sailed into second place with an 81.93 despite a wardrobe malfunction at the start of their short skate that saw Papadakis’ outfit come undone at the neck. It stayed on for the duration of their skate, but it was a distraction and likely impacted their final score.

Here are the final standings after the ice dance short dance program:

  1. Canada – Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir – 83.67
  2. France – Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron – 81.93
  3. United States – Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue – 77.75
  4. United States – Maia Shibutani and Alex Shibutani – 77.73
  5. Italy – Anna Cappellini and Luca Lanotte – 76.57
  6. Olympic Athletes from Russia – Ekaterina Bobrova and Dmitri Soloviev – 75.47
  7. United States – Madison Chock and Evan Bates – 75.45
  8. Canada – Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje – 74.33
  9. Canada – Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier – 69.60
  10. Great Britain – Penny Coomes and Nicholas Buckland – 68.36
  11. Italy – Charlene Guignard and Marco Fabbri – 68.16
  12. Spain – Sara Hurtado and Kirill Khaliavin – 66.93
  13. Olympic Athletes from Russia – Tiffani Zahorski and Jonathan Guerreiro – 66.47
  14. Poland – Natalia Kaliszek and Maksym Spodyriev – 66.06
  15. Japan – Kana Muramoto and Chriss Reed – 63.41
  16. Korea – Yura Min and Alexander Gamelin – 61.22
  17. Germany – Kavita Lorenz and Joti Polizoakis – 59.99
  18. France – Marie-Jade Lauriault and Romain Le Gac – 59.97
  19. Slovakia – Lucie Mysliveckova and Lukas Csolley – 59.75
  20. Turkey – Alisa Agafonova and Alper Ucar – 59.42
  21. Ukraine – Alexandra Nazarova ad Maxim Nikitin – 57.97
  22. China – Shiyue Wang and Xinyu Liu – 57.81
  23. Czech Republic – Cortney Mansourova and Michal Ceska – 53.53
  24. Israel – Adel Tankova and Ronald Zilberberg – 46.66

Only the top 16 ice dance pairs will advance to the free dance.

Next: Best Olympian from each state

The ice dance competition continues on Monday, February 19 as the ice dance teams perform their free dances at 8 p.m. ET ahead of the medal ceremony.

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