This afternoon, medals will be given out in pairs figure skating.
Following yesterday’s short program, the top 16 pairs are set to perform their free skate routines.
Team USA has both pairs in the free skate, with Ellie Kam and Danny O’Shea finishing seventh and Emily Chan with Spencer Akira Howe placing ninth. They are already gold medalists from the team event.
The current leaderboard is topped by Germany’s Minerva Fabienne Hase and Nikita Volodkin, Georgia’s Anastasia Metelkina and Luka Berlava, along with Canada’s Lia Pereira and Trent Michaud.
Olympic figure skating schedule and start time
Today, February 16th, marks the second day of pairs competition at the 2026 Olympics. The free skate is set to begin at 2 PM ET and will move to NBC at 3:55 PM.
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Figure Skating – Pairs Short Program Start List
- Camille Kovalev and Pavel Kovalev (France)
- Iouaria Chechetnina and Michal Wozniak (Poland)
- Diana Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps (Canada)
- Anastasia Vaipan-Lo and Luke Digby (Great Britain)
- Karina Akopova and Nikita Rachmanin (Armenia)
- Annika Hocke and Robert Kunkel (Germany)
- Rebecca Ghirardi and Filippo Ambrosini (Italy)
- Emily Cheung and Spencer Akira Howe (USA)
- Sarah Conti and Niccolò Maci (Italy)
- Ellie Kam and Danny O’Shea (USA)
- Wenjing Sui and Kong Han (China)
- Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara (Japan)
- Maria Pavlova and Alexei Svyachenko (Hungary)
- Lea Pereira and Trent Michaud (Canada)
- Anastasia Metelkina and Luka Berlava (Georgia)
- Minerva Fabienne Hase and Nikita Volodkin (Germany)
2026 Winter Olympics
2026 Olympic figure skating schedule
- Pairs – Free Skate – February 16th 2:00 PM ET*
- Women’s Singles – Short Program – February 17th 12:45 PM ET
- Women’s Singles – Free Skate – February 19th 1:00 PM ET*
- Exhibition Gala — February 21st 2:00 PM ET
*Medals will be awarded
When will the Winter Olympics end?
The 2026 Winter Olympics will conclude with a closing ceremony on February 22nd at 2:30 PM ET.
