Medals in pairs figure skating will be awarded this afternoon.
After yesterday’s short program, the top 16 pairs will take the ice again to perform their free skate routines.
Both of Team USA’s pairs qualified for the free skate with seventh and ninth place finishes. Ellie Kam and Danny O’Shea, already gold medalists from the team event, finished seventh, while Emily Chan and Spencer Akira Howe finished ninth.
OLYMPIC figure skating: what to know
- What: Pairs – short program
- When: February 16, 2 p.m. ET
- Where: Milano Ice Skating Arena (Milan, Italy)
- Channel: USA Network, NBC (beginning at 3:55 p.m.)
- Streaming: DIRECTV (try it free)
Atop the leaderboard right now are German pair Minerva Fabienne Hase and Nikita Volodkin, Anastasiia Metelkina and Luka Berulava from Georgia and Canadians Lia Pereira and Trennt Michaud.
Olympics figure skating schedule and start time
Today, Feb. 16, is the second day of the Olympics 2026 pairs figure skating competition. The free skate is scheduled to begin at 2 p.m. ET on USA before moving over to NBC at 3:55 p.m.
How to watch pairs figure skating at the Olympics for free
If you don’t have cable, you’ll need a live TV streaming service to stream the Olympics for free.
DIRECTV is our favorite service for watching TV live for free — it has a five-day free trial and there are a ton of options for plans that include USA Network and NBC (and every other channel you’ll need for the Olympics), starting at $49.99/month.
You can also catch every minute of the Olympics with a subscription to Peacock, which starts at $10.99/month.
Figure skating – pairs’ short program start list
- Camille Kovalev and Pavel Kovalev (FRA)
- Ioualia Chtchetnina and Michal Wozniak (POL)
- Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps (CAN)
- Anastasia Vaipan-Law and Luke Digby (GBR)
- Karina Akopova and Nikita Rakhmanin (ARM)
- Annika Hocke and Robert Kunkel (GER)
- Rebecca Ghilardi and Filippo Ambrosini (ITA)
- Emily Chan and Spencer Akira Howe (USA)
- Sara Conti and Niccolo Macii (ITA)
- Ellie Kam and Danny O’Shea (USA)
- Wenjing Sui and Cong Han (CHN)
- Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara (JPN)
- Maria Pavlova and Alexei Sviatchenko (HUN)
- Lia Pereira and Trennt Michaud (CAN)
- Anastasiia Metelkina and Luka Berulava (GEO)
- Minerva Fabienne Hase and Nikita Volodkin (GER)
2026 WINTER OLYMPICS
Figure skating at the Olympics 2026 schedule
- Pairs – Free Skating — Feb. 16, 2 p.m. ET*
- Women’s Singles – Short Program — Feb. 17, 12:45 p.m. ET
- Women’s Singles – Free Skating — Feb. 19, 1 p.m. ET*
- Exhibition Gala — Feb. 21, 2 p.m. ET
*medals awarded
When do the Winter Olympics end?
The 2026 Winter Olympics end with the closing ceremony on Feb. 22 at 2:30 p.m. ET.
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