Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara won Japan’s first-ever Olympic pairs medal with a commanding free skate performance. After placing 5th in the short program, they delivered a flawless final skate to ‘Gladiator,’ earning 158.13 points in the free skate and 231.24 total points—a season’s best. This represented one of the most dramatic comebacks of the Games.
Georgia’s Anastasiia Metelkina and Luka Berulava earned their nation’s first-ever Olympic medal with silver (221.75 points). Germany’s Minerva Fabienne Hase and Nikita Volodin secured bronze with 219.09 points, marking Germany’s first Olympic figure skating medal since 2018.
American pairs Ellie Kam and Danny O’Shey, and Emily Chan and Spencer Akira Howe demonstrated the growth of the U.S. pairs program, with Chan and Howe breaking the 200-point barrier at 200.31 points for 7th place.
