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Evgenia Tarasova and Vladimir Morozov, of Russia, reacts after performing in the pair skating short program team event at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Gangneung, South Korea, Friday, Feb. 9, 2018. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)
Evgenia Tarasova and Vladimir Morozov, of Russia, reacts after performing in the pair skating short program team event at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Gangneung, South Korea, Friday, Feb. 9, 2018. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)Morry Gash/Associated Press

Pairs Figure Skating Results 2018: OAR's Evgenia Tarasova, Vladimir Morozov Win

Timothy Rapp
Feb 8, 2018

The Olympic Athletes of Russia's Evgenia Tarasova and Vladimir Morozov finished atop the leaderboard in the team event pairs short program, posting a score of 80.92 to easily capture first place after the qualifying round.ย 

Canada's Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford (76.57) finished second on the evening, while Germany's Aljona Savchenko and Bruno Massot placed third (75.36).

The United States pair of Alexa Scimeca Knierim and Chrisย Knierim finished fourth (69.75). NBC Olympics shared their strong showing:ย 

They also showed the pair's post-skate reaction:ย 

The rest of the teams placed as follows:

  • 5.ย Xiaoyu Yu and Haoย Zhang (CHN) - 69.17
  • 6. Vanessa James and Morgan Cipres (FRA) -ย 68.49
  • 7. Nicole Della Monica and Matteo Guarise (ITA) -ย 67.62
  • 8. Miu Suzaki and Ryuichi Kihara (JPN) -ย 57.42
  • 9. Paige Conners and Evgeni Krasnopolski (ISR) -ย 54.47
  • 10. Kyueun Kim and Alex Kang Chan Kam (KOR) - 52.10

As for the team event results after the first two events, which included Men's Short Program earlier, the countries are placed as such:

  • 1. Canada: 17 points
  • 2. United States: 14 points
  • 3.ย Olympic Athletes of Russia: 13 pointsย 
  • 4. Japan: 13 points
  • 5. Israel: 11 points
  • 6. China: 10 points
  • 7. Italy: 10 points
  • 8. Germany: 10 points
  • 9. Republic of Korea: 6 points
  • 10. France: 6 points

Tarasova and Morozov's dazzling performance made up for the disappointing showing fromย Mikhail Kolyada in the men's program earlier in the day, as he shockingly fell twice and finished eighth.ย Ditto for theย Knierims', who bailed outย Nathan Chen after his poor performance with a fantastic showing.

But the fantastic performance fromย Tarasova and Morozovโ€”who set a high score in the processโ€”was not only the story of the night, but also kept the Olympic Athletes of Russia in the running in the team event.

The team event continues in two days with the Ice Dance short routine and Ladies Single Skate short program.ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย 

All results and scores viaย Olympic.org.

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