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Pair skating

Discipline of figure skating

—country of origin
—first recorded
1924Olympic debut
—disciplines & variants
—international bodies

Pair skating is a winter sport, part of figure skating. It has featured at the Olympic Games since 1924 (25 editions).

PractitionersPairs skater
Competition classesOpen
Olympic statusOn the programme · since 1924
Image: Bearas · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Pair skating
Image: Rama · CC BY-SA 3.0 fr · Wikimedia Commons
Olympic Games

Olympic history

Editions where Pair skating or one of its disciplines was on the programme. Filled boxes mark the sport itself, outlined ones its disciplines; the small number is the count of medal events where recorded.

Multi-sport events

At other multi-sport games

GamesEditionsFirstLatestYears
Winter Youth Olympic Games4201220242012, 2016, 2020, 2024
Winter World University Games9199720192001, 2003, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2019 …
Asian Winter Games5199920171999, 2003, 2007, 2011, 2017