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2026 Winter Olympics play-by-play/results: Pairs short program

February 15, 2026

Pairs short (FINAL)
1. Minerva Fabienne Hase/Nikita Volodin GER - 80.01 (43.91, 36.10)
2. Anastasiia Metelkina/Luka Berulava GEO - 75.46 (41.45, 34.01)
3. Lia Pereira/Trennt Michaud CAN - 74.60 (42.20, 32.40)
4. Maria Pavlova/Alexei Sviatchenko HUN - 73.87 (41.34, 32.53)
5. Riku Miura/Ryuichi Kihara JPN - 73.11 (38.14, 34.97)
6. Wenjing Sui/Cong Han CHN - 72.66 (39.28, 33.38)
7. Ellie Kam/Danny O’Shea USA - 71.87 (38.81, 33.06)
8. Sara Conti/Niccolo Macii ITA - 71.70 (37.22, 34.48)
9. Emily Chan/Spencer Akira Howe USA - 70.06 (39.00, 31.06)
10. Rebecca Ghilardi/Filippo Ambrosini ITA - 69.08 (38.29, 30.79)
11. Annika Hocke/Robert Kunkel GER - 67.52 (37.72, 29.80)
12. Karina Akopova/Nikita Rakhmanin ARM - 66.27 (38.16, 28.11)
13. Anastasia Vaipan-Law/Luke Digby GBR - 66.07 (36.99, 29.08)
14. Deanna Stellato-Dudek/Maxime Deschamps CAN - 66.04 (34.97, 32.07, -1.00)
15. Ioulia Chtchetinina/Michal Wozniak POL - 65.23 (36.58, 28.65)
16. Camille Kovalev/Pavel Kovalev FRA - 64.65 (35.99, 28.66)
—Did not qualify for the free skate—
17. Daria Danilova/Michel Tsiba NED - 64.07 (36.87, 27.20)
18. Anastasiia Golubeva/Hektor Giotopoulos Moore AUS - 60.69 (32.85, 27.84)
19. Yuna Nagaoka/Sumitada Moriguchi JPN - 59.62 (31.46, 30.16, -2.00)

Minerva Fabienne Hase/Nikita Volodin GER - 3Tw4, sbs3S, thr3Lo, 5ALi4

Riku Miura/Ryuichi Kihara JPN - 3Tw3, sbs3T, 5ALi2(early exit), thr3Lz(hangs on)

Sara Conti/Niccolo Macii ITA - 3Tw4, thr3Lo, sbs3S(C step), 5RLi3

Anastasiia Metelkina/Luka Berulava GEO - sbs3S, 3Tw4, thr3F(step), 5RLi4

Deanna Stellato-Dudek/Maxime Deschamps CAN - 3Tw4, sbs3T(D hand,ftdwn), thr3Lo, 5RLi4(exit fall)

Ellie Kam/Danny O'Shea USA - 3Tw4, sbs3S, thr3Lo(hand?), 5ALi3

Rebecca Ghilardi/Filippo Ambrosini ITA - sbs2A, 3Tw4, 5ALi4, thr3Lz

Maria Pavlova/Alexei Sviatchenko HUN - 3Tw4, thr3Lz, sbs3T, 5RLi4

Anastasia Vaipan-Law/Luke Digby GBR - 3Tw3, sbs2A, 5RLi4, thr3S

Annika Hocke/Robert Kunkel GER - 3Tw3, sbs3S, thr3F, 5RLi4

Lia Pereira/Trennt Michaud CAN - 3Tw4, sbs3T(M hangs on), thr3Lo, 5RLi4

Ioulia Chtchetinina/Michal Wozniak POL - 3Tw3, sbs3T, thr3S(ftdwn), 5ALi4

Yuna Nagaoka/Sumitada Moriguchi JPN - 3Tw1, sbs3Lo(N fall), thr3S(fall), 5RLi4

Daria Danilova/Michel Tsiba NED - 3Tw2, sbs3S, thr3Lz, 5RLi4

Emily Chan/Spencer Akira Howe USA - 3Tw4, sbs3T, thr3Lo(hand), 5RLi4

Camille Kovalev/Pavel Kovalev FRA - 3Tw2, sbs3T(PK turn), 5RLi4, thr3F

Anastasiia Golubeva/Hektor Giotopoulos Moore AUS - 2Tw2, sbs3T, thr3Lo, 5RLi4

Wenjing Sui/Cong Han CHN - sbs3T(S step,hand), 3Tw4, thr3F, 5RLi4

Karina Akopova/Nikita Rakhmanin ARM - 3Tw3, thr3Lz, sbs3S, 5RLi3

Skate order
GROUP 1
- Akopova/Rakhmanin ARM
- Sui/Han CHN
- Golubeva/Giotopoulos Moore AUS
GROUP 2
- Kovalev/Kovalev FRA
- Chan/Howe USA
- Danilova/Tsiba NED
- Nagaoka/Moriguchi JPN
GROUP 3
- Chtchetinina/Wozniak POL
- Pereira/Michaud CAN
- Hocke/Kunkel GER
- Vaipan-Law/Digby GBR
GROUP 4
- Pavlova/Sviatchenko HUN
- Ghilardi/Ambrosini ITA
- Kam/O’Shea USA
- Stellato-Dudek/Deschamps CAN
GROUP 5
- Metelkina/Berulava GEO
- Conti/Macii ITA
- Miura/Kihara JPN
- Hase/Volodoin GER

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