With three gold and two silver medals, Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir are the most decorated Olympic figure skaters. They're also the only ones to have won gold on three different types of events: the team event, the free skate, and the overall competition.
Virtue and Moir became international stars after winning their first gold medal at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. The pair has since been nominated for a Golden Globe Award and have appeared on various other television shows including Dancing with the Stars and America's Got Talent.
The next highest-ranked figure skater is Yuna Kim with seven total medals (four gold, three silver). Kim had her first experience at the Olympics in 2014 and has gone on to win two more gold medals so far.
American skater Evan Lysacek is the only other man to have won multiple gold medals. He has four in total: two each in the short program and the long program at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Lysacek is also one of only five people to have won both a gold medal and a bronze medal at the Olympics. The others are Virtue, Moir, Kim, and Natalia Rodionova.
Only Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir have won five Olympic medals in figure skating (3 gold, 2 silver). The only other woman to win at least three gold medals is Katarina Witt, who took home that many during the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano.
Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir became the first pair of female skaters to win five gold medals at a single Olympic games when they beat out Russia's Ksenia Mukhortova and Alexander Zagorodniuk by 0.24 seconds at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Games.
Of the other four women to win three or more gold medals, two of them, Witt and Nancy Kerrigan, also won a bronze medal as well. The other two women to win three or more gold medals failed to win a fourth medal: Sonja Henie finished second three times at the 1928 Amsterdam Games, and Olga Korbut ended up with four gold medals but no silver or bronze at the 1980 Moscow Games.
In fact, only six women have won three or more gold medals at a single Olympic games: Virtue, Moir, Witt, Kerrigan, Henie, and Korbut.
Petrenko has had a hectic schedule since earning the gold. He not only trained fellow Ukrainian figure skater Oksana Baiul, who went on to win gold in 1994, but he also coached three-time skating champion Johnny Weir, three-time Ukrainian champion Natalia Popova, and 2010 Czech champion Michal Brezina.
With five medals each, Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir are the most decorated Olympic figure skaters. Marina Klimova and Sergei Ponomarenko, ice dancers, earned a bronze medal in 1984, a silver medal in 1988, and a gold medal in 1992.
Virtue and Moir also won gold in the ice dance event, making them the most decorated figure skaters in Olympic history with five Olympic medals. Duhamel and Radford earned bronze in the pair event, and Osmond took bronze in the women's event.
Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir of Canada celebrate their gold medal at the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics. Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir won Canada's and North America's first Olympic ice dance title in 2010. Jeffrey Buttle is a performer on the 2018 Revolution on Ice Tour.
Karen Magnussen won silver in the 1972 Winter Olympics and went on to win the world figure skating championship in 1973. Despite the fact that there have been other outstanding female Canadian skaters, no other Canadian lady has won the world figure skating championship since Magnussen. Petra Burka—Olympic bronze medalist in 1964 and World Champion in 1965
Canada has won gold medals in all but one of the events (men's singles). Gold medals have been won by the United Kingdom, the Unified Team, and the United States in three of the events. Russia and the Unified Team are the only NOCs to have won three events at the same Olympics, in 2014 and 1992, respectively.
She earned an Olympic bronze medal in 1972 and was the national figure skating champion of the United States from 1969 to 1973. Peggy Fleming won the Olympic figure skating gold medal in 1968. She won the championship at Grenoble, France, winning America's lone gold medal at the Olympics that year. Fleming went on to work as a figure skating commentator on television.
With five medals each, Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir are the most decorated Olympic figure skaters. Marina Klimova and Sergei Ponomarenko, ice dancers, earned a bronze medal in 1984, a silver medal in 1988, and a gold medal in 1992.
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Is the most awarded figure skater in US history, male or female. She has won more competitions with flawless 6.0 scores than any other figure skater in the world. Michelle Kwan became only the second figure skater in history to receive the James E. Sullivan Award, which is awarded to one amateur athlete each year, on April 9, 2002. The first was long-time NBA player Bill Russell who received this award in 2001.
Michelle Kwan is also the first and only woman to win the gold medal in both the Winter and Summer Olympics as a single skater. Her achievements have been recognized with several awards, including two Olympic medals, five World Championships, and ten U.S. National Championships. Kwan has also held the record for highest score of 100 points at a single competition (2006 Skate America).
She was born on January 4th, 1975 in Taft, California. When she was three years old, her family moved to Coral Springs, Florida where she grew up. There she learned how to skate from her father, Donald, who coached her when she was young. When Michelle was nine years old, her family moved back to California where she continued to train under her father until he died in 1999 at the age of 44. After this incident, Michelle decided to continue competing despite her mourning process.
She started showing interest in figure skating at the age of four when she watched Brian Boitano at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville.
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