Alina Zagitova, the teen sensation representing the Olympic Athletes from Russia (OAR) skated to Don Quixote to collect the gold in Figure Skating at Pyeongchang. She performed all her showpiece jumps including two triple Lutz, a triple flip into a double toe, and a triple flip into a double loop, that made her come closer to break the world record. But she stopped at 156.65, just two points just two points away from it. Another teen, 18-year old Evgenia Medvedeva, also representing the OAR) claimed the silver medal with a season-best performance. The bronze went to Kaetlyn Osmond of Canada who also recorded a season-best performance.
In the Women’s Ski Cross final, Canadian Kelsey Serwa, upgraded her silver medal she won at Sochi 2014 to gold at Pyeongchang this year. Her compatriot Brittany Phelan recovered form the fourth position to hold the second position in the four-skier final. Fanny Smith of Switzerland finished in the bronze position leaving Sandra Naeslund of Sweden in the fourth position.
Canada was outplayed by Switzerland in the bronze-medal match of Men’s Team Curling as the defending champions lost to Switzerland’s team of Valentin Tanner, Peter de Cruz, Claudio Paetz and skip Benoit Schwarz 7-5. Schwarz played superbly to score over his counterpart Kevin Koe and his team-mates Ben Hebert, Brett Laing and Marc Kennedy. Two-time world champion Koe played a superb double take-out on the eighth end to cut the deficit to one again and then restricted the Swiss to one shot on the ninth. But they faltered again on the tenth and final end.
Reigning world champion Kjeld Nuis of the Netherlands skated to 1,000m Speed Skating gold medal, giving his nation the seventhe Speed Skating gold at Pyeongchang 2018. He became the third man to win the 1,000m/1,500m double after the USA’s Eric Heiden at Lake Placid 1980 and Canada’s Gaetan Boucher at Sarajevo 1984. Norway’s Havard Lorentzen took silver by coming 0.04 of a second after Nuis. Local boy Kim Tae-Yun won the bronze.
Sweden held their nerve on the shooting range to take the gold in the last Biathlon event of this year’s Games. The team of Peppe Femling, Jesper Nelin, Sebastian Samuelsson and Fredrik Lindstroem had a comfortable victory in the Men’s 4×7.5km Relay in 1.15.16.5 seconds. The Norwegian team of Lars Helge Birkeland, Tarjei Boe, Johannes Thingnes Boe and Emil Hegle Svendsen took the silver while the Germans comprising of Erik Lesser, Benedikt Doll, Arnd Peiffer and Simon Schempp took the bronze.