U.S. PAIRS NOTCH TWO TOP EIGHT FINISHES IN BEIJING

The U.S. pairs teams notched two top-eight finishes at the Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022, with Alexa Knierim and Brandon Frazier finishing sixth with 212.68 points and Ashley Cain-Gribble and Timothy LeDuc eighth with 198.05 points. This is the first time Team USA finished in the top eight in the pairs event since 1998, when Kyoko Ina and Jason Dungjen finished fourth and Jenni Meno and Todd Sand finished eighth in Nagano, Japan.

Knierim and Frazier closed out their Olympic debut as a team with a personal best 212.68 total points. Their personal best 138.45-point free skate to “Fix You” and “Redemption

Through Love” featured six Level 4 elements, including a triple twist. Knierim and Frazier’s sixth-place finish is the best for a U.S. Olympic pairs team since 2002, when Kyoko Ina and John Zimmerman finished fifth in Salt Lake City.

“I have so much appreciation for the whole team and my family taking a shot on me,” Frazier said. “I am forever in their debt for all their hard work. We weren’t even sure we would try out and now we are here at the Olympic Games.”

Cain-Gribble and LeDuc finished their first Olympic Games with 198.05 total points. They earned 123.92 points in their free skate to music from the W.E. soundtrack, which featured four Level 4 elements.

“There was a lot of fight in there,” Cain-Gribble said. “Some good elements, some elements that I felt weren't me at all. But overall, we never gave up, and that's the main thing.”

China’s Wenjing Sui and Cong Han won the gold medal with 239.88 total points. The Russian Olympic Committee’s (ROC) Evgenia Tarasova and Vladimir Morozov captured silver with 239.25, and the ROC’s Anastasia Mishina and Aleksandr Galliamov earned bronze with 237.71 points.

The pairs event concluded competition at the Capital Indoor Stadium. Fans can find full results, recaps and more on the U.S. Figure Skating Fan Zone Competition Centra.