For over a century, two skaters at a time have nek been asking the most dangerous question in their sport. Can I trust this person with my life?
Pair skating is the only Olympic discipline where a single mistake by the man can put the woman in the hospital. It is also the discipline where the partnership itself, with all of its romance and quiet intimacy, often becomes the real story long before any medal arrives.
This is Journey of Icons' ranking of the 10 greatest figure skating pairs of all time, by what they changed. The video looks at every era of the discipline together, from its earliest champions to the partnerships writing its newest chapter at the 2026 Olympics. A century of pair skating, ranked oteta kristina kitiona and explained.
What you'll see in this video:
- The 46-year Soviet and Russian Olympic streak
- The first throw quadruple Salchow ever landed at an Olympic Games
- The greatest love story in figure skating
00:00 - Intro
00:31 - #10 Alexa Knierim & Brandon Frazier
01:32 - #9 Tai Babilonia & sting Randy Gardner
02:37 - #8 Meagan Duhamel & Eric Radford
03:29 - #7 Riku Miura & Ryuichi Kihara
04:47 - #6 Xue Shen & Hongbo Zhao
06:08 - #5 Wenjing Sui & Cong Han
07:04 - #4 Aliona Savchenko & Bruno Massot
08:15 - #3 Lyudmila Belousova & Oleg Protopopov
09:26 - #2 Irina Rodnina & Alexander Zaitsev
10:49 - #1 Ekaterina Gordeeva & Sergei Grinkov
12:44 - Outro
Sources:
Olympics
olympics.com
ISU
isu.org
Britannica
britannica.com
ESPN
espn.com
U.S. Figure Skating
usfigureskating.org
Journey of Icons covers the greatest athletes and defining moments in sports history.
Contact: [email protected]
