World and Olympic records set at the 2022 Winter Olympics

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A number of world records (WR) and Olympic records (OR) were set in various skating events at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China.

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Figure skating

The following new ISU best scores and Olympic records were set during this competition:

EventDateComponentSkater(s)CountryScoreRef
Team event 4 FebruaryPairs – Short program Sui Wenjing / Han Cong Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 82.83 [1]
Women – Short program Kamila Valieva Russian Olympic Committee flag.svg  ROC 90.18 OR
Women – Free skating178.92 OR
Men's singles 8 FebruaryShort program Nathan Chen Flag of the United States.svg  United States 113.97 [2]
Short program TES65.98 [3]
10 FebruaryFree skating PCS97.22 [4]
Ice dance 12 FebruaryRhythm dance Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron Flag of France.svg  France 90.83 [5]
Rhythm dance TES51.65 [6]
14 FebruaryCombined total226.98 [7]
Women's singles 17 FebruaryFree skating Alexandra Trusova Russian Olympic Committee flag.svg  ROC 177.13 OR
Free skating TES106.16 OR
Pair skating 18 FebruaryShort program Sui Wenjing / Han Cong Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 82.83
19 FebruaryCombined total239.82

TES = Technical Element Score
PCS = Program Component Score

Short track speed skating

EventDateRoundAthleteCountryTimeRecordRef
Women's 500 metres 5 FebruaryHeat 4 Suzanne Schulting Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 42.379 OR [8]
Men's 1000 metres 5 FebruaryHeat 5 Hwang Dae-heon Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea 1:23.042OR [9]
Mixed 2000 metre relay 5 FebruaryHeat 2 Suzanne Schulting
Xandra Velzeboer
Itzhak de Laat
Jens van 't Wout
Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 2:36.437OR [10]
Women's 1000 metres 9 FebruaryHeat 2 Suzanne Schulting Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 1:27.292OR [11]
Men's 1500 metres 9 FebruaryQuarterfinal 1 Shaolin Sándor Liu Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 2:09.213OR [12]
Women's 1000 metres 11 FebruaryQuarterfinal 1 Suzanne Schulting Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 1:26.514 WR, OR [13]
Women's 3000 metre relay 13 FebruaryFinal A Suzanne Schulting
Selma Poutsma
Xandra Velzeboer
Yara van Kerkhof
Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 4:03.409OR [14]
Women's 1500 metres 16 FebruarySemifinal 3 Choi Min-jeong Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea 2:16.831OR [15]

Speed skating

EventDateRoundAthleteCountryTimeRecordRef
Women's 3000 metres 5 FebruaryPair 10 Irene Schouten Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 3:56.93 OR [16]
Men's 5000 metres 6 FebruaryPair 5 Patrick Roest Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 6:09.31OR [17]
Men's 5000 metres 6 FebruaryPair 10 Nils van der Poel Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 6:08.84OR [18]
Women's 1500 metres 7 FebruaryPair 12 Ireen Wüst Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 1:53.28OR [19]
Men's 1500 metres 8 FebruaryPair 10 Thomas Krol Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 1:43.55OR [20]
Men's 1500 metres 8 FebruaryPair 11 Kjeld Nuis Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 1:43.21OR [21]
Women's 5000 metres 10 FebruaryPair 6 Irene Schouten Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 6:43.51OR [22]
Men's 10,000 metres 11 FebruaryPair 5 Nils van der Poel Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 12:30.74 WR, OR [23]
Men's 500 metres 12 FebruaryPair 7 Gao Tingyu Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 34.32OR [24]
Women's team pursuit 12 FebruaryQuarterfinal 1 Ayano Sato
Miho Takagi
Nana Takagi
Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 2:53.61OR [25]
Men's team pursuit 15 FebruarySemifinal 2 Daniil Aldoshkin
Sergey Trofimov
Ruslan Zakharov
Russian Olympic Committee flag.svg  ROC 3:36.62OR [26]
Women's team pursuit 15 FebruaryFinal A Ivanie Blondin
Valérie Maltais
Isabelle Weidemann
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 2:53.44OR [27]
Women's 1000 metres 17 FebruaryPair 13 Miho Takagi Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 1:13.19OR [28]

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