Tessa Virtue & Scott Moir
Yuna Kim
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Tessa Virtue & Scott Moir leads 4 of 4 categories. Our all-time ranking places Tessa Virtue & Scott Moir at #10 and Yuna Kim at #11.
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The case for Tessa Virtue & Scott Moir
The most decorated figure skaters in Olympic history, with five medals across three Games. The Canadians won ice dance gold at Vancouver 2010, the first North American couple ever to take the title and the youngest champions the discipline had produced, then silver in the dance and silver in the team event at Sochi 2014, then gold in both at Pyeongchang 2018. They added three world titles in 2010, 2012 and 2017, three Four Continents titles and eight Canadian championships, having skated together since the ages of seven and nine. Their Pyeongchang free dance to music from Moulin Rouge set a world record and closed a career defined by the deepest partnership the sport has seen, with edges, breathing and body angles matched so precisely that unison effectively became a category of its own. They also survived a mid-career reinvention, moving their training base to Montreal and returning from a two-year competitive break to win everything again.
The case for Yuna Kim
The most complete competitor of the pre-quadruple women's era, and the skater who built a sport in a country that did not have one. Kim won Olympic gold at Vancouver 2010 with a world-record 228.56, finishing 23 points clear of Mao Asada in the largest winning margin the modern system has produced at a Games, and took silver at Sochi 2014 in a result still disputed by judges and federations alike. She won world titles in 2009 and 2013 and the 2009 Four Continents, and was the first woman to pass 200 points overall, scoring 207.71 at the 2009 World Championships in Los Angeles. She never finished off the podium at a senior ISU championship. South Korea had almost no figure skating infrastructure when she began; by Vancouver her free skate commanded a national audience share that emptied streets, and rink construction and youth registration followed within a few years. Textbook technique, and a competition record close to flawless.