The duo completed with an international report overall rating of 239.88 — 84.41 for brief program and 155.47 without cost skating — to seize their first-ever Olympic gold.
The pair skated to the tune “Bridge Over Stricken Water,” a tune written through US duo Simon & Garfunkel — apparently a nod to their friendship, which has continued an ankle damage suffered through Sui.
Sui and Han, who’re the primary Chinese language determine skaters to win gold within the pairs tournament for the reason that 2010 Vancouver Video games, received silver on this tournament on the 2018 PyeongChang Video games.
“We went via so much, from being no longer anticipated on the very starting. Other people mentioned we had been a couple of underdogs, as a result of our builds weren’t supposed for determine skating,” Sui mentioned following the win.
“Historically, males had been anticipated to be tall and ladies petite,” she defined.
“If there’s no method in entrance people, we can pave our personal method, leaving it to others, and that’s the reason how we create a legend,” she added.
They grow to be the 3rd pair skating workforce to win Olympic Video games gold on house ice following Tatiana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov of Russia at Sochi 2014 in addition to Maxi Herber and Ernst Baier of Germany at Garmisch-Partenkirchen in 1936.
Because the starting of the 2015-16 season, Sui and Han have completed at the podium at each world festival they have got competed in.
That is China’s 9th gold medal and fifteenth general on the Video games, a vital growth at the one gold secured at PyeongChang 4 years in the past.
China’s 15 medals surpass the rustic’s earlier prime of eleven in Vancouver 2010 and Torino 2006.
The silver medal went to Russian Olympic Committee’s (ROC) Evgenia Tarasova and Vladimir Morozov who completed with a complete rating of 239.25.
Anastasia Mishina and Aleksandr Galliamov of the ROC picked up the bronze after completing with a 237.71 overall rating.
