Figure skating at the 1994 Winter Olympics – Ice dance
ice dance events at the Olympics
Ice dance at the 1994 Winter Olympics was contested between 18 and 21 February 1994. There were 21 dancing couples from 16 nations that participated. Oksana Grishuk and Evgeni Platov won the gold medal for Russia, and their teammates Maya Usova and Alexander Zhulin won the silver medal. The 1984 Olympic champions, Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean, won the bronze medal for Great Britain.
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