Skaters Representing The Rinks & Great Park Ice Win Four Olympic Medals

Skaters from The Rinks & Great Park Ice won four medals (one gold and three silver) at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games. The six skaters represented three countries, with four from the United States (Nathan Chen, Mariah Bell, Alexa Knierim and Brandon Frazier). Michal Brezina represented the Czech Republic and Kailani Craine skated for Team Australia. Chen, Bell and Brezina train under Great Park Ice's Head Coach of High Performance, Rafael Arutyunyan, while Knierim and Frazier train with Great Park Ice's High Performance dynamic Pair Coaching team, Todd and Jenni Sand. Arutyunyan also works with the pairs team on their singles skating.

Chen won gold in Men's Singles Figure Skating, setting a world record score of 332.60 to become the seventh American Men's Olympic Champion all-time (eighth men's gold medal overall, first since 2010). Chen scored 218.63 in the Long Program after setting an international figure skating world record with a 113.97 score in the Short Program.
Chen has also won the last three World Championship events, becoming the first American (male or female) since Scott Hamilton (1982-84) to win three World titles in a row. Chen entered the Olympics with six consecutive U.S. Figure Skating Championships, the first to win six straight American titles and one short of U.S. record set by Dick Button (seven titles from 1946-52).
Chen and The Rinks & Great Park Ice Pairs Team Brandon Frazier and Alexa Knierim helped the Americans take home the silver medal in the Team Event, a combination of Men's and Women's Singles, and Pairs and Ice Dance.
Today (Saturday) in Beijing, Frazier and Knierim placed sixth in the Pairs competition, the best U.S. finish at an Olympic Winter Games in 20 years. The duo also won the 2021 U.S. title.
The reigning 2022 U.S. National Ladies Champion, Bell finished 10th in Women's Singles. The 25-year-old Bell was the oldest American Olympian in the singles competition since 1928. She landed a triple lutz late in the program to secure her top-10 finish.