Winter Olympics 2022 schedule: When is Beijing 2022? When are the key events? Dates, big names and more

Updated 20/02/2022 at 08:52 GMT

GB curlers go for gold! Beijing 2022 takes the Olympic baton from Tokyo 2020, ready to deliver a feast of winter sports action including Alpine skiing, figure skating and, everyone’s favourite, curling. So what are the key dates and who is most likely to grab the spotlight? Look no further than our bumper guide. Remember: watch every moment of Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022 on discovery+

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The Winter Olympics are nearly over! Norway top the medal table heading into the final day of competition in Beijing.

The 15th day saw Sweden's male curlers take gold in a tense decider at the Ice Cube, with Bruce Mouat's Team GB rink having to settle for a silver that did at least finally get Great Britain on the board.

The last day of action will see Mikaela Shiffrin return to the slopes as she bids to salvage a disappointing Olympics in the team event from 01:00 GMT, while Eve Muirhead and her rink will bid for gold in the women’s curling final at 01:05 GMT, with coverage starting at 00:45 GMT.

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Elsewhere, Brad Hall and his crew will go in the second half of the heats of the four-man bobsleigh, and still have faint hopes of a podium finish, while the final gold medal of the 2022 Winter Olympics will come in the men's ice hockey, where Finland take on the ROC.

The British squad had been aiming to surpass their medal haul from South Korea in 2018, where they won one gold and four bronze medals. Our Team GB news page will have all the latest breaking news and videos regarding British athletes.

Norway and Germany will be hoping to dominate the medal table again, like they did in Pyeongchang four years ago.

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DAY 16 HIGHLIGHTS

It took until the final hours of Beijing 2022 but Great Britain finally have a Winter Olympic gold medal. Eve Muirhead's outstanding women's rink followed the achievement of Rhona Martin's British team at Salt Lake City in 2002, dominating Japan in a final thrashing.

Finland took the final medal of Beijing 2022, winning the nation's first ever Winter Olympic ice hockey gold with a narrow felling of defending champions the ROC.

DAY 15 HIGHLIGHTS

Great Britain belatedly got on the board at Beijing 2022, though perhaps fittingly for a Games of largely failure for Team GB, Bruce Mouat's rink missed on Olympic gold as a ruthless Sweden took victory in an extra end at the Ice Cube.

And Belgium won its first Winter Olympics gold medal for 74 (!) years. The brilliant Bart Swings upgraded his speed skating men's mass start silver from four years ago, describing becoming Olympic champion as "a dream".

DAY 14 HIGHLIGHTS

Eve Muirhead led the women's curlers to the final and another guaranteed medal for Team GB, following in the footsteps of Bruce Mouat and the men on Thursday.

Eileen Gu became the first freestyle skier to win three medals at one Winter Olympics after storming to victory in the women’s halfpipe.

DAY 13 HIGHLIGHTS

It's finally happening! Concerns that Team GB could leave Beijing without a medal have been put to bed by the men's curlers after they beat the United States 8-4 to reach the final., just hours after the women's rink reached the last four.

A distraught Kamila Valieva missed out on an individual medal, as Anna Shcherbakova was awarded gold ahead of Russian team-mate Alexandra Trusova and Japan's Kaori Sakamoto.

DAY 12 HIGHLIGHTS

Slovakia stunned the United States in the quarter-finals of the men's ice hockey after the Americans faltered in a penalty shootout. France’s Clement Noel put down a stunning second run to win slalom gold ahead of Johannes Strolz and world champion Sebastien Foss-Solevaag.

DAY 11 HIGHLIGHTS

An emotional Kamila Valieva finished first in the women's individual short program figure skating event after a week of controversy. Jarl Magnus Riiber took a wrong turn in the 10km cross-country skiing section of the men's Nordic combined to miss out on a medal.

DAY 10 HIGHLIGHTS

Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron sealed Olympic gold in the ice dance when obliterating the field with a world-record score. Kamila Valieva was cleared to take part in the women's individual figure skating event on Tuesday.

DAY 9 HIGHLIGHTS

Erin Jackson says she hopes that her gold medal success will inspire more people from ethnic minorities to succeed at future Winter Olympics. Marco Odermatt fulfilled his billing as favourite for giant slalom gold.

DAY 8 HIGHLIGHTS

Sixteen years on from a showboat that would seemingly haunt her for the rest of her career, Lindsey Jacobellis pulled off the ultimate flex in what could well have been her final jump at an Olympics.

DAY 7 HIGHLIGHTS

Shaun White after crashing on his final run as Ayumu Hirano took gold. Lara Gut-Behrami won super-G gold.

DAY 6 HIGHLIGHTS

Nathan Chen captured his first Olympic title after producing another fantastic display in the free skate to win men's singles gold.

Chloe Kim successfully defended her halfpipe title in style, dropping a 94.00 at the first attempt to finish comfortably clear.

WHEN ARE THE BEIJING 2022 WINTER OLYMPIC GAMES?

The Beijing Winter Olympics are scheduled to run from February 4-20 in 2022.

Technically, the Games commence on February 2 with the curling mixed doubles round robin before the official curtain-raiser at the Opening Ceremony two days later.

The Winter Olympics 2022 schedule therefore runs from February 2 to February 20.

HOW CAN I WATCH THE BEIJING 2022 WINTER OLYMPICS?

Watch every event live from Beijing 2022 across Eurosport, the Eurosport app and discovery+. Download the Eurosport app for iOS and Android now.

HOW MANY SPORTS AND EVENTS IN SUMMER OF 2021?

There will be 109 events across 15 winter sports disciplines.

KEY ATHLETES AND EVENTS

All eyes will be on Mikaela Shiffrin as she bids to add to her Olympic titles from Sochi (slalom) and Pyeongchang (giant slalom). The American is expected to star in the women’s giant slalom (Feb 7), slalom (Feb 9), Super-G (Feb 11), downhill (Feb 15) and combined (Feb 19).

Shiffrin will face stiff competition from the likes of Petra Vlhova, Alice Robinson, Sofia Goggia and Marta Bassino, while snowboard-ski double-act Ester Ledecka will be eyeing a sensational repeat of her historic cross-code double in Pyeongchang – the snowboard parallel giant slalom (Feb 8) and Super-G.

Mikaela Shiffrin of USA in action during the Audi FIS Alpine Ski World Cup Women's Slalom on March 20, 2021 in Lenzerheide

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In the men’s alpine skiing, Beat Feuz will be looking to add a gold medal to his silver and bronze from Pyeongchang. His best hopes will likely come in the downhill (Feb 6). Alexis Pinturault will be fancied in the giant slalom (Feb 13) and combined (Feb 10). Dave Ryding will harbour outside hopes of a medal in the slalom - on Feb 16 - after claiming a stunning win in the Kitzbuhel slalom just two weeks out from the Games.

Team GB may not be as competitive as they are in the summer Games, but one event they have a vice-like grip on is the skeleton. Britain have won a medal at all seven Olympics it has been a part of, with Lizzie Yarnold winning the women’s title at the last two editions. Yarnold has since retired, paving the way for Pyeongchang bronze medallist Laura Deas to become Team GB's headline act. Can she win the women’s title on Feb 12?

While Elise Christie has now retired from short-track speed skating after a tough couple of years saw her miss out on selection for Beijing, Team GB do have a couple of prominent medal hopes. Curlers Bruce Mouat and Jen Dodds will hope to help their European Championship winning rinks to further success, but the pair's best chance of gold might be in the mixed doubles, in which they enter Beijing 2022 as the reigning world champions. The National Aquatics Centre will be one of the busiest venues: there is curling competition on every day through the Games (Feb 2 to Feb 20), with the medal matches in the mixed doubles on Feb 8.

Another British athlete to watch is Charlotte Bankes, the women's snowboard cross world champion. Can Bankes, who represented France at the last two Winter Olympics, replicate that world-topping performance in Sweden at her first Olympics under the British flag on Feb 9?

Norway’s Tiril Eckhoff is set to be the headline act in the women’s biathlon events, having medalled in all six events at the 2021 world championships, including four golds. The biathlon events run from Feb 5 to Feb 19.

The world's leading women's ski jumper, Marita Kramer, will miss the Olympics after testing positive for Covid-19 before flying to Beijing.

Germany’s Natalie Geisenberger will bid for a third consecutive luge double in the women's singles (Feb 8) and team relay (Feb 10), Poland's ski jumping sensation Kamil Stoch will likely go for gold again in the men’snormal hill (Feb 6) and large hill (Feb 12), and Japan figure skating icon Yuzuru Hanyu is chasing a third straight men’s singles crown.