Longest national winning streak in a single event in the Winter Olympics

The longest winning streak in a single event in the Winter Olympics is 46 years, accomplished by pairs figure skaters from the Soviet Union/Russia. The Soviet Union/Russia won the gold medal in the pairs figure skating event in every Winter Olympic Games from 1964 to 2006. The winning streak came to an end at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, Canada, when the Chinese team of Xue Shen and Hongbo Zhao took the gold. Details of the winning streak are: 1964 - Ludmila Belousova and Oleg Protopopov (URS) 1968 - Ludmila Belousova and Oleg Protopopov (URS) 1972 - Irina Rodnina and Alexei Ulanov (URS) 1976 - Irina Rodnina and Alexander Zaitsev (URS) 1980 - Irina Rodnina and Alexander Zaitsev (URS) 1984 - Elena Valova and Oleg Vasiliev (URS) 1988 - Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov (URS) 1992 - Natalia Mishkutenok and Artur Dmitriev (EUN) 1994 - Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov (RUS) 1998 - Oksana Kazakova and Artur Dmitriev (RUS) 2002 - Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze (RUS) tied with Jamie Sale and David Pelletier (Canada) 2006 - Tatiana Totmianina and Maxim Marinin (RUS)