PYEONGCHANG, South Korea — Canada showed that sending out your best is a winning strategy, easily taking the gold medal in the team figure skating event Monday.

Patrick Chan placed first in the men’s free skate, and the ice dancing superstars Scott Moir and Tessa Virtue won the free dance to give Canada the comfortable victory.

The team of Russians won the silver medal thanks in part to a first place by Alina Zagitova in the women’s free skate. The United States was third, led by Mirai Nagasu, who gave a near-perfect performance that included an extremely difficult triple axel, eight years after her last Olympic appearance.