Figure skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics

All figure skating events in 2002 Winter Olympics were held at the Salt Lake Ice Center.

Figure skating at the XIX Olympic Winter Games
A depiction of ice dance on a Belarusian stamp commemorating the 2002 Winter Olympics
Type:Olympic Games
Date:9 – 21 February
Venue:Delta Center
Champions
Men's singles:
Russia Alexei Yagudin
Ladies' singles:
United States Sarah Hughes
Pairs:
Russia Elena Berezhnaya / Anton Sikharulidze
Canada Jamie Salé / David Pelletier
Ice dance:
France Marina Anissina / Gwendal Peizerat
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Medal summary

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Medal table

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RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  Russia2305
2  United States1023
3  Canada1001
  France1001
5  China0011
  Italy0011
Totals (6 entries)53412

Medalists

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's singles
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Alexei Yagudin
  Russia
Evgeni Plushenko
  Russia
Timothy Goebel
  United States
Ladies' singles
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Sarah Hughes
  United States
Irina Slutskaya
  Russia
Michelle Kwan
  United States
Pair skating
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  Elena Berezhnaya
and Anton Sikharulidze (RUS)
shared gold   Shen Xue
and Zhao Hongbo (CHN)
  Jamie Salé
and David Pelletier (CAN)
Ice dance
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  Marina Anissina
and Gwendal Peizerat (FRA)
  Irina Lobacheva
and Ilia Averbukh (RUS)
  Barbara Fusar-Poli
and Maurizio Margaglio (ITA)

Results

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Medals awarded Thursday, February 14, 2002

Yagudin received 5.9s and 6.0s for his free skating after World Champion Plushenko had made several errors in both the short program and the free skating.[1][2][3]

Rank Name Nation Points SP FS
1 Alexei Yagudin   Russia 1.5 1 1
2 Evgeni Plushenko   Russia 4.0 4 2
3 Timothy Goebel   United States 4.5 3 3
4 Takeshi Honda   Japan 5.0 2 4
5 Alexander Abt   Russia 7.5 5 5
6 Todd Eldredge   United States 10.5 9 6
7 Michael Weiss   United States 11.0 8 7
8 Elvis Stojko   Canada 11.5 7 8
9 Li Chengjiang   China 12.0 6 9
10 Anthony Liu   Australia 15.0 10 10
11 Frédéric Dambier   France 16.5 11 11
12 Kevin van der Perren   Belgium 19.5 13 13
13 Ivan Dinev   Bulgaria 20.0 12 14
14 Brian Joubert   France 20.5 17 12
15 Stéphane Lambiel   Switzerland 24.0 16 16
16 Zhang Min   China 24.5 19 15
17 Vakhtang Murvanidze   Georgia 26.0 18 17
18 Dmitri Dmitrenko   Ukraine 28.5 21 18
19 Roman Skorniakov   Uzbekistan 29.0 20 19
20 Li Yunfei   China 30.0 14 23
21 Sergei Davydov   Belarus 31.5 15 24
22 Yosuke Takeuchi   Japan 32.0 24 20
23 Gheorghe Chiper   Romania 32.5 23 21
24 Sergei Rylov   Azerbaijan 33.0 22 22
Free skating not reached
25 Zoltán Tóth   Hungary 25
26 Angelo Dolfini   Italy 26
27 Margus Hernits   Estonia 27
28 Lee Kyu-hyun   South Korea 28
WD Emanuel Sandhu   Canada

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Ladies

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Medals awarded Thursday, February 21, 2002
 
Ladies' Singles gold medalist Sarah Hughes meets with President George W. Bush in Washington, D.C., on April 12, 2002.

16-year-old Hughes, fourth after the short program, skated a clean free skating with seven triple jumps, including two triple-triple combinations. Kwan led after the short program[4] but slipped to third after two jumping errors. Sasha Cohen finished fourth, after a fall on the back end of a triple lutz-triple toe combination. Slutskaya became only the second Russian to medal in the ladies' event at the Olympics.

Hughes and Slutskaya finished with tie scores, Hughes winning the gold medal on a tiebreaker for having won the free skating. The Russian officials were very disappointed with the result and filed a protest, which was not accepted by ISU after it examined all results and scores, thus confirming Hughes as the winner.[5]

During competition, the pairwise ranked choice voting system that the International Skating Union (ISU) had adopted after a debacle during the ladies' competition at the 1995 world championships caused a similar change in the scoring. Kwan, whose routine had triggered the 1995 incident, had been ahead of Hughes until Slutskaya skated. The judges' revised rankings put Hughes ahead of Kwan, an undesired effect of the independent irrelevant alternative. Two years later the ISU changed the voting procedures again to range voting.[6]

Rank Name Nation Points SP FS
1 Sarah Hughes   United States 3.0 4 1
2 Irina Slutskaya   Russia 3.0 2 2
3 Michelle Kwan   United States 3.5 1 3
4 Sasha Cohen   United States 5.5 3 4
5 Fumie Suguri   Japan 8.5 7 5
6 Maria Butyrskaya   Russia 8.5 5 6
7 Jennifer Robinson   Canada 11.0 8 7
8 Júlia Sebestyén   Hungary 11.0 6 8
9 Viktoria Volchkova   Russia 16.0 12 10
10 Silvia Fontana   Italy 17.5 11 12
11 Elina Kettunen   Finland 18.0 18 9
12 Galina Maniachenko   Ukraine 18.5 15 11
13 Sarah Meier   Switzerland 20.5 9 16
14 Elena Liashenko   Ukraine 21.0 16 13
15 Laëtitia Hubert   France 22.0 14 15
16 Vanessa Gusmeroli   France 22.0 10 17
17 Yoshie Onda   Japan 22.5 17 14
18 Julia Soldatova   Belarus 29.0 22 18
19 Idora Hegel   Croatia 30.5 23 19
20 Vanessa Giunchi   Italy 30.5 21 20
21 Zuzana Babiaková   Slovakia 31.0 20 21
22 Mojca Kopač   Slovenia 31.5 19 22
23 Roxana Luca   Romania 35.0 24 23
WD Tatiana Malinina   Uzbekistan 13
Free skating not reached
25 Stephanie Zhang   Australia 25
26 Park Bit-na   South Korea 26
27 Julia Lebedeva   Armenia 27

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Pairs

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Medals awarded February 11, 2002; second award ceremony February 17.

A controversial decision was taken which extended the Russian dominance of pair skating at the Olympics.

In the first week of the Games, a controversy in the pairs' figure skating competition culminated in the French judge's scores being thrown out and the Canadian team of Jamie Salé and David Pelletier being awarded a gold medal (together with the Russians who were controversially awarded gold previously and kept their medals despite the allegations of vote swapping and buying the votes of the French judge). Allegations of bribery were leveled against many ice-skating judges, leading to the arrest of known criminal Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov in Italy (at the request of the United States). He was released by the Italian officials.[7][8]

Judges from Russia, the People's Republic of China, Poland, Ukraine, and France placed the Russians first; judges from the United States, Canada, Germany, and Japan gave the nod to the Canadians. The International Skating Union announced a day after the competition that it would conduct an "internal assessment" into the judging decision. On February 15 the ISU and IOC, in a joint press conference, announced that Marie-Reine Le Gougne, the French judge implicated in collusion, was guilty of misconduct and was suspended effective immediately.[9]

Full results

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The following are the final amended results, not the original results.

Rank Name Nation Points SP FS
1 Elena Berezhnaya / Anton Sikharulidze   Russia N/A 1 N/A
Jamie Salé / David Pelletier   Canada 2
3 Shen Xue / Zhao Hongbo   China 4.5 3 3
4 Tatiana Totmianina / Maxim Marinin   Russia 6.0 4 4
5 Kyoko Ina / John Zimmerman   United States 7.5 5 5
6 Maria Petrova / Alexei Tikhonov   Russia 9.0 6 6
7 Dorota Zagórska / Mariusz Siudek   Poland 11.0 8 7
8 Kateřina Beránková / Otto Dlabola   Czech Republic 11.5 7 8
9 Pang Qing / Tong Jian   China 14.0 10 9
10 Jacinthe Larivière / Lenny Faustino   Canada 16.5 13 10
11 Zhang Dan / Zhang Hao   China 16.5 9 12
12 Anabelle Langlois / Patrice Archetto   Canada 18.0 14 11
13 Tiffany Scott / Philip Dulebohn   United States 18.5 11 13
14 Mariana Kautz / Norman Jeschke   Germany 21.0 12 15
15 Aliona Savchenko / Stanislav Morozov   Ukraine 22.0 16 14
16 Tatiana Chuvaeva / Dmitri Palamarchuk   Ukraine 23.5 15 16
17 Oľga Beständigová / Jozef Beständig   Slovakia 25.5 17 17
18 Natalia Ponomareva / Evgeni Sviridov   Uzbekistan 27.0 18 18
19 Michela Cobisi / Ruben De Pra   Italy 28.5 19 19
20 Maria Krasiltseva / Artem Znachkov   Armenia 30.0 20 20

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Ice dance

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Medals awarded Monday, February 18, 2002

Russian skater Anissina emigrated to France after Averbukh, her former partner, left her to skate with Lobacheva. It was the first gold in Olympic figure skating for France since 1932.

The first compulsory dance was the Quickstep. The second was Blues.

Full results

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Rank Name Nation Points CD1 CD2 OD FD
1 Marina Anissina / Gwendal Peizerat   France 2.0 1 1 1 1
2 Irina Lobacheva / Ilia Averbukh   Russia 4.0 2 2 2 2
3 Barbara Fusar-Poli / Maurizio Margaglio   Italy 6.0 3 3 3 3
4 Shae-Lynn Bourne / Victor Kraatz   Canada 8.0 4 4 4 4
5 Margarita Drobiazko / Povilas Vanagas   Lithuania 10.0 5 5 5 5
6 Galit Chait / Sergei Sakhnovski   Israel 12.0 6 6 6 6
7 Albena Denkova / Maxim Staviski   Bulgaria 14.0 7 7 7 7
8 Kati Winkler / René Lohse   Germany 16.0 8 8 8 8
9 Elena Grushina / Ruslan Goncharov   Ukraine 19.0 10 10 10 9
10 Tatiana Navka / Roman Kostomarov   Russia 19.0 9 9 9 10
11 Naomi Lang / Peter Tchernyshev   United States 22.2 12 11 11 11
12 Marie-France Dubreuil / Patrice Lauzon   Canada 23.8 11 12 12 12
13 Sylwia Nowak / Sebastian Kolasiński   Poland 26.0 13 13 13 13
14 Eliane Hugentobler / Daniel Hugentobler   Switzerland 28.4 15 15 14 14
15 Marika Humphreys / Vitali Baranov   Great Britain 30.4 16 16 15 15
16 Isabelle Delobel / Olivier Schoenfelder   France 31.2 14 14 16 16
17 Kristin Fraser / Igor Lukanin   Azerbaijan 34.6 17 17 18 17
18 Federica Faiella / Massimo Scali   Italy 35.4 18 18 17 18
19 Natalia Gudina / Alexei Beletski   Israel 38.0 19 19 19 19
20 Kateřina Kovalová / David Szurman   Czech Republic 40.4 21 21 20 20
21 Julia Golovina / Oleg Voiko   Ukraine 43.4 22 22 21 22
22 Zhang Weina / Cao Xianming   China 44.0 23 23 23 21
23 Beata Handra / Charles Sinek   United States 44.2 20 20 22 23
24 Yang Tae-hwa / Lee Chuen-gun   South Korea 48.0 24 24 24 24

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Participating NOCs

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Thirty-one nations competed in the figure skating events at Salt Lake City.

References

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  1. ^ "Alexei on top: Yagudin wins after Plushenko falls in short program". CNN/SI. February 12, 2002. Archived from the original on April 21, 2002.
  2. ^ Wise, Mike (February 15, 2002). "OLYMPICS: FIGURE SKATING; There's No Argument Over Yagudin's Gold". The New York Times.
  3. ^ Roberts, Selena (February 13, 2002). "OLYMPICS: FIGURE SKATING; Plushenko Takes Tumble, Short-Circuiting Showdown". The New York Times.
  4. ^ Elliott, Helene (February 21, 2002). "Still a Long Night to Go". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on November 5, 2012.
  5. ^ Janofsky, Michael (February 23, 2002). "OLYMPICS: FIGURE SKATING; Hughes's Gold Draws Russians' Ire". The New York Times.
  6. ^ Volić, Ismar (2024). Making Democracy Count: How Mathematics Improves Voting, Electoral Maps and Representation. Princeton University Press. pp. 84–85. ISBN 9780691248806. Retrieved June 4, 2024.
  7. ^ Andrew Dampf (August 13, 2002). "Taivanchik Hearing Ordered to Stay Put". The St Petersburg Times. Associated Press. Archived from the original on February 4, 2012. Retrieved January 31, 2012.
  8. ^ "IOC awards gold to Canadian pair". MSNBC. February 15, 2002. Archived from the original on June 1, 2002.
  9. ^ "IOC awards second gold to Canadian pair". MSNBC. February 15, 2002. Archived from the original on June 1, 2002.
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