Figure skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics

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 2002
Venue:| Delta Center
Champions
Men's singles:
Alexei Yagudin
Ladies' singles:
Sarah Hughes
Pairs:
Elena Berezhnaya / Anton Sikharulidze
Jamie Salé / David Pelletier
Ice dance:
Marina Anissina / Gwendal Peizerat

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

## Medal summary

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### Medal table

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Rank| Nation| Gold| Silver| Bronze| Total

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1|  Russia| 2| 3| 0| 5
2|  United States| 1| 0| 2| 3
3|  Canada| 1| 0| 0| 1
France| 1| 0| 0| 1
5|  China| 0| 0| 1| 1
Italy| 0| 0| 1| 1
Totals (6 entries)| 5| 3| 4| 12

### Medalists

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Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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

## Results

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### Men

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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

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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 |  |  |

Referee:

* Sally-Anne Stapleford

Assistant Referee:

* Junko Hiramatsu

Judges:

* Wendy Langton
* Merja Kosonen
* Janet Allen
* Nicolae Bellu
* Yuri Kliushnikov
* Volker Waldeck
* Alexander Penchev
* Mieko Fujimori
* Evgenia Bogdanova
* Jarmila Portová (substitute)

### 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

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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 |

Referee:

* Britta Lindgren

Assistant Referee:

* Charles Foster

Judges:

* Sissy Krick
* Tatiana Danilenko
* Maria Hrachovcova
* Ingelise Blangsted
* Paolo Pizzocari
* Irina Absaliamova
* Pekka Leskinen
* Deborah Islam
* Joseph Inman
* Vladislav Petukov (substitute)

### 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

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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

Referee:

* Ronald Pfenning

Assistant Referee:

* Alexander Lakernik

Judges:

* Marina Sanaya
* Yang Jiasheng
* Lucy Brennan
* Marie-Reine Le Gougne
* Anna Sierocka
* Benoit Lavoie
* Vladislav Petukov
* Sissy Krick
* Hideo Sugita
* Jarmila Portová (substitute)

### 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

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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

Referee:

* Alexander Gorshkov

Assistant Referee:

* Ann Shaw

Judges (CD1):

* Eugenia Gasiorowska
* Irina Nechkina
* Yuri Balkov
* Ingrid Charlotte Wolter
* Evgenia Karnolska
* Alla Shekhovtseva
* Roland Wehinger
* Katalin Alpern
* Halina Gordon-Potorak
* Walter Zuccaro (substitute)

Judges (CD2):

* Alla Shekhovtseva
* Yuri Balkov
* Walter Zuccaro
* Katalin Alpern
* Evgenia Karnolska
* Irina Nechkina
* Halina Gordon-Potorak
* Roland Wehinger
* Ingrid Charlotte Wolter
* Eugenia Gasiorowska (substitute)

Judges (OD):

* Halina Gordon-Potorak
* Walter Zuccaro
* Eugenia Gasiorowska
* Roland Wehinger
* Irina Nechkina
* Katalin Alpern
* Ingrid Charlotte Wolter
* Evgenia Karnolska
* Alla Shekhovtseva
* Yuri Balkov (substitute)

Judges (FD):

* Alla Shekhovtseva
* Roland Wehinger
* Eugenia Gasiorowska
* Ingrid Charlotte Wolter
* Walter Zuccaro
* Irina Nechkina
* Evgenia Karnolska
* Yuri Balkov
* Halina Gordon-Potorak
* Katalin Alpern (substitute)

### Participating NOCs

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

* Armenia
* Australia
* Azerbaijan
* Belarus
* Belgium
* Bulgaria
* Canada
* China
* Croatia
* Czech Republic
* Estonia
* Finland
* France
* Great Britain
* Georgia
* Germany
* Hungary
* Israel
* Italy
* Japan
* South Korea
* Lithuania
* Poland
* Romania
* Russia
* Slovakia
* Slovenia
* Switzerland
* Ukraine
* United States
* Uzbekistan

## 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, 2024.84-85&rft.pub=Princeton+University+Press&rft.date=2024&rft.isbn=9780691248806&rft.aulast=Volić&rft.aufirst=Ismar&rft_id=https://books.google.com/books?id=G1rbEAAAQBAJ&q;=Making+Democracy+Count&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Figure+skating+at+the+2002+Winter+Olympics" class="Z3988">
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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