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:
Alexei Yagudin
Ladies' singles:
Sarah Hughes
Pair skating:
Elena Berezhnaya / Anton Sikharulidze
Jamie Salé / David Pelletier
Ice dance:
Marina Anissina / Gwendal Peizerat
Previous:
1998 Winter Olympics
Next:
2006 Winter Olympics

Medal summary

Medalists

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

Medal table

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

Results

Men

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 Russia1.511
2 Evgeni Plushenko Russia4.042
3 Timothy Goebel United States4.533
4 Takeshi Honda Japan5.024
5 Alexander Abt Russia7.555
6 Todd Eldredge United States10.596
7 Michael Weiss United States11.087
8 Elvis Stojko Canada11.578
9 Li Chengjiang China12.069
10 Anthony Liu Australia15.01010
11 Frédéric Dambier France16.51111
12 Kevin van der Perren Belgium19.51313
13 Ivan Dinev Bulgaria20.01214
14 Brian Joubert France20.51712
15 Stéphane Lambiel Switzerland24.01616
16 Zhang Min China24.51915
17 Vakhtang Murvanidze Georgia26.01817
18 Dmitri Dmitrenko Ukraine28.52118
19 Roman Skorniakov Uzbekistan29.02019
20 Li Yunfei China30.01423
21 Sergei Davydov Belarus31.51524
22 Yosuke Takeuchi Japan32.02420
23 Gheorghe Chiper Romania32.52321
24 Sergei Rylov Azerbaijan33.02222
Free skating not reached
25 Zoltán Tóth Hungary25
26 Angelo Dolfini Italy26
27 Margus Hernits Estonia27
28 Lee Kyu-hyun South Korea28
WD Emanuel Sandhu Canada


Referee:

Assistant Referee:

Judges:

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

Ladies

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.

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]

Rank Name Nation Points SP FS
1 Sarah Hughes United States3.041
2 Irina Slutskaya Russia3.022
3 Michelle Kwan United States3.513
4 Sasha Cohen United States5.534
5 Fumie Suguri Japan8.575
6 Maria Butyrskaya Russia8.556
7 Jennifer Robinson Canada11.087
8 Júlia Sebestyén Hungary11.068
9 Viktoria Volchkova Russia16.01210
10 Silvia Fontana Italy17.51112
11 Elina Kettunen Finland18.0189
12 Galina Maniachenko Ukraine18.51511
13 Sarah Meier Switzerland20.5916
14 Elena Liashenko Ukraine21.01613
15 Laëtitia Hubert France22.01415
16 Vanessa Gusmeroli France22.01017
17 Yoshie Onda Japan22.51714
18 Julia Soldatova Belarus29.02218
19 Idora Hegel Croatia30.52319
20 Vanessa Giunchi Italy30.52120
21 Zuzana Babiaková Slovakia31.02021
22 Mojca Kopač Slovenia31.51922
23 Roxana Luca Romania35.02423
WD Tatiana Malinina Uzbekistan13
Free skating not reached
25 Stephanie Zhang Australia25
26 Park Bit-na South Korea26
27 Julia Lebedeva Armenia27

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

Medals awarded February 11, 2002; second award ceremony February 17.
Medal Athletes
Gold Elena Berezhnaya / Anton Sikharulidze
 Russia
Gold Jamie Salé / David Pelletier
 Canada
Bronze Shen Xue / Zhao Hongbo
 China

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.[6][7]

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 that Marie-Reine Le Gougne, the French judge implicated in collusion, was guilty of misconduct and was suspended effective immediately.[8]

Full results

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

Rank Name Nation Points SP FS
1 Elena Berezhnaya / Anton Sikharulidze
Jamie Salé / David Pelletier
 Russia
 Canada
N/A
N/A
1
2
N/A
N/A
3 Shen Xue / Zhao Hongbo China4.533
4 Tatiana Totmianina / Maxim Marinin Russia6.044
5 Kyoko Ina / John Zimmerman United States7.555
6 Maria Petrova / Alexei Tikhonov Russia9.066
7 Dorota Zagórska / Mariusz Siudek Poland11.087
8 Kateřina Beránková / Otto Dlabola Czech Republic11.578
9 Pang Qing / Tong Jian China14.0109
10 Jacinthe Larivière / Lenny Faustino Canada16.51310
11 Zhang Dan / Zhang Hao China16.5912
12 Anabelle Langlois / Patrice Archetto Canada18.01411
13 Tiffany Scott / Philip Dulebohn United States18.51113
14 Mariana Kautz / Norman Jeschke Germany21.01215
15 Aliona Savchenko / Stanislav Morozov Ukraine22.01614
16 Tatiana Chuvaeva / Dmitri Palamarchuk Ukraine23.51516
17 Oľga Beständigová / Jozef Beständig Slovakia25.51717
18 Natalia Ponomareva / Evgeni Sviridov Uzbekistan27.01818
19 Michela Cobisi / Ruben De Pra Italy28.51919
20 Maria Krasiltseva / Artem Znachkov Armenia30.02020

Referee:

  • Ronald Pfenning

Assistant Referee:

  • Alexander Lakernik

Judges:

Ice dance

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

Rank Name Nation Points CD1 CD2 OD FD
1 Marina Anissina / Gwendal Peizerat France2.01111
2 Irina Lobacheva / Ilia Averbukh Russia4.02222
3 Barbara Fusar-Poli / Maurizio Margaglio Italy6.03333
4 Shae-Lynn Bourne / Victor Kraatz Canada8.04444
5 Margarita Drobiazko / Povilas Vanagas Lithuania10.05555
6 Galit Chait / Sergei Sakhnovski Israel12.06666
7 Albena Denkova / Maxim Staviski Bulgaria14.07777
8 Kati Winkler / René Lohse Germany16.08888
9 Elena Grushina / Ruslan Goncharov Ukraine19.01010109
10 Tatiana Navka / Roman Kostomarov Russia19.099910
11 Naomi Lang / Peter Tchernyshev United States22.212111111
12 Marie-France Dubreuil / Patrice Lauzon Canada23.811121212
13 Sylwia Nowak / Sebastian Kolasiński Poland26.013131313
14 Eliane Hugentobler / Daniel Hugentobler Switzerland28.415151414
15 Marika Humphreys / Vitali Baranov Great Britain30.416161515
16 Isabelle Delobel / Olivier Schoenfelder France31.214141616
17 Kristin Fraser / Igor Lukanin Azerbaijan34.617171817
18 Federica Faiella / Massimo Scali Italy35.418181718
19 Natalia Gudina / Alexei Beletski Israel38.019191919
20 Kateřina Kovalová / David Szurman Czech Republic40.421212020
21 Julia Golovina / Oleg Voiko Ukraine43.422222122
22 Zhang Weina / Cao Xianming China44.023232321
23 Beata Handra / Charles Sinek United States44.220202223
24 Yang Tae-hwa / Lee Chuen-gun South Korea48.024242424

Referee:

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)

References

  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. 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.
  7. "IOC awards gold to Canadian pair". MSNBC. February 15, 2002. Archived from the original on June 1, 2002.
  8. "IOC awards second gold to Canadian pair". MSNBC. February 15, 2002. Archived from the original on June 1, 2002.
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