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
Pairs: Elena Berezhnaya / Anton Sikharulidze Jamie Salé / David Pelletier
Ice dance: Marina Anissina / Gwendal Peizerat
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Medal summary

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
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

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
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

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	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

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

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.

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

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

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

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	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

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

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.

External links

• 2002 Winter Olympics - Icecalc results page
• Official Results Book – Figure skating