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Figure skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics

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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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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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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
details
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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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
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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