Figure skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics

Figure skating at the XIX Olympic Winter Games

A depiction of Ice Dancing 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
Pair skating:
Russia Elena Berezhnaya / Anton Sikharulidze
Canada Jamie Salé / David Pelletier
Ice dancing:
France Marina Anissina / Gwendal Peizerat
Previous:
1998 Winter Olympics
Next:
2006 Winter Olympics
Ladies' Singles Gold medalist Sarah Hughes meets with President George W. Bush in Washington D.C. on April 12, 2002.

All figure skating events in 2002 Winter Olympics were held at the Delta Center (now Vivint Smart Home Arena), although for purposes of the International Olympic Committee's No Commercialisation Policy on venues, it was known as the "Salt Lake Ice Center".

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
/ Anton Sikharulidze
 Russia
Jamie Salé
/ David Pelletier
 Canada
Not awarded Shen Xue
/ Zhao Hongbo
 China
Ice dancing Marina Anissina
/ Gwendal Peizerat
 France
Irina Lobacheva
/ Ilia Averbukh
 Russia
Barbara Fusar-Poli
/ Maurizio Margaglio
 Italy

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
Total 5 3 4 12

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]

Full results

Rank Name Nation Points SP FS
1 Alexei Yagudin Russia 1.511
2 Evgeni Plushenko Russia 4.042
3 Timothy Goebel United States 4.533
4 Takeshi Honda Japan 5.024
5 Alexander Abt Russia 7.555
6 Todd Eldredge United States 10.596
7 Michael Weiss United States 11.087
8 Elvis Stojko Canada 11.578
9 Li Chengjiang China 12.069
10 Anthony Liu Australia 15.01010
11 Frédéric Dambier France 16.51111
12 Kevin van der Perren Belgium 19.51313
13 Ivan Dinev Bulgaria 20.01214
14 Brian Joubert France 20.51712
15 Stéphane Lambiel Switzerland 24.01616
16 Zhang Min China 24.51915
17 Vakhtang Murvanidze Georgia 26.01817
18 Dmitri Dmitrenko Ukraine 28.52118
19 Roman Skorniakov Uzbekistan 29.02019
20 Li Yunfei China 30.01423
21 Sergei Davydov Belarus 31.51524
22 Yosuke Takeuchi Japan 32.02420
23 Gheorghe Chiper Romania 32.52321
24 Sergei Rylov Azerbaijan 33.02222
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

Medals awarded Thursday, February 21, 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. American 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 in a close result. The Russian skating federation filed a protest over the results for a second ladies' gold to the ISU. The ISU dismissed the protest.[5]

Full results

Rank Name Nation Points SP FS
1 Sarah Hughes United States 3.041
2 Irina Slutskaya Russia 3.022
3 Michelle Kwan United States 3.513
4 Sasha Cohen United States 5.534
5 Fumie Suguri Japan 8.575
6 Maria Butyrskaya Russia 8.556
7 Jennifer Robinson Canada 11.087
8 Júlia Sebestyén Hungary 11.068
9 Viktoria Volchkova Russia 16.01210
10 Silvia Fontana Italy 17.51112
11 Elina Kettunen Finland 18.0189
12 Galina Maniachenko Ukraine 18.51511
13 Sarah Meier Switzerland 20.5916
14 Elena Liashenko Ukraine 21.01613
15 Laëtitia Hubert France 22.01415
16 Vanessa Gusmeroli France 22.01017
17 Yoshie Onda Japan 22.51714
18 Julia Soldatova Belarus 29.02218
19 Idora Hegel Croatia 30.52319
20 Vanessa Giunchi Italy 30.52120
21 Zuzana Babiaková Slovakia 31.02021
22 Mojca Kopač Slovenia 31.51922
23 Roxana Luca Romania 35.02423
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

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. Salé/Pelletier were the crowd favorites and skated a flawless program, while Berezhnaya/Sikharulidze, skating a program with more complex choreography, stumbled during their double axel. Minutes before the Russians went on, Salé accidentally collided with Sikharulidze.

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 it would award a second gold medal to Salé and Pelletier, and that Marie-Reine Le Gougne, the French judge implicated in collusion, was guilty of "misconduct" and was suspended effective immediately. Berezhnaya and Sikharulidze were allowed to keep their gold medal as well.

Complicating the issue is Le Gougne's subsequent recanting of her story of collusion.[6]

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 China 4.533
4 Tatiana Totmianina / Maxim Marinin Russia 6.044
5 Kyoko Ina / John Zimmerman United States 7.555
6 Maria Petrova / Alexei Tikhonov Russia 9.066
7 Dorota Zagórska / Mariusz Siudek Poland 11.087
8 Kateřina Beránková / Otto Dlabola Czech Republic 11.578
9 Pang Qing / Tong Jian China 14.0109
10 Jacinthe Larivière / Lenny Faustino Canada 16.51310
11 Zhang Dan / Zhang Hao China 16.5912
12 Anabelle Langlois / Patrice Archetto Canada 18.01411
13 Tiffany Scott / Philip Dulebohn United States 18.51113
14 Mariana Kautz / Norman Jeschke Germany 21.01215
15 Aliona Savchenko / Stanislav Morozov Ukraine 22.01614
16 Tatiana Chuvaeva / Dmitri Palamarchuk Ukraine 23.51516
17 Oľga Beständigová / Jozef Beständig Slovakia 25.51717
18 Natalia Ponomareva / Evgeni Sviridov Uzbekistan 27.01818
19 Michela Cobisi / Ruben De Pra Italy 28.51919
20 Maria Krasiltseva / Artem Znachkov Armenia 30.02020

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Ice dancing

Medals awarded Monday, February 18, 2002

Anissina, a Russian, emigrated to France after Averbukh, her former partner, left her to skate with Lobacheva. Lithuanian ice dancers Margarita Drobiazko / Povilas Vanagas, who finished fifth, filed a protest noting that they finished behind two couples who fell on the ice but did not receive required deductions in the judging. 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 2.01111
2 Irina Lobacheva / Ilia Averbukh Russia 4.02222
3 Barbara Fusar-Poli / Maurizio Margaglio Italy 6.03333
4 Shae-Lynn Bourne / Victor Kraatz Canada 8.04444
5 Margarita Drobiazko / Povilas Vanagas Lithuania 10.05555
6 Galit Chait / Sergei Sakhnovski Israel 12.06666
7 Albena Denkova / Maxim Staviski Bulgaria 14.07777
8 Kati Winkler / René Lohse Germany 16.08888
9 Elena Grushina / Ruslan Goncharov Ukraine 19.01010109
10 Tatiana Navka / Roman Kostomarov Russia 19.099910
11 Naomi Lang / Peter Tchernyshev United States 22.212111111
12 Marie-France Dubreuil / Patrice Lauzon Canada 23.811121212
13 Sylwia Nowak / Sebastian Kolasiński Poland 26.013131313
14 Eliane Hugentobler / Daniel Hugentobler Switzerland 28.415151414
15 Marika Humphreys / Vitali Baranov Great Britain 30.416161515
16 Isabelle Delobel / Olivier Schoenfelder France 31.214141616
17 Kristin Fraser / Igor Lukanin Azerbaijan 34.617171817
18 Federica Faiella / Massimo Scali Italy 35.418181718
19 Natalia Gudina / Alexei Beletski Israel 38.019191919
20 Kateřina Kovalová / David Szurman Czech Republic 40.421212020
21 Julia Golovina / Oleg Voiko Ukraine 43.422222122
22 Zhang Weina / Cao Xianming China 44.023232321
23 Beata Handra / Charles Sinek United States 44.220202223
24 Yang Tae-hwa / Lee Chuen-gun South Korea 48.024242424

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