Figure skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics

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2002 Winter Olympic Games Figure skating. All events were held at the Salt Lake Ice Center.

1 Medal table
2 Men
3 Ladies
4 Pairs
5 Ice Dancing
6 References

[edit] Medal table

Pos.	Country				Total
1	Russia	2	3	0	5
2	United States	1	0	2	3
3	Canada	1	0	0	1
3	France	1	0	0	1
5	China	0	0	1	1
5	Italy	0	0	1	1

[edit] Men

Medals awarded Thursday, February 14, 2002

Medal	Athletes
Gold	Alexei Yagudin (RUS)
Silver	Evgeny Plushenko (RUS)
Bronze	Timothy Goebel (USA)

Yagudin received 5.9s and 6.0s for his free program after World Champion Plushenko had made several errors in both the short program and long program.

Alexei Yagudin (

Russia)

Age	21		Location			Delta Center, Salt Lake City, USA									Date		February 13-14, 2002
Final Rank	1st (Gold)				Coach		Tatiana Tarasova						Choreographer			?
Routine	Short Program									Free Skate									Gala Exhibition
Music	Winter									Man in the Iron Mask									?
Runtime	2 min. 40 sec.									4 min. 39 sec.									?
Jumps	Quadruple Toeloop + Triple Toeloop, Triple Axel, Triple Lutz									Quadruple Toeloop + Triple Toeloop + Double Loop, Quadruple Toeloop, Triple Axel, Triple Salchow, Triple Lutz, 3 Loop, 3 Flip									?
Judges	AUS	FIN	USA	ROM	UKR	GER	BUL	JPN	AZE	AUS	FIN	USA	ROM	UKR	GER	BUL	JPN	AZE	/
Required Elements or Technical Merit	5.8	5.8	5.7	5.8	5.9	5.8	5.8	5.8	5.8	5.9	5.9	5.9	5.9	5.9	5.9	5.9	5.9	5.9	/
Presentation	5.8	5.8	5.8	5.9	5.8	5.9	5.9	5.8	5.9	5.9	5.9	6.0	6.0	5.9	6.0	5.9	5.9	6.0	/
Ordinal	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	/
Rank	1st									1st									/

Yevgeniy Plushenko (

Russia)

Age	19		Location			Delta Center, Salt Lake City, USA									Date		February 13-14, 2002
Final Rank	2nd (Silver)				Coach		Alexei Mishin						Choreographer			?
Routine	Short Program									Free Skate									Gala Exhibition
Music	Michael Jackson medley									Carmen									?
Runtime	?									?									?
Jumps	?									?									?
Judges	AUS	FIN	USA	ROM	UKR	GER	BUL	JPN	AZE	AUS	FIN	USA	ROM	UKR	GER	BUL	JPN	AZE	/
Required Elements or Technical Merit	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	/
Presentation	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	/
Ordinal	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	/
Rank	4th									2nd									/

Timothy Goebel (

United States)

Age	21		Location			Delta Center, Salt Lake City, USA									Date		February 13-14, 2002
Final Rank	3rd (Bronze)				Coach		Frank Caroll						Choreographer			Lori Nicol
Routine	Short Program									Free Skate									Gala Exhibition
Music	Danse Macabre									An American in Paris									American Pie
Runtime	?									4 min. 36 sec.									?
Jumps	?									Triple Lutz, Quadruple Salchow + Triple Toeloop, Triple Axel + Double Toeloop, Quadruple Toeloop, Triple Axel, Quadruple Salchow, Triple Flip, Triple Loop									?
Judges	AUS	FIN	USA	ROM	UKR	GER	BUL	JPN	AZE	AUS	FIN	USA	ROM	UKR	GER	BUL	JPN	AZE	/
Required Elements or Technical Merit	5.7	5.5	5.7	5.7	5.7	5.7	5.7	5.6	5.7	5.7	5.6	5.9	5.9	5.8	5.7	5.8	5.8	5.8	/
Presentation	5.5	5.5	5.6	5.5	5.5	5.7	5.7	5.6	5.6	5.4	5.4	5.7	5.7	5.7	5.7	5.7	5.7	5.5	/
Ordinal	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?										/
Rank	3rd									3rd									/

[edit] Ladies

Medals awarded Thursday, February 21, 2002

Medal	Athletes
Gold	Sarah Hughes (USA)
Silver	Irina Slutskaya (RUS)
Bronze	Michelle Kwan (USA)

Hughes, fourth after the technical program, skated an energetic free program without obvious flaws. Kwan led after the technical program but slipped to third after two jumping errors. American Sasha Cohen finished a strong fourth, skating a clean program marred only by a fall on the back end of a triple lutz-triple toe combination. Slutskaya became only the second Russian to medal in the women's event at the Olympics.

Hughes and Slutskaya finished with tie scores, Hughes winning the gold medal on a tiebreaker for having won the free program 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.

Sarah Hughes (

United States)

Age	16		Location			Delta Center, Salt Lake City, USA									Date		February 13-14, 2002
Final Rank	1st (Gold)				Coach		Robin Wagner						Choreographer			?
Routine	Short Program									Free Skate									Gala Exhibition
Music	Ave Maria									Ravel "Daphnis et Chloe"									You'll Never Walk Alone
Runtime	2 min. 39 sec.									4 min. 10 sec.									?
Jumps	Double Axel, Triple Lutz + Double Loop, Triple Flip									Double Axel, Triple Salchow + Triple Loop, Triple Lutz + Double Toeloop, Triple Flip, Triple Toeloop + Triple Loop, Triple Toeloop									?
Judges	GER	RUS	SVK	DEN	ITA	BLR	FIN	CAN	USA	GER	RUS	SVK	DEN	ITA	BLR	FIN	CAN	USA	/
Required Elements or Technical Merit	5.2	5.1	5.6	5.3	5.3	5.5	5.2	5.6	5.5	5.7	5.8	5.8	5.8	5.8	5.8	5.7	5.8	5.8	/
Presentation	5.7	5.5	5.7	5.5	5.5	5.7	5.6	5.7	5.7	5.7	5.7	5.8	5.6	5.8	5.8	5.8	5.8	5.8	/
Ordinal	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	1	3	3	3	1	2	1	1	1	/
Rank	4th									1st									/

Irina Slutskaya (

Russia)

Age	23		Location			Delta Center, Salt Lake City, USA									Date		February 13-14, 2002
Final Rank	2nd (Silver)				Coach		Zhanna Gromova						Choreographer			?
Routine	Short Program									Free Skate									Gala Exhibition
Music	Scubert "Serenade"									Puccini "Tosca"									?
Runtime	2 min. 37 sec.									4 min. 08 sec.									?
Jumps	Triple Lutz + Double Loop, Double Axel, Triple Flip									Triple Lutz + Double Loop, Triple Salchow + Double Loop + Half Loop + Double Salchow + SEQ, Triple Lutz, Triple Loop, Triple Flip, Double Axel, Triple Toeloop									?
Judges	GER	RUS	SVK	DEN	ITA	BLR	FIN	CAN	USA	GER	RUS	SVK	DEN	ITA	BLR	FIN	CAN	USA	/
Required Elements or Technical Merit	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	5.7	5.8	5.9	5.8	5.8	5.8	5.8	5.7	5.8	/
Presentation	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	5.6	5.9	5.9	5.8	5.6	5.9	5.7	5.7	5.7	/
Ordinal	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	3	1	1	1	4	1	2	3	2	/
Rank	2nd									2nd									/

Michelle Kwan (

United States)

Age	21		Location			Delta Center, Salt Lake City, USA									Date		February 13-14, 2002
Final Rank	3rd (Bronze)				Coach		none						Choreographer			Lori Nichol
Routine	Short Program									Free Skate									Gala Exhibition
Music	Rachmaninoff "Piano concerto No. 3"									Rimsky-Korsakov "Scheherazade"									Eva Cassidy "Fields of Gold"
Runtime	2 min. 40 sec.									4 min. 10 sec.									?
Jumps	Triple Lutz + Double Toeloop, Double Axel, Triple Flip									Triple Loop, Triple Toeloop + Double Toeloop, Triple Flip + Double Loop, Double Axel, Triple Flip (fell), Triple Salchow, Triple Lutz, Triple Toeloop									?
Judges	GER	RUS	SVK	DEN	ITA	BLR	FIN	CAN	USA	GER	RUS	SVK	DEN	ITA	BLR	FIN	CAN	USA	/
Required Elements or Technical Merit	5.8	5.7	5.9	5.7	5.5	5.7	5.7	5.7	5.6	5.6	5.7	5.8	5.7	5.6	5.6	5.6	5.7	5.6	/
Presentation	5.9	5.9	5.9	5.9	5.9	5.9	5.9	5.9	5.9	5.7	5.8	5.9	5.8	5.8	5.9	5.8	5.8	5.8	/
Ordinal	1	2	1	1	1	2	2	2	1	2	2	2	2	2	3	3	2	3	/
Rank	1st									3rd									/

[edit] Pairs

Medals awarded February 11, 2002; second award ceremony February 17.

Medal	Athletes
Gold	Yelena Berezhnaya / Anton Sikharulidze (RUS)
Gold	Jamie Salé / David Pelletier (CAN)
Bronze	Shen Xue / Zhao Hongbo (CHN)

A controversial decision 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 Canadians went on, Salé accidentally collided with Sikharulidze and was rather shaken.

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.

IOC awards gold to Canada skaters

Russian Skaters' Win Causes an Uproar, The New York Times, February 12, 2002

[edit] Ice Dancing

Medals awarded Monday, February 18, 2002

Medal	Athletes
Gold	Marina Anissina / Gwendal Peizerat (FRA)
Silver	Irina Lobacheva / Ilya Averbukh (RUS)
Bronze	Barbara Fusar Poli / Maurizio Margaglio (ITA)

Anissina, a Russian, emigrated to France after Averbukh, her former partner, left her to skate with Lobacheva. Lithuanian ice dancers Margarita Drobiazko and 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.

Care to Ice Dance? - Scandals

[edit] References

2002 Winter Olympics - Icecalc results page

Events at the 2002 Winter Olympics (Salt Lake City)
Alpine skiing • Biathlon • Bobsleigh • Cross‑country skiing • Curling • Figure skating • Freestyle skiing • Ice hockey • Luge • Nordic combined • Short track speed skating • Skeleton • Ski jumping • Snowboarding • Speed skating

Figure skating at the Olympic Games
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