Figure skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics
| 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 | |
| Previous: 1998 Winter Olympics | |
| Next: 2006 Winter Olympics | |
All figure skating events in 2002 Winter Olympics were held at the Salt Lake Ice Center.
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 |
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) |
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]
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
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]
Referee:
Assistant Referee:
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.
Referee:
Assistant Referee:
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
Referee:
Assistant Referee:
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.
References
- ^ "Alexei on top: Yagudin wins after Plushenko falls in short program". CNN/SI. February 12, 2002. Archived from the original on April 21, 2002.
- ^ Wise, Mike (February 15, 2002). "OLYMPICS: FIGURE SKATING; There's No Argument Over Yagudin's Gold". The New York Times.
- ^ Roberts, Selena (February 13, 2002). "OLYMPICS: FIGURE SKATING; Plushenko Takes Tumble, Short-Circuiting Showdown". The New York Times.
- ^ Elliott, Helene (February 21, 2002). "Still a Long Night to Go". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on November 5, 2012.
- ^ Janofsky, Michael (February 23, 2002). "OLYMPICS: FIGURE SKATING; Hughes's Gold Draws Russians' Ire". The New York Times.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "IOC awards gold to Canadian pair". MSNBC. February 15, 2002. Archived from the original on June 1, 2002.
- ^ "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
