Figure skating at the XIX Olympic Winter Games | |
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Type: | Olympic Games |
Date: | 9 – 21 February |
Venue: | Delta Center |
Champions | |
Men's singles: Alexei Yagudin | |
Ladies' singles: Sarah Hughes | |
Pair skating: 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.
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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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 |
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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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) |
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 |
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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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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]
Rank | Name | Nation | Points | SP | FS |
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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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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. [6] [7]
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. [8]
The following are the final amended results, not the original results.
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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.
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