Figure skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics

Medal summary

Medal table

Medalists

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.

Referee:

• [[File:International Skating Union.svg|20px]] Sally-Anne Stapleford

Assistant Referee:

• [[File:International Skating Union.svg|20px]] Junko Hiramatsu

Judges:

• AUS Wendy Langton
• FIN Merja Kosonen
• USA Janet Allen
• ROU Nicolae Bellu
• UKR Yuri Kliushnikov
• GER Volker Waldeck
• BUL Alexander Penchev
• JPN Mieko Fujimori
• AZE Evgenia Bogdanova
• CZE 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 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.

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.

Referee:

• [[File:International Skating Union.svg|20px]] Britta Lindgren

Assistant Referee:

• [[File:International Skating Union.svg|20px]] Charles Foster

Judges:

• GER Sissy Krick
• RUS Tatiana Danilenko
• SVK Maria Hrachovcova
• DEN Ingelise Blangsted
• ITA Paolo Pizzocari
• BLR Irina Absaliamova
• FIN Pekka Leskinen
• CAN Deborah Islam
• USA Joseph Inman
• UKR 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.

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.

Full results

The following are the final amended results, not the original results.

Referee:

• [[File:International Skating Union.svg|20px]] Ronald Pfenning

Assistant Referee:

• [[File:International Skating Union.svg|20px]] Alexander Lakernik

Judges:

• RUS Marina Sanaya
• CHN Yang Jiasheng
• USA Lucy Brennan
• FRA Marie-Reine Le Gougne
• POL Anna Sierocka
• CAN Benoit Lavoie
• UKR Vladislav Petukov
• GER Sissy Krick
• JPN Hideo Sugita
• CZE 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:

• [[File:International Skating Union.svg|20px]] Alexander Gorshkov

Assistant Referee:

• [[File:International Skating Union.svg|20px]] Ann Shaw

Judges (CD1):

• LTU Eugenia Gasiorowska
• AZE Irina Nechkina
• UKR Yuri Balkov
• GER Ingrid Charlotte Wolter
• BUL Evgenia Karnolska
• RUS Alla Shekhovtseva
• SUI Roland Wehinger
• ISR Katalin Alpern
• POL Halina Gordon-Potorak
• ITA Walter Zuccaro (substitute)

Judges (CD2):

• RUS Alla Shekhovtseva
• UKR Yuri Balkov
• ITA Walter Zuccaro
• ISR Katalin Alpern
• BUL Evgenia Karnolska
• AZE Irina Nechkina
• POL Halina Gordon-Potorak
• SUI Roland Wehinger
• GER Ingrid Charlotte Wolter
• LTU Eugenia Gasiorowska (substitute)

Judges (OD):

• POL Halina Gordon-Potorak
• ITA Walter Zuccaro
• LTU Eugenia Gasiorowska
• SUI Roland Wehinger
• AZE Irina Nechkina
• ISR Katalin Alpern
• GER Ingrid Charlotte Wolter
• BUL Evgenia Karnolska
• RUS Alla Shekhovtseva
• UKR Yuri Balkov (substitute)

Judges (FD):

• RUS Alla Shekhovtseva
• SUI Roland Wehinger
• LTU Eugenia Gasiorowska
• GER Ingrid Charlotte Wolter
• ITA Walter Zuccaro
• AZE Irina Nechkina
• BUL Evgenia Karnolska
• UKR Yuri Balkov
• POL Halina Gordon-Potorak
• ISR Katalin Alpern (substitute)

Participating NOCs

Thirty-one nations competed in the figure skating events at Salt Lake City.

• ARM
• AUS
• AZE
• BLR
• BEL
• BUL
• CAN
• CHN
• CRO
• CZE
• EST
• FIN
• FRA
• GBR
• GEO
• GER
• HUN
• ISR
• ITA
• JPN
• KOR
• LTU
• POL
• ROU
• RUS
• SVK
• SLO
• SUI
• UKR
• USA
• UZB

References

References

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