| 2002 Winter Olympics medals | ||||
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| Location | Salt Lake City, United States | |||
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| Most gold medals |  Norway (13) | |||
| Most total medals |  Germany (36) | |||
| Medalling NOCs | 24 | |||
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The2002 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XIX Olympic Winter Games, was a wintermulti-sport event held inSalt Lake City,Utah, United States, from February 8 to 24, 2002. A total of 2,399 athletes from 77 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) (+5 from1998 Olympics) participated in these Games, competing in 78 events (+10 from 1998) in 15sports and disciplines (+1 from 1998).[1]
Athletes from 24 countries won at least one medal. Germany led in overall medals (36) for the second consecutive Winter Games.[2] Immediately following the Games, Germany was also the gold medal leader with twelve. With 36 total medals, Germany set a record for most total medals at a single Winter Olympics edition. Two years later, however, Norway was awarded two extra gold medals for a single event (where two Norwegians tied) after medal re-allocations, raising their total to thirteen and giving them the lead in gold medals (albeit not in the number of won events).[3] In addition, Norway tied the formerSoviet Union in 1976 for most gold medals at a single Winter Olympics.[4] This record would later be broken byCanada at the 2010 Winter Olympics.[4] The hostingUnited States was third in the medal table on both counts with a total of 34 medals.[5]
Croatia and Estonia won the first medals and first gold medals in their Winter Olympic history,[6][7] while Australia and China won their first gold medals.[8][9]BiathleteOle Einar Bjørndalen of Norway won four gold medals, while Croatianalpine skierJanica Kostelić won three golds and a silver, making them the two athletes with the most medals at the Games.[10]
The medal table is based on information provided by theInternational Olympic Committee (IOC) and is consistent with IOC conventional sorting in its published medal tables. The table uses theOlympic medal table sorting method. By default, the table is ordered by the number of gold medals the athletes from a nation have won, where a nation is an entity represented by a NOC. The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze medals.[11][12] If teams are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically by theirIOC country code.[13]
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norway‡ | 13 | 5 | 7 | 25 |
| 2 | Germany | 12 | 16 | 8 | 36 |
| 3 | United States* | 10 | 13 | 11 | 34 |
| 4 |  Canada | 7 | 3 | 7 | 17 |
| 5 |  Russia | 5 | 4 | 4 | 13 |
| 6 |  France | 4 | 5 | 2 | 11 |
| 7 |  Italy | 4 | 4 | 5 | 13 |
| 8 |  Finland | 4 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
| 9 |  Netherlands | 3 | 5 | 0 | 8 |
| 10 |  Austria | 3 | 4 | 10 | 17 |
| 11 |  Switzerland | 3 | 2 | 6 | 11 |
| 12 |  Croatia | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 13 |  China | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 |
| 14 |  South Korea | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 15 |  Australia | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 16 |  Czech Republic | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 17 |  Estonia | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 18 |  Great Britain | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 19 |  Sweden | 0 | 2 | 5 | 7 |
| 20 |  Bulgaria | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 21 |  Japan | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
 Poland | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 23 |  Belarus | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
 Slovenia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (24 entries) | 80 | 76 | 78 | 234 | |
‡ Norway won 12 events (like Germany) but collected two gold medals for a tie in a single event (the 10 km + 10 km combined pursuit), resulting in a total of 13 gold medals.
Due to various events, two extragold medals were awarded. In thefigure skating pairs competition,Yelena Berezhnaya andAnton Sikharulidze ofRussia were originally awarded the gold overJamie Salé andDavid Pelletier of Canada. In theensuing controversy, it was revealed that French judgeMarie-Reine Le Gougne had been pressured into voting for the Russians. Salé and Pelletier were later upgraded to gold, while Berezhnaya and Sikharulidze also kept their gold medals.[14] In thecross-country skiing 30 km race, NorwegiansThomas Alsgaard andFrode Estil originally tied for a silver medal behind Spain'sJohann Muehlegg.[15] Muehlegg had won three gold medals but tested positive fordarbepoetin after winning his third. He was originally allowed to keep the other two gold medals, but two years later was stripped of all medals by theCourt of Arbitration for Sport.[3][16]
In women's cross-country skiing,Larisa Lazutina of Russia originally won gold in the 30 km race, but tested positive fordarbepoetin and was stripped of her medal, soGabriella Paruzzi of Italy was awarded the gold, ItalianStefania Belmondo received the silver and NorwegianBente Skari the bronze. Lazutina won two more medals, and was allowed to keep them until 2003 when she was stripped of them by the Court of Arbitration for sport. She also lost a silver medal in the 15 km race. In the 10 km pursuit, she was stripped of a silver, soBeckie Scott of Canada was promoted to the silver andKateřina Neumannová of the Czech Republic the bronze.[17] The gold medal in that race was won byOlga Danilova of Russia but she also tested positive fordarbepoetin and in 2004, Scott was upgraded to gold, Neumannova to silver andViola Bauer of Germany to bronze.[3]
In the 10 km + 10 km combined pursuit,Frode Estil tied with fellow NorwegianThomas Alsgaard for second place, withJohann Mühlegg (starting for Spain) winning the race. However, Mühlegg was found guilty ofdoping and disqualified by theIOC in February 2004, therefore upgrading Estil and Alsgaard to joint gold medalists. Alsgaard and Estil clocked times of 49:48.9, 4 seconds ahead ofPer Elofsson.[18] Both Germany and Norway won 12 events, but Norway collected two gold medals for a single event, thus overtaking Germany, which had been considered the 2002 medal tally winner for two years.
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