| Figure skating at the XIX Olympic Winter Games | |
|---|---|
| Type: | Olympic Games |
| Date: | 9 – 21 February 2002 |
| 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 | |
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Allfigure skating events in2002 Winter Olympics were held at theSalt Lake Ice Center.
| 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 | |
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's singles details | Alexei Yagudin Russia | Evgeni Plushenko Russia | Timothy Goebel United States |
| Ladies' singles details | Sarah Hughes United States | Irina Slutskaya Russia | Michelle Kwan United States |
| Pair skating details | Elena Berezhnaya andAnton Sikharulidze (RUS) | shared gold | Shen Xue andZhao Hongbo (CHN) |
| Jamie Salé andDavid Pelletier (CAN) | |||
| Ice dance details | Marina Anissina andGwendal Peizerat (FRA) | Irina Lobacheva andIlia Averbukh (RUS) | Barbara Fusar-Poli andMaurizio 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |||
Referee:
Assistant Referee:
Judges:
Wendy Langton
Merja KosonenJanet AllenNicolae BelluYuri Kliushnikov
Volker WaldeckAlexander PenchevMieko Fujimori
Evgenia Bogdanova
Jarmila Portová (substitute)
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 pairwiseranked choice voting system that theInternational Skating Union (ISU) had adopted after a debacle during the ladies' competition at the1995 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 theindependent irrelevant alternative. Two years later the ISU changed the voting procedures again torange voting.[6]
| Rank | Name | Nation | Points | SP | FS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||
Referee:
Assistant Referee:
Judges:
Sissy KrickTatiana DanilenkoMaria Hrachovcova
Ingelise BlangstedPaolo PizzocariIrina AbsaliamovaPekka LeskinenDeborah IslamJoseph InmanVladislav Petukov (substitute)Acontroversial decision was taken which extended the Russian dominance ofpair 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 ofJamie Salé andDavid 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 criminalAlimzhan Tokhtakhounov in Italy (at the request of the United States). He was released by the Italian officials.[7][8]
Judges fromRussia, thePeople's Republic of China,Poland,Ukraine, andFrance placed the Russians first; judges from theUnited States,Canada,Germany, andJapan 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 thatMarie-Reine Le Gougne, the French judge implicated in collusion, was guilty of misconduct and was suspended effective immediately.[9]
The following are the final amended results, not the original results.
| Rank | Name | Nation | Points | SP | FS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Elena Berezhnaya /Anton Sikharulidze | Russia | N/A | 1 | N/A |
| Jamie Salé /David Pelletier | Canada | 2 | |||
| 3 | Shen Xue /Zhao Hongbo | China | 4.5 | 3 | 3 |
| 4 | Tatiana Totmianina /Maxim Marinin | Russia | 6.0 | 4 | 4 |
| 5 | Kyoko Ina /John Zimmerman | United States | 7.5 | 5 | 5 |
| 6 | Maria Petrova /Alexei Tikhonov | Russia | 9.0 | 6 | 6 |
| 7 | Dorota Zagórska /Mariusz Siudek |  Poland | 11.0 | 8 | 7 |
| 8 | Kateřina Beránková /Otto Dlabola | Czech Republic | 11.5 | 7 | 8 |
| 9 | Pang Qing /Tong Jian | China | 14.0 | 10 | 9 |
| 10 | Jacinthe Larivière /Lenny Faustino | Canada | 16.5 | 13 | 10 |
| 11 | Zhang Dan /Zhang Hao | China | 16.5 | 9 | 12 |
| 12 | Anabelle Langlois /Patrice Archetto | Canada | 18.0 | 14 | 11 |
| 13 | Tiffany Scott /Philip Dulebohn | United States | 18.5 | 11 | 13 |
| 14 | Mariana Kautz /Norman Jeschke | Germany | 21.0 | 12 | 15 |
| 15 | Aliona Savchenko /Stanislav Morozov | Ukraine | 22.0 | 16 | 14 |
| 16 | Tatiana Chuvaeva /Dmitri Palamarchuk | Ukraine | 23.5 | 15 | 16 |
| 17 | Oľga Beständigová /Jozef Beständig | Slovakia | 25.5 | 17 | 17 |
| 18 | Natalia Ponomareva /Evgeni Sviridov | Uzbekistan | 27.0 | 18 | 18 |
| 19 | Michela Cobisi /Ruben De Pra | Italy | 28.5 | 19 | 19 |
| 20 | Maria Krasiltseva /Artem Znachkov | Armenia | 30.0 | 20 | 20 |
Referee:
Assistant Referee:
Judges:
Marina SanayaYang JiashengLucy BrennanMarie-Reine Le GougneAnna SierockaBenoit LavoieVladislav PetukovSissy KrickHideo SugitaJarmila Portová (substitute)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 firstcompulsory dance was the Quickstep. The second was Blues.
Referee:
Assistant Referee:
Judges (CD1):
Eugenia GasiorowskaIrina NechkinaYuri BalkovIngrid Charlotte WolterEvgenia KarnolskaAlla Shekhovtseva
Roland Wehinger
Katalin AlpernHalina Gordon-PotorakWalter Zuccaro (substitute)Judges (CD2):
Alla ShekhovtsevaYuri BalkovWalter ZuccaroKatalin AlpernEvgenia KarnolskaIrina NechkinaHalina Gordon-PotorakRoland WehingerIngrid Charlotte WolterEugenia Gasiorowska (substitute)Judges (OD):
Halina Gordon-PotorakWalter ZuccaroEugenia GasiorowskaRoland WehingerIrina NechkinaKatalin AlpernIngrid Charlotte WolterEvgenia KarnolskaAlla ShekhovtsevaYuri Balkov (substitute)Judges (FD):
Alla ShekhovtsevaRoland WehingerEugenia GasiorowskaIngrid Charlotte WolterWalter ZuccaroIrina NechkinaEvgenia KarnolskaYuri BalkovHalina Gordon-PotorakKatalin Alpern (substitute)Thirty-one nations competed in the figure skating events at Salt Lake City.
