All
figure skating
Figure skating is a sport in which individuals, pairs, or groups perform on figure skates on ice. It was the first winter sport to be included in the Olympic Games, when contested at the 1908 Olympics in London. The Olympic disciplines are me ...
events in
2002 Winter Olympics
The 2002 Winter Olympics, officially the XIX Olympic Winter Games and commonly known as Salt Lake 2002 ( arp, Niico'ooowu' 2002; Gosiute Shoshoni: ''Tit'-so-pi 2002''; nv, Sooléí 2002; Shoshoni: ''Soónkahni 2002''), was an internation ...
were held at the
Salt Lake Ice Center
Vivint Arena (stylized as vivint arena), formerly known as Delta Center, EnergySolutions Arena and Vivint Smart Home Arena, is an list of indoor arenas, indoor arena located in Salt Lake City, Utah. The arena serves as the home venue for the Na ...
.
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:
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Sally-Anne Stapleford
Assistant Referee:
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Junko Hiramatsu
is a Japanese former competitive figure skater who is now a coach and International Skating Union (ISU) official. She is a five-time Japanese national champion and represented Japan twice at the Winter Olympics, in 1960 and 1964. She was the ...
Judges:
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Wendy Langton
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Merja Kosonen
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Janet Allen
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Nicolae Bellu
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Yuri Kliushnikov Yuri may refer to:
People and fictional characters
Given name
*Yuri (Slavic name), the Slavic masculine form of the given name George, including a list of people with the given name Yuri, Yury, etc.
*Yuri (Japanese name), also Yūri, feminine Jap ...
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Volker Waldeck Volker may refer to:
* Volker (name), including a list of people with the given name or surname
* Volker, Kansas City, a historic neighborhood in Kansas City
* Volker Boulevard, Kansas City
* '' Alien Nations'' (German: ''Die Völker''), a real-tim ...
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Alexander Penchev
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Mieko Fujimori
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Evgenia Bogdanova Evgenia, Evgeniya, Yevgenia or Yevgeniya is a feminine given name which may refer to:
Evgenia or Evgeniya
* Evgeniya Augustinas (born 1988), Russian racing cyclist
* Evgeniya Belyakova (born 1986), Russian basketball player in the Women's National ...
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Jarmila Portová (substitute)
Ladies
:Medals awarded Thursday, February 21, 2002
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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 but slipped to third after two jumping errors.
Sasha Cohen
Alexandra Pauline "Sasha" Cohen (born October 26, 1984) is a retired American figure skater. She is the 2006 Olympic silver medalist, a three-time World Championship medalist, the 2003 Grand Prix Final Champion, and the 2006 U.S. Champion. S ...
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.
Referee:
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Britta Lindgren
Assistant Referee:
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Charles Foster
Judges:
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Sissy Krick
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Tatiana Danilenko
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Variations
* be, Тацця́на, Tatsiana
* bg, Татяна, Tatyana
* germ ...
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Maria Hrachovcova
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People
* Mary, mother of Jesus
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Place names Extraterrestrial
*170 Maria, a Main belt S-type asteroid discovered in 1877
*Lunar maria (plural of ''mare''), large, da ...
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Ingelise Blangsted
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Paolo Pizzocari
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Irina Absaliamova
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Pekka Leskinen
Juha Pekka Leskinen (born 26 February 1954) is a Finnish former competitive figure skater. He represented Finland at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck
Innsbruck (; bar, Innschbruck, label=Bavarian language, Austro-Bavarian ) is the capita ...
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Deborah Islam
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Joseph Inman
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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
Pair skating is a figure skating discipline defined by the International Skating Union (ISU) as "the skating of two persons in unison who perform their movements in such harmony with each other as to give the impression of genuine Pair Skating a ...
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
Jamie Rae Salé (born April 21, 1977) is a Canadian former competitive pair skater, and a current motivational speaker and conspiracy theorist. With her former husband David Pelletier, she is the 2002 Olympic Champion and 2001 World Champion. ...
and
David Pelletier
David Jacques Pelletier (born November 22, 1974) is a Canadian pairs figure skater. With his former wife Jamie Salé, he was the co-gold medal winner at the 2002 Olympic Winter Games. They shared the gold medal with the Russian pair Elena Ber ...
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
Alimzhan Tursunovich Tokhtakhounov (russian: Алимжан Турсунович Тохтахунов; born 1 January 1949) is a Russian businessman, suspected criminal, and former sportsman. He is accused in relations with organized crime and b ...
in Italy (at the request of the United States). He was released by the Italian officials.
Judges from
Russia
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, the
People's Republic of China
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Poland
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,
Ukraine
Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...
, and
France
France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pac ...
placed the Russians first; judges from the
United States
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Canada
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Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...
, and
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
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
Marie-Reine Le Gougne (; born 1961) is a French figure skating official and competitor. She was a central figure in the 2002 Winter Olympics figure skating scandal.
Biography
Le Gougne was born in Strasbourg. She took up figure skating as a child ...
, 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:
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Ronald Pfenning
Assistant Referee:
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Alexander Lakernik
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Variants listed here are Aleksandar, Al ...
Judges:
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Marina Sanaya
Marina Valterovna Sanaya (Melnyk) (russian: Марина Вальтеровна Саная (Мельник); 7 January 1959 – 6 October 2016) was a figure skating official and competitor who represented the Soviet Union. Competing at the age o ...
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Yang Jiasheng
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Lucy Brennan
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Marie-Reine Le Gougne
Marie-Reine Le Gougne (; born 1961) is a French figure skating official and competitor. She was a central figure in the 2002 Winter Olympics figure skating scandal.
Biography
Le Gougne was born in Strasbourg. She took up figure skating as a child ...
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Anna Sierocka
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* Anna (name)
Mononym
* Anna the Prophetess, in the Gospel of Luke
* Anna (wife of Artabasdos) (fl. 715–773)
* Anna (daughter of Boris I) (9th–10th century)
* Anna (Anisia) (fl. 1218 to 1221)
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Benoit Lavoie
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Vladislav Petukov
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Sissy Krick
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Hideo Sugita
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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
The compulsory dance (CD), now called the pattern dance, is a part of the figure skating segment of ice dance competitions in which all the competing couples perform the same standardized steps and holds to the music of a specified tempo and ge ...
was the Quickstep. The second was Blues.
Full results
Referee:
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Alexander Gorshkov
Assistant Referee:
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Ann Shaw
Judges (CD1):
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Eugenia Gasiorowska
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Irina Nechkina
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Yuri Balkov
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Ingrid Charlotte Wolter
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* 1026 Ingrid, an asteroid
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Evgenia Karnolska
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Alla Shekhovtseva
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Roland Wehinger
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Katalin Alpern
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* Katalin Bánffy Hungarian noblewoman
* Kata Bethlen (1700–1759) Hungarian writer, sometimes known in English as Katherine Bethle ...
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Halina Gordon-Potorak
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Walter Zuccaro (substitute)
Judges (CD2):
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Alla Shekhovtseva
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Yuri Balkov
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Walter Zuccaro
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Katalin Alpern
Katalin is a feminine given name and is a Hungarian variant from Catherine. Notable people with the name include:
* Katalin Bánffy Hungarian noblewoman
* Kata Bethlen (1700–1759) Hungarian writer, sometimes known in English as Katherine Bethle ...
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Evgenia Karnolska
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Irina Nechkina
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Halina Gordon-Potorak
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Roland Wehinger
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Ingrid Charlotte Wolter
Ingrid may refer to:
* Ingrid (given name)
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* Tropical Storm Ingrid, various cyclones
* 1026 Ingrid, an asteroid
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Eugenia Gasiorowska
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(substitute)
Judges (OD):
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Halina Gordon-Potorak
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Walter Zuccaro
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Eugenia Gasiorowska
''Eugenia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the myrtle family Myrtaceae. It has a worldwide, although highly uneven, distribution in tropical and subtropical regions. The bulk of the approximately 1,100 species occur in the New World tropics, ...
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Roland Wehinger
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Irina Nechkina
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Katalin Alpern
Katalin is a feminine given name and is a Hungarian variant from Catherine. Notable people with the name include:
* Katalin Bánffy Hungarian noblewoman
* Kata Bethlen (1700–1759) Hungarian writer, sometimes known in English as Katherine Bethle ...
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Ingrid Charlotte Wolter
Ingrid may refer to:
* Ingrid (given name)
* Ingrid (record label), and artist collective
* Ingrid Burley, rapper known mononymously as Ingrid
* Tropical Storm Ingrid, various cyclones
* 1026 Ingrid, an asteroid
* InGrid, the grid computing projec ...
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Evgenia Karnolska
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Alla Shekhovtseva
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Yuri Balkov (substitute)
Judges (FD):
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Alla Shekhovtseva
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Roland Wehinger
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Eugenia Gasiorowska
''Eugenia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the myrtle family Myrtaceae. It has a worldwide, although highly uneven, distribution in tropical and subtropical regions. The bulk of the approximately 1,100 species occur in the New World tropics, ...
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Ingrid Charlotte Wolter
Ingrid may refer to:
* Ingrid (given name)
* Ingrid (record label), and artist collective
* Ingrid Burley, rapper known mononymously as Ingrid
* Tropical Storm Ingrid, various cyclones
* 1026 Ingrid, an asteroid
* InGrid, the grid computing projec ...
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Walter Zuccaro
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Irina Nechkina
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Evgenia Karnolska
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Yuri Balkov
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Halina Gordon-Potorak
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Katalin Alpern
Katalin is a feminine given name and is a Hungarian variant from Catherine. Notable people with the name include:
* Katalin Bánffy Hungarian noblewoman
* Kata Bethlen (1700–1759) Hungarian writer, sometimes known in English as Katherine Bethle ...
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Participating NOCs
Thirty-one nations competed in the figure skating events at Salt Lake City.
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References
External links
2002 Winter Olympics- Icecalc results page
Official Results Book – Figure skating
{{2001–02 in figure skating
2002 Winter Olympics events
2002
File:2002 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 2002 Winter Olympics are held in Salt Lake City; Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and her daughter Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon die; East Timor gains East Timor independence, indepe ...
2002 in figure skating
International figure skating competitions hosted by the United States