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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

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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: *

Sally-Anne Stapleford Assistant Referee: *

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: * Wendy Langton * Merja Kosonen * Janet Allen * Nicolae Bellu *

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* Alexander Penchev * Mieko Fujimori *

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 ...

* Jarmila Portová (substitute)

Ladies

:Medals awarded Thursday, February 21, 2002 Sarah Hughes George W Bush

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: * International Skating Union

Britta Lindgren Assistant Referee: * International Skating Union

Charles Foster Judges: * Sissy Krick *

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* Ingelise Blangsted * Paolo Pizzocari * Irina Absaliamova *

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 ...

* Deborah Islam * Joseph Inman * 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

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, the

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, and

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placed the Russians first; judges from the

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, and

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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: * International Skating Union

Ronald Pfenning Assistant Referee: * International Skating Union

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Judges: *

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 ...

* Yang Jiasheng * Lucy Brennan *

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* Benoit Lavoie * Vladislav Petukov * Sissy Krick * Hideo Sugita * 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: * International Skating Union

Alexander Gorshkov Assistant Referee: * International Skating Union

Ann Shaw Judges (CD1): *

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* Irina Nechkina * Yuri Balkov *

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* Evgenia Karnolska * Alla Shekhovtseva * Roland Wehinger *

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* Halina Gordon-Potorak * Walter Zuccaro (substitute) Judges (CD2): * Alla Shekhovtseva * Yuri Balkov * Walter Zuccaro *

* Evgenia Karnolska * Irina Nechkina * Halina Gordon-Potorak * Roland Wehinger *

(substitute) Judges (OD): * Halina Gordon-Potorak * Walter Zuccaro *

* Roland Wehinger * Irina Nechkina *

* Evgenia Karnolska * Alla Shekhovtseva * Yuri Balkov (substitute) Judges (FD): * Alla Shekhovtseva * Roland Wehinger *

* Walter Zuccaro * Irina Nechkina * Evgenia Karnolska * Yuri Balkov * Halina Gordon-Potorak *

(substitute)

Participating NOCs

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

References

External links

2002 Winter Olympics
- Icecalc results page
Official Results Book – Figure skating
{{2001–02 in figure skating 2002 Winter Olympics events

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