Figure skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics


All figure skating events in 2002 Winter Olympics were held at the Salt Lake Ice Center.

Medal summary

Medalists

Medal table

Results

Men

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.

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meets with President George W. Bush in Washington D.C. on April 12, 2002.
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. American 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 Russians were very disappointed with the result and even filed a protest, which was not accepted by ISU after it examined all results and scores, thus confirming Hughes as the winner.

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A controversial decision was taken which extended the Russian dominance of pair skating at the Olympics. Salé/Pelletier skated a flawless program, while Berezhnaya/Sikharulidze, skating a program with more complex choreography, stumbled during their double axel. Minutes before the Russians went on, Salé accidentally collided with Sikharulidze.
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 it would award a second gold medal to Salé and Pelletier, and that Marie-Reine Le Gougne, the French judge implicated in collusion, was guilty of "misconduct" and was suspended effective immediately. Berezhnaya and Sikharulidze were allowed to keep their gold medal as well.

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The following are the final amended results, not the original results.
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1Elena Berezhnaya / Anton Sikharulidze
Jamie Salé / David Pelletier

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3Shen Xue / Zhao Hongbo4.533
4Tatiana Totmianina / Maxim Marinin6.044
5Kyoko Ina / John Zimmerman7.555
6Maria Petrova / Alexei Tikhonov9.066
7Dorota Zagórska / Mariusz Siudek11.087
8Kateřina Beránková / Otto Dlabola11.578
9Pang Qing / Tong Jian14.0109
10Jacinthe Larivière / Lenny Faustino16.51310
11Zhang Dan / Zhang Hao16.5912
12Anabelle Langlois / Patrice Archetto18.01411
13Tiffany Scott / Philip Dulebohn18.51113
14Mariana Kautz / Norman Jeschke21.01215
15Aliona Savchenko / Stanislav Morozov22.01614
16Tatiana Chuvaeva / Dmitri Palamarchuk23.51516
17Oľga Beständigová / Jozef Beständig25.51717
18Natalia Ponomareva / Evgeni Sviridov27.01818
19Michela Cobisi / Ruben De Pra28.51919
20Maria Krasiltseva / Artem Znachkov30.02020

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Anissina, a Russian, emigrated to France after Averbukh, her former partner, left her to skate with Lobacheva. Lithuanian ice dancers Margarita Drobiazko / Povilas Vanagas, who finished fifth, filed a protest noting that they finished behind two couples who fell on the ice but did not receive required deductions in the judging. It was the first gold in Olympic figure skating for France since 1932.
The first compulsory dance was the Quickstep. The second was Blues.

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