Figure skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics explained

Figure skating at the XIX Olympic Winter Games
Comptype:Olympic Games
Startdate:9
Enddate:21 February
Venue:Delta Center
Championmen: Alexei Yagudin
Championladies: Sarah Hughes
Championpairs: Elena Berezhnaya / Anton Sikharulidze
Jamie Salé / David Pelletier
Championdance: Marina Anissina / Gwendal Peizerat
Previouscomp:1998 Winter Olympics
Nextcomp:2006 Winter Olympics

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

Medal summary

Medalists

Men's singles
Ladies' singles
Pair skating
shared gold
Ice dance

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.[1] [2] [3]

RankNameNationPointsSPFS
11.511
24.042
34.533
45.024
57.555
610.596
711.087
811.578
912.069
1015.01010
1116.51111
1219.51313
1320.01214
1420.51712
1524.01616
1624.51915
1726.01817
1828.52118
1929.02019
2030.01423
2131.51524
2232.02420
2332.52321
2433.02222
Free skating not reached
2525
2626
2727
2828
WD

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Ladies

Medals awarded Thursday, February 21, 2002

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 pairwise ranked choice voting system that the International Skating Union (ISU) had adopted after a debacle during the ladies' competition at the 1995 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 the independent irrelevant alternative. Two years later the ISU changed the voting procedures again to range voting.[6]

RankNameNationPointsSPFS
13.041
23.022
33.513
45.534
58.575
68.556
711.087
811.068
916.01210
1017.51112
1118.0189
1218.51511
1320.5916
1421.01613
1522.01415
1622.01017
1722.51714
1829.02218
1930.52319
2030.52120
2131.02021
2231.51922
2335.02423
WD13
Free skating not reached
2525
2626
2727

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Pairs

Medals awarded February 11, 2002; second award ceremony February 17.

A controversial decision was taken which extended the Russian dominance of pair 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 of Jamie Salé and David 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 criminal Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov in Italy (at the request of the United States). He was released by the Italian officials.[7] [8]

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 Marie-Reine Le Gougne, the French judge implicated in collusion, was guilty of misconduct and was suspended effective immediately.[9]

Full results

The following are the final amended results, not the original results.

RankNameNationPointsSPFS
1Elena Berezhnaya / Anton SikharulidzeN/A1N/A
Jamie Salé / David Pelletier2
34.533
46.044
57.555
69.066
711.087
811.578
914.0109
1016.51310
1116.5912
1218.01411
1318.51113
1421.01215
1522.01614
1623.51516
1725.51717
1827.01818
1928.51919
2030.02020

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Judges:

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 was the Quickstep. The second was Blues.

Full results

RankNameNationPointsCD1CD2ODFD
12.01111
24.02222
36.03333
48.04444
510.05555
612.06666
714.07777
816.08888
919.01010109
1019.099910
1122.212111111
1223.811121212
1326.013131313
1428.415151414
1530.416161515
1631.214141616
1734.617171817
1835.418181718
1938.019191919
2040.421212020
2143.422222122
2244.023232321
2344.220202223
2448.024242424

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Judges (CD2):

Judges (OD):

Judges (FD):

Participating NOCs

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

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Alexei on top: Yagudin wins after Plushenko falls in short program. February 12, 2002. CNN/SI. https://web.archive.org/web/20020421025429/https://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/olympics/2002/figure_skating/news/2002/02/12/mens_short_program_ap/. April 21, 2002. dead.
  2. Web site: OLYMPICS: FIGURE SKATING; There's No Argument Over Yagudin's Gold. February 15, 2002. Mike. Wise. The New York Times.
  3. Web site: OLYMPICS: FIGURE SKATING; Plushenko Takes Tumble, Short-Circuiting Showdown. February 13, 2002. Selena. Roberts. The New York Times.
  4. Web site: Still a Long Night to Go. February 21, 2002. Helene. Elliott. Los Angeles Times. https://web.archive.org/web/20121105120441/https://articles.latimes.com/2002/feb/21/sports/sp-olyfigadv21. November 5, 2012. live.
  5. Web site: OLYMPICS: FIGURE SKATING; Hughes's Gold Draws Russians' Ire. February 23, 2002. Michael. Janofsky. The New York Times.
  6. Book: Volić . Ismar . Ismar Volić . Making Democracy Count: How Mathematics Improves Voting, Electoral Maps and Representation . 2024 . . 9780691248806 . 84–85 . June 4, 2024.
  7. News: Taivanchik Hearing Ordered to Stay Put . The St Petersburg Times . Andrew Dampf . Associated Press . August 13, 2002 . January 31, 2012 . dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120204224428/http://www.sptimes.ru/index.php?action_id=2&story_id=7837 . February 4, 2012 .
  8. Web site: IOC awards gold to Canadian pair . February 15, 2002 . . https://web.archive.org/web/20020601103902/https://www.msnbc.com/news/705743.asp?cp1=1 . June 1, 2002 . dead.
  9. Web site: IOC awards second gold to Canadian pair . February 15, 2002 . . https://web.archive.org/web/20020601103902/https://www.msnbc.com/news/705743.asp?cp1=1 . June 1, 2002 . dead.