Figure skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics – Men's singles explained

Event:	Men's singles
Win Label:	Winning points
Prev:	1998
Bronzenoc:	USA
Bronze:	Timothy Goebel
Silvernoc:	RUS
Silver:	Evgeni Plushenko
Goldnoc:	RUS
Gold:	Alexei Yagudin
Win Value:	1.5
Games:	2002 Winter
Nations:	20
Competitors:	28
Dates:	February 12, 2002 February 14, 2002
Venue:	Salt Lake Ice Center Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Caption:	Figure skating pictogram
Next:	2006

Men's single skating was contested during the figure skating events at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

This men's Olympic event was last where the 6.0 system was used.

This individual event was structured in a similar manner to the pairs event, with a short program and a free skating. 28 skaters entered the short program, but only the top 24 competitors continued to the free skating.

The 1998 Olympic champion Ilia Kulik from Russia did not defend his title. Evgeni Plushenko from Russia was the reigning World Champion and also competed in Salt Lake City.

Russia earned the second gold in figure skating at the 2002 games after two medal events.

Short Program

Short Program of men's single skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics was held on February 12.^[1]

Pl.	Name	Nation	Points	Sum of judges points									StN.
				Place by judge
1	Alexei Yagudin		0.5	11.6	11.6	11.5	11.7	11.7	11.7	11.7	11.6	11.7	14
				1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
2	Takeshi Honda		1.0	11.2	11.4	11.2	11.4	11.4	11.2	11.3	11.3	11.4	15
				3	2	3	2	2	3	4	2	2
3	Timothy Goebel		1.5	11.2	11.0	11.3	11.2	11.2	11.4	11.4	11.2	11.3	20
				2	5	2	3	4	2	2	3	4
4	Evgeni Plushenko		2.0	10.9	11.3	11.1	11.1	11.3	11.2	11.3	11.1	11.4	18
				5	3	5	5	3	4	5	5	3
5	Alexander Abt		2.5	11.0	10.9	11.1	11.0	11.0	11.0	11.3	11.2	11.3	24
				4	6	4	6	6	7	3	4	5
6	Li Chengjiang		3.0	10.8	11.1	11.0	11.2	11.1	11.1	10.6	10.9	10.9	13
				6	4	6	4	5	5	8	6	7
7	Elvis Stojko		3.5	10.5	10.5	10.9	10.8	10.8	11.1	10.6	10.8	11.1	29
				9	9	7	8	7	6	9	7	6
8	Michael Weiss		4.0	10.8	10.4	10.8	10.9	10.5	10.6	10.7	10.7	10.7	1
				7	12	8	7	9	9	7	8	9
9	Todd Eldredge		4.5	10.2	10.6	10.7	10.7	10.7	10.6	10.3	10.2	10.8	25
				10	8	9	9	8	10	11	12	8
10	Anthony Liu		5.0	10.7	10.4	10.5	10.3	10.1	10.8	10.7	10.5	10.3	11
				8	11	12	10	13	8	6	9	11
11	Frédéric Dambier		5.5	10.1	10.5	10.6	10.2	10.4	10.5	10.4	9.9	10.2	26
				12	9	11	12	10	11	10	15	12
12	Ivan Dinev		6.0	10.1	9.5	10.4	10.0	10.3	9.8	9.7	10.2	10.6	21
				11	19	13	13	11	18	14	10	10
13	Kevin van der Perren		6.5	10.0	10.8	10.6	10.2	9.8	10.4	9.6	10.0	10.1	27
				13	7	10	11	15	12	15	14	13
14	Li Yunfei		7.0	9.1	10.3	10.3	9.7	9.8	10.1	9.9	9.8	10.1	17
				20	14	14	14	14	15	12	16	14
15	Sergei Davydov		7.5	9.7	10.3	10.2	9.6	10.2	10.2	9.2	9.4	9.9	2
				14	13	15	16	12	14	17	17	16
16	Stéphane Lambiel		8.0	9.4	8.8	9.9	9.2	9.7	10.4	9.6	10.1	9.6	3
				15	23	17	17	16	13	16	13	18
17	Brian Joubert		8.5	9.2	10.2	10.0	9.0	9.5	9.9	9.2	10.2	10.0	9
				18	15	16	19	17	17	18	11	15
18	Vakhtang Murvanidze		9.0	7.9	9.5	9.4	9.7	9.4	9.8	9.1	9.1	9.2	5
				26	18	19	15	21	19	20	19	20
19	Zhang Min		9.5	9.1	9.2	9.0	8.9	9.5	9.6	9.8	9.0	9.8	19
				21	21	23	22	18	20	13	20	17
20	Roman Skorniakov		10.0	8.8	9.7	9.1	8.9	9.2	9.1	8.9	9.3	9.6	8
				24	16	21	20	22	25	22	18	18
21	Dmitri Dmitrenko		10.5	9.4	8.8	9.2	8.8	9.5	10.0	8.9	9.0	9.1	16
				16	25	20	23	20	16	25	21	22
22	Sergei Rylov		11.0	9.0	8.7	9.5	9.1	8.8	9.3	8.8	8.7	9.1	28
				22	26	18	18	24	23	26	22	21
23	Gheorghe Chiper		11.5	9.2	9.1	8.6	8.9	8.9	8.8	9.0	8.6	9.0	10
				19	22	26	20	23	26	21	23	23
24	Yosuke Takeuchi		12.0	8.9	9.6	8.9	8.1	8.7	9.4	9.2	8.6	8.9	12
				23	17	24	27	25	22	19	24	24
25	Zoltán Tóth		12.5	9.2	9.2	8.4	8.6	8.7	9.4	8.9	8.5	8.6	22
				17	20	27	26	26	21	23	25	26
26	Angelo Dolfini		13.0	8.1	8.8	9.0	8.7	9.5	9.2	8.9	8.4	8.5	23
				25	24	22	25	19	24	23	26	27
27	Margus Hernits		13.5	7.6	8.6	8.8	8.7	8.6	8.4	8.8	8.3	8.8	7
				27	27	25	24	27	27	27	27	25
28	Lee Kyu-hyun		14.0	7.2	7.1	7.6	7.6	7.2	7.5	7.8	8.0	8.0	4
				28	28	28	28	28	28	28	28	28

Free Skating

Free Skating of men's single skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics was held on February 14.^[2]

Pl.	Name	Nation	Points	Sum of judges points									StN.
				Place by judge
1	Alexei Yagudin		1.0	11.8	11.8	11.9	11.9	11.8	11.9	11.8	11.8	11.9	24
				1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
2	Evgeni Plushenko		2.0	11.5	11.6	11.6	11.7	11.6	11.6	11.7	11.6	11.6	21
				2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
3	Timothy Goebel		3.0	11.1	11.0	11.6	11.6	11.5	11.4	11.5	11.5	11.3	22
				5	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
4	Takeshi Honda		4.0	10.8	11.2	11.5	11.4	11.4	11.2	11.4	11.4	11.2	20
				6	3	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
5	Alexander Abt		5.0	11.2	10.6	11.4	11.1	10.8	11.0	11.4	11.3	11.1	23
				3	11	5	7	8	6	5	5	6
6	Todd Eldredge		6.0	11.1	10.8	11.3	11.2	11.2	10.9	11.0	11.1	11.1	13
				4	5	7	6	6	8	7	7	5
7	Michael Weiss		7.0	10.7	10.8	11.4	11.3	11.3	11.1	10.9	11.0	10.9	15
				7	6	6	5	5	5	8	8	8
8	Elvis Stojko		8.0	10.7	10.7	11.0	11.0	10.9	11.0	11.2	11.2	11.0	14
				8	7	8	8	7	7	6	6	7
9	Li Chengjiang		9.0	10.1	10.7	10.2	10.8	10.8	10.7	10.8	10.8	10.8	19
				10	10	13	9	9	9	9	9	9
10	Anthony Liu		10.0	10.0	10.7	10.8	9.8	10.4	10.5	10.3	10.4	10.6	18
				11	8	9	16	12	10	11	14	11
11	Frédéric Dambier		11.0	9.8	10.6	10.2	10.6	10.4	10.4	9.9	10.5	10.5	16
				12	12	12	11	11	11	15	10	12
12	Brian Joubert		12.0	9.8	10.7	10.6	9.9	10.6	9.9	10.3	10.2	10.5	12
				13	8	10	15	10	14	12	15	13
13	Kevin van der Perren		13.0	10.2	10.5	10.3	10.4	10.4	10.0	10.2	10.4	10.5	8
				9	14	11	12	13	12	14	13	13
14	Ivan Dinev		14.0	9.3	10.5	10.1	10.7	10.2	9.6	10.6	10.5	10.6	17
				16	15	15	10	14	17	10	11	10
15	Zhang Min		15.0	9.2	10.6	10.2	10.0	9.9	9.7	10.3	10.5	10.5	4
				17	13	14	14	18	16	13	12	15
16	Stéphane Lambiel		16.0	9.7	10.0	10.0	10.3	9.8	9.9	9.7	10.0	9.7	7
				14	16	16	13	19	13	16	17	17
17	Vakhtang Murvanidze		17.0	9.1	9.7	9.4	9.3	10.1	9.6	9.5	10.1	9.8	9
				18	17	18	19	15	18	18	16	16
18	Dmitri Dmitrenko		18.0	9.4	9.6	9.8	9.4	9.9	9.8	8.8	9.6	9.6	3
				15	18	17	18	17	15	21	19	19
19	Roman Skorniakov		19.0	9.1	9.1	9.3	9.8	10.1	9.5	9.5	9.5	9.7	6
				19	20	19	17	16	19	17	20	18
20	Yosuke Takeuchi		20.0	8.5	9.5	9.1	9.1	9.6	9.4	9.1	9.4	9.4	2
				20	19	20	21	21	20	19	21	20
21	Gheorghe Chiper		21.0	8.4	8.9	8.9	9.3	9.7	9.0	8.9	9.8	9.0	5
				22	21	21	20	20	22	20	18	21
22	Sergei Rylov		22.0	7.9	8.2	8.4	8.3	8.3	8.1	8.3	8.3	8.3	1
				24	24	22	22	24	23	22	23	22
23	Li Yunfei		23.0	8.4	8.8	7.8	8.2	9.0	9.3	8.1	8.0	8.2	10
				21	22	24	23	23	21	23	24	23
24	Sergei Davydov		24.0	8.3	8.3	8.2	8.1	9.1	7.7	7.8	8.6	7.9	11
				23	23	23	24	22	24	24	22	24

Total

Alexei Yagudin won gold medal with 1.5 points (0.5 for SP and 1.0 for FS), Evgeni Plushenko became the silver medalist (4.0 points) and Timothy Goebel became bronze medalist (4.5 points). Takeshi Honda from Japan was second after the short program but became fourth in his free program and dropped to the fourth overall place.^[3]

Rank	Name	Nation	Points	SP		FS
				Points	Rank	Points	Rank
1	Alexei Yagudin		1.5	0.5	1	1.0	1
2	Evgeni Plushenko		4.0	2.0	4	2.0	2
3	Timothy Goebel		4.5	1.5	3	3.0	3
4	Takeshi Honda		5.0	1.0	2	4.0	4
5	Alexander Abt		7.5	2.5	5	5.0	5
6	Todd Eldredge		10.5	4.5	9	6.0	6
7	Michael Weiss		11.0	4.0	8	7.0	7
8	Elvis Stojko		11.5	3.5	7	8.0	8
9	Li Chengjiang		12.0	3.0	6	9.0	9
10	Anthony Liu		15.0	5.0	10	10.0	10
11	Frédéric Dambier		16.5	5.5	11	11.0	11
12	Kevin van der Perren		19.5	6.5	13	13.0	13
13	Ivan Dinev		20.0	6.0	12	14.0	14
14	Brian Joubert		20.5	8.5	17	12.0	12
15	Stéphane Lambiel		24.0	8.0	16	16.0	16
16	Zhang Min		24.5	9.5	19	15.0	15
17	Vakhtang Murvanidze		26.0	9.0	18	17.0	17
18	Dmitri Dmitrenko		28.5	10.5	21	18.0	18
19	Roman Skorniakov		29.0	10.0	20	19.0	19
20	Li Yunfei		30.0	7.0	14	23.0	23
21	Sergei Davydov		31.5	7.5	15	24.0	24
22	Yosuke Takeuchi		32.0	12.0	24	20.0	20
23	Gheorghe Chiper		32.5	11.5	23	21.0	21
24	Sergei Rylov		33.0	11.0	22	22.0	22
Free skating not reached
25	Zoltán Tóth			12.5	25
26	Angelo Dolfini			13.0	26
27	Margus Hernits			13.5	27
28	Lee Kyu-hyun			14.0	28

Officials

Referee:

• Sally-Anne Stapleford

Assistant Referee:

• Junko Hiramatsu

Judges:

• Wendy Langton
• Merja Kosonen
• Janet Allen
• Nicolae Bellu
• Yuri Kliushnikov
• Volker Waldeck
• Alexander Penchev
• Mieko Fujimori
• Evgenia Bogdanova
• Jarmila Portová (substitute)

External links

• Men's Short Program at the IceCalc website
• Men's Free Skating at the IceCalc website
• Results of Men's Single Skating at the IceCalc website

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2002-02-14. 2002 Olympic Winter Games - Men - Short Program. 2021-11-13. https://web.archive.org/web/20020214012018/http://www.icecalc.com/events/owg2002/results/SEG001.HTM. 2002-02-14.
2. Web site: 2002-06-02. 2002 Olympic Winter Games - Men - Free Skating. 2021-11-13. https://web.archive.org/web/20020602160235/http://www.icecalc.com:80/events/owg2002/results/SEG002.HTM. 2002-06-02.
3. Web site: 2002-06-02. 2002 Olympic Winter Games - Men. 2021-11-13. https://web.archive.org/web/20020602210016/http://www.icecalc.com:80/events/owg2002/results/CAT001RS.HTM. 2002-06-02.