# 2002 World Figure Skating Championships

The 2002 World Figure Skating Championships were held at the M-Wave Arena in Nagano, Japan from March 16 to 24, sanctioned by the International Skating Union. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Russia (RUS) | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 2 | China (CHN) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 | United States (USA) | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 4 | Canada (CAN) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | Japan (JPN) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 6 | Israel (ISR) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (6 entries) | Totals (6 entries) | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 |

## Competition notes

It was the first ISU competition after the much publicized 2002 Olympic judging controversy. Neither pairs gold medalists chose to attend. Both went pro soon after.
2002 Worlds was the first time Israel had ever won a medal at Worlds.
Due to the large number of participants, the men's and ladies' qualifying groups were split into groups A and B.
The first compulsory dance was the Golden Waltz. The second was the Quickstep.

## Results
### Men

| Rank | Name | Nation | TFP | QA | QB | SP | FS |
| 1 | Alexei Yagudin | Russia | 2.0 | 1 | | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | Timothy Goebel | United States | 4.8 | | 1 | 4 | 2 |
| 3 | Takeshi Honda | Japan | 6.0 | 3 | | 3 | 3 |
| 4 | Alexander Abt | Russia | 6.0 | 2 | | 2 | 4 |
| 5 | Li Chengjiang | China | 9.8 | | 3 | 6 | 5 |
| 6 | Michael Weiss | United States | 16.0 | | 2 | 5 | 6 |
| 7 | Anthony Liu | Australia | 16.4 | | 7 | 11 | 7 |
| 8 | Jeffrey Buttle | Canada | 17.8 | | 4 | 7 | 12 |
| 9 | Zhang Min | China | 18.6 | 4 | | 15 | 8 |
| 10 | Andrejs Vlascenko | Germany | 18.8 | | 11 | 9 | 9 |
| 11 | Frédéric Dambier | France | 19.2 | 5 | | 12 | 10 |
| 12 | Matthew Savoie | United States | 21.8 | 6 | | 14 | 11 |
| 13 | Brian Joubert | France | 21.8 | | 5 | 8 | 15 |
| 14 | Kevin van der Perren | Belgium | 22.8 | 7 | | 10 | 14 |
| 15 | Ben Ferreira | Canada | 27.2 | 10 | | 17 | 13 |
| 16 | Gao Song | China | 29.2 | | 9 | 16 | 16 |
| 17 | Ivan Dinev | Bulgaria | 29.8 | | 10 | 13 | 18 |
| 18 | Stéphane Lambiel | Switzerland | 30.2 | | 6 | 18 | 17 |
| 19 | Roman Skorniakov | Uzbekistan | 34.8 | | 8 | 21 | 19 |
| 20 | Vakhtang Murvanidze | Georgia | 35.0 | 9 | | 19 | 20 |
| 21 | Markus Leminen | Finland | 39.2 | | 13 | 20 | 22 |
| 22 | Dmitri Dmitrenko | Ukraine | 39.6 | 12 | | 23 | 21 |
| 23 | Sergei Rylov | Azerbaijan | 40.6 | 8 | | 24 | 23 |
| 24 | Sergei Davydov | Belarus | 42.0 | | 12 | 22 | 24 |
| Free skating not reached ||||||||
| 25 | Juraj Sviatko | Slovakia | | 11 | | 25 | |
| 26 | Tomáš Verner | Czech Republic | | 15 | | 26 | |
| 27 | Yosuke Takeuchi | Japan | | 14 | | 27 | |
| 28 | Gregor Urbas | Slovenia | | | 14 | 28 | |
| 29 | Kristoffer Berntsson | Sweden | | 13 | | 29 | |
| 30 | Sergei Kotov | Israel | | | 15 | 30 | |
| Short program not reached ||||||||
| 31 | Yon Garcia | Spain | | | 16 | | |
| 31 | Zoltán Tóth | Hungary | | 16 | | | |
| 33 | Clemens Jonas | Austria | | 17 | | | |
| 33 | Aidas Reklys | Lithuania | | | 17 | | |
| 35 | James Black | United Kingdom | | 18 | | | |
| 35 | Miloš Milanović | FR Yugoslavia | | | 18 | | |
| 37 | Panagiotis Markouizos | Greece | | | 19 | | |
| 37 | Dino Quattrocecere | South Africa | | 19 | | | |
| WD | Margus Hernits | Estonia | | | | | |

### Ladies

| Rank | Name | Nation | TFP | QA | QB | SP | FS |
| 1 | Irina Slutskaya | Russia | 2.0 | | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | Michelle Kwan | United States | 4.2 | 1 | | 3 | 2 |
| 3 | Fumie Suguri | Japan | 5.0 | 2 | | 2 | 3 |
| 4 | Sasha Cohen | United States | 7.8 | | 2 | 5 | 4 |
| 5 | Yoshie Onda | Japan | 8.6 | | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| 6 | Elena Liashenko | Ukraine | 11.2 | | 4 | 6 | 6 |
| 7 | Viktoria Volchkova | Russia | 15.4 | | 9 | 8 | 7 |
| 8 | Júlia Sebestyén | Hungary | 16.4 | 3 | | 7 | 11 |
| 9 | Jennifer Robinson | Canada | 18.4 | 5 | | 14 | 8 |
| 10 | Silvia Fontana | Italy | 18.8 | 7 | | 10 | 10 |
| 11 | Susanna Pöykiö | Finland | 19.2 | | 6 | 13 | 9 |
| 12 | Laetitia Hubert | France | 22.4 | | 8 | 12 | 12 |
| 13 | Zuzana Babiaková | Slovakia | 22.8 | 11 | | 9 | 13 |
| 14 | Idora Hegel | Croatia | 28.6 | | 10 | 16 | 15 |
| 15 | Tatiana Malinina | Uzbekistan | 29.6 | | 5 | 11 | 21 |
| 16 | Miriam Manzano | Australia | 32.0 | | 13 | 18 | 16 |
| 17 | Galina Maniachenko | Ukraine | 32.4 | 10 | | 24 | 14 |
| 18 | Julia Soldatova | Belarus | 33.0 | | 7 | 22 | 17 |
| 19 | Marta Andrade | Spain | 33.0 | 12 | | 17 | 18 |
| 20 | Fang Dan | China | 35.2 | | 12 | 19 | 19 |
| 21 | Vanessa Giunchi | Italy | 37.6 | 14 | | 20 | 20 |
| 22 | Julia Lautowa | Austria | 38.2 | 9 | | 21 | 22 |
| 23 | Åsa Persson | Sweden | 41.2 | | 11 | 23 | 23 |
| WD | Jennifer Kirk | United States | | 4 | | 15 | |
| Free skating not reached ||||||||
| 25 | Lucie Krausová | Czech Republic | | 8 | | 26 | |
| 26 | Gintarė Vostrecovaitė | Lithuania | | 13 | | 25 | |
| 27 | Natalie Hoste | Belgium | | | 15 | 27 | |
| 28 | Sabina Wojtala | Poland | | 15 | | 28 | |
| 29 | Georgina Papavasiliou | Greece | | | 14 | 29 | |
| WD | Maria Butyrskaya | Russia | | 6 | | | |
| Short program not reached ||||||||
| 31 | Anne-Sophie Calvez | France | | 16 | | | |
| 31 | Shin Yea-ji | South Korea | | | 16 | | |
| 33 | Roxana Luca | Romania | | 17 | | | |
| 33 | Daria Zuravicki | Israel | | | 17 | | |
| 35 | Shirene Human | South Africa | | | 18 | | |
| 35 | Hristina Vassileva | Bulgaria | | 18 | | | |
| 37 | Christine Lee | Hong Kong | | 19 | | | |
| 37 | Gladys Orozco | Mexico | | | 19 | | |
| 39 | Diana Y. Chen | Chinese Taipei | | 20 | | | |
| 39 | Ksenija Jastsenski | FR Yugoslavia | | | 20 | | |

### Pairs

| Rank | Name | Nation | TFP | SP | FS |
| 1 | Shen Xue / Zhao Hongbo | China | 1.5 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | Tatiana Totmianina / Maxim Marinin | Russia | 3.0 | 2 | 2 |
| 3 | Kyoko Ina / John Zimmerman | United States | 4.5 | 3 | 3 |
| 4 | Maria Petrova / Alexei Tikhonov | Russia | 6.0 | 4 | 4 |
| 5 | Pang Qing / Tong Jian | China | 7.5 | 5 | 5 |
| 6 | Dorota Zagórska / Mariusz Siudek | Poland | 9.0 | 6 | 6 |
| 7 | Tiffany Scott / Philip Dulebohn | United States | 10.5 | 7 | 7 |
| 8 | Jacinthe Larivière / Lenny Faustino | Canada | 12.0 | 8 | 8 |
| 9 | Zhang Dan / Zhang Hao | China | 14.0 | 10 | 9 |
| 10 | Anabelle Langlois / Patrice Archetto | Canada | 15.5 | 11 | 10 |
| 11 | Kateřina Beránková / Otto Dlabola | Czech Republic | 16.5 | 9 | 12 |
| 12 | Valérie Marcoux / Bruno Marcotte | Canada | 17.0 | 12 | 11 |
| 13 | Yuko Kawaguchi / Alexander Markuntsov | Japan | 19.5 | 13 | 13 |
| 14 | Mariana Kautz / Norman Jeschke | Germany | 21.0 | 14 | 14 |
| 15 | Viktoria Borzenkova / Andrei Chuvilyaev | Russia | 23.0 | 16 | 15 |
| 16 | Tatiana Chuvaeva / Dmitri Palamarchuk | Ukraine | 23.5 | 15 | 16 |
| 17 | Viktoria Shklover / Valdis Mintals | Estonia | 25.5 | 17 | 17 |
| 18 | Maria Krasiltseva / Artem Znachkov | Armenia | 27.5 | 19 | 18 |
| 19 | Jelena Sirokhvatova / Jurijs Salmanovs | Latvia | 28.0 | 18 | 19 |
| 20 | Marina Aganina / Artem Knyazev | Uzbekistan | 30.0 | 20 | 20 |

### Ice dancing

| Rank | Name | Nation | TFP | CD1 | CD2 | OD | FD |
| 1 | Irina Lobacheva / Ilia Averbukh | Russia | 2.0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | Shae-Lynn Bourne / Victor Kraatz | Canada | 4.0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| 3 | Galit Chait / Sergei Sakhnovski | Israel | 7.0 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 |
| 4 | Margarita Drobiazko / Povilas Vanagas | Lithuania | 7.0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 |
| 5 | Albena Denkova / Maxim Staviyski | Bulgaria | 10.0 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| 6 | Elena Grushina / Ruslan Goncharov | Ukraine | 12.0 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 |
| 7 | Kati Winkler / René Lohse | Germany | 14.0 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 |
| 8 | Tatiana Navka / Roman Kostomarov | Russia | 16.0 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| 9 | Naomi Lang / Peter Tchernyshev | United States | 18.0 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 |
| 10 | Marie-France Dubreuil / Patrice Lauzon | Canada | 20.2 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 10 |
| 11 | Sylwia Nowak / Sebastian Kolasiński | Poland | 22.0 | 10 | 12 | 11 | 11 |
| 12 | Isabelle Delobel / Olivier Schoenfelder | France | 22.4 | 15 | 11 | 12 | 12 |
| 13 | Tanith Belbin / Benjamin Agosto | United States | 26.6 | 13 | 13 | 14 | 13 |
| 14 | Marika Humphreys / Vitali Baranov | United Kingdom | 27.0 | 12 | 14 | 13 | 14 |
| 15 | Kristin Fraser / Igor Lukanin | Azerbaijan | 30.2 | 16 | 15 | 15 | 15 |
| 16 | Federica Faiella / Massimo Scali | Italy | 31.6 | 14 | 16 | 16 | 16 |
| 17 | Alia Ouabdelsselam / Benjamin Delmas | France | 34.0 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 |
| 18 | Veronika Morávková / Jiří Procházka | Czech Republic | 36.2 | 19 | 18 | 18 | 18 |
| 19 | Stephanie Rauer / Thomas Rauer | Germany | 38.8 | 18 | 19 | 19 | 20 |
| 20 | Zhang Weina / Cao Xianming | China | 39.0 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 19 |
| 21 | Zita Gebora / Andras Visontai | Hungary | 42.2 | 21 | 22 | 21 | 21 |
| 22 | Valentina Anselmi / Fabrizio Pedrazzini | Italy | 44.0 | 23 | 21 | 22 | 22 |
| 23 | Yang Tae-hwa / Lee Chuen-gun | South Korea | 46.6 | 23 | 23 | 24 | 23 |
| 24 | Rie Arikawa / Kenji Miyamoto | Japan | 48.0 | 26 | 24 | 23 | 24 |
| Free dance not reached ||||||||
| 25 | Alla Beknazarova / Yuri Kocherzhenko | Ukraine | | 22 | 25 | 25 | |
| 26 | Jessica Huot / Juha Valkama | Finland | | 25 | 26 | 26 | |
| 27 | Anna Mosenkova / Sergei Sychyov | Estonia | | 27 | 27 | 27 | |
| 28 | Natalie Buck / Trent Nelson-Bond | Australia | | 28 | 28 | 28 | |