# 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
### Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Russia | 2 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| 2 | United States | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 3 | Canada | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 | France | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | China | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 5 | Italy | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (6 entries) | Totals (6 entries) | 5 | 3 | 4 | 12 |

### Medalists

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men's singles details | Alexei Yagudin Russia | Evgeni Plushenko Russia | Timothy Goebel United States |
| Ladies' singles details | Sarah Hughes United States | Irina Slutskaya Russia | Michelle Kwan United States |
| Pair skating details | Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze (RUS) | shared gold | Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo (CHN) |
| Pair skating details | Jamie Salé and David Pelletier (CAN) | shared gold | Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo (CHN) |
| Ice dance details | Marina Anissina and Gwendal Peizerat (FRA) | Irina Lobacheva and Ilia Averbukh (RUS) | Barbara Fusar-Poli and Maurizio Margaglio (ITA) |

## 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.
| Rank | Name | Nation | Points | SP | FS |
| 1 | Alexei Yagudin | Russia | 1.5 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | Evgeni Plushenko | Russia | 4.0 | 4 | 2 |
| 3 | Timothy Goebel | United States | 4.5 | 3 | 3 |
| 4 | Takeshi Honda | Japan | 5.0 | 2 | 4 |
| 5 | Alexander Abt | Russia | 7.5 | 5 | 5 |
| 6 | Todd Eldredge | United States | 10.5 | 9 | 6 |
| 7 | Michael Weiss | United States | 11.0 | 8 | 7 |
| 8 | Elvis Stojko | Canada | 11.5 | 7 | 8 |
| 9 | Li Chengjiang | China | 12.0 | 6 | 9 |
| 10 | Anthony Liu | Australia | 15.0 | 10 | 10 |
| 11 | Frédéric Dambier | France | 16.5 | 11 | 11 |
| 12 | Kevin van der Perren | Belgium | 19.5 | 13 | 13 |
| 13 | Ivan Dinev | Bulgaria | 20.0 | 12 | 14 |
| 14 | Brian Joubert | France | 20.5 | 17 | 12 |
| 15 | Stéphane Lambiel | Switzerland | 24.0 | 16 | 16 |
| 16 | Zhang Min | China | 24.5 | 19 | 15 |
| 17 | Vakhtang Murvanidze | Georgia | 26.0 | 18 | 17 |
| 18 | Dmitri Dmitrenko | Ukraine | 28.5 | 21 | 18 |
| 19 | Roman Skorniakov | Uzbekistan | 29.0 | 20 | 19 |
| 20 | Li Yunfei | China | 30.0 | 14 | 23 |
| 21 | Sergei Davydov | Belarus | 31.5 | 15 | 24 |
| 22 | Yosuke Takeuchi | Japan | 32.0 | 24 | 20 |
| 23 | Gheorghe Chiper | Romania | 32.5 | 23 | 21 |
| 24 | Sergei Rylov | Azerbaijan | 33.0 | 22 | 22 |
| Free skating not reached ||||||
| 25 | Zoltán Tóth | Hungary | | 25 | |
| 26 | Angelo Dolfini | Italy | | 26 | |
| 27 | Margus Hernits | Estonia | | 27 | |
| 28 | Lee Kyu-hyun | South Korea | | 28 | |
| WD | Emanuel Sandhu | Canada | | | |
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)

### 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 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.
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.
| Rank | Name | Nation | Points | SP | FS |
| 1 | Sarah Hughes | United States | 3.0 | 4 | 1 |
| 2 | Irina Slutskaya | Russia | 3.0 | 2 | 2 |
| 3 | Michelle Kwan | United States | 3.5 | 1 | 3 |
| 4 | Sasha Cohen | United States | 5.5 | 3 | 4 |
| 5 | Fumie Suguri | Japan | 8.5 | 7 | 5 |
| 6 | Maria Butyrskaya | Russia | 8.5 | 5 | 6 |
| 7 | Jennifer Robinson | Canada | 11.0 | 8 | 7 |
| 8 | Júlia Sebestyén | Hungary | 11.0 | 6 | 8 |
| 9 | Viktoria Volchkova | Russia | 16.0 | 12 | 10 |
| 10 | Silvia Fontana | Italy | 17.5 | 11 | 12 |
| 11 | Elina Kettunen | Finland | 18.0 | 18 | 9 |
| 12 | Galina Maniachenko | Ukraine | 18.5 | 15 | 11 |
| 13 | Sarah Meier | Switzerland | 20.5 | 9 | 16 |
| 14 | Elena Liashenko | Ukraine | 21.0 | 16 | 13 |
| 15 | Laëtitia Hubert | France | 22.0 | 14 | 15 |
| 16 | Vanessa Gusmeroli | France | 22.0 | 10 | 17 |
| 17 | Yoshie Onda | Japan | 22.5 | 17 | 14 |
| 18 | Julia Soldatova | Belarus | 29.0 | 22 | 18 |
| 19 | Idora Hegel | Croatia | 30.5 | 23 | 19 |
| 20 | Vanessa Giunchi | Italy | 30.5 | 21 | 20 |
| 21 | Zuzana Babiaková | Slovakia | 31.0 | 20 | 21 |
| 22 | Mojca Kopač | Slovenia | 31.5 | 19 | 22 |
| 23 | Roxana Luca | Romania | 35.0 | 24 | 23 |
| WD | Tatiana Malinina | Uzbekistan | | 13 | |
| Free skating not reached ||||||
| 25 | Stephanie Zhang | Australia | | 25 | |
| 26 | Park Bit-na | South Korea | | 26 | |
| 27 | Julia Lebedeva | Armenia | | 27 | |
Referee:
* Britta Lindgren
Assistant Referee:
* Charles Foster
Judges:
* Sissy Krick
* Tatiana Danilenko
* Maria Hrachovcova
* Ingelise Blangsted
* Paolo Pizzocari
* Irina Absaliamova
* Pekka Leskinen
* 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 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.
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.

#### Full results

The following are the final amended results, not the original results.
| Rank | Name | Nation | Points | SP | FS |
| 1 | Elena Berezhnaya / Anton Sikharulidze | Russia | N/A | 1 | N/A |
| 1 | Jamie Salé / David Pelletier | Canada | N/A | 2 | N/A |
| 3 | Shen Xue / Zhao Hongbo | China | 4.5 | 3 | 3 |
| 4 | Tatiana Totmianina / Maxim Marinin | Russia | 6.0 | 4 | 4 |
| 5 | Kyoko Ina / John Zimmerman | United States | 7.5 | 5 | 5 |
| 6 | Maria Petrova / Alexei Tikhonov | Russia | 9.0 | 6 | 6 |
| 7 | Dorota Zagórska / Mariusz Siudek | Poland | 11.0 | 8 | 7 |
| 8 | Kateřina Beránková / Otto Dlabola | Czech Republic | 11.5 | 7 | 8 |
| 9 | Pang Qing / Tong Jian | China | 14.0 | 10 | 9 |
| 10 | Jacinthe Larivière / Lenny Faustino | Canada | 16.5 | 13 | 10 |
| 11 | Zhang Dan / Zhang Hao | China | 16.5 | 9 | 12 |
| 12 | Anabelle Langlois / Patrice Archetto | Canada | 18.0 | 14 | 11 |
| 13 | Tiffany Scott / Philip Dulebohn | United States | 18.5 | 11 | 13 |
| 14 | Mariana Kautz / Norman Jeschke | Germany | 21.0 | 12 | 15 |
| 15 | Aliona Savchenko / Stanislav Morozov | Ukraine | 22.0 | 16 | 14 |
| 16 | Tatiana Chuvaeva / Dmitri Palamarchuk | Ukraine | 23.5 | 15 | 16 |
| 17 | Oľga Beständigová / Jozef Beständig | Slovakia | 25.5 | 17 | 17 |
| 18 | Natalia Ponomareva / Evgeni Sviridov | Uzbekistan | 27.0 | 18 | 18 |
| 19 | Michela Cobisi / Ruben De Pra | Italy | 28.5 | 19 | 19 |
| 20 | Maria Krasiltseva / Artem Znachkov | Armenia | 30.0 | 20 | 20 |
Referee:
* Ronald Pfenning
Assistant Referee:
* Alexander Lakernik
Judges:
* Marina Sanaya
* Yang Jiasheng
* Lucy Brennan
* Marie-Reine Le Gougne
* Anna Sierocka
* 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 was the Quickstep. The second was Blues.

#### Full results

| Rank | Name | Nation | Points | CD1 | CD2 | OD | FD |
| 1 | Marina Anissina / Gwendal Peizerat | France | 2.0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | Irina Lobacheva / Ilia Averbukh | Russia | 4.0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| 3 | Barbara Fusar-Poli / Maurizio Margaglio | Italy | 6.0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| 4 | Shae-Lynn Bourne / Victor Kraatz | Canada | 8.0 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| 5 | Margarita Drobiazko / Povilas Vanagas | Lithuania | 10.0 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| 6 | Galit Chait / Sergei Sakhnovski | Israel | 12.0 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 |
| 7 | Albena Denkova / Maxim Staviski | Bulgaria | 14.0 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 |
| 8 | Kati Winkler / René Lohse | Germany | 16.0 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| 9 | Elena Grushina / Ruslan Goncharov | Ukraine | 19.0 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 9 |
| 10 | Tatiana Navka / Roman Kostomarov | Russia | 19.0 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 10 |
| 11 | Naomi Lang / Peter Tchernyshev | United States | 22.2 | 12 | 11 | 11 | 11 |
| 12 | Marie-France Dubreuil / Patrice Lauzon | Canada | 23.8 | 11 | 12 | 12 | 12 |
| 13 | Sylwia Nowak / Sebastian Kolasiński | Poland | 26.0 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 |
| 14 | Eliane Hugentobler / Daniel Hugentobler | Switzerland | 28.4 | 15 | 15 | 14 | 14 |
| 15 | Marika Humphreys / Vitali Baranov | Great Britain | 30.4 | 16 | 16 | 15 | 15 |
| 16 | Isabelle Delobel / Olivier Schoenfelder | France | 31.2 | 14 | 14 | 16 | 16 |
| 17 | Kristin Fraser / Igor Lukanin | Azerbaijan | 34.6 | 17 | 17 | 18 | 17 |
| 18 | Federica Faiella / Massimo Scali | Italy | 35.4 | 18 | 18 | 17 | 18 |
| 19 | Natalia Gudina / Alexei Beletski | Israel | 38.0 | 19 | 19 | 19 | 19 |
| 20 | Kateřina Kovalová / David Szurman | Czech Republic | 40.4 | 21 | 21 | 20 | 20 |
| 21 | Julia Golovina / Oleg Voiko | Ukraine | 43.4 | 22 | 22 | 21 | 22 |
| 22 | Zhang Weina / Cao Xianming | China | 44.0 | 23 | 23 | 23 | 21 |
| 23 | Beata Handra / Charles Sinek | United States | 44.2 | 20 | 20 | 22 | 23 |
| 24 | Yang Tae-hwa / Lee Chuen-gun | South Korea | 48.0 | 24 | 24 | 24 | 24 |
Referee:
* Alexander Gorshkov
Assistant Referee:
* Ann Shaw
Judges (CD1):
* Eugenia Gasiorowska
* Irina Nechkina
* Yuri Balkov
* Ingrid Charlotte Wolter
* Evgenia Karnolska
* Alla Shekhovtseva
* Roland Wehinger
* Katalin Alpern
* Halina Gordon-Potorak
* Walter Zuccaro (substitute)
Judges (CD2):
* Alla Shekhovtseva
* Yuri Balkov
* Walter Zuccaro
* Katalin Alpern
* Evgenia Karnolska
* Irina Nechkina
* Halina Gordon-Potorak
* Roland Wehinger
* Ingrid Charlotte Wolter
* Eugenia Gasiorowska (substitute)
Judges (OD):
* Halina Gordon-Potorak
* Walter Zuccaro
* Eugenia Gasiorowska
* Roland Wehinger
* Irina Nechkina
* Katalin Alpern
* Ingrid Charlotte Wolter
* Evgenia Karnolska
* Alla Shekhovtseva
* Yuri Balkov (substitute)
Judges (FD):
* Alla Shekhovtseva
* Roland Wehinger
* Eugenia Gasiorowska
* Ingrid Charlotte Wolter
* Walter Zuccaro
* Irina Nechkina
* Evgenia Karnolska
* Yuri Balkov
* Halina Gordon-Potorak
* Katalin Alpern (substitute)

### Participating NOCs

Thirty-one nations competed in the figure skating events at Salt Lake City.
* Armenia
* Australia
* Azerbaijan
* Belarus
* Belgium
* Bulgaria
* Canada
* China
* Croatia
* Czech Republic
* Estonia
* Finland
* France
* Great Britain
* Georgia
* Germany
* Hungary
* Israel
* Italy
* Japan
* South Korea
* Lithuania
* Poland
* Romania
* Russia
* Slovakia
* Slovenia
* Switzerland
* Ukraine
* United States
* Uzbekistan