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

Medal summary

Medalists +2002 Winter Olympic medalists Discipline Gold Silver Bronze Men's singles Women's singles Pairs No silver medals awarded Ice dance

Medal table

Entries

+ Nation Men Women Pairs Ice dance Julia Lebedeva Anthony Liu Stephanie Zhang colspan="2" Sergei Rylov colspan="2" Sergei Davydov Julia Soldatova colspan="2" Kevin van der Perren colspan="3" Ivan Dinev colspan="2" Emanuel Sandhu Jennifer Robinson Elvis Stojko rowspan="2" Li Chengjiang rowspan="3" Li Yunfei rowspan="2" Zhang Min Idora Hegel colspan="2" colspan="2" Margus Hernits colspan="3" Elina Kettunen colspan="2" Frédéric Dambier Vanessa Gusmeroli rowspan="2" Brian Joubert Laëtitia Hubert Vakhtang Murvanidze colspan="3" colspan="2" colspan="3" Zoltán Tóth Júlia Sebestyén colspan="2" colspan="3" rowspan="2" Angelo Dolfini Vanessa Giunchi Silvia Fontana Takeshi Honda Yoshie Onda rowspan="2" colspan="2" Yosuke Takeuchi Fumie Suguri colspan="3" colspan="2" Gheorghe Chiper Roxana Luca colspan="2" Alexander Abt Maria Butyrskaya Evgeni Plushenko Irina Slutskaya Alexei Yagudin Viktoria Volchkova Zuzana Babiaková Mojca Kopač colspan="2" Lee Kyu-hyun Park Bit-na Stéphane Lambiel Sarah Meier Dmytro Dmytrenko Elena Liashenko Galina Maniachenko Todd Eldredge Sasha Cohen Timothy Goebel Sarah Hughes Michael Weiss Michelle Kwan colspan="2" Roman Skorniakov Tatiana Malinina

Women's singles 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.

Pairs In the pairs competition, Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze of Russia – the silver medalists from the 1998 Winter Olympics – were in first place after the short program, while Jamie Salé and David Pelletier of Canada were in second. Salé and Pelletier had tripped and fallen on their closing pose when Pelletier hit a rut in the ice. Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo of China were in third place. Berezhnaya and Sikharulidze made a minor, yet obvious, technical error during the free skate when Sikharulidze stepped out of his double Axel and both throw jumps showed shaky landings. Salé and Pelletier performed their Love Story free skate program, which they had used in previous seasons and had been well received at the earlier 2002 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final. They skated a flawless program, albeit one that some experts considered to be of lesser difficulty than that of Berezhnaya and Sikharulidze. Salé and Pelletier received 5.9s and 5.8s for technical merit, while Berezhnaya and Sikharulidze received mostly 5.8s and 5.7s. However, the Canadians received only four 5.9s for presentation, while the Russians received seven. Berezhnaya and Sikharulidze were awarded the gold, Salé and Pelletier the silver, and Shen and Zhao the bronze.

Numerous Canadian media outlets were outraged by the result of the competition and began to raise accusations of conspiracy and bias. The Globe and Mail of Toronto quoted "sources" who had stated that the results of the pairs event were predetermined as part of a deal regarding the ice dance competition. Members of the American media were quick to support Salé and Pelletier. Christine Brennan of USA Today wrote, "The problem for those who run figure skating is that this was an event witnessed by millions of Americans on television. This didn't happen far away. It happened in Salt Lake City to a North American pair that has received more than its share of publicity on NBC." Sandra Bezic and Scott Hamilton, the retired skaters who provided the on-air commentary during the NBC broadcast of the Olympic figure skating competitions, were deeply critical of the judging of the pairs event.

In response to the outcry, Ottavio Cinquanta, president of the International Skating Union (ISU), announced in a press conference the day after the competition that the ISU would conduct an "internal assessment" into the judging of the pairs event. Cinquanta acknowledged that Ronald Pfenning, the event referee, had filed an official complaint about the judging, but did not offer further details. Pfenning alleged that in a closed-door meeting with the event judges, French judge Marie-Reine Le Gougne admitted to having been pressured by the French Federation of Ice Sports, and federation president Didier Gailhaguet, to award the gold medals to the Russian team. An arrangement had allegedly been struck whereby Le Gougne was to award the gold medals to the Russian pairs team, while the Russian ice dance judge was to award the gold medals to the French ice dance team.

On February 15, IOC President Jacques Rogge announced in a press conference that Salé and Pelletier would be awarded gold medals, while Berezhnaya and Sikharulidze would still keep theirs, since there was no evidence of wrongdoing on their part. The medal award ceremony was repeated on February 17. Berezhnaya and Sikharulidze attended, wearing the gold medals they had already received, but bronze medalists Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo of China opted to not attend.

Ice dance 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. Rank Name Nation Points CD1 CD2 OD FD 1 Marina Anissina / Gwendal Peizerat 2.01111 2 Irina Lobacheva / Ilia Averbukh 4.02222 3 Barbara Fusar-Poli / Maurizio Margaglio 6.03333 4 Shae-Lynn Bourne / Victor Kraatz 8.04444 5 Margarita Drobiazko / Povilas Vanagas 10.05555 6 Galit Chait / Sergei Sakhnovski 12.06666 7 Albena Denkova / Maxim Staviski 14.07777 8 Kati Winkler / René Lohse 16.08888 9 Elena Grushina / Ruslan Goncharov 19.01010109 10 Tatiana Navka / Roman Kostomarov 19.099910 11 Naomi Lang / Peter Tchernyshev 22.212111111 12 Marie-France Dubreuil / Patrice Lauzon 23.811121212 13 Sylwia Nowak / Sebastian Kolasiński 26.013131313 14 Eliane Hugentobler / Daniel Hugentobler 28.415151414 15 Marika Humphreys / Vitali Baranov 30.416161515 16 Isabelle Delobel / Olivier Schoenfelder 31.214141616 17 Kristin Fraser / Igor Lukanin 34.617171817 18 Federica Faiella / Massimo Scali 35.418181718 19 Natalia Gudina / Alexei Beletski 38.019191919 20 Kateřina Kovalová / David Szurman 40.421212020 21 Julia Golovina / Oleg Voiko 43.422222122 22 Zhang Weina / Cao Xianming 44.023232321 23 Beata Handra / Charles Sinek 44.220202223 24 Yang Tae-hwa / Lee Chuen-gun 48.024242424

Aftermath In 2004, the ISU voted to retire the 6.0 judging system on grounds that it was too subjective. As a result, the ISU Judging System (IJS) was created, where each skater or team is scored based on the technical grade of execution of the elements and given a mathematical score. The ISU also adopted a policy of secret judging, where judges' marks were posted anonymously. While the ISU stated that this secrecy freed judges from pressure from their federations, critics responded that instead of preventing judges from cheating, the secrecy prevented the public and media from being able to identify cheating. Following the 2014 Winter Olympics, the ISU Congress changed this policy, ending anonymous judging to "increase transparency" in the process.

References

External links

2002 Winter Olympics - Icecalc results page Official Results Book – Figure skating