Figure skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics – Women's singles

The women's singles figure skating competition at the 2002 Winter Olympics was held on February 12 and 14 at the Salt Lake Ice Center in Salt Lake City, Utah, in the United States, and featured 28 skaters from 20 nations. Sarah Hughes of the United States won the gold medal, while Irina Slutskaya of Russia won the silver medal, and Michelle Kwan of the United States won the bronze medal.

Results The 6.0 system of scoring was in use at this time, where the judges awarded two marks for each performance: one for technical merit and one for presentation, with each expressed as a number on a scale from 0 to 6.0.

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.

Rank Name Nation Points SP FS 1 Sarah Hughes 3.041 2 Irina Slutskaya 3.022 3 Michelle Kwan 3.513 4 Sasha Cohen 5.534 5 Fumie Suguri 8.575 6 Maria Butyrskaya 8.556 7 Jennifer Robinson 11.087 8 Júlia Sebestyén 11.068 9 Viktoria Volchkova 16.01210 10 Silvia Fontana 17.51112 11 Elina Kettunen 18.0189 12 Galina Maniachenko 18.51511 13 Sarah Meier 20.5916 14 Elena Liashenko 21.01613 15 Laëtitia Hubert 22.01415 16 Vanessa Gusmeroli 22.01017 17 Yoshie Onda 22.51714 18 Julia Soldatova 29.02218 19 Idora Hegel 30.52319 20 Vanessa Giunchi 30.52120 21 Zuzana Babiaková 31.02021 22 Mojca Kopač 31.51922 23 Roxana Luca 35.02423 WD Tatiana Malinina WD 13WD 25 Stephanie Zhang 25 26 Park Bit-na 26 27 Julia Lebedeva 27

References

External links 2002 Winter Olympics – Official results Official Results Book – Figure skating