2002 Olympics: Figure Skating
Updated February 21, 2017 | Factmonster Staff 
All four events consist of a short program (two minutes and 40 seconds) and a free skate, sometimes called the “long program” (max. 4:40 for men and 4:10 for women). Skaters are ranked on technical merit and artistic impression in a consensus vote by nine judges. Factored placements (FP) in the men's, women's and pairs' competitions are determined by multiplying the final short program rank by 0.5 (0.2 for 1st and 2nd compulsory dance and 0.6 for the original dance in ice dancing) and then adding that number to the final free skate.
Medal breakdown (4 events): Five medals—Russia (2-3-0); Three—United States (1-0-2); One—Canada (1-0-0), France (1-0-0), China (0-0-1) and Italy (0-0-1).
Men
| FP | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alexei Yagudin, RUS | 1.5 |
| 2 | Evgeni Plushenko, RUS | 4.0 |
| 3 | Timothy Goebel, USA | 4.5 |
Other top 10 USA: 6th, Todd Eldredge (10.5); 7th, Michael Weiss (11.0).
Pairs
| FP | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Elena Berezhnaya & Anton Sikharulidze, RUS | 1.5 |
| 1 | Jamie Sale & David Pelletier, CAN* | 3.0 |
| 3 | Xue Shen & Hongbo Zhao, CHN | 4.5 |
*Canada's Sale & Pelletier placed second to Berezhnaya & Sikharulidze in the free skate, according to five of the event's nine judges, but were later awarded gold medals after French judge Marie-Reine Le Gougne admitted to officials that she had been pressured to put the Russians first.
Top 10 USA: 5th, Kyoko Ina & John Zimmerman (7.5).
Women
| FP | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sarah Hughes, USA | 3.0 |
| 2 | Irina Slutskaya, RUS | 3.0 |
| 3 | Michelle Kwan, USA | 3.5 |
Tiebreaker: The skater with the lower free-skate factored placement (Hughes 1.0, Slutskaya 2.0) wins the gold.
Other top 10 USA: 4th, Sasha Cohen (5.5).
Ice Dancing
| FP | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Marina Anissina & Gwendal Peizerat, FRA | 2.0 |
| 2 | Irina Lobacheva & Ilia Averbukh, RUS | 4.0 |
| 3 | Barbara Fusar Poli & Maurizio Margaglio, ITA | 6.0 |
Best USA: 11th, Naomi Lang & Peter Tchernyshev (22.2).
