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

Men's singles at the XIX Olympic Winter Games
Figure skating pictogram
Venue	Salt Lake Ice Center Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Dates	February 12, 2002 February 14, 2002
Competitors	28 from 20 nations
Winning points	1.5
Medalists
Alexei Yagudin   Russia Evgeni Plushenko   Russia Timothy Goebel   United States
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Men's single skating was contested during the figure skating events at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

This men's Olympic event was last where the 6.0 system was used.

This individual event was structured in a similar manner to the pairs event, with a short program and a free skating. 28 skaters entered the short program, but only the top 24 competitors continued to the free skating.

The 1998 Olympic champion Ilia Kulik from Russia did not defend his title. Evgeni Plushenko from Russia was the reigning World Champion and also competed in Salt Lake City.

Russia earned the second gold in figure skating at the 2002 games after two medal events.

Short Program

Short Program of men's single skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics was held on February 12. ^[1]

Pl.	Name	Nation	Points	Sum of judges points									StN.
				Place by judge
1	Alexei Yagudin	Russia	0.5	11.6	11.6	11.5	11.7	11.7	11.7	11.7	11.6	11.7	14
				1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
2	Takeshi Honda	Japan	1.0	11.2	11.4	11.2	11.4	11.4	11.2	11.3	11.3	11.4	15
				3	2	3	2	2	3	4	2	2
3	Timothy Goebel	United States	1.5	11.2	11.0	11.3	11.2	11.2	11.4	11.4	11.2	11.3	20
				2	5	2	3	4	2	2	3	4
4	Evgeni Plushenko	Russia	2.0	10.9	11.3	11.1	11.1	11.3	11.2	11.3	11.1	11.4	18
				5	3	5	5	3	4	5	5	3
5	Alexander Abt	Russia	2.5	11.0	10.9	11.1	11.0	11.0	11.0	11.3	11.2	11.3	24
				4	6	4	6	6	7	3	4	5
6	Li Chengjiang	China	3.0	10.8	11.1	11.0	11.2	11.1	11.1	10.6	10.9	10.9	13
				6	4	6	4	5	5	8	6	7
7	Elvis Stojko	Canada	3.5	10.5	10.5	10.9	10.8	10.8	11.1	10.6	10.8	11.1	29
				9	9	7	8	7	6	9	7	6
8	Michael Weiss	United States	4.0	10.8	10.4	10.8	10.9	10.5	10.6	10.7	10.7	10.7	1
				7	12	8	7	9	9	7	8	9
9	Todd Eldredge	United States	4.5	10.2	10.6	10.7	10.7	10.7	10.6	10.3	10.2	10.8	25
				10	8	9	9	8	10	11	12	8
10	Anthony Liu	Australia	5.0	10.7	10.4	10.5	10.3	10.1	10.8	10.7	10.5	10.3	11
				8	11	12	10	13	8	6	9	11
11	Frédéric Dambier	France	5.5	10.1	10.5	10.6	10.2	10.4	10.5	10.4	9.9	10.2	26
				12	9	11	12	10	11	10	15	12
12	Ivan Dinev	Bulgaria	6.0	10.1	9.5	10.4	10.0	10.3	9.8	9.7	10.2	10.6	21
				11	19	13	13	11	18	14	10	10
13	Kevin van der Perren	Belgium	6.5	10.0	10.8	10.6	10.2	9.8	10.4	9.6	10.0	10.1	27
				13	7	10	11	15	12	15	14	13
14	Li Yunfei	China	7.0	9.1	10.3	10.3	9.7	9.8	10.1	9.9	9.8	10.1	17
				20	14	14	14	14	15	12	16	14
15	Sergei Davydov	Belarus	7.5	9.7	10.3	10.2	9.6	10.2	10.2	9.2	9.4	9.9	2
				14	13	15	16	12	14	17	17	16
16	Stéphane Lambiel	Switzerland	8.0	9.4	8.8	9.9	9.2	9.7	10.4	9.6	10.1	9.6	3
				15	23	17	17	16	13	16	13	18
17	Brian Joubert	France	8.5	9.2	10.2	10.0	9.0	9.5	9.9	9.2	10.2	10.0	9
				18	15	16	19	17	17	18	11	15
18	Vakhtang Murvanidze	Georgia	9.0	7.9	9.5	9.4	9.7	9.4	9.8	9.1	9.1	9.2	5
				26	18	19	15	21	19	20	19	20
19	Zhang Min	China	9.5	9.1	9.2	9.0	8.9	9.5	9.6	9.8	9.0	9.8	19
				21	21	23	22	18	20	13	20	17
20	Roman Skorniakov	Uzbekistan	10.0	8.8	9.7	9.1	8.9	9.2	9.1	8.9	9.3	9.6	8
				24	16	21	20	22	25	22	18	18
21	Dmitri Dmitrenko	Ukraine	10.5	9.4	8.8	9.2	8.8	9.5	10.0	8.9	9.0	9.1	16
				16	25	20	23	20	16	25	21	22
22	Sergei Rylov	Azerbaijan	11.0	9.0	8.7	9.5	9.1	8.8	9.3	8.8	8.7	9.1	28
				22	26	18	18	24	23	26	22	21
23	Gheorghe Chiper	Romania	11.5	9.2	9.1	8.6	8.9	8.9	8.8	9.0	8.6	9.0	10
				19	22	26	20	23	26	21	23	23
24	Yosuke Takeuchi	Japan	12.0	8.9	9.6	8.9	8.1	8.7	9.4	9.2	8.6	8.9	12
				23	17	24	27	25	22	19	24	24
25	Zoltán Tóth	Hungary	12.5	9.2	9.2	8.4	8.6	8.7	9.4	8.9	8.5	8.6	22
				17	20	27	26	26	21	23	25	26
26	Angelo Dolfini	Italy	13.0	8.1	8.8	9.0	8.7	9.5	9.2	8.9	8.4	8.5	23
				25	24	22	25	19	24	23	26	27
27	Margus Hernits	Estonia	13.5	7.6	8.6	8.8	8.7	8.6	8.4	8.8	8.3	8.8	7
				27	27	25	24	27	27	27	27	25
28	Lee Kyu-hyun	South Korea	14.0	7.2	7.1	7.6	7.6	7.2	7.5	7.8	8.0	8.0	4
				28	28	28	28	28	28	28	28	28

Free Skating

Free Skating of men's single skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics was held on February 14. ^[2]

Pl.	Name	Nation	Points	Sum of judges points									StN.
				Place by judge
1	Alexei Yagudin	Russia	1.0	11.8	11.8	11.9	11.9	11.8	11.9	11.8	11.8	11.9	24
				1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
2	Evgeni Plushenko	Russia	2.0	11.5	11.6	11.6	11.7	11.6	11.6	11.7	11.6	11.6	21
				2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
3	Timothy Goebel	United States	3.0	11.1	11.0	11.6	11.6	11.5	11.4	11.5	11.5	11.3	22
				5	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
4	Takeshi Honda	Japan	4.0	10.8	11.2	11.5	11.4	11.4	11.2	11.4	11.4	11.2	20
				6	3	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
5	Alexander Abt	Russia	5.0	11.2	10.6	11.4	11.1	10.8	11.0	11.4	11.3	11.1	23
				3	11	5	7	8	6	5	5	6
6	Todd Eldredge	United States	6.0	11.1	10.8	11.3	11.2	11.2	10.9	11.0	11.1	11.1	13
				4	5	7	6	6	8	7	7	5
7	Michael Weiss	United States	7.0	10.7	10.8	11.4	11.3	11.3	11.1	10.9	11.0	10.9	15
				7	6	6	5	5	5	8	8	8
8	Elvis Stojko	Canada	8.0	10.7	10.7	11.0	11.0	10.9	11.0	11.2	11.2	11.0	14
				8	7	8	8	7	7	6	6	7
9	Li Chengjiang	China	9.0	10.1	10.7	10.2	10.8	10.8	10.7	10.8	10.8	10.8	19
				10	10	13	9	9	9	9	9	9
10	Anthony Liu	Australia	10.0	10.0	10.7	10.8	9.8	10.4	10.5	10.3	10.4	10.6	18
				11	8	9	16	12	10	11	14	11
11	Frédéric Dambier	France	11.0	9.8	10.6	10.2	10.6	10.4	10.4	9.9	10.5	10.5	16
				12	12	12	11	11	11	15	10	12
12	Brian Joubert	France	12.0	9.8	10.7	10.6	9.9	10.6	9.9	10.3	10.2	10.5	12
				13	8	10	15	10	14	12	15	13
13	Kevin van der Perren	Belgium	13.0	10.2	10.5	10.3	10.4	10.4	10.0	10.2	10.4	10.5	8
				9	14	11	12	13	12	14	13	13
14	Ivan Dinev	Bulgaria	14.0	9.3	10.5	10.1	10.7	10.2	9.6	10.6	10.5	10.6	17
				16	15	15	10	14	17	10	11	10
15	Zhang Min	China	15.0	9.2	10.6	10.2	10.0	9.9	9.7	10.3	10.5	10.5	4
				17	13	14	14	18	16	13	12	15
16	Stéphane Lambiel	Switzerland	16.0	9.7	10.0	10.0	10.3	9.8	9.9	9.7	10.0	9.7	7
				14	16	16	13	19	13	16	17	17
17	Vakhtang Murvanidze	Georgia	17.0	9.1	9.7	9.4	9.3	10.1	9.6	9.5	10.1	9.8	9
				18	17	18	19	15	18	18	16	16
18	Dmitri Dmitrenko	Ukraine	18.0	9.4	9.6	9.8	9.4	9.9	9.8	8.8	9.6	9.6	3
				15	18	17	18	17	15	21	19	19
19	Roman Skorniakov	Uzbekistan	19.0	9.1	9.1	9.3	9.8	10.1	9.5	9.5	9.5	9.7	6
				19	20	19	17	16	19	17	20	18
20	Yosuke Takeuchi	Japan	20.0	8.5	9.5	9.1	9.1	9.6	9.4	9.1	9.4	9.4	2
				20	19	20	21	21	20	19	21	20
21	Gheorghe Chiper	Romania	21.0	8.4	8.9	8.9	9.3	9.7	9.0	8.9	9.8	9.0	5
				22	21	21	20	20	22	20	18	21
22	Sergei Rylov	Azerbaijan	22.0	7.9	8.2	8.4	8.3	8.3	8.1	8.3	8.3	8.3	1
				24	24	22	22	24	23	22	23	22
23	Li Yunfei	China	23.0	8.4	8.8	7.8	8.2	9.0	9.3	8.1	8.0	8.2	10
				21	22	24	23	23	21	23	24	23
24	Sergei Davydov	Belarus	24.0	8.3	8.3	8.2	8.1	9.1	7.7	7.8	8.6	7.9	11
				23	23	23	24	22	24	24	22	24

Total

Alexei Yagudin won gold medal with 1.5 points (0.5 for SP and 1.0 for FS), Evgeni Plushenko became the silver medalist (4.0 points) and Timothy Goebel became bronze medalist (4.5 points). Takeshi Honda from Japan was second after the short program but became fourth in his free program and dropped to the fourth overall place. ^[3]

Rank	Name	Nation	Points	SP		FS
				Points	Rank	Points	Rank
1	Alexei Yagudin	Russia	1.5	0.5	1	1.0	1
2	Evgeni Plushenko	Russia	4.0	2.0	4	2.0	2
3	Timothy Goebel	United States	4.5	1.5	3	3.0	3
4	Takeshi Honda	Japan	5.0	1.0	2	4.0	4
5	Alexander Abt	Russia	7.5	2.5	5	5.0	5
6	Todd Eldredge	United States	10.5	4.5	9	6.0	6
7	Michael Weiss	United States	11.0	4.0	8	7.0	7
8	Elvis Stojko	Canada	11.5	3.5	7	8.0	8
9	Li Chengjiang	China	12.0	3.0	6	9.0	9
10	Anthony Liu	Australia	15.0	5.0	10	10.0	10
11	Frédéric Dambier	France	16.5	5.5	11	11.0	11
12	Kevin van der Perren	Belgium	19.5	6.5	13	13.0	13
13	Ivan Dinev	Bulgaria	20.0	6.0	12	14.0	14
14	Brian Joubert	France	20.5	8.5	17	12.0	12
15	Stéphane Lambiel	Switzerland	24.0	8.0	16	16.0	16
16	Zhang Min	China	24.5	9.5	19	15.0	15
17	Vakhtang Murvanidze	Georgia	26.0	9.0	18	17.0	17
18	Dmitri Dmitrenko	Ukraine	28.5	10.5	21	18.0	18
19	Roman Skorniakov	Uzbekistan	29.0	10.0	20	19.0	19
20	Li Yunfei	China	30.0	7.0	14	23.0	23
21	Sergei Davydov	Belarus	31.5	7.5	15	24.0	24
22	Yosuke Takeuchi	Japan	32.0	12.0	24	20.0	20
23	Gheorghe Chiper	Romania	32.5	11.5	23	21.0	21
24	Sergei Rylov	Azerbaijan	33.0	11.0	22	22.0	22
Free skating not reached
25	Zoltán Tóth	Hungary		12.5	25
26	Angelo Dolfini	Italy		13.0	26
27	Margus Hernits	Estonia		13.5	27
28	Lee Kyu-hyun	South Korea		14.0	28

Officials

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)

References

1. "2002 Olympic Winter Games - Men - Short Program". 2002-02-14. Archived from the original on 2002-02-14. Retrieved 2021-11-13.
2. "2002 Olympic Winter Games - Men - Free Skating". 2002-06-02. Archived from the original on 2002-06-02. Retrieved 2021-11-13.
3. "2002 Olympic Winter Games - Men". 2002-06-02. Archived from the original on 2002-06-02. Retrieved 2021-11-13.

External links

• Men's Short Program at the IceCalc website
• Men's Free Skating at the IceCalc website
• Results of Men's Single Skating at the IceCalc website