List of 2002 Winter Olympics medal winners

Catriona Le May Doan standing, holding a lit torch in her right hand, waiving to the crowd at the 2010 Winter Olympics opening ceremony.
Catriona Le May Doan of Canada won her final Olympic medal in Salt Lake City. Eight years later, she was one of the final torch-bearers when the Winter Olympics were held in Vancouver.[1]

The 2002 Winter Olympics, officially known by the International Olympic Committee as the XIX Olympic Winter Games,[2] was an international multi-sport event held in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, from 8 February through 24 February 2002. A total of 2399 athletes from 77 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) participated at the Games in 78 events across 15 disciplines.[3][4][5]

New events were contested in these Games; skeleton (introduced for the first time at the 1928 Winter Olympics and not contested since 1948)[6] was re-introduced with events for both men and women, while women's bobsleigh was added to the program. The 78 events in Salt Lake City were an increase from 68 in Nagano at the 1998 Winter Olympics.[7] Both men and women competed at these Games.[3]

A total of 407 athletes won at least one medal at the Games.[8] Athletes from Norway topped the medal table with the most gold medals, winning 13 golds out of 25 total medals. Germany won the most medals overall with 36, of which 12 were gold. Host nation the United States won 34 medals, 10 of them gold. Athletes from 24 participating NOCs won at least one medal; and competitors from 18 won at least one gold medal.[9] Athletes from Australia and China won their respective nations' first Winter Olympic gold medals, while the Croatian and Estonian delegations each won their first Winter Olympic medals of any color.[3] Of the 407 medalists, 55 athletes won more than one medal of any color at the Games. Of the multiple medalists, 31 won at least one gold medal, and 13 won multiple gold medals.[9]

A judging scandal in the pairs figure skating event, where it was revealed that a French judge was had been bribed to inflate the scores of the Russian pair, led to the declaration of joint Olympic champions in the pairs event. Georg Hackl of Germany finished in second in the men's luge singles event, becoming the first athlete to win a medal at five consecutive Games in the same individual event.[3] The United States teams, in the four-man bobsleigh event, won the country's first bobsleigh medals in 46 years. The 2002 Games also saw the first Winter Olympics gold medalists of African origin: Vonetta Flowers of the United States in the women's bobsleigh event, and Canada's Jarome Iginla in men's ice hockey.[3] The Games saw improved doping testing conditions; four medalists (three from Russia and one from Spain) were stripped of their medals as a result of doping disqualifications. Ole Einar Bjørndalen was the Games' most decorated athlete, winning four gold medals; Janica Kostelić was the best-performing female athlete with three golds and a silver medal.[9] Finnish athlete Samppa Lajunen became the first person to win three Nordic combined gold medals at a single Olympics, while Simon Ammann of Switzerland, who had not won a FIS Ski Jumping World Cup event before the Games, was the surprise performer, winning the gold medal on both the normal and large hills.[3]

Contents
  1. Alpine skiing
  2. Biathlon
  3. Bobsleigh
  4. Cross-country skiing
  5. Curling
  2. Figure skating
  3. Freestyle skiing
  4. Ice hockey
  5. Luge
  6. Nordic combined
  2. Short track
  3. Skeleton
  4. Ski jumping
  5. Snowboarding
  6. Speed skating
Medal winner changes      Medal leaders      References
  1. ^ Crary, David (13 February 2010). "Olympics' opening day: Not what Canada envisioned". The San Diego Union-Tribune. Platinum Equity. Retrieved 30 May 2011.
  2. ^ Salt Lake Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games of 2002 (2002). Official Report of the XIX Olympic Winter Games (PDF). ISBN 0-9717961-0-6. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 October 2010. Retrieved 28 May 2011.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  3. ^ a b c d e f "Salt Lake City 2002 Winter Olympics". International Olympic Committee. Archived from the original on 2 June 2011. Retrieved 28 May 2011.
  4. ^ "2002 Winter Olympic Final Medal Standings". Archived from the original on 6 December 2021. Retrieved 28 February 2021.
  5. ^ "Salt Lake City 2002 Winter Olympics - Athletes, Medals & Results". 23 April 2018. Archived from the original on 2 June 2016. Retrieved 28 February 2021.
  6. ^ Mehren, Elizabeth; Baum, Geraldine (17 February 2002). "No Bones About It, the Skeleton Gives Competitors Quite a Rush". Los Angeles Times. p. A1.
  7. ^ "Nagano 1998 Winter Olympics". International Olympic Committee. Archived from the original on 2 June 2011. Retrieved 28 May 2011.
  8. ^ "Medal Finder". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 5 November 2012. Retrieved 28 May 2011.
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