1998 Winter Olympics / Figure Skating

Figure skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics
information
venue	Nagano
Competition venue	White ring
Nations	37
Athletes	145 (73 , 72 )
date	8-20 February 1998
decisions	4th
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At the XVIII. The 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano found four competitions in figure skating fed up. The venue was the White Ring artificial ice rink .

Balance sheet

Medal table

space	country				total
1	Russia	3	2	-	5
2	United States	1	1	-	2
3	Canada	-	1	-	1
4th	France	-	-	2	2
5	Germany	-	-	1	1
	People's Republic of China	-	-	1	1

Medalist

competitor	gold	silver	bronze
Men's	Ilya Kulik	Elvis Stojko	Philippe Candeloro
Ladies	Tara Lipinski	Michelle Kwan	Chen Lu
Couples	Oxana Kazakowa / Artur Dmitrijew	Jelena Berezhnaya / Anton Sicharulidze	Mandy Wötzel / Ingo Steuer
Ice dance	Oxana Grishchuk / Yevgeny Platov	Anselika Krylowa / Oleg Ovsjannikow	Marina Anissina / Gwendal Peizerat

Results

• Assessment = Evaluation
• K = freestyle
• KP = short program
• OT = original dance
• PT = compulsory dance

Men's

space	country	athlete	KP	K	Assessment
1	RUS	Ilya Kulik	01	01	01.5
2	CAN	Elvis Stojko	02	03	04.0
3	FRA	Philippe Candeloro	05	02	04.5
4th	United States	Todd Eldredge	03	04th	05.5
5	RUS	Alexei Yagudin	04th	05	07.0
6th	GBR	Steven cousins	06th	07th	10.0
7th	United States	Michael Weiss	11	06th	11.5
8th	CHN	Guo Zhengxin	10	09	14.0
9	THE	Michael Tyllesen	09	11	15.5
10	UKR	Vyacheslav Sahorodnyuk	16	08th	16.0
11	BUL	Ivan Dinew	07th	14th	17.5
12	CAN	Jeff Langdon	17th	10	18.5
13	HUN	Szabolcs Vidrai	12	13	19.0
14th	UKR	Dmytro Dmytrenko	08th	16	20.0
15th	JPN	Takeshi Honda	18th	12	21.0
16	AZE	İqor Paskeviç	13	15th	21.5
17th	JPN	Yamato Tamura	15th	17th	24.5
18th	ISR	Michael Shmerkin	14th	18th	25.0
19th	UZB	Roman Skornyakov	20th	19th	29.0
20th	EST	Margus Hernits	19th	20th	29.5
21st	ROME	Cornel Gheorghe	21st	21st	31.5
22nd	SUI	Patrick Meier	22nd	22nd	33.0
23	ITA	Gilberto Viadana	24	23	35.0
24	COR	Lee Kyu-hyun	23	24	35.5
Freestyle not achieved
25th	OUT	Anthony Liu	25th	-
26th	SVK	Róbert Kažimír	26th	-
27	TPE	David Liu	27	-
28	KAZ	Yuri Litvinov	28	-
29	LUX	Patrick Schmit	29	-

Date: February 12-14, 1998

Ladies

space	country	sportswoman	KP	K	Assessment
1	United States	Tara Lipinski	02	01	02.0
2	United States	Michelle Kwan	01	02	02.5
3	CHN	Chen Lu	04th	03	05.0
4th	RUS	Maria Butyrskaya	03	04th	05.5
5	RUS	Irina Sluzkaya	05	05	07.5
6th	FRA	Vanessa Gusmeroli	08th	06th	10.0
7th	RUS	Elena Sokolova	10	07th	12.0
8th	UZB	Tatiana Malinina	09	08th	12.5
9	UKR	Olena Lyashenko	07th	10	13.5
10	FRA	Surya Bonaly	06th	11	14.0
11	UKR	Julia Lavrentchuk	15th	09	16.5
12	OUT	Joanne Carter	11	12	17.5
13	JPN	Shizuka Arakawa	14th	14th	21.0
14th	AUT	Julia Lautowa	21st	13	23.5
15th	HUN	Júlia Sebestyén	19th	15th	24.5
16	AZE	Yulia Vorobyova	18th	16	25.0
17th	United States	Nicole Bobek	17th	17th	25.5
18th	CZE	Lenka Kulovaná	16	18th	26.0
19th	POLE	Anna Invoice	13	20th	26.5
20th	FRA	Laetitia Hubert	12	21st	27.0
21st	FIN	Alisa Three	20th	19th	29.0
22nd	ESP	Marta Andrade	24	22nd	34.0
23	SLO	Mojca Kopač	22nd	23	34.0
24	RSA	Shirene Human	23	24	35.5
Freestyle not achieved
25th	CRO	Ivana Jakupčević	25th	-
26th	SWE	Helena Grundberg	26th	-
27	ITA	Tony-Sabrina Bombardieri	27	-
28	BUL	Sofia Penkova	28	-

Date: February 18-20, 1998

Couples

space	country	Pair	KP	K	Assessment
1	RUS	Oxana Kazakowa / Artur Dmitrijew	01	01	01.5
2	RUS	Jelena Berezhnaya / Anton Sicharulidze	03	02	03.5
3	GER	Mandy Wötzel / Ingo Steuer	02	03	04.0
4th	United States	Kyoko Ina / Jason Dungjen	04th	04th	06.0
5	CHN	Shen Xue / Zhao Hongbo	08th	05	09.0
6th	FRA	Sarah Abitbol / Stéphane Bernadis	07th	06th	09.5
7th	RUS	Marina Jelzowa / Andrei Buschkow	05	07th	09.5
8th	United States	Jenni Meno / Todd Sand	06th	09	12.0
9	GER	Peggy Schwarz / Mirko Müller	09	08th	12.5
10	POLE	Dorota Zagórska / Mariusz Siudek	10	11	16.0
11	UKR	Yevgenia Filonenko / Ihor Martschenko	13	10	16.5
12	CAN	Kristy Sargeant / Kris Wirtz	11	12	17.5
13	OUT	Danielle McGrath / Stephen Carr	15th	13	20.5
14th	KAZ	Marina Chalturina / Andrei Krukow	16	14th	22.0
15th	CZE	Kateřina Beránková / Otto Dlabola	14th	15th	22.0
16	CAN	Marie-Claude Savard-Gagnon / Luc Bradet	12	16	22.0
17th	FRA	Sabrina Lefrançois / Nicolas Osseland	17th	17th	25.5
18th	AZE	Inga Rodionowa / Aleksandr Aniçenko	19th	18th	27.5
19th	POOR	Marija Krasiltsewa / Alexander Tschestnych	18th	19th	28.0
20th	JPN	Marie Arai / Shin Amano	20th	20th	30.0

Date: February 8-10, 1998

Oxana Kasakowa and Artur Dmitriev certainly won the competition. The ranking of the couples in second and third place was tight and controversial. The second German couple Peggy Schwarz and Mirko Müller came ninth of 20 couples. Couples from Austria and Switzerland were not at the start.

Ice dance

space	country	Pair	PT1	PT2	OT	K	Assessment
1	RUS	Oxana Grishchuk / Yevgeny Platov	01	01	01	01	02.0
2	RUS	Anselika Krylowa / Oleg Ovsjannikow	02	02	02	02	04.0
3	FRA	Marina Anissina / Gwendal Peizerat	03	03	03	04th	07.0
4th	CAN	Shae-Lynn Bourne / Victor Kraatz	05	04th	04th	03	07.2
5	RUS	Irina Lobatschowa / Ilja Awerbuch	04th	05	05	05	09.8
6th	ITA	Barbara Fusar-Poli / Maurizio Margaglio	06th	06th	06th	06th	12.0
7th	United States	Elizabeth Punsalan / Jerod Swallow	07th	07th	07th	07th	14.0
8th	LTU	Margarita Drobiazko / Povilas Vanagas	08th	09	08th	08th	16.2
9	UKR	Irina Romanowa / Ihor Jaroshenko	09	08th	10	09	18.4
10	GER	Kati Winkler / René Lohse	11	11	09	10	19.8
11	FRA	Sophie Moniotte / Pascal Lavanchy	10	10	12	11	22.2
12	POLE	Sylwia Nowak / Sebastian Kolasiński	12	12	11	12	23.4
13	CZE	Kateřina Mrázová / Martin Šimeček	13	13	13	13	26.0
14th	ISR	Galit Chait / Sergei Sachnowski	17th	14th	14th	14th	28.6
15th	UKR	Elena Hruschyna / Ruslan Honcharov	15th	16	15th	15th	30.2
16	BLR	Tatjana Navka / Nikolai Morozov	14th	15th	17th	16	32.0
17th	ITA	Diane Gerencser / Pasquale Camerlengo	16	17th	16	17th	33.2
18th	BUL	Albena Denkowa / Maxim Stawiski	18th	18th	18th	18th	36.0
19th	CAN	Chantal Lefebvre / Michel Brunet	19th	19th	19th	19th	38.0
20th	FRA	Dominique Deniaud / Martial Jaffredo	20th	21st	21st	20th	40.8
21st	United States	Jessica Joseph / Charles Butler	22nd	20th	20th	21st	41.4
22nd	KAZ	Elizaveta Stekolnikova / Dmitrii Kazarlyga	23	22nd	22nd	22nd	44.2
23	JPN	Aya Kawai / Hiroshi Tanaka	21st	23	23	23	45.6
24	POOR	Xenia Smetanenko / Samuel Gezalian	24	24	24	24	48.0

Date: February 13th, 15th and 16th, 1998

Web links

• Figure skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )