Olympic Winter Games 2002 / Skeleton

Skeleton at the 2002 Winter Olympics
information
venue	Park City
Competition venue	Utah Olympic Park
Nations	19th
Athletes	39 (26 , 13 )
date	February 20, 2002
decisions	2
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At the XIX. Winter Olympics 2002 in Salt Lake City found two competitions in Skeleton place (the first time since 1948). The venue was the Utah Olympic Park .

Balance sheet

Medal table

space	country				total
1	United States	2	1	-	3
2	Austria	-	1	-	1
3	Great Britain	-	-	1	1
3	Switzerland	-	-	1	1

Medalist

competitor	gold	silver	bronze
Men	Jim Shea	Martin Rettl	Gregor Stähli
Women	Tristan Gale	Lea Ann Parsley	Alexandra Coomber

Results

(all runtimes in seconds, total times in minutes)

Men

→ Main article : 2002 Winter Olympics / Skeleton - Men

space	country	athlete	1st run	2nd run	total
1	United States	Jim Shea	50.89	51.07	1: 41.96
2	AUT	Martin Rettl	51.02	50.99	1: 42.01
3	SUI	Gregor Stähli	51.16	50.99	1: 42.15
4th	IRL	Clifton Wrottesley	51.07	51.50	1: 42.57
5	United States	Lincoln DeWitt	51.63	51.20	1: 42.83
6th	CAN	Jeff Pain	51.51	51.41	1: 42.92
7th	United States	Chris Soule	51.89	51.09	1: 42.98
8th	JPN	Kazuhiro Koshi	51.50	51.52	1: 43.02
9	GER	Willi Schneider	51.67	51.47	1: 43.14
10	CAN	Duff Gibson	51.40	51.76	1: 43.16
11	GER	Frank Kleber	51.58	51.76	1: 43.34
12	AUT	Christian Auer	51.81	51.56	1: 43.37
13	GBR	Kristan Bromley	52.17	51.26	1: 43.43
14th	NOR	Snorre Pedersen	52.07	51.70	1: 43.77
15th	CAN	Pascal Richard	51.98	51.86	1: 43.84
16	SUI	Felix Poletti	51.76	52.11	1: 43.87
17th	FRA	Philippe Cavoret	51.92	51.96	1: 43.88
18th	JPN	Masaru Inada	52.05	51.93	1: 43.98
19th	ITA	Christian Steger	52.25	52.15	1: 44.40
20th	COR	Kang Kwang-bae	52.11	52.40	1: 44.51
21st	LAT	Tomass Dukurs	52.29	52.38	1: 44.67
22nd	RUS	Konstantin Aladashvili	52.92	52.67	1: 45.59
23	GRE	Michael Voudouris	54.11	54.33	1: 48.44
24	CZE	Josef Chuchla	54.02	54.64	1: 48.66
25th	MEX	Luis Carrasco	54.32	54.66	1: 48.98
26th	ARG	Germán Glessner	55.40	57.25	1: 52.65

Date: February 20, 2002, 9 a.m. (1st run), 10:20 a.m. (2nd run)

26 participants from 19 countries, all in the ranking.

Jim Shea became the sport's first Olympic champion since 1948. He laid the foundation for victory in the first of two rounds. In the second round, the other two medal winners, Martin Rettl and Gregor Stähli , were ahead of Shea at the same time.

Women

→ Main article : 2002 Winter Olympics / Skeleton - Women

space	country	sportswoman	1st run	2nd run	total
1	United States	Tristan Gale	52.26	52.85	1: 45.11
2	United States	Lea Ann Parsley	52.27	52.94	1: 45.21
3	GBR	Alexandra Coomber	52.48	52.89	1: 45.37
4th	GER	Diana Sartor	52.55	52.98	1: 45.53
5	SUI	Maya Pedersen-Bieri	52.92	52.63	1: 45.55
6th	CAN	Lindsay Alcock	52.62	53.07	1: 45.69
7th	RUS	Ekaterina Mironova	52.97	52.98	1: 45.95
	GER	Steffi Hanzlik	52.82	53.13	1: 45.95
9	ITA	Dany Locati	53.19	53.46	1: 46.65
10	CAN	Michelle Kelly	53.76	53.56	1: 47.32
11	NZL	Liz couch	53.62	54.18	1: 47.80
12	JPN	Eiko Nakayama	54.00	54.72	1: 47.72
13	GRE	Cindy Ninos	54.54	54.74	1: 49.28

Date: February 20, 2002, 9:50 a.m. (1st run), 11:05 a.m. (2nd run)

13 participants from 10 countries, all in the rating.

Tristan Gale became the first ever Olympic champion in the sport of skeleton. After the first run, in which she set the fastest time, she was only a hundredth of a second ahead of Lea Ann Parsley . Gale also set the fastest time in the second run.

Web links

• Skeleton at the 2002 Winter Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Official report of the 2002 Winter Olympics (PDF; 4.7 MB)