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Singles, Women

Date18 – 20 February 1998
StatusOlympic
LocationWhite Ring, Nagano
Participants28 from 21 countries
FormatIn each section, skaters were ranked on Ordinal Placement, based on judges' points, with final placement for each section determined by Majority Placements. Thus, if a skater was ranked first by a majority of the judges, that skater was placed first overall for that section. Ties were broken by a Subsequent Majority rule, i.e., if the skaters were ranked for the same position by the same number of judges, Majority Placement for the next higher position for each skater determined who was ranked higher. Final placement was determined by factored placements. The tiebreakers were then 1) Number of Majority Placements, 2) Total Ordinals of Majority, 3) Total Ordinals. The placement for the Short Program was factored by 0.5 (33.3%), and the placement for Free Skating was factored by 1.0 (66.7%). The sums of the factored placements were then used to determine final placement, with the Free Skating being the tiebreaker.

Michelle Kwan had a chance to be on the 1994 US Olympic team but stepped aside to allow Nancy Kerrigan to compete, after she had been attacked just before the US Trials. By 1998 she was the top female skater in the world, having been the most consistent since the last Winter Olympics. She had won the 1996 World Championship, placed second in 1997, and would win again in 1998. Placing 15th at the 1996 Worlds was an American prodigy, Tara Lipinski, and in 1997, she shocked Kwan by defeating her at the US Nationals, and then again at the World Championships, winning that at only 14-years-old. But in the 1997-98 season, Kwan had re-established her supremacy, defeating Lipinski at Skate America and then won the US Trials with the performance of her life. In Nagano, Kwan started out strongly, winning the short program to give her the advantage going into the free skate. Kwan could win the gold medal either by winning the free skate, or by placing better than Lipinski, if third-placer Mariya Butyrskaya did not win the free program. In the free program, Kwan went first and skated a solid program. She received all 5.9s for artistic impression, but her technical scores of 5.7s and 5.8s left a little room for Lipinski. Lipinski skated last, landing seven clean triple jumps, as had Kwan. But she had two triple-triple combinations, and her increased technical difficulty brought her the gold medal. She received all scores of 5.8 and 5.9 and was placed first in the free program by seven of the nine judges, making her the youngest ever gold medalist in the event, two months younger than Sonja Henie had been in 1928. Lu Chen repeated her bronze medal performance from 1994. One athlete who was not present was Tanja Szewczenko of Germany, the 1994 World bronze medalist, who had to withdraw because of the flu.

PosSkaterNOCTotalShortFree
1Tara LipinskiUSA2.01.01.0Gold
2Michelle KwanUSA2.50.52.0Silver
3Chen LuCHN5.02.03.0Bronze
4Mariya ButyrskayaRUS5.51.54.0
5Irina SlutskayaRUS7.52.55.0
6Vanessa GusmeroliFRA10.04.06.0
7Yelena SokolovaRUS12.05.07.0
8Tatyana MalininaUZB12.54.58.0
9Olena LiashenkoUKR13.53.510.0
10Surya BonalyFRA14.03.011.0
11Yuliya LavrenchukUKR16.57.59.0
12Joanne CarterAUS17.55.512.0
13Shizuka ArakawaJPN21.07.014.0
14Julia LautowaAUT23.510.513.0
15Júlia SebestyénHUN24.59.515.0
16Yuliya VorobyovaAZE25.09.016.0
17Nicole BobekUSA25.58.517.0
18Lenka KulovanáCZE26.08.018.0
19Anna RechnioPOL26.56.520.0
20Laetitia HubertFRA27.06.021.0
21Alisa DreiFIN29.010.019.0
22Marta AndradeESP34.012.022.0
23Mojca KopačSLO34.011.023.0
24Shirene HumanRSA35.511.524.0
25 r1/2Ivana JakupčevićCRO12.5
26 r1/2Helena GrundbergSWE13.0
27 r1/2Tony-Sabrina BombardieriITA13.5
28 r1/2Sofiya PenkovaBUL14.0

Short Program (18 February 1998 — 19:00)

Judge #1Frank ParsonsAUS
Judge #2Judit FürstHUN
Judge #3Karin EhrhardtAUT
Judge #4Jan HoffmannGER
Judge #5Susan JohnsonUSA
Judge #6Anatoly BogatyrevRUS
Judge #7Alfred KorytekUKR
Judge #8Maria MillerPOL
Judge #9Anne Hardy-ThomasFRA
PosOrdSkaterNOCPlacementMaj. OrdinalsPointsJudge #1Judge #2Judge #3Judge #4Judge #5Judge #6Judge #7Judge #8Judge #9
1Michelle KwanUSA1.08×1+10.08.0104.811.7 (1)11.6 (1)11.7 (1)11.6 (1)11.7 (1)11.7 (1)11.7 (1)11.6 (1)11.5 (2)Q
2Tara LipinskiUSA2.09×2+17.017.0103.111.6 (2)11.2 (2)11.3 (2)11.4 (2)11.5 (2)11.6 (2)11.5 (2)11.4 (2)11.6 (1)Q
3Mariya ButyrskayaRUS3.07×3+29.021.0100.611.0 (3)10.9 (3)11.0 (3)11.3 (3)11.1 (4)11.4 (3)11.3 (3)11.3 (3)11.3 (4)Q
4Chen LuCHN4.06×4+42.023.097.610.2 (7)10.4 (7)10.8 (4)10.8 (4)11.3 (3)11.2 (4)11.1 (4)10.8 (4)11.0 (5)Q
5Irina SlutskayaRUS5.05×5+56.025.095.510.4 (5)10.3 (8)10.0 (10)10.5 (7)10.8 (5)11.0 (5)11.0 (5)10.6 (5)10.9 (6)Q
6Surya BonalyFRA6.07×6+50.035.095.710.2 (6)10.7 (4)10.6 (5)10.7 (5)10.5 (6)10.6 (7)10.6 (6)10.4 (8)11.4 (3)Q
7Olena LiashenkoUKR7.07×7+61.043.094.510.5 (4)10.5 (6)10.4 (6)10.3 (9)10.3 (7)10.7 (6)10.6 (7)10.4 (9)10.8 (7)Q
8Vanessa GusmeroliFRA8.06×8+81.046.093.210.0 (11)10.1 (13)9.8 (11)10.5 (8)10.3 (8)10.6 (8)10.6 (8)10.5 (6)10.8 (8)Q
9Tatyana MalininaUZB9.06×9+88.049.092.410.0 (9)10.2 (9)10.3 (7)10.6 (6)9.9 (14)10.4 (9)10.4 (11)9.9 (14)10.7 (9)Q
10Yelena SokolovaRUS10.06×10+91.055.092.410.1 (8)10.2 (11)10.1 (9)10.3 (10)10.2 (9)10.4 (10)10.5 (9)10.2 (11)10.4 (14)Q
11Joanne CarterAUS11.05×11+107.050.090.910.0 (10)10.2 (10)10.2 (8)10.1 (12)10.0 (11)9.9 (16)9.8 (17)10.1 (12)10.6 (11)Q
12Laetitia HubertFRA12.06×12+112.066.090.79.5 (14)10.2 (12)9.8 (12)10.2 (11)9.6 (19)10.2 (11)10.2 (13)10.3 (10)10.7 (10)Q
13Anna RechnioPOL13.05×12+116.053.090.69.8 (12)9.9 (17)9.3 (17)9.9 (15)10.0 (12)10.1 (14)10.5 (10)10.5 (7)10.6 (12)Q
14Shizuka ArakawaJPN14.05×13+116.053.090.09.7 (13)10.6 (5)9.3 (16)9.9 (14)10.1 (10)9.8 (17)10.4 (12)9.7 (16)10.5 (13)Q
15Yuliya LavrenchukUKR15.05×14+131.067.088.69.4 (15)10.0 (14)9.5 (13)9.7 (16)9.7 (18)10.1 (13)9.9 (14)10.0 (13)10.3 (15)Q
16Lenka KulovanáCZE16.06×16+145.093.087.89.4 (16)10.0 (15)9.4 (15)9.6 (17)9.8 (16)10.0 (15)9.9 (16)9.6 (18)10.1 (17)Q
17Nicole BobekUSA17.06×17+148.088.087.89.4 (17)9.8 (19)9.5 (14)10.1 (13)9.8 (17)10.2 (12)9.8 (18)9.9 (15)9.3 (23)Q
18Yuliya VorobyovaAZE18.05×19+167.085.085.19.3 (18)8.9 (20)8.8 (=21)9.5 (20)10.0 (13)9.5 (21)9.4 (19)9.7 (17)10.0 (18)Q
19Júlia SebestyénHUN19.05×19+174.087.085.09.2 (19)9.9 (16)8.6 (25)9.5 (=18)9.8 (15)9.7 (19)9.3 (21)9.1 (21)9.9 (20)Q
20Alisa DreiFIN20.07×20+175.0132.084.19.1 (20)8.8 (22)8.9 (19)9.5 (=18)9.3 (20)9.6 (20)9.9 (15)9.3 (20)9.7 (21)Q
21Julia LautowaAUT21.05×21+189.098.083.79.0 (22)9.9 (18)8.9 (20)9.3 (21)9.2 (23)9.2 (22)9.4 (20)8.8 (24)10.0 (19)Q
22Mojca KopačSLO22.07×23+198.0148.081.98.7 (23)8.7 (23)8.7 (23)9.0 (22)9.1 (24)8.9 (26)9.2 (22)9.4 (19)10.2 (16)Q
23Shirene HumanRSA23.07×24+210.0160.079.59.0 (21)8.8 (21)8.6 (24)8.8 (24)9.0 (25)8.9 (25)8.6 (23)8.8 (23)9.0 (24)Q
24Marta AndradeESP24.05×24+209.0107.080.18.7 (24)8.4 (26)8.8 (=21)8.8 (25)9.2 (22)9.7 (18)8.5 (25)8.6 (26)9.4 (22)Q
25Ivana JakupčevićCRO25.06×25+217.0138.078.48.0 (26)8.5 (25)9.1 (18)8.4 (27)8.8 (26)9.1 (24)8.6 (24)8.9 (22)9.0 (25)
26Helena GrundbergSWE26.06×25+219.0141.078.78.6 (25)8.7 (24)8.5 (26)8.9 (23)9.2 (21)9.1 (23)8.2 (26)8.7 (25)8.8 (26)
27Tony-Sabrina BombardieriITA27.05×27+246.0134.072.87.7 (28)7.4 (28)7.9 (28)8.6 (26)8.2 (27)8.7 (27)7.7 (27)8.3 (28)8.3 (27)
28Sofiya PenkovaBUL28.09×28+248.0248.071.48.0 (27)7.7 (27)7.9 (27)8.0 (28)8.1 (28)8.3 (28)7.5 (28)8.3 (27)7.6 (28)

Free Skating (20 February 1998 — 19:00)

Judge #1Frank ParsonsAUS
Judge #2Judit FürstHUN
Judge #3Karin EhrhardtAUT
Judge #4Jan HoffmannGER
Judge #5Susan JohnsonUSA
Judge #6Anatoly BogatyrevRUS
Judge #7Alfred KorytekUKR
Judge #8Maria MillerPOL
Judge #9Anne Hardy-ThomasFRA
PosOrdSkaterNOCPlacementMaj. OrdinalsPointsJudge #1Judge #2Judge #3Judge #4Judge #5Judge #6Judge #7Judge #8Judge #9
1Tara LipinskiUSA1.06×1+12.06.0105.411.7 (1)11.7 (1)11.8 (1)11.6 (2)11.6 (2)11.8 (1)11.8 (1)11.6 (2)11.8 (1)
2Michelle KwanUSA2.09×2+15.015.0104.811.6 (2)11.6 (2)11.7 (2)11.6 (1)11.7 (1)11.7 (2)11.6 (2)11.6 (1)11.7 (2)
3Chen LuCHN3.08×4+34.029.0101.911.3 (3)11.3 (4)11.4 (3)11.3 (3)11.3 (4)11.3 (5)11.5 (4)11.2 (4)11.3 (4)
4Mariya ButyrskayaRUS4.05×4+36.016.0101.711.0 (5)11.1 (5)11.3 (5)11.3 (4)11.1 (5)11.4 (3)11.6 (3)11.4 (3)11.5 (3)
5Irina SlutskayaRUS5.05×4+38.018.0101.911.2 (4)11.4 (3)11.4 (4)11.3 (5)11.4 (3)11.4 (4)11.4 (5)11.2 (5)11.2 (5)
6Vanessa GusmeroliFRA6.08×6+55.048.098.210.8 (6)11.0 (6)10.8 (6)11.2 (6)10.9 (6)10.9 (6)10.9 (6)10.8 (6)10.9 (7)
7Yelena SokolovaRUS7.06×7+72.041.095.710.8 (7)10.8 (7)10.1 (12)10.6 (8)10.2 (11)10.8 (7)10.7 (7)10.7 (7)11.0 (6)
8Tatyana MalininaUZB8.05×8+77.037.094.710.4 (9)10.7 (8)10.4 (7)10.8 (7)10.7 (7)10.5 (10)10.6 (8)10.3 (10)10.3 (11)
9Yuliya LavrenchukUKR9.05×9+85.043.094.210.7 (8)10.6 (9)10.2 (11)10.6 (9)10.5 (8)10.5 (9)10.5 (10)10.1 (11)10.5 (10)
10Olena LiashenkoUKR10.05×9+96.044.092.29.5 (18)10.4 (10)10.2 (9)10.1 (12)10.4 (9)10.2 (12)10.5 (9)10.3 (9)10.6 (8)
11Surya BonalyFRA11.05×10+97.043.091.89.8 (15)10.0 (13)10.2 (8)10.2 (10)9.8 (15)10.6 (8)10.3 (11)10.4 (8)10.5 (9)
12Joanne CarterAUS12.06×13+114.071.090.09.9 (=12)10.4 (11)10.2 (10)9.6 (15)9.8 (14)10.2 (13)9.9 (13)10.0 (12)10.0 (14)
13Julia LautowaAUT13.06×13+119.071.089.99.9 (=12)10.0 (14)10.1 (13)10.2 (11)10.2 (10)9.8 (18)9.5 (16)10.0 (13)10.2 (12)
14Shizuka ArakawaJPN14.05×13+122.059.089.610.3 (10)9.8 (16)9.3 (17)10.1 (13)10.0 (13)10.3 (11)10.2 (12)9.9 (14)9.7 (16)
15Júlia SebestyénHUN15.06×15+134.082.088.010.0 (11)10.4 (12)9.5 (15)9.3 (18)9.6 (16)10.1 (14)9.7 (15)9.6 (18)9.8 (15)
16Yuliya VorobyovaAZE16.05×15+135.068.088.19.7 (16)9.9 (15)9.6 (14)9.8 (14)10.1 (12)9.9 (17)9.4 (17)9.6 (17)10.1 (13)
17Nicole BobekUSA17.05×18+158.081.085.39.8 (14)9.6 (18)9.3 (16)9.4 (16)9.2 (19)9.8 (19)9.1 (20)9.5 (19)9.6 (17)
18Lenka KulovanáCZE18.07×19+167.0125.084.09.6 (17)9.0 (19)9.2 (18)9.2 (19)9.4 (17)9.9 (16)9.3 (19)9.3 (21)9.1 (21)
19Alisa DreiFIN19.05×19+172.091.083.69.3 (19)8.9 (20)9.0 (20)9.4 (17)9.4 (18)9.4 (21)9.4 (18)9.4 (20)9.4 (19)
20Anna RechnioPOL20.07×20+170.0128.083.59.0 (20)9.6 (17)8.9 (21)9.1 (20)9.0 (20)10.0 (15)9.0 (21)9.6 (16)9.3 (20)
21Laetitia HubertFRA21.05×20+173.086.082.58.8 (22)8.7 (22)9.1 (19)8.6 (21)8.7 (22)9.6 (20)9.8 (14)9.7 (15)9.5 (18)
22Marta AndradeESP22.07×22+197.0151.078.19.0 (21)8.8 (21)8.3 (22)8.4 (22)9.0 (21)8.9 (23)8.4 (23)8.8 (22)8.5 (22)
23Mojca KopačSLO23.08×23+206.0182.074.98.0 (23)8.2 (23)7.8 (23)8.2 (23)8.2 (24)9.0 (22)8.7 (22)8.7 (23)8.1 (23)
24Shirene HumanRSA24.09×24+215.0215.071.37.9 (24)7.9 (24)7.3 (24)7.7 (24)8.5 (23)8.4 (24)7.9 (24)8.2 (24)7.5 (24)