Figure Skating at the 1994 Lillehammer Winter Games:

Men's Singles

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Host City: Lillehammer, Norway
Location: Hamar OL-Amfi
Date Started: February 17, 1994
Date Finished: February 19, 1994
Format: Skaters were ranked on Ordinal Placement, based on judges' points, with final placement for each section determined by Majority Placements. The tiebreaker for the Short Program was the Required Elements score, while the tiebreaker for the Free Skating was the Technical Merit score. 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 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.

Gold:RUS Aleksey Urmanov
Silver:CAN Elvis Stojko
Bronze:FRA Philippe Candeloro

Summary

With only two years since the last Winter Olympics, most of the same skaters from Albertville were back. In addition, with professionals now allowed to skate, the last two gold medalists, Brian Boitano (1988) and Viktor Petrenko (1992) were back. They were joined by Canadian Kurt Browning, the World Champion in 1989-91 and 1993. They were the three favorites, but after the short program they out of the medal race. Boitano placed only 8th in the short, but that was the best of the favorites, as Petrenko was 9th, and Browning a disastrous 12th. The short program was won by Russian Aleksey Urmanov, who had never won a major title, and had never been on the podium at the Worlds. In second was Elvis Stojko, who had defeated Browning at the Canadian trials. Petrenko, Browning, and Boitano redeemed themselves in the free skate, moving up to final placements of 4-5-6, respectively. But Urmanov hung on and won the free skate to secure the gold medal, with Stojko second. Urmanov never won another medal at a major championship. Browning finished his career as one of the greatest male skaters never to win an Olympic gold medal.

Final Standings

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Rank Athlete Age Team NOC Medal TFP CFFP FSFP
1 Aleksey Urmanov 20 Russia RUS Gold 1.5 0.5 1.0
2 Elvis Stojko 21 Canada CAN Silver 3.0 1.0 2.0
3 Philippe Candeloro 21 France FRA Bronze 6.5 1.5 5.0
4 Viktor Petrenko 24 Ukraine UKR 8.5 4.5 4.0
5 Kurt Browning 27 Canada CAN 9.0 6.0 3.0
6 Brian Boitano 30 United States USA 10.0 4.0 6.0
7 Éric Millot 25 France FRA 10.0 3.0 7.0
8 Scott Davis 22 United States USA 10.0 2.0 8.0
9 Steven Cousins 21 Great Britain GBR 12.5 3.5 9.0
10 Sébastien Britten 23 Canada CAN 15.0 5.0 10.0
11 Oleg Tataurov 21 Russia RUS 15.5 2.5 13.0
12 Masakazu Kagiyama 22 Japan JPN 16.5 5.5 11.0
13 Michael Tyllesen 20 Denmark DEN 18.5 6.5 12.0
14 Cornel Gheorghe 22 Romania ROU 22.0 8.0 14.0
15 Igor Pashkevich 22 Russia RUS 22.0 7.0 15.0
16 Michael Shmerkin 24 Israel ISR 24.5 7.5 17.0
17 Jung Sung-Il 24 South Korea KOR 25.0 9.0 16.0
18 Stephen Carr 28 Australia AUS 28.0 10.0 18.0
19 Marius Negrea 29 Romania ROU 28.5 9.5 19.0
20 Zhang Min 17 China CHN 29.0 8.0 21.0
21 Andrejs Vlaščenko 19 Latvia LAT 30.5 10.5 20.0
22 Fumihiro Oikawa 20 Japan JPN 32.5 10.5 22.0
23 Aleksandr Murashko 22 Belarus BLR 35.0 12.0 23.0
24 Dino Quattrocecere 20 South Africa RSA 35.5 11.5 24.0
25 q Margus Hernits 17 Estonia EST 12.5 12.5 DNQ