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Russia at the 2002 Winter Olympics

country entered in olympic winter games

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ940766 ↗
Source-derived summary

Russia competed at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.

Medalists

Alpine skiing

Men

Women

Biathlon

Men

Women

Bobsleigh

Cross-country skiing

Distance

Men

Women

Sprint

Curling

Women's

Team: Olga Zharkova (skip), Nkeirouka Ezekh, Yana Nekrasova, Anastassia Skoultan.

Round Robin

Draw 1

;Draw 2

;Draw 3

;Draw 5

;Draw 6

;Draw 7

;Draw 8

;Draw 10

;Draw 12

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Figure skating

Freestyle skiing

Men

Women

Ice hockey

Men

Head coach: Viacheslav Fetisov

Assistant coaches: Vladislav Tretiak, Vladimir Yurzinov

Preliminary round

Play-off

Quarterfinal

Semifinal

Bronze game

Women

The following is the Russia women's national ice hockey team roster for the women's ice hockey tournament at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2002—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Russia, Winter and Olympics can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Russia at the 2002 Winter Olympics” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.