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ALPINE SKIING


  • Combined: Anthony Huguet (DNS)

  • Downhill: Anthony Huguet (DNS)

  • Giant slalom: Anthony Huguet (DNF)

  • Super-G: Anthony Huguet (37th/48)


Women:

  • Combined: Zali Steggall (DNF)

  • Giant slalom: Zali Steggall (24th/24)

  • Slalom: Zali Steggall (22nd/28)

  • Super-G: Zali Steggall (DNS)



BIATHLON


  • 7.5km: Kerryn Rim (neé Pethybridge) (21st/69), Sandra Paintin-Paul (40th)

  • 15km: Kerryn Rim (neé Pethybridge) (8th/68), Sandra Paintin-Paul (64th)



BOBSLEIGH


  • Two-man: Justin McDonald and Glenn Carroll (27th/42)

  • Four-man: Justin McDonald, Glenn Carroll, Scott Walker and Adam Barclay, Jason Giobbi (reserve) (20th/29)



CROSS-COUNTRY SKIING


  • 10km (classic): Anthony Evans (51st/88), Mark Gray (67th)

  • 15km pursuit (freestyle): Anthony Evans (57th/74), Mark Gray (66th)

  • 30km (freestyle): Mark Gray (61st/71)

  • 50km (classic): Anthony Evans (47th/61), Mark Gray (59th)



FIGURE SKATING


  • Men: Stephen Carr (18th/25)

  • Pairs: Stephen Carr and Danielle Carr (11th/17)



FREESTYLE SKIING


Aerials


Moguls

  • Men: Adrian Costa (14th/29), Nick Cleaver (16th), Paul Costa (26th)



LUGE


  • Men's singles: Roger White



SHORT TRACK SPEED SKATING


  • 500m: Steven Bradbury (8th/31), Richard Nizielski (10th), Kieran Hansen (23rd)

  • 1000m: Richard Nizielski, Kieran Hansen, Steven Bradbury (24th)

  • 5000m relay: Australia (Steven Bradbury, Kieran Hansen, Andrew Murtha, Richard Nizielski, John Kah (reserve)) (3rd - bronze)


Women:

  • 500m: Karen Kah (12th/30)

  • 1000m: Karen Kah (11th/30)


The relay result was Australia's first Winter Olympics medal. In the semi-final, they beat Mirko Vuillermin accelerated away, creating a gap such that Australia was unlikely to win gold. Until the last change, it seemed that Australia might win silver. Nizielski was the final skater, and said later that "At the last change {Link without Title} Eric Flaim got a good push-away and he stepped underneath my feet and stopped me. I thought, well I'm not going to fight him for this. I didn't want to let the team down. And I was very aware that I had taken a fall in Albertville. I just wanted to get through and get the medal." Team member Steven Bradbury went on to win Australia's first winter gold in 2002.


SPEED SKATING


  • 1000m: Phillip Tahmindjis (37th/40)

  • 1500m: Danny Kah, Phillip Tahmindjis (36th/41)

  • 5000m: Danny Kah



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REFERENCES


"2002 Australian Winter Olympic Team Guide" PDF file

"The Compendium: Official Australian Olympic Statistics 1896-2002" )

"Australia and the Olympic Games" by Harry Gordon. ISBN 0702226270