This men's Olympic event was last where the 6.0 system was used.
This individual event was structured in a similar manner to the pairs event, with a short program and a free skating. 28 skaters entered the short program, but only the top 24 competitors continued to the free skating.
Alexei Yagudin won gold medal with 1.5 points (0.5 for SP and 1.0 for FS), Evgeni Plushenko became the silver medalist (4.0 points) and Timothy Goebel became bronze medalist (4.5 points). Takeshi Honda from Japan was second after the short program but became fourth in his free program and dropped to the fourth overall place.[3]