 In the long program, four judges gave first-place votes to Marina Eltsova / Andrei Bushkov, the gold medalists, and four judges voted in favor of Shishkova/Naumov, however, low scores from the other five judges left them off the podium in 4th.Shishkova/Naumov did not make the 1998 Winter Olympic team.They decided to retire from ISU competition in 1998 and skate professionally.