at the 2002 winter olympics, martin lost just one round robin matchup and qualified for the playoffs. in the semifinal, martin knocked off sweden's peja lindholm by a score of 6–4, breaking a long losing streak to his main nemesis. in the final, martin faced norway, skipped by pål trulsen. early on martin fell behind 3-0 with trulsen's team taking steals of 1 and 2, forcing kevin into extremely difficult final shots due to their dominant and aggressive front end play. team martin steadied themselves and climbed to 5-5 with hammer going into the final end however. in the final end, martin had a simple draw against one norway rock to win, identical to his successful draw in the olympic trials final vs kerry burtnyk, which he missed, giving trulsen the win with a score of 6–5. as a result, norway clinched the gold medal, and martin, representing canada, won his third international silver.