The 2006 Winter Olympics were held in Turin, Italy, from 10 February to 26 February 2006. Approximately 2,508 athletes from 80 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) participated in these Games.[1] Overall, 84 events in 15 disciplines were contested; 45 events were opened to men, 37 to women and 2 were mixed pairs events. Two disciplines were open only to men: Nordic combined and ski jumping, while figure skating was the only one in which men and women competed together in teams.[2] Eight new events were introduced: snowboard cross,[3] team pursuit (speed skating),[3] team sprint (cross-country skiing),[2] and the mass-start race (biathlon).[4] The team sprint events replaced the classical men's 30 kilometers (km) and women's 15 km cross-country distances, held at the previous Winter Games in 2002.[5] In total, there were six more events than in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, United States.[6]
A total of 451 individual athletes won medals. Germany won the highest number of gold medals (11) and led in overall medals (29) for the third consecutive Games.[7] Athletes from 26 NOCs won at least one medal; of these, 18 won at least one gold medal.[8] Latvia (Mārtiņš Rubenis - luge, men's singles) and Slovakia (Radoslav Židek - snowboarding, men's snowboard cross) won the first medals in their Winter Olympic history.[9] Korean short-track speed skater Ahn Hyun-Soo was the most successful athlete, winning three gold medals and a bronze medal. His compatriot Jin Sun-Yu and Germany's Michael Greis also won three gold medals in short-track speed skating and biathlon respectively.Canadian speed skater Cindy Klassen won five medals (one gold, two silver, two bronze) and became the eighth Winter Olympian to win five medals at one edition of the Games. German Claudia Pechstein won two medals and became the fourth Winter Olympian to win at least one medal at five editions of the Games. Canadian Duff Gibson won a gold medal in the men's skeleton and, at age 39, became the oldest athlete to win a gold medal in an individual event at the Winter Olympics.[10]
Several records for career medals in a sport were tied or surpassed, including alpine skiing (Norwegian Kjetil André Aamodt won a gold medal to extend his career record to eight medals),[11] biathlon (Germany's Uschi Disl won a bronze, further extending her lead in this sport with nine medals; Norwegian Ole Einar Bjørndalen's three medals raised his career medal tally to nine), freestyle skiing (Norwegian Kari Traa won a silver for a career total of three medals),[12] Nordic combined (Austrian Felix Gottwald won three medals, and tied the record with a career total of six), short track speed skating (American Apolo Anton Ohno and Chinese athletes Yang Yang (A) and Li Jiajun have all won five medals in total), and speed skating (Claudia Pechstein won two medals to extend her career record to nine medals).
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See also: Alpine skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics.
See also: Biathlon at the 2006 Winter Olympics.
| Men's individual | ||||
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| Men's sprint | ||||
| Men's pursuit | ||||
| Men's mass start | ||||
| Men's 4 × 7.5 km relay | Ricco Groß Michael Rösch Sven Fischer Michael Greis | Ivan Tcherezov Sergei Tchepikov Pavel Rostovtsev Nikolay Kruglov, Jr. | Julien Robert Vincent Defrasne Ferréol Cannard Raphaël Poirée | |
| Women's individual | ||||
| Women's sprint | ||||
| Women's pursuit | ||||
| Women's mass start | ||||
| Women's 4 × 6 km relay | Anna Bogaliy-Titovets Svetlana Ishmouratova Olga Zaitseva Albina Akhatova | Martina Glagow Andrea Henkel Katrin Apel Kati Wilhelm | Delphyne Peretto Florence Baverel-Robert Sylvie Becaert Sandrine Bailly |
See also: Bobsleigh at the 2006 Winter Olympics.
See also: Cross-country skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics.
| Men's sprint | ||||
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| Men's 15 km | ||||
| Men's 30 km pursuit | ||||
| Men's 50 km | ||||
| Men's team sprint | Thobias Fredriksson Björn Lind | Jens Arne Svartedal Tor Arne Hetland | Ivan Alypov Vasily Rochev | |
| Men's 4 x 10 km relay | Fulvio Valbusa Giorgio Di Centa Pietro Piller Cottrer Cristian Zorzi | Andreas Schlütter Jens Filbrich René Sommerfeldt Tobias Angerer | Mats Larsson Johan Olsson Anders Södergren Mathias Fredriksson | |
| Women's sprint | ||||
| Women's 10 km | ||||
| Women's 15 km pursuit | ||||
| Women's 30 km | ||||
| Women's team sprint | Lina Andersson Anna Dahlberg | Sara Renner Beckie Scott | Aino-Kaisa Saarinen Virpi Kuitunen | |
| Women's 4 x 5 km relay | Natalia Baranova-Masolkina Larisa Kurkina Yuliya Chepalova Yevgeniya Medvedeva | Stefanie Böhler Viola Bauer Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle Claudia Künzel | Arianna Follis Gabriella Paruzzi Antonella Confortola Sabina Valbusa |
See also: Curling at the 2006 Winter Olympics.
See also: Figure skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics.
| Men's singles | ||||
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| Women's singles | ||||
| Pairs | Tatiana Totmianina Maxim Marinin | Zhang Dan Zhang Hao | Shen Xue Zhao Hongbo | |
| Ice dancing | Tatiana Navka Roman Kostomarov | Tanith Belbin Benjamin Agosto | Elena Grushina Ruslan Goncharov |
See also: Freestyle skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics.
See also: Ice Hockey at the 2006 Winter Olympics.
See also: Luge at the 2006 Winter Olympics.
See also: Nordic combined at the 2006 Winter Olympics.
See also: Short track speed skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics.
| Men's 500 m | |||||
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| Men's 1000 m | |||||
| Men's 1500 m | |||||
| Men's 5000 m relay | Ahn Hyun-Soo Lee Ho-Suk Oh Se-Jong Seo Ho-Jin Song Suk-Woo | Éric Bédard Jonathan Guilmette Charles Hamelin François-Louis Tremblay Mathieu Turcotte | valign=top | Alex Izykowski J. P. Kepka Apolo Anton Ohno Rusty Smith | |
| Women's 500 m | |||||
| Women's 1000 m | |||||
| Women's 1500 m | |||||
| Women's 3000 m relay | Byun Chun-Sa Choi Eun-Kyung Jeon Da-Hye Jin Sun-Yu Kang Yun-Mi | Alanna Kraus Anouk Leblanc-Boucher Amanda Overland Kalyna Roberge Tania Vicent | valign=top | Arianna Fontana Marta Capurso Katia Zini Mara Zini |
See also: Skeleton at the 2006 Winter Olympics.
See also: Ski jumping at the 2006 Winter Olympics.
See also: Snowboarding at the 2006 Winter Olympics.
See also: Speed skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics.
| Men's 500 m | ||||
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| Men's 1000 m | ||||
| Men's 1500 m | ||||
| Men's 5000 m | ||||
| Men's 10000 m | ||||
| Men's team pursuit | valign=top | Matteo Anesi Stefano Donagrandi Enrico Fabris Ippolito Sanfratello | Arne Dankers Steven Elm Denny Morrison Jason Parker Justin Warsylewicz | Sven Kramer Rintje Ritsma Mark Tuitert Carl Verheijen Erben Wennemars |
| Women's 500 m | ||||
| Women's 1000 m | ||||
| Women's 1500 m | ||||
| Women's 3000 m | ||||
| Women's 5000 m | ||||
| Women's team pursuit | Daniela Anschütz-Thoms Anni Friesinger Lucille Opitz Claudia Pechstein Sabine Völker | Kristina Groves Clara Hughes Cindy Klassen Christine Nesbitt Shannon Rempel | Yekaterina Abramova Varvara Barysheva Galina Likhachova Yekaterina Lobysheva Svetlana Vysokova |
A. Russian biathlete Olga Pyleva was the only 2006 Winter Olympics medalist to be stripped of their medal.[13] She won a silver medal in the 15 km race, but tested positive for carphedon and was thus stripped of her medal. Germany's Martina Glagow was given the silver medal and fellow Russian Albina Akhatova won the bronze.[14]
Athletes who won at least two gold medals or three total medals are listed below.[15]
| Athlete | Nation | Sport | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total | |
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| Ahn Hyun-Soo | Short track speed skating | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 | ||
| Biathlon | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |||
| Jin Sun-Yu | Short track speed skating | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | ||
| Nordic combined | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | |||
| Speed skating | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | |||
| Biathlon | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | |||
| Cross-country skiing | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |||
| Alpine skiing | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |||
| Biathlon | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |||
| Bobsleigh | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |||
| Bobsleigh | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |||
| Cross-country skiing | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |||
| Ski jumping | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |||
| Alpine skiing | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |||
| Kristina Šmigun | Cross-country skiing | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||
| Speed skating | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | |||
| Lee Ho-Suk | Short track speed skating | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | ||
| Biathlon | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | |||
| Speed skating | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||
| Nordic combined | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||
| Wang Meng | Short track speed skating | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| Biathlon | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | |||
| Ski jumping | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | |||
| Short track speed skating | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | |||
| Alpine skiing | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | |||
| Biathlon | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | |||
| Biathlon | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |