Russia at the 2006 Winter Olympics explained

Noc:	RUS
Nocname:	Russian Olympic Committee
Games:	Winter Olympics
Year:	2006
Website:
Location:	Turin
Competitors:	190
Sports:	15
Flagbearer:	Dmitry Dorofeev (opening)^[1] Evgeni Plushenko (closing)^[2]
Rank:	4
Gold:	8
Silver:	6
Bronze:	8
Appearances:	auto
See also:	(1900–1912) (1952–1988) (1992) (2018)

Russia participated at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy. It sent a total of 190 athletes to participate in all 15 of the Winter Olympic sports.

Dmitry Dorofeev, a speed skater, served as flag bearer at the opening ceremonies.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
				12 February
				13 February
	Maxim Marinin			13 February
				14 February
				16 February
	Larisa Kurkina Yuliya Chepalova Yevgeniya Medvedeva-Arbuzova			18 February
	Roman Kostomarov			20 February
	Anna Bogaliy Svetlana Ishmuratova Olga Zaitseva			23 February
				12 February
				13 February
	Nikolay Kruglov Jr. Pavel Rostovtsev Ivan Tcherezov			21 February
				24 February
	Filipp Yegorov Alexei Seliverstov Alexey Voyevoda			25 February
				26 February
				12 February
				13 February
	Vasily Rochev			14 February
	Varvara Barysheva Yekaterina Lobysheva Galina Likhachova Svetlana Vysokova			16 February
				18 February
				22 February
				23 February
				23 February

• Olga Pyleva won the silver in the women's 15 km race, but was later disqualified for failing a drug test.

Alpine skiing

See main article: Alpine skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Final
		Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Total	Rank
Olesya Aliyeva	Women's downhill	n/a	2:02.06	33
	Women's super-G	n/a	1:37.12	42
	Women's giant slalom	disqualified
Pavel Shestakov	Men's downhill	n/a	1:51.93	30
	Men's super-G	n/a	1:33.48	29
	Men's giant slalom	did not finish
	Men's slalom	did not start
	Men's combined	1:51.93	49.11	47.32	3:16.84	24
Aleksandr Khoroshilov	Men's downhill	n/a	1:54.70	38
	Men's super-G	n/a	1:35.51	41
	Men's slalom	did not finish
	Men's combined	1:42.35	46.92	46.19	3:15.46	22
Anton Konovalov	Men's super-G	n/a	1:35.72	42
	Men's slalom	59.53	55.18	n/a	1:54.71	29
	Men's combined	1:45.12	56.15	did not finish
Konstantin Sats	Men's downhill	n/a	1:55.03	40
	Men's super-G	n/a	1:33.14	27
	Men's giant slalom	did not finish
	Men's combined	1:41.02	did not start
Dmitry Ulyanov	Men's giant slalom	did not finish
	Men's slalom	did not finish

Note: In the men's combined, run 1 is the downhill, and runs 2 and 3 are the slalom. In the women's combined, run 1 and 2 are the slalom, and run 3 the downhill.

Biathlon

See main article: Biathlon at the 2006 Winter Olympics.

Olga Pyleva was stripped of her silver medal in the women's individual after testing positive for carphedon, a stimulant.^[3]

Men

Athlete	Event	Final
		Time	Misses	Rank
Nikolay Kruglov Jr.	Sprint	28:05.2	1	21
	Pursuit	37:18.9	1	11
	Mass start	49:20.1	2	21
Pavel Rostovtsev	Individual	56:47.2	2	13
Sergei Rozhkov	Mass start	49:09.7	2	20
Sergei Tchepikov	Sprint	28:08.1	1	23
	Pursuit	did not start
	Mass start	47:59.1	0	5
	Individual	55:32.7	1	4
Ivan Tcherezov	Sprint	27:09.0	0	5
	Pursuit	37:29.7	3	15
	Individual	56:05.7	2	8
Maxim Tchoudov	Sprint	27:20.5	0	9
	Pursuit	36:41.4	4	9
	Mass start	48:40.2	4	15
	Individual	59:12.0	5	32
Ivan Tcherezov Sergei Tchepikov Pavel Rostovtsev Nikolay Kruglov Jr.	Relay	1:22:12.4	6

Women

Athlete	Event	Final
		Time	Misses	Rank
Albina Akhatova	Sprint	22:40.2	0	4
	Pursuit	38:05.0	1
	Mass start	42:19.5	2	9
	Individual	50:55.0	2
Anna Bogaliy-Titovets	Individual	55:18.4	5	35
Natalia Guseva	Mass start	44:55.1	5	24
Svetlana Ishmouratova	Sprint	23:10.3	1	10
	Pursuit	38:29.0	3	4
	Mass start	42:33.5	4	12
	Individual	49:24.1	1
Olga Pyleva	Sprint	did not start
	Individual	disqualified
Olga Zaitseva	Sprint	23:05.8	0	9
	Pursuit	40:49.0	5	19
	Mass start	42:58.3	1	15
Anna Bogaliy Svetlana Ishmouratova Olga Zaitseva Albina Akhatova	Relay	1:16:12.5	2

Bobsleigh

See main article: Bobsleigh at the 2006 Winter Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Final
		Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Run 4	Total	Rank
Alexandr Zubkov Alexey Voyevoda	Two-man	55.54	55.85	56.12	56.49	3:44.00	4
Yevgeni Popov Roman Oreshnikov	Two-man	56.56	56.50	56.98	57.29	3:47.33	18
Viktoria Tokovaya Nadezhda Orlova	Two-woman	57.64	57.72	58.44	58.13	3:51.93	7
Yevgeni Popov Sergey Golubev Pyotr Makarchuk Dmitriy Stepushkin	Four-man	55.87	55.57	55.16	55.33	3:41.93	9
Alexandr Zubkov Filipp Yegorov Alexei Seliverstov Alexey Voyevoda	Four-man	55.22	55.45	54.87	55.01	3:40.55

Cross-country skiing

See main article: Cross-country skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics.

Distance

Men

Athlete	Event	Final
		Total	Rank
Ivan Arteev	15 km classical	40:49.1	34
	30 km pursuit	1:22:36.2	51
Ivan Babikov	15 km classical	39:59.5	22
	30 km pursuit	1:17:17.2	13
	50 km freestyle	2:08:07.9	38
Yevgeny Dementyev	30 km pursuit	1:17:00.8
	50 km freestyle	2:06:12.6
Alexander Legkov	30 km pursuit	1:20:28.2	37
	50 km freestyle	2:06:39.7	20
Sergei Novikov	15 km classical	39:15.0	8
Nikolay Pankratov	50 km freestyle	2:06:33.9	18
Vasily Rochev	15 km classical	38:24.4	4
Sergei Novikov Vasily Rochev Ivan Alypov Yevgeny Dementyev	4 x 10 km relay	1:45:09.9	6

Women

Athlete	Event	Final
		Total	Rank
Natalia Baranova-Masolkina	10 km classical	29:30.9	16
Yelena Burukhina	15 km pursuit	46:42.9	37
Yuliya Chepalova	10 km classical	30:04.7	26
	15 km pursuit	43:39.5	9
	30 km freestyle	1:22:26.8
Larisa Kurkina	10 km classical	29:36.8	19
Yevgeniya Medvedeva-Arbuzova	15 km pursuit	43:03.2
	30 km freestyle	1:26:28.1	21
Olga Moskalenko-Rocheva	30 km freestyle	1:25:45.0	18
Olga Zavyalova	10 km classical	29:57.6	24
	15 km pursuit	43:23.72	7
	30 km freestyle	1:23:28.5	9
Natalia Baranova-Masolkina Larisa Kurkina Yuliya Chepalova Yevgeniya Medvedeva-Arbuzova	4 x 5 km relay	54:47.7

Sprint

Athlete	Event	Qualifying		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
		Total	Rank	Total	Rank	Total	Rank	Total	Rank
Ivan Alypov	Men's sprint	2:20.21	27 Q	2:24.7	6	Did not advance	28
Yuliya Chepalova	Women's sprint	2:16.90	22 Q	2:16.6	6	Did not advance	27
Pavel Korostelev	Men's sprint	2:21.00	34	Did not advance	34
Natalya Matveyeva	Women's sprint	2:17.73	34	2:31.4	6	Did not advance	30
Olga Moskalenko-Rocheva	Women's sprint	2:16.43	20 Q	2:18.4	3	Did not advance	14
Sergei Novikov	Men's sprint	2:20.29	28 Q	2:24.7	6	Did not advance	28
Vasily Rochev	Men's sprint	2:16.19	4 Q	2:22.0	3	Did not advance	11
Alyona Sidko	Women's sprint	2:14.54	5 Q	2:17.7	1 Q	2:15.1	2 Q	2:13.2
Ivan Alypov Vasily Rochev	Men's team sprint	n/a	17:22.2	2 Q	17:05.2
Olga Moskalenko-Rocheva Alyona Sidko	Women's team sprint	n/a	17:32.1	2 Q	17:08.5	6

Curling

See main article: Curling at the 2006 Winter Olympics.

Women's tournament

Team: Ludmila Privivkova (skip), Nkeirouka Ezekh, Yana Nekrasova, Yekaterina Galkina and Olga Zharkova (alternate)

Round Robin

Draw 2

Draw 3

Draw 4

Draw 5

Draw 7

Draw 8

Draw 10

Draw 11

Draw 12

Standings

width=25	Rank	width=150	Team	width=150	Skip	width=60	Won	width=60	Lost
1		Anette Norberg	7	2
2		Mirjam Ott	7	2
3		Shannon Kleibrink	6	3
4		Dordi Nordby	6	3
5		Rhona Martin	5	4
6		Ludmila Privivkova	5	4
7		Ayumi Onodera	4	5
8		Dorthe Holm	2	7
9		Cassandra Johnson	2	7
10		Diana Gaspari	1	8

Figure skating

See main article: Figure skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics.

Athlete	Event	CD		SP/OD		FS/FD		Total
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Ilia Klimkin	Men's	n/a	61.61	18 Q	130.19	10	191.80	11
Evgeni Plushenko	Men's	n/a	90.66	1 Q	167.67	1	258.33
Irina Slutskaya	Ladies'	n/a	66.70	2 Q	114.74	3	181.44
Elena Sokolova	Ladies'	n/a	46.69	18 Q	95.66	14	142.35	14
Julia Obertas Sergei Slavnov	Pairs	n/a	60.25	8	106.29	9	166.54	8
Maria Petrova Alexei Tikhonov	Pairs	n/a	64.27	3	117.42	6	181.69	5
Tatiana Totmianina Maxim Marinin	Pairs	n/a	68.64	1	135.84	1	204.48
Oksana Domnina Maxim Shabalin	Ice dance	33.37	9	52.36	9	88.03	9	173.76	9
Jana Khokhlova Sergei Novitski	Ice dance	30.90	14	47.15	13	86.43	11	164.48	12
Tatiana Navka Roman Kostomarov	Ice dance	38.20	2	61.07	1	101.37	1	200.64

Key: CD = Compulsory Dance, FD = Free Dance, FS = Free Skate, OD = Original Dance, SP = Short Program

Freestyle skiing

See main article: Freestyle skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualifying		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Dmitry Arkhipov	Aerials	did not start
Evgeniy Brailovskiy	Aerials	222.28	12 Q	223.61	9
Vitali Glushchenko	Moguls	12.75	35	did not advance	35
Vladimir Lebedev	Aerials	241.48	5 Q	246.79
Dmitry Marushchak	Aerials	did not start
Ruslan Sharifullin	Moguls	21.24	27	did not advance	27
Alexandr Smyshlyaev	Moguls	22.18	20 Q	23.22	13
Artem Valinteev	Moguls	21.51	25	did not advance	25

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualifying		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Marina Cherkasova	Moguls	21.82	19 Q	22.05	16
Ljudmila Dymchenko	Moguls	21.42	21	did not advance	21
Olga Koroleva	Aerials	148.40	17	did not advance	17
Daria Serova	Moguls	23.49	10 Q	22.44	13
Anna Zukal	Aerials	172.24	6 Q	152.04	9

Ice hockey

See main article: Ice hockey at the 2006 Winter Olympics.

Men's tournament

See main article: Ice hockey at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Men's tournament.

The Russian men's team finished the round robin portion of the competition ranked second in Group B, losing just once, to Slovakia. It beat Canada in thequarter finals, but lost both the semifinal and bronze medal game to finish fourth overall

Players

Round-robin

Medal round

Quarterfinal

Semifinal

Bronze game

Women's tournament

The Russian women's team lost to both Canada and Sweden, and failed to progress to the medal round. In the 5th place game, the team lost on a shootout to Germany.

See main article: Ice hockey at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Women's tournament.

Players

Round-robin

Classification games

5th-8th classification

5th place game

Luge

See main article: Luge at the 2006 Winter Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Final
		Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Run 4	Total	Rank
Yuliya Anashkina	Women's singles	47.952	48.190	48.059	48.208	3:12.409	16
Albert Demtschenko	Men's singles	51.747	51.543	51.396	51.512	3:26.198
Viktor Kneib	Men's singles	52.050	52.150	51.981	51.884	3:28.065	11
Alexandra Rodionova	Women's singles	48.165	47.935	48.186	47.881	3:12.167	14
Kiril Serikov	Men's singles	54.164	52.468	52.473	52.790	3:31.895	24
Anastasiya Skulkina	Women's singles	49.174	48.089	50.033	48.072	3:15.368	21
Vladimir Boitsov Dmitriy Khamkin	Doubles	did not finish
Mikhail Kuzmich Jury Veselov	Doubles	47.556	48.094	n/a	1:35.650	11

Nordic combined

See main article: Nordic combined at the 2006 Winter Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Ski jumping		Cross-country
		Points	Rank	Deficit	Time	Rank
Aleksei Barannikov	Sprint	83.5	46	2:49	21:38.2 +3:09.2	42
	Individual Gundersen	194.0	37	4:34	44:20.3 +3:09.2	29
Ivan Fesenko	Sprint	112.2	11	0:54	20:30.6 +2:01.6	33
	Individual Gundersen	215.0	25	3:10	44:01.3 +4:16.7	28
Sergei Maslennikov	Sprint	99.3	32	1:46	21:42.1 +3:13.1	43
	Individual Gundersen	251.0	5	0:46	41:30.2 +1:45.6	10
Dmitri Matveev	Sprint	106.8	20	1:16	20:37.1 +2:08.1	35
	Individual Gundersen	did not finish
Ivan Fesenko Anton Kamenev Sergei Maslennikov Dmitri Matveev	Team	890.1	3	0:23	54:05.1 +4:12.5	9

Note: 'Deficit' refers to the amount of time behind the leader a competitor began the cross-country portion of the event. Italicized numbers show the final deficit from the winner's finishing time.

Short track speed skating

See main article: Short track speed skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Heat		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Tatiana Borodulina	Women's 1000 m	1:34.988	2 Q	disqualified
	Women's 1500 m	2:27.757	3 Q	n/a	2:45.897	5	disqualified
Vyacheslav Kurginyan	Men's 500 m	43.183	3	did not advance	14
	Men's 1000 m	1:36.070	3	did not advance	18
	Men's 1500 m	2:33.802	3 Q	n/a	2:24.604	6	did not advance	15
Mikhail Rajine	Men's 500 m	44.077	3	did not advance	18
	Men's 1000 m	1:42.677	3 ADV	1:32.432	4	did not advance	13
	Men's 1500 m	2:33.809	5	did not advance	23

Key: 'ADV' indicates a skater was advanced due to being interfered with.

Skeleton

See main article: Skeleton at the 2006 Winter Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Final
		Run 1	Run 2	Total	Rank
Aleksandr Tretyakov	Men's	59.71	59.32	1:59.03	15
Svetlana Trunova	Women's	1:01.23	1:01.83	2:03.06	11

Ski jumping

See main article: Ski jumping at the 2006 Winter Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Qualifying		First round		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Total	Rank
Ildar Fatchullin	Normal hill	119.0	13 Q	102.5	44	did not advance	44
	Large hill	85.4	23 Q	82.6	41	did not advance	41
Dmitry Ipatov	Normal hill	129.0	2 Q	121.5	19 Q	121.0	242.5	19
	Large hill	98.1	9 Q	99.9	22 Q	97.2	197.1	27
Denis Kornilov	Normal hill	117.0	16 Q	110.0	34	did not advance	34
	Large hill	95.9	11 Q	94.0	33	did not advance	33
Dmitry Vassiliev	Normal hill	128.5	3 Q	135.0	1 Q	123.5	258.5	10
	Large hill	111.3	5 Q	99.4	24 Q	114.8	214.2	17
Ildar Fatchullin Dmitry Ipatov Denis Kornilov Dmitry Vassiliev	Team	n/a	425.0	7 Q	431.8	856.8	8

Snowboarding

See main article: Snowboarding at the 2006 Winter Olympics.

Halfpipe

Athlete	Event	Qualifying run 1		Qualifying run 2		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Run 1	Run 2	Rank
Yuri Podladtchikov	Men's halfpipe	1.0	44	13.6	31	did not advance	37
Maria Prusakova	Women's halfpipe	8.5	30	8.2	26	did not advance	32
Svetlana Vinogradova	Women's halfpipe	6.9	33	13.8	23	did not advance	29

Note: In the final, the single best score from two runs is used to determine the ranking. A bracketed score indicates a run that wasn't counted.

Parallel GS

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Finals
		Time	Rank	Opposition Time	Opposition Time	Opposition Time	Opposition Time	Rank
Aleksandr Belkin	Men's parallel giant slalom	1:14.04	25	did not advance	25
Svetlana Boldikova	Women's parallel giant slalom	1:21.32	4 Q	(13) W -18.13 (+0.32 -18.45)	(5) L +0.07 (+0.22 -0.15)	Classification 5–8 (1) L +3.69 (+1.50 +2.19)	7th place final (7) L +1.74 (+0.71 +1.03)	8
Olga Golovanova	Women's parallel giant slalom	1:23.59	21	did not advance	21
Denis Salagaev	Men's parallel giant slalom	1:12.32	18	did not advance	18
Ekaterina Tudegesheva	Women's parallel giant slalom	1:20.85	1 Q	(16) W -1.13 (-0.34 -0.79)	(8) L +0.66 (+0.97 -0.31)	Classification 5–8 (4) W -3.69 (-1.50 -2.19)	5th place final (7) W -1.04 (-1.32 +0.28)	5

Key: '+ Time' represents a deficit; the brackets indicate the results of each run.

Speed skating

See main article: Speed skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Artyom Detyshev	5000 m	n/a	6:32.85	15
	10000 m	disqualified
Dmitry Dorofeyev	500 m	35.24	35.17	1:10.41
	1000 m	n/a	1:09.74	10
Aleksandr Kibalko	1000 m	n/a	1:10.50	21
	1500 m	n/a	1:50.29	32
Yury Kokhanets	5000 m	n/a	6:34.62	17
Sergey Kornilov	500 m	36.00	36.24	1:12.24	27
Yevgeny Lalenkov	1000 m	n/a	1:09.46	7
	1500 m	n/a	1:49.00	23
Dmitry Lobkov	500 m	35.55	35.62	1:11.17	14
Alexey Proshin	500 m	35.96	35.94	1:11.90	24
	1000 m	n/a	1:10.14	15
Dmitry Shepel	1500 m	n/a	1:48.74	21
Ivan Skobrev	1500 m	n/a	1:46.91	6
	5000 m	n/a	6:27.02	11
	10000 m	n/a	13:17.54	6

Women

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Yekaterina Abramova	1000 m	n/a	1:17.33	9
	1500 m	n/a	2:01.63	21
Varvara Barysheva	1000 m	n/a	1:17.52	11
	1500 m	n/a	2:01.60	20
Yekaterina Lobysheva	1000 m	n/a	1:17.52	11
	1500 m	n/a	1:58.87	6
Yulia Nemaya	500 m	39.63	1:12.76	1:52.39	29
Svetlana Vysokova	3000 m	n/a	4:13.94	18
Valentina Yakshina	1500 m	n/a	2:02.15	25
	3000 m	n/a	4:19.43	24
Svetlana Zhurova	500 m	38.23	38.34	1:16.57
	1000 m	n/a	1:17.13	7

Team pursuit

Athlete	Event	Seeding		Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final
		Time	Rank	Opposition Time	Opposition Time	Opposition Time	Rank
From: Artyom Detyshev Aleksandr Kibalko Yevgeny Lalenkov Dmitry Shepel Ivan Skobrev	Men's team pursuit	3:49.75	6	(3) L Overtaken	did not advance	5th place final (7) W 3:46.91	5
From: Yekaterina Abramova Varvara Barysheva Galina Likhachova Yekaterina Lobysheva Svetlana Vysokova	Women's team pursuit	3:03.19	1	(8) W Overtook	(5) L 3:07.42	Bronze final (7) W Overtook

Notes and References

1. Web site: Flagbearers for the Opening Ceremony. 30 March 2009.
2. Web site: Flagbearers for the Closing Ceremony. 30 March 2009.
3. Web site: Looking for Doping Evidence, Italian Police Raid Austrians. Juliet Macur. Juliet Macur. New York Times. 19 February 2006. 2 April 2009.