List of 2006 Winter Olympics medal winners

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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.[2] 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 skatig 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.[10] German Claudia Pechstein won two medals and became the fourth Winter Olympian to win at least one medal at five editions of the Games.[11] 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.[12]
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),[13] 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),[11] freestyle skiing (Norwegian Kari Traa won a silver for a career total of three medals),[14] 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).[11]
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Alpine skiing
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Men's downhill |
Antoine Dénériaz![]() |
Michael Walchhofer![]() |
Bruno Kernen![]() |
Men's slalom |
Benjamin Raich![]() |
Reinfried Herbst![]() |
Rainer Schönfelder![]() |
Men's giant slalom |
Benjamin Raich![]() |
Joël Chenal![]() |
Hermann Maier![]() |
Men's super-G |
Kjetil André Aamodt![]() |
Hermann Maier![]() |
Ambrosi Hoffmann![]() |
Men's combined |
Ted Ligety![]() |
Ivica Kostelić![]() |
Rainer Schönfelder![]() |
Women's downhill |
Michaela Dorfmeister![]() |
Martina Schild![]() |
Anja Pärson![]() |
Women's slalom |
Anja Pärson![]() |
Nicole Hosp![]() |
Marlies Schild![]() |
Women's giant slalom |
Julia Mancuso![]() |
Tanja Poutiainen![]() |
Anna Ottosson![]() |
Women's super-G |
Michaela Dorfmeister![]() |
Janica Kostelić![]() |
Alexandra Meissnitzer![]() |
Women's combined |
Janica Kostelić![]() |
Marlies Schild![]() |
Anja Pärson![]() |
Biathlon
Bobsleigh
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|
Men's two-man |
![]() Kevin Kuske André Lange |
![]() Pierre Lueders Lascelles Brown |
![]() Martin Annen Beat Hefti |
Women's two-man |
![]() Sandra Kiriasis Anja Schneiderheinze |
![]() Shauna Rohbock Valerie Fleming |
![]() Gerda Weissensteiner Jennifer Isacco |
Men's four-man |
![]() Kevin Kuske René Hoppe Martin Putze André Lange |
![]() Alexey Voyevoda Alexei Seliverstov Filipp Yegorov Alexandr Zubkov |
![]() Martin Annen Cedric Grand Thomas Lamparter Beat Hefti |
Cross-country skiing
Curling
Figure skating
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|
Men's singles |
Evgeni Plushenko![]() |
Stéphane Lambiel![]() |
Jeffrey Buttle![]() |
Women's singles |
Shizuka Arakawa![]() |
Sasha Cohen![]() |
Irina Slutskaya![]() |
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 |
Freestyle skiing
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|
Men's moguls |
Dale Begg-Smith![]() |
Mikko Ronkainen![]() |
Toby Dawson![]() |
Women's moguls |
Jennifer Heil![]() |
Kari Traa![]() |
Sandra Laoura![]() |
Men's aerials |
Han Xiaopeng![]() |
Dmitri Dashinski![]() |
Vladimir Lebedev![]() |
Women's aerials |
Evelyne Leu![]() |
Li Nina![]() |
Alisa Camplin![]() |
Ice hockey
Luge
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|
Men's singles |
Armin Zöggeler![]() |
Albert Demtschenko![]() |
Mārtiņš Rubenis![]() |
Men's doubles |
![]() Andreas Linger Wolfgang Linger |
![]() André Florschütz Torsten Wustlich |
![]() Gerhard Plankensteiner Oswald Haselrieder |
Women's singles |
Sylke Otto![]() |
Silke Kraushaar![]() |
Tatjana Hüfner![]() |
Nordic combined
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|
Men's sprint |
Felix Gottwald![]() |
Magnus Moan![]() |
Georg Hettich![]() |
Men's individual Gundersen |
Georg Hettich![]() |
Felix Gottwald![]() |
Magnus Moan![]() |
Men's team |
![]() Michael Gruber Christoph Bieler Felix Gottwald Mario Stecher |
![]() Björn Kircheisen Georg Hettich Ronny Ackermann Jens Gaiser |
![]() Antti Kuisma Anssi Koivuranta Jaakko Tallus Hannu Manninen |
Short track speed skating
Skeleton
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|
Men's |
Duff Gibson![]() |
Jeff Pain![]() |
Gregor Stähli![]() |
Women's |
Maya Pedersen-Bieri![]() |
Shelley Rudman![]() |
Mellisa Hollingsworth-Richards![]() |
Ski jumping
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Men's normal hill individual |
Lars Bystøl![]() |
Matti Hautamäki![]() |
Roar Ljøkelsøy![]() |
Men's large hill individual |
Thomas Morgenstern![]() |
Andreas Kofler![]() |
Lars Bystøl![]() |
Men's large hill team |
![]() Andreas Widhölzl Andreas Kofler Martin Koch Thomas Morgenstern |
![]() Tami Kiuru Janne Happonen Janne Ahonen Matti Hautamäki |
![]() Lars Bystøl Bjørn Einar Romøren Tommy Ingebrigtsen Roar Ljøkelsøy |
Snowboarding
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Men's Halfpipe |
Shaun White![]() |
Danny Kass![]() |
Markku Koski![]() |
Men's parallel giant slalom |
Philipp Schoch![]() |
Simon Schoch![]() |
Siegfried Grabner![]() |
Men's snowboard cross |
Seth Wescott![]() |
Radoslav Židek![]() |
Paul-Henri de Le Rue![]() |
Women's Halfpipe |
Hannah Teter![]() |
Gretchen Bleiler![]() |
Kjersti Buaas![]() |
Women's parallel giant slalom |
Daniela Meuli![]() |
Amelie Kober![]() |
Rosey Fletcher![]() |
Women's snowboard cross |
Tanja Frieden![]() |
Lindsey Jacobellis![]() |
Dominique Maltais![]() |
Speed skating
Medal winner changes
^ A. Russian biathlete Olga Pyleva was the only 2006 Winter Olympics medalist to be stripped of their medal.[15] 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.[16]
Statistics
Medal leaders



Athletes who won at least two gold medals or three total medals are listed below.[17]
Athlete | Nation | Sport | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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Ahn Hyun-Soo | ![]() |
Short track speed skating | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
Greis, MichaelMichael Greis | ![]() |
Biathlon | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
Jin Sun-Yu | ![]() |
Short track speed skating | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
Gottwald, FelixFelix Gottwald | ![]() |
Nordic combined | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
Fabris, EnricoEnrico Fabris | ![]() |
Speed skating | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
Fischer, SvenSven Fischer | ![]() |
Biathlon | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
Di Centa, GiorgioGiorgio Di Centa | ![]() |
Cross-country skiing | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Dorfmeister, MichaelaMichaela Dorfmeister | ![]() |
Alpine skiing | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Ishmouratova, SvetlanaSvetlana Ishmouratova | ![]() |
Biathlon | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Kuske, KevinKevin Kuske | ![]() |
Bobsleigh | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Lange, AndréAndré Lange | ![]() |
Bobsleigh | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Lind, BjörnBjörn Lind | ![]() |
Cross-country skiing | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Morgenstern, ThomasThomas Morgenstern | ![]() |
Ski jumping | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Raich, BenjaminBenjamin Raich | ![]() |
Alpine skiing | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Kristina Šmigun | ![]() |
Cross-country skiing | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Klassen, CindyCindy Klassen | ![]() |
Speed skating | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
Lee Ho-Suk | ![]() |
Short track speed skating | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
Wilhelm, KatiKati Wilhelm | ![]() |
Biathlon | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
Hedrick, ChadChad Hedrick | ![]() |
Speed skating | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
Hettich, GeorgGeorg Hettich | ![]() |
Nordic combined | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
Wang Meng | ![]() |
Short track speed skating | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
Akhatova, AlbinaAlbina Akhatova | ![]() |
Biathlon | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
Bystøl, LarsLars Bystøl | ![]() |
Ski jumping | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
Ohno, Apolo AntonApolo Anton Ohno | ![]() |
Short track speed skating | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
Pärson, AnjaAnja Pärson | ![]() |
Alpine skiing | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
Glagow, MartinaMartina Glagow | ![]() |
Biathlon | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
Bjørndalen, Ole EinarOle Einar Bjørndalen | ![]() |
Biathlon | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
See also
References
- General
- "Results and Medalists". Olympic.org. International Olympic Committee.
- Specific
- ↑ "Turin 2006—XXth Olympic Winter Games". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2009-06-21.
- 1 2 3 "Factsheet—Olympic Winter Programme" (PDF). International Olympic Committee. February 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-04-18. Retrieved 2009-06-21.
- 1 2 "Fast and furious, snowboard cross ready for Olympics debut". ESPN. 2006-02-15. Retrieved 2009-06-21.
- ↑ "A first for Biathlon and a third gold medal for Michael Greiss". International Olympic Committee. 2006-02-25. Retrieved 2009-06-21.
- ↑ "FIS at Torino 2006". International Ski Federation. 2006-02-08. Retrieved 2009-06-21.
- ↑ "Salt Lake City 2002—XIXth Olympic Winter Games". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2009-06-10.
- ↑ "Germany top Winter Olympics medal count". Mail & Guardian. 2006-02-26. Retrieved 2009-06-25.
- ↑ "Turin 2006–Medal Table". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2009-06-25.
- ↑ Associated Press (2006-02-26). "Germany, U.S. finish 1-2, many nations share wealth in Turin medals race". ESPN. Retrieved 2009-06-25.
- 1 2 Friesen, Paul (2006-02-26). "Nobody does it better". Slam! Sports. Canadian Online Explorer. Retrieved 2009-06-18.
- 1 2 3 4 5 "Factsheet: Records and medals at the Olympic Winter Games" (PDF) (Press release). International Olympic Committee. February 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-03-04. Retrieved 2009-01-13.
- ↑ Withers, Tom (2006-02-17). "Canadian Firefighter Oldest Gold Medalist". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2009-06-25.
- ↑ "Aamodt wins super-G, Guay 4th". CBC Sports. 2006-02-26. Retrieved 2009-01-02.
- ↑ Macur, Juliet (2006-02-12). "Olympics: Tears and laughter as Canadian favorite takes the honors in moguls". International Herald Tribune. Retrieved 2009-06-25.
- ↑ "2006–Winter Olympics XX (Torino, Italy)". The Sports Network. Retrieved 2009-06-18.
- ↑ "Russian athlete stripped of medal". BBC Sports. 2006-02-16. Retrieved 2009-06-18.
- ↑ "2006 Torino Winter Games". Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 2009-06-18.
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