Cross-country skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics

Cross-country skiing at the XX Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Pragelato
Dates	February 11–26
Competitors	307 from 53 nations
«2002	2010»

The cross-country skiing events at the 2006 Winter Olympics featured 12 events, from February 11, 2006 to 26 February 2006 at Pragelato in Turin.

Medal summary

Medal table

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Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Sweden (SWE)	3	0	2	5
2	Estonia (EST)	3	0	0	3
3	Russia (RUS)	2	2	3	7
4	Italy (ITA)	2	0	2	4
5	Czech Republic (CZE)	1	2	0	3
6	Canada (CAN)	1	1	0	2
7	Germany (GER)	0	3	1	4
	Norway (NOR)	0	3	1	4
9	France (FRA)	0	1	0	1
10	Austria (AUT)	0	0	1	1
	Finland (FIN)	0	0	1	1
	Poland (POL)	0	0	1	1

Men's events

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Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
15 kilometre classical details	Andrus Veerpalu Estonia (EST)	38:01.3	Lukáš Bauer Czech Republic (CZE)	38:15.8	Tobias Angerer Germany (GER)	38:20.5
30 kilometre pursuit details	Yevgeny Dementyev Russia (RUS)	1:17:00.8	Frode Estil Norway (NOR)	1:17:01.4	Pietro Piller Cottrer Italy (ITA)	1:17:01.7
50 kilometre freestyle details	Giorgio Di Centa Italy (ITA)	2:06:11.8	Yevgeny Dementyev Russia (RUS)	2:06:12.6	Mikhail Botvinov Austria (AUT)	2:06:12.7
4 x 10 kilometre relay details	Italy (ITA) Fulvio Valbusa Giorgio Di Centa Pietro Piller Cottrer Cristian Zorzi	1:43:45.7	Germany (GER) Andreas Schlütter Jens Filbrich René Sommerfeldt Tobias Angerer	1:44:01.4	Sweden (SWE) Mats Larsson Johan Olsson Anders Södergren Mathias Fredriksson	1:44:01.7
Sprint details	Björn Lind Sweden (SWE)	2:26.5	Roddy Darragon France (FRA)	2:27.1	Thobias Fredriksson Sweden (SWE)	2:27.8
Team sprint details	Sweden (SWE) Thobias Fredriksson Björn Lind	17:02.9	Norway (NOR) Jens Arne Svartedal Tor Arne Hetland	17:03.5	Russia (RUS) Ivan Alypov Vasili Rotchev	17:05.2

Women's events

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Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
10 kilometre classical details	Kristina Šmigun Estonia (EST)	27.51.4	Marit Bjørgen Norway (NOR)	28:12.7	Hilde Gjermundshaug Pedersen Norway (NOR)	28:14.0
15 kilometre pursuit details	Kristina Šmigun Estonia (EST)	42.48.7	Kateřina Neumannová Czech Republic (CZE)	42:50.6	Yevgeniya Medvedeva-Arbuzova Russia (RUS)	43:03.2
30 kilometre freestyle details	Kateřina Neumannová Czech Republic (CZE)	1:22:25.4	Yuliya Chepalova Russia (RUS)	1:22:26.8	Justyna Kowalczyk Poland (POL)	1:22:27.5
4 x 5 kilometre relay details	Russia (RUS) Natalia Baranova-Masolkina Larisa Kurkina Yuliya Chepalova Yevgeniya Medvedeva-Arbuzova	54:47.7	Germany (GER) Stefanie Böhler Viola Bauer Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle Claudia Künzel	54:57.7	Italy (ITA) Arianna Follis Gabriella Paruzzi Antonella Confortola Sabina Valbusa	54:58.7
Sprint details	Chandra Crawford Canada (CAN)	2:12.3	Claudia Künzel Germany (GER)	2:13.0	Alyona Sidko Russia (RUS)	2:13.2
Team sprint details	Sweden (SWE) Lina Andersson Anna Dahlberg	16:36.9	Canada (CAN) Sara Renner Beckie Scott	16:37.5	Finland (FIN) Aino Kaisa Saarinen Virpi Kuitunen	16:39.2

Participating nations

^[1] Fifty-three nations contributed competitors to the events. Below is a list of the competing nations; in parentheses are the number of national competitors.

Algeria (1) Andorra (1) Argentina (1) Armenia (2) Australia (3) Austria (7) Bosnia and Herzegovina (2) Belarus (7) Brazil (2) Bulgaria (1) Canada (12) China (20) Costa Rica (1) Croatia (4)

Czech Republic (11) Spain (5) Estonia (12) Ethiopia (1) Finland (13) France (11) Germany (11) Greece (2) Hungary (2) India (1) Iran (1) Ireland (1) Italy (17)

Japan (9) Kazakhstan (17) Kenya (1) South Korea (4) Latvia (4) Liechtenstein (1) Lithuania (2) Moldova (2) Mongolia (2) Macedonia (1) Nepal (1) Norway (16) Poland (3)

Portugal (1) Romania (3) South Africa (1) Russia (18) Serbia and Montenegro (2) Slovenia (5) Switzerland (9) Slovakia (6) Sweden (15) Thailand (1) Turkey (3) Ukraine (12) United States (16)

See also

• Cross-country skiing at the 2006 Winter Paralympics

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d} "Torino 2006 Official Report - Cross Country Skiing". Torino Organizing Committee. LA84 Foundation. March 2009. http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/2006/Results/CrosscountrySki.pdf. Retrieved Jun 23, 2009.