Speed skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics

Speed skating at the XX Olympic Winter Games

Venue	Oval Lingotto
Dates	11–21 February
Competitors	175 from 19 nations

For the short track speed skating events, see Short track speed skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics

Speed skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics was held over ten days, from 11 February to 21 February. Twelve events were contested at the Oval Lingotto.

Medal summary

Men's events

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Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 metres	Joey Cheek United States	69.76	Dmitry Dorofeyev Russia	70.41	Lee Kang-seok South Korea	70.43
1000 metres	Shani Davis United States	1:08.89	Joey Cheek United States	1:09.19	Erben Wennemars Netherlands	1:09.32
1500 metres	Enrico Fabris Italy	1:45.96	Shani Davis United States	1:46.13	Chad Hedrick United States	1:46.22
5000 metres	Chad Hedrick United States	6:14.68	Sven Kramer Netherlands	6:16.40	Enrico Fabris Italy	6:18.25
10000 metres	Bob de Jong Netherlands	13:01.57	Chad Hedrick United States	13:05.40	Carl Verheijen Netherlands	13:08.80
Team pursuit	Italy Matteo Anesi Stefano Donagrandi* Enrico Fabris Ippolito Sanfratello	3:44.36	Canada Arne Dankers Steven Elm Denny Morrison* Jason Parker* Justin Warsylewicz	3:47.28	Netherlands Sven Kramer Rintje Ritsma* Mark Tuitert Carl Verheijen Erben Wennemars*	3:44.53 (Final B)

* Skaters who did not participate in the final, but received medals.

Women's events

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Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 metres	Svetlana Zhurova Russia	76.57	Wang Manli China	76.78	Ren Hui China	76.87
1000 metres	Marianne Timmer Netherlands	1:16.05	Cindy Klassen Canada	1:16.09	Anni Friesinger Germany	1:16.11
1500 metres	Cindy Klassen Canada	1:55.27	Kristina Groves Canada	1:56.74	Ireen Wüst Netherlands	1:56.90
3000 metres	Ireen Wüst Netherlands	4:02.43	Renate Groenewold Netherlands	4:03.48	Cindy Klassen Canada	4:04.37
5000 metres	Clara Hughes Canada	6:59.07	Claudia Pechstein Germany	7:00.08	Cindy Klassen Canada	7:00.57
Team pursuit	Germany Daniela Anschütz-Thoms Anni Friesinger Lucille Opitz* Claudia Pechstein Sabine Völker*	3:01.25	Canada Kristina Groves Clara Hughes Cindy Klassen* Christine Nesbitt Shannon Rempel*	3:02.91	Russia Yekaterina Abramova Varvara Barysheva* Galina Likhachova* Yekaterina Lobysheva Svetlana Vysokova	Overtook (Final B)

* Skaters who did not participate in the final, but received medals.

Medal table

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Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	3	3	1	7
2	Netherlands (NED)	3	2	4	9
3	Canada (CAN)	2	4	2	8
4	Italy (ITA)	2	0	1	3
5	Germany (GER)	1	1	1	3
5	Russia (RUS)	1	1	1	3
7	China (CHN)	0	1	1	2
8	South Korea (KOR)	0	0	1	1
	Total	12	12	12	36

Records

The combination of low altitude and high humidity at the Oval Lingotto in Turin created fairly slow ice conditions, relative to previous Olympic ovals, such as the Utah Olympic Oval.^[2] This meant that no world records in speed skating were set at the Games, and the only Olympic records set were in the two debut events, the men's and women's team pursuits.

Event^[1]	Date	Round	Team	Time	OR
Men's team pursuit	15 February	Heat 1	Germany Stefan Heythausen Robert Lehmann Tobias Schneider	3:49.59	OR
	15 February	Heat 3	Netherlands Rintje Ritsma Mark Tuitert Carl Verheijen	3:48.02	OR
	15 February	Heat 4	Canada Arne Dankers Steven Elm Denny Morrison	3:47.37	OR
	15 February	Quarterfinals	Netherlands Sven Kramer Carl Verheijen Erben Wennemars	3:44.65	OR
	15 February	Quarterfinals	Italy Matteo Anesi Enrico Fabris Ippolito Sanfratello	3:43.64	OR
Women's team pursuit	15 February	Heat 1	Norway Annette Bjelkevik Hedvig Bjelkevik Maren Haugli	3:06.34	OR
	15 February	Heat 3	Russia Yekaterina Abramova Galina Likhachova Yekaterina Lobysheva	3:05.93	OR
	15 February	Quarterfinals	Canada Kristina Groves Cindy Klassen Christine Nesbitt	3:01.24	OR

Participating NOCs

Austria (1)
Belarus (1)
Belgium (1)
Canada (18)
China (15)
Czech Republic (1)
Finland (4)
Germany (13)
Italy (8)
Japan (19)

Kazakhstan (4)
South Korea (14)
Netherlands (20)
Norway (10)
Poland (5)
Romania (2)
Russia (19)
Sweden (2)
United States (18)

References

1 2 3 4 "Torino 2006 Official Report - dan jansen" (PDF). Torino Organizing Committee. LA84 Foundation. March 2009. Retrieved 20 May 2009.
↑ "Slow Italian oval keeps speedskating records on ice". Associated Press. ESPN. 24 February 2006. Retrieved 21 May 2009.

Events at the 2006 Winter Olympics (Turin)

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