| Women at the 2006 Asian Games | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venue | Doha Sports City | |||||||||
| Date | 2–11 December | |||||||||
| Competitors | 28 from 10 nations | |||||||||
| Medalists | ||||||||||
| ||||||||||
| Beach volleyball at the 2006 Asian Games | ||
|---|---|---|
 | ||
| men | women | |
The women's beach volleyball tournament at the 2006 Asian Games was held from December 2 to December 11, 2006 in Doha, Qatar.
All times are Arabia Standard Time (UTC+03:00)
| Date | Time | Event |
|---|---|---|
| Saturday, 2 December 2006 | 14:00 | Round 1 |
| Sunday, 3 December 2006 | 17:00 | Round 2 |
| Monday, 4 December 2006 | 19:00 | Rank 13 |
| Tuesday, 5 December 2006 | 17:00 | Rank 9 |
| Wednesday, 6 December 2006 | 18:00 | Round 3 |
| Thursday, 7 December 2006 | 19:00 | Rank 7 |
| Saturday, 9 December 2006 | 16:00 | Rank 5 |
| Sunday, 10 December 2006 | 17:00 | Semifinals |
| Monday, 11 December 2006 | 16:00 | Bronze medal match |
| 18:00 | Final |
| Date | Score | Set 1 | Set 2 | Set 3 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 02 Dec |  Luk – Beh (MAS) | 2–0 |  Penkina – Dyachenko (KAZ) | 21–19 | 21–10 | |
 Kulna – Sannok (THA) | 2–0 |  Gunawardena – Wijesinghe (SRI) | 21–8 | 21–13 | ||
 Aghasy – Aghasy (IRQ) | 0–2 |  Kusuhara – Urata (JPN) | 4–21 | 11–21 | ||
| Tanaka – Koizumi (JPN) | 2–0 |  Bayarmaa – Enkhmaa (MGL) | 21–5 | 21–8 | ||
 Tse – Kong (HKG) | 0–2 | Phokongloy – Tenpaksee (THA) | 11–21 | 13–21 | ||
| Storozhenko – Alenkina (KAZ) | 1–2 |  Pascua – Ilustre (PHI) | 16–21 | 21–11 | 15–17 |
| Date | Score | Set 1 | Set 2 | Set 3 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03 Dec |  Wang – Tian (CHN) | 2–0 | Luk – Beh (MAS) | 21–10 | 21–13 | |
| Kulna – Sannok (THA) | 2–1 | Kusuhara – Urata (JPN) | 19–21 | 21–17 | 15–12 | |
| Tanaka – Koizumi (JPN) | 2–0 | Phokongloy – Tenpaksee (THA) | 21–13 | 21–16 | ||
| Pascua – Ilustre (PHI) | 0–2 | Xue – Zhang (CHN) | 15–21 | 18–21 |
| Date | Score | Set 1 | Set 2 | Set 3 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04 Dec | Tse – Kong (HKG) | 2–0 | Bayarmaa – Enkhmaa (MGL) | 21–11 | 21–11 | |
| Aghasy – Aghasy (IRQ) | 0–2 | Gunawardena – Wijesinghe (SRI) | 5–21 | 10–21 |
| Date | Score | Set 1 | Set 2 | Set 3 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05 Dec | Storozhenko – Alenkina (KAZ) | 1–2 | Kusuhara – Urata (JPN) | 21–17 | 19–21 | 10–15 |
| Tse – Kong (HKG) | 0–2 | Luk – Beh (MAS) | 10–21 | 24–26 | ||
| Gunawardena – Wijesinghe (SRI) | 0–2 | Pascua – Ilustre (PHI) | 12–21 | 9–21 | ||
| Penkina – Dyachenko (KAZ) | 0–2 | Phokongloy – Tenpaksee (THA) | 14–21 | 4–21 |
| Date | Score | Set 1 | Set 2 | Set 3 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 06 Dec | Wang – Tian (CHN) | 2–0 | Kulna – Sannok (THA) | 21–11 | 21–16 | |
| Tanaka – Koizumi (JPN) | 2–1 | Xue – Zhang (CHN) | 22–20 | 15–21 | 19–17 |
| Date | Score | Set 1 | Set 2 | Set 3 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 07 Dec | Kusuhara – Urata (JPN) | 2–0 | Luk – Beh (MAS) | 21–12 | 21–17 | |
| Pascua – Ilustre (PHI) | 0–2 | Phokongloy – Tenpaksee (THA) | 20–22 | 13–21 |
| Date | Score | Set 1 | Set 2 | Set 3 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09 Dec | Xue – Zhang (CHN) | 2–0 | Kusuhara – Urata (JPN) | 21–14 | 21–14 | |
| Kulna – Sannok (THA) | 2–0 | Phokongloy – Tenpaksee (THA) | 21–19 | 21–11 |
| Semifinals | Final | ||||||||||
| Wang–Tian (CHN) | 21 | 20 | 10 | ||||||||
| Xue–Zhang (CHN) | 19 | 22 | 15 | Xue–Zhang (CHN) | 19 | 21 | 15 | ||||
| Tanaka–Koizumi (JPN) | 26 | 14 | 15 | Tanaka–Koizumi (JPN) | 21 | 11 | 13 | ||||
| Kulna–Sannok (THA) | 24 | 21 | 13 | ||||||||
| Bronze medal match | |||||||||||
| Wang–Tian (CHN) | 21 | 21 | |||||||||
| Kulna–Sannok (THA) | 12 | 15 | |||||||||
| Rank | Team | Pld | W | L |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Xue Chen – Zhang Xi (CHN) | 5 | 4 | 1 |
 | Shinako Tanaka – Eiko Koizumi (JPN) | 5 | 4 | 1 |
 | Wang Jie – Tian Jia (CHN) | 4 | 3 | 1 |
| 4 | Kamoltip Kulna – Jarunee Sannok (THA) | 6 | 3 | 3 |
| 5 | Chiaki Kusuhara – Satoko Urata (JPN) | 5 | 3 | 2 |
| 5 | Yupa Phokongloy – Usa Tenpaksee (THA) | 5 | 3 | 2 |
| 7 | Luk Teck Eng – Beh Shun Thing (MAS) | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| 7 | Diane Pascua – Heidi Ilustre (PHI) | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| 9 | Tse Wing Hung – Kong Cheuk Yee (HKG) | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 9 | Irina Penkina – Olga Dyachenko (KAZ) | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 9 | Marina Storozhenko – Yelena Alenkina (KAZ) | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 9 | Geethika Gunawardena – Sujeewa Wijesinghe (SRI) | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 13 | Liza Aghasy – Lida Aghasy (IRQ) | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 13 | Tsogtbaataryn Bayarmaa – Yarinpiliin Enkhmaa (MGL) | 2 | 0 | 2 |
Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, and historically Byelorussia, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east and northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Covering an area of 207,600 square kilometres (80,200 sq mi) and with a population of 9.3 million, Belarus is the 13th-largest and the 20th-most populous country in Europe. The country is administratively divided into seven regions. Minsk is the capital and largest city.
Chelsea Football Club is an English professional football club based in Fulham, West London. Founded in 1905, the club competes in the Premier League, the top division of English football. Domestically, the club has won six league titles, eight FA Cups, five League Cups, and four FA Community Shields. Internationally, Chelsea are the only English team to have won the three active major UEFA trophies. They have won two European Cups, two UEFA Cup Winners' Cups, two UEFA Cups, two UEFA Super Cups, and one FIFA Club World Cup. In terms of trophies won, it is the fourth-most successful club in English football.
The FIFA World Cup, often simply called the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global governing body. The championship has been awarded every four years since the inaugural tournament in 1930, except in 1942 and 1946 when it was not held because of the Second World War. The current champion is France, which won its second title at the 2018 tournament in Russia.
George Harrison was an English musician, singer-songwriter, and music and film producer who achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles. Sometimes called "the quiet Beatle", Harrison embraced Indian culture and helped broaden the scope of popular music through his incorporation of Indian instrumentation and Hindu-aligned spirituality in the Beatles' work. Although the majority of the band's songs were written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, most Beatles albums from 1965 onwards contained at least two Harrison compositions. His songs for the group include "Taxman", "Within You Without You", "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", "Here Comes the Sun" and "Something".
Michael Schumacher is a German former racing driver who competed in Formula One for Jordan, Benetton, Ferrari, and Mercedes. Schumacher has a joint-record seven World Drivers' Championship titles and, at the time of his retirement from the sport in 2012, he held the records for the most wins (91), pole positions (68), and podium finishes (155)—which have since been broken by Hamilton—while he maintains the record for the most fastest laps (77), among others.
Thomas Cruise Mapother IV is an American actor and producer. One of the world's highest-paid actors, he has received various accolades throughout his career, including three Golden Globe Awards, in addition to nominations for a British Academy Film Award and three Academy Awards. His films have grossed over $4 billion in North America and over $10.1 billion worldwide, making him one of the highest-grossing box office stars of all time.
2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2006th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 6th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 7th year of the 2000s decade.
Christopher George Latore Wallace, better known by his stage names the Notorious B.I.G., Biggie Smalls, or simply Biggie, was an American rapper and songwriter. Rooted in the New York rap scene and gangsta rap traditions, he is widely considered one of the greatest rappers of all time. Wallace became known for his distinctive laid-back lyrical delivery, offsetting the lyrics' often grim content. His music was often semi-autobiographical, telling of hardship and criminality, but also of debauchery and celebration.
The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation is the principal security agency of Russia and the main successor agency to the Soviet Union's KGB. Its primary responsibilities are within the country and include counter-intelligence, internal and border security, counter-terrorism, and surveillance as well as investigating some other types of serious crimes and federal law violations. It is headquartered in Lubyanka Square, Moscow's center, in the main building of the former KGB. According to the 1995 Federal Law "On the Federal Security Service", the director of the FSB is appointed by and directly answerable to the president of Russia.
The Wii is a home video game console developed and marketed by Nintendo. It was first released on November 19, 2006, in North America and in December 2006 for most other regions of the world. It is Nintendo's fifth major home game console, following the GameCube and is a seventh generation home console alongside Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3.
Toni Michele Braxton is an American singer, songwriter, pianist, actress, and television personality. She has sold over 70 million records worldwide and is one of the best-selling female R&B artists in history. Braxton has won seven Grammy Awards, nine Billboard Music Awards, seven American Music Awards, and numerous other accolades. In 2011, Braxton was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame. In 2017 she was honored with the Legend Award at the Soul Train Music Awards.
Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal is an American actor. Born into the Gyllenhaal family, he is the son of director Stephen Gyllenhaal and screenwriter Naomi Foner; his older sister is actress Maggie Gyllenhaal. He began acting as a child, making his acting debut in City Slickers (1991), followed by roles in his father's films A Dangerous Woman (1993) and Homegrown (1998). His breakthrough roles were as Homer Hickam in October Sky (1999) and as a psychologically troubled teenager in Donnie Darko (2001).
Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include a search engine, online advertising technologies, cloud computing, software, and hardware. It is considered one of the Big Five American information technology companies, alongside Amazon, Apple, Meta and Microsoft.
George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009. A member of the Bush family and Republican Party, he previously served as the 46th governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000.
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. was an American politician who served as the 38th president of the United States from 1974 to 1977. He previously served as the leader of the Republican Party in the House of Representatives, and as the 40th vice president of the United States from 1973 to 1974. When President Richard Nixon resigned in 1974, Ford succeeded to the presidency, but was defeated for election to a full term in 1976.
The Iraq War was a protracted armed conflict in Iraq from 2003 to 2011 that began with the invasion of Iraq by the United States–led coalition which overthrew the Iraqi government of Saddam Hussein and installed the Iraqi Interim Government. Considered an illegal war by the United Nations the conflict continued for much of the next decade as an insurgency emerged to oppose the coalition forces and the post-invasion Iraqi government. An estimated 151,000 to 1,033,000 Iraqis died in the first three to five years of conflict. US troops were officially withdrawn in 2011. The United States became re-involved in 2014 at the head of a new coalition, and the insurgency and many dimensions of the armed conflict continue today. The invasion occurred as part of the George W. Bush administration's War on Terror following the September 11 attacks, despite there being no connection between the attacks and Iraq.
Wikipedia is a free content, multilingual online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers through a model of open collaboration, using a wiki-based editing system. Individual contributors, also called editors, are known as Wikipedians. Wikipedia is the largest and most-read reference work in history. It is consistently one of the 15 most popular websites ranked by Alexa; as of 2021, Wikipedia was ranked the 13th most popular site. It is hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, an American non-profit organization funded mainly through donations.
Angelina Jolie is an American actress, filmmaker, and humanitarian. The recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award and three Golden Globe Awards, she has been named Hollywood's highest-paid actress multiple times.
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is the national broadcaster of the United Kingdom. Headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, it is the world's oldest national broadcaster, and the largest broadcaster in the world by number of employees, employing over 22,000 staff in total, of whom approximately 19,000 are in public-sector broadcasting.
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary political leader who served as the first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the country's first black head of state and the first elected in a fully representative democratic election. His government focused on dismantling the legacy of apartheid by tackling institutionalised racism and fostering racial reconciliation. Ideologically an African nationalist and socialist, he served as the president of the African National Congress (ANC) party from 1991 to 1997.
