| Two-woman at the XX Olympic Winter Games | |||||||||||||
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 The USA-1 sled of Rohbock and Fleming traverses a corner. | |||||||||||||
| Venue | Cesana Pariol | ||||||||||||
| Dates | February 20 — 21, 2006 | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 32 from 10 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning time | 3:49.98 | ||||||||||||
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| Bobsleigh at the 2006 Winter Olympics | ||
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The Two-woman bobsleigh competition at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy was held on 20 and 21 February, at Cesana Pariol. [1]
While the IOC does not consider bobsled times eligible for Olympic records, the FIBT does maintain records for both the start and a complete run at each track it competes.
Prior to this competition, the existing Cesana Pariol track records were as follows.
| Type [2] | Date | Team | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Start | 21 January 2005 |  United States Shauna Rohbock Valerie Fleming | 5.22 |
| Run | 7 January 2006 |  Italy Gerda Weissensteiner Jennifer Isacco | 58.57 |
The following track records were established during this event.
| Type [2] | Date | Run | Team | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Start | 20 February | 1 |  Canada (CAN-1)Helen Upperton Heather Moyse | 5.16 |
| Run | 20 February | 1 |  Germany (GER-2)Susi Lisa Erdmann Nicole Herschmann | 57.26 |
| 20 February | 1 | Germany (GER-1) Sandra Kiriasis Anja Schneiderheinze | 57.16 |
15 of the 16 two-woman teams entered for the event completed all four runs, with the Netherlands-1 team of Broeders and Pennings the only team not to do so. The Dutch pair crashed on the first run, and, while neither was injured, they did not compete in subsequent runs. [3]
The total time for all four runs was used to determine the final ranking. Sandra Kiriasis and Anja Schneiderheinze, the 2005 World Champions won gold by 0.71 seconds, having the fastest time in three of the four runs. [2]
| Rank | Country | Athletes | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Germany (GER-1) | Sandra Kiriasis Anja Schneiderheinze | 57.16 | 57.77 | 57.34 | 57.71 | 3:49.98 |
 |  United States (USA-1) | Shauna Rohbock Valerie Fleming | 57.37 | 57.65 | 57.78 | 57.89 | 3:50.69 |
 |  Italy (ITA-1) | Gerda Weissensteiner Jennifer Isacco | 57.50 | 57.67 | 57.71 | 58.13 | 3:51.01 |
| 4 | Canada (CAN-1) | Helen Upperton Heather Moyse | 57.37 | 57.77 | 58.09 | 57.83 | 3:51.06 |
| 5 | Germany (GER-2) | Susi Lisa Erdmann Nicole Herschmann | 57.26 | 57.75 | 58.04 | 58.27 | 3:51.32 |
| 6 | United States (USA-2) | Jean Prahm Vonetta Flowers | 57.97 | 57.67 | 57.81 | 58.33 | 3:51.78 |
| 7 |  Russia | Victoria Tokovaia Nadezhda Orlova | 57.64 | 57.72 | 58.44 | 58.13 | 3:51.93 |
| 8 |  Switzerland (SUI-1) | Maya Bamert Martina Feusi | 57.72 | 57.78 | 58.00 | 58.54 | 3:52.04 |
| 9 |  Great Britain | Nicola Minichiello Jackie Davies | 57.78 | 57.49 | 58.41 | 58.48 | 3:52.16 |
| 10 | Switzerland (SUI-2) | Sabina Hafner Cora Huber | 57.86 | 57.92 | 58.73 | 58.35 | 3:52.86 |
| 11 |  Netherlands (NED-2) | Eline Jurg Kitty van Haperen | 58.05 | 58.08 | 58.42 | 58.353 | 3:52.90 |
| 12 | Italy (ITA-2) | Jessica Gillarduzzi Fabiana Mollica | 58.26 | 57.77 | 58.38 | 58.55 | 3:52.96 |
| 13 | Canada (CAN-2) | Suzanne Gavine-Hlady Jamie Cruickshank | 58.49 | 57.86 | 58.65 | 58.82 | 3:52.96 |
| 14 |  Australia | Astrid Loch-Wilkinson Kylie Reed | 58.53 | 58.85 | 59.00 | 58.73 | 3:55.11 |
| 15 |  Japan | Manami Hino Chisato Nagaoka | 59.41 | 58.80 | 59.51 | 59.77 | 3:57.49 |
| - | Netherlands (NED-1) | Ilse Broeders Jeannette Pennings | 60.13 | DNS | — | — | — |
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