Speed skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics

Speed skating at the XX Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Oval Lingotto
Dates	11–25 February 2006
No. of events	12
Competitors	175 from 19 nations
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Speed skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics was held over ten days, from 11 to 25 February. Twelve events were contested at the Oval Lingotto. ^[1]

Medal summary

Men's events

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Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 metres details	Joey Cheek   United States	69.76	Dmitry Dorofeyev   Russia	70.41	Lee Kang-seok   South Korea	70.43
1000 metres details	Shani Davis   United States	1:08.89	Joey Cheek   United States	1:09.16	Erben Wennemars   Netherlands	1:09.32
1500 metres details	Enrico Fabris   Italy	1:45.97	Shani Davis   United States	1:46.13	Chad Hedrick   United States	1:46.22
5000 metres details	Chad Hedrick   United States	6:14.68	Sven Kramer   Netherlands	6:16.40	Enrico Fabris   Italy	6:18.25
10,000 metres details	Bob de Jong   Netherlands	13:01.57	Chad Hedrick   United States	13:05.40	Carl Verheijen   Netherlands	13:08.80
Team pursuit details	Italy Matteo Anesi Stefano Donagrandi * Enrico Fabris Ippolito Sanfratello	3:44.46	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 details	Svetlana Zhurova   Russia	76.57	Wang Manli   China	76.78	Ren Hui   China	76.87
1000 metres details	Marianne Timmer   Netherlands	1:16.05	Cindy Klassen   Canada	1:16.09	Anni Friesinger   Germany	1:16.11
1500 metres details	Cindy Klassen   Canada	1:55.27	Kristina Groves   Canada	1:56.74	Ireen Wüst   Netherlands	1:56.90
3000 metres details	Ireen Wüst   Netherlands	4:02.43	Renate Groenewold   Netherlands	4:03.48	Cindy Klassen   Canada	4:04.37
5000 metres details	Clara Hughes   Canada	6:59.07	Claudia Pechstein   Germany	7:00.08	Cindy Klassen   Canada	7:00.57
Team pursuit details	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
	Russia  (RUS)	1	1	1	3
7	China  (CHN)	0	1	1	2
8	South Korea  (KOR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (8 entries)		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. ^[3] 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 [2]	Date	Round	Team	Time	OR	WR
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

Nineteen nations competed in the speed skating events at Torino.

•   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. "Speed Skating at the 2006 Torino Winter Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 7 November 2019.
2. "Torino 2006 Official Report - dan jansen" (PDF). Torino Organizing Committee. LA84 Foundation. March 2009. Retrieved 20 May 2009.
3. "Slow Italian oval keeps speedskating records on ice". Associated Press. ESPN. 24 February 2006. Retrieved 21 May 2009.