Figure skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics

Figure Skating

at the XX Olympic Winter Games

Venue| Palavela
Dates| 11–24 February
Competitors| 147 from 35 nations

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Figure skating at the
2006 Winter Olympics

Singles| men| ladies
Pairs| mixed
Ice dance| mixed

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Four figure skating events at the 2006 Winter Olympics were held at the Palavela in Turin.

Lithuanian ice dancers Margarita Drobiazko and Povilas Vanagas (who were married in 2000) became the first figure skaters to compete at five Olympics.

## Medal summary[edit]

### Medalists[edit]

[1]

Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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Men's singles
details | Evgeni Plushenko
Russia | Stéphane Lambiel
Switzerland | Jeffrey Buttle
Canada
Ladies' singles
details | Shizuka Arakawa
Japan | Sasha Cohen
United States | Irina Slutskaya
Russia
Pairs
details |  Tatiana Totmianina
and Maxim Marinin (RUS) |  Zhang Dan
and Zhang Hao (CHN) |  Shen Xue
and Zhao Hongbo (CHN)
Ice dance
details |  Tatiana Navka
and Roman Kostomarov (RUS) |  Tanith Belbin
and Benjamin Agosto (USA) |  Elena Grushina
and Ruslan Goncharov (UKR)

### Medal table[edit]

[1]

Rank| Nation| Gold| Silver| Bronze| Total

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1|  Russia| 3| 0| 1| 4
2|  Japan| 1| 0| 0| 1
3|  United States| 0| 2| 0| 2
4|  China| 0| 1| 1| 2
5|  Switzerland| 0| 1| 0| 1
6|  Canada| 0| 0| 1| 1
Ukraine| 0| 0| 1| 1
Totals (7 entries)| 4| 4| 4| 12

## Entries[edit]

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Country  | Men  | Ladies  | Pairs  | Ice dance

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Armenia |  |  |  | Anastasia Grebenkina / Vazgen Azrojan
Australia |  | Joanne Carter |  |
Austria | Viktor Pfeifer |  |  |
Azerbaijan |  |  | Kristin Fraser / Igor Lukanin |
Belarus | Sergei Davydov |  |  |
Belgium | Kevin Van Der Perren |  |  |
Bulgaria | Ivan Dinev |  | Rumiana Spassova / Stanimir Todorov | Albena Denkova / Maxim Staviski
Canada | Jeffrey Buttle
Emanuel Sandhu
Shawn Sawyer | Mira Leung
Joannie Rochette | Jessica Dube / Bryce Davison
Valerie Marcoux / Craig Buntin | Marie-France Dubreuil / Patrice Lauzon
Megan Wing / Aaron Lowe
China | Chengjiang Li
Min Zhang | Yan Liu | Qing Pang / Jian Tong
Xue Shen / Hongbo Zhao
Dan Zhang / Hao Zhang |
Croatia |  | Idora Hegel |  |
Czech Republic | Tomas Verner |  |  |
Estonia |  | Elena Glebova | Diana Rennik / Aleksei Saks |
Finland |  | Kiira Korpi
Susanna Poykio |  |
France | Frederic Dambier
Brian Joubert |  | Marylin Pla / Yannick Bonheur | Isabelle Delobel / Olivier Schoenfelder
Nathalie Pechalat / Fabian Bourzat
Georgia | Vakhtang Murvanidze | Elene Gedevanishvili |  |
Germany | Stefan Lindemann |  | Eva-Maria Fitze / Rico Rex
Aliona Savchenko / Robin Szolkowy |
Great Britain |  |  |  | Sinead Kerr / John Kerr
Hungary | Zoltan Tóth | Viktória Pavuk
Júlia Sebestyén |  | Nóra Hoffman / Attila Elek
Israel |  |  |  | Galit Chait / Sergei Sakhnovski
Alexandra Zaretski / Roman Zaretski
Italy | Karel Zelenka | Silvia Fontana
Carolina Kostner |  | Federica Faiella / Massimo Scali
Barbara Fusar Poli / Maurizio Margaglio
Japan | Daisuke Takahashi | Miki Ando
Shizuka Arakawa
Fumie Suguri |  | Nozomi Watanabe / Akiyuki Kido
Lithuania |  |  |  | Margarita Drobiazko / Povilas Vanagas
Luxembourg |  | Fleur Maxwell |  |
Poland |  |  | Dorota Zagorska / Mariusz Siudek | Alexandra Kauc / Michal Zych
North Korea | Jong In Han | Yong Suk Kim | Yong Myong Phyo / Yong Hyok Jong |
Romania | Gheorghe Chiper | Roxana Luca |  |
Russia | Ilia Klimkin
Evgeni Plushenko | Irina Slutskaya
Elena Sokolova | Julia Obertas / Sergei Slavnov
Maria Petrova / Alexei Tikhonov
Tatiana Totmianina / Maxim Marinin | Oksana Domnina / Maxim Shabalin
Tatiana Navka / Roman Kostomarov
Jana Khokhlova / Sergei Novitski
Serbia and Montenegro | Trifun Zivanovic |  |  |
Slovenia | Gregor Urbas |  |  |
Sweden | Kristoffer Berntsson |  |  |
Switzerland | Stephane Lambiel
Jamal Othman | Sarah Meier |  |
Turkey |  | Tugba Karademir |  |
Ukraine | Anton Kovalevski | Galina Efremenko
Elena Liashenko | Julia Beloglazova / Andrei Bekh
Tatiana Volosozhar / Stanislav Morozov | Julia Golovina / Oleg Voiko
Elena Grushina / Ruslan Goncharov
United States | Evan Lysacek
Matthew Savoie
Johnny Weir | Sasha Cohen
Emily Hughes
Kimmie Meissner | Marcy Hinzmann / Aaron Parchem
Rena Inoue / John Baldwin | Tanith Belbin / Benjamin Agosto
Melissa Gregory / Denis Petukhov
Jamie Silverstein / Ryan O'Meara
Uzbekistan |  | Anastasia Gimazetdinova | Marina Aganina / Artem Knyazev |

## Champions Gala[edit]

The traditional Figure Skating Champions Gala took place on February 24 at Palavela, featuring exhibition performances by the top five placers in the four figure skating events and all the Italian skaters. Pairs skaters Zhang and Zhang (second in pairs) did not participate in the gala.

The following is a partial list of skaters who appeared in the Champions Gala (in order of skate):

Faiella and Scali (Italian dance team), Karel Zelenka (Italian men skater), Silvia Fontana (Italian ladies skater), Denkova and Staviski (fifth in dance), Joannie Rochette (fifth in ladies), Inoue and John Baldwin (seventh in pairs), Johnny Weir (fifth in men), Delobel and Schoenfelder (fourth in dance), Fumie Suguri (fourth in ladies), Petrova and Tikhonov (fifth in pairs), Evan Lysacek (fourth in men), Grushina and Goncharov (third in dance), Irina Slutskaya (third in ladies), Fusar-Poli and Margaglio (Italian dance team), Carolina Kostner (Italian ladies skater), Pang and Tong (fourth in pairs), Jeffrey Buttle (third in men), Belbin and Agosto (second in dance), Sasha Cohen (second in ladies), Shen and Zhao (third in pairs), Stéphane Lambiel (second in men), Navka and Kostomarov (first in dance), Shizuka Arakawa (first in ladies), Totmianina and Marinin (first in pairs), and Evgeni Plushenko (first in men).[citation needed]

Russian pair Tatiana Totmianina / Maxim Marinin and Evgeni Plushenko skate accompanied by Edvin Marton at the violin, playing from the ice.

At the end of the gala, the skaters all gathered together to close the show with their bows.

## Participating NOCs[edit]

[1] Thirty-five nations contributed figure skaters to the events at Torino.

* Armenia (2)
* Australia (1)
* Austria (1)
* Azerbaijan (2)
* Belgium (1)
* Belarus (1)
* Bulgaria (5)
* Canada (13)
* China (9)
* Croatia (1)
* Czech Republic (1)
* Estonia (3)
* Finland (2)
* France (8)
* Georgia (2)
* Germany (5)
* Great Britain (2)
* Hungary (5)
* Israel (4)
* Italy (7)
* Japan (6)
* Lithuania (2)
* Luxembourg (1)
* Poland (4)
* North Korea (4)
* Romania (2)
* Russia (16)
* Serbia and Montenegro (1)
* Slovenia (1)
* Sweden (1)
* Switzerland (3)
* Turkey (1)
* Ukraine (11)
* United States (16)
* Uzbekistan (3)

## References[edit]

1. ^ a b c "Torino 2006 Official Report - Figure Skating" (PDF). Torino Organizing Committee. LA84 Foundation. March 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 12, 2012. Retrieved June 7, 2009.
2. ^ "XX Olympic Winter Games". ISUResults. Retrieved 2 April 2018.

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