List of 2006 Winter Olympics medal winners

List of 2006 Winter Olympics medal winners

This is a list of events and medallists at the 2006 Winter Olympics. The Games featured 84 medal events in 15 disciplines grouped over 7 sports. Events that made Olympic debut in Turin included team pursuit speedskating, snowboard cross, mass start biathlon and team sprint cross country skiing.

In cross country skiing, some of the events involved different distances from those in the 2002 Games or alternating between classic and freestyle techniques.
* Pursuit: Men's 30 km, Women's 15 km. 20 km and 10 km in 2002 respectively in 2002.
* Men's 50 km, Women's 30 km. Changed from classic to freestyle and from interval start to mass start.
* Sprint: Men's 1.35 km, Women's 1.1 km. 1.5 km for both men and women in 2002. Compared to the previous Winter Games in 2002, the men's 30 km and women's 15 km distances were not held in these Games.

In biathlon the women's relay event distance was shorter than the men's. Men and women raced the same 4 x 7.5 km relay in 2002.

Two disciplines were open only to men, namely ski jumping and nordic combined. In biathlon and cross country skiing, men and women raced in different distances for all of the events. Other than those sports, the following events were only open to either one of the genders:


=Slalom=


=Biathlon=

Individual

Mass start

Four-person

print freestyle

Relay

Pairs

Moguls

Doubles

Long Hill Team

1500 m


=Ski jumping=


=Normal Hill - K90=


=Snowboarding=

Halfpipe


=Speed skating=

500 m

3000 m

Team pursuit


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