Cross-country skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics

Cross-country skiing
at the XX Olympic Winter Games
Cross-country skiing; at the XX Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Pragelato Plan
Dates	February 11–26
No. of events	12
Competitors	307 from 53 nations
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The cross-country skiing events at the 2006 Winter Olympics featured 12 events, from February 11, 2006 to 26 February 2006 at Pragelato in Turin.

Medal summary

Medal table

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1	Sweden (SWE)	3	0	2	5
2	Estonia (EST)	3	0	0	3
3	Russia (RUS)	2	2	3	7
4	Italy (ITA)	2	0	2	4
5	Czech Republic (CZE)	1	2	0	3
6	Canada (CAN)	1	1	0	2
7	Germany (GER)	0	3	1	4
7	Norway (NOR)	0	3	1	4
9	France (FRA)	0	1	0	1
10	Austria (AUT)	0	0	1	1
	Finland (FIN)	0	0	1	1
	Poland (POL)	0	0	1	1

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
15 kilometre classical details	Andrus Veerpalu Estonia	Lukáš Bauer Czech Republic	Tobias Angerer Germany
30 kilometre pursuit details	Yevgeny Dementyev Russia	Frode Estil Norway	Pietro Piller Cottrer Italy
50 kilometre freestyle details	Giorgio Di Centa Italy	Yevgeny Dementyev Russia	Mikhail Botvinov Austria
4 x 10 kilometre relay details	Italy (ITA) Fulvio Valbusa Giorgio Di Centa Pietro Piller Cottrer Cristian Zorzi	Germany (GER) Andreas Schlütter Jens Filbrich René Sommerfeldt Tobias Angerer	Sweden (SWE) Mats Larsson Johan Olsson Anders Södergren Mathias Fredriksson
Sprint details	Björn Lind Sweden	Roddy Darragon France	Thobias Fredriksson Sweden
Team sprint details	Sweden (SWE) Thobias Fredriksson Björn Lind	Norway (NOR) Jens Arne Svartedal Tor Arne Hetland	Russia (RUS) Ivan Alypov Vasili Rotchev

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
10 kilometre classical details	Kristina Šmigun Estonia	Marit Bjørgen Norway	Hilde Gjermundshaug Pedersen Norway
15 kilometre pursuit details	Kristina Šmigun Estonia	Kateřina Neumannová Czech Republic	Yevgeniya Medvedeva-Arbuzova Russia
30 kilometre freestyle details	Kateřina Neumannová Czech Republic	Yuliya Chepalova Russia	Justyna Kowalczyk Poland
4 x 5 kilometre relay details	Russia (RUS) Natalia Baranova-Masolkina Larisa Kurkina Yuliya Chepalova Yevgeniya Medvedeva-Arbuzova	Germany (GER) Stefanie Böhler Viola Bauer Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle Claudia Künzel\|	Italy (ITA) Arianna Follis Gabriella Paruzzi Antonella Confortola Sabina Valbusa
Sprint details	Chandra Crawford Canada	Claudia Künzel Germany	Alyona Sidko Russia
Team sprint details	Lina Andersson and Anna Dahlberg (SWE)	Sara Renner and Beckie Scott (CAN)	Aino-Kaisa Saarinen and Virpi Kuitunen (FIN)

Participating nations

^[1] Fifty-three nations contributed competitors to the events. Below is a list of the competing nations; in parentheses are the number of national competitors.

Algeria (1)
Andorra (1)
Argentina (1)
Armenia (2)
Australia (3)
Austria (7)
Belarus (7)
Bosnia and Herzegovina (2)
Brazil (2)
Bulgaria (1)
Canada (12)
China (20)
Costa Rica (1)
Croatia (4)

Czech Republic (11)
Spain (5)
Estonia (12)
Ethiopia (1)
Finland (13)
France (11)
Germany (11)
Greece (2)
Hungary (2)
India (1)
Iran (1)
Ireland (1)
Italy (17)

Japan (9)
Kazakhstan (17)
Kenya (1)
South Korea (4)
Latvia (4)
Liechtenstein (1)
Lithuania (2)
Moldova (2)
Mongolia (2)
Macedonia (1)
Nepal (1)
Norway (16)
Poland (3)

References

^ ^a ^b "Torino 2006 Official Report - Cross Country Skiing" (PDF). Torino Organizing Committee. LA84 Foundation. March 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-06-12. Retrieved Jun 23, 2009. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |dead-url= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

[CrossCountry-1] "Torino 2006 Official Report - Cross Country Skiing" (PDF). Torino Organizing Committee. LA84 Foundation. March 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-06-12. Retrieved Jun 23, 2009. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |dead-url= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

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