Russian pair
Tatiana Totmianina and
Maxim Marinin beat two Chinese pairs to take home the gold, posting the only composite score over 200. Chinese pair
Zhang Dan and
Zhang Hao finish their free skate and win the silver medal, despite a fall and injury to Zhang Dan after their attempt at a quadruple throw.
Joey Cheek of the
United States wins the gold medal at the 500 m long track event, skating both runs in less than 35 seconds; the fastest time of any other competitor was that of silver medalist
Dmitry Dorofeyev, with a 35.17.
Lee Kang-seok of Korea wins a bronze medal, the first Korean medal in (long track) speed skating in 14 years.
Ted Ligety wins gold for the
United States in the men's Combined. Then-leader
Bode Miller was disqualified for straddling a gate in the first slalom section; in addition, the leader after the first slalom section,
Benjamin Raich, skied off-course in the second section and was also disqualified.
Ivica Kostelić of
Croatia was second and
Rainer Schönfelder of
Austria took the bronze.
Sweden's first medal in the 2006 Winter Olympics was brought home by
Lina Andersson and
Anna Dahlberg, who won the gold medal in women's team sprint, classical style. Minutes later
Thobias Fredriksson and
Björn Lind did the same in men's team sprint, giving the Swedes a sweep of the event. These were Sweden's first Winter Olympic gold medals since 1994.
RussianEvgeni Plushenko leads after the men's short program. Plushenko's score of 90.66 was the highest for any short program since the current scoring system was adopted in 2003.
In the women's competition,
Canada defeats
Sweden 8–1 and will face
Finland in the semi-final.
USA defeats Finland and will face Sweden in the other semi-final match.
High winds in the ski jumping hill forced the jury to abandon the team competition midway through the second round. The teams resumed the next day. The
Norwegians withdrew due of illness.
Both
Canadian men's and ladies' team pursuit teams set new Olympic records, the first of the 2006 Olympic Games. In the men's competition the record was subsequently broken by the
Netherlands, and then by
Italy.
Evgeni Plushenko of
Russia dominates the competition and takes gold in the men's competition ahead of
Switzerland's
Stéphane Lambiel and
Canada's
Jeffrey Buttle. Plushenko sets a world record for the highest score in the free skate since the new scoring system was adopted in 2003.
Austria wins the men's team competition after
Mario Stecher catches up with
Germany's
Jens Gaiser on the final 5 km leg.
Finland wins bronze, finishing nearly a minute ahead of the rest of the field.
The
German team of
Daniela Anschütz-Thoms,
Anni Friesinger and
Claudia Pechstein defeats the
Canadian team to win gold in the final of the women's team pursuit.
Italy wins its first ever Olympic speed skating gold in the men's team pursuit event. The Italians beat the favored
Dutch team in the semifinals after
Sven Kramer suffers a costly fall. In the final, Italy defeats
Canada, which took its second silver in the Oval Lingotto.
Sweden scores a victory against the
United States in the women's hockey semi-finals after a 3–2
penalty shootout win to advance to the gold medal game. There, they will face
Canada, who shut out
Finland in the other semi-final.
Tanja Frieden of
Switzerland takes the gold in women's snowboarding cross after
Lindsey Jacobellis of the
United States falls on the second-to-last jump while performing an unnecessary method grab to give up the largest lead of the entire tournament. Jacobellis settles for silver, while
Canada's
Dominique Maltais takes bronze after recovering from a crash.
Duff Gibson of
Canada takes gold, just ahead of fellow Canadian
Jeff Pain.
Swiss slider
Gregor Stähli wins the bronze. The 39-year-old Gibson becomes the oldest individual gold medalist in Winter Olympics history.
The
United States takes gold and silver in the men's 1000 m with
Shani Davis outskating
Joey Cheek for first.
Erben Wennemars of the
Netherlands receives bronze. Davis' victory makes him the first black person to win an individual gold medal in the history of the Winter Olympics.
After a disappointing performance on the K90 hill,
Austrian ski jumpers
Thomas Morgenstern and
Andreas Kofler take gold and silver on the large hill, with the smallest possible margin of 0.1 points between them.
NorwegianLars Bystøl, winner of gold on the normal hill, places third, rather far behind the Austrians.
Italy takes the gold in the men's 4x10 km relay, with Italian anchor
Cristian Zorzi crossing the finish line 15 seconds ahead of the
German team.
Sweden takes the bronze.
After downing
Denmark 8–1,
Norway becomes the third team to qualify for the semi-finals in the women's competition, joining
Sweden and
Switzerland.
Canada beats
Denmark 9–8, occupying the fourth playoff spot. In the men's competition,
Canada defeats the
United States 6–3 to qualify for the semi-finals, and will play the USA again in the first game of the medal round.
Despite missing veteran
Olga Pyleva, who failed an anti-
doping test earlier in these Games, the
Russian team of
Albina Akhatova,
Anna Bogaliy,
Svetlana Ishmuratova and
Olga Zaitseva leads from start to finish in the 4x6 km relay, posting a gold medal-winning time of 1:16:12.5. Two-time defending gold medalists from Germany finish 50.7 seconds behind for the silver. The French team take the bronze, more than two minutes back.
The
Swedish women's team skipped by
Anette Norberg win the gold medal match against
Switzerland with a 7–6 double take out on the hammer of the 11th end.
Canada defeats
Norway in the bronze medal match 11–5.
Shizuka Arakawa of
Japan performs a conservative but clean free skate to defeat
Sasha Cohen of the
United States and
Irina Slutskaya of
Russia, who both suffer falls and take silver and bronze, respectively. Arakawa's win gives Japan their first medal in Turin, as well as Japan's first figure skating gold.
Canada defeats
Finland 10–4 in the gold medal match to win the nation's first gold medal in men's curling after winning silver in
Nagano and
Salt Lake City. The
United States men's team defeats
Great Britain by a score of 8–6 to take the bronze medal, America's first medal in curling.
In the men's competition,
Sweden defeats the
Czech Republic 7–3 to advance to the gold medal game. In the other semifinal,
Finland beats
Russia 4–0. Sweden and Finland will face off in the gold medal game, while the Czech Republic will face Russia in the bronze medal game.
Bob de Jong of the
Netherlands, the reigning world champion, sets the winning time at 13:01.57 for the gold medal in the 10000 m event.
AmericanChad Hedrick skates to a silver medal, and the bronze goes to
Carl Verheijen, also of the Netherlands.
American
Apolo Anton Ohno wins the men's 500 m, earning his second career gold medal. Canada's
François-Louis Tremblay wins the silver, while
Ahn Hyun-soo of South Korea wins bronze, earning his third individual medal of the Olympics.
South Korea's
Jin Sun-Yu wins her third gold of the Games in the women's 1000 m. Chinese women
Wang Meng and
Yang Yang (A) take the silver and bronze respectively after 1500 m silver medalist
Choi Eun-Kyung, who originally finished third, is disqualified.
South Korea wins the gold medal in the men's 5000 m relay,
Canada takes the silver, while the
United States gets bronze.
Ahn Hyun-soo wins his third gold medal of the Games, medaling in every men's short track event and bringing his total number of medals in Torino to four. Ahn and Jin become the first Korean athletes to win three gold medals in a single Olympics.
Clara Hughes of
Canada sets the winning time at 6:59.07 for the gold medal in the 5000 m event.
GermanClaudia Pechstein skates to a silver medal, and the bronze goes to another Canadian,
Cindy Klassen, who wins her fifth medal of these Games.
Russian pair
Tatiana Totmianina and
Maxim Marinin beat two Chinese pairs to take home the gold, posting the only composite score over 200. Chinese pair
Zhang Dan and
Zhang Hao finish their free skate and win the silver medal, despite a fall and injury to Zhang Dan after their attempt at a quadruple throw.
Joey Cheek of the
United States wins the gold medal at the 500 m long track event, skating both runs in less than 35 seconds; the fastest time of any other competitor was that of silver medalist
Dmitry Dorofeyev, with a 35.17.
Lee Kang-seok of Korea wins a bronze medal, the first Korean medal in (long track) speed skating in 14 years.
Ted Ligety wins gold for the
United States in the men's Combined. Then-leader
Bode Miller was disqualified for straddling a gate in the first slalom section; in addition, the leader after the first slalom section,
Benjamin Raich, skied off-course in the second section and was also disqualified.
Ivica Kostelić of
Croatia was second and
Rainer Schönfelder of
Austria took the bronze.
Sweden's first medal in the 2006 Winter Olympics was brought home by
Lina Andersson and
Anna Dahlberg, who won the gold medal in women's team sprint, classical style. Minutes later
Thobias Fredriksson and
Björn Lind did the same in men's team sprint, giving the Swedes a sweep of the event. These were Sweden's first Winter Olympic gold medals since 1994.
RussianEvgeni Plushenko leads after the men's short program. Plushenko's score of 90.66 was the highest for any short program since the current scoring system was adopted in 2003.
In the women's competition,
Canada defeats
Sweden 8–1 and will face
Finland in the semi-final.
USA defeats Finland and will face Sweden in the other semi-final match.
High winds in the ski jumping hill forced the jury to abandon the team competition midway through the second round. The teams resumed the next day. The
Norwegians withdrew due of illness.
Both
Canadian men's and ladies' team pursuit teams set new Olympic records, the first of the 2006 Olympic Games. In the men's competition the record was subsequently broken by the
Netherlands, and then by
Italy.
Evgeni Plushenko of
Russia dominates the competition and takes gold in the men's competition ahead of
Switzerland's
Stéphane Lambiel and
Canada's
Jeffrey Buttle. Plushenko sets a world record for the highest score in the free skate since the new scoring system was adopted in 2003.
Austria wins the men's team competition after
Mario Stecher catches up with
Germany's
Jens Gaiser on the final 5 km leg.
Finland wins bronze, finishing nearly a minute ahead of the rest of the field.
The
German team of
Daniela Anschütz-Thoms,
Anni Friesinger and
Claudia Pechstein defeats the
Canadian team to win gold in the final of the women's team pursuit.
Italy wins its first ever Olympic speed skating gold in the men's team pursuit event. The Italians beat the favored
Dutch team in the semifinals after
Sven Kramer suffers a costly fall. In the final, Italy defeats
Canada, which took its second silver in the Oval Lingotto.
Sweden scores a victory against the
United States in the women's hockey semi-finals after a 3–2
penalty shootout win to advance to the gold medal game. There, they will face
Canada, who shut out
Finland in the other semi-final.
Tanja Frieden of
Switzerland takes the gold in women's snowboarding cross after
Lindsey Jacobellis of the
United States falls on the second-to-last jump while performing an unnecessary method grab to give up the largest lead of the entire tournament. Jacobellis settles for silver, while
Canada's
Dominique Maltais takes bronze after recovering from a crash.
Duff Gibson of
Canada takes gold, just ahead of fellow Canadian
Jeff Pain.
Swiss slider
Gregor Stähli wins the bronze. The 39-year-old Gibson becomes the oldest individual gold medalist in Winter Olympics history.
The
United States takes gold and silver in the men's 1000 m with
Shani Davis outskating
Joey Cheek for first.
Erben Wennemars of the
Netherlands receives bronze. Davis' victory makes him the first black person to win an individual gold medal in the history of the Winter Olympics.
After a disappointing performance on the K90 hill,
Austrian ski jumpers
Thomas Morgenstern and
Andreas Kofler take gold and silver on the large hill, with the smallest possible margin of 0.1 points between them.
NorwegianLars Bystøl, winner of gold on the normal hill, places third, rather far behind the Austrians.
Italy takes the gold in the men's 4x10 km relay, with Italian anchor
Cristian Zorzi crossing the finish line 15 seconds ahead of the
German team.
Sweden takes the bronze.
After downing
Denmark 8–1,
Norway becomes the third team to qualify for the semi-finals in the women's competition, joining
Sweden and
Switzerland.
Canada beats
Denmark 9–8, occupying the fourth playoff spot. In the men's competition,
Canada defeats the
United States 6–3 to qualify for the semi-finals, and will play the USA again in the first game of the medal round.
Despite missing veteran
Olga Pyleva, who failed an anti-
doping test earlier in these Games, the
Russian team of
Albina Akhatova,
Anna Bogaliy,
Svetlana Ishmuratova and
Olga Zaitseva leads from start to finish in the 4x6 km relay, posting a gold medal-winning time of 1:16:12.5. Two-time defending gold medalists from Germany finish 50.7 seconds behind for the silver. The French team take the bronze, more than two minutes back.
The
Swedish women's team skipped by
Anette Norberg win the gold medal match against
Switzerland with a 7–6 double take out on the hammer of the 11th end.
Canada defeats
Norway in the bronze medal match 11–5.
Shizuka Arakawa of
Japan performs a conservative but clean free skate to defeat
Sasha Cohen of the
United States and
Irina Slutskaya of
Russia, who both suffer falls and take silver and bronze, respectively. Arakawa's win gives Japan their first medal in Turin, as well as Japan's first figure skating gold.
Canada defeats
Finland 10–4 in the gold medal match to win the nation's first gold medal in men's curling after winning silver in
Nagano and
Salt Lake City. The
United States men's team defeats
Great Britain by a score of 8–6 to take the bronze medal, America's first medal in curling.
In the men's competition,
Sweden defeats the
Czech Republic 7–3 to advance to the gold medal game. In the other semifinal,
Finland beats
Russia 4–0. Sweden and Finland will face off in the gold medal game, while the Czech Republic will face Russia in the bronze medal game.
Bob de Jong of the
Netherlands, the reigning world champion, sets the winning time at 13:01.57 for the gold medal in the 10000 m event.
AmericanChad Hedrick skates to a silver medal, and the bronze goes to
Carl Verheijen, also of the Netherlands.
American
Apolo Anton Ohno wins the men's 500 m, earning his second career gold medal. Canada's
François-Louis Tremblay wins the silver, while
Ahn Hyun-soo of South Korea wins bronze, earning his third individual medal of the Olympics.
South Korea's
Jin Sun-Yu wins her third gold of the Games in the women's 1000 m. Chinese women
Wang Meng and
Yang Yang (A) take the silver and bronze respectively after 1500 m silver medalist
Choi Eun-Kyung, who originally finished third, is disqualified.
South Korea wins the gold medal in the men's 5000 m relay,
Canada takes the silver, while the
United States gets bronze.
Ahn Hyun-soo wins his third gold medal of the Games, medaling in every men's short track event and bringing his total number of medals in Torino to four. Ahn and Jin become the first Korean athletes to win three gold medals in a single Olympics.
Clara Hughes of
Canada sets the winning time at 6:59.07 for the gold medal in the 5000 m event.
GermanClaudia Pechstein skates to a silver medal, and the bronze goes to another Canadian,
Cindy Klassen, who wins her fifth medal of these Games.