Figure skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics

Figure Skating
at the XX Olympic Winter Games
Figure Skating; at the XX Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Palavela
Dates	11–24 February 2006
Competitors	147 from 35 nations
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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

Medalists

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Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
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

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Entries

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Country	Men	Ladies	Pairs	Ice dance
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

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

^[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

^ ^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.
^ "XX Olympic Winter Games". ISUResults. Retrieved 2 April 2018.