Speed skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics

Speed skating at the XX Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Oval Lingotto
Dates	11–25 February 2006
No. of events	12
Competitors	175 from 19 nations

Speed skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics was held over ten days, from 11 to 25 February. Twelve events were contested at the Oval Lingotto.

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 metres	Joey Cheek  United States	69.76	Dmitry Dorofeyev  Russia	70.41	Lee Kang-seok  South Korea	70.43
1000 metres	Shani Davis  United States	1:08.89	Joey Cheek  United States	1:09.16	Erben Wennemars  Netherlands	1:09.32
1500 metres	Enrico Fabris  Italy	1:45.97	Shani Davis  United States	1:46.13	Chad Hedrick  United States	1:46.22
5000 metres	Chad Hedrick  United States	6:14.68	Sven Kramer  Netherlands	6:16.40	Enrico Fabris  Italy	6:18.25
10,000 metres	Bob de Jong  Netherlands	13:01.57	Chad Hedrick  United States	13:05.40	Carl Verheijen  Netherlands	13:08.80
Team pursuit	Italy Matteo Anesi Stefano Donagrandi* Enrico Fabris Ippolito Sanfratello	3:44.46	Canada Arne Dankers Steven Elm Denny Morrison* Jason Parker* Justin Warsylewicz	3:47.28	Netherlands Sven Kramer Rintje Ritsma* Mark Tuitert Carl Verheijen Erben Wennemars*	3:44.53 (Final B)

* Skaters who did not participate in the final, but received medals.

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 metres	Svetlana Zhurova  Russia	76.57	Wang Manli  China	76.78	Ren Hui  China	76.87
1000 metres	Marianne Timmer  Netherlands	1:16.05	Cindy Klassen  Canada	1:16.09	Anni Friesinger  Germany	1:16.11
1500 metres	Cindy Klassen  Canada	1:55.27	Kristina Groves  Canada	1:56.74	Ireen Wüst  Netherlands	1:56.90
3000 metres	Ireen Wüst  Netherlands	4:02.43	Renate Groenewold  Netherlands	4:03.48	Cindy Klassen  Canada	4:04.37
5000 metres	Clara Hughes  Canada	6:59.07	Claudia Pechstein  Germany	7:00.08	Cindy Klassen  Canada	7:00.57
Team pursuit	Germany Daniela Anschütz-Thoms Anni Friesinger Lucille Opitz* Claudia Pechstein Sabine Völker*	3:01.25	Canada Kristina Groves Clara Hughes Cindy Klassen* Christine Nesbitt Shannon Rempel*	3:02.91	Russia Yekaterina Abramova Varvara Barysheva* Galina Likhachova* Yekaterina Lobysheva Svetlana Vysokova	Overtook (Final B)

* Skaters who did not participate in the final, but received medals.

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	3	3	1	7
2	Netherlands	3	2	4	9
3	Canada	2	4	2	8
4	Italy	2	0	1	3
5	Germany	1	1	1	3
	Russia	1	1	1	3
7	China	0	1	1	2
8	South Korea	0	0	1	1
Totals (8 entries)		12	12	12	36

Records

The combination of low altitude and high humidity at the Oval Lingotto in Turin created fairly slow ice conditions, relative to previous Olympic ovals, such as the Utah Olympic Oval. This meant that no world records in speed skating were set at the Games, and the only Olympic records set were in the two debut events, the men's and women's team pursuits.

Event	Date	Round	Team	Time	OR	WR
Men's team pursuit	15 February	Heat 1	Germany Stefan Heythausen Robert Lehmann Tobias Schneider	3:49.59	OR
	15 February	Heat 3	Netherlands Rintje Ritsma Mark Tuitert Carl Verheijen	3:48.02	OR
	15 February	Heat 4	Canada Arne Dankers Steven Elm Denny Morrison	3:47.37	OR
	15 February	Quarterfinals	Netherlands Sven Kramer Carl Verheijen Erben Wennemars	3:44.65	OR
	15 February	Quarterfinals	Italy Matteo Anesi Enrico Fabris Ippolito Sanfratello	3:43.64	OR
Women's team pursuit	15 February	Heat 1	Norway Annette Bjelkevik Hedvig Bjelkevik Maren Haugli	3:06.34	OR
	15 February	Heat 3	Russia Yekaterina Abramova Galina Likhachova Yekaterina Lobysheva	3:05.93	OR
	15 February	Quarterfinals	Canada Kristina Groves Cindy Klassen Christine Nesbitt	3:01.24	OR

Participating NOCs

Nineteen nations competed in the speed skating events at Torino.

•  Austria (1)
•  Belarus (1)
•  Belgium (1)
•  Canada (18)
•  China (15)
•  Czech Republic (1)
•  Finland (4)
•  Germany (13)
•  Italy (8)
•  Japan (19)
•  Kazakhstan (4)
•  South Korea (14)
•  Netherlands (20)
•  Norway (10)
•  Poland (5)
•  Romania (2)
•  Russia (19)
•  Sweden (2)
•  United States (18)