Speed skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics

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For the short track speed skating events, see Short track speed skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics

Speed skating at Turin

At the 2006 Winter Olympics, twelve speed skating events were contested at the Oval Lingotto.

Oval Lingotto, the venue for speed skating in Turin.

Medal table

Pos.	Country				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	Korea	0	0	1	1

Men's events

500 m speed skating

Event held February 13, 2006

Medal	Athlete	Time (1st–2nd race)
Gold	Joey Cheek (USA)	69.76 (34.82–34.94)
Silver	Dmitry Dorofeyev (RUS)	70.41 (35.24–35.17)
Bronze	Lee Kang-Seok (KOR)	70.43 (35.34–35.09)

1000 m speed skating

Shani Davis (USA)

Joey Cheek (USA)

Erben Wennemars (NED)

1500 m speed skating

Italian Enrico Fabris became the first non-American to win an individual men's event through the first four races of the Turin Winter Games.

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Enrico Fabris (ITA)	1:45.96
Silver	Shani Davis (USA)	1:46.13
Bronze	Chad Hedrick (USA)	1:46.22

5000 m speed skating

The 5,000 metres was held on the first day of competition, 11 February. The American Chad Hedrick, a former inline skater, began his quest to emulate Eric Heiden by taking five gold medals well, racing a time of 6:14.68, 0.02 seconds behind the four-year-old Olympic record of Jochem Uytdehaage, which was enough to clinch gold. Dutchman Sven Kramer won the silver medal, 1.72 seconds adrift, while home skater Enrico Fabris took Italy's first medal by skating home the bronze in the very last pair.

Eric Heiden, now a United States Olympic speed skating team medical official, was in the audience with current First Lady Laura Bush. Hedrick met with the First Lady at the end of the competition.

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Chad Hedrick (USA)	6:14.68
Silver	Sven Kramer (NED)	6:16.40
Bronze	Enrico Fabris (ITA)	6:18.25

10000 m speed skating

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Bob de Jong (NED)	13:01.57
Silver	Chad Hedrick (USA)	13:05.40
Bronze	Carl Verheijen (NED)	13:08.80

Team pursuit

Skaters in italics skated the final heat

Medal	Athlete	Time
Final A[Men's Team Pursuit Final A], from torino2006.org
Gold	Matteo Anesi, Stefano Donagrandi, Enrico Fabris, Ippolito Sanfratello)	3:44.46
Silver	Arne Dankers, Steven Elm, Denny Morrison, Jason Parker, Justin Warsylewicz)	+2.82
Final B [Men's Team Pursuit Final B], from torino2006.org
Bronze	Sven Kramer, Rintje Ritsma, Mark Tuitert, Carl Verheijen, Erben Wennemars)	3:44.53
4	Håvard Bøkko, Eskil Ervik, Mikael Flygind Larsen, Øystein Grødum, Lasse Sætre)	+1.43
Final C[Men's Team Pursuit Final C], from torino2006.org
5	Aleksandr Kibalko, Yevgeny Lalenkov, Dmitry Shepel, Ivan Skobrev)	3:46.91
6	K.C. Boutiette, Chad Hedrick, Charles Leveille, Clay Mull, Derek Parra)	+2.82
Final D[Men's Team Pursuit Final D], from torino2006.org
7	Stefan Heythausen, Robert Lehmann, Tobias Schneider)	3:48.28
8	Kesato Miyazaki, Teruhiro Sugimori, Takahiro Ushiyama)	+2.09

Women's events

500 m speed skating

The race was held on February 14, 2006. 34-year-old Russian Svetlana Zhurova, who left speed skating in 2003 to become a mother, became the oldest woman to win a speed skating gold medal by clocking times of 38.23 and 38.34. In the last pair of the second round, she beat Chinese Wang Manli, runner-up in the first round with 38.31, by 0.13 seconds to secure the gold medal. Asians occupy seven of the top nine places [Results - Speed Skating Women’s 2x500 m], from cbc.ca, retrieved 14 February 2006[Zhurova wins 500 m, Rempel 16th], from cbc.ca, retrieved 14 February 2006.

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Svetlana Zhurova (RUS)	76.57 (38.23–38.34)
Silver	Wang Manli (CHN)	76.78 (38.31–38.47)
Bronze	Ren Hui (CHN)	76.87 (38.60–38.27)
4	Tomomi Okazaki (JPN)	76.92 (38.46–38.46)
5	Lee Sang Hwa (KOR)	77.04 (38.69–38.35)
6	Jenny Wolf (GER)	77.25 (38.70–38.55)
7	Wang Beixing (CHN)	77.27 (38.71–38.56)
8	Sayuri Osuga (JPN)	77.39 (38.74–38.65)
9	Sayuri Yoshii (JPN)	77.43 (38.68–38.75)
10	Chiara Simionato (ITA)	77.68 (39.02–38.66)

1000 m speed skating

Marianne Timmer (NED)

Cindy Klassen (CAN)

Anni Friesinger (GER)

1500 m speed skating

Defending champion Anni Friesinger of Germany finished fourth and missed out on the medals.

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Cindy Klassen (CAN)	1:55.27
Silver	Kristina Groves (CAN)	1:56.74
Bronze	Ireen Wüst (NED)	1:56.90

3000 m speed skating

Main article: Speed skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics - Women's 3000 metres.

5000 m speed skating

Team pursuit

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