Figure skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics

The figure skating competitions of the 2006 Winter Olympic Games were held from 11 to 24 February 2006 in Hall Torino Palavela held in Turin. Torino Palaghiaccio was the official training ground. The training began with the opening of the Olympic Village on January 31, 2006.

System of qualification

The qualification based on a point value from the 2005 World Cup or the placement of an International Championship, which by the ISU - had been (International Skating Union International Skating Union ) as the qualification for the Olympic Winter Games.

Qualification by 2005 World Series

Each twenty-four ( 24) qualifying spots for men and women in a single run, sixteen ( 16) qualification slots for couples and nineteen ( 19) qualification slots for ice dance teams were awarded. Names of three (3 ) individual runners / pairs / ice dance teams participating in the World Cup 2005, so only could get the two (2 ) highest-ranking points.

Qualification by International Qualification Championship of ISU

The rest of the qualification slots ( each with 6 places for men and women in a single run, 4 places for couples and 5 places for ice dance teams ) was developed by the NOCs ( National Olympic Committee - National Olympic Committee ) filled with an International Qualification Championship. This took place in the context of Wettberbs Karl Schäfer Memorial 2005. Only one ( 1) qualification slot for each discipline and NOK could be acquired. The courses are intended for those NOCs that before in any of the disciplines ( Single Drive - Men / Women, pair skating, ice dancing ) be able to qualify.

Medal Tally

Medalist

Gentlemen

Date: February 14, 19:00 clock ( short program ) February 16 19:00 clock ( Freestyle)

Yevgeny Plyushchenko won consider how rare a figure skater before. None of the pursuer was flawless in the free skate. Only the confident after the short program on the hopeless 10 Rank Evan Lysacek lying and finished fourth. Also notable was the 9th place of the Belgian Kevin van der Perren.

The only German participants Stefan Lindemann was after a very poor and weak Kurzkür freestyle only 21 of 24 runners in the final with only 172.57 points. Only successful milestone in his freestyle was the triple Axel.

The 18- year-old Austrian Viktor Pfeifer was 22 with 163.87 points.

Ladies

Date: February 21 19:00 clock ( short program ) February 23 19:00 clock ( Freestyle)

Shizuka Arakawa became the first Asian to an Olympic gold medal in figure skating. Medal winners were the three after the Kurzkür leaders. All three remained flawless in the Kurzkür. In the free skate, Sasha Cohen and Irina Sluzkaja made ​​mistakes. Shizuka Arakawa remained in the freestyle without blemish and also showed the best skate technology of all runners. The South Tyrolean Carolina Kostner was for errors in Kurzkür and freestyle still ninth. Featured appearances also provided Fumie Suguri and the only 16 -year-old Kimmie Meissner runners from the USA and Elene Gedevanishvili from Georgia. Miki Ando was denied by the quadruple Salchow.

German and Austrian runners were not at the start.

Couples

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Date: February 11, 2006, 19:00 Clock ( short program ) February 13, 2006, 19:00 clock ( Freestyle)

After a heavy fall of Zhang Dan, the pair Zhang Dan & Zhang Hao had to interrupt the freestyle few minutes. She suffered a ligament strain. However, they claimed the second position after the short program. The fall prevented the first quadruple throw Salchow - at an international competition.

Even in the short program, there was a world first. Rena Inoue and John Baldwin were the first thrown triple Axel in an international competition. They could not win a medal, because they do not Triple jump showed side by side in the short program. In the freestyle Rena Inoue crashed when thrown triple Axel.

Couples from Austria and Switzerland were not at the start.

Ice Dancing

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Date: February 17, 2006, 19:00 clock ( Compulsory Dance ) February 19, 2006, 19:00 Clock ( Original Dance ) February 20, 2006, 19:00 Clock ( Free Dance )

The Compulsory Dance and Original Dance were characterized by ice dancing for the unusually high number of errors and crashes by medal candidates. In Galit Chait duty / Sergei Sakhnovski rushed. In the original dance rushed included Marie -France Dubreuil / Patrice Lauzon ( they were due to injury no longer on the freestyle ), Barbara Fusar-Poli/Maurizio Margaglio, Margarita Drobiazko / Povilas Vanagas and Federica Faiella / Massimo Scali. Albena Denkowa / Maxim Stawiski also made ​​serious mistakes. All of these errors were very severely punished by the new rating system and the classification changed completely after compulsory - very unusual for the ice dancing.

With a little spectacular freestyle Tatjana Nawka / Kostomarow novel also won the Eistanzwettbewerb total. Across all three competition parts they made the fewest mistakes. Outstanding choreography were not rewarded. This was supplied by Margarita Drobiazko / Povilas Vanagas Albena Denkowa / Maxim Stawiski and Isabelle Delobel / Olivier Schoenfelder, the latter were Kürzweite - all these pairs remained without a medal.

It was in this contest no participants from Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

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