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.

[edit] Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	3	3	1	7
2	Netherlands (NED)	3	2	4	9
3	Canada (CAN)	2	4	2	8
4	Italy (ITA)	2	0	1	3
5	Germany (GER)	1	1	1	3
5	Russia (RUS)	1	1	1	3
7	China (CHN)	0	1	1	2
8	South Korea (KOR)	0	0	1	1

[edit] Men's events

[edit] 500 m speed skating

Main article: Speed skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics - Men's 500 metres

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)

[edit] 1000 m speed skating

Main article: Speed skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics - Men's 1000 metres

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Shani Davis (USA)	1:08.89
Silver	Joey Cheek (USA)	1:09.16
Bronze	Erben Wennemars (NED)	1:09.32

[edit] 1500 m speed skating

Main article: Speed skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics - Men's 1500 metres

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

[edit] 5000 m speed skating

Main article: Speed skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics - Men's 5000 metres

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

[edit] 10000 m speed skating

Main article: Speed skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics - Men's 10000 metres

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

[edit] Team pursuit

The Italian men's team was well behind the Dutch team in their semi-final heat, and although they were gaining it was late in the race and the Dutch seemed en route to a victory. However, Dutch skater Sven Kramer fell on a corner, taking his team's chances down with him and allowing Italy to go through, where they overcame the Canadians for a surprise gold.

Skaters in italics skated the final heat

Medal	Athlete	Time
Final A^[1]
Gold	Italy (Matteo Anesi, Stefano Donagrandi, Enrico Fabris, Ippolito Sanfratello)	3:44.46
Silver	Canada (Arne Dankers, Steven Elm, Denny Morrison, Jason Parker, Justin Warsylewicz)	+2.82
Final B ^[2]
Bronze	Netherlands (Sven Kramer, Rintje Ritsma, Mark Tuitert, Carl Verheijen, Erben Wennemars)	3:44.53
4	Norway (Håvard Bøkko, Eskil Ervik, Mikael Flygind Larsen, Øystein Grødum, Lasse Sætre)	+1.43
Final C^[3]
5	Russia (Artyom Detyshev, Aleksandr Kibalko, Yevgeny Lalenkov, Dmitry Shepel, Ivan Skobrev)	3:46.91
6	United States (K.C. Boutiette, Chad Hedrick, Charles Leveille, Clay Mull, Derek Parra)	+2.82
Final D^[4]
7	Germany (Jörg Dallmann, Stefan Heythausen, Robert Lehmann, Tobias Schneider)	3:48.28
8	Japan (Kesato Miyazaki, Teruhiro Sugimori, Takahiro Ushiyama)	+2.09