Skeleton at the 2006 Winter Olympics

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The skeleton competition at the 2006 Winter Olympic Games was held at Cesana Pariol in Cesana, Italy on February 16 (women's) and February 17 (men's).

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[edit] Medal summary

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's skeleton Canada Duff Gibson
Canada (CAN)		 Canada Jeff Pain
Canada (CAN)		 Switzerland Gregor Stähli
Switzerland (SUI)
Women's skeleton Switzerland Maya Pedersen-Bieri
Switzerland (SUI)		 Great Britain Shelley Rudman
Great Britain (GBR)		 Canada Mellisa Hollingsworth-Richards
Canada (CAN)

[edit] Medal table

 Rank  Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 Canada Canada (CAN) 1 1 1 3
2 Switzerland Switzerland (SUI) 1 0 1 2
3 Great Britain Great Britain (GBR) 0 1 0 1

[edit] Results

[edit] Men

Canadians Duff Gibson and Jeffrey Pain won gold and silver despite Pain nearly losing control of his sled coming around the penultimate corner. Switzerland's Gregor Stähli finished third, beating out Canadian Paul Boehm by only two tenths of a second to prevent a Canadian sweep of the podium.

Rank Name Run 1 Run 2 Total Diff.
1 Canada Duff Gibson (CAN) 0:57.80 0:58.08 1:55.88 —
2 Canada Jeff Pain (CAN) 0:57.98 0:58.16 1:56.14 +0.26
3 Switzerland Gregor Stähli (SUI) 0:58.39 0:58.41 1:56.80 +0.92
4 Canada Paul Boehm (CAN) 0:58.61 0:58.45 1:57.06 +1.18
5 Great Britain Kristan Bromley (GBR) 0:58.35 0:58.75 1:57.10 +1.22
6 United States Eric Bernotas (USA) 0:58.43 0:58.76 1:57.19 +1.31
7 Latvia Martins Dukurs (LAT) 0:58.79 0:58.60 1:57.39 +1.51
8 Great Britain Adam Pengilly (GBR) 0:58.37 0:59.09 1:57.46 +1.58
9 Germany Sebastian Haupt (GER) 0:58.48 0:59.10 1:57.58 +1.70
10 New Zealand Ben Sandford (NZL) 0:59.16 0:58.60 1:57.76 +1.88
11 Japan Kazuhiro Koshi (JPN) 0:58.65 0:59.40 1:58.05 +2.17
12 Italy Maurizio Oioli (ITA) 0:59.28 0:59.24 1:58.52 +2.64
13 Austria Martin Rettl (AUT) 0:59.23 0:59.53 1:58.76 +2.88
14 France Phillippe Cavoret (FRA) 0:59.79 0:59.08 1:58.87 +2.99
15 Russia Alexander Tretiakov (RUS) 0:59.71 0:59.32 1:59.03 +3.15
16 Austria Markus Penz (AUT) 0:59.55 0:59.51 1:59.06 +3.18
17 United States Kevin Ellis (USA) 0:59.46 0:59.75 1:59.21 +3.33
18 Japan Masaru Inada (JPN) 0:59.63 0:59.74 1:59.37 +3.49
19 Bermuda Patrick Singleton (BER) 1:00.06 0:59.75 1:59.81 +3.93
20 Ireland David Connolly (IRL) 0:59.97 1:00.00 1:59.97 +4.09
21 South Africa Tyler Botha (RSA) 0:59.43 1:00.63 2:00.06 +4.18
22 Australia Shaun Boyle (AUS) 1:00.13 1:00.00 2:00.13 +4.25
23 South Korea Kang Kwang Bae (KOR) 1:00.41 0:59.88 2:00.29 +4.41
24 Germany Frank Rommel (GER) 0:59.94 1:00.41 2:00.35 +4.47
25 United States Chris Soule (USA) 1:00.33 1:00.90 2:01.23 +5.35
26 Croatia Nikolai Nimac (CRO) 1:01.86 1:02.44 2:04.30 +8.42
27 Lebanon Patrick Antaki (LIB) 1:03.01 1:01.43 2:04.44 +8.56

[edit] Women

Two-time world champion Maya Pedersen set the two fastest times to win the gold medal, Switzerland's first gold of the games. Shelley Rudman won silver, Great Britain's only medal of the games. Mellisa Hollingsworth-Richards took bronze for Canada, the first Olympic medal in skeleton won by a Canadian athlete.

Rank Name Run 1 Run 2 Total Diff.
1 Switzerland Maya Pedersen-Bieri (SUI) 0:59.64 1:00.19 1:59.83 —
2 Great Britain Shelley Rudman (GBR) 1:00.57 1:00.49 2:01.06 +1.23
3 Canada Mellisa Hollingsworth-Richards (CAN) 1:00.39 1:01.02 2:01.41 +1.58
4 Germany Diana Sartor (GER) 1:00.29 1:01.40 2:01.69 +1.86
5 Italy Costanza Zanoletti (ITA) 1:00.99 1:01.18 2:02.17 +2.34
6 United States Katie Uhlaender (USA) 1:00.87 1:01.43 2:02.30 +2.47
7 Switzerland Tanja Morel (SUI) 1:00.85 1:01.65 2:02.50 +2.67
8 Germany Anja Huber (GER) 1:01.12 1:01.44 2:02.56 +2.73
9 Norway Desiree Bjerke (NOR) 1:00.92 1:01.70 2:02.62 +2.79
10 Canada Lindsay Alcock (CAN) 1:01.26 1:01.59 2:02.85 +3.02
11 Russia Svetlana Trunova (RUS) 1:01.23 1:01.83 2:03.06 +3.23
12 New Zealand Louise Corcoran (NZL) 1:01.06 1:02.03 2:03.09 +3.26
13 Australia Michelle Steele (AUS) 1:01.26 1:02.21 2:03.47 +3.64
14 Japan Eiko Nakayama (JPN) 1:01.82 1:02.10 2:03.92 +4.09
15 Poland Monika Wolowiec (POL) 1:02.31 1:02.99 2:05.30 +5.47

[edit] References

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