Cross-country skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics

The cross-country skiing events at the 2006 Winter Olympics featured 12 events, from 11 to 26 February 2006 at Pragelato in Turin.^[1]

Cross-country skiing at the XX Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Pragelato Plan
Dates	11–26 February 2006
No. of events	12
Competitors	307 from 53 nations
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Medal summary

Medal table

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Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Sweden	3	0	2	5
2	Estonia	3	0	0	3
3	Russia	2	2	3	7
4	Italy	2	0	2	4
5	Czech Republic	1	2	0	3
6	Canada	1	1	0	2
7	Germany	0	3	1	4
	Norway	0	3	1	4
9	France	0	1	0	1
10	Austria	0	0	1	1
	Finland	0	0	1	1
	Poland	0	0	1	1
Totals (12 entries)		12	12	12	36

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
15 km classical details	Andrus Veerpalu  Estonia	Lukáš Bauer  Czech Republic	Tobias Angerer  Germany
30 km pursuit details	Yevgeny Dementyev  Russia	Frode Estil  Norway	Pietro Piller Cottrer  Italy
50 km freestyle details	Giorgio Di Centa  Italy	Yevgeny Dementyev  Russia	Mikhail Botvinov  Austria
4 × 10 km relay details	Italy Fulvio Valbusa Giorgio Di Centa Pietro Piller Cottrer Cristian Zorzi	Germany Andreas Schlütter Jens Filbrich René Sommerfeldt Tobias Angerer	Sweden Mats Larsson Johan Olsson Anders Södergren Mathias Fredriksson
Sprint details	Björn Lind  Sweden	Roddy Darragon  France	Thobias Fredriksson  Sweden
Team sprint details	Sweden Thobias Fredriksson Björn Lind	Norway Jens Arne Svartedal Tor Arne Hetland	Russia Ivan Alypov Vasily Rochev

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
10 km classical details	Kristina Šmigun  Estonia	Marit Bjørgen  Norway	Hilde Gjermundshaug Pedersen  Norway
15 km pursuit details	Kristina Šmigun  Estonia	Kateřina Neumannová  Czech Republic	Yevgeniya Medvedeva-Arbuzova  Russia
30 km freestyle details	Kateřina Neumannová  Czech Republic	Yuliya Chepalova  Russia	Justyna Kowalczyk  Poland
4 × 5 km relay details	Russia Natalya Baranova-Masalkina Larisa Kurkina Yuliya Chepalova Yevgeniya Medvedeva-Arbuzova	Germany Stefanie Böhler Viola Bauer Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle Claudia Künzel	Italy Arianna Follis Gabriella Paruzzi Antonella Confortola Sabina Valbusa
Sprint details	Chandra Crawford  Canada	Claudia Künzel  Germany	Alyona Sidko  Russia
Team sprint details	Sweden Lina Andersson Anna Dahlberg	Canada Sara Renner Beckie Scott	Finland Aino-Kaisa Saarinen Virpi Kuitunen

Participating nations

Fifty-three nations contributed competitors to the events. Below is a list of the competing nations; in parentheses are the number of national competitors.^[2]

•  Algeria (1)
•  Andorra (1)
•  Argentina (1)
•  Armenia (2)
•  Australia (3)
•  Austria (7)
•  Belarus (7)
•  Bosnia and Herzegovina (2)
•  Brazil (2)
•  Bulgaria (1)
•  Canada (12)
•  China (20)
•  Costa Rica (1)
•  Croatia (4)
•  Czech Republic (11)
•  Spain (5)
•  Estonia (12)
•  Ethiopia (1)
•  Finland (13)
•  France (11)
•  Germany (11)
•  Greece (2)
•  Hungary (2)
•  India (1)
•  Iran (1)
•  Ireland (1)
•  Italy (17)
•  Japan (9)
•  Kazakhstan (17)
•  Kenya (1)
•  South Korea (4)
•  Latvia (4)
•  Liechtenstein (1)
•  Lithuania (2)
•  Moldova (2)
•  Mongolia (2)
•  Macedonia (1)
•  Nepal (1)
•  Norway (16)
•  Poland (3)
•  Portugal (1)
•  Romania (3)
•  South Africa (1)
•  Russia (18)
•  Serbia and Montenegro (2)
•  Slovenia (5)
•  Switzerland (9)
•  Slovakia (6)
•  Sweden (15)
•  Thailand (1)
•  Turkey (3)
•  Ukraine (12)
•  United States (16)

See also

• Cross-country skiing at the 2006 Winter Paralympics