| 2006 Winter Olympics medals | |
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| Location | Turin, Italy |
| Highlights | |
| Most gold medals |  Germany (11) |
| Most total medals | Germany (29) |
| Medalling NOCs | 26 |
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The2006 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XX Olympic Winter Games, was a wintermulti-sport event held inTurin,Italy, from February 10 to 26, 2006. A total of 2,508 athletes representing 80National Olympic Committees (NOCs) (+3 from2002 Olympics) participated in 84 events (+6 from 2002) from 15 differentsports and disciplines (unchanged from 2002).[1]
Athletes from 26 NOCs won at least one medal, and athletes from 18 of these NOCs secured at least one gold.[1]Germany won the highest number of gold medals (11) and led in overall medals (29) for the third consecutive Games.Latvia andSlovakia won the first medals in their Winter Olympic history.[2]
Speed skaterCindy Klassen ofCanada won five medals (one gold, two silver and two bronze) and was the most medalled athlete at the Games.BiathleteMichael Greis of Germany andshort track speed skatersAhn Hyun Soo andJin Sun-Yu, both ofSouth Korea, tied for the most gold medals, with three each.[3]
One athlete was stripped of an Olympic medal during these Games.[4]Russian biathleteOlga Pyleva won a silver medal in the 15 km race, but tested positive forcarphedon and lost her medal. Germany'sMartina Glagow was given the silver medal and fellow RussianAlbina Akhatova (who was caught doping in 2009[5] and missed the2010 Olympics) won the bronze.[6]
The IOC has retested nearly 500 doping samples that were collected at the 2006 Turin Games. In 2014, the Estonian Olympic Committee was notified by the IOC that a retested sample from cross-country skierKristina Šmigun had tested positive. On October 24, 2016, theWorld Anti-Doping Agency Athletes' Commission stated that Šmigun, who won two gold medals at the Turin Games, would face aCourt of Arbitration for Sport hearing before the end of October.[7] In December 2017, IOC announced that re-analysis of samples resulted in no positive cases.[8]
The medal table is based on information provided by theInternational Olympic Committee (IOC) and is consistent with IOC conventional sorting in its published medal tables. The table uses theOlympic medal table sorting method. By default, the table is ordered by the number of gold medals the athletes from a nation have won, where a nation is an entity represented by a NOC. The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze medals.[9][10] If teams are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically by theirIOC country code.[11]
* Host nation (Italy)
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Germany | 11 | 12 | 6 | 29 |
| 2 |  United States | 9 | 9 | 7 | 25 |
| 3 |  Austria | 9 | 7 | 7 | 23 |
| 4 |  Russia | 8 | 6 | 8 | 22 |
| 5 |  Canada | 7 | 10 | 7 | 24 |
| 6 |  Sweden | 7 | 2 | 5 | 14 |
| 7 |  South Korea | 6 | 3 | 2 | 11 |
| 8 |  Switzerland | 5 | 4 | 5 | 14 |
| 9 |  Italy* | 5 | 0 | 6 | 11 |
| 10 |  France | 3 | 2 | 4 | 9 |
 Netherlands | 3 | 2 | 4 | 9 | |
| 12 |  Estonia | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 13 |  Norway | 2 | 8 | 9 | 19 |
| 14 |  China | 2 | 4 | 5 | 11 |
| 15 |  Czech Republic | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 16 |  Croatia | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 17 |  Australia | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 18 |  Japan | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 19 |  Finland | 0 | 6 | 3 | 9 |
| 20 |  Poland | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 21 |  Belarus | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 Bulgaria | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
 Great Britain | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
 Slovakia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 25 |  Ukraine | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 26 |  Latvia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (26 entries) | 84 | 84 | 84 | 252 | |
| Olympics | Athlete | Country | Medal | Event | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 Winter Olympics | Olga Pyleva | Russia |  | Biathlon, Women's individual | [13] |
