| Figure Skating at the XX Olympic Winter Games | |
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| Venue | Palavela |
| Dates | 11–24 February 2006 |
| Competitors | 147 from 35 nations |
| Figure skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics | ||
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| Singles | men | ladies |
| Pairs | mixed | |
| Ice dance | mixed | |
Fourfigure skating events at the2006 Winter Olympics were held at thePalavela inTurin.
Lithuanian ice dancersMargarita Drobiazko andPovilas Vanagas (who were married in 2000) became the first figure skaters to compete atfive Olympics.
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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| Men's singles details | Evgeni Plushenko Russia | Stéphane Lambiel Switzerland | Jeffrey Buttle Canada |
| Ladies' singles details | Shizuka Arakawa Japan | Sasha Cohen United States | Irina Slutskaya Russia |
| Pairs details | Tatiana Totmianina andMaxim Marinin (RUS) |  Zhang DanandZhang Hao (CHN) | Shen Xue andZhao Hongbo (CHN) |
| Ice dance details | Tatiana Navka andRoman Kostomarov (RUS) | Tanith Belbin andBenjamin Agosto (USA) |  Elena GrushinaandRuslan Goncharov (UKR) |
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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| 1 | Russia | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 2 | Japan | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 | United States | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 4 | China | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 5 | Switzerland | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | Canada | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Ukraine | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (7 entries) | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 | |
The traditional Figure Skating Champions Gala took place on February 24 at Palavela, featuring exhibition performances by the top five placers in the four figure skating events and all the Italian skaters. Pairs skaters Zhang and Zhang (second in pairs) did not participate in the gala.
The following is a partial list of skaters who appeared in the Champions Gala (in order of skate):
Faiella andScali (Italian dance team),Karel Zelenka (Italian men skater),Silvia Fontana (Italian ladies skater),Denkova andStaviski (fifth in dance),Joannie Rochette (fifth in ladies),Inoue andJohn Baldwin (seventh in pairs),Johnny Weir (fifth in men),Delobel andSchoenfelder (fourth in dance),Fumie Suguri (fourth in ladies),Petrova andTikhonov (fifth in pairs),Evan Lysacek (fourth in men), Grushina and Goncharov (third in dance), Irina Slutskaya (third in ladies),Fusar-Poli andMargaglio (Italian dance team),Carolina Kostner (Italian ladies skater),Pang andTong (fourth in pairs), Jeffrey Buttle (third in men), Belbin and Agosto (second in dance),Sasha Cohen (second in ladies), Shen and Zhao (third in pairs),Stéphane Lambiel (second in men), Navka and Kostomarov (first in dance),Shizuka Arakawa (first in ladies), Totmianina and Marinin (first in pairs), and Evgeni Plushenko (first in men).[citation needed]
Russian pairTatiana Totmianina /Maxim Marinin andEvgeni Plushenko skate accompanied byEdvin Marton at the violin, playing from the ice.
At the end of the gala, the skaters all gathered together to close the show with their bows.
[1]Thirty-five nations contributed figure skaters to the events at Torino.
Armenia (2)
Australia (1)
Austria (1)
Azerbaijan (2)
Belgium (1)
Belarus (1)
Bulgaria (5) Canada (13) China (9)
Croatia (1)
Czech Republic (1)
Estonia (3)
Finland (2)
France (8)
Georgia (2)
Germany (5)
Great Britain (2)
Hungary (5)
Israel (4)
Italy (7) Japan (6)
Lithuania (2)
Luxembourg (1)
Poland (4)
North Korea (4)
Romania (2) Russia (16)
Serbia and Montenegro (1)
Slovenia (1)
Sweden (1) Switzerland (3)
Turkey (1) Ukraine (11) United States (16)
Uzbekistan (3)
