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competed at the

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. Shizuka Arakawa won the country's only medal, a gold, in women's

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. She was the first person born and raised in Asia to become an Olympic champion in that event. Athletes representing Japan participated in all but one of the 2006 Olympics' 15 sports, with

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the only exception.

Medalists

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Alpine skiing

Biathlon

;Men ;Women

Bobsleigh

Chisato Nagaoka and Manami Hino at 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino

Cross-country skiing

;Distance ;Sprint

Curling

Women's

Team: Ayumi Onodera (skip), Yumie Hayashi, Mari Motohashi, Moe Meguro,

Sakurako Terada is a Japanese curler, born May 17, 1984, in Sorachi District, Hokkaidō. History Terada is a member of Team Aomori which was selected to represent Japan at the 2006 Winter Olympicsbr> At the Games she was the alternate under skip Ayumi Onoder ...

(alternate) ;Round Robin ;Draw 2 ;Draw 3 ;Draw 4 ;Draw 5 ;Draw 8 ;Draw 9 ;Draw 10 ;Draw 11 ;Draw 12 ;Standings Key: The hammer indicates which team had the last stone in the first end.

Figure skating

Key: CD = Compulsory Dance, FD = Free Dance, FS = Free Skate, OD = Original Dance, SP = Short Program

Freestyle skiing

;Men ;Women

Luge

Nordic combined

Note: 'Deficit' refers to the amount of time behind the leader a competitor began the cross-country portion of the event. Italicized numbers show the final deficit from the winner's finishing time.

Short track speed skating

Skeleton

Ski jumping

Note: PQ indicates a skier was pre-qualified for the final, based on entry rankings.

Snowboarding

;Halfpipe ;Men ;Women Note: In the final, the single best score from two runs is used to determine the ranking. A bracketed score indicates a run that wasn't counted. ;Parallel GS Key: '+ Time' represents a deficit; the brackets indicate the results of each run. ;Snowboard Cross

Speed skating

;Men ;Women ;Team Pursuit

References

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