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participated at the

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. It sent a total of 190 athletes to participate in all 15 of the

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. Dmitry Dorofeev, a speed skater, served as flag bearer at the

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Medalists

Olga Pyleva Olga Valeryevna Medvedtseva (russian: Ольга Валерьевна Медведцева), former Pyleva (russian: Пылёва), née Zamorozova (russian: Заморозова), (born 7 July 1975) is a former Russian biathlon, biathlete. At th ...

won the silver in the women's 15 km race, but was later disqualified for failing a drug test.

Alpine skiing

Note: In the men's combined, run 1 is the downhill, and runs 2 and 3 are the slalom. In the women's combined, run 1 and 2 are the slalom, and run 3 the downhill.

Biathlon

Olga Pyleva was stripped of her silver medal in the women's individual after testing positive for

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, a stimulant. ;Men ;Women

Bobsleigh

Cross-country skiing

;Distance ;Men ;Women ;Sprint

Curling

Women's tournament

Team:

Ludmila Privivkova Liudmila Andreyevna Privivkova (russian: Людмила Андреевна Прививкова) (born 13 September 1986 in Moscow; also spelled Ludmila or Liudmilla, but she spells it Liudmila) is a Curling, curler (Skip (curling), Skip) from Ru ...

(skip),

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, Yana Nekrasova, Yekaterina Galkina and Olga Zharkova (alternate) ;Round Robin ;Draw 2 ;Draw 3 ;Draw 4 ;Draw 5 ;Draw 7 ;Draw 8 ;Draw 10 ;Draw 11 ;Draw 12 ;Standings

Figure skating

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

Freestyle skiing

;Men ;Women

Ice hockey

Men's tournament

The

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men's team finished the round robin portion of the competition ranked second in Group B, losing just once, to

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. It beat

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in thequarter finals, but lost both the semifinal and bronze medal game to finish fourth overall ;Players ;Round-robin ;Medal round ;Quarterfinal ;Semifinal ;Bronze game

Women's tournament

The

women's team lost to both

and

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, and failed to progress to the medal round. In the 5th place game, the team lost on a shootout to

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. ;Players ;Round-robin ;Classification games ;5th-8th classification ;5th place game

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

Key: 'ADV' indicates a skater was advanced due to being interfered with.

Skeleton

Ski jumping

Snowboarding

;Halfpipe 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.

Speed skating

;Men ;Women ;Team pursuit

References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Russia At The 2006 Winter Olympics Nations at the 2006 Winter Olympics

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