Germany competed at the 2006 Winter Olympics in

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, winning once again the most total medals of any nation. The ''National Olympic Committee of Germany'' (german: Nationales Olympisches Komitee für Deutschland, reorganized to

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(german: Deutscher Olympischer Sportbund, ''DOSB'') in May 2006) nominated a total of 162 (164) athletes to compete, as the 5th largest team, in all 15 of the

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Medalists

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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

;Men ;Women

Bobsleigh

Cross-country skiing

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in her blood.For høye blodverdier for Sachenbacher
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Curling

Men's tournament

Team:

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(skip), Uli Kapp, Oliver Axnick, Holger Höhne, Andreas Kempf (alternate) ;Round Robin ;Draw 2 ;Draw 3 ;Draw 5 ;Draw 6 ;Draw 7 ;Draw 9 ;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

Ice hockey

Germany's ice hockey contingent was the nation's largest at the Olympics, with 20 women and 23 men.

Men's tournament

;Players ;Results ;Round-robin ;Standings

Women's tournament

;Players ;Results ;Round-robin ;Standings ;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

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

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. ;Snowboard Cross

Speed skating

;Men ;Women Anni Friesinger Torino 2006

;Team Pursuit

Notes and references

Further references

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NOK-Präsidium nominiert weitere 135 Aktive für die Olympischen Winterspiele - 162 Sportlerinnen und Sportler nach Turin
from nok.de, retrieved 25 January 2006 *
27 Turin Tickets vergeben - Präsidium benennt Dr. Clemens Prokop als Vertreter für Findungskommission des DOSB-Präsidiums
from nok.de, retrieved 25 January 2006 {{DEFAULTSORT:Germany At The 2006 Winter Olympics Nations at the 2006 Winter Olympics 2006

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