Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical re ...

was the host nation for the

2006 Winter Olympics The 2006 Winter Olympics, officially the XX Olympic Winter Games ( it, XX Giochi olimpici invernali) and also known as Torino 2006, were a winter multi-sport event held from 10 to 26 February 2006 in Turin, Italy. This marked the second t ...

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. It was the second time that Italy had hosted the Winter Games (after the

1956 Winter Olympics The 1956 Winter Olympics, officially known as the VII Olympic Winter Games ( it, VII Giochi Olimpici invernali) and commonly known as Cortina d'Ampezzo 1956 ( lld, Anpezo 1956 or ), was a multi-sport event held in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, from ...

Cortina d'Ampezzo Cortina d'Ampezzo (; lld, Anpezo, ; historical de-AT, Hayden) is a town and ''comune'' in the heart of the southern (Dolomitic) Alps in the Province of Belluno, in the Veneto region of Northern Italy. Situated on the Boite river, in an alp ...

) and the third time overall (after the

1960 Summer Olympics The 1960 Summer Olympics ( it, Giochi Olimpici estivi del 1960), officially known as the Games of the XVII Olympiad ( it, Giochi della XVII Olimpiade) and commonly known as Rome 1960 ( it, Roma 1960), were an international multi-sport event held ...

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). Italy's flag bearer for the opening ceremony was figure skater Carolina Kostner. Kostner's cousin,

Isolde Kostner Isolde Kostner (born 20 March 1975) is an Italian former Alpine skier who won two bronze medals at the 1994 Winter Olympics and a silver medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics. She was the Italian flag bearer at the opening ceremony of the 2002 Olym ...

, was Italy's flag bearer at the

2002 Winter Olympics The 2002 Winter Olympics, officially the XIX Olympic Winter Games and commonly known as Salt Lake 2002 ( arp, Niico'ooowu' 2002; Gosiute Shoshoni: ''Tit'-so-pi 2002''; nv, Sooléí 2002; Shoshoni: ''Soónkahni 2002''), was an internation ...

Medalists

Host

Italy were hosting the Winter Olympics for the second time. The

were held in

. Cortina d'Ampezzo had also been awarded the

1944 Winter Olympics The 1944 Winter Olympics, which would have been officially known as the V Olympic Winter Games (after the cancellation of 1940s V Olympic Winter Games) (Italian: ''V Giochi olimpici invernali''), were to have been celebrated in February 1944 in ...

which were cancelled due to

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Alpine skiing

;Men ;Women 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

;Distance ;Men ;Women ;Sprint

Curling

Men's tournament

Team:

Joël Retornaz Joël Thierry Retornaz (born 30 September 1983 in Chêne-Bougeries, Genève, Switzerland) is an Italian curler from Cembra. He was the skip of the Italian men's Olympic curling team in 2006, 2018, and 2022. Retornaz gained sudden renown in Ital ...

(skip), Fabio Alvera, Gian Paolo Zandegiacomo , Antonio Menardi, Marco Mariani (alternate) ;Round robin ;Draw 1 ;Draw 2 ;Draw 3 ;Draw 5 ;Draw 7 ;Draw 8 ;Draw 9 ;Draw 10 ;Draw 12 ;Standings

Women's tournament

Team:

Diana Gaspari Diana Gaspari (born 6 May 1984 in Innichen (San Candido)) is an Italian curler from Cortina d'Ampezzo Cortina d'Ampezzo (; lld, Anpezo, ; historical de-AT, Hayden) is a town and ''comune'' in the heart of the southern (Dolomitic) Alps in ...

(skip),

Giulia Lacedelli Giulia Lacedelli (born 22 March 1971 in Cortina d'Ampezzo) is an Italian curler. She started playing curling in 1986 and currently plays lead on the Italian National Women's Curling Team skipped by Veronica Zappone.Rosa Pompanin,

Violetta Caldart Violetta Caldart (born 10 October 1969 in Auronzo di Cadore) is an Italian curler who lives in Chur, Switzerland. Caldart started playing curling in 1992. She plays in first position and is right-handed. She coached the Italian team at t ...

, Eleonora Alvera (alternate) ;Round robin ;Draw 1 ;Draw 3 ;Draw 4 ;Draw 5 ;Draw 7 ;Draw 8 ;Draw 9 ;Draw 10 ;Draw 11 ;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

Ice hockey

Men's tournament

;Players ;Round-robin

Women's tournament

;Players ;Round-robin ;Classification games ;5th-8th classification ;7th place game

Luge

Nordic combined

Davide Bresadola Davide Bresadola (born 10 September 1988) is an Italian Nordic combined athlete. He has competed in most of the World Cup events in his discipline since 2005. In 2004, he finished second at the Italian championships of Nordic combined skiing. At ...

took part in both Nordic combined and ski jumping. 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

took part in both Nordic combined and 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

;Team Pursuit Anesi Fabris Sanfratello 2006

Athlete's oath

Italian skier

Giorgio Rocca Giorgio Rocca (born 6 August 1975) is an Italian former alpine skier, a specialist in slalom skiing. Together with Marc Girardelli, Ingemar Stenmark and Marcel Hirscher, he is one of four skiers to have won 5 Alpine Skiing World Cup slaloms in a ...

delivered the Olympic Oath at the opening ceremonies of the Olympics.

References

External links

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