# Cross-country skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Women's 15 kilometre pursuit

The Women's 15 kilometre pursuit cross-country skiing competition at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy was held on 12 February, at Pragelato.
Yuliya Chepalova was the reigning World Champion in the event, while Canadian Beckie Scott won the 10 km pursuit at the 2002 Olympics. However, neither were in the medals here; Kristina Šmigun and Kateřina Neumannová were neck-and-neck coming into the stadium, but Šmigun was the quickest through the last straight and won by 1.9 seconds. Russia's Yevgeniya Medvedeva-Arbuzova took bronze.
In 2014, the Estonian Olympic Committee was notified by the IOC that one of Šmigun's samples from the 2006 Turin Games had been retested with a positive result. On 24 October 2016, the World Anti-Doping Agency Athletes' Commission stated that Šmigun faces a Court of Arbitration for Sport hearing before the end of October. If Šmigun were to be stripped of her gold, Kateřina Neumannová of Czech Republic could be elevated to gold in the 15 km pursuit event.

## Results

The pursuit consisted of a 7.5 kilometre section raced in the classical style, followed by a 7.5 kilometre portion raced freestyle. In between, the sections, each skier took time (approximately 30 seconds) to 'pit', changing their skis.
| Rank | Name | Country | Time |
| | Kristina Šmigun | Estonia | 42:48.7 |
| | Kateřina Neumannová | Czech Republic | 42:50.6 |
| | Yevgeniya Medvedeva-Arbuzova | Russia | 43:03.2 |
| 4 | Kristin Størmer Steira | Norway | 43:06.8 |
| 5 | Gabriella Paruzzi | Italy | 43:18.9 |
| 6 | Beckie Scott | Canada | 43:20.6 |
| 7 | Olga Zavyalova | Russia | 43:23.7 |
| 8 | Justyna Kowalczyk | Poland | 43:25.6 |
| 9 | Yuliya Chepalova | Russia | 43:39.5 |
| 10 | Hilde G. Pedersen | Norway | 43:40.5 |
| 11 | Petra Majdič | Slovenia | 43:41.7 |
| 12 | Svetlana Malahova-Shishkina | Kazakhstan | 44:00.0 |
| 13 | Riitta-Liisa Lassila | Finland | 44:06.1 |
| 14 | Valentyna Shevchenko | Ukraine | 44:13.6 |
| 15 | Britta Norgren | Sweden | 44:18.0 |
| 16 | Sara Renner | Canada | 44:30.9 |
| 17 | Sabina Valbusa | Italy | 44:44.7 |
| 18 | Claudia Künzel | Germany | 44:48.1 |
| 19 | Kristin Mürer Stemland | Norway | 44:59.2 |
| 20 | Karine Philippot | France | 45:06.5 |
| 21 | Wang Chunli | China | 45:09.6 |
| 22 | Antonella Confortola | Italy | 45:11.9 |
| 23 | Ivana Janečková | Czech Republic | 45:33.5 |
| 24 | Natascia Leonardi Cortesi | Switzerland | 45:34.3 |
| 25 | Elena Kolomina | Kazakhstan | 45:44.1 |
| 26 | Vita Yakymchuk | Ukraine | 45:48.1 |
| 27 | Li Hongxue | China | 45:56.4 |
| 28 | Stefanie Böhler | Germany | 45:56.9 |
| 29 | Helena Erbenová | Czech Republic | 45:57.0 |
| 30 | Sumiko Yokoyama | Japan | 45:58.6 |
| 31 | Elin Ek | Sweden | 46:02.7 |
| 32 | Liu Yuanyuan | China | 46:18.5 |
| 33 | Elina Hietamäki | Finland | 46:20.5 |
| 34 | Kirsi Välimaa | Finland | 46:25.6 |
| 35 | Masako Ishida | Japan | 46:37.7 |
| 36 | Arianna Follis | Italy | 46:40.9 |
| 37 | Yelena Burukhina | Russia | 46:42.9 |
| 38 | Chizuru Soneta | Japan | 46:45.5 |
| 39 | Maja Benedicic | Slovenia | 46:51.1 |
| 40 | Kateryna Grygorenko | Ukraine | 46:55.2 |
| 41 | Oxana Yatskaya | Kazakhstan | 46:57.0 |
| 42 | Clare-Louise Brumley | Australia | 47:03.1 |
| 43 | Alena Sannikova | Belarus | 47:05.6 |
| 44 | Ludmila Korolik Shablouskaya | Belarus | 47:07.2 |
| 45 | Tetyana Zavalíy | Ukraine | 47:18.7 |
| 46 | Alena Procházková | Slovakia | 47:45.2 |
| 47 | Anna-Karin Strömstedt | Sweden | 47:51.3 |
| 48 | Rebecca Dussault | United States | 47:53.7 |
| 49 | Ekaterina Rudakova Bulauka | Belarus | 48:09.2 |
| 50 | Yevgeniya Voloshenko | Kazakhstan | 48:17.2 |
| 51 | Olga Vasiljonok | Belarus | 48:20.4 |
| 52 | Manuela Henkel | Germany | 48:21.8 |
| 53 | Irina Terentjeva | Lithuania | 48:33.7 |
| 54 | Milaine Thériault | Canada | 48:38.9 |
| 55 | Lindsey Weier | United States | 48:45.0 |
| 56 | Abby Larson | United States | 48:47.5 |
| 57 | Lee Chae-Won | South Korea | 49:01.2 |
| 58 | Xu Yinghui | China | 49:47.3 |
| 59 | Mónika György | Romania | 50:15.3 |
| 60 | Chandra Crawford | Canada | 50:35.4 |
| 61 | Laia Aubert Torrents | Spain | 50:41.3 |
| 62 | Lindsay Williams | United States | 50:49.7 |
| 63 | Laura Orgué | Spain | 51:16.5 |
| 64 | Maja Kezele | Croatia | 51:36.3 |
| | Marit Bjørgen | Norway | DNF |
| | Kelime Aydin | Turkey | DNF |
| | Branka Kuzeljević | Serbia and Montenegro | DNF |