# Cross-country skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Women's 4 × 5 kilometre relay

The Women's 4 × 5 kilometre relay cross-country skiing competition at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy was held on 18 February, at Pragelato.
Vibeke Skofterud, Hilde Gjermundshaug Pedersen, Kristin Størmer Steira and Marit Bjørgen of Norway were the defending World Champions, but finished third at a pre-Olympic World Cup event in Val di Fiemme, where a team representing Finland won. Germany were defending Olympic champions, with Claudia Künzel, Manuela Henkel, Viola Bauer and Evi Sachenbacher.

## Results

Each team used four skiers, with each completing racing over the same 5 kilometre circuit. The first two raced in the classical style, and the final pair of skiers raced freestyle.
The race was started at 09:45.
| Rank | Bib | Team | Time | Deficit |
| | 2 | Russia Natalya Baranova-Masalkina Larisa Kurkina Yuliya Chepalova Yevgeniya Medvedeva-Arbuzova | 54:47.7 14:34.9 14:41.8 12:41.2 12:49.8 | – |
| | 4 | Germany Stefanie Böhler Viola Bauer Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle Claudia Künzel | 54:57.7 14:33.9 14:19.5 12:50.6 13:13.7 | +10.0 |
| | 3 | Italy Arianna Follis Gabriella Paruzzi Antonella Confortola Sabina Valbusa | 54:58.7 14:32.0 14:26.1 13:05.0 12:55.6 | +11.0 |
| 4 | 8 | Sweden Anna Dahlberg Elin Ek Britta Johansson Norgren Anna-Karin Strömstedt | 55:00.3 14:23.9 14:38.6 12:55.0 13:02.8 | +12.6 |
| 5 | 1 | Norway Kristin Størmer Steira Hilde Gjermundshaug Pedersen Kristin Mürer Stemland Marit Bjørgen | 55:21.8 14:23.5 14:29.3 13:03.7 13:25.3 | +34.1 |
| 6 | 6 | Czech Republic Helena Erbenová Kamila Rajdlová Ivana Janečková Kateřina Neumannová | 55:46.3 14:40.8 15:03.0 13:16.6 12:45.9 | +58.6 |
| 7 | 5 | Finland Aino-Kaisa Saarinen Virpi Kuitunen Riitta-Liisa Lassila Kati Venäläinen | 55:55.8 14:21.1 14:30.4 13:13.4 13:50.9 | +1:08.1 |
| 8 | 16 | Ukraine Kateryna Grygorenko Tetyana Zavalíy Vita Yakymchuk Valentyna Shevchenko | 56:36.3 14:56.5 15:01.8 13:33.4 13:04.6 | +1:48.6 |
| 9 | 9 | France Aurélie Perrillat Karine Philippot Cécile Storti Émilie Vina | 56:41.4 14:27.9 14:31.2 13:22.1 14:20.2 | +1:53.7 |
| 10 | 17 | Canada Milaine Thériault Sara Renner Amanda Ammar Beckie Scott | 56:49.8 15:09.6 14:04.5 14:31.5 13:04.2 | +2:02.1 |
| 11 | 11 | Switzerland Seraina Mischol Laurence Rochat Natascia Leonardi Cortesi Seraina Boner | 56:52.4 14:25.3 15:03.4 13:29.4 13:54.3 | +2:04.7 |
| 12 | 12 | Japan Nobuko Fukuda Masako Ishida Sumiko Yokoyama Madoka Natsumi | 56:57.8 14:20.0 15:22.8 13:18.8 13:56.2 | +2:10.1 |
| 13 | 7 | Kazakhstan Oxana Yatskaya Yevgeniya Voloshenko Elena Kolomina Svetlana Malahova-Shishkina | 57:52.9 15:02.6 15:52.3 13:41.8 13:16.2 | +3:05.2 |
| 14 | 15 | United States Wendy Kay Wagner Kikkan Randall Sarah Konrad Rebecca Dussault | 57:58.4 15:00.0 15:28.5 13:43.5 13:46.4 | +3:10.7 |
| 15 | 10 | Belarus Alena Sannikova Ludmila Korolik Shablouskaya Ekaterina Rudakova Bulauka Olga Vasiljonok | 58:19.5 14:54.0 15:24.0 14:09.9 13:51.6 | +3:31.8 |
| 16 | 14 | China Wang Chunli Li Hongxue Liu Yuanyuan Song Bo | 58:42.5 14:58.0 15:01.6 13:47.5 14:55.4 | +3:54.8 |
| 17 | 13 | Estonia Piret Pormeister Silja Suija Kaili Sirge Tatjana Mannima | 1:00:24.4 15:46.7 16:03.5 14:12.6 14:21.6 | +5:36.7 |