Norway at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Table:
Medal

Name

Sport

Event

Gold
Kjetil André Aamodt
Alpine skiing
Men's super-G

Gold
Lars Bystøl
Ski jumping
Normal hill

Silver
Halvard Hanevold
Biathlon
Men's sprint

Silver
Ole Einar Bjørndalen
Biathlon
Men's pursuit

Silver
Ole Einar Bjørndalen
Biathlon
Men's individual

Silver
Frode Estil
Cross-country skiing
Men's 30 km pursuit

Silver
Marit Bjørgen
Cross-country skiing
Women's 10 km classical

Silver
Tor Arne Hetland
Jens Arne Svartedal
Cross-country skiing
Men's team sprint

Silver
Kari Traa
Freestyle skiing
Women's moguls

Silver
Magnus Moan
Nordic combined
Sprint

Bronze
Frode Andresen
Biathlon
Men's sprint

Bronze
Ole Einar Bjørndalen
Biathlon
Men's mass start

Bronze
Halvard Hanevold
Biathlon
Men's individual

Bronze
Hilde Gjermundshaug Pedersen
Cross-country skiing
Women's 10 km classical

Bronze
Magnus Moan
Nordic combined
Individual

Bronze
Roar Ljøkelsøy
Ski jumping
Normal hill

Bronze
Lars Bystøl
Ski jumping
Large hill

Bronze
Lars Bystøl
Bjørn Einar Romøren
Tommy Ingebrigtsen
Roar Ljøkelsøy
Ski jumping
Team

Bronze
Kjersti Buaas
Snowboarding
Women's halfpipe

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Kjetil André Aamodt ( born 2 September 1971 ) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from Norway , a champion in the Olympics , World Championships , and World Cup . He is the most decorated ski racer from Norway .
Alpine skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics consisted of ten events , held at Sestriere and Cesana-San Sicario , Italy . The races were held 12-25 February 2006 .
The Men 's Super-G competition of the Torino 2006 Olympics was held at Sestriere , Italy , on Saturday , February 18 . In super-G competitions , skiers must navigate between gates at high speed , and the gates are further apart than in slalom and giant slalom competitions . As in the downhill , there is only one run of the super-G . The defending World Cup and world champion in super-G was Bode Miller of the United States , Austria 's Hermann Maier led the current season and won the Olympic gold medal in 1998 ; the defending Olympic champion was Kjetil André Aamodt of Norway . Aamodt won the gold medal again , Maier took the silver , and the bronze medalist was Ambrosi Hoffmann of Switzerland ; Miller did not finish . Through 2018 , this is the only successful Olympic title defense in a men 's alpine speed event . It was Aamodt 's third victory in the Olympic super-G ( 1992 , 2002 , 2006 ) and eighth Olympic medal . Held on the Kandahar Banchetta piste , the course started at an elevation of 2,536 m ( 8,320 ft ) above sea level with a vertical drop of 650 m ( 2,133 ft ) and a course length of 2.325 km ( 1.44 mi ) . Aamodt 's winning time of 90.65 seconds yielded an average course speed of 92.333 km/h ( 57.4 mph ) , with an average vertical descent rate of 7.170 m/s ( 23.5 ft/s ) .
Lars Kristian Bystøl ( born 4 December 1978 ) is a Norwegian former ski jumper who competed from 2002 to 2008 . His career highlights include an individual gold medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics , one individual World Cup victory , a gold medal in the Ski Flying World Championships , and two World Championship bronze medals in team competitions .
Ski jumping at the 2006 Winter Olympics , was held over nine days , from 11 February to 20 February . Three events were contested in Pragelato .
The Men 's normal hill individual ski jumping competition for the 2006 Winter Olympics was held in Pragelato , Italy . It began on 11 February , and concluded on 12 February . Lars Bystøl of Norway won his country 's first gold and his second international victory of the season , beating Matti Hautamäki to the title by only one point . Dmitry Vassiliev could have won Russia 's second ski jumping gold medal ever because he had the best jump in the first round . But as the last starter in the second round , he failed and finished tenth This was the last highly ranked official event participated by Masahiko Harada - who won 2 Olympic medals in Nagano and 1 in Lillehammer - and it was after a break of over 3 years from participating in Ski jumping World Cup . Unfortunately for him , he was disqualified in the qualifying and did not compete in the final . Later he started only in FIS Cup event in Sapporo .
Halvard Hanevold ( 3 December 1969 - 3 September 2019 ) was a Norwegian biathlete .
Biathlon at the 2006 Winter Olympics consisted of ten biathlon events . They were held at the Cesana-San Sicario arena . The events began on 11 February and ended on 25 February 2006 . Approximately 6,500 spectators were expected by the organizing committee . In these games , biathlon events were open to both men and women but they raced in different distances in their own events . Men from 28 nations and women from 27 nations qualified to participate in the events . Only seven nations in total took home medals , Germany winning the most ( 5 gold , 4 silver , 2 bronze ) . Six biathletes won 3 medals each : Albina Akhatova , Kati Wilhelm , Martina Glagow , Michael Greis , Ole Einar Bjørndalen , and Sven Fischer . Greis won the most gold medals , with a total of three .
The Men 's 10 kilometre sprint biathlon competition at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin , Italy was held on 14 February , at Cesana San Sicario . Competitors raced over three loops of the 3.3 kilometre skiing course , shooting ten times , five prone and five standing . Each miss required a competitor to ski a 150-metre penalty loop . Ole Einar Bjørndalen of Norway was the defending World and Olympic champion , but Germany 's Michael Greis led the World Cup standings before the Torino Games , with three more Germans in the top six . [ citation needed ]
Ole Einar Bjørndalen ( born 27 January 1974 ) is a retired Norwegian professional biathlete and coach , often referred to by the nickname , the King of Biathlon . With 13 Winter Olympic Games medals , he is second on the list of multiple medalists behind Marit Bjørgen who has won 15 medals . He is also the most successful biathlete of all time at the Biathlon World Championships , having won 45 medals , more than double that of any other biathlete except Martin Fourcade . With 95 World Cup wins , Bjørndalen is ranked first all-time for career victories on the Biathlon World Cup tour , more than twice that of anyone else but Fourcade . He has won the Overall World Cup title six times , in 1997-98 , in 2002-03 , in 2004-05 , in 2005-06 , in 2007-08 and in 2008-09 . In 1992 , he won his first career medal at the junior world championships . A year later in 1993 , after winning three junior world championship titles , a medal haul only previously achieved by Sergei Tchepikov , Bjørndalen made his Biathlon World Cup debut . His breakthrough came in 1994 when he featured on his first World Cup podium in a sprint race held in Bad Gastein , Austria . Bjørndalen first competed in the Olympic Games at the Lillehammer 1994 Winter Olympics , held in his home country of Norway . He obtained his first major victory on 11 January 1996 in an individual competition held in Antholz-Anterselva , Italy . On 20 February 2014 , Bjørndalen was elected to an eight-year term at the International Olympic Committee 's athlete commission . He resigned from this role in 2016 as he elected to continue his career .
The Men 's 12.5 kilometre biathlon pursuit competition at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin , Italy was held on 18 February , at Cesana San Sicario . Competitors raced over five loops of a 2.5 kilometre skiing course , shooting twenty times , ten prone and ten standing . Each miss required a competitor to ski a 150-metre penalty loop . The starting order for the pursuit was based on the results of the sprint ; the top 60 finishers in that race qualified for the pursuit . In addition , each racer 's final deficit behind sprint winner Sven Fischer corresponded to their starting deficit in the pursuit ; Halvard Hanevold , who finished 8 seconds behind Fischer in the sprint , started 8 seconds after him in the pursuit . The winner was the first racer over the finish line , Vincent Defrasne . Ole Einar Bjørndalen was the defending World and Olympic champion in this event , but was ranked fourth in the World Cup standings before the Games , behind Germany 's Michael Rösch , Frenchman Raphaël Poirée and another German , Sven Fischer . [ citation needed ]
The Men 's 20 kilometre individual biathlon competition at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin , Italy was held on 11 February , at Cesana San Sicario . The individual race consisted of five laps around a four kilometre loop with four stops at the shooting range . During each shooting section , each biathlete fired five shots at five targets . Misses resulted in penalties of one minute per miss being added to the time for the course . The first and third shooting sections were conducted in the prone position , while the second and fourth were done standing . A total of 88 biathletes competed , starting with a staggered start and 30 seconds behind each competitor . Michael Greis of Germany hit 19 of the 20 targets and used a net time of 54:23.0 ( with one penalty minute ) to clinch the gold medal , 16 seconds ahead of Norway 's Ole Einar Bjørndalen . Norway also won the bronze medal , with Halvard Hanevold beating Sergei Tchepikov by 0.8 seconds despite two penalty minutes to the Russian 's one . The previous year 's trial World Cup event at this track saw Michael Greis of Germany win the event in a time of 53:18.7 . At the 2005 World Championships in Hochfilzen , Austria , the Czech Roman Dostál won , while Ole Einar Bjørndalen was the defending Olympic champion , as he was in all the other men 's events ( except the mass start , which is held for the first time at the Olympics ) . However , neither Bjørndalen ( 9th ) nor Dostal ( 33rd ) headed the men 's individual World Cup standings - the German Michael Greis did . The event started with early starters Ricco Groß ( Germany , started as number 4 ) and Pavel Rostovtsev ( Russia , 1 ) shooting well , missing one and two of their 20 shots respectively ; Groß suffered his missed shot on the very last of the four shootings .
Frode Estil ( born 31 May 1972 in Lierne , Nord-Trøndelag ) is a retired Norwegian cross-country skier . He lives in Meråker with his wife Grete whom he married in the summer of 2001 . They have two sons , Bernhard , born in August 2002 , and Konrad . Estil was classical specialist and also a specialist at succeeding in World Championships and Olympics . While Estil only won four World Cup races , he won one individual Olympic Gold and one individual World Championship gold . In addition , he won three team events in the World Championships and another team gold in the Olympics .
The cross-country skiing events at the 2006 Winter Olympics featured 12 events , from 11 to 26 February 2006 at Pragelato in Turin .
The Men 's 30 kilometre pursuit cross-country skiing competition at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin , Italy , was held on 12 February at Pragelato .
Marit Bjørgen ( born 21 March 1980 ) is a retired Norwegian cross-country skier who is the most decorated athlete , male or female , in Winter Olympics history with 15 medals . She is ranked first in the all-time Cross-Country World Cup rankings with 114 individual victories . Bjørgen is also the most successful sprinter in Cross-Country World Cup history , with 29 victories . She headed the medal table at the 2010 Winter Olympics by winning five medals , including three gold . A five-time Olympian , her five Olympic medals at the 2018 Pyeongchang Games brought her total number of medals up to a record 15 , the most by any athlete ( female or male ) in Winter Olympics history . On 6 April 2018 , she announced her retirement from cross-country skiing following the 2017-18 season .
The Women 's 10 kilometre classical cross-country skiing competition at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin , Italy was held on 16 February , at Pragelato . The world champion at the 10 kilometre event was Kateřina Neumannová - however , that was in the freestyle event , and a classical-style 10 kilometre in the World Championship had not been held since 1989 . In the World Cup , however , there had been two events leading up to the Olympics , both won by Norwegians : Marit Bjørgen won at Kuusamo , Finland in November , and Hilde Gjermundshaug Pedersen at Otepää , Estonia in January . Bente Skari won the Olympic gold in 2002 , but did not defend her status , having retired after the 2003 World Championship . Šmigun won her second gold of the Olympics , winning 21 seconds ahead of Marit Bjørgen , with two other Norwegians following . 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 's case will be heard in the Court of Arbitration for Sport by the end of the month . Marit Bjørgen of Norway , winner of the silver medal , would receive the gold medal if Šmigun is stripped of the gold .
Tor Arne Hetland ( born 12 January 1974 ) is a Norwegian cross-country skiing coach and a former professional cross-country skier . Hetland was born in Stavanger . He now lives in Trondheim . While active he represented Byåsen IL ski club . He was coached by Ulf Morten Aune . Hetland is 6 ft 2 in and 12 st 10 lb ( 178 lb ) .
Jens Arne Svartedal ( born February 14 , 1976 ) is a Norwegian former cross-country skier who competed in the World Cup between 1999 and 2010 . He represented Trøsken IL from Sarpsborg in Norway . His greatest achievement is winning the individual sprint gold medal at the 2007 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Sapporo . He also has a silver medal in the Team sprint event at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin . Svartedal has seventeen cross-country victories since 2001 , mostly in the sprint races . Two of those wins were in the sprint events at the Holmenkollen Ski Festival ( 2002 , 2003 ) .
The Men 's team sprint cross-country skiing competition at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin , Italy , was held on 14 February , at Pragelato . This was the first time the team sprint was contested in the Winter Olympics . Each race featured teams of two , with each skier completing 3 laps of a 1325-metre course . Norway , with Tore Ruud Hofstad and Tor Arne Hetland , had won the competition at the 2005 Nordic skiing World Championship , the only time it had been skied in the World Championship prior to the Turin games , but that was in free technique . The most recent team sprint event in classic technique had been in Canmore , Canada , on 18 December 2004 . Jens Arne Svartedal and Eldar Rønning won that race for Norway 's first team . However , despite this good Norwegian record , it was the Sweden 's Thobias Fredriksson and Björn Lind who pipped Norway to the title .
Kari Traa ( born January 28 , 1974 ) is a Norwegian former Olympic freestyle skier . She won the Olympic title in the moguls event at the 2002 Winter Olympics , finished second at the 2006 games , and finished third at the 1998 games .
Four freestyle skiing events were held at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin , at the venue in Sauze d'Oulx . There were both men 's and women 's competition in both aerials and moguls events . In moguls , the athletes ski down a slope littered with moguls , attempting to get down in as fast a time as possible while also attempting to get points for technique and their two aerial jumps during the course . The aerials events consisted of two jumps , which were judged by air , form and landing .
The Women 's Moguls event in freestyle skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin , Italy took place on February 11 .
Magnus Hovdal Moan ( born 26 August 1983 ) is a retired Norwegian Nordic combined skier who has competed since 2002 until 2019 .
Nordic combined at the 2006 Winter Olympics , consisted of three events held over ten days , from 11 February to 21 February . The events took place in Pragelato .
The Men 's sprint Nordic combined competition for the 2006 Winter Olympics was held in Pragelato , Italy . It took place on 21 February .
Frode Andresen ( born 9 September 1973 ) is a former Norwegian biathlete and cross-country skier .
The Men 's 15 kilometre biathlon mass start competition at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin , Italy was held on 25 February , at Cesana San Sicario . Competitors raced over five loops of a 3.0 kilometre skiing course , shooting twenty times , ten prone and ten standing . Each miss required a competitor to ski a 150-metre penalty loop . Only thirty athletes competed in the mass start , which was making its Olympic debut . Ole Einar Bjørndalen was defending World Champion , but was tenth in the overall World Cup , which was led by France 's Raphaël Poirée . [ citation needed ] Tomasz Sikora 's silver medal finish was the first biathlon medal ever for Poland , men 's or women 's .
Hilde Gjermundshaug Pedersen ( born 8 November 1964 ) is a Norwegian cross-country skier . Her first Olympic medal was a silver 4 × 5 km relay at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City . At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin , she took the bronze medal in the 10 km classical interval start event . Pedersen is the oldest woman ever to win a cross country skiing World Cup race , which she did at age 41 in January 2006 in Otepää , Estonia . Gjermundshaug Pedersen has also won six medals at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships , including two golds ( 4 × 5 km relay , team sprint : both 2005 ) , two silvers ( 4 × 5 km relay : 2001 , 2003 ) , and two bronzes ( Individual sprint , 10 km : both 2003 ) . In 2004 , she won Tjejvasan . She also won the Egebergs Ærespris in 2002 . This prestigious prize is awarded to athletes who reach international top level in one sport and concurrently perform at national level ( or better ) in a second sport . Gjermundshaug Pedersen has also competed in ski orienteering , a sport in which she received three silver medals and two bronze medals in the World championships , and she has also won the overall World Cup ( 1997 ) . At age 42 , Gjermundshaug Pedersen decided to make a comeback in the World Cup for the 2006-07 season . In January 2008 she won her seventh Norwegian Championships gold medal , in the 10 km interval start race . [ citation needed ] An unparalleled historic curiosum is the Norwegian Cross-Country Skiing Championship 3 × 5 km relay of 2006 , where the entire winning team of Nybygda consisted of Gjermundshaug Pedersens : mother Hilde with her two twin daughters Eli and Ida .
The Men 's individual Gundersen Nordic combined competition for the 2006 Winter Olympics was held in Pragelato , Italy . It took place on 11 February .
Roar Ljøkelsøy ( born 31 May 1976 ) is a Norwegian former ski jumper who competed from 1993 to 2010 , and twice finished runner up in the World Cup .
The Men 's large hill individual ski jumping competition for the 2006 Winter Olympics was held in Pragelato , Italy . It began on 17 February , and concluded on 18 February .
Bjørn Einar Romøren ( born 1 April 1981 ) is a Norwegian former ski jumper who competed from 2001 to 2014 . His career highlights include eight individual World Cup wins , two ski flying world records , and a team bronze medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics . Bjørn Einar is the younger brother of Jan-Erik Romøren , best known by the stage name Nag , frontman of black metal band Tsjuder .
Tommy Ingebrigtsen ( born 8 August 1977 ) is a Norwegian former ski jumper who competed from 1993 to 2007 , representing Byåsen IL in Trondheim . He won the large hill competition at the 1995 Nordic World Ski Championships in Thunder Bay , at the age of seventeen . Ingebrigtsen also competed in two Winter Olympics , earning a bronze in the team large hill event at Turin in 2006 . He twice held the world distance record , both set in Planica , with a jump of 219.5 metres on 20 March 1999 and 231 m on 20 March 2005 . Tommy , himself a rock guitarist , is the son of musician Dag Ingebrigtsen .
The Men 's large hill team ski jumping competition for the 2006 Winter Olympics was held in Pragelato , Italy . It occurred on 20 February .
Kjersti Østgaard Buaas ( born 5 January 1982 ) is a Norwegian snowboarder from Trondheim . She placed 4th in women 's half-pipe at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City , United States . She received a bronze medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics in women 's half-pipe in Turin , Italy . Buaas recovered from a broken leg only a week before her bronze-winning ride . In 2007/2008 she finished World No.3 on the Swatch TTR World Snowboard Tour ( Ticket to Ride ( World Snowboard Tour ) )
The 2006 Winter Olympic Games Snowboarding competition consisted of men 's and women 's halfpipe , parallel giant slalom and snowboard cross events .
The women 's halfpipe event in snowboarding at the 2006 Winter Olympics was held in Bardonecchia , a village in the Province of Turin , Italy . Competition took place on February 13 , 2006 .