page_title: List of 2006 Winter Olympics medal winners
section_title: Medal leaders
hierarchical_section_title: List of 2006 Winter Olympics medal winners / Statistics / Medal leaders
caption_attribution_description: English: Picture of Cindy Klassen taken on Sept 21, 2006 by J. You, at 200 Wellington Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Put in the public domain on his behalf.
context_page_description: The 2006 Winter Olympics were held in Turin, Italy, from 10 February to 26 February 2006. Approximately 2,508 athletes from 80 National Olympic Committees participated in these Games. Overall, 84 events in 15 disciplines were contested; 45 events were opened to men, 37 to women and 2 were mixed pairs events. Two disciplines were open only to men: Nordic combined and ski jumping, while figure skating was the only one in which men and women competed together in teams.
  Eight new events were introduced: snowboard cross, team pursuit, team sprint, and the mass-start race. The team sprint events replaced the classical men's 30 kilometers and women's 15 km cross-country distances, held at the previous Winter Games in 2002. In total, there were six more events than in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, United States.
  A total of 451 individual athletes won medals. Germany won the highest number of gold medals and led in overall medals for the third consecutive Games. Athletes from 26 NOCs won at least one medal; of these, 18 won at least one gold medal. Latvia and Slovakia won the first medals in their Winter Olympic history.
context_section_description: Athletes who won at least two gold medals or three total medals are listed below.
caption: Canadian speed skater Cindy Klassen became the eighth Winter Olympian to win five medals at one edition of the Games.[10]
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