Figure skating at the XX Olympic Winter Games
Type:	Olympic Games
Date:	11 February – 24 February
Venue:	Palavela
Champions
Men's singles: Evgeni Plushenko
Ladies singles: Shizuka Arakawa
Pair skating: Tatiana Totmianina/Maxim Marinin
Ice dancing: Tatiana Navka/Roman Kostomarov
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Four figure skating events were held at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, at the Palavela venue.

Contents 1 Medal summary 1.1 Medal table 1.2 Events 2 Champions Gala 3 Participating NOCs 4 References

[edit] Medal summary

[edit] Medal table

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Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia (RUS)	3	0	1	4
2	Japan (JPN)	1	0	0	1
3	United States (USA)	0	2	0	2
4	China (CHN)	0	1	1	2
5	Switzerland (SUI)	0	1	0	1
6	Canada (CAN)	0	0	1	1
	Ukraine (UKR)	0	0	1	1

[edit] Events

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Discipline	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's singles details	Evgeni Plushenko Russia (RUS)	Stéphane Lambiel Switzerland (SUI)	Jeffrey Buttle Canada (CAN)
Ladies' singles details	Shizuka Arakawa Japan (JPN)	Sasha Cohen United States (USA)	Irina Slutskaya Russia (RUS)
Pair skating details	Tatiana Totmianina and Maxim Marinin Russia (RUS)	Zhang Dan and Zhang Hao China (CHN)	Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo China (CHN)
Ice dancing details	Tatiana Navka and Roman Kostomarov Russia (RUS)	Tanith Belbin and Benjamin Agosto United States (USA)	Elena Grushina and Ruslan Goncharov Ukraine (UKR)

[edit] Champions Gala

The traditional Figure Skating Champions Gala took place on February 24 at Palavela, featuring exhibition performances by the top five placers in the four figure skating events and all the Italian skaters. Pairs skaters Zhang and Zhang (second in pairs) did not participate in the gala.

The following is a partial list of skaters who appeared in the Champions Gala (in order of skate):

Faiella and Scali (Italian dance team), Karel Zelenka (Italian men skater), Silvia Fontana (Italian ladies skater), Denkova and Staviski (fifth in dance), Joannie Rochette (fifth in ladies), Inoue and John Baldwin (seventh in pairs), Johnny Weir (fifth in men), Delobel and Schoenfelder (fourth in dance), Fumie Suguri (fourth in ladies), Petrova and Tikhonov (fifth in pairs), Evan Lysacek (fourth in men), Grushina and Goncharov (third in dance), Irina Slutskaya (third in ladies), Fusar-Poli and Margaglio (Italian dance team), Carolina Kostner (Italian ladies skater), Pang and Tong (fourth in pairs), Jeffrey Buttle (third in men), Belbin and Agosto (second in dance), Sasha Cohen (second in ladies), Shen and Zhao (third in pairs), Stéphane Lambiel (second in men), Navka and Kostomarov (first in dance), Shizuka Arakawa (first in ladies), Totmianina and Marinin (first in pairs), and Evgeni Plushenko (first in men).^{[citation needed]}

Russian pair Tatiana Totmianina and Maxim Marinin and Evgeni Plushenko skate accompanied by Edvin Marton at the violin, playing from the ice.

At the end of the gala, the skaters all gathered together to close the show with their curtsies.

[edit] Participating NOCs

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Armenia (2) Australia (1) Austria (1) Azerbaijan (2) Belgium (1) Belarus (1) Bulgaria (5) Canada (13) China (9) Croatia (1) Czech Republic (1) Estonia (3) Finland (2) France (8) Georgia (2) Germany (5) Great Britain (2) Hungary (5)

Israel (4) Italy (7) Japan (6) Lithuania (2) Luxembourg (1) Poland (4) North Korea (4) Romania (2) Russia (16) Serbia and Montenegro (1) Slovenia (1) Sweden (1) Switzerland (3) Turkey (1) Ukraine (11) United States (16) Uzbekistan (3)

[edit] References

• 2006 Winter Olympics at the International Skating Union

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