Germany at the 2006 Winter Olympics

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Germany at the Olympic Games

Flag of Germany
IOC code  GER
NOC Deutscher Olympischer Sportbund
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At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin
Competitors 162 in 15 sports
Flag bearer Kati Wilhelm
Medals
Rank: 1		 Gold
11		 Silver
12		 Bronze
6		 Total
29
Olympic history (summary)
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1As the Unified Team of Germany (EUA)
2As the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG)
Other related appearances
East Germany East Germany (1968–1988)
Saar Saar (1952)

Germany competed at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, winning once again both the most gold medals and the most total medals of any nation. The Nationales Olympisches Komitee für Deutschland (National Olympic Committee of Germany, reorganized to DOSB in May 2006) nominated a total of 162 (164) athletes to compete, as the 5th largest team, to compete in all 15 of the Winter Olympic sports.

Contents

[edit] Medals

[edit] Image:Med_1.png Gold

[edit] Image:Med_2.png Silver

[edit] Image:Med_3.png Bronze

Tyson Heung also came 3'rd place in the championship

[edit] Top 10 finishes

[edit] 4th place

[edit] 7th place

[edit] 8th place

[edit] 9th place

[edit] 10th place

[edit] Events

[edit] Alpine skiing

Main article: Alpine skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Men's giant slalom
Name Run 1 Run 2 Total Final rank
Felix Neureuther Did not finish - - -
Men's slalom
Name Run 1 Run 2 Total Final rank
Felix Neureuther 55.16 Did not finish - -
Alois Vogl Did not finish - - -
Women's combined
Name Downhill Slalom run 1 Slalom run 2 Total Final rank
Martina Ertl-Renz 1:31.08 39.28 43.92 2:54.28 7th place
Monika Bergmann-Schmuderer 1:32.54 40.37 43.89 2:56.80 16th place
Women's downhill
Name Time Final rank
Petra Haltmayr 1:57.69 6th place
Women's giant slalom
Name Run 1 Run 2 Total Final rank
Martina Ertl-Renz 1:01.44 1:11.10 2:12.54 15th place
Annemarie Gerg 1:03.04 Did not finish - -
Women's slalom
Name Run 1 Run 2 Total Final rank
Annemarie Gerg 43.37 47.52 1:30.89 7th place
Monika Bergmann-Schmuderer 43.48 48.36 1:31.84 16th place
Martina Ertl-Renz Did not finish - - -
Women's Super-G
Name Time Final rank
Petra Haltmayr 1:33.50 9th place
Martina Ertl-Renz 1:34.03 16th place

[edit] Biathlon

Main article: Biathlon at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Men's 10 km sprint
Name Missed shots Final Final rank
Sven Fischer 0 26:11.6 Gold medal
Ricco Gross 0 27:15.1 7th place
Alexander Wolf 2 27:34.5 15th place
Michael Greis 3 28:22.9 35th place
Men's 12.5 km pursuit
Name Missed shots Final Final rank
Sven Fischer 4 +15.6 Bronze medal
Michael Greis 4 1:19.7 8th place
Ricco Gross 2 2:03.3 12th place
Alexander Wolf 6 2:15.2 19th place
Men's 15 km mass start
Name Missed shots Final Final rank
Michael Greis 1 47:20.0 Gold medal
Alexander Wolf 2 48:15.3 8th place
Michael Roesch 3 48:19.9 10th place
Sven Fischer 2 48:53.7 17th place
Men's 20 km individual
Name Missed shots Final Final rank
Michael Greis 1 54:23.0 Gold medal
Ricco Gross 1 56:14.3 11th place
Sven Fischer 3 57:14.3 17th place
Michael Roesch 6 59:56.6 42nd place
Men's 4x6 km relay
Name Missed shots Final Final rank
Ricco Gross 1 20:47.1
Michael Roesch 0 19:42.5
Sven Fischer 5 21:11.6
Michael Greis 3 20:10.3
Total 9 1:21:51.5 Gold medal
Women's 7.5 km sprint
Name Missed shots Final Final rank
Kati Wilhelm 1 22:49.8 7th place
Martina Glagow 1 23:35.9 17th place
Katrin Apel 2 24:04.9 22nd place
Uschi Disl 3 24:29.1 34th place
Women's 10 km pursuit
Name Missed shots Final Final rank
Kati Wilhelm 2 36:43.6 Gold medal
Martina Glagow 3 +1:13.6 Silver medal
Uschi Disl 7 +2:47.2 10th place
Katrin Apel 5 +2:55.3 11th place
Women's 12.5 km mass start
Name Missed shots Final Final rank
Kati Wilhelm 1 40:55.3 Silver medal
Uschi Disl 3 41:18.4 Bronze medal
Martina Glagow 2 41:33.6 4th place
Andrea Henkel 3 42:41.5 13th place
Women's 15 km individual
Name Missed shots Final Final rank
Martina Glagow 2 50:34.9 Silver medal
Andrea Henkel 2 51:46.3 4th place
Uschi Disl 5 52:49.7 12th place
Kati Wilhelm 5 52:59.0 16th place
Women's 4x6 km relay
Name Missed shots Final Final rank
Martina Glagow 3 19:18.8
Andrea Henkel 2 19:15.9
Katrin Apel 4 19:45.5
Kati Wilhelm 0 18:43.0
Total 9 1:17:03.2 Silver medal

[edit] Bobsleigh

Main article: Bobsleigh at the 2006 Winter Olympics

A total of ten men and five women have been selected.

Men: Women:

Two- and four-woman:
Four-man:


Two-man:
  • Lange/Kuske

[edit] Cross country skiing

Main article: Cross-country skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics

Six men and six women have been selected. In brackets are their positions at the distance World Cup (15 to 30 km), and the sprint World Cup[1] as of 25 January.

Men:

Women:

Sachenbacher-Stehle was suspended due to health reasons for the first five days of competition after recording too high values of haemoglobin in her blood[2].

[edit] Curling

Main article: Curling at the 2006 Winter Olympics

Germany is planning to select a men's curling team to Turin. Positions in brackets are those which the players had at the 2005 European Curling Championships. The German team, consisting of the same players, finished third at the 2005 Ford World Men's Curling Championship.

  • Andy Kapp (skip)
  • Uli Kapp (third)
  • Oliver Axnick (second)
  • Holger Höhne (lead)
  • Andreas Kempf (reserve)

[edit] Figure skating

Main article: Figure skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics

Five figure skaters have been announced for the Turin Games; one man in the singles competition and two pairs.

[edit] Men's Individuals

[edit] Pairs

[edit] Freestyle skiing

Main article: Freestyle skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics

Two men, Gerhard Blöchl and Christoph Stark, are selected for the moguls competition. No other freestyle event will have German participation. They are ranked 28th and 21st respectively in the men's moguls World Cup standings[3].

[edit] Ice hockey

Main article: Ice hockey at the 2006 Winter Olympics

Women's game results

Date Opponent Score Result
February 11 Finland 3-0 L

Germany's ice hockey contingent is their largest at the Olympics, with 20 women and 23 men. The men finished 15th at the 2005 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships, suffering relegation to Division I for 2006 after losses to Denmark (who are not taking part at the 2006 Olympics) and Kazakhstan, while the women finished 5th at the women's World Championships the same year, beating Russia and China on their way to a fifth place after being knocked out of the group stage with 1–5 and 0–7 defeats in their first two matches.

Thirty men have been nominated; when the NHL players join the squad on 12 February or 13 February, seven of these will be dropped.

Men:

NHL players

Women:

  • Maritta Becker
  • Franziska Busch
  • Bettina Evers
  • Susanne Fellner
  • Stefanie Frühwirt
  • Susann Götz
  • Claudia Grundmann
  • Jennifer Harß
  • Nikola Holmes
  • Sabrina Kruck
  • Andrea Lanzl
  • Michaela Lanzl
  • Christina Oswald
  • Nina Ritter
  • Anja Scheytt
  • Sara Seiler
  • Denise Soesilo
  • Jennifer Tamas
  • Stephanie Wartosch-Kürten
  • Raffaela Wolf

[edit] Luge

Main article: Luge at the 2006 Winter Olympics

Men's singles luge

Name Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Run 4 Total Final rank
David Möller 52.085 51.533 51.655 51.438 3:26.711 5th place
Jan Eichhorn 52.103 51.469 51.656 51.515 3:26.743 6th place
Georg Hackl 51.856 51.583 51.806 51.674 3:26.919 7th place

Women's singles luge

Name Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Run 4 Total Final rank
Sylke Otto 47.041 46.820 46.902 47.216 3:07.979 Gold medal
Silke Kraushaar 47.269 46.860 46.991 46.995 3:08.115 Silver medal
Tatjana Hüfner 47.109 47.269 47.101 46.981 3:08.460 Bronze medal

Doubles luge

Name Run 1 Run 2 Total Final rank
Andre Florschuetz
Torsten Wustlich		 47.141 47.666 1:34.807 Silver medal
Patric Leitner
Alexander Resch		 47.198 47.762 1:34.960 6th place

[edit] Nordic combined

Main article: Nordic combined at the 2006 Winter Olympics

Individual Gundersen 15 km

Name 1st round Final round Jump Total 15 km Final rank
Georg Hettich 129.0 133.5 262.5 39:44.6 Gold medal
Sebastian Haseney 107.5 105.0 212.5 37:15.7 6th place
Björn Kircheisen 114.5 109.5 224.0 38:21.1 7th place
Ronny Ackermann 106.0 107.5 213.5 39:42.9 18th place

Team event

Name 1st round Final round Jump Total 4x5 km Final rank
Björn Kircheisen 113.7 114.1 227.8 11:23.9
Georg Hettich 122.1 116.7 238.8 12:50.4
Ronny Ackermann 114.2 109.5 223.7 12:27.6
Jens Gaiser 114.5 108.7 223.2 13:26.0
Team total 464.5 449.0 913.5 50:07.9
(15.3 behind)		 Silver medal

Large hill sprint

Name LH jump Sprint 7.5 km Final rank
Georg Hettich 125.7 18:38.6 (9.6 behind) Bronze medal
Björn Kircheisen 106.5 17:48.7 (36.7 behind) 7th place
Ronny Ackermann 114.0 18:20.7 (38.7 behind) 8th place
Sebastian Haseney 90.7 17:49.1 (1:40.1 behind) 29th place

[edit] Short track speed skating

Main article: Short track speed skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics

Men's 500 m

Name Qualifying Quarterfinal Semifinal Final Rank
Arian Nachbar 0:43.006
Heat 3
2nd place		 0:42.605
Quarterfinal 1
4th place		 - - -
Tyson Heung 0:43.572
Heat 1
3rd place		 - - - -

Men's 1000 m

Name Qualifying Quarterfinal Semifinal Final Rank
Sebastian Praus 1:35.375
Heat 5
3rd place		 1:29.820
Quarterfinal 2
3rd place		 - - -
Arian Nachbar 1:27.994
Heat 6
4th place		 1:27.679
Quarterfinal 4
4th place		 - - -

Men's 1500 m

Name Qualifying Semifinal Final Rank
Sebastian Praus 2:30.292
Heat 4
4th place		 - - -
Tyson Heung 2:20.075
Heat 5
4th place		 - - -

Men's 5000 m relay

Name Semifinal Final Rank
Thomas Bauer
Andre Hartwig
Tyson Heung
Arian Nachbar
Sebastian Praus		 7:02.367
Semifinal 1
3rd place		 7:13.338 7th place

Women's 500 m

Name Qualifying Quarterfinal Semifinal Final Rank
Susanne Rudolph 0:46.503
Heat 2
3rd place		 - - - -
Aika Klein 0:57.732
Heat 4
3rd place		 - - - -

Women's 1000 m

Name Qualifying Quarterfinal Semifinal Final Rank
Yvonne Kunze 1:40.166
Heat 3
Advanced		 1:33.627
Quarterfinal 3
2nd place		 1:36.765
Semifinal 1
4th place		 1:34.789 7th place
Aika Klein Disqualified - - - -

Women's 1500 m

Name Qualifying Semifinal Final Rank
Aika Klein 2:42.380
Heat 1
5th place		 - - -
Yvonne Kunze 2:48.009
Heat 6
4th place		 - - -

Women's 3000 m relay

Name Semifinal Final Rank
Tina Grassow
Aika Klein
Yvonne Kunze
Christin Priebst
Susanne Rudolph		 4:22.533
Semifinal 2
4th place		 4:24.896 6th place

[edit] Skeleton

Men's skeleton

Name Run 1 Run 2 Total Final rank
Sebastian Haupt 58.48 59.10 01:57.58 9th place
Frank Rommel 59.94 01:00.41 02:00.35 24th place

Women's skeleton

Name Run 1 Run 2 Total Final rank
Diana Sartor 01:00.29 01:01.40 02:01.69 4th place
Anja Huber 01:01.12 01:01.44 02:02.56 8th place

[edit] Ski jumping

Main article: Ski jumping at the 2006 Winter Olympics

Men's large hill individual

    Final round jumps  
Name Qualification 1st round Final round Total Final rank
Michael Neumayer 114.4 points 110.3 points 118.8 points 229.1 points 11th place
Michael Uhrmann 106.2 points (Pre-qualified) 106.3 points 108.6 points 214.9 points 16th place
Martin Schmitt 92.1 points 97.2 points 115.4 points 212.6 points 19th place
Georg Späth 116.8 points (Pre-qualified) 108.6 points 103.6 points 212.2 points 20th place

Men's normal hill individual

    Final round jumps  
Name Qualification 1st round Final round Total Final rank
Michael Uhrmann 120.5 points (Pre-qualified) 128.0 points 136.0 points 264.0 points 4th place
Michael Neumayer 127.0 points 129.5 points 131.0 points 260.5 points 8th place
Georg Späth 123.5 points (Pre-qualified) 124.5 points 126.5 points 251.0 points 12th place
Alexander Herr 125.5 points 119.0 points 112.0 points 231.0 points 21st place

Men's large hill team jump

Name 1st round Final round Total Final rank
Michael Neumayer 113.80 118.00
Martin Schmitt 116.40 100.90
Michael Uhrmann 105.40 125.00
Georg Späth 110.40 132.70
Total 446.00 points 476.60 points 922.60 points 4th place

[edit] Snowboarding

Main article: Snowboarding at the 2006 Winter Olympics

[edit] Giant slalom

Men's parallel giant slalom

  Qualification  
Name Blue course Red course Total 1/8 finals Quarterfinals Semifinals Finals Rank
Markus Ebner 36.32 35.90 01:12.22 - - - - -
Patrick Bussler 36.42 36.12 01:12.54 - - - - -

Women's parallel giant slalom

  Qualification  
Name Blue course Red course Total 1/8 finals Quarterfinals Semifinals Finals Rank
Amelie Kober 40.31 41.02 01:21.33 Heat 3
1st place		 Quarterfinal 2
1st place		 Semifinal 1
1st place		 Big final Silver medal

[edit] Halfpipe

Men’s halfpipe

In men’s halfpipe, there were two qualifying runs. The top 6 men from each qualifying run were advanced to the finals. In the first qualifying run, the top 6 scores ranged from 39.4 - 43.8 points. In the second qualifying run, the top 6 scores ranged from a 37.9 - 45.3 points. Shaun White from the United States won the gold medal with a final run score of 46.8 points. Andy Finch of the United States had the lowest final score of 24.7 points and took 12th place.

  Qualification Final  
Name Run 1 Run 2 Run 1 Run 2 Final rank
Christophe Schmidt 39.4 points - 33.2 points 37.5 points 8th place
Vinzenz Lueps 33.9 points 39.5 points 28.7 points 36.8 points 9th place
Jan Michaelis 34.5 points 36.3 points - - -
Xaver Hoffmann 22.6 points 18.7 points - - -

[edit] Snowboard cross

Men's snowboard cross

  Qualification  
Name Run 1 Run 2 1/8 finals Quarterfinals Semifinals Finals Rank
David Speiser 1:24.28 1:23.38 Heat 8
4th place		 - - - -
Michael Layer 1:23.92 1:22.43 Heat 7
4th place		 - - - -
Alex Kupprion 1:26.22 1:24.66 - - - - -

Women's snowboard cross

  Qualification  
Name Run 1 Run 2 Quarterfinals Semifinals Finals Rank
Katharina Himmler 1:32.15 1:33.89 Quarterfinal 2
3rd place		 - Classification 9-12 12th place

[edit] Speed skating

Main article: Speed skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics

Men's 1500 m

Name Final Rank
Stefan Heythausen 01:49.58 26th place
Tobias Schneider 01:50.18 31st place
Robert Lehmann 01:51.04 36th place
Jörg Dallmann 01:51.32 37th place

Men's 5000 m

Name Final Rank
Jens Boden 6:38.34 20th place

Men's team pursuit

Name Preliminaries Quarterfinals Semifinals Finals Rank
Jens Boden
Jörg Dallmann
Stefan Heythausen
Robert Lehmann
Tobias Schneider		 3:49.59 Lost to Norway - Final D
Defeated Japan		 7th place

Women's 500 m

Name Race 1 Race 2 Total Rank
Jenny Wolf 38.70 38.55 77.25 6th place
Judith Hesse 39.64 39.39 79.03 19th place
Pamela Zöllner 40.16 39.40 79.56 24th place

Women's 1000 m

Name Final Rank
Anni Friesinger 01:16.11 Bronze medal
Sabine Völker 01:17.97 21st place
Judith Hesse 01:17.98 22nd place
Pamela Zöllner 01:19.30 30th place

Women's 1500 m

Name Final Rank
Anni Friesinger 01:57.31 4th place
Daniela Anschütz-Thoms 01:59.74 10th place
Lucille Opitz 02:02.75 30th place

Women's 3000 m

Name Final Rank
Anni Friesinger 4:04.59 4th place
Claudia Pechstein 4:05.54 5th place
Daniela Anschütz Thoms 4:06.89 6th place

Women's 5000 m

Name Final Rank
Claudia Pechstein 07:00.08 Silver medal
Daniela Anschütz Thoms 07:02.82 5th place
Lucille Opitz 07:18.06 14th place

Women's team pursuit

Name Preliminaries Quarterfinals Semifinals Finals Rank
Daniela Anschütz-Thoms
Anni Friesinger
Lucille Opitz
Claudia Pechstein
Sabine Völker		 3:07.07 Defeated Netherlands Defeated Russian Federation Defeated Canada Gold medal

[edit] Notes and references

  1. ^ Cross-Country World Cup Standings from fis-ski.com, retrieved 25 January 2006
  2. ^ (Norwegian) For høye blodverdier for Sachenbacher, from Aftenposten, 10 February 2006
  3. ^ Freestyle Cup Standings, sorted by moguls points from fis-ski.com, retrieved 25 January 2006

[edit] Further references