Skeleton at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Women's

The women's skeleton at the 2006 Winter Olympics took place on 16 February, at the Cesana Pariol.

Women's Skeleton
at the XX Olympic Winter Games
Pictogram for skeleton
VenueCesana Pariol
Dates16 February
Competitors15 from 12 nations
Medalists
Maya Pedersen  Switzerland
Shelley Rudman  Great Britain
Mellisa Hollingsworth  Canada

Results

Two-time world champion Maya Pedersen set the two fastest times to win the gold medal, Switzerland's first gold of the games. Shelley Rudman won silver, Great Britain's only medal of the games. Mellisa Hollingsworth-Richards took bronze for Canada, the first Olympic medal in skeleton won by a Canadian athlete.[1]

Rudman's hometown of Pewsey, Wiltshire held a twelve-hour canoe marathon to raise money to help her go to Turin after she was disqualified from the 2005 world championships in Calgary for her sled being 200 grams (0.44 lb) overweight after she was denied funding by the British Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation. Pederson trained for the event by watching a video of the course on a big screen in her living room while lying down on her sled on a table.[2]

RankNameCountryRun 1Run 2TotalDiff.
Maya Pedersen-Bieri Switzerland0:59.641:00.191:59.83
Shelley Rudman Great Britain1:00.571:00.492:01.06+1.23
Mellisa Hollingsworth-Richards Canada1:00.391:01.022:01.41+1.58
4Diana Sartor Germany1:00.291:01.402:01.69+1.86
5Costanza Zanoletti Italy1:00.991:01.182:02.17+2.34
6Katie Uhlaender United States1:00.871:01.432:02.30+2.47
7Tanja Morel Switzerland1:00.851:01.652:02.50+2.67
8Anja Huber Germany1:01.121:01.442:02.56+2.73
9Desiree Bjerke Norway1:00.921:01.702:02.62+2.79
10Lindsay Alcock Canada1:01.261:01.592:02.85+3.02
11Svetlana Trunova Russia1:01.231:01.832:03.06+3.23
12Louise Corcoran New Zealand1:01.061:02.032:03.09+3.26
13Michelle Steele Australia1:01.261:02.212:03.47+3.64
14Eiko Nakayama Japan1:01.821:02.102:03.92+4.09
15Monika Wolowiec Poland1:02.311:02.992:05.30+5.47
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References

  1. "Torino 2006 Official Report - Skeleton" (PDF). Torino Organizing Committee. LA84 Foundation. March 2009. Retrieved 27 May 2009.
  2. Wallechinsky, David and Jaime Loucky (2009). "Skeleton: Women". In The Complete Book of the Winter Olympics: 2010 Edition London: Aurum Press Limited. pp. 178-9.
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