Germany at the 2006 Winter Olympics


Germany competed at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, winning once again the most total medals of any nation. The National Olympic Committee of Germany nominated a total of 162 athletes to compete, as the 5th largest team, in all 15 of the Winter Olympic sports.

Medalists

MedalNameSportEventDate
BiathlonWomen's pursuit18 Feb
BiathlonMen's sprint14 Feb
BiathlonMen's individual11 Feb

Michael Rösch
Sven Fischer
Michael Greis		BiathlonMen's relay21 Feb
BiathlonMen's mass start25 Feb

Kevin Kuske		BobsleighTwo-man19 Feb

Anja Schneiderheinze		BobsleighTwo-woman21 Feb

René Hoppe
Kevin Kuske
Martin Putze		BobsleighFour-man25 Feb
LugeWomen's singles14 Feb
Nordic combinedMen's individual11 Feb

Lucille Opitz
Claudia Pechstein
Sabine Völker
Anni Friesinger		Speed skatingWomen's team pursuit16 Feb
BiathlonWomen's pursuit18 Feb
BiathlonWomen's individual13 Feb
BiathlonWomen's mass start25 Feb

Andrea Henkel
Katrin Apel
Kati Wilhelm		BiathlonWomen's relay23 Feb

Viola Bauer
Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle
Claudia Künzel		Cross-country skiingWomen's 4 x 5 km relay18 Feb

Jens Filbrich
René Sommerfeldt
Tobias Angerer		Cross-country skiingMen's 4 x 10 km relay19 Feb
Cross-country skiingWomen's sprint22 Feb
LugeWomen's singles14 Feb

Torsten Wustlich		LugeDoubles15 Feb

Georg Hettich
Ronny Ackermann
Jens Gaiser		Nordic combinedMen's team16 Feb
SnowboardingWomen's parallel giant slalom23 Feb
Speed skatingWomen's 5000 m25 Feb
BiathlonMen's pursuit18 Feb
BiathlonWomen's mass start25 Feb
Cross-country skiingMen's 15 km classical17 Feb
LugeWomen's singles14 Feb
Nordic combinedMen's sprint21 Feb
Speed skatingWomen's 1000 m19 Feb

Alpine skiing

Note: In the men's combined, run 1 is the downhill, and runs 2 and 3 are the slalom. In the women's combined, run 1 and 2 are the slalom, and run 3 the downhill.

Biathlon

;Men
;Women

Cross-country skiing

Sachenbacher-Stehle was suspended for health reasons for the first five days of competition after recording too high values of haemoglobin in her blood.
;Distance
;Men
;Women
;Sprint

Curling

Men's tournament

Team: Andy Kapp, Uli Kapp, Oliver Axnick, Holger Höhne, Andreas Kempf
;Round Robin
;Draw 2
;Draw 3
;Draw 5
;Draw 6
;Draw 7
;Draw 9
;Draw 10
;Draw 11
;Draw 12
;Standings
RankTeamSkipWonLost
1Finland|2006 Winter

Figure skating

Key: CD = Compulsory Dance, FD = Free Dance, FS = Free Skate, OD = Original Dance, SP = Short Program

Ice hockey

Germany's ice hockey contingent was the nation's largest at the Olympics, with 20 women and 23 men.

Men's tournament

;Players
;Round-robin

Women's tournament

;Players
;Round-robin
;Classification games
;5th-8th classification
;5th place game

Nordic combined

Note: 'Deficit' refers to the amount of time behind the leader a competitor began the cross-country portion of the event. Italicized numbers show the final deficit from the winner's finishing time.

Short track speed skating

Key: 'ADV' indicates a skater was advanced due to being interfered with.

Ski jumping

Note: PQ indicates a skier was pre-qualified for the final, based on entry rankings.

Snowboarding

;Halfpipe
Note: In the final, the single best score from two runs is used to determine the ranking. A bracketed score indicates a run that wasn't counted.
;Parallel GS
Key: '+ Time' represents a deficit; the brackets indicate the results of each run.
;Snowboard Cross

Speed skating

;Men
;Women
;Team Pursuit

Further references