Olympic Winter Games 2006 / Participant (Italy)

ITA

5	-	6th

Italy took part in the 2006 Olympic Winter Games in Turin with a delegation of 185 athletes, 74 women and 111 men in 15 sports part.

Flag bearer

The figure skater Carolina Kostner carried the flag of Italy during the opening ceremony, at the closing ceremony it was carried by the luge rider Armin Zoeggeler .

Medals

gold medal

• Tobogganing, single-seaters, men: Armin Zöggeler
• Speed ​​skating team pursuit, men: Stefano Donagrandi , Enrico Fabris , Matteo Anesi , Ippolito Sanfratello
• Cross-country skiing, relay, men: Fulvio Valbusa , Giorgio Di Centa , Pietro Piller Cottrer , Cristian Zorzi
• Speed ​​skating, 1500 m men: Enrico Fabris
• Cross-country skiing, 50 km men: Giorgio Di Centa

Bronze medal

• Cross-country skiing, 2 × 15 km pursuit: Pietro Piller Cottrer
• Speed ​​skating, 5000 m, men: Enrico Fabris
• Tobogganing, two-seater: Gerhard Plankensteiner , Oswald Haselrieder
• Cross-country skiing, relay, women: Arianna Follis , Gabriella Paruzzi , Antonella Confortola , Sabina Valbusa
• Two-man bobsleigh, women: Gerda Weißensteiner , Jennifer Isacco
• Short track, 3000 m relay, women: Marta Capurso , Arianna Fontana , Katia Zini , Mara Zini

Participants by sport

biathlon

Men:

• Sergio Bonaldi

  Sprint (10 km): 68th place .; 30: 06.7 min .; +3: 55.1 min.

• Christian De Lorenzi

  Individual (20 km): 7th place; 56: 04.0 min .; +1: 41.0 min.

  Sprint (10 km): 28th place; 28: 14.5 min .; +2: 02.9 min.

• Paolo Longo

  Individual (20 km): 55th place; 1: 01: 27.9 h; +7: 04.9 min.

• Wilfried Pallhuber

  Individual (20 km): 9th place; 56: 08.4 min .; +1: 45.4 min.

  Sprint (10 km): 23rd place; 28: 05.6 min .; +1: 54.0 min.

• René-Laurent Vuillermoz

  Individual (20 km): 25th place; 58: 17.9 min .; +3: 54.9 min.

  Sprint (10 km): 41st place; 28: 46.7 min .; +2: 35.1 min.

Women:

• Barbara Ertl

  Individual (15 km): 38th place; 55: 30.0 min .; +6: 05.9 min.

• Katya Haller

  Sprint (7.5 km): 53rd place; 25: 22.6 min .; +2: 51.2 min.

• Michela Ponza

  Individual (15 km): 17th place; 53: 01.4 min .; +3: 37.3 min.

  Sprint (7.5 km): 13th place; 23: 27.2 min .; +55.8 min.

• Nathalie Santer

  Individual (15 km): 52nd place; 57: 08.4 min .; +7: 44.3 min.

  Sprint (7.5 km): 26th place; 24: 09.5 min .; +1: 38.1 min.

• Saskia Santer

  Individual (15 km): 51st place; 56: 52.1 min .; +7: 28.0 min.

  Sprint (7.5 km): 57th place; 25: 42.6 min .; +3: 11.2 min.

bob

• Men: Stefano Bartocci , Simone Bertazzo , Antonio De Sanctis , Giorgio Morbidelli , Luca Ottolino , Samuele Romanini , Omar Sacco , Matteo Torchio , Fabrizio Tosini
• Women: Jessica Gillarduzzi , Jennifer Isacco , Carola Mellano , Fabiana Mollica , Gerda Weißensteiner

Curling

• Men: Fabio Alverà , Marco Mariani , Antonio Menardi , Joël Retornaz , Gian Paolo Zandegiacomo
• Women: Eleonora Alverà , Violetta Caldart , Diana Gaspari , Giulia Lacedelli , Rosa Pompanin

Freestyle

• Deborah Scanzio

  Mogul slope, women: 9th place; 23.00 points in the final

• Mariangela Fabia Parravicini

  Mogul slope, women: 23rd place; 19.62 points in qualification

ice Hockey

• Men: Luca Ansoldi , René Baur , Christian Borgatello , Joe Busillo , Mario Chitaroni , Jason Cirone , Giorgio De Bettin , Manuel De Toni , Nicola Fontanive , Armin Helfer , Günther Hell , Anthony Iob , Carlo Lorenzi , Stefano Margoni , Jason Muzzatti , Bob Nardella , John Parco , Florian Ramoser , Giulio Scandella , André Signoretti , Michele Strazzabosco , Lucio Topatigh , Carter Trevisani , Tony Tuzzolino , Stefan Zisser
• Women: Michela Angeloni , Evelyn Bazzanella , Valentina Bettarini , Celeste Bissardella , Heidi Caldart , Silvia Carignano , Diana Da Rugna , Anna De La Forest , Nadia De Nardin , Linda De Rocco , Rebecca Fiorese , Sabina Florian , Luana Frasnelli , Manuela Friz , Waltraud Käser , Maria Leitner , Debra Montanari , Katharina Sparer , Silvia Toffano , Sabrina Viel

figure skating

Women

• Silvia Fontana
• Carolina Kostner

Men

• Karel Zelenka

Ice dance

• Federica Faiella and Massimo Scali
• Barbara Fusar-Poli and Maurizio Margaglio

Speed ​​skating

Men's

• Matteo Anesi

  Team pursuit: gold medal

• Stefano Donagrandi

  5000 m: 16th place - 6: 33.45 min .; +18.77 sec.

  Team pursuit: gold medal

• Enrico Fabris

  5000 m: bronze medal - 6: 18.25 min .; +3.57 sec.

  1500 m: gold medal

  Team pursuit: gold medal

• Ippolito Sanfratello

  5000 m: 14th place - 6: 32.58 min .; +17.90 sec.

  Team pursuit: gold medal

Ladies

• Chiara Simionato

Luge

• Patrick Gruber
• Oswald Haselrieder
• Wilfried Huber
• Anastasia Oberstolz-Antonova
• Christian Oberstolz
• Gerhard Plankensteiner
• Armin Zöggeler

Short track

Men's

• Fabio Carta

  1000 m: eliminated in the quarterfinals

  1500 m: B final and a total of 7th place

  5000 m relay: 4th place

• Nicola Rodigari

  1000 m: eliminated in the quarterfinals

  1500 m: eliminated in the semi-finals

  5000 m relay: 4th place

• Yuri Confortola

  5000 m relay: 4th place

• Nicola Franceschina

  5000 m relay: 4th place

skeleton

• Costanza Zanoletti

• Women: 5th place; 2: 02.17 min; +2.34 sec

• Maurizio Oioli

• Men: 12th place; 1: 58.52 min; +2.64 sec

Alpine skiing

• Massimiliano Blardone
• Daniela Ceccarelli
• Annalisa Ceresa
• Chiara Costazza
• Elena Fanchini

  Downhill, women: 29th place - 2: 01.06 min.

• Nadia Fanchini

  Downhill, women: 10th place - 1: 57.84 min.

• Peter Fill

  Downhill, men: 19th place - 1: 50.88 min.

  Alpine combined, men: 9th - 3: 12.21 min.

• Kristian Ghedina

  Downhill, men: 23rd place - 1: 50.98 min.

• Denise Karbon
• Daniela Merighetti

  Downhill, women: 32nd place - 2: 01.76 min.

• Manfred Mölgg
• Manuela Mölgg
• Karen Putzer
• Lucia Recchia

  Downhill, women: 13th place - 1: 58.30 min.

• Giorgio Rocca

  Alpine combination, men: 5th - 3: 10.74 min.

• Alberto Schieppati
• Hannes Paul Schmid
• Davide Simoncelli
• Wendy Siorpaes
• Patrick Staudacher

  Downhill, men: 9th place - 1: 50.29 min.

  Alpine combined, men: eliminated in slalom (1st run)

• Kurt Sulzenbacher

  Downhill, men: 18th place - 1: 50.84 min.

• Patrick Thaler

Nordic skiing

Nordic combination

• Davide Bresadola
• Giuseppe Michielli

  Individual (normal hill K106 / 15 km): 14th place, +2: 20.9 min.

• Daniele Munari

  Individual (normal hill K106 / 15 km): 39th place, +5: 21.7 min.

• Alessandro Pittin

  Individual (normal hill K106 / 15 km): 46th place, +9: 05.6 min.

• Jochen Strobl

  Individual (normal hill K106 / 15 km): 34th place, +4: 57.7 min.

Ski jumping

• Andrea Morassi
• Alessio Bolognani
• Sebastian Colloredo
• Davide Bresadola

Snowboard

Giant slalom

• Corinna Boccacini
• Marion Posch
• Carmen Ranigler
• Lidia Trettel
• Meinhard Erlacher
• Roland Fischnaller
• Rudy Galli
• Simone Salvati

halfpipe

• Romina Masolini
• Giacomo Kratter
• Manuel Pietropoli

Snowboard cross

• Carmen Ranigler
• Simone Malusà
• Stefano Pozzolini
• Francesco Sandrini
• Alberto Schiavon
• Tommaso Tagliaferri