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The women's team pursuit competition at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, began on 15 February at Oval Lingotto. The team pursuit consisted of a qualifying round, then a series of elimination races, with the winners of the elimination races progressing to the next round of the 'knockout phase'.[1]
Women's team pursuit at the XX Olympic Winter Games | |
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Venue | Oval Lingotto |
Dates | 15–16 February |
Competitors | 35 from 8 nations |
Winning time | 3:01.25 |
Medalists | |
Each race was skated by two teams of three skaters, over a distance of six 400-metre laps (2400 metres total). The three skaters of a team were allowed to change order at any time, but the team's final time was always recorded when the third skater crossed the finishing line. If two teams started simultaneously on opposite sides of the track, and if one team managed to overtake the other before the full distance, the overtaking team was immediately declared the winner.[2]
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
World record | ![]() | 2:56.04 | Calgary, Canada | 13 November 2005 | [3] |
Olympic record | None (debut sport) | None |
The following new world and Olympic records were set during this competition.
Date[3] | Event | Team | Time | OR | WR |
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15 February | Heat 1 | ![]() Annette Bjelkevik Hedvig Bjelkevik Maren Haugli | 3:06.34 | OR | |
15 February | Heat 3 | ![]() Yekaterina Abramova Galina Likhachova Yekaterina Lobysheva | 3:05.93 | OR | |
15 February | Quarterfinals | ![]() Kristina Groves Cindy Klassen Christine Nesbitt | 3:01.24 | OR |
Teams had to select three skaters for each round of the team pursuit, but all skaters who participated in at least one round earned a medal, and are mentioned in the overall results below.
^ 1: The team from Norway briefly held the Olympic record time. The Norwegians set the record with the fastest time of the first heat, before Russia posted the fastest time in the final heat
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Four finals determined the final finishing order, with the two semifinal winners meeting for gold, and the two semifinal losers racing for bronze. To determine places five-through-eight, the four quarterfinal losers were ranked by their time in the quarterfinal race, with the fastest loser matched up against the second-fastest for fifth, and the two slowest for seventh.
Seed[3] | Team | Time | Notes |
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3 | ![]() Kristina Groves Clara Hughes Christine Nesbitt | 3:02.91 | ![]() |
2 | ![]() Daniela Anschütz-Thoms Anni Friesinger Claudia Pechstein | 3:01.25 | ![]() |
Seed[3] | Team | Time | Notes |
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1 | ![]() Yekaterina Abramova Yekaterina Lobysheva Svetlana Vysokova | Overtook | ![]() |
7 | ![]() Eriko Ishino Nami Nemoto Maki Tabata | Overtaken |
Seed[3] | Team | Time | Notes |
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4 | ![]() Gretha Smit Paulien van Deutekom Ireen Wüst | 3:05.62 | |
6 | ![]() Margaret Crowley Maria Lamb Catherine Raney | 3:04.22 |
Seed[3] | Team | Time | Notes |
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2 | ![]() Annette Bjelkevik Hedvig Bjelkevik Maren Haugli | 3:06.20 | |
8 | ![]() Ji Jia Wang Fei Zhang Xiaolei | 3:06.91 |
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