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.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
		Biathlon	Women's pursuit
		Biathlon	Men's individual
	Michael Rösch Sven Fischer Michael Greis	Biathlon	Men's relay
		Biathlon	Men's mass start
	Kevin Kuske	Bobsleigh	Two-man
	Anja Schneiderheinze	Bobsleigh	Two-woman
	Rene Hoppe Kevin Kuske Martin Putze	Bobsleigh	Four-man
		Luge	Women's singles
		Nordic combined	Individual
	Lucille Opitz Claudia Pechstein Sabine Völker Anni Friesinger	Speed skating	Women's team pursuit
		Biathlon	Women's pursuit
		Biathlon	Women's individual
		Biathlon	Women's mass start
	Andrea Henkel Katrin Apel Kati Wilhelm	Biathlon	Women's relay
	Viola Bauer Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle Claudia Künzel	Cross country skiing	Women's 4 x 5 km relay
	Jens Filbrich René Sommerfeldt Tobias Angerer	Cross country skiing	Men's 4 x 10 km relay
		Cross country skiing	Women's sprint
		Luge	Women's singles
	Torsten Wustlich	Luge	Doubles
	Georg Hettich Ronny Ackermann Jens Gaiser	Nordic combined	Men's Team
		Snowboarding	Women's parallel giant slalom
		Speed skating	Women's 5000m
		Biathlon	Men's pursuit
		Biathlon	Women's mass start
		Cross country skiing	Men's 15 km classical
		Luge	Women's singles
		Nordic combined	Men's Sprint
		Speed skating	Women's 1000m

Alpine skiing

Athlete	Event	Final
		Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Total	Rank
Monika Bergmann-Schmuderer	Women's slalom	43.48	48.36	n/a	1:31.84	16
	Women's combined	40.37	43.89	1:32.54	2:56.80	16
Martina Ertl-Renz	Women's Super-G	n/a			1:34.03	16
	Women's giant slalom	1:01.44	1:11.10	n/a	2:12.54	15
	Women's slalom	Did not finish
	Women's combined	39.28	43.92	1:31.08	2:54.28	7
Annemarie Gerg	Women's giant slalom	1:03.04	Did not finish
	Women's slalom	43.37	47.52	n/a	1:30.89	7
Petra Haltmayr	Women's downhill	n/a			1:57.69	6
	Women's Super-G	n/a			1:33.50	9
Felix Neureuther	Men's giant slalom	Did not finish
	Men's slalom	55.16	Did not finish
Alois Vogl	Men's slalom	Did not finish

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

Athlete	Event	Final
		Time	Misses	Rank
Sven Fischer	Sprint	26:11.6	0
	Pursuit	35:35.80	4
	Mass start	48:53.7	2	17
	Individual	57:14.3	3	17
Michael Greis	Sprint	28:22.9	3	34
	Pursuit	36:39.98	4	8
	Mass start	47:20.0	1
	Individual	54:23.0	1
Ricco Gross	Sprint	27:15.1	0	6
	Pursuit	37:23.51	2	12
	Individual	56"14.3	1	11
Michael Rösch	Mass start	48:19.9	3	10
	Individual	59:56.6	6	42
Alexander Wolf	Sprint	27:34.5	2	14
	Pursuit	37:35.40	6	19
	Mass start	48:15.3	2	8
Ricco Gross Michael Rösch Sven Fischer Michael Greis	Relay	1:21:51.5	9

Women

Athlete	Event	Final
		Time	Misses	Rank
Katrin Apel	Sprint	24:04.9	2	22
	Pursuit	39:38.95	3	11
Uschi Disl	Sprint	24:29.1	3	34
	Pursuit	39:30.83	7	10
	Mass start	41:18.4	3
	Individual	52:49.7	5	12
Martina Glagow	Sprint	23:35.9	1	17
	Pursuit	37:57.29	3
	Mass start	41:33.6	2	4
	Individual	50:34.9	2
Andrea Henkel	Mass start	42:41.5	3	13
	Individual	51:46.3	2	4
Kati Wilhelm	Sprint	22:49.8	1	7
	Pursuit	36:43.6	2
	Mass start	40:55.3	1
	Individual	52:59.0	5	16
Martina Glagow Andrea Henkel Katrin Apel Kati Wilhelm	Relay	1:17:03.2	9

Bobsleigh

Athlete	Event	Final
		Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Run 4	Total	Rank
Andre Lange Kevin Kuske	Two-man	55.28	55.73	56.01	56.36	3:43.38
Matthias Höpfner Marc Kühne	Two-man	55.56	55.82	56.24	56.63	3:44.25	5
Sandra Kiriasis Anja Schneiderheinze	Two-woman	57.16	57.77	57.34	57.71	3:49.98
Susi Erdmann Nicole Herschmann	Two-woman	57.26	57.75	58.04	58.27	3:51.32	5
Andre Lange René Hoppe Kevin Kuske Martin Putze	Four-man	55.20	55.30	54.80	55.12	3:40.42
René Spies Christoph Heyder Enrico Kühn Alexander Metzger	Four-man	55.47	55.48	54.91	55.18	3:41.04	5

Cross-country skiing

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.

Distance

Men

Athlete	Event	Final
		Total	Rank
Tobias Angerer	15 km classical	38:20.5
	30 km pursuit	1:17:12.5	12
	50 km freestyle	2:07:00.3	24
Jens Filbrich	30 km pursuit	1:18:38.2	23
	50 km freestyle	2:06:31.1	17
Franz Göring	15 km classical	41:29.9	43
Andreas Schlütter	15 km classical	38:44.7	7
René Sommerfeldt	Men's 15 km classical	39:17.2	11
	30 km pursuit	Did not finish
	50 km freestyle	2:08:03.0	36
Andreas Schlütter Jens Filbrich René Sommerfeldt Tobias Angerer	4 x 10 km relay	1:44:01.4

Women

Athlete	Event	Final
		Total	Rank
Viola Bauer	10 km classical	29:03.6	10
Stefanie Böhler	10 km classical	30:43.2	38
	15 km pursuit	45:56.9	28
	30 km freestyle	1:26:19.2	20
Nicole Fessel	30 km freestyle	1:34:06.2	48
Manuela Henkel	15 km pursuit	48:21.8	52
Claudia Künzel	10 km classical	29:31.6	17
	15 km pursuit	44:48.1	18
	30 km freestyle	1:23:02.1	6
Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle	10 km classical	29:38.4	20
	30 km freestyle	1:25:15.8	13
Stefanie Böhler Viola Bauer Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle Claudia Künzel	4 x 5 km relay	54:57.7

Sprint

Athlete	Event	Qualifying		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
		Total	Rank	Total	Rank	Total	Rank	Total	Rank
Stefanie Böhler	Women's sprint	2:18.14	30 Q	2:18.5	4	Did not advance				20
Nicole Fessel	Women's sprint	2:18.35	31	Did not advance						20
Manuela Henkel	Women's sprint	2:16.04	14 Q	2:16.4	3	Did not advance				12
Claudia Künzel	Women's sprint	2:13.64	4 Q	2:15.5	1 Q	2:15.5	1 Q	2:13.0
Jens Filbrich Andreas Schlütter	Men's team sprint	n/a				17:22.6	3 Q	17:14.0	4
Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle Viola Bauer	Women's team sprint	n/a				17:34.7	4 Q	17:03.5	5

Curling

Men's

Team: Andy Kapp (skip), Uli Kapp, Oliver Axnick, Holger Höhne, Andreas Kempf (alternate)

Round Robin

Draw 2

;Draw 3
;Draw 5
;Draw 6
;Draw 7
;Draw 9
;Draw 10
;Draw 11
;Draw 12

Standings

Rank	Team	Skip	Won	Lost
1		Markku Uusipaavalniemi	7	2
2		Brad Gushue	6	3
3		Pete Fenson	6	3
4		David Murdoch	6	3
5		Pal Trulsen	5	4
6		Ralph Stockli	5	4
7		Joel Retornaz	4	5
8		Peter Lindholm	3	6
9		Andy Kapp	3	6
10		Sean Becker	0	9

Figure skating

Athlete	Event	CD		SP/OD		FS/FD		Total
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Stefan Lindemann	Men's	n/a		60.52	20 Q	112.05	20	172.57	21
Rico Rex Eva-Maria Fitze	Pairs	n/a		43.86	16	76.37	16	120.23	15
Robin Szolkowy Aljona Savchenko	Pairs	n/a		60.96	7	119.19	5	180.15	6

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

Freestyle skiing

Athlete	Event	Qualifying		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Gerhard Blöchl	Men's moguls	21.16	28	Did not advance	28
Christoph Stark	Men's moguls	23.65	12 Q	22.84	15

Ice hockey

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

Men's

Players

Player	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
Tino Boos	4	2	1	3	4
Daniel Kreutzer	4	0	2	2	2
Christian Ehrhoff	4	1	1	2	4
Sven Felski	4	2	0	2	4
Eduard Lewandowski	4	0	2	2	0
Marcel Goc	4	1	0	1	0
Tomas Martinec	4	1	0	1	2
Christoph Schubert	4	0	1	1	2
Alexander Sulzer	4	0	1	1	2
Stefan Ustorf	4	0	1	1	0
Alexander Barta	4	0	0	0	4
Florian Busch	4	0	0	0	6
Klaus Kathan	4	0	0	0	0
Petr Fical	4	0	0	0	2
Sascha Goc	4	0	0	0	8
Andreas Renz	4	0	0	0	2
Robert Leask	4	0	0	0	2
Stefan Schauer	4	0	0	0	2
Dennis Seidenberg	4	0	0	0	4
Lasse Kopitz	3	0	0	0	0
Sebastian Furchner	1	0	0	0	0

Goaltender	GP	GA	GAA	Sv%
Thomas Greiss	1	5	5.00	.875
Olaf Kölzig	3	8	2.68	.899

Results

Round-robin

Standings

Women's

Players

No.	Position	Name	Height	Weight	Birthdate	Birthplace	2004-05 team
81	F	Maritta Becker - A	168	61	03/11/81	Heilbronn	DSC Oberthurgau
25	F	Franziska Busch	163	59	10/20/85	Seesen	WSV Braunlage
66	F	Bettina Evers	168	66	08/17/81	Hanover	Grefrather EC
18	D	Susanne Fellner	160	57	02/26/85	Ravensburg	DSC Oberthurgau
24	F	Stephanie Frühwirt	166	64	07/22/80	Wolfratshausen	TV Kornwestheim
12	F	Susann Götz	164	62	12/14/82	Bad Muskau	OSC Berlin
29	F	Claudia Grundmann - A	177	69	04/22/76	Berlin	OSC Berlin
30	G	Jennifer Harss	173	65	07/14/87	Füssen	ECDC Memmingen
10	F	Nikola Holmes	177	72	02/18/81	Bellflower, California	OSC Berlin
23	D	Sabrina Kruck	167	61	11/03/81	Starnberg	SC Riessersee
28	F	Andrea Lanzl	161	60	10/08/87	Starnberg	EC Bergkamen, Bergkamen
21	F	Michaela Lanzl	161	55	02/21/83	Starnberg	University of Minnesota Duluth
19	D	Christina Oswald - C	172	75	07/26/73	Garmisch-Partenkirchen	SC Riessersee
15	D	Nina Ritter	168	60	01/26/81	Hamburg	Hamburger SV
14	F	Anja Scheytt	174	69	12/05/80	Mannheim	OSC Berlin
17	F	Sara Seiler	169	61	01/25/83	Hausham	DSC Oberthurgau
16	F	Denise Soesilo	168	50	05/10/87	Hamburg	Hamburger SV
2	D	Jenny Tamas	172	63	01/18/90	Herford	ERV Schweinfurt
13	G	Stephanie Wartosch-Kürten	172	68	11/12/78	Düsseldorf	OSC Berlin
9	F	Raffaela Wolf	168	52	06/20/78	Dinslaken	ESC Planegg-Würmtal

Results

Round-robin

Standings

Classification games

5th-8th classification

5th place game

Luge

Athlete	Event	Final
		Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Run 4	Total	Rank
Jan Eichhorn	Men's singles	52.103	51.469	51.656	51.515	3:26.743	6
Georg Hackl	Men's singles	51.856	51.583	51.806	51.674	3:26.919	7
David Möller	Men's singles	52.085	51.533	51.655	51.438	3:26.711	5
Tatjana Hüfner	Women's singles	47.109	47.269	47.101	46.981	3:08.460
Silke Kraushaar	Women's singles	47.269	46.860	46.991	46.995	3:08.115
Sylke Otto	Women's singles	47.041	46.820	46.902	47.216	3:07.979
Andre Florschuetz Torsten Wustlich	Doubles	47.141	47.666	n/a		1:34.807
Patric Leitner Alexander Resch	Doubles	47.198	47.762	n/a		1:34.960	6

Nordic combined

Athlete	Event	Ski Jumping		Cross-Country
		Points	Rank	Deficit	Time	Rank
Ronny Ackermann	Sprint	114.0	10	0:47	19:07.7 +38.7	8
	Individual Gundersen	213.5	26	3:16	42:58.9 +3:14.3	18
Sebastian Haseney	Sprint	90.7	42	2:20	20:09.1 +1:40.1	29
	Individual Gundersen	212.5	28	3:20	40:35.7 +51.1	6
Georg Hettich	Sprint	125.7	1	0:00	18:38.6 +9.6
	Individual Gundersen	262.5	1	0:00	39:44.6 +2:28.9
Björn Kircheisen	Sprint	106.5	21	1:17	19:05.7 +36.7	7
	Individual Gundersen	224.0	16	2:34	40:55.1 +1:10.5	7
Jens Gaiser Björn Kircheisen Ronny Ackermann Georg Hettich	Team	913.5	1	0:00	50:07.9 +15.3

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

Athlete	Event	Heat		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Tyson Heung	Men's 500 m	43.572	3	Did not advance					16
	Men's 1500 m	2:20.075	4	Did not advance					17
Aika Klein	Women's 500 m	57.732	3	Did not advance					21
	Women's 1000 m	Disqualified
	Women's 1500 m	2:42.380	5	Did not advance					26
Yvonne Kunze	Women's 1000 m	1:40.166	3 ADV	1:33.627	2 Q	1:36.765	4	Final B 1:33.627	7
	Women's 1500 m	2:48.009	4	Did not advance					21
Arian Nachbar	Men's 500 m	43.006	2 Q	42.605	4	Did not advance			13
	Men's 1000 m	1:27.994	3 ADV	1:27.679	4	Did not advance			14
Sebastian Praus	Men's 1000 m	1:35.375	3 ADV	1:29.820	3	Did not advance			10
	Men's 1500 m	2:30.292	4	Did not advance					21
Susanne Rudolph	Women's 500 m	46.503	3	Did not advance					18
From: Thomas Bauer Andre Hartwig Tyson Heung Arian Nachbar Sebastian Praus	Men's 5000 m relay	n/a				7:02.367	3	Final B 7:13.338	6
From: Tina Grassow Aika Klein Yvonne Kunze Christin Priebst Susanne Rudolph	Women's 3000 m relay	n/a				4:22.553	4	Final B 4:24.896	7

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

Skeleton

Athlete	Event	Final
		Run 1	Run 2	Total	Rank
Sebastian Haupt	Men's	58.48	59.10	1:57.58	9
Anja Huber	Women's	1:01.12	1:01.44	2:02.56	8
Frank Rommel	Men's	59.94	1:00.41	2:00.35	24
Diana Sartor	Women's	1:00.29	1:01.40	2:01.69	4

Ski jumping

Athlete	Event	Qualifying		First Round		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Total	Rank
Alexander Herr	Normal hill	125.5	7 Q	119.0	22 Q	112.0	231.0	21
Michael Neumayer	Normal hill	127.0	4 Q	129.5	9 Q	131.0	260.5	8
	Large hill	114.4	3 Q	110.3	11 Q	118.8	229.1	11
Martin Schmitt	Large hill	92.1	15 Q	97.2	27 Q	115.4	212.6	19
Georg Späth	Normal hill	123.5	8 PQ	124.5	17 Q	126.5	251.0	12
	Large hill	116.8	9 Q	108.6	13 Q	103.6	212.2	20
Michael Uhrmann	Normal hill	120.5	10 PQ	128.0	10 Q	136.0	264.0	4
	Large hill	106.2	14 PQ	106.3	17 Q	108.6	214.9	16
Michael Neumayer Martin Schmitt Michael Uhrmann Georg Späth	Team	n/a		446.0	4 Q	476.6	922.6	4

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

Snowboarding

Halfpipe

Athlete	Event	Qualifying Run 1		Qualifying Run 2		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Run 1	Run 2	Rank
Xaver Hoffmann	Men's halfpipe	22.6	27	18.7	28	Did not advance		34
Vinzenz Lueps	Men's halfpipe	33.9	11	39.5	4 Q	(28.7)	36.8	9
Jan Michaelis	Men's halfpipe	34.5	10	36.3	9	Did not advance		15
Christophe Schmidt	Men's halfpipe	39.4	6 Q	n/a		(33.2)	37.5	8

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

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Finals
		Time	Rank	Opposition Time	Opposition Time	Opposition Time	Opposition Time	Rank
Patrick Bussler	Men's parallel giant slalom	1:12.54	19	Did not advance				19
Markus Ebner	Men's parallel giant slalom	1:12.22	17	Did not advance				17
Amelie Kober	Women's parallel giant slalom	1:21.33	5 Q	(12) W -0.03 (+1.50 -1.53)	(4) L -0.07 (-0.22 +0.15)	(8) L -3.76 (-1.50 -2.26)	(1) L +15.97 (+0.21 +15.76)

Key: '+ Time' represents a deficit; the brackets indicate the results of each run.

Snowboard Cross

Athlete	Event	Qualifying		1/8 Finals	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Finals
		Time	Rank	Position	Position	Position	Position	Rank
Katharina Himmler	Women's snowboard cross	1:32.15	13 Q	n/a	3	Did not advance	Classification 9-12 4	12
Alex Kupprion	Men's snowboard cross	1:24.66	36	Did not advance				36
Michael Layer	Men's snowboard cross	1:22.43	23 Q	4	Did not advance			27
David Speiser	Men's snowboard cross	1:23.38	31 Q	4	Did not advance			32

Speed skating

Men

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Jens Boden	5000 m	n/a		6:38.34	20
Jörg Dallmann	1500 m	n/a		1:51.32	37
Stefan Heythausen	1500 m	n/a		1:49.58	26
Robert Lehmann	1500 m	n/a		1:51.04	36
Tobias Schneider	1500 m	n/a		1:50.18	31

Women

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Daniela Anschütz-Thoms	1500 m	n/a		1:59.74	10
	3000 m	n/a		4:06.89	6
	5000 m	n/a		7:02.82	5
Anni Friesinger	1000 m	n/a		1:16.11
	1500 m	n/a		1:57.31	4
	3000 m	n/a		4:04.59	4
Judith Hesse	500 m	39.64	39.39	1:19.03	19
	1000 m	n/a		1:17.98	22
Lucille Opitz	1500 m	n/a		2:02.75	30
	5000 m	n/a		7:18.06	14
Claudia Pechstein	3000 m	n/a		4:05.54	5
	5000 m	n/a		7:00.08
Sabine Völker	1000 m	n/a		1:17.97	21
Judith Hesse	500 m	38.70	38.55	1:17.25	6
Pamela Zöllner	500 m	40.16	3940	1:19.56	24
	1000 m	n/a		1:19.30	30

Team Pursuit

Athlete	Event	Seeding		Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final
		Time	Rank	Opposition Time	Opposition Time	Opposition Time	Rank
From: Jens Boden Jörg Dallmann Stefan Heythausen Robert Lehmann Tobias Schneider	Men's team pursuit	3:49.59	5	(4) L 3:49.68	(1) L 3:47.81	7th place Final (8) W 3:48.28	7
From: Daniela Anschütz-Thoms Anni Friesinger Lucille Opitz Claudia Pechstein Sabine Völker	Women's team pursuit	3:07.07	5	(4) W 3:07.07	(1) W 3:02.72	(3) W 3:01.25

Notes and references

Further references

• NOK-Präsidium nominiert weitere 135 Aktive für die Olympischen Winterspiele - 162 Sportlerinnen und Sportler nach Turin from nok.de, retrieved 25 January 2006
• 27 Turin Tickets vergeben - Präsidium benennt Dr. Clemens Prokop als Vertreter für Findungskommission des DOSB-Präsidiums from nok.de, retrieved 25 January 2006