Great Britain at the Olympic Games
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At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin
Competitors	41
Flag bearer	Rhona Martin
Medals Rank: 21	Gold 0	Silver 1	Bronze 0	Total 1
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The United Kingdom competed under the name Great Britain at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy. Athletes from Northern Ireland were generally free to participate for either this team or the Ireland team under a long-standing settlement between the British Olympic Association and the Olympic Council of Ireland. Forty-one athletes were selected for these Winter Games.

Medals

Silver

• Skeleton
  • Women's skeleton: Shelley Rudman

Results by event

Alpine skiing

Main article: Alpine skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics

In the Super-G and downhill, Chemmy Alcott is a rare female competitor in a historically male-dominated GB team. Noel Baxter, Alain Baxter and James Leuzinger were the men's representatives in the slalom, and the Baxters also raced in the giant slalom. Finlay Mickel and Roger Cruickshank were the men's downhill and Super-G skiers.

In the men's downhill, Finlay Mickel finished 25th, 2.68 seconds behind the winner Antoine Dénériaz. Roger Cruickshank, skiing with a knee-brace, finished 37th, 5.85 behind. Noel Baxter finished 14th in the men's combined. Cruickshank also finished 37th in the giant slalom before announcing his retirement from skiing.

Men's combined

Name	Downhill	Slalom run 1	Slalom run 2	Total	Final rank
Noel Baxter	1:42.26	45.64	44.89	3:12.79	14th place

Men's downhill

Name	Time	Final rank
Finlay Mickel	1:51.48	25th place
Roger Cruickshank	1:54.65	37th place

Men's slalom

Name	Run 1	Run 2	Total	Final rank
Alain Baxter	54.93	51.22	1:46.15	16th place
Noel Baxter	56.07	51.15	1:47.22	20th place
James Leuzinger	Did not finish	-	-	-

Men's Super-G

Name	Time	Final rank
Mickel Finlay	1:32.10	22nd place
Roger Cruickshank	1:34.87	37th place

Chemmy Alcott impressed as she finished 11th in the women's downhill, but was disqualified from the combined due to a technical infringement with the width of her skis.

Women's combined

Name	Downhill	Slalom run 1	Slalom run 2	Total	Final rank
Chemmy Alcott	-	Disqualified	-	-	-

Women's downhill

Name	Time	Final rank
Chemmy Alcott	1:57.85	11th place

Women's giant slalom

Name	Run 1	Run 2	Total	Final rank
Chemmy Alcott	1:04.47	1:09.95	2:14.42	22nd place

Women's Super-G

Name	Time	Final rank
Chemmy Alcott	1:34.20	19th place

Biathlon

Main article: Biathlon at the 2006 Winter Olympics

Men's 10 km sprint

Name	Missed shots	Final	Final rank
Tom Clemens	4	31:05.0	79th place

Men's 20 km individual

Name	Missed shots	Final	Final rank
Tom Clemens	4	1:01:43.9	57th place

Women's 7.5 km sprint

Name	Missed shots	Final	Final rank
Emma Fowler	1	26:22.9	67th place

Women's 15 km individual

Name	Missed shots	Final	Final rank
Emma Fowler	7	1:03:38.9	78th place

Bobsleigh

Main article: Bobsleigh at the 2006 Winter Olympics

The men chosen for the 2-man and 4-man bobsleigh event were: Marcus Adam, Dan Humphries, Lee Johnston, Karl Johnston and Martin Wright.

Women for the 2-man event were Nicola Minichiello and Jackie Davies

Curling

Main article: Curling at the 2006 Winter Olympics

Britain sent two teams to the Olympic curling competition. All of the members of both teams were Scottish. The women's team were the defending Olympic gold medallists.

The members of the men's team were Euan Byers, Ewan McDonald, David Murdoch, Warwick Smith and Craig Wilson. The members of the women's team were Kelly Wood, Lynn Cameron, Deborah Knox, Jacqueline Lockhart, and Rhona Martin.

The men lost the bronze medal match to the USA while the women did not progress past the round-robin initial round.

Figure skating

Main article: Figure skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics

The British figure skating representatives were Sinéad Kerr and her brother John Kerr, who competed in ice dancing. They hail from Scotland and Turin was their first Olympic games.

Luge

Main article: Luge at the 2006 Winter Olympics

The British luge participants for 2006 were Mark Hatton and AJ Rosen. Hatton finished a disappointing 35th place after coming off his luge on his third run of four, although he stayed in contact with the luge and remounted. Rosen finished in 16th place.

Men's singles luge

Short track speed skating

Main article: Short track speed skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics

The men's short track speed skating team was John Eley and Paul Stanley. The women's team was Sarah Lindsay and Joanna Williams. Lindsay participated in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.

This was the first Olympics in which Great Britain and Northern Ireland sent a full short track speed skating team.

Men's 500 m

• Jon Eley

Qualifying heats - 0:42.511 (Heat 2; 2nd place)

Quarterfinals - 0:42.424 (Quarterfinal 3; 2nd place)

Semifinals - 0:42.650 (Semifinal 1; 3rd place)

Finals - 0:42.497 (5th place)

• Paul Stanley

Qualifying heats - 0:43.486 (Heat 7; 4th place - did not advance)

Men's 1000 m

• Paul Stanley

Qualifying heats - 1:28.511 (Heat 1; 4th place) (did not advance)

• Jon Eley

Qualifying heats - 1:29.147 (Heat 2; 3rd place) (did not advance)

Men's 1500 m

• Jon Eley

Qualifying heats - 2:23.887 (Heat 1; 3rd place)

Semifinals - 2:21.862 (Semifinal 1; 5th place) (did not advance)

Women's 500 m

• Sarah Lindsay

Qualifying heats - 0:46.290 (Heat 8; 2nd place)

Quarterfinals - 1:09.785 (Quarterfinal 2; 3rd place)

Semifinals - 0:46.060 (Semifinal 1; 5th place) (did not advance)

• Joanna Williams

Qualifying heats - 0:46.857 (Heat 1; 3rd place) (did not advance)

Women's 1000 m

• Sarah Lindsay

Qualifying heats - 1:35.539 (Heat 2, 3rd place - did not advance)

Women's 1500 m

• Sarah Lindsay

Qualifying heats - 2:38.460 (Heat 6; 3rd place)

Semifinals - 2:29.173 (Semifinal 3; 6th place) (did not advance)

Skeleton

Main article: Skeleton at the 2006 Winter Olympics

Two men and one woman skeleton athletes traveled to Turin. Shelley Rudman was selected as the woman's sole representative; the men were Kristan Bromley and Adam Pengilly

Shelley Rudman won the silver medal in the women's event, while Bromley and Pengilly finished fifth and eighth respectively.

Men's skeleton

Women's skeleton

Snowboarding

Main article: Snowboarding at the 2006 Winter Olympics

The GB team made its début on the Olympic halfpipe in 2006. Kate Foster, Zoe Gillings, Lesley McKenna and Daniel Wakeham made up the young quartet.

Wakeham finished 26th in men's halfpipe qualifying, missing the final. Gillings qualified 12th for the Snowboard Cross quarter-finals (a new event for the Winter Olympics) with a time of 1:31. She failed to progress further, being taken out of the heat following a collision.

Halfpipe

Men's halfpipe

In men’s halfpipe, there were two qualifying runs. The top 6 men from each qualifying run were advanced to the finals. In the first qualifying run, the top 6 scores ranged from 39.4 - 43.8 points. In the second qualifying run, the top 6 scores ranged from a 37.9 - 45.3 points. Shaun White from the United States won the gold medal with a final run score of 46.8 points. Andy Finch of the United States had the lowest final score of 24.7 points and took 12th place.

Women’s halfpipe

In women’s halfpipe, there were two qualifying runs. The top 6 women from each qualifying run were advanced to the finals. In the first qualifying run, the top 6 scores ranged from 34.5 - 44.9 points. In the second qualifying run, the top 6 scores ranged from a 34.8 - 43.1 points. Hannah Teter from the United States won the gold medal with a final run score of 46.4 points. Chikako Fushimi of Japan had the lowest final score of 15.6 points and took 12th place.

Snowboard Cross

Women's snowboard cross

External links

• British Olympic Association