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Japan has sent 113 athletes to compete in the Winter Olympics in 2006, held in Torino, Italy. Image File history File links Current_sport. ... See also: 2006 in sports 11 February 2006 (Saturday) 2006 Winter Olympics, Torino, opening day: Biathlon, mens 20 km individual: Michael Greis of Germany wins gold in the time of 54:23. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Japan. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Japan. ... A runner carries the Olympic torch The Winter Olympic Games, Winter Olympics for short but more correctly The Olympic Winter Games, are the cold-weather counterpart to the Summer Olympic Games. ... Torino or Turin is a major industrial city in north-western Italy, capital of the Piedmont region, located mainly on the west bank of the Po River. ...

Medals

	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Japan	0	0	0	0

This is the full table of the medal count of the 2006 Winter Olympics. ... Subject: The Olympic Rings. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Japan. ...

Events

Alpine skiing

Alpine skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics will include ten alpine skiing events. ...

Men

• Yasuhiro Ikuta
• Kentaro Minagawa
• Akira Sasaki
• Naoki Yuasa

Women

• Noriyo Hiroi
• Mizue Hoshi
• Mami Sekizuka

Biathlon

Biathlon at the 2006 Winter Olympics will include ten biathlon events. ...

Men

• Daisuke Ebisawa
• Hidenori Isa
• Tatsumi Kasahara
• Shinya Saito
• Kyoji Suga

Women

• Megumi Izumi
• Tomomi Otaka
• Tamami Tanaka
• Ikuyo Tsukidate

Bobsleigh

Bobsleigh at the 2006 Winter Olympics will include three bobsleigh events. ...

Men

• Suguru Kiyokawa
• Ryuichi Kobayashi

Women

• Manami Hino
• Kanae Meguro
• Chisato Nagaoka

Cross country skiing

The Cross-country skiing events at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin will feature 12 medal winning events. ...

Men

• Katsuhito Ebisawa
• Shunsuke Komamura
• Nobu Naruse
• Yuichi Onda
• Chizuru Soneta

Women

• Nobuku Fukuda
• Masako Ishida
• Madoka Natsumi
• Sumiko Yokoyama

Curling

Women's team: Yumie Hayashi, Moe Meguro, Mari Motohashi, Ayumi Onodera and Sakurako Terada-1...

Figure skating

Four figure skating events will be held at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. ...

Ice dancing

• Akiyuki Kido and Nozomi Watanabe

Ladies' individual

• Miki Ando
• Shizuka Arakawa
• Fumie Suguri

Miki Ando (安藤美姫, Andō Miki, born on December 18, 1987) is a Japanese figure skater. ... Shizuka Arakawa (荒川 静香 Arakawa Shizuka, born December 29, 1981) is a Japanese figure skater who won the 2004 World Figure Skating Championship. ... Fumie Suguri (村主章枝; Suguri Fumie, born December 31, 1980) is a Japanese figure skater. ...

Mens' individual

• Daisuke Takahashi

Freestyle skiing

The Freestyle skiing results from the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. ...

Men's Aerials

• Ken Mizuno

Men's Moguls

• Kai Ozaki
• Yugo Tsukita
• Osamu Ueno

Women's Aerials

• Kayo Henmi

Women's Moguls

• Miyuki Hatanaka
• Miki Ito
• Tae Satoya
• Aiko Uemura

Luge

Luge at the 2006 Winter Olympics Runs 1 and 2 of the womens singles event will be February 13, and runs 3 and 4 will be February 14. ...

Men

• Goro Hayashibe
• Takahisa Oguchi
• Masaki Toshiro
• Shigeaki Ushijama

Women

• Madoka Harada

Nordic combined

• Yosuke Hatakeyama
• Takashi Kitamura
• Norihito Kobayashi
• Daito Takahashi
• Akito Watabe

Nordic combined at the 2006 Winter Olympic Games Individual Team Sprint Categories: | | ...

Short track

2006 Winter Olympic Games Short track speed skating // Mens 500m Mens 1000m Mens 1500m Mens 5,000m Relay Womens 500 m Womens 1000m Womens 1500m Womens 3,000m Relay Categories: | | ...

Men

• Yoshiharu Arino
• Takahiro Fujimoto
• Takafumi Nishitani
• Hayato Sueyoshi
• Saturo Terao

Women

• Yuka Kamino
• Mika Ozawa
• Chikage Tanaka
• Ikue Teshigawara

Skeleton

Skeleton at the 2006 Winter Olympic Games Mens Womens Categories: | ...

Men

• Masaru Inada
• Kazuhiro Koshi
• Takafumi Nishitani

Women

• Eiko Nakayama
• Nobuko Yamada

Ski jumping

• Masahiko Harada
• Tsuyoshi Ichinohe
• Daiki Ito
• Kenshiro Ito
• Noriaki Kasai
• Takanobu Okabe

Ski jumping at the 2006 Winter Olympic Games K90: K120: K-120 Team Competition See also Nordic combined. ...

Snowboarding

2006 Winter Olympic Games Snowboarding competition consists of the following events. ...

Men's Halfpipe

• Kazuhiro Kokubo
• Fumiyuki Murakami
• Takaharu Nakai
• Domu Narita

Men's Giant Slalom

• Kentaro Tsuruoka

Men's Snowboard Cross

• Itaru Chimura

Women's Halfpipe

• Chikako Fushimi
• Melo Imai
• Shiho Nakashima
• Soko Yamaoka

Women's Giant Slalom

• Tomoma Takeuchi
• Eri Yanetani

Women's Snowboard Cross

• Yuka Fujimori

Speed skating

For the short track speed skating events, see Short track speed skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics Speed skating at Turin At the 2006 Winter Olympics, twelve speed skating events are to be contested. ...

Men

• Yusuke Imai
• Joji Kato
• Kesato Miyazaki
• Keiichiro Nagashima
• Takaharu Nakajima
• Yuya Oikawa
• Hiromi Otsu
• Hiroyasu Shimizu
• Teruhiro Sugimori
• Takahiro Ushiyama
• Naoki Yasuda

Joji Kato (born 6 February 1985) is a Japanese speedskater specialised in the sprinting distance 500 metres. ...

Women

• Eriko Ishino
• Nami Nemoto
• Tomomi Okazaki
• Sayuri Osuga
• Eriko Seo
• Maki Tabata
• Aki Tonoike
• Yukari Watanabe
• Sayuri Yoshii

References

• Yahoo! Sports – Japan