Speed skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics - Women's 500 metres
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The Women's 500 m speed skating
competition for the 2006 Winter Olympics
was held in Turin
, Italy
. The competition consisted of two separate 500 metre races, with the competitors ranked by their cumulative time from the two races.
500 meters (1 race)
500 meters x 2 (2 races)
No new world or Olympic records were set during this competition.
, who left speed skating in 2003 to become a mother, became the oldest woman to win a speed skating gold medal by clocking times of 38.23 and 38.34. In the last pair of the second round, she beat Chinese Wang Manli, runner-up in the first round with 38.31, by 0.13 seconds to secure the gold medal. Skaters from Asia occupied seven of the top nine places
Speed skating
Speed skating, or speedskating is a competitive form of ice skating in which the competitors race each other in traveling a certain distance on skates. Types of speed skating are long track speed skating, short track speed skating, and marathon speed skating...
competition for the 2006 Winter Olympics
2006 Winter Olympics
The 2006 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XX Olympic Winter Games, was a winter multi-sport event which was celebrated in Turin, Italy from February 10, 2006, through February 26, 2006. This marked the second time Italy hosted the Olympic Winter Games, the first being the VII Olympic Winter...
was held in Turin
Turin
Turin is a city and major business and cultural centre in northern Italy, capital of the Piedmont region, located mainly on the left bank of the Po River and surrounded by the Alpine arch. The population of the city proper is 909,193 while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat...
, Italy
Italy
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. The competition consisted of two separate 500 metre races, with the competitors ranked by their cumulative time from the two races.
Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.500 meters (1 race)
500 meters x 2 (2 races)
No new world or Olympic records were set during this competition.
Results
The race was held on February 14, 2006. 34-year-old Russian Svetlana ZhurovaSvetlana Zhurova
Svetlana Sergeyevna Zhurova is a speed skater from Russia.Zhurova has been competing internationally since 1989, took part in four Olympics, but did not win her first Olympic medal until her fourth Olympics, winning Olympic gold in Turin in 2006, two years after mothering a child. She also became...
, who left speed skating in 2003 to become a mother, became the oldest woman to win a speed skating gold medal by clocking times of 38.23 and 38.34. In the last pair of the second round, she beat Chinese Wang Manli, runner-up in the first round with 38.31, by 0.13 seconds to secure the gold medal. Skaters from Asia occupied seven of the top nine places
| Rank | Athlete | Race 1 Time (Place) |
Race 2 Time (Place) |
Total Time |
Difference |
|---|
| 38.23 (1) | 38.34 (2) | 76.57 | >- | 38.31 (2) | 38.47 (5) | 76.78 | >- | 38.60 (4) | 38.27 (1) | 76.87 | >- | 38.46 (3) | 38.46 (4) | 76.92 | >- | 38.69 (6) | 38.35 (3) | 77.04 | >- | 38.70 (7) | 38.55 (6) | 77.25 | >- | 38.71 (8) | 38.56 (7) | 77.27 | >- | 38.74 (9) | 38.65 (8) | 77.39 | >- | 38.68 (5) | 38.75 (11) | 77.43 | >- | 39.02 (11) | 38.66 (9) | 77.68 | >- | 38.97 (10) | 38.73 (10) | 77.70 | >- | 39.12 (12) | 38.97 (12) | 78.09 | >- | 39.20 (13) | 39.15 (13) | 78.35 | >- | 39.26 (14) | 39.33 (15) | 78.59 | >- | 39.46 (17) | 39.19 (14) | 78.65 | >- | 39.42 (=15) | 39.43 (19) | 78.85 | >- | 39.42 (=15) | 39.47 (20) | 78.89 | >- | 39.65 (21) | 39.37 (16) | 79.02 | >- | 39.64 (20) | 39.39 (17) | 79.03 | >- | 39.57 (18) | 39.68 (24) | 79.25 | >- | 39.69 (22) | 39.65 (=22) | 79.34 | >- | 39.83 (=23) | 39.60 (21) | 79.43 | >- | 39.83 (=23) | 39.65 (=22) | 79.48 | >- | 40.16 (27) | 39.40 (18) | 79.56 | >- | 40.01 (=25) | 39.72 (25) | 79.73 | >- | 40.01 (=25) | 39.98 (27) | 79.99 | >- | 40.45 (29) | 39.91 (26) | 80.36 | >- | 40.23 (28) | 40.46 (28) | 80.69 | >- | 39.63 (19) | 72.76 (29) | 112.39 | >- | DQ | DQ |