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Singles, Women

Date	21 – 23 February 2006
Status	Olympic
Location	Palavela, Torino
Participants	29 from 19 countries
Format	Total of points from short program and free skating.
Judge #1	Gloria Morandi	ITA
Judge #2	Annette Boeren-Maas	NED
Judge #3	Diana Barbacci Levy	SUI
Judge #4	Tatyana Danilenko	RUS
Judge #5	Susan Lynch	AUS
Judge #6	Benoît Lavoie	CAN
Judge #7	Laura McNair	GBR
Judge #8	Gale Tanger	USA
Judge #9	Zsofia Wagner	HUN
Judge #10	Katarina Henriksson	SWE
Judge #11	Yuriy Kliushnykov	UKR
Judge #12	Elisabeth Louesdon	FRA

The skater with the most talent was easy – Sasha Cohen (USA), who had been runner-up at the 2004-05 Worlds. But she had a nasty habit of skating poorly under pressure situations and dropping out of the lead. The skater with the best pedigree was the 2002 silver medalist, Irina Slutskaya (RUS), who had been World Champion in 2002 and 2005, and shortly before Torino, had won her seventh European title, bettering the record of Katarina Witt and Sonja Henie , who had won six Europeans. Another contender was Japan’s Shizuka Arakawa, who was World Champion in 2004, but she had not skated well in the early 2005-06 season. Cohen won the short program, but her lead was almost non-existent. She scored 66.73 to 66.70 for Slutskaya and 66.02 for Arakawa. In the free skate, Cohen skated well, not succumbing to her personal demons, and bettered Slutskaya, who had skated earlier, 116.63 to 114.74. Arakawa was the last skater on the ice, and she skated superbly, scoring 125.32 to win the gold medal, the first ever by an Asian figure skater, and again deny Cohen a major international title, with Slutskaya winning the bronze. Both Cohen and Slutskaya had problems with falls, Slutskaya in the free program, and Cohen in the short.

Pos	Nr	Skater	NOC	Points	Short Program	Free Skating
1	–	Shizuka Arakawa	JPN	191.34	66.02 (3)	125.32 (1)	Gold
2	–	Sasha Cohen	USA	183.36	66.73 (1)	116.63 (2)	Silver
3	–	Irina Slutskaya	RUS	181.44	66.70 (2)	114.74 (3)	Bronze
4	–	Fumie Suguri	JPN	175.23	61.75 (4)	113.48 (4)
5	–	Joannie Rochette	CAN	167.27	55.85 (9)	111.42 (5)
6	–	Kimmie Meissner	USA	165.71	59.40 (5)	106.31 (6)
7	–	Emily Hughes	USA	160.87	57.08 (7)	103.79 (7)
8	–	Sarah Meier	SUI	156.13	55.57 (10)	100.56 (8)
9	–	Carolina Kostner	ITA	153.50	53.77 (11)	99.73 (9)
10	–	Elene Gedevanishvili	GEO	151.46	57.90 (6)	93.56 (13)
11	–	Liu Yan	CHN	145.30	49.84 (15)	95.46 (11)
12	–	Mira Leung	CAN	145.16	50.61 (14)	94.55 (12)
13	–	Susanna Pöykiö	FIN	143.22	53.74 (12)	89.48 (15)
14	–	Yelena Sokolova	RUS	142.35	46.69 (18)	95.66 (10)
15	–	Miki Ando	JPN	140.20	56.00 (8)	84.20 (16)
16	–	Kiira Korpi	FIN	137.20	44.84 (20)	92.36 (14)
17	–	Olena Liashenko	UKR	134.08	52.35 (13)	81.73 (18)
18	–	Júlia Sebestyén	HUN	129.26	49.58 (16)	79.68 (20)
19	–	Idora Hegel	CRO	127.07	47.06 (17)	80.01 (19)
20	–	Halyna Yefremenko	UKR	125.37	41.25 (24)	84.12 (17)
21	–	Tuğba Karademir	TUR	123.64	44.20 (22)	79.44 (21)
22	–	Silvia Fontana	ITA	120.37	42.47 (23)	77.90 (22)
23	–	Viktória Pavuk	HUN	119.85	46.40 (19)	73.45 (23)
24	–	Fleur Maxwell	LUX	109.57	44.53 (21)	65.04 (24)
25 r1/2	–	Joanne Carter	AUS	–	40.86 (25)	–
26 r1/2	–	Roxana Luca	ROU	–	39.37 (26)	–
27 r1/2	–	Kim Yong-Suk	PRK	–	39.16 (27)	–
28 r1/2	–	Jelena Glebova	EST	–	38.47 (28)	–
29 r1/2	–	Anastasiya Gimazetdinova	UZB	–	38.44 (29)	–

Short Program (21 February 2006 — 19:00)

Pos	Nr	Skater	NOC	Points	Tech. Elements	Progr. Components	Deductions
1	–	Sasha Cohen	USA	66.73	35.33	31.40	0.00	Q
2	–	Irina Slutskaya	RUS	66.70	36.21	30.49	0.00	Q
3	–	Shizuka Arakawa	JPN	66.02	35.93	30.09	0.00	Q
4	–	Fumie Suguri	JPN	61.75	32.61	29.14	0.00	Q
5	–	Kimmie Meissner	USA	59.40	34.20	25.20	0.00	Q
6	–	Elene Gedevanishvili	GEO	57.90	33.25	24.65	0.00	Q
7	–	Emily Hughes	USA	57.08	31.71	25.37	0.00	Q
8	–	Miki Ando	JPN	56.00	29.12	26.88	0.00	Q
9	–	Joannie Rochette	CAN	55.85	28.87	26.98	0.00	Q
10	–	Sarah Meier	SUI	55.57	30.69	24.88	0.00	Q
11	–	Carolina Kostner	ITA	53.77	26.25	28.52	1.00	Q
12	–	Susanna Pöykiö	FIN	53.74	28.43	25.31	0.00	Q
13	–	Olena Liashenko	UKR	52.35	27.47	24.88	0.00	Q
14	–	Mira Leung	CAN	50.61	29.38	21.23	0.00	Q
15	–	Liu Yan	CHN	49.84	27.24	22.60	0.00	Q
16	–	Júlia Sebestyén	HUN	49.58	26.75	23.83	1.00	Q
17	–	Idora Hegel	CRO	47.06	26.74	20.32	0.00	Q
18	–	Yelena Sokolova	RUS	46.69	21.13	25.56	0.00	Q
19	–	Viktória Pavuk	HUN	46.40	26.78	19.62	0.00	Q
20	–	Kiira Korpi	FIN	44.84	23.84	21.00	0.00	Q
21	–	Fleur Maxwell	LUX	44.53	24.33	20.20	0.00	Q
22	–	Tuğba Karademir	TUR	44.20	25.70	18.50	0.00	Q
23	–	Silvia Fontana	ITA	42.47	19.87	22.60	0.00	Q
24	–	Halyna Yefremenko	UKR	41.25	20.43	21.82	1.00	Q
25	–	Joanne Carter	AUS	40.86	21.21	20.65	1.00
26	–	Roxana Luca	ROU	39.37	21.49	17.88	0.00
27	–	Kim Yong-Suk	PRK	39.16	19.37	19.79	0.00
28	–	Jelena Glebova	EST	38.47	21.06	18.41	1.00
29	–	Anastasiya Gimazetdinova	UZB	38.44	19.06	19.38	0.00

Free Skating (23 February 2006 — 19:00)

Pos	Nr	Skater	NOC	Points	Tech. Elements	Progr. Components	Deductions
1	–	Shizuka Arakawa	JPN	125.32	62.32	63.00	0.00
2	–	Sasha Cohen	USA	116.63	55.22	62.41	1.00
3	–	Irina Slutskaya	RUS	114.74	53.87	61.87	1.00
4	–	Fumie Suguri	JPN	113.48	54.23	59.25	0.00
5	–	Joannie Rochette	CAN	111.42	55.29	56.13	0.00
6	–	Kimmie Meissner	USA	106.31	52.77	53.54	0.00
7	–	Emily Hughes	USA	103.79	53.82	50.97	1.00
8	–	Sarah Meier	SUI	100.56	49.31	51.25	0.00
9	–	Carolina Kostner	ITA	99.73	43.84	55.89	0.00
10	–	Yelena Sokolova	RUS	95.66	45.38	50.28	0.00
11	–	Liu Yan	CHN	95.46	50.40	45.06	0.00
12	–	Mira Leung	CAN	94.55	51.83	42.72	0.00
13	–	Elene Gedevanishvili	GEO	93.56	43.60	49.96	0.00
14	–	Kiira Korpi	FIN	92.36	48.84	43.52	0.00
15	–	Susanna Pöykiö	FIN	89.48	40.54	49.94	1.00
16	–	Miki Ando	JPN	84.20	35.69	50.51	2.00
17	–	Halyna Yefremenko	UKR	84.12	41.70	42.42	0.00
18	–	Olena Liashenko	UKR	81.73	36.01	45.72	0.00
19	–	Idora Hegel	CRO	80.01	39.15	40.86	0.00
20	–	Júlia Sebestyén	HUN	79.68	34.86	45.82	1.00
21	–	Tuğba Karademir	TUR	79.44	42.64	36.80	0.00
22	–	Silvia Fontana	ITA	77.90	35.67	42.23	0.00
23	–	Viktória Pavuk	HUN	73.45	36.58	37.87	1.00
24	–	Fleur Maxwell	LUX	65.04	26.77	39.27	1.00