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Website www.joc.or.jp (Japanese) (English) Competitors 110 (58 men, 52 women) in 14 sports MedalsRanked 18th GoldSilverBronzeTotal1001 | ||
Japan competed at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy. Shizuka Arakawa won the country's only medal, a gold, in women's figure skating. She was the first person born and raised in Asia to become an Olympic champion in that event. Athletes representing Japan participated in all but one of the 2006 Olympics' 15 sports, with Ice hockey the only exception.
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Medalists
At 24 years and 56 days old, Shizuka Arakawa was the oldest female figure skater to win the gold medal in 86 years.
Biathlon
Cross-country skiing
Women's
Team: Ayumi Onodera (skip), Yumie Hayashi, Mari Motohashi, Moe Meguro, Sakurako Terada (alternate)
;Draw 3
;Draw 4
;Draw 5
;Draw 8
;Draw 9
;Draw 10
;Draw 11
;Draw 12
Key: The hammer indicates which team had the last stone in the first end.
Figure skating
Key: CD = Compulsory Dance, FD = Free Dance, FS = Free Skate, OD = Original Dance, SP = Short Program
Freestyle skiing
Nordic combined
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.
Ski jumping
Note: PQ indicates a skier was pre-qualified for the final, based on entry rankings.
Snowboarding
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.
Key: '+ Time' represents a deficit; the brackets indicate the results of each run.