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Germany at the 2006 Winter Olympics

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Germany is set to compete at the 2006 Winter Olympics and the Nationales Olympisches Komitee für Deutschland (National Olympic Committee of Germany) have nominated a total of 162 athletes to compete. German athletes will compete in all 15 of the Winter Olympic sports. As part of the iron curtain, East Germany won the highest number of gold medals at the 1984 Winter Olympics. Since reunification, the country won the most medals both at the 2002 Winter Olympics and the 1998 Winter Olympics, with 12 golds each time.

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Medals

File:Olympic-rings.png                         Total
  Germany 5 4 2 11

Gold

  • Luge
  • Nordic Combined

Silver

Bronze

Events

Alpine skiing

Five women and two men have been selected. In brackets are the disciplines in which these athletes have taken World Cup points during the 2005–06 season[1]

Men:

Women:

In addition, Isabelle Huber and Andreas Ertl may be selected following the last World Cup event before the final deadline on 31 January.

Biathlon

Six men and six women have been selected. In brackets are their positions in the overall World Cup standings on 25 January[2].


Men:

Women:

Bobsleigh

A total of ten men and five women have been selected.

Men: Women:

Two- and four-woman:

Four-man:


Two-man:
  • Lange/Kuske


Cross country skiing

Six men and six women have been selected. In brackets are their positions at the distance World Cup (15 to 30 km), and the sprint World Cup[3] as of 25 January.

Men:

Women:

Sachenbacher-Stehle was suspended due to health reasons for the first five days of competition after recording too high values of haemoglobin in her blood[4].

Curling

Germany is planning to select a men's curling team to Torino. Positions in brackets are those which the players had at the 2005 European Curling Championships. The German team, consisting of the same players, finished third at the 2005 Ford World Men's Curling Championship.

Figure skating

Five figure skaters have been announced for the Torino Games; one man in the singles competition and two pairs.

Men's Individuals

Pairs

Freestyle skiing

Two men, Gerhard Blöchl and Christoph Stark, are selected for the moguls competition. No other freestyle event will have German participation. They are ranked 28th and 21st respectively in the men's moguls World Cup standings[5].

Ice hockey

Women's Game Results

Date Opponent Score Result
February 11 Finland 3-0 L

Germany's ice hockey contingent is their largest at the Olympics, with 20 women and 23 men. The men finished 15th at the 2005 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships, suffering relegation to Division I for 2006 after losses to Denmark (who are not taking part at the 2006 Olympics) and Kazakhstan, while the women finished 5th at the women's World Championships the same year, beating Russia and China on their way to a fifth place after being knocked out of the group stage with 1–5 and 0–7 defeats in their first two matches.

Thirty men have been nominated; when the NHL players join the squad on 12 February or 13 February, seven of these will be dropped.

Men:

NHL players

Women:

Luge

Seven men and three women have been selected. The men also compete in the double event, which is why there are more men than women. The numbers in brackets refer to their positions in the FIL World Cup[6].

Men's Singles:

Men's Doubles:

Women:

Nordic combined

Six athletes have been selected. The competitions are men-only. In brackets are their positions in the overall World Cup standings as of 25 January[7]

Short track speed skating

Five men and five women have been selected for the short track events in Torino. Their World Cup placings as of 25 January are in brackets[8]

Men:

Women:

Skeleton

Three women and two men have been selected, but there are only two spots for each gender. The decision on which woman will be left out is scheduled to be taken on 26 January 2006. The athletes' rank in the 2005–06 FIBT World Cup is given in brackets [9].

Men:

Women:

Ski jumping

Men's Normal Hill Individual

Qualifying Round - 120.5 points (Pre-qualified)
Round 1 - 128.0 points
Final - 136.0 points
Total - 264.0 points (4th place)
Qualifying Round - 127.0 points
Round 1 - 129.5 points
Final - 131.0 points
Total - 260.5 points (8th place)
Qualifying Round - 123.5 points (Pre-qualified)
Round 1 - 124.5 points
Final - 126.5 points
Total - 251.0 points (12th place)
Qualifying Round - 125.5 points
Round 1 - 119.0 points
Final - 112.0 points
Total - 231.0 points (21st place)

Team Five men have been selected for the 2006 Olympics, where the ski jumping events will be men-only events. The numbers in brackets are their overall World Cup rank at 25 January.[10]

Snowboarding

Germany have selected participants for all events apart from the women's halfpipe. The rankings in the individual events' FIS World Cup are shown in brackets[11]

Men:

Women:

Speed skating

Eight women and six men are set to compete in Torino. Germany's women speed skaters are higher ranked in the ISU World Cup than the men, with nine World Cup events so far this season won by women (excluding the non-Olympic 100 metres), while the men have won none. The ISU World Cup standings on each distance are in brackets[12]

Men:

Women:

Notes and references

  1. ^ World Cup Standings from fis-ski.com, retrieved 25 January 2006
  2. ^ World Cup Total Score Men - Standings after 14 of 26 competitions, from biathlonworld.com, retrieved 25 January 2006
    World Cup Total Score Women - Standings after 14 of 26 competitions, from biathlonworld.com, retrieved 25 January 2006
  3. ^ Cross-Country World Cup Standings from fis-ski.com, retrieved 25 January 2006
  4. ^ Template:No icon For høye blodverdier for Sachenbacher, from Aftenposten, 10 February 2006
  5. ^ Freestyle Cup Standings, sorted by moguls points from fis-ski.com, retrieved 25 January 2006
  6. ^ World Cup Results from fil-luge.org, retrieved 25 January 2006
  7. ^ Nordic Combined - Cup Standings from fis-ski.com, retrieved 25 January 2006
  8. ^ Weltcupstand Shorttrack 2005/2006 from desg.de, retrieved 25 January 2006
  9. ^ WC Men Skeleton standing, from bobsleigh.com, retrieved 26 January 2006
    WC Women Skeleton standing, from bobsleigh.com, retrieved 26 January 2006
  10. ^ FIS-Ski - Cup Standings, from fis-ski.com, retrieved 25 January 2006
  11. ^ Snowboard World Cup Standings from fis-ski.com, retrieved 25 January 2006
  12. ^ Weltcupstand 2005/2006 from desg.de, retrieved 25 January 2006

Further references

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