Cross-country skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Women's 4 × 5 kilometre relay

Women's 4 × 5 kilometre relay at the XX Olympic Winter Games
Pictogram for cross country
Venue	Pragelato
Dates	18 February
Competitors	68 from 17 nations
Winning time	54:47.7
Medalists
Natalya Baranova-Masalkina Larisa Kurkina Yuliya Chepalova Yevgeniya Medvedeva-Arbuzova  Russia Stefanie Böhler Viola Bauer Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle Claudia Künzel  Germany Arianna Follis Gabriella Paruzzi Antonella Confortola Sabina Valbusa  Italy
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Cross-country skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Distance
10 km		women
15 km	men	women
30 km	men	women
50 km	men
4 × 5 km relay		women
4 × 10 km relay	men
Sprint
Individual	men	women
Team	men	women
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The Women's 4 × 5 kilometre relay cross-country skiing competition at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy was held on 18 February, at Pragelato.

Vibeke Skofterud, Hilde Gjermundshaug Pedersen, Kristin Størmer Steira and Marit Bjørgen of Norway were the defending World Champions,^[1] but finished third at a pre-Olympic World Cup event in Val di Fiemme, where a team representing Finland won. Germany were defending Olympic champions, with Claudia Künzel, Manuela Henkel, Viola Bauer and Evi Sachenbacher.

Results

Each team used four skiers, with each completing racing over the same 5 kilometre circuit. The first two raced in the classical style, and the final pair of skiers raced freestyle.^[2]

The race was started at 09:45.^[3]

Rank	Bib	Team	Time	Deficit
	2	Russia Natalya Baranova-Masalkina Larisa Kurkina Yuliya Chepalova Yevgeniya Medvedeva-Arbuzova	54:47.7 14:34.9 14:41.8 12:41.2 12:49.8	–
	4	Germany Stefanie Böhler Viola Bauer Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle Claudia Künzel	54:57.7 14:33.9 14:19.5 12:50.6 13:13.7	+10.0
	3	Italy Arianna Follis Gabriella Paruzzi Antonella Confortola Sabina Valbusa	54:58.7 14:32.0 14:26.1 13:05.0 12:55.6	+11.0
4	8	Sweden Anna Dahlberg Elin Ek Britta Johansson Norgren Anna-Karin Strömstedt	55:00.3 14:23.9 14:38.6 12:55.0 13:02.8	+12.6
5	1	Norway Kristin Størmer Steira Hilde Gjermundshaug Pedersen Kristin Mürer Stemland Marit Bjørgen	55:21.8 14:23.5 14:29.3 13:03.7 13:25.3	+34.1
6	6	Czech Republic Helena Erbenová Kamila Rajdlová Ivana Janečková Kateřina Neumannová	55:46.3 14:40.8 15:03.0 13:16.6 12:45.9	+58.6
7	5	Finland Aino-Kaisa Saarinen Virpi Kuitunen Riitta-Liisa Lassila Kati Venäläinen	55:55.8 14:21.1 14:30.4 13:13.4 13:50.9	+1:08.1
8	16	Ukraine Kateryna Grygorenko Tetyana Zavalíy Vita Yakymchuk Valentyna Shevchenko	56:36.3 14:56.5 15:01.8 13:33.4 13:04.6	+1:48.6
9	9	France Aurélie Perrillat Karine Philippot Cécile Storti Émilie Vina	56:41.4 14:27.9 14:31.2 13:22.1 14:20.2	+1:53.7
10	17	Canada Milaine Thériault Sara Renner Amanda Ammar Beckie Scott	56:49.8 15:09.6 14:04.5 14:31.5 13:04.2	+2:02.1
11	11	Switzerland Seraina Mischol Laurence Rochat Natascia Leonardi Cortesi Seraina Boner	56:52.4 14:25.3 15:03.4 13:29.4 13:54.3	+2:04.7
12	12	Japan Nobuko Fukuda Masako Ishida Sumiko Yokoyama Madoka Natsumi	56:57.8 14:20.0 15:22.8 13:18.8 13:56.2	+2:10.1
13	7	Kazakhstan Oxana Yatskaya Yevgeniya Voloshenko Elena Kolomina Svetlana Malahova-Shishkina	57:52.9 15:02.6 15:52.3 13:41.8 13:16.2	+3:05.2
14	15	United States Wendy Kay Wagner Kikkan Randall Sarah Konrad Rebecca Dussault	57:58.4 15:00.0 15:28.5 13:43.5 13:46.4	+3:10.7
15	10	Belarus Alena Sannikova Ludmila Korolik Shablouskaya Ekaterina Rudakova Bulauka Olga Vasiljonok	58:19.5 14:54.0 15:24.0 14:09.9 13:51.6	+3:31.8
16	14	China Wang Chunli Li Hongxue Liu Yuanyuan Song Bo	58:42.5 14:58.0 15:01.6 13:47.5 14:55.4	+3:54.8
17	13	Estonia Piret Pormeister Silja Suija Kaili Sirge Tatjana Mannima	1:00:24.4 15:46.7 16:03.5 14:12.6 14:21.6	+5:36.7

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